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

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 20 Dec 2012, 09:44

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Led by Destiny - Kinga Choszcz
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
One Flew Over Cucoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Rosario Tijeras - Jorge Franco
Hopscoth - Julio Cortazar
Miss Nobody - Tomek Tryzna

Okay, that's 12, I cheated

I couldn't make decision.

Lamia88 · Post by **Lamia88** » 20 Dec 2012, 18:28

well let me think a bit

booklvr62 · Post by **booklvr62** » 21 Dec 2012, 07:59

Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston
COMA by Robin Cook
Because decades later I have still never read any that scared me like these did!

Shadows of the Canyon (Desert Roses #1) by Tracie Peterson
Across the Years (Desert Roses #2) by Tracie Peterson
Beneath a Harvest Sky (Desert Roses #3) by Tracie Peterson

A Shelter of Hope (Westward Chronicles, Book 1) by Tracie Peterson
Hidden in a Whisper (Westward Chronicles, Book 2) by Tracie Peterson
A Veiled Reflection (Westward Chronicles, Book 3) by Tracie Peterson

These 6 because I was totally fascinated by the history of the Fred Harvey chain of hotels/restaurants on the railroads and of the 'Harvey Girls' and their training. But I have many,many more favorites.

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 17 Sep 2013, 22:01

This is really a tough question when you think about it, but really just off the top of my head, like perhaps if it was a natural disaster occurring and we had to evacuate...you have your backpack at the ready and you're racing around your shelves for ten books to salvage before you escape...

The Year of Magical Thinking-Joan Didion
A book like this makes you realize your problems are pretty darn insignificant

Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
Every time you read it...it just gets better

A Piece of Cake-Cupcake Brown
Harrowing yet deeply inspirational

The first four books in the Maya Angelou series-I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, The Heart of a Woman, Singin and Swingin and Getting Merry Like Christmas
I know four books and that's cheating. But really...together they cover like a forty year span of one story

The Five People You Meet in Heaven-Mitch Albom
Still has new meaning with each reread

Gracie-George Burns
The perfect love story, George Burns and Gracie Allen

The Ragman's Son-Kirk Douglas
What a life, what a man...Michael too

Barrel Fever-David Sedaris
My personal favorite of all his books

The James Herriot Series plus the children's books
Cheating again, that's at least seven books

The Richard Wright Reader

taylorhudson310 · Post by **taylorhudson310** » 17 Sep 2013, 22:06

A Rose to the Fallen - April Bostic
The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks
Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
Poison Princess - Kresley Cole
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meye
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
The Host - Stephenie Meyer
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 21 Sep 2013, 17:33

LB, I read Gracie. That is one great book.

Jon-Ross · Post by **Jon-Ross** » 21 Sep 2013, 22:49

I don't have a favourite book, but I have books that I enjoyed.
1. 'Life of Pi' - Yann Martel
2. 'The Hobbit' J.R.R. Tolkien
3. 'Eragon' - Christopher Paolini
4. 'World War Z' - Max Brooks
5. 'Dead Lucky' - Lincoln Hall
6. 'Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows' - J.K. Rowling
7. 'Brisingr' - Christopher Paolini
8. 'Refuge' - Jackie French
9. 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian' - Rick Riordan
10. 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' - Suzanne Collins

mcs1040 · Post by **mcs1040** » 22 Sep 2013, 08:07

Too difficult. Same for music, cannot create a hierarchy of top ten.

Sine_Ni_Ceallach · Post by **Sine_Ni_Ceallach** » 07 Oct 2013, 22:34

Had to add 11...

1. To Kill a Mockingbird // Harper Lee
2. Complete Tales & Poems // Edgar Allan Poe
3. Beowulf // Translated by Seamus Heaney
4. The Book Thief // Markus Zusak
5. A Night to Remember // Walter Lord
6. And Then There Were None // Agatha Christie
7. The Hobbit // J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Mere Christianity // C.S. Lewis
9. The Case for Christ // Lee Strobel
10. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children // Ransom Riggs
11. Talking Pictures // Ransom Riggs

jmalone1994 · Post by **jmalone1994** » 10 Dec 2013, 22:12

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
The Forbidden Game by L.J. Smith
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
Splintered by A.G. Howard
Embrace by Jessica Shirvington

Craigable · Post by **Craigable** » 11 Dec 2013, 04:21

Here's a best-guess list of fiction (in no particular order):

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Without Feathers by Woody Allen
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Some of my favorite creative nonfiction works are:

Is Sex Necessary? by E. B. White and James Thurber
In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

ddane24 · Post by **ddane24** » 11 Dec 2013, 09:04

My top 10 fave books

1. Bible
2. Book of mormon
3. Harry potter -jk rowling
4. Kite runner- khaled hosseini
5. The last song- nicholas sparks
6. Walk to remember- nicholas sparks
7. The testament- john grisham
8. Malice- danielle steele
9. Tuesdays w morrie- mich albom
10. Running from romeo- dianne mannino

FNAWrite · Post by **FNAWrite** » 11 Dec 2013, 12:52

No I couldn't. maybe I could, but as soon as I was done, I'd think "But what about..."

Sleepingkitty · Post by **Sleepingkitty** » 15 Jan 2014, 19:09

Not in order of course, I could never
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Lord of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Last Town on Earth - Thomas Mullen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - C. S. Lewis
Wow that was a lot harder than I anticipated!

DakotaDog · Post by **DakotaDog** » 15 Jan 2014, 22:03

This is a very tough thing to do. Just ten?!?
Of course, this list can change almost at will, (and probably will change as soon as I hit "submit", but here goes:
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Flowers For Algernon Daniel Keyes
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord Of The Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
The Stand Stephen King
I, Claudius Robert Graves
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
Green Grass, Running Water Thomas King