<p>What is your favorite novel? I need to go to the library - I haven't read a great book in a while.</p>
<p>My top 5:</p>
<p>1) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. By far my favorite, nothing will ever beat the feeling of reading this masterpiece.
2) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
3) Green Mile by Stephen King
4) Catch 22 by Josef Heller
5) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.</p>
<p>1) * A Fine Balance *
2) * The Picture of Dorian Gray *</p>
<p>The Stepmother by Diana Diamond [? i’m thinking at the moment…?I don’t like choosing favourites]</p>
<p>Atonement by Ian McEwan</p>
<p>The Foundation Trilogy by Asimov</p>
<p>Keep 'em coming!:] I can’t wait to check these out</p>
<p>My own writings, they are profound.</p>
<p>If I had to choose just one, probably How It Was for Me by Andrew Sean Greer. </p>
<p>Other tops: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
The Death of Ivan Illyich by Tolstoy (props to Anna Karenina)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami</p>
<p>Side note: At Ohio Southwestern conference regionals today (or now yesterday, by 3 minutes or so), there was a question about Murakami! I wasn’t in, but luckily we got it after some hesitation (I would have gotten it after the name of the first short story, much less the first book) and me freaking out in the back.</p>
<p>Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy</p>
<p>this was a required reading but it was still good. you might opt out since there are a few parts which are kinda ehhh…
but
Pillars of the Earth by Follett</p>
<p>It’s great.</p>
<p>Anything by Haruki Murakami. And if you’re into SF, Orson Scott Card is awesome too. I really enjoy Terry Brooks as well, but that’s more about the fact that I need to know everything about the Shannara-verse rather than his writing.</p>
<p>^So true on Murakami. Except that at some point, the spaghetti, cats, jazz music, well metaphors, and lonely 30-something men seem to blend together.</p>
<p>I can’t really say which novel is my favorite, because I like each novel in a different way. A few I really liked are:</p>
<p>-Neuromancer by William Gibson
-1984
-The Things They Carried & Going after Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
-The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger</p>
<p>^^ I know what you mean. I really need to reread them sometime- maybe that’ll help me better differentiate the novels.</p>
<p>I should probably reread my own writings soon. My intelligence astounds me.</p>
<p>Jersey, you should post some of your writings! I’ve heard that they’re “astounding”</p>
<p>My fear of someone plagiarizing my masterpieces regrettably prevents me from sharing such wonders with you.</p>