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74 Books to Read if You Love the Hunger Games. If you haven't read the Hunger Games you really should!

74 Books to Read if You Love the Hunger Games

They're pretty awesome. 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.

Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years

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. 30 Books To Read Before You’re 30… « Perfectly Prompted! Booklists - 100 Most Influential Books.

6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong. #3.

6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Anybody who grew up in the 1960s (and still remembers anything about it) can tell you what Lewis Carroll's classic children's book was really all about: A girl takes a "trip" down the rabbit hole and finds herself in a surreal world where animals start talking to her. After she eats some "mushrooms," everything starts to change sizes before her eyes. She meets an over-stimulated "white rabbit" and a stoned caterpillar smoking a "shitload of drugs. " We didn't really need Jefferson Airplane to clarify it; Alice in Wonderland is the Fear and Loathing of fairy tales. The 13 scariest books of all time NOT written by Stephen King. Yes, we all know King is the Sultan of Scare, and that books like The Shining, Salem's Lot, and It will make you quake in your fuzzy slippers.

The 13 scariest books of all time NOT written by Stephen King

6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong. What 10 Classic Books Were Almost Called. Remember when your high school summer reading list included Atticus , Fiesta , and The Last Man in Europe ? You will once you see what these books were renamed before they hit bookshelves. 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald went through quite a few titles for his most well-known book before deciding on The Great Gatsby . If he hadn’t arrived at that title, high school kids would be pondering the themes of Trimalchio in West Egg; Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires; On the Road to West Egg; Under the Red, White, and Blue; Gold-Hatted Gatsby; and The High-Bouncing Lover. 2. 3. 4.

The 50 SF Books You Must Read. TIME.com#never-let-me-go-2005-by-kazuo-ishiguro-2. Top 10 Most Disturbing Novels. Books Not everyone has the stomach for disturbing literature, but there is such a large amount of writing in the genre that everyone should give it at least one try.

Top 10 Most Disturbing Novels

This list will help to introduce you to the darker side of novels – the disturbing, macabre, and oftentimes downright sick. The only rule to this list is that the book must be a work of fiction. If you think something has been left off the list, be sure to tell us in the comments. 15 Famous Books Inspired by Dreams. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction.

Brian AldissStar Maker by Olaf Stapledon (1937) It requires little sophistry to consider Daniel Defoe's immortal Robinson Crusoe as a metaphor for a man stranded on an alien planet.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction

Crusoe is an exile, and exile has proved a perennial theme within the genre of science fiction. 30 Books I’m Glad I Read Before 30. In various ways, these 30 books convey some of the philosophy of how Angel and I live our lives.

30 Books I’m Glad I Read Before 30

I honestly credit a fraction of who I am today to each title. Thus, they have indirectly influenced much of what I write about on this site. A medley of both fiction and nonfiction, these great reads challenged my internal status quo, opening my mind to new ideas and opportunities, and together they gave me a basic framework for living, loving, learning and working successfully. If you haven’t read these books yet, I highly recommend doing so. They will enrich your library and your life. 7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World.

The vast majority of the knowledge humans have assembled over the centuries, has been lost.

7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World

The world's geniuses either kept their revelations to themselves and then died, or else they put it down on paper which has long since rotted or burned or been used to line some parakeet's cage. Obviously we'll never know what great books have been lost to time, but we have clues on some of them, and what those clues tell us is mind-boggling, and a little bit depressing.

30 Books To Read Before You’re 30… « Perfectly Prompted! Easton Press's "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" on Lists of Bests. Top 10 Best Novels of the Last 20 Years - Top 10 Lists. Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels. Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984 is a nonfiction book by David Pringle, published by Xanadu in 1985.[1] The foreword is by Michael Moorcock.

Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels

Primarily the book comprises 100 short essays on the selected works, covered in order of publication, without any ranking. It is considered an important critical summary of the science fiction field.[2][3][4] Scope[edit] In the introduction Pringle offers the working definition, "Science fiction is a form of fantastic fiction which exploits the imaginative perspectives of modern science. " In turn, modern science is the "scientific world-view ... as it has come to be accepted by the intelligent layperson", which arguably "first became common property in the mid to late 19th century Within fantastic fiction he distinguishes science fiction from "Supernatural Horror" and "Heroic Fantasy". Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME.

Welcome to the massive, anguished, exalted undertaking that is the ALL TIME 100 books list.

Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME

The parameters: English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began, which, before you ask, means that Ulysses (1922) doesn’t make the cut. In May, Time.com posted a similar list, of 100 movies picked by our film critics, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. This one is chosen by me, Richard Lacayo, and my colleague Lev Grossman, whom we sometimes cite as proof that you don’t need to be named Richard to be hired as a critic at TIME, though apparently it helps. The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books / Life / Stylist Magazine.

Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. Top 10 Most Disturbing Novels. 15 Books You Should Have Read in 2010 - Culture - GOOD - StumbleUpon. Image by Jane Mount, Courtesy 20x200 Yes, we read Freedom this year and yes, it was good. As Esquire put it, it “was one great slab of a book, at a time when most books have given up on greatness.” But there were other books in 2010, books that had to compete for our ever more challenged attention spans and won. So we asked a few members of the GOOD team & some of our good colleagues which book made their best list this past year. (And since discovering something you might have missed is one of the great pleasures of reading, no selections were disqualified for having been published prior to 2010). 1. Author: Stephen King Recommended by: Ben Jervey, Environment Editor.

40 Modern Nonfiction Books Everyone Should Read.