10 Book Challenge

[Hez]

To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams
Watership Down Richard Adams
Go Ask Alice Anon
Beyond Belief
A Night To Remember Walter Lord
Helter Skelter Vincent Bugliosi
Angelas Ashes Frank McCourt
Dracula Bram Stoker
Christine Stephen King

Glad someone else has mentioned Dracula. It really is very powerful and disturbing.

I only got around to reading it a couple of years ago and loved it.

 

[CTID1988]

Buks r shit n r 4 gayz

 

[mackenzie]

Buks r shit n r 4 gayz

Read it.

It was cited as a breakthrough novel but it didn't do much for me.

 

[glyncity]

2001 a Space Odyssey ... Arthur C Clarke
The Godfather......Mario Puzo
The Naked and the Dead.....Norman Mailer
The Lord of the Flies.....William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath.....John Steinbeck
Catch 22 ....Joseph Heller
The Executioners Song.....Norman Mailer
In Cold Blood...Truman Capote
Lord of the Rings.....JRR Tolkein
The Chrysalids ...John Wyndham

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

2001 a Space Odyssey ... Arthur C Clarke
The Godfather......Mario Puzo
The Naked and the Dead.....Norman Mailer
The Lord of the Flies.....William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath.....John Steinbeck
Catch 22 ....Joseph Heller
The Executioners Song.....Norman Mailer
In Cold Blood...Truman Capote
Lord of the Rings.....JRR Tolkein
The Chrysalids ...John Wyndham

The Godfather is a brilliant book. I read Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra at the around the same time, also brilliant.

 

[mad4city]

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Ronald Dahl (more for the crack I had reading this to my sons than anything else)
Treasure Island -RL Stevenson
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Redemption Falls - Joseph O Connor
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Into the Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Adolf Hitler's - My Part in his Downfall - Spike Milligan.
At Swim, Two Birds - Brian O Nolan
Down Among the Dead men - Mark Hodkinson.
The Borstal Boy - Brandan Behan
Last Orders - Graham Swift
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy.

 

[Paladin]

2001 a Space Odyssey ... Arthur C Clarke
The Godfather......Mario Puzo
The Naked and the Dead.....Norman Mailer
The Lord of the Flies.....William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath.....John Steinbeck
Catch 22 ....Joseph Heller
The Executioners Song.....Norman Mailer
In Cold Blood...Truman Capote
Lord of the Rings.....JRR Tolkein
The Chrysalids ...John Wyndham

The Godfather is a brilliant book. I read Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra at the around the same time, also brilliant.

Sleepers is good, as is the film based on the book.

 

[yerwot?]

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Ronald Dahl (more for the crack I had reading this to my sons than anything else)
Treasure Island -RL Stevenson
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Redemption Falls - Joseph O Connor
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Into the Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Adolf Hitler's - My Part in his Downfall - Spike Milligan.
At Swim, Two Birds - Brian O Nolan
Down Among the Dead men - Mark Hodkinson.
The Borstal Boy - Brandan Behan
Last Orders - Graham Swift
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy.[/quote

counting for dummies is recommended :)

 

[mad4city]

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Ronald Dahl (more for the crack I had reading this to my sons than anything else)
Treasure Island -RL Stevenson
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Redemption Falls - Joseph O Connor
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Into the Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Adolf Hitler's - My Part in his Downfall - Spike Milligan.
At Swim, Two Birds - Brian O Nolan
Down Among the Dead men - Mark Hodkinson.
The Borstal Boy - Brandan Behan
Last Orders - Graham Swift
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy.[/quote

counting for dummies is recommended :)

I didn't think 10 x books would be more difficult than 10 x albums but it proved to be so. Guess, no matter how hard I try, I'm basically a nerd. :-)

 

[manctheknife]

A tale of two cities
a Christmas carol
the giant under the snow
the grapes of wrath
down and out in Paris and london
kinky Friedman crime novels
the winter of Frankie machine
the third policeman
unforgivable blackness,the jack Johnson story
Perry boys