What are your top ten favorite BOOKS of all time?

I was typing my list when I realized...

I haven't read ten books.

Catch-22
Slaughter-House-Five
Breakfast of Champions
A Confederacy of Dunces
Indignation
The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle version)
Lonesome Dove
I Am Legend
The Rules of Attraction
The Lie

***BONUS***

The Devil All the Time
You Deserve Nothing
And Then There Were None
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Les Misérables
3. Brave New World
4. The Doors of Perception
5. Brave New World
6. Animal Farm
7. Demons (or The Possessed)
8. The Trial
9. The Metamorphosis
10. War and Peace

(Some people are gonna hate but...)
11. Finnegans Wake

(I actually enjoyed reading it, even more as a non-native english speaker...)

I guess I'm a guy who likes the classics....

Earth Abides
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Virtual Light
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The World Next Door
Parables of the Sower
August 1914
Ape and Essence
Walden

Anything Cussler

Anything Weis and Hickman

Anything Robert Jordan

On the moon with a WiFi dive bulb and a bracelet arm button.

I've read most of these and enjoyed them as well, in fact I mulled putting Brave New World on my list but in the end Ape and Essence won out.

And while 1984 and Animal Farm are both fine stories, I'd put Homage to Catalonia up for consideration too.

Thought I should mention a few more...

A Farewell to Arms
Cosmos
Naked Lunch
Dharma Bums
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Prince
Atlas Shrugged

Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa
Os Lusíadas by Camões

These last two are good portuguese books...

PromethiusRising...Rawling [link to www.amazon.com]


1984

Hamlet

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Pillars of the Earth


Slaughterhouse-Five

Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Hunter S. Thompson

Company of Adventurers Peter Newman

Tragedy and Hope Quigly

Peoples History of the United States..Zinn

I approve of having books from around the world being listed. Although GLP has a problem with languages that don't use a Latin alphabet...

Here's ten non fiction books to get you through the apocalypse:

The Woodwright's Workshop
The Art of Blacksmithing
General Engineering Handbook
Engineer's Illustrated Thesaurus
How to Grow More Food On Less Land Than You Thought
Raising Small Livestock
Build It Better Yourself
Producing Your Own Power
Tan Your Hide
Stocking Up

Really? No more love for books on GLP?

Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Dark Rivers of the Heart, (koonz)
The Looking Glass (is that the title, read as a teen).
Seabiscuit
Man-O-War
Flowers in the Attic...the series, hooked as a teen.
Many more, just can't remember off top of head.
Liked Thoreau,Emerson.
Hated Shakespeare.

100s of other more technical/non-fiction books, all subjects.
I'm a voracious reader.

Mostly read online now. Haven't bought too many books in past 15 years or so, not like I used too.

1. The Thirteenth Valley
2. Into Thin Air
3. Rendezvous With Rama
4. Timeline
5. The Andromeda Strain
6. 2001 a Space Odyssey
7. In Cold Blood
8. To Kill A Mockingbird
9. The Stand
10. The Grapes Of Wrath

Be Here Now - by Baba Ram Dass
Being Peace - Thich Nhat Hahn
All the Dune Books - Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlen
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series - Tolkien
Men of Salt
Seven Years in Tibet
all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books

All the Kings Men
Catcher in the Rye (Favorite from my teen years)
The Sun Also Rises (just to have Hemingway on the list)
Dune
Tale of Two Cities (I know melodrama)
Jane Eyre (childhood favorite)
The Sound and the Fury (favorite Faulkner)
Slaughterhouse Five
The World According to Garp
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Honorable mention - The Name of the Rose

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The Prize

no particular order:

"The Sacred Night" - Tahar ben Jelloun
"Blood Meridian" - Cormac McCarthy
"Black Elk Speaks" - Nicholas Black Elk with John G. Neihardt
"Pensées" - Blaise Pascal
"Collected Works" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Paradiso" - José Lezama Lima
"History of the Peloponnesian War" - Thucydides (one of the most coldblooded books ever written)
"Book of 5 Rings" - Miyamoto Musashi
"Wuthering Heights" - Emily Brontë
"Water Margin" - Shi Nai'an


Every reader of English should be familiar with Shakespeare but I will not count his entire body of work as one book.

The Stand
Across Realtime
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451

I loved to read the Louis L'Amour westerns when I was a kid.

MEIN KAMPF all the way down the list!





J/k...

lol

I like Ray Bradbury he's good and Chuck Palanuik is good

In no particular order:

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Iowa Baseball Confederacy - W.P. Kinsella
The Eden Express - Mark Vonnegut
The Sweater - Roch Carrier
More Joy In Heaven - Morley Callaghan
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Ernest Hemingway
The Carnivals of Life and Death - James Shelby Downard
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius - David Eggers
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

Many others, too. I'm a film projectionist for a gov't funded retrospective film society and thanks to this digital age, my 35mm warhorses sit quiet most nights, providing me ample opportunity to read and do push-ups.

Nice thread. I love remembering books.

BTW reading Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by John Krakauer right now. Gonna be an amazing one can already tell.

I love Cussler, also James Rollins and Dean Koontz.

1. The Once And Future King -TH White
2. The Federalist Papers - James Madison, John Jay
3. War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
4. Dracula - Bram Stoker
5. The Spear- James Herbert
6. The Stand -Stephen King
7. The Traveling Vampire Show -Richard Laymon
8. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
9. Dante's Inferno
10. The Aeneid - Virgil

Sons and Lovers was excellent. Read that one in college.

I would also add the 4 Gospels of the New Testament. I have never read the Bible straight through. I've started at Genesis and got through most of Exodus but then I lose interest until the New Testament.

The " world wide dessert contest" is still one of my favorites. I read it when I was 10 and lived it...and read it again at 28...still awesome.

Captain Nemo
Kon-Tiki
White fang
The call of the wild
Harry Potter 1-7

That's even 11

Not a big fan of the classics these are books I re-read every few years.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Stand - Stephen King
Charm School - Nelson DeMille
Absolute Power - David Baldacci
Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen
The Collection - Bentley Little

1) ETRE THE COW ("to be" the cow) by Sean Kenniff
2) ETRE THE COW
3) ETRE THE COW
4) ETRE THE COW
5) ETRE THE COW
6) THE STRANGER--by Albert Camus
7) BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO--Junot Diaz
8) 1984--Orwell
9) SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5--Kurt Vonnegut
10) LOLITA--Vladimir Nabokov

In no particular order, of course.