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Question: Can you list five perfect novels or novels you consider perfect?
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Answer #1:
I don't know five off the top of my head.
But, my favorite is The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers.
He is one of my favorite authors.
You should read it. And all of his books!
Answer #2:
No novels are perfect. That's what makes them worth reading. My favorite novels are as follows:
To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
We Shall Not Sleep--Anne Perry
My Sister's Keeper--Jodi Picoult
This is Me--Jeffrey Dean
Little House in the Big Woods--Laura Ingalls Wilder
Answer #3:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road Cormac by McCarthy
Answer #4:
brians novel off family guy
Answer #5:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Suitcase Kid by Jaqueline Willson
The last two are books I loved as a child.
Answer #6:
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
The Outsiders
and all the Harry Potter books....but im not sure if these r novels or not but these r my fave booksand black beauty and the secret garden are quite good too
Answer #7:
When Nietzsche wept by Irvin Yalom
The way I found her by Rose Tremain
Moon and the Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham
The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
Answer #8:
If you take everything, and I mean everything, into account then a perfect novel would have to be imperfect, which destroys the whole point.
This is because characters should have flaws, which makes them imperfect and the plot imperfect.
See, I'm clever xD
But I really liked The Road by Cormac McCarthy, it was abstract in a good way. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer was also pretty good, but that's non fiction.
Answer #9:
The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front --Jean-Jaques Renault
The Beautiful and Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Awakening-- Kate Chopin
Death in Venice-- Thomas Mann (technically a novella, but w/e)
Answer #10:
I shall list my favourite: Twilight!
It's probably one of the most important books around. A truly inspirational read, which everyone on this planet should have the pleasure to own. Definitely not to be missed.
Note: When people feel the need to criticise ones choice of book with childish and immature comments with violent undertones it makes me think how pathetic they are. Extremely pathetic.
Answer #11:
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Note: Whenever someone says something like "Twilight is probably the most important book around," it makes me want to shake them. Hard.
Answer #12:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula LeGuin
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Raincatchers by Jean Thesman
I'm really picky about what I read. I don't hink I've ever come across a perfect novel, but these are the ones that I think did well in achieving what they set out to do.
Answer #13:
Dear Questioner.
'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald.
'Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemingway.
'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens.
'Gone with the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell.
'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen.
'War and Peace, by L Tolstoy.
'The Count of Monte Cristo' by A Dumas.
'The Three Musketeers' by A Dumas.
'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo.
'Lark Rise to Candleford' by Flora Thompson.
I know its ten but I just could not leave the last five out.
Answer #14:
I don't think I can quite list "5" perfect novels, but I can list a few:
Keturah and Lord Death -- Martine Leavitt
North Child -- Edith Pattou
Pride + Prejudice -- Jane Austen
Spud (and the sequel) -- John Van De Ruit
Hope this helps/answers your question!
Bethan D,
Wales, UK.
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