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I forgot another one I really liked:
"A Woman in Amber" by Agate Nesaule, about her childhood WW2 experience and being a refugee in the US.

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Have we got this far without any Dickens?
Great Expectations

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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, I wish I can read them again for the first time.

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When i was seven, my parents made me read Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. What sort of freaks do that? I liked it, though. More importantly, i think i sort of understood it. Of course i understood it a hell of a lot better later.

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Originally Posted by CoTHukoB When i was seven, my parents made me read Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. What sort of freaks do that? I liked it, though. More importantly, i think i sort of understood it. Of course i understood it a hell of a lot better later. what sort? the sort that think you could use a book of that length to teach you patience and to familiarize yourself with an adult world. I bet they were glowing on the inside that they had such a gifted child who could accomplish the task and not act like a baby about it. I bet they thought you'd make history some day the freaks.
You won't understand till you have your own children.

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I want a ... childhood back, Fred.
That's not much to ask.
Anyway, time to get some sleep. Be well.

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Originally Posted by ineespenes Also love Simone de Beavoir's books in general I have only read Mandarins but liked it very much.
Forgot to mention Simenon's Maigret books earlier, so add them now.

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Oh, Tigs! Raymond Chandler?! Are you my soul mate?!
Cannery Row - Steinbeck ( so sweet and simple, but nothing is really simple, is it...)
and
Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler
Fall On Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munroe
...just to add a little CanCon to the mix.
Also love Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain...
for some Southern culture.
And many, many others, but I'm going to bed now.

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Originally Posted by pellen Oh, Tigs! Raymond Chandler?! Are you my soul mate?! Might be...
Thanks to an ex-boyfriend and some Humphrey Bogart films I once read The Big Sleep and never looked back! I love Chandler's style, his way with words and his eye for detail. So cynical, so romantic, so witty, so sad, so sharp, eternally balancing between idealism and bitter realism.

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Well, Tigs I just got " Moonscape and other stories " and "The Etruscan" by Walkari, but no one's heard of Sinuhe's debut novel: "The Great Illusion." Only " The Egyptian" , what gives?
pellen: There's a short story thread here in The Off Topic Forum. . .somewhere.--Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." is among my top 3 ( the other two being Sartre's "The Wall" and Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Mc Comber.")
Currently also reading one of Donald Westlake's Dortmunder novels; good fun!
Pax 'all
Mario