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What is your all time top ten list of favorite books (with authors)?

I read all the time, but have settled into a rut and would like to expand my horizons.

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  1. terry pratchett's discworld series
  2. 1. eragon (christopher paolini) 2. eldest (diddo) 3. hp#5 (j.k.rowling) 4. hp#6 5. hp#4 6. the true story of hansel and gretel (louise murphy) 7. in the shadow of the cathedral (titia bozuwa(i think)) 8. any tamora pierce book 9. anne of green gables series, 10. daughters of the moon series (lynne ewing)
  3. This is in no particular order, but here goes 1. Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkien 2. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. The Old Man and the Sea--Ernest Hemingway 4. Jurassic Park--Michael Crichton 5. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien 6. The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne 7. Clear and Present Danger--Tom Clancy 8. Misery-Stephen King 9. 1776--David McCullough 10. Guns, Germs, and Steel--Jared Diamond
  4. I can give you some names of authors I like. James Patterson Janet Evanovich John Sanford Linda Howard Billie Letts enjoy!!
  5. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley 3. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 4. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger 5. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein 6. Dragonlance Chronicales - Weis & Hickman 7. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 8. Honeymoon with My Brother - Franz Wisner 9. The Other Boelyn Girl - Philippa Gregory 10. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling (children's yes, but very good and amusing)
  6. Not in any particular order: The Painted House - John Grisham The Client - John Grisham The Notebook - Nicolas Sparks A Time To Kill - John Grishman A Walk To Remember - Nicolas Sparks Runaway Jury - John Grisham The Rainmaker - John Grisham The Pelican Brief - John Grisham Sleeping With The Enemy - can't remember the author The Street Lawyer - John Grisham Guess you can tell my fav author is John Grishman. He has several other great books also. I like Nora Roberts books too.
  7. 1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) 2. Persuasion (Jane Austen) 3. Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) 4. all Sherlock Holmes stories - 4 novels and 56 short stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) 5. Stories by Agatha Christie 6. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) 7. Kidnapped (R.L. Stevenson) 8. The Black Tulip (Alexander Dumas) 9. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) 10. books by R.K. Narayan
  8. 1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 2. Wuthering Heights by Emelie Bronte 3. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky 4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. The Kingdom of God is Within by Tolstoy 6. The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen 7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 8. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster 9..Ripley's Game (and the rest of the series) by Patricia Highsmith 10. The Bible by various authors, though often misattributed to "God" (Nietzsche has a great line, "Clever of God to have learned Greek when he wished to be a writer, cleverer still not to have learned it better.) Honorable Mention: A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens God by Jack Miles Shakespeare's plays
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  10. These are not in any order, but they are all my favorites 1. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 2. Jack & Jill, Louisa May Alcott 3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 4. Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen 5. The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler 6. The Pact, Jodi Picoulet 7. The Bible 8. Emma, Jane Austen 9. Persuasion, Jane Austen 10. Anything by Janet Evanovich
  11. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Lovely Bones can't think of the author Odd Thomas Dean Koontz Forever Odd Dean Koontz The Kite Runner The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Running with Scissors In Cold Blood
  12. Final Blackout : L Ron Hubbard Fight Club: Chuck Palahnuik Battlefield Earth: L R Hubbard Shame of Man : Piers Anthony America the book: Jon Stewart Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown Xanth series: Piers Anthony The Firm: John Grisham Night Shift: Stephen King Jurassic Park: M. Crichton
  13. Sorry, I've only got a top four (edit: ah! five! I give credit to the person who posted after me, laney po, for reminding me of #5!), but I've grouped them in series: 1: The first three books written by George R. R. Martin in the series "The Song of Ice and Fire" -- it's the best high fantasy fiction you'll find out there today, and I'm not exaggerating 2: Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are amazing sci-fi books written by Orson Scott Card -- they really bring out an awareness that you didn't know you had 3: The Harry Potter series -- self-explanatory =) 4: The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov -- classic novels, sci-fi Edit - 5: The Chronicles of Narina by C.S. Lewis
  14. Like so many have said before...in no particular order... 1)Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell 2)Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 3)Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 4)Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 5)The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 6)Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 7)Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld 8)The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 9)Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card 10)The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
  15. Here's a list of Authors and some of their series that I love David Eddings - Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium, the Dreamers Anne McCaffrey - Pern, Tower and Hive Terry Brooks - Magic Kingdom for sale, Sold! Raymond E. Feist - Magician Melanie Rown - Dragon Prince L.E.Modesitt, Jr - Saga of Recluce Jane Lindskold - Wolf series.
  16. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit. David and Leigh Eddings--The Belgariad (5 books in series Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magicians Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanters end Game) and the companion series... The Mallorean (5 books--Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon lord of Karanda, Sorceress of Darshiva and The Seeress of Kell) Maurice Walsh- The Blackcocks Feather Jack London-White fang and Call of the Wild and everything else by him lots of good short stories. Milo Hastings- The city of endless night Douglas Niles- The Seven Circles Trilogy...Circle at Center, World Fall, The Goddess Worldweaver. Frank Herbert and Brian Herbert- Dune series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune the series is continued by his son and is still very good) Joanne Bertin- The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Pheonix Anne McCaffery-Crystal Singer Series-Crystal Singer, Killashandra, Crystal Line. Also the Pern series too many books to list A few are Dragonflight, DragonQuest and The White Dragon. Rudyard Kipling- Kim, The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous. Robert Louis Stevenson- Kidnapped and Treasure Island I know this is technically way more than ten of my favorite books but I love series and I read every book I can by a single author...I hope you enjoy some of thes books some are Science fiction, some fantasy and some just plain old fiction. I love to read!!
  17. Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand The Wood Wife - Terri Windling Memory and Dream - Charles de Lint Bordertown, Borderland, and Life on the Border (a trilogy of anthologies) - edited by Terri Windling Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint Dreams of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti Lost - Poppy Z. Brite any of the Valdemar books - Mercedes Lackey War for the Oaks - Emma Bull Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
  18. No particular order. 1. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood-Rebecca Wells 2. The Stand-Stepehen King 3. Rage-Jonathan Kellerman 4. Little Earthquakes-Jennifer Weiner 5. The entire Dark Tower series-Stephen King 6. Phenomenon-Sylvia Browne 7. Bet Me-Jennifer Crusie 8. insomnia-Stephen King 9. Hissy Fit-Mary Kay Andrews 10. Queen of the Damned-Anne Rice
  19. Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire. Another good series is the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.The books provide an alternate take on vampires.People who are unjustly murdered call upon Artemis(Greek goddess) and she grants them a day to avenge themselves.After that they are recruited to her army to fight against evil.This series is romance based.Best of the series are 'Dance with the devil' and 'Seize the night'. Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author. Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people? Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes. The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next. The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments. Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad history.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years. Rebecca Paisley-A basket of wishes. Its about a fairy Splendour who is ordered to marry a human( a duke).The poor hero is confused by the woman who will shrink if not kissed regularly,drinks apricot face lotion.On top of that he is harassed by splendour's sister who even turns him into a snail.His cousin Emil thinks that Splendour is exactly what the doctor ordered for the staid ,boring Jordan.
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