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[intotheaether]

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[the_opheliac]

You had better 555. I've found more books you NEED to read and NAUWWWWWW.

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho (they're making a movie out of this book)
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (I'm surprised you haven't read this one!!)
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Aaaand don't read these books because they fail,
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch

[intotheaether]

Thanks very much! A lot of those I've either had on my list for ages, then I keep getting sidetracked, some others (like Frankenstein and Les Mis) I picked up, then for whatever reason put them down again. Then some, I hadn't even heard of. So yay!

[the_opheliac]

Excelllenntttt.

I'm irritated that Marya Hornbacher's book "Center of Winter" isn't on there. Or my favourite book Wasted!

I suggest you read both of them. Warning: with Wasted you will CRY. -_-

[intotheaether]

As much as I love the list, it's really fucked up that they have a fucking ANNE RICE book. Just, no. So I'll definitely keep her in mind; my sister's read her books!

[vespercarpathia]

Hunchback and Frankenstein, yes!

[the_opheliac]

Ohhh yes. I love them both!