homework help: Hey everyone, just out of a curiosity (and a homework assignment) in your opinion, what are the 10 Greatest/most important books of ALL TIME? - Help.com

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1. Watership Down, Richard Adams
2. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley*
3. 1984, George Orwell*
4. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
5. Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha, Mohandas K. Gandhi
6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
7. Island, Aldous Huxley
8. Green Shadows, White Whale, Ray Bradbury
9. In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
10. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger*

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Sherlock Holmes
tales from watership down: the sequal
…

the bible is pretty influential

true.
the odyssey
2000 leagues under the sea

write that down lol

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the ballad,
the epic of Gilgamesh… but that wasn’t a book per say…

okay. thats all for me. if you were to ask me a diffrent day my answers would change.

The Bible… been on the #1 best sellers list for decades!

lol

Johann Gutenberg’s Bible

i liked watership down a lot… fireman, have you read the sequel/prequel?

nope.

too bad. its got a lot of the stories that they talk about in the first one all explained. its just fun to read. it even continues the story a bit.
my favorite childhood book was redwall. ill never forget that series.

DaVinci Code
Amazonia
Frankenstein
Brahm Stoker’s Dracula
Dante’s Inferno
The Odyssey
Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
Akira
Jack by David Hopkins

How to win friends and influence people…. that’s been one of the best since the 1930’s… by Dale Carnegie

my fav child hood story was “the girl who owned a city” ill never forget that book.

book*

NOOOO not war and peace. it is only great in size. you are a great person if you read all the way through it. gatsby is good. and huckleberry finn was important to the formation of America, in some ways. that reminds me, “the old man and the sea” was important too.

lol this dude is so happy to get all this info

Hmm… in my opinion (and in no particular order)…

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
I Claudius and Claudius the God - Robert Graves
Hawaii - James Michener
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

I was going to list Shakespere, but those weren’t really books…

Hm, if I have two books to contribute to this, I would choose “Catcher in the Rye” and “Catch 22″. Awesome, awesome books.

to kill a mocking bird - harper lee
hamlet - shakesphere
the girl on times square - (cant remember)
pet cemertery - stephen king

and thats all i can think of.

these are my friends choices:

congo
jurassic park
lost world (sequel to jurassic park, heaps better than movie)
timeline
prey

dark horses

and this isnt a book, but an opera.

the phantom of the opera.

best ever, i cried in it. watch it some time.

Macbeth was my favorite Shakespere one.

it was the only one that i ever really enjoyed. i actually ment to right macbeth, but hamlet came out. my bad.

omg i forgot, the flowers in the attic, and the sequl. and the other one. they were so good and so sad.

for fantasy buffs, i recommend Tamora Pierce. ps, this is dani’s friend, not dani

all book fanatics should see my old post…

and tamora pierce was pretty good.

http://help.com/post/85097-i-need-a-r…

Bible
USA Consitution
Tokien Trilogy
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay - Self Reliance
Thoreau’s Essay - On The Duty of Civil Disobediance
The Dictionary
The Joy of Cooking
Any CS Lewis books - Narnia series, Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity
Dancing Naked In The Mind Field by (Noble Prize Winning Chemist) Kary Mullis

— there are a few more that belong in here… would have to rotate some in everyime you ask this question

A few months ago I read The Ultimate Gift, pretty good book I think they just released the movie too.

The Bible was influential and all, but it’s a pretty sh*tty read. Half the book is who was who’s kid, and who their kids were.

How could I forget the historical novel, “Roots” - Alex Haley - this is a great read.

Here’s my (sci-fi/fantasy biased) list that most people haven’t heard of/already read:
Phantom - Susan Kay (fiction) If you like Phantom of the Opera try it (if you can find it)
Hyperion - Dan Simmons (the first of an excellent sci-fi series)
Kushiel’s Dart - Jaqueline Carey (historical-ish fantasy)
A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn (history)
Armor - John Steakley (Sci-Fi)
Illusion - Paula Volsky (Historical Fantasy)
The Art of War (annotated) - Sun Tzu (self help?)
Civil Disobedience - Theoreau (essay)
Princess Bride - William Goldman (fiction)
Superweasel - Clifford B. Hicks (childrens…hey give me a break, I was ten)

“art of war” is my w.o.

hyperion was good, but i liked skybreaker even better

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