What top 10 books that you want others to read?

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-Suggestions of books fiction or non fiction books to read-
-TOP 10 LIST-

 

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1.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
3.Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
4.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6.A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
7.Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
8.Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
9.Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
10.In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

 

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[JtoDaP]

Breadtalk..you have more than 10 books I believe

- Dark Tower series 1 - 7
- The Lord of the Rings Counts as one bookt:
- The Hobbit

Andddd thinking about the last one

 

[ComicChick]

you want people to read Twilight? why?

of those photo banners you posted (which all could've been one post btw), i've read at least 13 of those books, and would recommend at the most, maybe 5 or 6 of them.

 

[Maddie234]

10 is a very small number for this! Still, here goes:

1. The Sorrows of Young Werther (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
2. The Red and the Black (by Stendhal)
3. Cider with Rosie (by Laurie Lee)
4. Dr. Zhivago (by Boris Pasternak)
5. Austerlitz (by WG Sebald)
6. The Voyeur (by Alain Robbe-Grillet)
7. Lucky Jim (by Kingsley Amis)
8. Ulysses (by James Joyce)
9. The Code of the Woosters (by PG Wodehouse)
10. Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad)

 

[childeroland]

10. The NeverEnding Story (Micheal Ende)
9. The Gormenghast Books (Mervyn Peake)
8. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
7. Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
6. Tale of Genji (Lady Muraski)
5. Ulysses (James Joyce)
4. Journey to the West (Wu Cheng'en)
3. Little, Big (John Crowley)
2. The Aegypt books (John Crowley)
1. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)

 

[Old Man Lucas]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
The Magus by John Fowles
The Collector by John Fowles
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Boy Who Saw True by Cyril Scott*

aaand Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to round things out.

 

[breadtalk]

Breadtalk..you have more than 10 books I believe

- Dark Tower series 1 - 7
- The Lord of the Rings Counts as one bookt:
- The Hobbit

Andddd thinking about the last one

Yes...you are right JtoDaP I guess I could not help myself but to post all the books that I love.

 

[STARMAN]

The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum.

 

[KevanG]

Top 10 books/series

The Hyde Effect - The best werewolf book I've ever read.
The Time Travelers wife - Love it.
The Dresden Files series (Just released book 15 of 20+ expected )
Shogun by James Clavell - Amazing book
Game of thrones books (watch the show first to really get into it)
Star Trek - Federation (what Generations should have been as it's actually really good)
Bioshock - Rapture if you've enjoyed the first two Bioshock games
Firestarter by Stephen King
The Running Man/The Long walk (same book) by Stephen King as Richard Bachman.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Pretty much anything by him actually.

 

[Piper Maru]

These are my favorites:

 

[antsman41]

Classics.

1984 - George Orwell
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Plague - Albert Camus
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
& The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks - Williams S. Burroughs/Jack Kerouac
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
A Study In Scarlet - Sir Authur Conan Doyle
Casino Royal - Ian Fleming
A Streetcar Named Desire* - Tennessee Williams

New Age.

Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Rachel Papers - Martin Ames
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Game Changers.

S. - JJ Abrams
The Orange Eats Creeps - Grace Krilanovich
In Between Days - Andrew Porter
Still Life With A Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
The Delivery Man - Joe McGinness, Jr.
Parasites Like Us - Adam Johnson
Samedi The Deafness - Jesse Ball
The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta
Some Things That Meant The World To Me - Joshua Mohr
The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner

Pop Culture.

The Beatles - Bob Spitz
A Long Strange Trip - Dennis McNally
Dear Girls Above Me - Charlie McDowell
Bruce (Springsteen) - Peter Ames Carlin
The Average American Male - Chad Kultgen
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Sarah Rainone
Talking To Girls About Duran Duran - Rob Sheffield
Verses - Ani DiFranco [poetry]
The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting - Jim Walsh
Culture Shock! USA - Esther Wanning

 

[ComicChick]

ah you've read S by Abrams? i've had that on my wishlist for a long time. how did you like it?

 

[antsman41]

ah you've read S by Abrams? i've had that on my wishlist for a long time. how did you like it?

Amazing, but take your time with it because you're essentially reading 3 books at once; page by page. It's a doozy but it is so worth it. Plus, the whole 'package' makes it one of the coolest experiences of the year...

 

[ComicChick]

i had a chance to buy it used, but passed because i was afraid parts wouldn't be there. the way you read it is one of the things that interests me most about it

 

[Marvolo]

These are my favorites:

Just bought this on my Kindle.

 

[Piper Maru]

Just bought this on my Kindle.

I'm very glad!

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

-Suggestions of books fiction or non fiction books to read-
-TOP 10 LIST-

I don't like to make top ten lists, but here's some of my favorite books, short stories etc.

Fiction, novels and stuff

Christine - Stephen King

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table - Roger Lancelyn Green

Comet in Moominland - Tove Jansson

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz

Short stories

The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen

Helping Them Take The Old Man Down - William Preston

Clockworks - William Preston

Unearthed - William Preston

The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft

Night Calls the Green Falcon - Robert McCammon

The Moving Finger - Stephen King

The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs

The Hero Who Returned - Gerald W Page

Non-fiction

The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

Conciousness Beyond Life - Pim van Lommel

The Dawkins Letters, challenging atheist myths - David Roberts

Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves - James Le Fanu

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

I'm very glad!

There's a movie based on that one? And it's only available on VHS, I think.

 

[Piper Maru]

There's a movie based on that one? And it's only available on VHS, I think.

An unknown gem!

 

[Cotton]

1) Blood Song -- Anthony Ryan
2) Necroscope -- Brian Lumley
3) Storm Front -- Jim Butcher
4) Patient Zero -- Jonathan Mayberry
5) Plum Island -- Nelson DeMille
6) Hounded -- Kevin Hearne
7) A Game of Thrones -- George R.R. Martin
8) Monster Hunter International -- Larry Correia
9) The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien
10) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis

 

[RonPrice]

FAVORITE BOOKS

Perhaps how much one reads is as important as what one reads, although one would not want to press this point too much. Given the fact that we all have different tastes, perhaps the essential question or comment under ”Favorite Books" is not “which books one has read” but “how much,” “when” and “why.” As the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote: “Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” I these tangential remarks for this part of the site: (a) to initiate a discussion on books for those inclined and (b) to indicate which are my favorite books.

It is impossible for me to make an accurate record or even a reasonable guesstimation of what might be called my reading record since 1950, some 65 years, from my middle-childhood to these middle years of late adulthood, age 5 to 70. I have made a start at such a record, though. For the most part, my reading is in the social sciences and humanities—a vast field to say the least and too extensive to even provide a cursory list of my favorite books here.

In the English-speaking world the great majority of books that have been published in the last century are like academic tombs which transfer dry bones from one graveyard to another: they show unmistakable talent and are professionally competent, the result of long processes of learning, application and work; accuracy is found; the words are in their right place and as they should be. But to the vast majority of the peoples of the world, indeed about 99.9% if not 99.999(repeater), it makes not the slightest difference whether they exist or not. This fact, though, does not make of this immense literary enterprize a meaningless activity. Indeed, these books, or at least some of them, are the very breath of life to millions.