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Sweetpea · 09-28-2009, 02:26 AM

My list

1. The Foundation Trilogy of Isaac Asimov
2. 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
5. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
8. 1984 by George Orwell

I might add two more later on, but those are books I think everybody should read if they want to be able hold a conversation about books

Latinandgreek · 09-28-2009, 03:44 AM

1.Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2.The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies (Actually, it really is a toss-up between the 3. Cornish Trilogy and the Deptford Trilogy, but someone already mentioned the Cornish Trilogy, so Deptford it is...)
4. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
5. The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
6. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
7. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

I'll have to think about 9 and 10 some more...

montsnmags · 09-28-2009, 04:38 AM

Neverness, David Zindell
Bliss, Peter Carey
Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
1984, George Orwell
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Either Jitterbug Perfume or Skinny Legs And All, Tom Robbins (can't decide)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
(an outlier, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad)

MelC · 09-28-2009, 09:31 AM

These are the pick of the litter from my five star Goodreads list since I froze when trying to come up with them off the top of my head. I had the same struggle with - am I looking for "important", "artistically written" or "really enjoyable". Basically I settled on the five star list as the ones that I would normally enthuse about and recommend to others.

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Quincunx - Charles Palliser
Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
The Great Santini - Pat Conroy
Whale Music - Paul Quarrington
The Stand - Stephen King
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Mel

Ziguezon · 09-29-2009, 10:45 AM

* The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
* Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
* David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
* Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
* Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
* The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
* Watership Down - Richard Adams
* The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkein
* The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
* The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
* Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
* The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke

dreams · 09-29-2009, 02:53 PM

I tried to choose a variety of works that were not required reading in my education.

* Love In The Time Of Cholera or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

* 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 Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein

* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

* Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell

* The Crystal Cave or Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart

[The following author's works were required reading from lower grades through upper grades and I have left them out of my list: Shakespeare, Doyle, Dickens, Austen, and Orwell]

pdurrant · 09-29-2009, 03:24 PM

This is completely impossible! Ten, just /ten/ fiction novels or series?
Umm... Here are some of my favourites. To list and rank all the ones I might put on the list would take far too long. All these are books I've re-read at least once, and have on the shelf or hard drive.

For novels that are the first in a series, count as including the series

The Boat of a Million Years - Poul Anderson
The Traveller in Black - John Brunner
Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold
So You Want To Be A Wizard? - Diane Duane
Hornblower - C S Forrester
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin
Heinlein Juveniles - Robert A. Heinlein
The Magic Goes Away - Larry Niven
Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
The Misenchanted Sword - Lawrence Watt-Evans

wayspooled · 09-29-2009, 05:40 PM

Very hard to make a list that isn't 50 books long at least. Saddens me to have to leave out Alice and Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson, the Brothers Grimm and Winnie the Pooh, Narnia, Marquez, Dracula and Aurelius

Here's 12, best I could do. I had 48 but picked the 12 of them not already mentioned.

The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Lymond Chronicles (series) by Dorothy Dunnett
The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

JeremyZ · 09-29-2009, 11:11 PM

In no particular order

Harry Potter series
The Hobbit (representing The Lord of the Rings)
Dracula
The Chronicles of Narnia
A Study in Scarlet (representing Sherlock Holmes)

Daithi · 09-30-2009, 09:07 AM

The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
Cannery Row -- John Steinbeck
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
1984 -- George Orwell
Murder on the Orient Express -- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None -- Agatha Christie
Rebecca -- Daphne Du Maurier
The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling
The Vampire Chronicles -- Anne Rice

Note: You can also vote on your favorite books on my website. Plus you can download the free books, buy them from Amazon, or request the publisher make them available.

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls should be in my top ten, but I couldn't decide which of the Agatha Christie novels to take off to make room.

BenG · 09-30-2009, 09:41 AM

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison (It's an anthology but all the stories were written especially for this book so I think it would count)
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

YGG- · 09-30-2009, 02:39 PM

In no particular order:
1-Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
2-The ginger tree by Oswald Wynd
3-Fountain by Charles Morgan
4-Hamlet by Shakespeare
5-Raise high the roof beam, carpenters by J. D. Salinger
6-Selected poems by T.S. Eliot
7-Simple tales of the hills by Rudyard Kipling
8-Neuromancer by William Gibson
9-Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
10- The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
11-Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
There!

