Can you name your Top 10 Favourite Books of all time ??

Melody Cool · Post by **Melody Cool** » 16 Jul 2011, 09:19

I know this is difficult, but it is great fun to do.. here are mine.

1. Frank Baldwin-Balling the Jack
2. Keith Lowe-Tunnel Vision
3. Robert T. Kiyosaki-Rich Dad, Poor Dad
4. J. Salinger-The Catcher in the Rye
5. Mike Gayle-Mr. Commitment
6. Bill Brewster-Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
7. Mike Gayle-Turning Thirty
8. Ian Halperin-Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson
9. George S. Clason-The Richest Man in Babylon
10. Sir Richard Branson-Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 16 Jul 2011, 10:16

Moved to the General reading forum

Moore · Post by **Moore** » 16 Jul 2011, 10:48

I can name only one book which is my favourite of all times. It is the Bible.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 16 Jul 2011, 11:56

It seems to me this thread was on a while back, but Im not sure. I could be thinking of something else.Any way heres 10 of my favorites.

Collected Works Of H.P. Lovecraft
Two Years Before The Mast-Richard Henry Dana
Allan Quatermain-H. Rider Haggard
Lord Of The Rings
On The Road-Jack Kerouac
The Martian Chronicles-Ray Bradbury
War Of The Worlds-H.G. Wells
Foundation Books-Issac Asamov
Off On A Comet-Jules Verne
Christine-Steven King

DavidB52 · Post by **DavidB52** » 17 Jul 2011, 18:25

I can't name ten, but a few stand out in my mind. They are all classics:

"The History of the Peloponnesian War" - Thucydides
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" - Edward Gibbon
"The Early History of Rome" - Livy
Plutarch's Lives
"The Histories" - Herodotus

Kdor11 · Post by **Kdor11** » 18 Jul 2011, 14:59

Here are my top 10 fave's:

1. Lost Souls - Poppy Z. Brite
2. Stranger With My Face - Lois Duncan
3. In The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
4. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
5. The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
6. Dark Debts - Karen Hall
7. Nathaniel - John Saul
8. The World On Blood - Johnathan Nasaw
9. My Sweet Audrina - V.C. Andrews
10. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus

Melaniep · Post by **Melaniep** » 18 Jul 2011, 18:05

I don't know if I could list my favorite ten series, let alone books!

Vogin · Post by **Vogin** » 19 Jul 2011, 03:55

Based on number of sold copies:

Wikipedia list

my own personal list

Sophius · Post by **Sophius** » 19 Jul 2011, 17:45

It by Stephen King
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Stand by Stephen King
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

honorable mentions

Shadowland by Peter Straub
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

abhorred mentions

Twilight
anything by Kevin J. Anderson
The plethora of bad children and Young Adult fiction attempting to capitalize on hapless kids.

CuppaTea · Post by **CuppaTea** » 23 Jul 2011, 12:29

Thanks for the game, Melody Cool. It is surprisingly hard, these come to mind because they stay in mind.

Les Miserables (Hugo)
Of Human Bondage (Maugham)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
Goodbye To All That (Robert Graves)
The Boxcar Children (Warner)
The Golden Quest (Frank Crisp)
The Wizard of Oz (Baum)
Frankenstein (Shelly)
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)

Yes, it is fun and took me some time to think of ten. Now, what are the second ten and the next ten to be read....

Artdude · Post by **Artdude** » 28 Jul 2011, 22:10

Actually a nice challenge to come up with a top 10:

Gormenghast (series) - Mervyn Peake
Oliver twist - Dickens
The Old Curiosity shop - Dickens
The Monk - Matthew Lewis
The Reeve's tale - Chaucer
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G.Wells
Great Expectations - Dickens
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Hard Times - Dickens
Gulliver's travels - Swift.

That was difficult. It'll change tomorrow as well

kg211970 · Post by **kg211970** » 12 Feb 2012, 03:23

1) Daughters of Fortune - Tara Hyland
2) Blue Smoke - Nora Roberts
3) War Of the Worlds - H.G.
4) Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe
5) Black Jewels Series - Anne Bishop
6) Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
7) Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn series by Tad Williams

Black Hills - Nora Roberts
9) J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and the Secrets
10) Public Secrets - Nora Roberts

Thailander · Post by **Thailander** » 26 Feb 2012, 19:56

No specific order

Pillars of the Earth - Follett
1984 - Orwell
Animal Farm - Orwell
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Prince of Tides - Conway
The Da Vinci Code - Browne
Lord of The Rings - Tolkien
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Shogun - Clavell
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

Connie_88 · Post by **Connie_88** » 29 Feb 2012, 12:36

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Shining - Stephen King
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Wild Swans - Jung Chang

jessnight · Post by **jessnight** » 20 Dec 2012, 09:15

Off the top of my head:

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo
The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
Pure - Julianna Baggott
The Promise of Rain - Donna Milner
The Girl you Left Behind - JoJo Moyes
Skin Privilege - Karin Slaughter (for the shocking ending!)
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Blow Fly - Patricia Cornwell (for the surprise return of a character!)