Which ones have you read?

[annewandering]

I am happy they have those scary series to read. Goosebumps? RL Stine. Hey I have enjoyed some of those myself.

[Connie]

I've seen high schools do much worse than The Hunger Games. My hubby and i have had some pretty good discussions about that series. Maybe it's just me, but I think those are some great books for high school students to discuss. They may have an elementary reading level, but the concepts are pretty dang hefty. And i personally would not give those books to read to an elementary student because of the content, regardless of the reading level. But yeah, in general schools need to do more studying of great classic books. As for the list, yep i've definitely read much more than 6 of those.

[Backroads]

They may be interesting books to discuss, but I've read the Hunger Games and I can't see anything in there that is so intense for a high schooler than can't be discussed another way. (Then again, I might be taking out my anger against them, I personally found "The Hunger Games" poorly written).

[rayhale]

Here is a list of books that are Public Domain and the e-book versions are free on electronic book readers, like Kindle: 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14 (under various titles), 23, 24, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, … I’m sure there are more, but I got tired listing all the books.

[rayhale]

Some of the problems of these old books are, one, since they are old, they will have situations, words, phrases, and even sometimes morals, which we don’t have today. There are also problems with the fact that books, along with other media, like movies, and music, is mainly based on popularly contest, for an example, I will read a Steven King novel well before I read a book by someone I’ve never heard before. This may be the case with most of these books in the list, that, plus the fact that the older books are well known, well researched, and in many cases, cheap if not free.

[NoxNullaEgetDeumPerfectum]

Try reading these, most of which have been recommended by Church leaders.

None Dare Call It Conspiracy(Gary Allen)-recommended in conference Ezra Taft Benson

The Naked Communist(W. Cleon Skousen)-recommended in confrence by David O. McKay

The Naked Capitalist(W. cleon Skousen)-important sequal to the Naked Communist

the 5000-Year Leap(W Cleon Skousen)- perhaps the most well read LDS work on liberty

The Elders of Israel and the constitution(Jerome Horowitz)- Recommended in Conference by Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon and the Constitution(H. Verlan Andersen)-LDS General Authority and very close freind to Ezra Taft Benson

The Moral Basis of a free Society(H. Verlan Anderson)

An Enemy Hath Done This(Ezra Taft Benson, compiliation of political speeches)

The Law(Federic Bastiat)- not an LDS author but quoted heavily by Ezra Taft Benson

[Guest]

I've read over 30 of those on the list.

Interesting that The Once and Future King isn't on it.

I vote The Hiding Place be marked as Classic. If asked what my favorite book is, that book always pops on my head - although, I can think of several books that I enjoyed reading more if given enough time to think about it. For some reason that book left quite an impression on me.

I usually choose books from the blurb. But lately - ever since I started using an e-reader, I've been looking at books with high reviews. Interestingly, a lot of Christian fiction books bubble to the top of the high-review lists...

[Vort]

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. For sheer entertainment value in reading, this is literally the funnest, most enjoyable book I have ever read.

[Jezebel2011]

About 80 of them! Was amazed at that number

[volgadon]

Here are the ones I've read. Some left me indifferent, but there are others that I absolutely adore and a few I dislike strongly. All in all I think I've a good showing

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

70 Moby **** – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Edited January 3, 2012 by volgadon
Adding gratuituous self-praise, naturally.

[volgadon]

I've read over 30 of those on the list.

Interesting that The Once and Future King isn't on it.

I think it was, back in 2003 or 2004. Marvelous book.

The list changes from time to time. A lot of the old stalwarts such as Jane Austen are always there.

[volgadon]

Here are a few non-English books (in no particular order) which I'm curious to see if anyone has read.

1) The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni.

2) Broken April - Ismail Kadare.

3) The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer.

4) With Fire and Sword (trilogy) - Henryk Sienkiewicz.

5) The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek.

6) A Dog's Heart - Mikhail Bulgakov.

7) The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov.

8) The Blue Mountain - Meir Shalev.

9) And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov.

10) The Castle - Franz Kafka.

[Vort]

Here are a few non-English books (in no particular order) which I'm curious to see if anyone has read.

1) The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni.

I promessi sposi -- I remember that book.

[Guest]

Here are a few non-English books (in no particular order) which I'm curious to see if anyone has read.

1) The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni.

2) Broken April - Ismail Kadare.

3) The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer.

4) With Fire and Sword (trilogy) - Henryk Sienkiewicz.

5) The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek.

6) A Dog's Heart - Mikhail Bulgakov.

7) The Twelve Chairs - Ilf and Petrov.

8) The Blue Mountain - Meir Shalev.

9) And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov.

10) The Castle - Franz Kafka.

Yikes! I haven't read a single one of those! I need to pick these up. Thanks, Volgadon!

I recommend Noli Me Tangere and the sequel El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (they have it in English version too). I hate to rag on Catholics but these 2 books may give validation to the Apostasy. At any rate, it's a great depiction of the struggles of Filipinos under Spanish rule if you're into symbolism and that kind of stuff. If not, then it's a great romantic tragedy...

[volgadon]

Yikes! I haven't read a single one of those! I need to pick these up. Thanks, Volgadon!

I recommend Noli Me Tangere and the sequel El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (they have it in English version too). I hate to rag on Catholics but these 2 books may give validation to the Apostasy. At any rate, it's a great depiction of the struggles of Filipinos under Spanish rule if you're into symbolism and that kind of stuff. If not, then it's a great romantic tragedy...

I'll be sure to look those up as I am into that kind of stuff.

The Slave is a fantastic book retelling the story of Jacob and Rachel, and how time has a sense of justice.

Svejk is about a Czech soldier living the absurdities of war.

The Blue Mountain is about an area I grew up in, not to mention a good story of a kid's relationship to the grandfather who raised him.

The Betrothed is good 19th c. historical romance.

Unfortunately, the Twelve Chairs doesn't work too well in English, but it is one of my absolute favourite Russian novels. An aristocratic and con-man try to find a treasure hiding in 1 of 12 chairs during the 1920s.

A Dog's Heart is an allegory, showing how dog with a good heart can be turned into a vile curr of a man.

Quiet Flows the Don takes place in an area I served in. There are statues & murals all over the place depicting scenes from the book. Powerful story of war and family struggle.

Edited January 4, 2012 by volgadon

[Saldrin]

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)

6 The Bible

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I have 9

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[classylady]

I've read just a little over half of the list.

Do watching movies count? If I add the movies I've seen, then I could add quite a few more to my list. lol

I love reading. If I find an author I like, I tend to read most of their books. Some of my favorite authors are Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Lisa Scottoline, Dan Brown, P.D. James, Tom Clancy, Steve Berry, Robert Ludlum, Nevada Barr, Sue Grafton, John Grisham, Mary Stewart, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ian Fleming, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc. etc. etc. There are so many more that I love. For me, life would be pretty dull if I couldn't sit down and read a good book. Books take me to far away places, fun adventures, and frightening scenarios. I vicariously experience love that is lost and then found. Most of the protagonists are strong characters that against all odds find a way to resolve their dilemmas. After a good read, I'm more energized, and enthused about my own life (even if it may not be as exciting as the books I read).