Your ten favourite books/ book series?

As an avid reader, I've read plenty of books and series, but these are my personal favourites:

1. A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones saga, for all the n00bs who don't read the books :P )

2. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

3. The Fox King

4. The Way of the Kings

5. The Girl Who kicked the Hornest's Nest

6. Lord of the Rings

7. Angels and Demons

8. The Last Wish (The Witcher in case you didn't know...)

9. Frankenstein

10. Poison/Magic Study

So yeah in case you didn't realise I love fantasy :P

So what's on your list?

I'm a huge Star Wars nerd!

Ten? How about I give you three. There's more than that, but I like the number three.

The Reacher Series by Lee Child

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card

Ten? How about I give you three. There's more than that, but I like the number three.

The Reacher Series by Lee Child

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card

edgewalker16

I dunno if I can give a list of ten, but I'll throw out some of my favorites.

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

1984 - George Orwell

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

A Farewell to Arms - Earnest Hemingway

I'll add some more if I think of them.

I dunno if I can give a list of ten, but I'll throw out some of my favorites.

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

1984 - George Orwell

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

A Farewell to Arms - Earnest Hemingway

I'll add some more if I think of them.

jim_shorts

1. Game of Thrones series... Definitely my # 1 favorite fantasy series.

2. I, Claudius... Really got me into roman history.

3. Hells Angels book by Hunter S. Thompson

4.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

5.Lord of the Rings

6. The Hobbit

7. John Barleycorn by Jack London

8. Gullivers Travels

9. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

10. The Beach

I honestly haven't read that many books but have recently started to pick up reading again. Hopefully I'll have more favorites soon :).

Lord of the rings

The Hobbit

Harry Potter

The Eight by Catherine Neville

Lost Temple by Tom Harper

I' m currently reading The Silmarillion to be a complete Tolkien fan :P

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett are fantastic.

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Silmarillion

Unfinished Tales

The Children of Hurin

Harry Potter

The Iliad

The Martian Chronicles

I can't think of anything else right now.

• Harry Potter series
• The Hobbit
• Heroes- Saving Charlie
• Tom All Alone's
• Death Note series
• Air Gear series
• FullMetal Alchemist series
• The Hunger Games series
• The Zomebie Survial Guide

• Harry Potter series
• The Hobbit
• Heroes- Saving Charlie
• Tom All Alone's
• Death Note series
• Air Gear series
• FullMetal Alchemist series
• The Hunger Games series
• The Zomebie Survial Guide

benleslie5

1. The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky

2. Anna Karinina, by Tolstoy

3. The Fall, by Camus

4. Phantastes, by MacDonald

5. The Hobbit, by Tolkien

6. Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger

7. The Death of Ivan Illych, by Tolstoy

8. Far from the Madding Crowd, by Hardy

9. The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe

10. Harry Potter series

Edit: Don't know how I forgot it, but put the whole Dune series (at least the books by Frank Herbert) after Anna Karinina

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

• Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

• Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabi

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

• Yakuza Diary: Doing Time in the Japanese Underworld by Chris Seymour

Not sure if I can rank them, but here goes a group of ten of my favorites:

• Shogun - James Clavell
• Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
• A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
• The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
• The Automatic Detective - A. Lee Martinez
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
• Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
• Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
• The Honor Harrington Series - David Weber
• Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't think I have 10 favorite books or series of books. But.....

1. Ballantine Books (my dad has the whole collection):

2. The Hobbit/LOTR/Silmarillion

3. Star Wars Source books (many)

4. Six-Horse Hitch

5. Genda's Blade (also my dad's):

6. Bafut Beagles

7. The Zulu Wars

There's more. But, I can't recall them.....

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
3. Aeneid by Virgil
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
7. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
9. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll
10. The Bridge on the Drine by Ivo Andric

Closer to 14 books in the three series of Enderverse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game_(series)/

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="jim_shorts"] What makes you dislike it?jim_shorts

1. Harry Potter (yeah, I know)

2. Maus (HIGHLY recommend, it's split into two books. If you like the book below, you will proably like this book).

3. Night

4. Monster

After that in no particular order; I just don't read that much.

Comic books - Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot (It doesn't have memorable storylines like Calvin and Hobbes but it's a great series), Tintin

The fact that I'm seeing some people put Song of Ice and Fire above LOTR makes me lose faith in humanity

1. Everything Tolkien did in Middle Earth

2. Harry Potter

3. Everything Neil Gaiman has written

4. Hannah Swensen series (don't shoot me)

1. Harry Potter (yeah, I know)

2. Maus (HIGHLY recommend, it's split into two books. If you like the book below, you will proably like this book).

3. Night

4. Monster

After that in no particular order; I just don't read that much.

Comic books - Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot (It doesn't have memorable storylines like Calvin and Hobbes but it's a great series), Tintin

JDWolfie

The Magacian by Sol Stein

We were forced to read that book in school... Motokid6

[QUOTE="Motokid6"] We were forced to read that book in school... jim_shorts

Not in order (and including two graphic novel series):

Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
BLAME!, by Tsutomu Nihei
Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
The Iliad, by Homer
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
A Song of Ice and Fire series, by George RR Martin

Runner-ups:
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov
The Odyssey, by Homer

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
3. Aeneid by Virgil
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
7. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
9. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll
10. The Bridge on the Drine by Ivo Andric

Aljosa23

Kind of in order:

1. Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
2. Catch-22- Joseph Heller
3. Ulysses- James Joyce
4. The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
6. Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates
7. On the Road- Jack Kerouac
8. A Personal Matter- Kenzaburo Oe
9. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Robert M. Persig
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S Thompson

Come on man how can you include Aeneid but neither Iliad nor Odyssey? :x:P +1 for Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass though.chessmaster1989

I'd have included Metamorphoses by Ovid before the Iliad and Oddysey, btw.

A Personal Matter- Kenzaburo Oe
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Aljosa23

Think I actually first heard about it from you in some WAYR thread. So:

Song of Ice and Fire is my favorite

Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Sword of Shannara series

Killer Angels

Harry Potter

Angels and Demons, The Davinci Code, The Lost Symbol (consider is a series)

Darth Bane (Star Wars)

Can't think for some reason tonight. Remember those so must like them a lot. Song Of Ice and Fire is easily the best thing ever.

In no particular order....

• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Superfudge by Judy Blume
• Jurrasic Park by Michael Crichton
• Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
• The Theban Plays by Sophocles
• Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis
• Night by Eli Wiesel

- Athanasius on the Incarnation

- Artemis fwol

- Legend of Drizt series

- Eusibius church history.

- Selected works from Philokalia vol 1

- The ressurection of the son of God by NT Wright

- The Orhtodox Church, by Metropolitan Kalistos ware

- Crime and punishment, Dostoyveski

- Early Christian writings - The Epistles of Ignatius of Antioch

- The voyage of the dawn treader.

1. The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway

2 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of books -- Douglas Adams

3. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Hemingway

4. Dune series -- Frank Herbert

5. Art of War -- Sun Tsu

6. Lord of the Rings trilogy -- Tolkien

7. Sidartha -- Herman Hesse

8. Damien -- Herman Hesse

9. The Soloist

10. The Sum of All Fears -- Tom Clancy

7-10, I threw on there to get to get to 10; I guess they are my favorite of what I have read. I don't read a lot.

[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
3. Aeneid by Virgil
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
7. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
9. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll
10. The Bridge on the Drine by Ivo Andric

chessmaster1989

I'm compiling a list of all the books you guys have listed, and am going to challenge myself to read them all.

So they better be good!