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Topic	B8 Books & Lit Topic 42 - A Squeeze of the Hand
kateee 04/26/17 3:06:11 PM #267:	That's such a HUGE topic (what are favorites, what is important to read) I'm not sure where to begin and end. I've personally never been too enamored or interested in certain texts but I can't deny their importance/influence. There are works that are taught are important in historical context or otherwise but I think a lot of people shy away from reading them because they are "boring" or "too old." Beowulf, Don Quixote, Canterbury Tales, Oedipus Rex, Divine Comedy, The Republic, The Art of War, Machiavelli's The Prince, The Odyssey, The Bible, etc. There's works now that are considered pretty "entry-level" that almost everyone has read. These are relatively "easy" to understand the themes/purpose of and serve as the gateway into analysis like Animal Farm/1984, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. I'll list personal favorites but acknowledge that the scope covered by these is relatively limited. I'll do sort of a top ten and then list the rest. It's admittedly pretty heavily focused on prose and American lit so take that into consideration if you want. Upon first thoughts, top ten (not in order) would be something like: Hamlet - Shakespeare Moby Dick - Melville Jane Eyre - Bronte Lolita - Nabokov To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner short stories of Flannery O'Connor (my favorite is "Good Country People" but others that are cited most frequently include "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," "The Artificial Notallowedbygamefaqs," "The River," "Greenleaf" i'll just list all of them jeez. Invisible Man - Ellison Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut A Clockwork Orange - Burgess Others: The Little Prince - Saint Exupery One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez Waiting for Godot - Beckett Lord of the Flies - Golding The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll The Stranger - Camus The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway Macbeth, King Lear, Richard III - Shakespeare The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers Madame Bovary - Flaubert Anna Karenina - Tolstoy A Doll's House - Ibsen Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky Death of a Salesman - Miller The Metamorphosis - Kafka Animal Farm; 1984 - Orwell Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury Huck Finn - Twain Frankenstein - Shelley <cite>kateee posted [p:877949464] in B8 Books &... [t:74976758]...</cite> <quote>That's such a HUGE topic (what are favorites, what is important to read) I'm not sure where to begin and end. I've personally never been too enamored or interested in certain texts but I can't deny their importance/influence. There are works that are taught are important in historical context or otherwise but I think a lot of people shy away from reading them because they are "boring" or "too old." Beowulf, Don Quixote, Canterbury Tales, Oedipus Rex, Divine Comedy, The Republic, The Art of War, Machiavelli's The Prince, The Odyssey, The Bible, etc. There's works now that are considered pretty "entry-level" that almost everyone has read. These are relatively "easy" to understand the themes/purpose of and serve as the gateway into analysis like Animal Farm/1984, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. I'll list personal favorites but acknowledge that the scope covered by these is relatively limited. I'll do sort of a top ten and then list the rest. It's admittedly pretty heavily focused on prose and American lit so take that into consideration if you want. Upon first thoughts, top ten (not in order) would be something like: Hamlet - Shakespeare Moby Dick - Melville Jane Eyre - Bronte Lolita - Nabokov To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner short stories of Flannery O'Connor (my favorite is "Good Country People" but others that are cited most frequently include "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," "The Artificial Notallowedbygamefaqs," "The River," "Greenleaf" i'll just list all of them jeez. Invisible Man - Ellison Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut A Clockwork Orange - Burgess Others: The Little Prince - Saint Exupery One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez Waiting for Godot - Beckett Lord of the Flies - Golding The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll The Stranger - Camus The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway Macbeth, King Lear, Richard III - Shakespeare The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers Madame Bovary - Flaubert Anna Karenina - Tolstoy A Doll's House - Ibsen Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky Death of a Salesman - Miller The Metamorphosis - Kafka Animal Farm; 1984 - Orwell Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury Huck Finn - Twain Frankenstein - Shelley</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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