A
favorite book???
Impossible!
That is like picking a favorite child.
We narrowed it down to a measly
60!
60 books everybody
should read:
1. Catcher in the Rye
"I
am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad
I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff,
though."
2. The heart is a
lonely hunter
"The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand
alone."
3. Ender's Game
"Perhaps
it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to
be."
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
"You
never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
5. A tree grows in Brooklyn
"Sometimes
I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream
out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least
she knows she's living."
6. The world according to Garp
“In
this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or
fast on your way to becoming one or the other.”
7. The fault in our stars
"Grief does not change
you, Hazel. It reveals you."
8. Lonesome Dove
"It
ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die,
but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus
McCrae"
9. The Godfather
"Accidents don't happen to people who take
accidents as a personal insult."
10. Angela's Ashes
"It’s lovely to know that the world can’t
interfere with the inside of your head."
11. The Good Earth
“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except
when he is very young and very old...”
12. The Handmaid's Tale
"The
moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that
you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much
evil"
13. Book Thief
"A
DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children"
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children"
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
14. Shogun
"Only
by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life."
15. The Dark Tower Series Stephen King
"Go
then, there are other worlds than these."
16. Atlas Shrugged
"Never
think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight
them."
17. Jane Eyre
"I
would always rather be happy than dignified."
18. The Secret Garden
"It
made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he
smiled. She had not thought of it before."
19. Harry Potter series
"It
matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
20. Animal Farm
"All
animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
21. No country for old men
"You
think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is
all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s
made out of. Nothin else."
22. The Passage
"We
live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to
help lighten the load."
23. The Diary of Anne Frank
"I
don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still
remains."
24. A Wrinkle in Time
"The
only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little
lightly."
25. Winter Solstice
"And
the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the
people who are closest and whom we love the most."
26. The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Ah!
Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening
to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your
life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. Live! Let nothing be lost
upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
27. A New Earth
"You
can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you
are."
28. Perks of Being a Wallflower
"Enjoy
it. Because it's happening."
29. Sky Burial, an epic love story of Tibet
"No
one likes crying, but tears water our souls."
30. Game of Thrones
"Never
forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then
it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used
to hurt you."
31. The Green Mile
"On
the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill
one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My
job?"
32. The Stand
“We
are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will
stand."
33. Sense & Sensibility
“She was sensible and clever, but
eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
34. Chronicles of Narnia
“Crying
is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later,
and then you still have to decide what to do."
35. Pride and Prejudice
"I
must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
36. These is My Words
"My
life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages
faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop
to read it."
37. Ready Player One
"NO ONE IN THE
WORLD EVER GETS WHAT THEY WANT AND THAT IS BEAUTIFUL."
38. A Discovery of Witches
"And
happiness is always louder than sadness."
39. Flowers for Algernon
"P.S. Please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepuls laff at him and he would have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where i go."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)
40. The Princess Bride
"True love is the best thing in the world, except
for cough drops."
41. The Hobbit
"You have nice manners for a thief and a
liar," said the dragon."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
42. Wuthering Heights
"She
burned too bright for this world."
43. Grapes of Wrath
There
ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do."
44. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
"I
thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have
made a miserable peasant."
45. Lord of the Rings
"All
we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
46. All Quiet on the Western Front
"Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony-Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?"
― Erich Maria Remarque, (All Quiet on the Western Front)
― Erich Maria Remarque, (All Quiet on the Western Front)
47. Great Expectations
“We
need never be ashamed of our tears."
48. Lord of the Flies
"Ralph
wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through
the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."
49. Catch 22
"When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't
see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse
and every human tragedy."
50. The Secret Life of Bees
"Someone
who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about
life."
51. Cannery Row
"Being
at ease with himself put him at ease with the world."
52. The Great Gatsby
"I
hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool."
53. All the King's men
“For whatever you live is life.”
54. Siddhartha
"However
many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if
you do not act on upon them?"
55. Dandelion Wine
"No
matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are
here and now."
56. Gone with the wind
"Sir,"
she said, "you are no gentleman!"
An
apt observation," he answered airily.
"And,
you, Miss, are no lady."
57. Unbroken
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of
pain."
58. Silver Lining Playbook
"Let
me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a
moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling
you."
59. 11/22/63
"Sometimes
a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story"
— Stephen King (11/22/63)
60. Cider House Rules
"What
is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once
mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses."
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