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Top 10 Favorite Books

BronzeisGolden

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Okay, we've done movies, television shows and songs in the past.....let us go with books!

TOP 10
1. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
2. Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie
3. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
4. Peter the Great - Robert K. Massie
5. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Okay, this book is famous for
being long and boring...but it actually features one of the most
touching love stories.
6. The Last Tsar - Edvard Radzinsky
7. LOTR Trilogy - Tolkien
8. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
9. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
10. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
 

Piel

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1. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
2. The Jewell in the Crown - Paul Scott
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. Dracula - Bram Stoker
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
6. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
7. Shroud for a Nightengale - P.D. James
8. Salem's Lot - Stephen King
9. Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
10. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
 

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Arm Chair Skate Fan
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In my line of work, I read a great deal of children's lit so mine would be....
1. All the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder..the "Little House" books
2. "Anne of Green Gables"
3. All of Jane Austen's Novels, "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", etc.
4. "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"
5. "A Wrinkle In Time"
6. "The Thornbirds"
7. "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
8. All the "Harry Potter" books
9. "The Hobbit" and "The Trilogy"
10. "Ivanhoe" 42
 

JonnyCoop

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1. "Paradise" - Toni Morrison
2. "e: a novel" -- name of the author escapes me at the moment. Some British dude.:D
3. "Waiting to Exhale" - Terry McMillan
4. "Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents" - Octavia Butler
5. "A Murder is Announced" - Agatha Christie
6. "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady" - Florence King
7. "Mama" - Terry McMillan
8. "Vile Bodies" - Evelyn Waugh (gotta love a book that you have to put down for a second every 3 or 4 pages and say out loud, "OMG, I cannot believe these people!!")
9. "Brothers and Sisters" - Bebe Moore Campbell
10. "Bright Lights, Big City" - Jay McInerney
 

rusalka

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first of all, forgive me if there are mistakes in the titles but I read most of these books in italian or in russian and so I don't know the titles in english
1_"the master and Margarita" :love: ,Mikhail Bulgakov
2_"100 years of solitude", Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez
3_"the house of the spirits", Isabel Allende
4_"the lord of the rings", J.R.R. Tolkien
5_"thetral novel", Mikhail Bulgakov
6_"stories of Bosnia", Ivo Andrich
7_"the dream of a ridiculous man", Fyodor Dostoevskiy
8_"white nights", Fyodor Dostoevskiy
9_"the songlines":love: , Bruce Chatwin
10_"here's the story",Daniel Pennac
ok, eleven:anything by Flavio Soriga
twelve:"terre des homes":love:,Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
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nthuz

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The Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. Lewis

The Shining:Stephen King

Jane Eyre: C. Bronte

When Your Child Drives You Crazy: Eda Leshan

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen, and Listen so Kids Will Talk: Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankenweiler:E. L. Konigsburg

The Winning Attitude: Michele Kwan

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee

Moby Dick :Herman Melville

edited to add The Stand: Stephen King (how could I forget)
 
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Kateri

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woo, books...does epic poetry count? I say it does...what about plays? and graphic novels?

let's just call this "paper-based fiction-type stuff I like", ok...

the Iliad - Homer
Gormenghast novels - Mervyn Peake
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Joy Luck Club - amy tan
the god of small things - arundhati roy
the secret history - donna tartt
iphigeneia in aulis, the bacchae, medea - euripides
the oresteia - aeschylus
the divine comedy - dante
tess of the d'ubervilles - thomas hardy
to the lighthouse - virginia woolf
His Dark Materials trilogy - philip pullman
earthsea novels - ursula leguin
Sandman g/novels - Neil Gaiman
JTHM - Jhonen Vasquez
lolita - vladimir nabokov
riddley walker - russell hoban

uh..that'll do for now!

kat.
 

Hermione_Granger

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My favorite books are (in no particular order):
Harry Potter series
The Winning Attitude, by MK
The Nancy Drew series
The Princess Diaries series
The Island of the Blue Dolphins
Bud, Not Buddy
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Secret Life of Bees
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
A Single Shard
Esperanza Rising
Replica series (it's a shame they stopped printing them)

--Hermione
 

Kasey

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1. "Long walk to freedom" (biography of Nelson Mandela)
2. "little women"
3. "A boy called 'it'"
4. Any of T. W. burgess' children's books (written in the 1910-1930 time frame, and SO cute)
5. "Whispers' by Dean Koontz
6. Any of the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex stout
7. "The stand" by stephen king
8. "East of Eden' by John steinbeck
9. "The Four agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz
10. Anything by Toni Morrison

I can't even think of all the others i've read and enjoyed....books are a passion!

