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Here's the top 10 (in no particular order)
1- A Gentleman in Moscow by Toles
2- War and Peace by Tolstoy
3- The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
4- The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
5- The Good Earth by Buck
6- The Nightingale by Hannah
7- All the Light we Cannot See (Doerr)
8- Pillars of the Earth by Follet
9- Watership Down by Adams
I made myself put one nonfiction book on the list and that is:
10- A New Guide to Science by Asimov
Issybird is right, distilling this down to 10 is hard. My main critieria was I liked them so much I was compelled to reread them, something I don't do much. That helped me whittle it down somewhat, but there are three on this list I haven't reread yet, but I want to. The other criteria was one nonfiction, something I don't read much of. Asimov was the obvious choice, it's a great compilation on the history and development of science.
Quoth is also right, my list would change over time. Ask me in a couple of years and my list might be different. I guess that is why I made the list mostly based on things I've reread or want to reread, that won't change much over time.
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