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Abby's Top Ten List Poll: What titles would you put among your Top Ten Books of All Time?

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1. I really love the name Abbie.
2. Ham on Rye- Charles Bukowski Growth of the Soil- Knut Hamsun Wait Until Spring, Bandini- John Fante Pulp- Charles Bukowski Watership Down- Richard Adams Post Office- Charles Bukowski The Stand- Stephen King Hunger- Knut Hamsun The Demon- Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream- Hubert Selby Jr.
3. I loved "Fun with Dick and Jane!"
4. Harry Potter (all of them) Lucas by Kevin Brooks Impulse by Ellen Hopkins Waves by Sharon Dogar Papertowns by John Green Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Beige by Cecil Castellucci One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chapel
5. Hmm...hard call between: 1) Anne Rice's Lestat 2) Hounds of the Baskervilles (A. Doyle) 3) Not A Penny More, Not a Penny less (J. Archer)
6. 1. The Art Of War by Lao-Tsu 2. The Republic by Plato 3. The Iliad by Homer 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 6. Emma by Jane Austen 7. House Of The Spirits by Isabelle Allende 8. Kiss Of The Spider Woman by Manuel Puig 9. Arthur & George by Julian Barnes 10. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 1984 - George Orwell The Stand - Steven King Junkie - William Burroughs Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl Catch-22 - Joseph Heller A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
8. Heaven's Coast--Mark Doty Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World--Tracy Kidder Straight Man--Richard Russo Ethan Frome--Edith Wharton Great Short Works of Dostoyevsky--Fyodor Dostoyevsky I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings--Maya Angelou Until I Find You--John Irving The Gravedigger's Daughter--Joyce Carol Oates
9. "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God," by Robert Graves "Catch-22," by Joseph Heller Any authoritative collection of the complete works of Shakespeare (I have such a book, about six inches thick) "The Outline of History," by H.G. Wells "The Worldly Philosophers," by Robert Heilbroner "Diary of a Raving, Unconfined Nut," by Paul Krassner "The Way of a Man with a Maid" (anonymous) "Animal Farm," by George Orwell and.... I don't know, maybe the Oxford English Dictionary -- after all, it has all the other books in it.....
10. Of Mice and Men 10 People you Meet in Heaven and ALL children's books!!!!
11. The Bible, of course!! I also love anything by V.C. Andrews. I grew up reading her books & still enjoy them!
12. The Best Of James Whitcomb Riley http://books.google.com/books?id=MSFsROT0TP0C&dq=James+Whitcomb+Riley&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=i0gASsSAI5O-Mq6P8dwH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPP1,M1 The Lord of the Rings To Kill A Mockingbird Helter Skelter The Amityville Horror Flowers In The Attic Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt : a Novel By Anne Rice Where the Wild Things Are The complete tales of Winnie-the-Pooh Monster at the End of This Book http://books.google.com/books?id=HZoNAAAACAAJ&dq=there%27s+a+monster+at+the+end+of+this+book&lr=
13. 1. Gone With the WInd by Margaret Mitchell 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 6. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 7. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 8. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 9. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 10. Charlie And the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl This list was really hard for me, and if you ask me tomorrow it may be changed around a little. I love too many books, and it is painful for me to pick only 10!
14. Ten is a really low number for me. How about the books I would read more than once: The 4 books in the Prince Roger series by John Ringo and David Weber the 13 (or so) books in the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold The 11 books in the Martian/John Carter series by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Anything written by Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Almost anything by Clive Cussler (alone - the older stuff) Almost anything by Dr. Suess, but especially How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the Sleep Book.
15. 1. 1000 Masterpieces (Sister Wendy) 2. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) 3. The Earth's Children series (Jean Auel) 4. Pusssy, King of the Pirates (Kathy Acker) 5. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (some really old Tibetan guy) 6. Lonesome Cities (Rod McKuen) 7. Poems for Young People (Lewis Carroll) 8. Lost Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien) 9. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) 10. It (Stephen King)
16. Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespere Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The Lord of The Rings Triology - J R R Tolkein Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowlong Patriot Games - John Clancy Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
17. Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Ride the Wind The Outlander The Mummy Left Behind Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No good Very bad Day. The Stand The Talisman Ramona the Pest.