Must Read Books/Novels Recommended by Digitians

[Quiz_Master]

Resident Evil Novel Series. (Total 6 Novels written by S.D. Perry. {A female writer.})

[karmanya]

a short history of nearly everything
foot prints of god
all jeffrey archer
all tom clancy especially he jack ryan ones or net force ones
the bourne series
avenger
if ure looking for something serious then- night and dawn ( they r 2 seperate books i confess i heard of em on oprah)
Ender's Game (there are sequels, but I don't really advise them except Ender's Shadow)
-The Belgariad (five books)
-The Mallorean (five books, sequel to above)
-The Sandman (comic book series, about twelve volumes MATURE CONTENT)
-The Lord of the Rings
-Crime and Punishment
-War and Peace
-Moby Dick
-Star Wars
-The Illiad
-The Odyssey
the wheel of time series
the namesake
the overcoat
Machiavielle's The Prince
beowulf
anything in james herriot
somerset maughm (dont know how its spelt but its pronounced summer set mom)
Don Quixote
The Manchurian Candidate
Leaves of Grass
David Copperfield
The Age of Reason
Frankenstein
Native Son
The Charterhouse of Parma
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Jane Eyre
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Biko
Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Good Soldier
Animal Farm
Brave New World
1984
The Satanic Verses
The Communist Manifesto
Rights of Man
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Quiet American
To Kill A Mockingbird
Doctor Zhivago
Catch-22

i must have made some redundancies cuz i hve basically copies from another forum where i answered these books
loved satyajit ray, cant say i liked the simoquin trilogies- they rnt that gr8 i think the second (or was it the third?? whichever one had the manticore in it was d best of the series. the eragon series rocked, cant w8 for it to end. but i find chronicles of narnia a little too childish. i read em when i was 6 and havnt looked back.

[Ihatemyself]

Chetan Bhagat's novels
1. Five point someone
2. One night at the call centre
Both of them are damn addicive and ull want to read them again.
Also Angels & Demons is hihly recommended

[cynosure]

Like ^^ said.
Chetan Bhagat's novels.
+ Paulo Cohelo's novels
+ The inscrutable Americans

[xbonez]

i haven't been able to read the bourne trilogy by robert ludlum or any book be hp lovercraft. they're supposed to be pretty good but i just can't find them anywhere.

Must read Shantaram by Gregor David Roberts. very good book. soon to be made into a movie with jhonny depp in the lead role.

also JK rowling, michael crichton and LOTR series. didn't find any other book by tolkien as good.

robin cook's books are so damn repetitive. u read a couple of them and u've read them all. the same old medical screw ups!

john grisham's books are good, but they're mostly about lawyers and the law, but still interesting

[eggman]

i haven't been able to read the bourne trilogy by robert ludlum

Its very excitinng. Must read. Order from Amazon.com

[xbonez]

^^ nah! i'm not gonna spend that much money on it. i'll just check for it in some lib (have access to plenty). else i'll just settle down in front of my comp and get it over with (its not much fun to read a book on the comp)

[freshseasons]

Ayn Rand-Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand-the Fountainhead
George Carlin-When will jesus Bring the Pork Chops
Jd Salinger -The Catcher in the Rye
Jerome-Three men in a Boat
James Joyce-Ulysses
Somerset Maugham-Of Human Bondage
Paolini Christopher-Inheritence
Salam Rushdie-Midnights Children
Sigmund Freud-The interpretations
Trevanian-The summer of Katya
Catch -22
Victor hugo-The Hunchback of Notredame
P G Wodehouse ( EVeryyyyyyyyyyyy thinggggggggg)
Coupland Microsherfs ( Best humorous book for computer geeks)
Anita Desai-Clear Light of Day
Asimov-Forward The Foundation
Calvin and Hobbes ( Got each and very strip ever published on this planet)
Bryson Bill-Short History of nearly everything
Albert Einstein-The world as i see it
Dick-The confessions of a Crap Artist
Feynman-Surely you are joking Mr Feynman
Mark Twain-The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[New]

Hi... this is my first post.Please give ur valuable ans..
PLEASE DON'T REFER NOVELS!

[rajas700]

lol..i never buy digit magazine..only digitforum i like it..

[Pathik]

Post here the books/novels and the respective author that u have read recently and found good..also rate them out of 5..
for starters , i wd recommend
1. Five point someone
2. One night @ the call center
both by chetan bhagat
Awesome books.. Wd give them both a 4/5..

