Nope! I hadn't thought of it, but if anyone would like, they could do a section for other language books! I'll have to run it by a few translators to be sure it's kosher, of course... I'll talk to you about that later, ok?
***Under the Responsibility of S.P.E.W.*** (Sadistic Perplexion of Everyone's Wits)
Medieval Lit! Come here to find out who Chaucer plagiarized and translated - and why and how it worked in the late 1300s.
Lolita — Vladmir Nobokov (I might have misspelled the name)
That is by far my number one book right now. Nobokov is Russian and English isn't his native language, but he wrote this book in English so it has no 'translation' to get lost in, and its amazing how well he mastered it. Better than most English speakers by birth.
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Ok, some brilliant crime books are:
- 'Along Came A Spider'- James Patterson
- 'Want To Play?'- PJ Tracy
- 'Severed'- Simon Kernick
- 'Kiss The Girls'- James Patterson
~Sday
Take that leap of faith, just don't look before you leap.
A Ring of Endless Light- Madeline L'Engle
Startide Rising- David Brin
Ringworld- Larry Niven
It- Stephen King
A Wrinkle in Time- Madeline L'Engle
The Alienist- Caleb Carr
The Mist- Stephen King
Fantasy:
~The Circle Trilogy (Black, Red, White), Showdown, Saint by Ted Dekker
~Shadowmancer by G. P. Taylor
~The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
~A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
~Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment and Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever by James Patterson
~The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
~The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Romance:
~The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (but your life won't be wasted if you don't read it)
Science Fiction:
~The Host by Stephenie Meyer (your life WILL be wasted if you don't read it)
~The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
~Farhenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
~Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Touching/Funny/Real life books:
~Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
~Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lumbar
~A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
Adventure:
~The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
~Pirates! by Celia Rees
~Hood and Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead (good, good books)
Classics:
~A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
~To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
“We’re still here,” he says, his voice cold, his hands shaking. “We know how to be invisible, how to play dead. But at the end of the day, we are still here.” ~Dax
Teacher: "What do we do with adjectives in Spanish?"
S: "We eat them!"
There are much of them. More than what I'm listing here.
Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Moomin series – Tove Jansson
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Alex Rider series – Anthony Horowitz
Sophie's World – Jostein Gaarder
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Éxupery
The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear – Walter Moers
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Princess Diaries series – Meg Cabot
The Brothers Lionheart – Astrid Lindgren
Seacrow Island – Astrid Lindgren
and non-fiction: all the books by Torey Hayden
"Your jokes are scarier than your earrings." -Twit
"14. Pretend like you would want him even if he wasn't a prince. (Yeah, right.)" -How to Make a Guy Like You - Disney Princess Style
None of you have mentioned any of these great books:
