You guys know how this works. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Starship Troopers The Catcher in The Rye EDIT: I'm gonna be on vacation for the next two weeks, not sure if i'll be able to get online. If the second or third poster would update the scores in their post that would be cool, or if any mod has the time you can edit my post. If not I'll update as soon as possible. :*
I swear we already had one of these, although perhaps not with the "essentials" title. House of Leaves East of Eden The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Oil! Paradise Lost (I like epic poetry, and more people should too) Siddhartha The Metamorphoses God forbid anyone recommend Twilight.
Brave New World Fahrenheit 451 Slaughterhouse Five Another Roadside Attraction Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Rum Dairies Just a handful. I'm sure i could come up with a few more.
Lotta good ones mentioned already! Off the top of my head, I'd add: 1984 Watership Down (El-ahrairah has the best gbatemp name, imo. i'm jealous of it....) The Thief of Always Dreamboy The Road As I Lay Dying the Discworld series Catcher in the Rye
-House of Leaves (it is unlike anything I have ever read before, and I loved it) -Dune (great sci-fi book, dunno about anything beyond the first though) -Hobbit + Lord of the Rings (kinda reminded myself I want to read it all over again, the writing really transports me there in my mind) A few others, while probably not as prolific as the above, -The Long Walk (totally F'ed up sci-fi story by Stephen King when he was calling himself Richard Bachman, would make a great movie) -Sphere (an amazing Michael Crichton page-turner, read in 2 days) -The Ruins (suspenseful horror story)
Twilight ;] (I liked it, surprisingly!) Harry Potter Pendragon series Watership Down ... How come when it comes to these things- Things not seen- I can only remember the short teen books?!?! D=
