At some point I had read all of Tom Robbins’ novels up thru “Skinny Legs And All”. “Still Life With Woodpecker” was my favorite book at one point – I used to read it at least once a year. But looking back, everything before “Jitterbug Perfume” just seems dated and I don’t think they have aged well.
The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
(Technically a Tetralogy, but it’s one complete story)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
1984 - George Orwell
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The Brave Cowboy - Edward Abbey
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Cheerleader – Ruth Doan MacDougall
With the Next Man Everything Will Be Different – Eva Heller
Waiting to Exhale – Terry McMillan
Your titles all follow a theme!
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabakov
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker (this is more a novella)
Big fan of Thomas Perry - and what I consider humorous thrillers. Think my fave such book of his is Island. And - not humorous, but his Butcher’s Boy books are as good as any thrillers out there.
I’m losing concentration as I age, and do more doom scrolling than novel reading.
Lord of the Rings (altho I didn’t finish the last reread)
Catch 22 (on the last reread some of the jokes had worn out, but the intelligence and originality seemed sharper than ever.)
…and Zelazny’s This Immortal, which I’ve reread 8 times in the last 10 years, so I’m giving it its due.
I’m listening to this title right now.
Wow, these would all be on my top ten! (Well, I might go with Baker’s Room Temperature…)
The film ending per wiki- As Scarlett consoles Ashley, Rhett prepares to leave Atlanta. Having realized that it was Rhett, and not Ashley, whom she truly loved all along, Scarlett pleads with Rhett to stay, but he rebuffs her and walks away into the early morning fog. A distraught Scarlett resolves to return home to Tara, vowing to one day win Rhett back.
Most were great it is hard to pick just one.
That’s the book’s ending as well. Are you saying that this ending is incongruent with a strong feminist character? The entire last half of this book is about how Scarlett rebuilds her fortune by rejecting society’s expectations of her and running her own business. I could expound further, but I don’t want to hijack this listing thread.
This is great - a reminder of many books I love, and a potential reading list of ones I haven’t.
I don’t think, unless I missed it while doing a quick reach-through, that these three books are on anyone else’s list:
- The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
- The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
My third choice is a YA novel, and I read it originally as a teen, but I still re-read it once a decade or so and find it resonates beautifully.
I do love me some Liane Moriarty! I wish she’d churn out books faster; I’m always on the lookout for new ones.
I haven’t read any of his other works, and it sounds stylistically similar, so I’ll have to check it out!
Yes.
For a different sort of Baker novel, I like Checkpoint, and parts of The Fermata.
I wont ague with you on that, but I think we can agree there are thousands- if not more of great books with a strong female character, etc- without wading thru the worst cesspool of crap racism since Birth of a Nation.
Virginia Wolfe? Margaret Atwood? Simone de Beauvoir?
I love the book, and you do not. You are obviously far superior to myself. Maybe you will turn vegan in the future, you are so upright.
Let’s get back to the thread.
STOP HIJACKING THREADS WITH DUMB ARGUMENTS, YOUR THIS CLOSE TO BEING BANNED.
YOU’VE BEEN BACKSLIDING A LOT LATELY.
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Everyone, feel free to spin off a thread for sidebars if you like.
If you are responding to something in a thread that is basically off-topic or likely to lead to a hijack, try this:
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That is actually the best method.