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This is the thread in which we list our top ten favorite books.

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The title of the present thread together with the above statement seems self-explanatory. If you feel that you do not follow them you may read the following rules:

1. Publish here the list of your top ten favorite books. If you cannot name ten books then list less books than ten. If you cannot close the list at ten books name a few more.

2. You do not have to sort the books from the best one to the worst one because it may be difficult to sort a few books that way. In such a case simply do not number the books on your list. You may sort them according to the alphabetical order.

3. Do not publish here any “Top 100” lists found in Internet. There are the other threads for these purposes on our forum. You may publish here the list of top ten or so favorite books made by someone else. In such a case reveal who is the author of this particular list.

4. Do not comment here the other forum members’ tastes. They like the other books and you like the other ones. That is good. To condemn someone because of his or her taste is not good at all. To praise someone’s taste seems purposeless.

5. It does not matter whether the books from your list are accessible now in some electronic format or in English translation. If they are not available now they may be accessible in the future.

This thread has two purposes. First: you may publish here your own list of books to show your taste to the other people. Second: someone else can read your list – if he or she finds that he or she likes five books from your list and does not know the other five books which you named he or she may assume that these books may be interesting for him or her as well.

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The following updated rule was added December 10, 2013 and was inspired by speakingtohe and kennyc:

6. If you feel that you love to the same extent much more books than ten (let us say one hundred or one thousand) you may list them all here. “Love” has a lot of the meanings. Someone loves just one person (himself or herself) while someone else loves the whole humankind.

The following updated rule was added December 13, 2013 and was inspired by Pablo and spellbanisher:

7. Some people read different literary genres – such as non-fiction and fiction or prose, poetry, and drama – and they have the favorites in the range of each of them. If you are such a person simply put into the same post or in a few consecutive ones your top ten lists for each literary genre which you like.

The following updated rule was added December 16, 2013 and was inspired by carpetmojo:

8. After you choose ten books you may continue the challenge choosing just one and only one book to keep it with you when all the other books disappear. That may be a book from your main list or some other one.