anything by Tom Robbins
Hell by Robert Olen Butler
Fated by S. G. Browne
Lovecraft's novels (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ
Or Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame.
Fail hehe, sorry : i was answering to @lily
Got a decade or two?
Fantasy/SciFi/Magic Realism/Ghost:
Johanna Sinisalo "Troll"
Susannah Clarke "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"
Erin Morgenstern "The Night Circus"
Robin McKinley "Sunshine"
Angela Carter "The Magic Toyshop"
Carlos Ruiz Zafon "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books"
Alice Hoffmann "The Museum of Extraordinary Things"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"
Garth Nix "Abhorsen"
Jorge Luis Borges "The Aleph"
Jorge Amado "Dona Flors and her Two Husbands"
Ray Bradbury "Farenheit 451"
Mystery/Espionage Thriller:
Alan Bradley "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie"
Louise Penney's Inspector Gamache series
Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone"
Stieg Larsson "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Daphne DuMaurier "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn"
John LeCarré "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Tailor of Panama"
Lawrence Durrell "The Alexandria Quartet"
Tess Gerritsen "Harvest"
Heléne Tursten "Night Rounds"
Dashiel Hammett "The Maltese Falcon"
Mark Haddon "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime"
Novels:
Khaled Hosseini "The Kite Runner"
Arundhati Roy "The God of Small Things"
Kate Morten "The Secret Keeper"
Angela Carter "Wise Children"
Margaret Atwood "The Robber Bride"
Nevil Shute "The Legacy"
James Cowen "The Mapmaker's Dream"
Nonfiction/Autobiography:
Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu "Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World"
Dave Eggars "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales"
Susan Sontag "Against Interpretation" and "Regarding the Pain of Others"
"The Diary of Anne Frank"
Plays/Screenplays:
Lillian Hellmann "The Little Foxes" and "The Children's Hour"
Euripides "Il Bacchae"
Michael Frayn "Copenhagen"
Arthur Miller "The Crucible"
Lorraine Hannsbury "A Raisin in the Sun"
Shelagh Delaney "A Taste of Honey"
Poetry, well .....
I have read Bradbury, Larrson, Hammett, Atwood, LeCarre, Miller and Shute (though not specifically those books)
Shutes 'On the Beach' was chilling and I still remember the credits quote "So this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a shudder'
Atwoods 'Handmaids Tale' seems to be a little prophetic
And I watched (and read) Larrsons series (so good)
"On the Beach" is definitely Shute's magnum opus, but I just love the story and characters behind "The Legacy", which features one of the most awe-inspiring heroines in fiction. She's the personification of grit and determination. The prisoner of war section which comprises the first part of the book bears some similarities with survivor accounts of treatment by captors from that period. Peggy Abkhazi's diary "A Curious Cage" being one example.
I've met Atwood, and for awihile, she posted essays in blog form on her website, including some commentary about "A Handmaid's Tale". Although she foresaw it as a dystopian America, many details and events have happened in different societies from our collective history. This is why the horror has such an impact, because it isn't implausible.
Liesbeth Salamandar is a warrior!
Hi everyone, so i was wondering if u guys read "books" as well. I been reading so many mangas lately and of course i love it,but then i was wondering if u have any favorite fiction or nonfiction books that u could recommend to me. thanks (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