Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, both by Orson Scott Card
The King of Attolia by Megan Whaelen Turner (also in series: The Thief and The Queen of Attolia)
The entire Bartimaeus Trilogy by Johnathan Stroud
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (yes, it makes the 50-year requirement, I checked)
Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
"In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function...We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." ~C.S. Lewis
This book is one of the best I've ever read, It deserves to be here.
We get off to the rhythm of the trigger and destruction. Fallujah to New Orleans with impunity to kill. We are the hidden fist of the free market.
We are the ink, we are the quill.
[The Ink And The Quill (Be Afraid) - Anti-Flag]
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury [published in the sixties, so it makes the mark]
If On A Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Plato Papers - Peter Ackroyd
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg
I haven't read any novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, just bits and pieces - but I definately second those nominations based on the bits and pieces.
EDIT- I second the nomination for A Wrinkle In Time
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway
Sorry I haven't been updating these threads. I'll get around to it sometime. And Kaz, I think you have the mod power to do so, so if you ever had the inclination, I wouldn't mind in the least.
I know that Sumi already nominated it, but I'd just like to reiterate that My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult was a wonderful book, and should be included in this list.
And I'll second The BFG
