Must Read Before You Die. The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time. In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge.
Most books generally turned out to not be too bad, but occasionally I’d come across something that would leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach for weeks. I’ve largely outgrown this “genre” of late, but here are my picks for the ten most disturbing books of all time. Any one of these books is capable of leaving you feeling a little depressed at the least, and permanently scarred at the worst. I’d say enjoy, but that doesn’t really seem appropriate … 10. Blindness is a book with a truly horrifying scenario at it’s heart: what if everyone in the world were to lose their sight to disease in a short period of time? 9. Anti drug crusaders should stop airing goofy commercials that nobody takes seriously and start pushing to have Requiem For A Dream made required reading for every high schooler in the country. 8.
Naked Lunc is another ode to drug addiction. 7. 6. Bleak. 5. Literary Love Triangles (Non-YA) (290 books) Favorites on my kindle. Nymn's Best of Favourite Bickering Couples & Romantic Tension (100 books) Short & simple: This is my list (Nymn's best) so please, please stop adding books I dislike or don't know of.
Please respect my wishes! This is a list of my top favourite teen fiction, fantasy, science fiction, romance and romantic fantasy books with the best and funniest argumentative couples and couples to be. Personally, I love such dialogue in books and movies but surprisingly, I can never find lists for any other similar recommendation. Hence the creation of my own. Besides, it always seems to me that couples who are argumentative tend to be amongst the funniest, most witty, most intelligent, pretty eccentric, most interesting, strongest as well as characters that have big hearts, realistic and are human in that they make mistakes.
***Note-Please Read: I know I'm going to sound arrogant and pompous but do please try to understand. Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once (6408 books) The Book List. List of best-selling books. According to Guinness World Records, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with over 5 billion copies sold and distributed.[2] However, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures — with some sources claiming over 6.5 billion printed volumes,[3] others claiming the distribution ran into the "billions,"[4] and others citing "over a billion" official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as "untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations.
"[5][6] The Qur'an is also widely reported to be one of the most printed and distributed books worldwide,[7][8][9] with billions of copies believed to be in existence. Exact print figures for these and other books may also be missing or unreliable since these kinds of books may be produced by many different and unrelated publishers, in some cases over many centuries. Summer 2012 Reading List. Looking for some good summer reading?
Check out the books Gwen and the Washington Week panelists recommend for the beach, the car, the plane or the pool. From fiction to politics, history to biography, there is something for everybody. The smartest reporters in Washington, D.C. bring you their suggestions for the summer's best reads. "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4" by Robert A. Caro(Knopf Doubleday) Every political reporter says he or she is reading Robert Caro's "The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. " - Gwen Ifill, Washington Week Volume four in Caro’s remarkable biography of Lyndon Johnson is another tour de force and a book that seems to be on every political junkie’s summer list. .
- Dan Balz, The Washington Post Having read Caro’s prior works tracing LBJ’s life, how could I skip the one where he languishes in the vice presidency and then ascends to the presidency in the tragedy of John F. . - Gloria Borger, CNN - Alla Lora, Washington Week. Briu.