Which of these books should I check out from the library?

I have a pretty long reading list, and can only check out a couple. Which should I pick? Are there any I shouldn't waste my time with?



The Shack (Young)

The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)

Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)

The Once and Future King (White)

Catch-22 (Heller)

A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)

The Philosopher's Apprentice (Morrow)

The Last Witchfinder (Morrow)

The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Edwards)

The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)

Dune (Herbert)

Pyramids (Pratchett)

I Capture the Castle (Smith)

The Beach (Garland)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson)

Weaveworld (Barker)

Lost Souls (Brite)

House of Leaves (Danielewski)

Foucault's Pendulum (Eco)

A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin)

We (Zamyatin)

Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

The Book Thief (Zusak)

Atlas Shrugged (Rand)

Watership Down (Adams)

My Sister's Keeper (Picoult)

Middlesex (Eugenides)

People of the Book (Brooks)

The Pillars of the Earth (Follett)

The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Edwards)Which of these books should I check out from the library?
Do Read:



The Once and Future King (White)

Watership Down (Adams)

Dune (Herbert)

A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin)

Pyramids (Pratchett)



All of these are from fantastic storytellers (especially Pratchett and White, I love them). The others I haven't read or didn't feel strongly for. My least favorite was We by Zamyatin but that's because the genre doesn't appeal to me, not from being boring or badly written.



From your list, I think you would like stuff written by George R.R. Martin as well (Game of Thrones especially). Richard Matherson's "I am Legend" and Koushun Takami's "Battle Royale" might appeal to you as well.
Catch-22 was fantastic. I highly recommend it, especially if you like dry humor. The Poisonwood Bible was also really good and written in a very unique way. Each character tells about the events that happens so the writing style changes with the characters. It's pretty cool.Which of these books should I check out from the library?
Clockwork Orange is extremely violent and disturbing.

Be prepared.



I enjoyed A Wizard of EarthSea.



Try some nonfiction.



I recommend "Ceremonial Time".

I don't remember the author.



and The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau.
Dune is very very long. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is enchanting. I heard good things about My Sister's Keeper and it really conveys a good message!Which of these books should I check out from the library?
the memory keeper's daughter %26amp; my sisters keeper are good to start with, both give you insight to something new and they will make you think about life and its complexity
The book thief by Markus Zusak is a great book. Everyone should read it. Its about a girl living in Munich during WW2 and its about her life as she grows up and how she doesn't really understand anything is happening until she mets a jew and they become friends....(the narrator of the book is death) it is such a good book. Its not very sad, it has some moments but it is also funny...It is such a good book.. You Have to read it :)
A Clockwork Orange was really good, a bit hard to understand at first because it's all written in a made up slang, but once you get the hang of it the book is very interesting.

The Book Thief was pretty good too.



I've also heard that both The Handmaid's Tale and Catch-22 are really good books, but I've yet to read them.





The rest I don't know much about.
my sisters keeper is an amazing book!!!
The memory Keeper's Daughter was a very good book I thoroughly enjoyed it... Grab that

I also liked My sister's Keeper... very good, a bit sad, makes you think at times.
You don't say what you normally read, and there's a vast range of target audience here. Watership Down and Wizard of Earthsea are accessible to really quite young children, while many of the rest are highbrow literature which, to be honest, you wouldn't catch me reading for fun any time soon.



Assuming you want to read for fun and are maybe just starting to get into more serious books, I'd try



Watership Down

Wizard of Earthsea

Pyramids

Once and Future King

Dune



in that order.
I have only read a couple of those. The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a good book. House of Leaves....VERY long..confusing but weird and a little creepy..interesting but not worth the time to finish. My Sisters Keeper another very good book. And you named The Memory Keepers Daughter twice.
I would make a list of my top 10, then read them from then on. Here is a list of good YA novels too, and you may see some on there. I would go for Middlesex, The Book Thief, The Shack, Lost Souls, The Memory Keeper's Daughter and My Sister's Keeper. And any of these if you can find them: (if not, they are all on Amazon.com)!

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