Kasey
 

Rachael

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1. The Bible
2. Left Behind
3. Little Women
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. My Seregi
6. Dicey's Song
7. Glorious Appearnce
8. Chalk Box Kid
9. Stuart Little
10. Homecoming
 

Ptichka

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The first two are easy:

1. Master and Margaritta by Bulgakov
2. Satanic Verses by Rushdie

For the other 8 I will just list some of my favorites:
3. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
4. Arch of Triumph by Remarque
5. Kafka's stories
6. Dostoevsky. If I had to pick, I'd say Brothers Karamazovs.
7. Slowness by Kundera
8. Philips Roth's trilogy: I Married a Communist, American Pastoral, and Human Stain.
9. Theater by Maugham
10. Nabokov. Let's say Luzhin's Defense.
 

Rixis

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I can't do them in order..and I can't do 10 either. But here are some! ;)

A Tale of Two Cities (SO good.)
The Great Gatsby
Lolita (Wow! That was great!)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Best book from childhood.)
I like Tamora Pierce..fave is probably In the Hand of the Goddess.
A Cook's Tour
Harry Potter series

And a lot of others which I can't remember right now...
 

Lcp88

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My definate top five is:
Jewels of the Sun - Nora Roberts (first in a trilogy, but this was my absolute favorite)
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (one of the funnist and most interesting books I've ever read)
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman (confusing at points, but soooooooo well - written)

Others (in no particular order) would be, Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon), Zero Tollerance (Toller Cranston), Almost anything by Nora Roberts, The Hours (Michael Cunningham or something like that), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon), Silent to the Bone (e.l. konigsburg), The "Cat Who" series (Lilian Jackson Braun), The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys (Chris Fuhrman) and The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

Thats all I can currently think of, but I'm sure if I went and looked in my book shelves I could find more....
Laura
 

Longhornliz

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This post is so helpful, I was just about to post a thread asking for recomendations for summer reading. If anyone has any recomendations for me based on my list it would be much appreciated.


I couldnt do ten, but here are 11 of my favs in no particular order


Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0060938455&itm=1

The Bean Trees- Barbara Kingsolver (she is my favorite author by far, and so many of her books would make my list... but this is the one I read first when I was introduced to her)
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/te...userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0060915544&TXT=Y&itm=2

All the Peter Spier picture books (People, Rain, Christmas, Noah's Ark)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440413478/002-5497843-7504018?v=glance

Alas Babylon- Pat Frank
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/te...userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0060812540&TXT=Y&itm=3

The Once and Future King- TH White
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/te...userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0441627404&TXT=Y&itm=1

LOTR/Hobbit- JRR Tolkien

Les Miserables- Victor Hugo

The Sweet Valley Series- Francine Paschal (wow, more of a sentimental choice as I realize they are horrid texts)

Red Earth and Pouring Rain- Vikram Chandra
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/te...userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0316132934&TXT=Y&itm=1

The Awakening- Kate Chopin
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/te...userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0312195753&TXT=Y&itm=1

Blood and Money- Thomas Thompson
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=BQv1ntItRD&isbn=0786709472&itm=4
 
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SusanBeth

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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

The Good Earth Pearl S Buck

The Hitchhiker's Gude to the Universe Douglas Adams [I had no idea that '' knowing where your towel is'' could be so important.]
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East of Eden John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

The Princess Bride William Goldman

The Autobiography of Mark Twain [and everything he wrote]

Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals Christopher Hibbert

An Uncommon Woman Hannah Pakula
 

RoaringMice

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I'm listing authors only when I remember them!

A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle
Tales of the City - Maupin
The Soloist - Salzman
Princess Bride - Goldman
Emma, Who Saved My Life
The Phantom Tollbooth
Doomsday Book - Willis
Beauty - Tepper
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
 

dorispulaski

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What a nice thread! I will have to get a lot of these.

By the way-is the Songlines the anthropological discussion of aborigines? I have a copy of this and can't find it. It was an interesting book. Not sure my Songlines has the same author.

The Lymond Chronicles (it's a historical series) Dorothy Dunnett
I've just started her Niccolo series, so I can't say whether they will hit my top whatever list.

Lord of the Rings, Hobbit (Tolkien)
The whole Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery) best childhood books. (I liked the Thornton Burgess ones too)

Shrub - Molly Ivins

Riddlemaster of Hed (If you like LOTR and/or Wizard of Earthsea, you'll like this set of 3 books by McKillip

Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley (yes the author of Roots, another favorite of mine)

Comedies of Aristophanes, particularly the Wasps

Susan Howatch's Church of England series (life and religions novel series. couldn't put them down)

Mary Renault's The King Must Die and Bull from the Sea

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson

The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin

The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman

The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer - I devoured these regencies when I was a teenage.
 
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rusalka

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DORISPULASKI said:


By the way-is the Songlines the anthropological discussion of aborigines? I have a copy of this and can't find it. It was an interesting book. Not sure my Songlines has the same author.


maybe they're two different books...the one I read is about the aborigines, but it also describes the author's travel and his ideas about nomadism,it's not only an anthropological discussion.
 
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