YGG- · 09-30-2009, 02:51 PM

Now if I had my say I would take all those from your other lists

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World'
1984 by George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Foundation Trilogy - Issac Asimov
Dune - Frank Herbert
Ender's Game, Card, Orson Scott
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

ErwinOtten · 09-30-2009, 04:53 PM

I've seen a lot I like in this thread. There is one for sure i haven't seen and deserves to be here (imho

)

A Song of Ice and Fire (series) - George R.R. Martin

Oh and I was totaly blown away by ' The Summer of Katya' by Trevanian

Mneme · 09-30-2009, 08:31 PM

Naming only ten is hard work, I have to cheat - there are so many favourites. Anyway, here are my 10 or so, in no particular order:

1 Quentin Durward & Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
2 The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas
3 Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque
4 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome K Jerome
5 The Poems of Catullus - Gaius Valerius Catullus
6 The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
7 Richard III & Henry V - W Shakespeare
8 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
9 Persuasion & Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
10 Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham

09-28-2009, 04:38 AM	#18
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Neverness, David Zindell Bliss, Peter Carey Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig Moby Dick, Herman Melville Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas 1984, George Orwell Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson Either Jitterbug Perfume or Skinny Legs And All, Tom Robbins (can't decide) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (an outlier, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad) Last edited by montsnmags; 09-28-2009 at 08:50 AM.

09-29-2009, 05:40 PM	#23
wayspooled Crab In The Dark Posts: 486 Karma: 2328180 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Device: Tablet PC until a 10" comes out that I like	Very hard to make a list that isn't 50 books long at least. Saddens me to have to leave out Alice and Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson, the Brothers Grimm and Winnie the Pooh, Narnia, Marquez, Dracula and Aurelius Here's 12, best I could do. I had 48 but picked the 12 of them not already mentioned. The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Lymond Chronicles (series) by Dorothy Dunnett The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Magician, Raymond E Feist The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Last edited by wayspooled; 08-19-2010 at 03:56 AM.

09-30-2009, 09:07 AM	#25
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway Cannery Row -- John Steinbeck Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand 1984 -- George Orwell Murder on the Orient Express -- Agatha Christie And Then There Were None -- Agatha Christie Rebecca -- Daphne Du Maurier The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling The Vampire Chronicles -- Anne Rice Note: You can also vote on your favorite books on my website. Plus you can download the free books, buy them from Amazon, or request the publisher make them available. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls should be in my top ten, but I couldn't decide which of the Agatha Christie novels to take off to make room. Last edited by Daithi; 09-30-2009 at 09:11 AM.

09-30-2009, 02:51 PM	#28
YGG- Dry fruit Posts: 1,157 Karma: 1047086 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Paris, France Device: Bookeen Opus + HTC Desire HD	(I'm cheating I know) Now if I had my say I would take all those from your other lists The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1984 by George Orwell 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Foundation Trilogy - Issac Asimov Dune - Frank Herbert Ender's Game, Card, Orson Scott The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Cannery Row - John Steinbeck One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Last edited by YGG-; 10-01-2009 at 03:58 AM.

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09-28-2009, 02:26 AM	#16
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	My list 1. The Foundation Trilogy of Isaac Asimov 2. 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 4. The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas 5. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling 6. Dune by Frank Herbert 7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 8. 1984 by George Orwell I might add two more later on, but those are books I think everybody should read if they want to be able hold a conversation about books

09-28-2009, 03:44 AM	#17
Latinandgreek Warrior Princess Posts: 5,038 Karma: 9724231 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505; PRS-350, PRS-T1, iPad, Aura HD	1.Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 2.The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies (Actually, it really is a toss-up between the 3. Cornish Trilogy and the Deptford Trilogy, but someone already mentioned the Cornish Trilogy, so Deptford it is...) 4. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 5. The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima 6. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami 7. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami 8. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare I'll have to think about 9 and 10 some more...

