J.Tharsen Book Recommendations
For Poetry
recommendations, see "My
Friends the Bibliophiles".
1. The Bluest Eye - Toni
Morrison
2. Les Misérables -
Victor Hugo
3. Tao Te Ching 道德經 -
Lao-Tzu 老子
4. Brave New World -
Aldous Huxley
5. The Hobbit & The Lord of
the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
6. Watership Down -
Richard Adams
7. L'Étranger (The
Stranger) - Albert Camus
8. The Power of One - Bryce
Courtenay
9. Danny, the Champion of the
World - Roald Dahl
10. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
11. Ender's Game - Orson
Scott Card
12. Stranger in a Strange Land
- Robert Heinlein
13. Der Prozess (The Trial)
- Franz Kafka
14. I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings - Maya Angelou
15. Roots - Alex Haley
And Honorable Mentions to:
Just About Everything by...
Jack Kerouac, Pablo Neruda, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Albert Camus,
Astrid Lindgren, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Robert Fulghum, Franz Kafka, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe
Jamaica Kincaid, Zora Neale Hurston and Gabriel Garcìa Marquez
Roald Dahl's children's books
The Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
1984 - George Orwell
The Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde
The A Wrinkle in Time series - Madeleine L'Engle
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series - Alexander McCall Smith
Football in Sun and Shadow - Eduardo Galeano
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Divakaruni
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
The Girl with the Silver Eyes - Willo Davis Roberts
The Thomas Covenant series - Stephen R. Donaldson
The Summer Tree series - Guy Gavriel Kay
A River Sutra - Gita Mehta
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
And last but not at all least, my two favorite plays:
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett and
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard.