For all you bibliophiles out there...

[gluegungeisha]

BOOK RECOMMENDATION THREAD!

Please add on your favorites. I need reading material!

My recommendations:
+ Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (of course...)
+ Anything Kurt Vonnegut
+ Anything George Orwell
+ Anything Ray Bradbury
+ Anything Robert A. Heinlein
+ Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and the series/parallel novels following it
+ The Stranger by Albert Camus
+ Grimm's fairy tales! Even though some of them are disturbingly anti-semetic...:o
+ Cruddy by Linda Barry
+ Anything Charles Bukowski (usually collections)
+ Way of the Peaceful Warrior (being a martial artist, and all)
+ A Child's Life and Other Stories by Phoebe Gloeckner (graphic novel)
+ Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner (better than the title makes it sound, I swear...)
+ Mail Order Bride by Mark Kalesniko (graphic novel)
+ Blinking with Fists by Billy Corgan (if the name sounds familiar, it's the guy from the Smashing Pumpkins. This is his poetry collection)

etc.!!!

Add on to the list, lovelies! :D

[Valkyrie]

* A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* Macbeth by Shakespeare
* Fight Club
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
* A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
* A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

I'm also seconding all of Orwell and Vonnegut's books because they are AWESOME!

[gluegungeisha]

* A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* Macbeth by Shakespeare
* Fight Club
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
* A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
* A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

I'm also seconding all of Orwell and Vonnegut's books because they are AWESOME!

I loooved One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Catcher in the Rye!
I have a little bit of Shakespeare familiarity since I was Hamlet in a production a few years ago, but I haven't read Macbeth.
Fight Club and other Chuck Palahniuk books are pretty much the most addicting thing ever. I think my favourite book by him is Invisible Monsters.
I read The Great Gatsby and The Bluest Eye in school. The Bluest Eye creeped me out at times, but was pretty good.
I know I read A Wrinkle in Time a long time ago, but I don't remember much about it...

Thanks for adding yours!

[ALARM]

Any book by Gish Jen is a guaranteed winner! She is an amazing author and her characterization is her biggest strength, and so are her plots and stories! Definitely give her a try!

Out by Natsuo Kirino was mind-blowing.
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld was one of the most accurate portrayals of high school I've ever read. I identified strongly with that book, and was embarassed to see how bitter I sounded back then...

-You've already read Palahniuk's novels, so you're good to go there! :D

I also loved the works of Milan Kundera (favorite: Identity) and Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head).

Also, Extremely Loud and Incrediably Close by Jonathan Safran Foer was a beautiful and touching read. He's probably one of the best new writers around!


I've got tons more, so let me know if you need more suggestions! Please do take into consideration what I suggested! I promise you won't be disappointed! :)

[gluegungeisha]

Any book by Gish Jen is a guaranteed winner! She is an amazing author and her characterization is her biggest strength, and so are her plots and stories! Definitely give her a try!

Out by Natsuo Kirino was mind-blowing.
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld was one of the most accurate portrayals of high school I've ever read. I identified strongly with that book, and was embarassed to see how bitter I sounded back then...

-You've already read Palahniuk's novels, so you're good to go there! :D

I also loved the works of Milan Kundera (favorite: Identity) and Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head).

Also, Extremely Loud and Incrediably Close by Jonathan Safran Foer was a beautiful and touching read. He's probably one of the best new writers around!


I've got tons more, so let me know if you need more suggestions! Please do take into consideration what I suggested! I promise you won't be disappointed! :)

Ooh, lots of new authors for me!
Thank you!

[midgetgem]

I havent finished out yet- oping i can!
Any book by Gish Jen is a guaranteed winner! She is an amazing author and her characterization is her biggest strength, and so are her plots and stories! Definitely give her a try!

Out by Natsuo Kirino was mind-blowing.
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld was one of the most accurate portrayals of high school I've ever read. I identified strongly with that book, and was embarassed to see how bitter I sounded back then...

-You've already read Palahniuk's novels, so you're good to go there! :D

I also loved the works of Milan Kundera (favorite: Identity) and Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head).

Also, Extremely Loud and Incrediably Close by Jonathan Safran Foer was a beautiful and touching read. He's probably one of the best new writers around!


I've got tons more, so let me know if you need more suggestions! Please do take into consideration what I suggested! I promise you won't be disappointed! :)

[midgetgem]

We need to talk about Kevin is quite mind blowing- can't remember who its by though...

[Valkyrie]

I loooved One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Catcher in the Rye!
I have a little bit of Shakespeare familiarity since I was Hamlet in a production a few years ago, but I haven't read Macbeth.
Fight Club and other Chuck Palahniuk books are pretty much the most addicting thing ever. I think my favourite book by him is Invisible Monsters.
I read The Great Gatsby and The Bluest Eye in school. The Bluest Eye creeped me out at times, but was pretty good.
I know I read A Wrinkle in Time a long time ago, but I don't remember much about it...

Thanks for adding yours!

Macbeth kicks Hamlet's ass. I just think the characters are more riveting, and Lady Macbeth is just fascinating to me.

But seriously, if you liked 1984 or Brave New World, try reading A Handmaid's Tale. It's the same distopia type of story, only instead of relating it to totalitarianism or science, it's both a critique of feminism and a warning to women who think that their rights can't be taken away.

And have you read A Clockwork Orange?

[gluegungeisha]

Macbeth kicks Hamlet's ass. I just think the characters are more riveting, and Lady Macbeth is just fascinating to me.

But seriously, if you liked 1984 or Brave New World, try reading A Handmaid's Tale. It's the same distopia type of story, only instead of relating it to totalitarianism or science, it's both a critique of feminism and a warning to women who think that their rights can't be taken away.

And have you read A Clockwork Orange?

I haven't read A Handmaid's Tale yet, but it has been previously recommended. It's now on my library list. :)

Oh maaan, I loved A Clockwork Orange! I was one of those people who read it because of the movie. And during my boyfriend's Clockwork-punk phase (eye-roll).