10 Book Challenge

[mackenzie]

Dubliner's - James Joyce
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time - Mark Haddon
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Stoner - John Williams
Of Mice and Men - john Steinbeck
Persuasion - Jane Austin
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon. (Thanks Uncle Fester for reminding me)!!

Not many people in the UK i know have read Mitch Albom, love his writing. Have you tried '5 people you meet in heaven', absolutely lovely book.

I've read 5 people you meet in heaven. Thought it great.
Tuesdays with Morrie less so.

Shadow of the Wind is a great book too.

 

[Aguero_Element]

the challenge is read ten books ay..........mabye

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

Some of my favorites have already been mentioned. In particular Catch 22, Bravo Two Zero, Paddy Clarke Ha ha ha, Lord of the Flies and Angela's Ashes.

1. The Beach - Alex Garland
2. The Football Factory - John King
3. The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell
4. American Tabloid - James Ellroy
5. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
6. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
7. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
8. A Song of Ice and Fire - George RR Martin
9. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
10. The First Law - Joe Abercrombie

Honourable mention to Bernard Cornwell and David Gemmell.

Just read 'Legend' by Gemmell, excellent book.

Highly recommend his Troy trilogy. Brilliant, even though the third was completed after his death.

 

[big gaz]

Well as always for what it's worth haha, Nimrod I must say I thought I was the only one who read The honourable schoolboy. ;-)

Tin roof blow down - James Lee Burke
Decade of the dragon - John Taylor
Wind in the willows - Kenneth Grahame
The brass verdict - Michael Connelly
The choir boys - Joseph Wambaugh
Riotous Assembly - Tom Sharpe
Tinker Taylor and the 2 follow up books ( cheating there )
HMS Ulysses - Alister MacLean
The Amitiyville horror - Jay Anson
The bad guys won - New york mets

Where do I fit in The girl with the dragon tattoo or the Bourne novels.

 

[idahoblues]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
Illusions Richard Bach
Oh the places you'll go Dr Seuss
Trinity Leon Uris
Water fucking ship down.....who ever wrote it ( too much detention in English Lit)
The Dark Tower Stephen King
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
The whole series of Felix Castor books by Mike Carey
Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy
The mote in God's Eye Larry Niven
Dune...doh that's 11

 

[BimboBob]

Hitler. My part in his downfall. Spike Milligan.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galazy. Douglas Adams.
The Winter King. Bernard Cornwell.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Dectective Agency. Douglas Adams.
Stig of the Dump. Clive King.
The Tragedy of MacBeth. Mr Shakespeare.
Night Watch. Terry Pratchett.
Swallows and Amazons. Arthur Ransome.
Historia Regum Britannaie. Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Animal Farm. George Orwell.

 

[Paladin]

Night - Elie Wiesel

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household

The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien

Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarch

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab

The Bible

 

[City Hobgoblin]

The Dark Is Rising (series)- Susan Cooper
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Hell's Angels - Hunter S Thompson
Despair - Vladimir Nabokov
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Collected Ghost Stories - MR James
Colours of My Life - Malcolm Allison
Head-On - Julian Cope

 

[blueish swede]

Rights of man - Thomas Paine
Touching the void - Joe Simpson
On anger - Seneca
The turn of the screw - Henry James
The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Colditz Story - Pat Reid
Three men in a boat - Jerome K Jerome
The Scout handbook
The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman

 

[yerwot?]

looking at those choices, it seems we could have picked twenty or more. Also how authors suffer from second book syndrome, possibly due to pressure from publishers.