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Comment with your Top Five/Ten/Whatever Novels that a person Must Read. Not necessarily your favorite book you read over and over (though it could be), but ones you think are really important.

And try not to list ones I've obviously read. (I.e. The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia).

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[snacky]

Little Women (and assorted sequels!) by Louisa May Alcott
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and assorted sequels!) by Douglas Adams
Geek Love by Katharine Dunn (so disturbing but so amazing - I could never reread it though)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (really, almost anything of hers)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (his other books too!)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Sandman (yes, the whole thing) by Neil Gaiman
Tales of the City (and ALL the sequels) by Armistead Maupin

[lirimaer]

Robin Hobb's Farseer series (the third book of the first trilogy is probably my most read book, as it means a lot to me)
George Orwell's "1984"
Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Stephen King's "The Stand"
Madeliene L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time"
any of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories
Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar"

[princetheoden]

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Hero by Perry Moore
Larklight by Philip Reeve
Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Igraine The Brave by Cornelia Funke

[ready_to_bloom]

Narnian Tales of Myth and Legend
The Big Book of Narnian Fairytales
History of the The Golden Age
An Illustrated History of Narnia
Ballads of the High King

[fisher_queen]

Stephen Lawhead's Song of Albion series borrow heavily from Celtic mythology and religion and is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is one of those books you practically have to read if you haven't already.

Emerson's essays

T.H White's The Once and Future King