Novels

In the same spirit as the "poetry" topic, let's post our favorite novels.

Mine would be (in order):
Ulysses by James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

Call me a simple man and not in order but here goes:

1st novel I read that I loved and still do.
Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls

Intensity by Dean Koontz

The Day of the Triffids By John Wyndham

Three By Ted Dekker

The Chronicles of Narnia (entire series as 1) By C.S. Lewis

The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck

A Man Called Simple By Langston Hughes

Native Son By Richard Wright

Deliverance By James Dickey

The Silence of the Lambs By Thomas Harris

Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison

There are so many others that could be listed, but off the top of my head this is a good start.

wow i have only read 3 novels if they are even novels and it was for english so it d have to be like this

Summer of My German Soldier

Animal Farm

Shakespeare

I'm not totally sure about this one, but I think Shakespeare is a person.

"The Pearl" by John Steinbeck ("Grapes" was good also -just soooooooooo long.)

"Who Moved my Cheese?" Spencer Johnson

Ecclesiastes by King Solomon

"The Carrot Seed"

"Zen Shorts"

All "Curious George" books (Fav is George goes fishing...)

This is George. He was a good little monkey and always very curious . . .

;-)

1. The Grapes of Wrath

2. Rag Time

3. All Quiet on the Western Front &

4. The Red Badge of Courage

5. Fahrenheit 451

6. 1984

7. Helter Skelter (not fiction, I know, but a powerful and riveting
read).
8. The Reason Why (another non-fiction book about why
the Light Brigade made its famous charge during the
Crimean War.

A few of my faves not in any particular order

Catcher in the Rye
American Psycho
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Lord of the Rings series
The Hobbit
Starship Troopers

a couple of favorites in no order

sorry i didnt mean to post... anyway

Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
all Christopher Moore
all Chuck Palahnuik
Ishmael and My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Flashman journals by Harry Flashman and
editted by George Macdonald Frasier
most Michael Chrichton (dont know how to spell)
1984 and Animal Farm

and thats all I can think of right now

i might as well put in my two cents worth

A Farewell to Arms - Hemmingway

anything by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Less than Zero)

Antigone - Sophocles

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

The Puppet Masters - Robert Heinlein

Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose

Here is what I think is scary is that I have read most of the books listed in the above posts.Here are some of my favorites.

The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy

Team Yankee by Harold Coyle

Quag Keep by Andre Norton

The Choir Boys by Joseph Wambaugh

East of Eden by James Steinbeck

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Inferno by Dante

any of the books Elmore Leonard has written but look at Get Shorty, BE Cool, and Rum Punch. all have been made into movies but the plot twists better in the books.

The Light at the End by John Skipp & Craig Spector
One of the best horror/vampire novels ever written. Puts Salem's Lot to shame.

The Getaway by Jim Thompson

Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

The Odyssey & The Illiad by Homer

Anything by Joe R Lansdale take a look at A Fine Dark Line and any of the Hap & Leonard adventures

If you get a chance read some of Andrew Vachss'
Burke novels. Blossom is the first of many. He has a new book out now Two Trains Running and it is a great book.

The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
I know this is a graphic novel but seeing Batman beat up on Superman is classic

A must read by all wrestlers.
Vision Quest by Terry Davis
Read this in high school a few years before the movie came out. I remember living on Nutrament during wrestling season.

I could list books all day. Two years ago I started a journal of all the books I read. Yes I read that much.

Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockinbird


...plus any of the Bearenstein BEARS.

Wow... not a single mention out there of John Irving.

Anyone heard of him? Wrote books like The World According to Garp (movie starring Robin Williams), The Cider House Rules (the movie version won him an Oscar for best screenplay), A Prayer for Owen Meaney (the movie Simon Birch was based on this book), and The Hotel New Hampshire? Here's a title that might intrigue some of you: The 158-Pound Marriage? (one of the main characters was a wrestler at Iowa)

John Irving also wrestled for Exeter Academy under coaches Cliff Gallagher and Ted Seabrooke. He has been a wrestling coach throughout the years, but I think he's taken a break from that. You'll find wrestling talk in almost all his novels. He's got a collection of short stories and memoirs called Trying to Save Piggy Snead that's pretty good. There's a picture in that book of Irving getting tripped by Dan Gable at wrestling practice (Irving was a professor at Iowa's Writer's Workshop M.F.A. program when Gable was coaching, and he occasionally worked out at practices).

In short, he's a good novelist with some strong ties to wrestling. FYI.

Also --

Only a few people mentioned Hemingway! I've taught his novels in my English class and the guys tend to love his writing -- we're talking about a man who added a little masculinity to the world of literature. Drinking, brawling, womanizing, more brawling, wars, hunting, fishing, going on safaris, you name it. Good stuff.

Not to mention The Old Man and the Sea is the easiest book report you can get away with doing in AP English, solely because Hemingway wrote it.

I never learned to read!!!!!! I have someone type this stuff.

Actually I don't know why but I did like the old man and the sea. I don't remember some of the others cause it has been so long.

my reading material consists of pictures of beatuiful women wearing little or no clothing.

That is very bad

i like to read t heir articles to see if i have a chance

our young AfternoonDelight is embarking on the magical journey to adulthood.

these kids grow up so fast