Your 10 favourite books of all time

I'm curious what other people's favourites are. Hopefully will find some great new reading material in this post...

My choices, in no particular order:

- Watership Down
- Misery (Stephen King)
- The Bible
- The Outsiders (SE Hinton)
- Into Thin Air
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Intensity (Dean Koontz)
- Black Like Me
- The Little Prince
- Chicken Soup for the Dreamers Soul

Top Ten (kind of)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Catcher in the Rye
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Little Prince
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. The Alchemist
7. Animal Farm
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. Memoirs of a Geisha
10. Enders Game
11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (my first favorite book ever )

No particular order--just the order in which they came to mind.
Sorry I couldn't stick to rules! Stupid me.
I think this thread is pretty much the same as this, is it not?
Also, pretty darn close to this.

My Top Ten (in no particular order):

1. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (series)(I know, I'm such a cheat but shhh)
2. The Witches by Roald Dahl
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
6. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (series - you can't expect me to choose just one!!)
7. Darkfall by Isobelle Carmody
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
9. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
10. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

veggiedog said:

I think this thread is pretty much the same as this, is it not?
Also, pretty darn close to this.

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Yay - a newbie who can search I don't think that this thread is too similar to the others, though. The first contains only SF books, and the second is top 5 -plus the last post made on that was ages ago so it will be nice to see what the new members like whitout having to scroll through 13 pages of replies by people who are mostly gone by now.

Also in no particular order

*The Communist Manifesto

*Lolita

*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

*Why I'm not a Christian

*Metamorphosis

*The Fountainhead

*The Autobiography of Malcolm X

*The Mayor of Casterbridge

...others to be named later

Oh, I forgot to add The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

The ones that come to mind (though there are many others):

Out – Natsuo Kirino
The Stand – Stephen King
IT – Stephen King
Wizard and Glass – Stephen King
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Pandora’s Star – Peter F Hamilton
Time Out of Joint – Philip K Dick
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

Mine would have to be something along the lines of
1) The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
2) The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien
3) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
4) The Finn Family Moonintroll - Tove Jansson
5) Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
6) The Harry Potter series - J.K Rowling (does that count as one?!)
7) The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
8) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
9) The Flower Fairy books - Cicely Mary Barker (Another series - oh dear!)
10) Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver.

That was quite tricky - I bet I think of loads of others when I press the post button!

Watership Down-Richard Adams
Bonfire of the Vanities-Tom Wolfe
Wuthering heights-Emily Bronte
Good Omens-Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Ciderhouse Rules-John Irving
Day of The Triffids-John Wyndham
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
Fingersmith-Sarah Waters
The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck

I have to add Girl with a Pearl Earring to my list. Just fabulous!

Not really in any order

1. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Really hard to pick just one of her books, as I really love them all. I'd have to say that this is probably my favorite though.

2. Was - by Geoff Ryman
This is the book I had wanted Wicked to be. It takes the The Wizard of OZ and combines the book, the movie, and characters in our world who were influenced by the story. It's a heartbreaking novel about the power of art in our lives.

3. Valley of the Dolls - Jackie Susann
Just wonderful trash. I really enjoy the characters and have read this one a few times.

4. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Another author that is hard to pick just one favorite book. I've read about 12 of her books, and have enjoyed every one of them. I think it's the combination of mystery, romance, adventure, and the supernatural that she packs into almost every one of her novels.

5. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
I had to read it in high school and I loved it. The characters, and the richness of another culture all come together beautifully. I've probably read this 6 times.

6. Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block
The Weetzie Bat series collected in one volume. These remind me that there's magic all around us.

7. Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
A touching and inspirational story of faith.

8. The Bitterweed Path - Thomas Hal Phillips
A very understated love story about 2 men trying to figure out what their love means after the American Civil War. I've reread this one a lot too.

9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series - Anne Brashares
all 3 of these just warm my heart.

10. Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
more entertaining fun

1. Walden (H. D. Thoreau)
2. Notes from the unterground (Dostojewskij)
3. Stiller (Max Frisch)
4. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
5. La recherche du temps perdu (Marcel Proust)
6. Oblomow (Gontscharow)
7. Big Sur or The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (Henry Miller)
8. Complete Works by Lord Byron
9. Rêveries du Promeneur solitaire (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
10. Don Quixote (Cervantes)

It's difficult for me to respect this limit of 10 books.
Unfortunately I'm not always sure about the english title, so I wrote the original one (Nevertheless, I hope you unterstand what book I'm thinking of).

greetings

1) Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
2) Lolita
3) The Time Traveller's Wife
4) Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
5) Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
6) The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (for old times sake)
7) To Kill a Mockingbird
8) The Way The Crow Flies by Ann Marie MacDonald
9) The Other Boelyn Girl
10) The Mermaids Singing

This is right now though, it will probably be different tomorrow.

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
It by Stephen King
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Story of O by Pauline Reage
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Berkut by Joseph Heywood

1. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
2. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
3. The Diary of Anne Frank
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
5. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
6. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
7. Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
8. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
9. Dubliners - James Joyce
10. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Others I need to mention are: Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, by Dostoeyevsky, We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Intensity by Dean Koontz, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lord of the Flies by William Goliding, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

the best I've read (so far)

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Life of Pi - Martel
Blindness - Saramago
The Bell Jar - Plath
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Clarke
Lolita - Nabokov
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Midnight's Children - Rushdie
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Cloud Atlas - Mitchell
The Hobbit - Tolkien

in no particular order:

Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
To The Last Man - Jeff Shaara
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey
Life of Pi - Martel
Kidnapped - Stevenson
Narnia series - Lewis
The Island of Dr. Moreau