Your list of books that everyone should read in their lifetime?

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I'll add my own later. I'm interested in what everyone has to say.
Thankyou, if you decide to answer. =)

Quia · Accepted Answer

These books touched my heart:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Dora B: A Memoir of My Mother by Josiane Behmoiras (true story)
Paula by Isabel Allende (true story)
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah (true story)

Books I loved & I couldn't put down:
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

A book about the middle east (Iran to be exact) & what caused their initial hatred of the West. Very well told & what I belive a true account:
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

Adam S · Answer

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
With Enough Shovels--Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War (don't remember author)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
All The President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
America, the Book by Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show"
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

killerqueen · Answer

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Axion Asti by Odysseas Elytis
The Last Temptation Of The Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Iliad and the Odyssey, by Homer
The poems collection Strofi & Sterna by George Seferis.

Edward · Answer

1. Paradise Lost by John Milton
2. The Devil is not mocked and other warnings by Manly Wade Wellman
3. Chariots of the Gods by Erich Von Daniken
4. Gor Saga by Maureen Duffy

caffeinoholic · Answer

Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The little prince - Antoine de Saint ExupÃ©ry

alpharoyal2 · Answer

Eragon series [The Inheritance Cycle] by Christopher Paolini
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Adventure series [Arctic adventure, Cannibal adventure, African adventure, South Sea adventure etc.] by Willard Price

These are my top three but I have like a life time more of great books.

Garner · Answer

Winona Ryder's all-time favorite book:
The Catcher in the Rye

"Winona says "Catcher In The Rye" remains one of her all-time favourite novels. She often mentions in interviews how she calls it her personal bible and how many times she's read it (100 at last count!)"

http://famouspick.blogspot.com/2009/03/winona-ryder-american-actress.html


Stephenie Meyer says:
"The book with the most significant impact on my life as a writer is probably Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card, with Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier coming in as a close second."

http://famouspick.blogspot.com/2009/02/stephenie-meyer-author-twilight-series.html

♥k.a.t.e.l.y.n · Answer

Speak- Laurie Halse Anderson
Blind Sighted- Peter Moore
Heroes- Robert Cormier
Tell No One- Harlan Coben
That's all I can really think of right now. [=

Your list of books that everyone should read in their lifetime?

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