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My top 11 novels what are yours?
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Dhalgren - Samueal R. Delaney Foundation Trilogy - Issac Asimov Dune - Frank Herbert Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien City - Clifford D. Simak Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving I should probably make it 12 and get The Road by Cormac McCarthy in there |
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10-16-2010, 01:51 PM
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At least three of your list would find a place on mine - four if you include The Road. But I recently read A Death in the Family by James Agee, which blew me away as a piece of literature, and would have to be on my list, along with The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch.
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10-16-2010, 01:52 PM
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Kane & Abel
As the Crow Flies Honour Among Thieves Pillars of the Earth Day After Tomorrow The Stand Ulysses The Strain The Fall Soul Mountain Lord of the Flies |
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10-16-2010, 02:11 PM
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These are books I have read more than twice. I have enjoyed a lot of other books that I don't want to read again. Mostly SF.
+ 1984 - George Orwell + The Time Machine - H. G. Wells + The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells + The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells + I Robot - Isaac Asimov + Romance of Atlantis - Taylor Caldwell + The Devil's Advocate - Taylor Caldwell + Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott (the first book I read in English) + The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury + Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury + Brave New World - Aldous Huxley + A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess + Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick Last, but not least, because since I discovered Borges as a teenager I have devoured his works once and again, not to mention that I have discovered other authors through him: + The Complete Works - Jorge Luis Borges Last edited by Falcao; 10-16-2010 at 02:19 PM. Reason: Books added |
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10-16-2010, 02:12 PM
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10-16-2010, 11:26 PM
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Not sure if this is a final Top 11 of all time list but I do love all 11 of these books.
Watership Down by Richard Adams Neverness by David Zindell The Neverending Story by Michael Ende If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino The Gunslinger by Stephen King I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Sea Wolf by Jack London The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand The Red Pony by John Steinbeck Kazan the Wolf Dog by James Oliver Curwood |
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10-16-2010, 11:53 PM
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Not necessarily in order of importance:
1984 - George Orwell Absolute Friends - John Le Carré The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham The Intercom Conspiracy - Eric Ambler The Night Comers - Eric Ambler A conspiracy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Sobre Héroes y Tumbas - Ernesto Sábato Foucoult's Pendulum - Umberto Eco Childhood's end - Arthur Clarke Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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10-17-2010, 02:21 AM
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"The Alienist" by Caleb Carr
"The Blackboard Jungle" by Evan Hunter "Boy's Life" by Robert R. McCammon "Chiefs" by Stuart Woods "The Monk" by Matthew Gregory Lewis "The Throat" by Peter Straub "The Church of Dead Girls" by Stephen Dobyns "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins "The Confessions of a Justified Sinner" by James Hogg "The Pet" by Charles L. Grant "Our Lady of Darkness" by Fritz Leiber |
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10-17-2010, 03:08 AM
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No particular order - I find that each time I answer this question my choices change.
 * Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel * The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck * The Man in the Iron Mask or The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas * And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie * Catch 22 by Joseph Heller * Watership Down by Richard Adams * The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria De Jesus by Robert M. Levine (translation) * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams * Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell * The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende |
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10-17-2010, 05:10 AM
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Mine would be, in no particular order:
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10-18-2010, 11:03 PM
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The Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien
Lonesome Dove, by McMurtry Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger Trout Fishing in America, by Brautigan The Brothers Karamazov, by Doestoevsky (sp?) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Lee Ghost Story, by Straub It, by King Harry Potter series, by Rowling The Lord of the Flies, by Golding The Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck Although, if you asked me tomorrow, it might change up a little bit! |
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10-19-2010, 07:58 AM
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And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (#1 for sure)
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong Congo - Michael Crichton The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling The Legend of Huma - Richard A. Knaak My brain is a bit fried this AM and I can't think of more right now. Will edit later. |
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10-19-2010, 08:15 AM
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Shogun
Foundation Trilogy Noble House Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me Dune Nausea The Odyssey The Last of the Mohicans Pillars of the Earth The Count of Monte Cristo On the Road Stitchawl |
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