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In no particular order, and I'm cheating by including some series instead of trying to single out a book from the series:
1) Aubrey/Maturn series, Patrick O'Brian
2) The Empire Trilogy, Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
3) The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
4) The Icarus Hunt, Timothy Zahn
5) Startide Rising, David Brin
6) Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
7) Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
8) The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
9) A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin
10) The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
11) The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne
I'll add one more that's not necessarily in quite the same league as the others, but I found very compelling in it's own way, and definitely heat a note in my that caused it to become an immediate favorite:
12) Quarter Share, Nathan Lowell
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