December 28, 200916 yr One of my good buddies sent an email around to our group of friends asking each of us to respond by listing 15 books that we've read that will always stick with us. The resulting 7 or 8 email responses I received have created a pretty interesting reading list of books that have some seriously poignant and profound messages. My 15 were (in no certain order): 1) A Taste of Blackberries – Doris Buchanan Smith 2) Lord Of The Flies – William Golding 3) On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - LTC Dave Grossman 4) Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5) Night – Elie Wiesel 6) Alive – Piers Paul Read 7) The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis 8) A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving 9) All Quiet On The Western Front – Erich Remarque 10) The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien 11) Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck 12) Hostage To The Devil – Malachi Martin 13) If This Is A Man – Primo Levi 14) Black Hawk Down: A Story Of Modern War – Mark Bowden 15) Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
December 28, 200916 yr The Last Days of Summer Invisible Monsters Catcher in the Rye Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal How to be Good Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream American Psycho Ham on Rye The Prince The Great Gatsby Women A River Runs Through It Choke The Big Sleep Of Mice and Men
December 29, 200916 yr The Legend of Bagger Vance The Lord of the Rings The Burn Journals A Confederacy of Dunces Freakonomics The Diary of a Young Girl The Grapes of Wrath Sophie's Choice Farenheit 451 First Dune Trilogy Choke Cryptonomicon To Kill a Mockingbird The Talented Mr. Ripley And believe it or not, the Harry Potter series,
December 29, 200916 yr 1. Lord of the Flies 2. Can I keep my Jersey? 3. Moneyball 4. I Am The Cheese 5. Of Mice & Men 6. And Then There Were None 7. To Kill A Mockingbird 8. Animal Farm 9. 1984 10. Mere Christianity (I think, by CS Lewis.) 11. Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl) 12. I read part of A Brave New World then wrote a paper on it. 13. The Hobbit 14. The 1st Harry Potter (The Sorcerer's Stone?) I'm struggling. I know of a few more books I've read but I can't think of the titles. :lol: I'm not counting any Shakespeare, which I've read a lot of (not voluntarily) or any of my reading now. :irked: I'll definitely be able to come up with 15, but it may take a little while. Edited December 29, 200916 yr by ColonelCrazy Thought of a few more
December 29, 200916 yr To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy The Lord Of The Rings (3) by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Chronicles of Narnia (7) by C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis Surprised By Joy by C.S. Lewis Brennan's War by Matthew Brennan The Spearheaders by James Altieri Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko Fingernail Moon by Janie Webster The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
December 29, 200916 yr Lord of the Flies To Kill A Mockingbird The Giver LoTR books Harry Potter, all of them 1984 Faherheit 451 Dante's Inferno One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Play it as it Lays 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Of Mice and Men Robinson Crusoe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Catch 22 Not in any order but I would say my favorites are Catch 22 and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
December 29, 200916 yr I'd like to add The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (both trilogies) by Stephen R. Donaldson. Think Lord of the Rings on steroids.
December 29, 200916 yr In no order.. Of Mice & Men The Outsiders Fight Club The Catcher in the Rye The Godfather The Basketball Diaries Forced Entries No Country for Old Men After Hours The 25th Hour 1984 Animal Farm Moby Dick Flowers for Algernon The Picture of Dorian Gray
December 29, 200916 yr Wow, I left off Catcher in the Rye. That's one of my favorite 2-3 books, and tops off my list as #15. I DID IT, I DID IT!
December 29, 200916 yr The Canterbury Tales...Chaucer Dracula...Bram Stoker Lord of the Rings...J.R.R. Tolkien The Foundation Trilogy...Isaac Asimov West of Eden Trilogy...Harry Harrison When Worlds Collide...Philip Wylie/Edwin Balmer The Stand....Stephen King Wizard's First Rule...Terry Goodkind Eye of the World...Robert Jordan Tomorrow!...Philip Wylie The entire 'Pelucidar' series...Edgar Rice Burroughs Robinson Crusoe...Daniel Defoe 1984...George Orwell Fahrenheit 451...Ray Bradbury Brave New World...Aldous Huxley
December 29, 200916 yr All of the books below have had some sort of influence on how I see the world. I could defintely go on and on and on...but since only 15 were asked for, these are mine in no particular order: Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) Exxodus (Leon Uris) Mila 18 (Leon Uris) QB VII (Leon Uris) Trinity (Leon Uris) Redemption (Leon Uris) Hawaii (James Micehner) The Naked and The Dead (Norman Mailer) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) (Read the French version, no less ) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank) The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) The Blood of Lambs (Kamal Saleem) Infadel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
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