[Manshahia]

^^^
wats in there in the second one???
i mean the contents.. only abt thecall center??

[The_Devil_Himself]

(.1)The Alchemist
(2.)All 4 Dan Brown books especially Angels&Demons
(3.)The broker by John Grisham.Actually all 18 books by him are great.
(4.)'I hope they serve beer in hell' by Tucker Max.Very hilarious.

[piyush gupta]

All john grisham books

[xbonez]

Shanataram by Gregory David Roberts - 9 / 10 (also being made into a film with Johhny Depp in lead)
Inheritance Trilogy (Eragon, Eldest, <yet to come>)

[shashank4u]

1. Five point someone
2. One night @ the call center

both are amazing books ...
i would also recommend ..
The monk who sold his Ferrari..though not everyone would like that book

[Pratyush]

Harry Potter series
Digital Fortress by Dan Bown
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown


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

[iMav]

The monk who sold his ferrari ...

shantaram is gonna be my next and after ur recommendations after that 5 point some1 ...

[hard_rock]

1. Five point someone
2. One night @ the call center
both by chetan bhagat
Awesome books.. Wd give them both a 4/5..

I second that!!

[red_devil]

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

bro i guess best_selling_books need not always have be a must read !


Harry Potter series is a case in point !

my fav : Monk who sold his Ferrari

read it ... its way better than HP !

[Pathik]

@manshahia its about 6 guys working in a call center and one night which changed their lives... its great... just read it... if u enjoyed fps then u ll definitely like it..
also guys i just read "The Google Story" by david vise... its good too ... 3.5/5

[abhi_10_20]

hmm...good thread......

1.The Godfather...... 5/5
2.One night at call center....4/5
these r two among the best for me......

[krazyfrog]

So far i've only read Harry Potter series and Sydney Sheldon books and liked them all.

[Faun]

The English Patient
must read and watch book and movie

[piyushp_20]

Books by Chetan Bhagat (u all knw it which one)
Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) -- it is really worth reading
Trust Me (Bhagyashree) -- it is also a good book though everyone wont like it but i certainly liked it.

[Pathik]

^^ do u mean bhagyashree the old actress??

[harryneopotter]

Dan Brown's all books..
Night At Call Center ....brought it for my girlfriend on her demand(shw was only a friend at that time from her side). A good book i must say ....
May be i'll go for 5PS next ........

[~Lil JinX~]

OH YEAH! Great thread. I'm more into fantasy, so if you guys don't like it much, you may not like my recommendations.

Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Children Of Hurin - J R R Tolkien + Christopher Tolkien
THE best book ever written, in my opinion. Well, from what I've read so far anyway. I love Tolkien's style, and his poems and songs are amazing. Any other Tolkien fans here?

Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
These three are my favorites from Dan Brown's works, but I like all his books.

Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat
One Night At the Call Center - Chetan Bhagat
I like FPS much more, somehow O.o

The Bartimaeus Series- the third book specially!

The Inheritance Trilogy (Eragon/Eldest/Empire?) - Christopher Paolini
Its not SO great, but I like the storyline.

Princess - Jean Sasson
Daughters of Arabia - Jean Sasson
Both are very interesting, and make for a pretty good read. Very thought provoking.

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Cohello
The Alchemist - Paulo Cohello
Again, these are my two favorite Paulo Cohello books ^_^

Memoirs of a Geisha - Forgot who wrote it =.=
ER, I really did like the book. Its kinda pervy though O.o but lovely descriptions...

The Harry Potter series - J K Rowling
Standard in any list, for obvious reasons

[esumitkumar]

a similar thread was by me some mnths ago..

anyways night@call center is crap compared to five point ..here Mr Chetan discusses dating meetings in 70 % of the book ..God part comes in the end ...though beginning and ending are gud...the book in middle part is utter boring (Priyanka's date -I , II , III ......WTF ............)

Five point is so refreshing ........though

[~Lil JinX~]

a similar thread was by me some mnths ago..

anyways night@call center is crap compared to five point ..here Mr Chetan discusses dating meetings in 70 % of the book ..God part comes in the end ...though beginning and ending are gud...the book in middle part is utter boring (Priyanka's date -I , II , III ......WTF ............)

Five point is so refreshing ........though

Definitely agree about the first part, but I'm not so sure about "refreshing". It was kind of...well, it seemed pretty pointless to me. The book didn't exactly give out any message, I didn't feel much emotion at a higher level. Most of the time, the people were just swearing and doing stuff It was a fun read though, great for the younger generation specially. Thats why I suggested it.