The Telegraph lists their 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library.
I’m a sucker for booklists.
Josh Sowin at Fire and Knowledge links to his own list of favorites in the following categories: Literature, Reading/Literary Criticism, Biography and Autobiograpy, Cultural Studies, Art and Aesthetics, Food and Agriculture, Science and History, Economics, Finances, Writing, Education, Humor and Satire, Marketing, Web Design, Music, and Other. I’m impressed that he’s actually read good (recommended) books in all these categories. I’m a little weak on the marketing, food and agriculture, and web design myself.
The Telegraph also lists 50 “Cult Books”. I remember jumping on a few of these bandwagons: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Dune by Frank Herbert . . . Ahhh, yes, those were the days, my friend.
What is a cult book? We tried and failed to arrive at a definition: books often found in the pockets of murderers; books that you take very seriously when you are 17; books whose readers can be identified to all with the formula “
whacko”; books our children just won’t get…
Three manly guys make a list of The Essential Man’s Library: 100 Must-Read Books. Far be it from me, being of the female persuasion, to even comment on their list, except to say that it looks like a good start on a library for persons of either gender.
Have you seen any good booklists lately?
I have a book blog that is all about lists 🙂 Yup – I’m a sucker for them too!
Oh, yes – I was into those cult books, too. Haven’t thought of those books for years AND years. I think I was seventeen, too.
I love lists, too. That is if it’s not a to-do list. One of the things I love about challenges is making the list of which books to read.