Top 10 Infamous Fake Memoirs. Books A memoir can hardly be expected to contain the whole truth. Memories are faulty and the authors, of course, are presenting their own personal view of themselves. But faulty memories, omission, and slight exaggeration are far different than completely warping the truth or creating an entirely imaginary life. Whatever their motivation, many people have published false memoirs and many more people have unknowingly and ardently supported them. When the memoir is revealed as false, a surprisingly common reaction is to appeal to the emotional truth of the story. Sylvester Clark Long is probably the easiest fake memoirist on this list to sympathize with. Papillon is a memoir written by convicted felon, Henri Charrière, in which he related the tale of his adventures in various prisons and penal colonies throughout French Guiana and its environs.
When this book hit the market in 1971, it caused quite a stir. The Education of Little Tree: a True Story The Hitler Diaries Love and Consequences. Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years. Books The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist. Not movies, not music, not art, not the theatre. A famous author once said that novels are the best way for two human beings to connect with each other. I believe this, and I believe that people who do not find pleasure in words have never had the opportunity to read one of the great novels. The first introductions students often have to literature are stale century-old books that do not translate well to this new modern era. Music for Torching by A.M.
First Sentence: ”It is after midnight on one of those Friday nights when the guests have all gone home and the host and hostess are left in their drunkenness to try and put things right again.” As the only woman on the list, A. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996) Of course, Palahniuk had to be on this list. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (2000) The house is alive. The Road. Top 10 Literary One Hit Wonders. Books This is a list of ten great writers that are famous for one novel and one novel alone. Some of them have written additional short stories or poetry and in a couple of cases additional novels (none of which are well known or ever rose to the prominence of their main work).
Here are the top 10 literary one hit wonders. 10. Black Beauty Anna Sewell At the age of 14, Anna Sewell fell while walking home from school in the rain, injuring both her ankles. Possibly through mistreatment of her injury, she became lame for the rest of her life and was unable to stand or walk for any length of time. Black Beauty is told as an autobiographical memoir by a highbred horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Buy this book at Amazon 9. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her book Gone with the Wind. Buy this book at Amazon 8.
Buy this book at Amazon 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. Top 10 Underrated Fantasy Stories After 1937. Books Some of you may recall that I wrote a list of a similar title regarding fantasy works before 1937. This is my follow-up. These are the stories that are never mentioned as the greats of modern fantasy, in spite of often surpassing the quality of their contemporaries. These are under appreciated, under-read or simply unknown pieces of fantasy literature. The Stone Dance of the Chameleon Ricardo Pinto A high fantasy trilogy written in the past decade seems like a nice way to start off this list. Harold Shea L. L. Probably the most ‘mainstream’ entry on this list, the Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik, is an alternative history of the Napoleonic Wars, following a British captain named Laurence.
The Ambergris Cycle Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer is best known, in the world of fantasy and science fiction, for his excellent anthologies of obscure subgenres, ranging from pirate fantasy to steampunk. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Stephen R. The Books of Abarat Clive Barker Islandia Gormenghast. Top 10 Fieriest Books in the Bible. Religion The Bible causes fire wherever it is mentioned. It is clearly one of the most controversial books in modern times – though perhaps not so much for its content as the actions of some who interpret it. This list does not preach at all, but is simply a brief examination of the stories from the Bible that make it a well known and talked-about book in world literature. You do not need to believe in God in order to enjoy this list.
There is a lot of overlap in the first five Books of the Bible, called the Pentateuch or Torah. Much of what transpires in Exodus is repeated for good measure in #8. Here we get the legendary Ten Plagues of Egypt, and they are: blood, frogs, lice, flies, the death of all livestock save the Israelites’, boils and sores, hail, locusts, darkness and the death of all firstborn male Egyptian children. God Himself leads them through the desert by day as a cloud, and by night as a pillar of fire for light. These are all fun, creepy stories. Then there’s Samson. 10 Notoriously Controversial Books. Books We have written two lists in the past which deal with this same subject, so there is a little overlap, but this list is a more general one so it makes sense.
This is a list of books (fiction and non-fiction) that have been the subject of great controversy. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail The Da Vinci Code almost made it onto this list, but in light of this entry’s nonfiction status, it must overtake what Dan Brown expressly intended as fiction. This is the nonfiction book from which Dan Brown got most of his ideas for The Da Vinci Code. As if that book isn’t controversial enough, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln (yes, that’s right, three writers), published this book in 1982 in the UK.
You can see how this might upset a few Christians. It also asserts that the Roman Catholic Church has completely corrupted the truth of Judeo-Christian history in order to control people. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn This one is controversial for a specific reason. O.