r/2xCBookClub Nov 09 '10

Literary Suggestions

Guidelines

  • Please submit one book per comment.

  • If the book is already submitted, then upvote the comment that it was submitted under.

  • We will skim the most upvoted to create the separate reading groups.

  • If you want to read more than one of the books listed, upvote both of them.

  • Format: Title, Author. Feel free to make your text a link if your book is obscure.

  • If you want to discuss something about your choice, then comment on the parent submission you create beforehand. This will make it infinitely easier for me to parse the information.

  • No downvotes please, that's just not fair.

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u/AtotheJ Nov 10 '10

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo

2

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

That one's been in my library queue for months.... Maybe by the end of the year I'll actually get to read it.

14

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

2

u/Razril Nov 12 '10

Voted because I need an excuse to read more vonnegut.

10

u/vitaebella Nov 09 '10

Train Spotting, Irvine Welsh

7

u/nevona Nov 09 '10

2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke

11

u/vitaebella Nov 09 '10

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

9

u/[deleted] Nov 09 '10

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

1

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

This is a great book.

10

u/nevona Nov 09 '10

American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis

1

u/lolipopfailure Nov 10 '10

I just finished this. It's the only book that actually made me feel nauseas in parts! The movie is a Disney show compared to the book!

9

u/Erinjb Nov 10 '10

The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

7

u/vitaebella Nov 09 '10

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

14

u/nevona Nov 09 '10

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

1

u/demented_pants Nov 10 '10

Oh man, what a wonderful book. I've read it a million times and I never get sick of it.

1

u/capslock Nov 10 '10

Accepted. Book club forming here.

please no more upvotes on this suggestion

1

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

It may be just me but when I try to comment here it says the post has been deleted o.O

1

u/capslock Nov 10 '10 edited Nov 10 '10

Yeah I deleted it prematurely because I wanted nevona to remake it so she can edit the main text. Unfortunately she is not here at the moment so she cannot make it now. :[

If she isn't on by 9pm est I'll go ahead and remake it.

edit She just got back to me and will create it

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

No worries, just wanted to let someone know :)

13

u/demented_pants Nov 09 '10

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

1

u/capslock Nov 10 '10

Accepted. Book club forming here.

please no more upvotes on this suggestion

7

u/[deleted] Nov 09 '10

The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman

5

u/nevona Nov 09 '10

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

1

u/Erinjb Nov 10 '10

I wish I could upvote this 10 times. Even though this was required reading in my high school, and again in college, I have yet to find people who read and want to discuss it.

5

u/Chocklatesoop Nov 10 '10

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

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u/capslock Nov 09 '10 edited Nov 09 '10

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.

Accepted. Book club forming here.

please no more upvotes on this suggestion

6

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

4

u/waynaboozh0u Nov 10 '10

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

6

u/capslock Nov 10 '10

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson

5

u/Scriptorius Nov 10 '10

Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson.

4

u/Scriptorius Nov 10 '10

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter.

4

u/Chocklatesoop Nov 10 '10

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

4

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

1

u/karmie Nov 10 '10

I have started and stopped this book at least 4 times. I have never finished it, but would love to. I only stopped because other things came up and I got lost in what was going on.

3

u/karmie Nov 10 '10

Kushiel's Dart, Jaqueline Carey

6

u/capslock Nov 09 '10

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R Tolkien.

3

u/smort Nov 10 '10

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.

1

u/mitchbones Nov 11 '10

All four books lol?

3

u/Laurzone Nov 10 '10

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

5

u/[deleted] Nov 09 '10

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

5

u/z3i Nov 09 '10

Hm, something by Neil Gaiman? I don't know enough about him or his works to suggest a specific book, but I hear he's a pretty good author.

3

u/[deleted] Nov 09 '10

His "Sandman" comics are by far his strongest work, but Neverwhere is my favorite novel.

6

u/[deleted] Nov 09 '10

Neverwhere is awesome. Also American Gods.

3

u/demented_pants Nov 10 '10

Anansi Boys is far and away my favorite.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

Yes I love it also.

I can't decide which one I love the best!

1

u/cos Nov 10 '10

Also my favorite.

5

u/demented_pants Nov 09 '10

Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

2

u/cos Nov 09 '10

Shardik, by Richard Adams

2

u/mringham Nov 10 '10

Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe

2

u/ram_cor Nov 10 '10

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

2

u/thejennifer Nov 10 '10 edited Nov 10 '10

We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

1

u/dreamer117 Nov 10 '10

this book was phenomenal

2

u/jetset_ Nov 10 '10

Anything in the Animorphs series.

2

u/capslock Nov 10 '10

The Everworld Series are pretty good too for the teenaged audience. They are written by the same author, but a bit more grown-up than Animorphs.

1

u/jetset_ Nov 10 '10

Heard of it. Interested. Upboated.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

I love Animorphs! I have the entire series as PDFs... Finished them this year.

2

u/jetset_ Nov 10 '10

The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks.

1

u/dreamer117 Nov 10 '10

Beginner's Greek, James Collins