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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo was the last novel I read, and it was a couple of years ago now. I don't read a lot of novels. It is excellent, though. The most recent book I finished was Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Bullock, which was excellent. (I read the abridged version.) Right now I'm reading A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester, which is about how awful the Middle Ages were and how we got out of them. Manchester is good in terms of philosophy of history - he thinks every historical event leads to the next in a logical, comprehensible fashion. I don't know how factually accurate the book is, but I'm enjoying it. Good thread!

How improbable is it for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams to be left out of this listing?

Off the top of my head, The Count of Monte Cristo The Hunchback of Notre Dame Tess of the D'Urbervilles War and Peace It Ender's Game East of Eden 1984 The Princess Bride Watership Down

Four that come to mind ... The Island of Captain Sparrow, by S. Fowler Wright What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney Cyrano de Bergerac, (play) by Edmond Rostand (Brian Hooker translation)

The Fountainhead Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Dracula

Other than Rand novels? The Iliad Toilers of the Sea The Stranger Old Man and the Sea Of Mice and Men Lord of the Rings 1984 Lord of the Flies The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Shining Let the Right One In