the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

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Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier

vernon god little - dbc pierre
curious incident of the dog in the night time - mark haddon
hedda gabler - henrik ibsen
hamlet - shakespeare
turn of the screw - henry james
battle royale - koushun takami
tipping the velvet - sarah waters
wicked - gregory maguire

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Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?

The Great Santini by Pat Conroy (I just couldn't put it down, it was amazing. I have another of his books called The Lords of Discipline and I cannot wait to read it)

And can anyone tell me about Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe? I'm looking at it and it seems good. I want a page-turner.

mein kampf

man's search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.

picked it up for 3 bucks at a bargain book store and love it

if Irvine Welsh is fine then read as MUCH of him as you can. He is my absolute favourite author.. Filth and Glue are extraordinary. Trainspotting and Porno are good as well...I wasn't too fond of Ecstasy and I thought his short story collection was hit and miss with each story.

However, my favourite novel is The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. That to me is a staple. Middlesex is also damn good.

Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norrell AMAZED me. I'd like to force most people I know to read that book because it is BRILLIANT.

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
....NOTHING that Oprah has recommended for you.

^ Not that I think we should wet our panties and jump on the wagon every time Oprah recommends a novel, but I have stumbled upon a couple books that had her sticker slapped on the cover, and they were actually good reads. Don't let her make you hate perfectly good literature.

I will support my argument if you'd like

Has anyone mentioned Kiterunner or Life of Pi? Life of Pi is supposed to "make you believe in God", but it didn't, so don't worry about that aspect. It has a brilliant twist.

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I don't know many of her picks, but A Million Little Pieces was enough to ruin it for me.

I actually agree, that was a terrible book and I never really grasped the hype.

Frey wrote.
Like this.
And.
You know, I couldn't get into it.
Understood?

But White Oleander was an Oprah pick, no? She's Come Undone, Middlesex, Pillars of The Earth...all good reads. But generally everything she touches seems cheapened somehow, I understand where you're coming from. Oprah = bad, stinky vibes.

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If you are Canadian, there is a 30% chance you are already in Broken Social Scene

It seems like everytime she praises a book, it becomes connoted with bored housewives and 12 year-olds.

Pillars of Earth is awesome. Had no idea that was on her list.

anna karenina is on the list too. some other good books ...

i wonder if she personally picks them?

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don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down
whether or not you ever show up

I kind of doubt it, but who knows, she might surprise me. I know that on Richard and Judy's old show there was a woman whose job it was to pick the books they were recommending. I read an interview with her and she had the publishing world at her feet; getting a book on one of those shows is the golden ticket of modern writing.

I am sure these have been mentioned somewhere in here and I have not had time to read the entire thread but the ones that come first to my mind are

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
Dante's Divine Comedy (all 3 parts- complete)
Shakespeare- Hamlet
TS Eliot- (poem) Prufrock

(ack- my spacebar keepsstickingion this computer!)

Salinger- Catcher in the Rye
too much more to even think of!
Faulkner-The Sound and the Fury