I wouldn’t call these my favorite books (I haven’t created that list yet), although there is a lot of overlap between this list and that one. Rather, these are books that I think are really cool. If I see you reading one of them, it gives you a certain amount of street cred with me.
I know that’s a bad description, but I think it’s a valid one. There are just certain books make me think “cool.” Bridget Jones’s Diary may be a perfectly wonderful book, but I will never look at it and think “cool.” (Which is okay, because there are other plenty of people who do that—everyone has their own list of really cool books.)
If you want to comment with your own selections, feel perfectly free.
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5, Cat’s Cradle
- J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
- John Knowles – A Separate Peace
- William Butler – The Butterfly Revolution
- J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- George Orwell – Animal Farm
- Ray Bradbury – Dandelion Wine
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tortilla Flat
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
- Henry David Thoreau – Walden
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley – Frankenstein
- Bram Stoker – Dracula
- John Steinbeck – The Pearl
- John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
- Sue Townsend – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4
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elan
3 March 2013 at 21:06 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Just finished War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy). Major street cred with me!!!
Andrea Stein
17 January 2012 at 19:00 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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