Afro's List Of Essential Novels

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AfroLH

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I was told to make this thread so...
(I'm Excluding The Author If I Forgot It)
-Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
-A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
-Neuromancer by William Gibson
-Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
-American Psycho
-Anna Karenina
-Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
-Dune by Frank Herbert
-Foundation Series by Issac Asimov
-Crime and Punishment
-A Clockwork Orange
-Fight Club
-The Stranger by Albert Camus
-Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft
-The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo

I know I'm missing a lot. I'll add more as I remember them.
Give your own flaxtysuggestions!
 
Catcher in the Rye
A Single Shard
American Psycho
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
If on a Winters Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (and all his other books, too)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
1984 by George Orwell
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee



Short Stories:
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Man Who Shouted Teresa by Italo Calvino
To Build a Fire by Jack London
The Shadow by Hans Christian Anderson
The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
The Chaser by John Collier
 
*Grabs Kindle*

Hocus Pocus- Kurt Vonnegut
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
1894- George Orwell
Starship Troopers- Robert A. Heinlein
The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde
The Hobbit- JRR Tolkein
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter s Thompson
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test-Tom Wolfe
(I assume kickback has read the last two :trollface: )
 
I haven't actually :p I have read Of Mice & Men though, and I thought it was brilliant, and then I watched the film and it was absolutely horrible.
 
Kickback said:
I haven't actually :p I have read Of Mice & Men though, and I thought it was brilliant, and then I watched the film and it was absolutely horrible.
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I bawled at the end of Of Mice & Men. Bawled.
 
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I know a lot of people are going to yell at me and say I have no taste, but:

The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
 
AfroLH said:
-Foundation Series by Issac Asimov
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Foundation, yes, a thousand times yes. You cannot call yourself well-versed in sci-fi if you haven't read these. You shouldn't be able to even call yourself a person until you've read these.

Pretty much my favorite series, can you tell?

NINJA EDIT: Also, a book the modding community should like: "Rocket Boys" (new republished as "October Sky") by Homer Hickam.
 
Sam has the right idea with Ender's Game. :awesome: I thought Xenocide (from the same series) was awesome, too. Some didn't like it, but I though it was great.

I didn't see this here: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. There are three books, but the first stands well on its own. I didn't like the others quite as much, but they were still amazing.
 
Mario said:
Sam has the right idea with Ender's Game. :awesome: I thought Xenocide (from the same series) was awesome, too. Some didn't like it, but I though it was great.
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I've read all the books in that series twice this year. :/ They're amazing.
 
Mario said:
Sam has the right idea with Ender's Game. :awesome: I thought Xenocide (from the same series) was awesome, too. Some didn't like it, but I though it was great.
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First book is my favorite, but all the book in the main series are good (I haven't read the other ones).

Earth Abides
2001: A Space Odyssey (and its sequels)
Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy are good authors.
 
AfroLH said:
-A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
-Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
-A Clockwork Orange
-Fight Club
-2001: A Space Odyssey
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+1 to these, also: Youth in Revolt series, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Catch-22, The Doors of Perception; and Heaven and Heck, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Walden, and Snuff.
 
I approve of all of the books in this list, but I don't see one that should be on there:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
 
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