09-28-2009, 09:31 AM	#19
MelC Evangelist Posts: 410 Karma: 2081 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: Cybook Gen3, PRS600	These are the pick of the litter from my five star Goodreads list since I froze when trying to come up with them off the top of my head. I had the same struggle with - am I looking for "important", "artistically written" or "really enjoyable". Basically I settled on the five star list as the ones that I would normally enthuse about and recommend to others. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Watership Down - Richard Adams The Quincunx - Charles Palliser Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach The Great Santini - Pat Conroy Whale Music - Paul Quarrington The Stand - Stephen King A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson Mel

09-29-2009, 10:45 AM	#20
Ziguezon Ogg Vorbis Posts: 145 Karma: 292661 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	* The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery * Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky * David Copperfield - Charles Dickens * Cannery Row - John Steinbeck * Fifth Business - Robertson Davies * The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger * Watership Down - Richard Adams * The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkein * The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein * The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis * Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood * The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke

09-29-2009, 02:53 PM	#21
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,110 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	I tried to choose a variety of works that were not required reading in my education. * Love In The Time Of Cholera or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * 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 Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams * Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell * The Crystal Cave or Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart [The following author's works were required reading from lower grades through upper grades and I have left them out of my list: Shakespeare, Doyle, Dickens, Austen, and Orwell]

09-29-2009, 03:24 PM	#22
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 73,937 Karma: 315160596 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	This is completely impossible! Ten, just /ten/ fiction novels or series? Umm... Here are some of my favourites. To list and rank all the ones I might put on the list would take far too long. All these are books I've re-read at least once, and have on the shelf or hard drive. For novels that are the first in a series, count as including the series The Boat of a Million Years - Poul Anderson The Traveller in Black - John Brunner Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold So You Want To Be A Wizard? - Diane Duane Hornblower - C S Forrester A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin Heinlein Juveniles - Robert A. Heinlein The Magic Goes Away - Larry Niven Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien The Misenchanted Sword - Lawrence Watt-Evans

09-29-2009, 11:11 PM	#24
JeremyZ Addict Posts: 303 Karma: 1000702 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Chicago Device: Nook ST, Kindle 2, Samsung Galaxy Stellar phone	In no particular order Harry Potter series The Hobbit (representing The Lord of the Rings) Dracula The Chronicles of Narnia A Study in Scarlet (representing Sherlock Holmes)

09-30-2009, 09:41 AM	#26
BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,730 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison (It's an anthology but all the stories were written especially for this book so I think it would count) The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

09-30-2009, 02:39 PM	#27
YGG- Dry fruit Posts: 1,157 Karma: 1047086 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Paris, France Device: Bookeen Opus + HTC Desire HD	In no particular order: 1-Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr 2-The ginger tree by Oswald Wynd 3-Fountain by Charles Morgan 4-Hamlet by Shakespeare 5-Raise high the roof beam, carpenters by J. D. Salinger 6-Selected poems by T.S. Eliot 7-Simple tales of the hills by Rudyard Kipling 8-Neuromancer by William Gibson 9-Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte 10- The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono 11-Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner There!

09-30-2009, 04:53 PM	#29
ErwinOtten Addict Posts: 338 Karma: 444 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: The Netherlands Device: Cybook G3	I've seen a lot I like in this thread. There is one for sure i haven't seen and deserves to be here (imho ) A Song of Ice and Fire (series) - George R.R. Martin Oh and I was totaly blown away by ' The Summer of Katya' by Trevanian

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09-30-2009, 08:31 PM	#30
Mneme Serial Procrastinator Posts: 25 Karma: 356 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: in the real world Device: Asus MyPal A636, Hanlin V5	Naming only ten is hard work, I have to cheat - there are so many favourites. Anyway, here are my 10 or so, in no particular order: 1 Quentin Durward & Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott 2 The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas 3 Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque 4 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome K Jerome 5 The Poems of Catullus - Gaius Valerius Catullus 6 The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov 7 Richard III & Henry V - W Shakespeare 8 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 9 Persuasion & Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 10 Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham