[GrannyWeatherwax]

Oh, I forgot:

The poems of a Norwegian poet called Inger Hagerup is just wonderful!
I have no idea if they have been translated to english, but I think that perhaps the brilliance of the poems would be lost in translation, which is really sad, because her poems are the some of the best poems ever written! (And I usually don't even like poetry.)

[murderegina]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Paper Towns by John Green
Good Omens by Neil Geiman and Terry Prachett
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel


That list turned out to be longer than I intended..and I still took a bunch out..

[Lemmy Caution]

The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Fall - Albert Camus
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene

[Seducer of the Homeless]

i don't read all that much, unfortunately - although i am about to write a book. so....

anything by Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Ginsberg and Baudelaire and Federico Garcia Lorca poems, Gravity's Rainbow and Kafka's The Castle (only Kafka i have read though, admittedly)

[Blackbird]

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
1984 - George Orwell
The Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

I'm currently a few chapters/sections in on Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace, and I'm already pretty positive he's going to turn out to be my favorite author ever.

[Hudson]

It seems like a lot of you enjoy Dostoyevsky novels. (Not going to look it up.) I have read the Idiot. It was scary. :/

A lot of you also like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." I remember JoleneSummers telling me about it in the chatroom. I'll have to check it out soon.

Thus Spoke Zaruthustra, Nietszche
Eye to Eye, Ken Wilbur
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung
Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison
No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton
Dreams, Memories, Reflections, Carl Jung
A Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
The Republic, Plato

I figured I had to step up my game after reading some of your selections. :D If any of you want to talk about idea's, then lets do it!!! :D Also I bolded Dreams, Memories, Reflections because it kicks ass.

[BFD31095]

Paulo Coelho, yuck! Hs books make me want to die. Not because they're sad, because they're just... terrible. But that's just me, I suppose.

[Darkestblue]

I'm not much of a reader, but I really liked Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and Demian.

Based off of that, can anyone recommend some books you think I'd like?

[Hudson]

I'm not much of a reader, but I really liked Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and Demian.

Based off of that, can anyone recommend some books you think I'd like?

If you liked Siddhartha then you would like some of these, I think. :)

(The first one.) The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman
The Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman
The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

[waterfaerie]

I think a lot of these were already said, but anyway...

Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights--Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
Hamlet--Shakespeare (anything by shakespeare's wonderful, but this one just speaks to me...)
Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
Going Bovine--Libba Bray
The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
Artemis Fowl series--Eoin Colfer
Outlander series--Diana Gabaldon
Graceling and Fire--Kristin Cashore
Don Quixote--Miguel de Cervantes
Lord of the Flies--William Golding
Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad
Wicked--Gergory Maguire
The Alchemist--Paulo Coelho (in his defense, the books are translated into english; the spanish version is doubtlessly more poetic)
The Host--Stephenie Meyer
Anthem--Ayn Rand
Harry Potter--J.K. Rowling
Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkein
The Wheel of Time series--Robert Jordan
Into the Wild--John Krakauer
I could go on further if I thought longer...