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I'll be staying with family very shortly for two weeks, anyone want to recommend 3-4 paperbacks easily available at most second hand book stores to fill the time? For what its worth I'm Australian and severely under read.

>> No.3253344

What do you like?

>> No.3253350

>>3253344
Anything but fantasy. I feel I need to catch up on things that should be read circa 20th century.

>> No.3253366

Here's my to-read list. It's missing a lot of stuff and has some fantasy. It also has a few kids/YA stuff that I missed. Any recs are appreciated.

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Beowulf by Anonymous
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
Valis, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Dune by Frank Herbert
Siddartha and Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
Solaris by Stanislasw Lem
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory

>> No.3253370

>>3253366
cont.

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Bridge to Teribithia by Katherine Paterson
Various Poe
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Various Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Hobbit, LotR and Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray or The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
Stoner by John Edward Williams
Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe

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>>3253366
>>3253370
Your list is shit.

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It's less than 100 pages.

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>> No.3255920

Thanks for the suggestions guys I am watching the thread.

>>3254887
I've been going to get this for years but never did this time I will.

>>3255877
ahahah, amazon says its 3000+ pages a little to heavy for holiday reading but thanks.

>> No.3255970

Protip: Most Australian towns have municipal libraries

Look into them bloke

>> No.3256037

>>3253366

This is just an excellent list. Good stuff.

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3257208

You should get Poe if only for the Poe-ms and other puns.

>> No.3257304

>>3257208
>Poe-ms
this never gets old

>> No.3257313

>>3253370
Just saying that if you haven't read any Vonnegut before, Breakfast of Champions isn't is best. I'd grab either Cat's Cradle or Slaughterhouse 5. Or Mother Night.

>> No.3257332

>>3257313
Read 'em both. Going to add Mother Night and Happy Birthday, Wanda June to the list.
I made a Goodreads account recently and added more to my list. Hopefully I can read it all in two years.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/15537075?format=html&shelf=to-read&sort=author

>> No.3257339

>>3256037

agreed. good list.

>> No.3257349

>>3257332
Cool, Mother Night is probably my favourite of his.

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>>3257332
>The Very Hungry Caterpillar
>Green Eggs and Ham
>5 stars