My Top Books List
Hi Guys,
I’ve never posted to this subreddit before, so I was looking to see what opinions you all might have.
I’m a fan of 20th century lit mostly, and my taste is somewhat basic. I own FAR more books than I’ve actually read, but I’ve compiled a list of what I consider to be my top 10 reads so far in my life. I’m only 25, so I’ve got a long ways to go.
I’m curious what you all think of my list, what you think should come off, or what you think should be added, as well as any other recommendations. Thanks!!
Here’s my top ten list…
- Ulysses / Joyce
- Dubliners / Joyce
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Smith
- East of Eden / Steinbeck
- For Whom the Bell Tolls / Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms / Hemingway
- On the Road / Kerouac
- White Noise / DeLillo
- The Quiet American / Greene
- The Bell Jar / Plath
I’d love to see your top lists as well!
by azplant03
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Nice list! I’d highly recommend Suttree and The Crossing, both by Cormac McCarthy.
I’d say it needs more diversity: more women and some non-anglophone and non-white authors. But nothing has to come off or be added, it’s your top 10 at the end of the day! I’m not a big Hemingway fan for example, but I loved both A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Bell Jar. I’d suggest:
– Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
– Beloved by Toni Morrison
– anything by Gabriel García Marquez
– Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse by Virgina Woolf
– The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
– anything by James Baldwin
– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
– The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
– The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Just to name a few! I’m 21 so I’ve got a lot to read too!
I don’t see John Williams in your top 10. I think you’ll like Stoner and Butcher’s Crossing.
I have Ulysses and am eager to read it but TBR just keeps growing. As for my pick, in no particular order.
*Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell be Susanna Clarke
*Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
*Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
*Solenoid and Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
*Don Quixote by Cervantes
*All things G.K Chesterton
*As well as Kurt Vonnegut
*The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, but I really can’t have only one Liscpector
*Miss Macintosh, My Darling by Margarete Young
*The Autobiographies by Elias Canetti
though that was not an easy list to come up with. I really wanted to include The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil and The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing and some others, but what ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