Tell me what your Top 10 books are

This is the same idea about the Top 100 Movies....

Tell me 10 books that you consider to be better than any other book you have ever read...

This list will include all genres... so you can add fiction and non-fiction... (graphic novels are welcomed but please don't list series only stand alone stories)

The books on your list do not have to be in the order that you like them.

On December 25, 2006 I will post two list... the first will be the Top 100 books from the Suicide Girls... and the second list will be from everyone.

Mike

I'm also gathering info for Top Movies and Top Album... it should be pretty easy to find the other topics.

V for Vendetta By Alan Moore
Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov
If plays count then: Othello By William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Freakonomics By Steven D. Levitt

Wow. I need to read better books. There's gotta be more out there.

There's just no way I could pick just 10, or put them in any sort of order.

In no particular order:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
5. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
6. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
7. Native Son by Richard Wright
8. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
9. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller
10. 1984 by George Orwell

In no order:

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. Burning Chrome by William Gibson
3. The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
4. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy -- his characters are timeless.
5. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
6. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
7. At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by Yossi Klein Halavi
8. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
9. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
10. Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Wow, is it ever hard to pick only 10.

1. Tie between Dr. Bloodmoney and The Man In The High Castle, both by Philip K. Dick
2. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
3. The Collected Short Stories Of Jorge Luis Borges
4. The Illumantus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
5. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
6. The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
7. Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. The Grifters by Jim Thompson
10. The House Of Leaves By Mark Z. Danielewski

Ishmael is amazing.

And I always considered the Lord of the Rings trilogy to be one book. I have the red leatherbound book that my mum bought back in the day when it came out. The entire thing is just too good to count as three seperate books! heh.

Ishamel
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
the Stranger
Still Life with Woodpecker
Brave New World
the Electric KoolAid Acid Test
Merlin trilogy
the Fountainhead
the Fabric of the Cosmos
American Psycho
Lolita

- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie McDonald
- I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
- Blood & Gold by Anne Rice
- The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
- Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
- The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (I just can't divide the books; I love them as a whole!)

i might have to rethink series for this poll.

and yeah i love Ishmael... have you read other Quinn books?

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In no particular order; I didn't count plays; this will totally change in 13 minutes.

1. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Many
5. Nine Stories by JD Salinger
6. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
8. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
9. The Empty Space by Peter Brook
10. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

That might be a good idea. Series like LOTR and Merlin (two off the top of my head) I know I consider to be just a lump--I'm sure others do too.

I want to read the Story of B, but haven't gotten around to ordering it yet. Have you read any others, have any suggestions for his?
I've bought three of my friends, and my boyfriend, Ishmael just because I think it's just so good! It should be required reading.

I also really like Me Talk Pretty One Day... very amusing stories! That David Sedaris.. I tell ya.

Neuromancer - William Gibson (or any William Gibson really)
God is a Bullet - Boston Teran
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Vern
Conrad's War - Andrew Davies
Blue Movie - Terry Southern
Brass - Helen Walsh
Preacher - Garth Ennis
Kung Fu High School - Ryan Gattis
Stalingrad & Berlin The Downfall 1945.Two books but you really do need to read them together - Anthony Beevor (his book on the Spanish Civil War is very good as well)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

I couldn't pick ten books. My current top ten authors might be (in no order):

1. Don Delillo
2. A. C. Doyle
3. Vonnegut
4. James Ellroy
5. William Vollmann
6. Faulkner
7. Philip K. Dick
8. Poe
9. Chandler/Hammet (tie)
10. Henry Miller

i'm surprised no one picked On The Road.

These are the books I can read a zillion times over and never get tired of them. There are more, many many more, but these, I feel, are the ones I return to the most frequently. And are in no particular order.

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas pere (fuck, I just finished reading it and already I want to start over again)
Orca - Steven Brust
To Reign in Hell - Steven Brust
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Element of Fire - Martha Wells
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

*pouncecuddle* ^_^

Damn straight. Alfred Bester is the Rodney Dangerfield of science-fiction: he doesn't begin to get enough respect.

cool! thank you to everyone that help me come up with this list!

so far i have 90 different books listed

keep them coming in

mike

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Monkey - Wu Ch'Eng-En
The Analects - Confucius
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
1984 - George Orwell
Waiting For Godalming - Robert Rankin
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson

I don't read a lot of books - damn ADD!

1. Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings (a timeless parody!)
2. The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy - Anne Rice (as A.N. Roquelaure)
3. Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams