Top 10 Listopia

[Winter, Group Reads]

Top 10 Listopia

This thread were created under our 10 000 extravaganza. The list is still great even though the celebration is finished. Feel free to add your favorites yet. This is a great place for reference if you need some recommendations for your next read.

Top 10 Listopia

[Winter, Group Reads]

Seems like I don't actually need to keep track here since the list does:)

[Marina]

I've just added my top 10 books to the list! These are, in no particular order:

Comedy of Vanity & Life-Terms by Elias Canetti
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Blindness by José Saramago
History by Elsa Morante
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Some other books that are among my favorites (for which I also have a shelf), but didn't make it to the top 10:

Poems by Ricardo Reis by Fernando Pessoa (this would have actually made it to my top 10 if only there had been an English version)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Seeing by José Saramago
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi

[Imbunche]

Just added my 10:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

[Winter, Group Reads]

Thank you both! Many good ones and books from my near future tbr ^^

I'll have to think about it for a little while myself. There's so many great books!!

[Rachael]

Chosen from my awesome shelf in no particular order; mostly the first in a series but I have to include Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban because for years that was my absolute favourite book. I would also recommend you read the complete series of some of these amazing books.

My top ten:
1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
2. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
3. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
4. Matilda by Roald Dahl
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
8. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
9. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
10. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Close but no cigar AKA Honourable Mentions:
Half Bad by Sally Green
One Day by David Nicholls (the film was good too because it was very close to the book)
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (only found out about this book when I was writing my university dissertation about gender in picture books but I just know I would have loved this book as a child)

[Marina]

@Imbunche, wow, you have some really great titles! I especially loved The Trial.

[Winter, Group Reads]

Rachael wrote: "My top ten (chosen from my awesome shelf in no particular order; mostly the first in a series but I would also recommend the whole series):

1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
2. The Invisible Library ..."

Matilda is a wonderful book!

[Stefani - SpelingExpirt]

Well that was tough to narrow down! These are not in order.

Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K Vaughan
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J K Rowling
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Be My Enemy, Or, Fuck This for a Game of Soldiers by Christopher Brookmyre

[Rachael]

Winter wrote: "Rachael wrote: "My top ten (chosen from my awesome shelf in no particular order; mostly the first in a series but I would also recommend the whole series):

1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
2. The In..."

I loved Matilda when I was young and I still love it now. I think that is the sign of a great book

[[deleted user]]

From 2# downwards they are in no particular order. For those books that are in a series I would recommend the entire series too!!

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. Northern Lights (wouldn't let me get a link for that title and I refuse to call it the Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman
5. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
6. If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
7. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Séanz
8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. The Island by Victoria Hislop
10. Matilda by Roald Dahl

Honorable Mentions include:

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.Rowling
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis

[Bobbi]

I added my top 10 as well. In no particular order:

1. Where the Red Fern Grows
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
3. The Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5. The Nightingale
6. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
7. The Eyes of the Dragon
8. The Odyssey
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone << Added a vote to it at least.
10. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

[Kester]

Here's my 10! The top 2 are really my top 2. The others are in no particular order.

1. Between Shades of Gray
2. The Book Thief
3. Hot Six
4. Mosquitoland
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
7. Bossypants
8. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
9. 1984
10. The Da Vinci Code

[Karin]

Ten of my top books (I don't have only 10, of course, so I feel badly about the books I can't include here)
In no particular order, numbered only for convenience:


1. Holy Bible: King James Version
2. The Hiding Place
3. The Harvard Classics Volume 1
4. George Mueller: Delighted in God
5. Vinyl Cafe Unplugged on audio
6. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670–1870
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. All the Light We Cannot See
9. Snow Falling on Cedars
10. The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another

[Megan]

In no particular order (okay, there might be excessive Tolkien on here)

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Book Thief
The Handmaid's Tale
The Secret History
A Tale of Two Cities
The Master and Margarita
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

[Sterling]

Ok I read a lot of sci fi/ fantasy so my list is probably much different. Here is my vote
1. The Stand by far the best book I have ever read
2.The Martian
3.A Game of Thrones
4.Red Rising
5.The Night Circus
6.The Eyes of the Dragon
7.The Golem and the Jinni
8.Theft of Swords
9.The Last Kingdom
10.Gone Girl

[Eldrid]

1. Strange Angels (entire series because wow) by Lili St Crow

2. Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden

3. Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

4. Golden Compass Phillip Pullman

5. Wild Magic by Tamara Pierce

6. Flying Witches of Verarbeitung by James Endredy

7. Unholy Night by Seth Graham Smith.

8. Running With The Demon by Terry Brooks

9. Faerie Talent by Raymond E Feist

10. Heir to the Empire. Timothy Zahn. Står Wars trilogy.


honorable mentions.
Dragonlance series. the first and the twins trilogy
Sailor Moon and Choirs Manga
Mauz graphic Novel. Art Speigalman MUST READ.
Diary of Anne Frank
Anita Blake books by Laurel Kenny Hamilton
anything by Neil Gaimon

Harry Dresden by Jim Butcher. MUST READ

I read too much. it's impossible to choose. lol.

[Shannon]

My top 10 in no particular order

1. ESV MacArthur Study Bible
2. David Copperfield
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Jane Eyre
5. The Book Thief
6. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. The Count of Monte Cristo
9. The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
10. All the Light We Cannot See

[GailW]

My top 10, no particular order (it would have been easier to do 50!)
1, Booked To Die by John Dunning
2. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
5. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King
10. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

[Kelly]

1. The Book Thief
2. The Night Circus
3. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
4. The Postcard Killers
5. The Pelican Brief
6. The 5th Wave
7. The Millennium Trilogy
8. The Hunger Games
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. The Grapes of Wrath

[Nicole]

In no particular order and from different periods of my life:

Clockwork Princess
Between Shades of Gray
1984
Brave New World
Stone Fox
City of Heavenly Fire
Hamlet
Switched
Impulse
Lord of the Flies

Some Extras:
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
The Heart of Thomas
Julius Caesar
Song of Solomon
Frankenstein
And many, many others!

[Gabriella]

Without any specific order:

1. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
2. GOT series by George R. R. Martin
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. Millenium series by Stieg Larsson
5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
6. In Death series by J. D. Robb
7. Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
9. Family Happiness by Tolstoy
10. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

[Jammin Jenny]

Okay - I added my 10 to the list!

[Rachel]

I decided the ordering by how many times I've read the book. I think it is a fairly accurate method for me.

1. The Book of Mormon
2. The Glass Castle
3. A Christmas Carol
4. The Hiding Place
5. Little Women (Series is great!)
6. The Book Thief
7. The Help
8. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
9. The Night Circus
10. Night

Honorable Mentions:
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia
The Nightingale
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
March
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
The Hangman's Daughter
Bel Canto

[Amy]

I've added my 10!

[Maxine]

i've added mine

1. Mistborn: The Final Empire
2. Words of Radiance
3. Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons & Kokoda
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Stand
6. Bitten
7. Child 44
8. The Girl with All the Gifts
9. Halfway to the Grave
10. All the Rage

[[deleted user]]

Three of my top ten are children's books, two of them my childhood favorites, and one that touched me in the same way as Charlotte's Web. The rest are a varied mix of books that I loved when I read them, and that have lingered in my mind—some for months, and others for many years.

1. Charlotte's Web
2. Life of Pi
3. Animal Farm
4. The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare
5. The Book Thief
6. The Shadow of the Wind
7. Little Bee
8. The One and Only Ivan
9.Rules of Civility
10. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

[Heather]

My top ten books in no order after number one and two
In Cold Blood
All the Light We Cannot See
Good Night, Mr. Tom
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
A Man Called Ove
The Memory of Running
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
All the President's Men
The Girl on the Train

[Winter, Group Reads]

Top 10

The Clan of the Cave Bear
Kushiel's Dart
The Secret History
Elfhunter
Empire
Spellbound
The Neverending Story
Never Let Me Go
A Game of Thrones
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Whew that was hard!

[Vesna]

Top 10
.Harry Potter books (all of them) but The prisoner of Ascaban is the best
Twilight books (all of them) but Eclipse

[Lindsay]

This is really tough and I even struggle to get this list down to 10 with 10 reserves. Also I'm sure it would change depending on my mood on any given day.

So not in any order:-
1) The Hill of the Red Fox
2) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( my favourite HP but I love them all!)
3) The Shadow of the Wind
4) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
5) Nicholas Nickleby
6) An Evil Cradling
7) Brooklyn
8) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
9) Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter
10) Damocles

And on my reserve list:-
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Northern Lights
The Hunger Games
The Island
Sex, Drugs & Opera: There's Life After Rock 'n' Roll
These Happy Golden Years
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Flowertown
Delicious

Top 100 might have been easier to do!

[Claude]

This was harder than I thought! Here goes!

1. The Wind in the Willows
2. 84 Charing Cross Road & The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
3. Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. Mansfield Park
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four
7. Soul Music
8. Peter Pan
9. Death on the Nile
10. Little Women

[Kathryn]

Limiting to a top 10 is so difficult!

I chose:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
The Testament by John Grisham
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

And I could easily choose another 10 honourable mentions!

[Jana]

My top 10 favorite books (which changes almost every day haha) are:
Call of the Wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London
Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
The Secret Journal of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum
The Great Tree of Avalon by TA Barron
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent
The Slains books by Susanna Kearsley
A Tree Grows in Brooklynn by Betty Smith
I have plenty more favorites but these are some of the best in my personal opinion (although anything by Tamora Pierce is definitely always on my favorite list).

[Emily]

My top 10 are:

Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
The Bean Trees
My Name Is Asher Lev
Sense and Sensibility
The Thorn Birds
The Poisonwood Bible
Starter for Ten
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
City of Dreams

EDIT: Voted for the ones that were already there and added those that weren't!

[Jeana]

Wow, that was hard! Here, in no real order, are my top ten:
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
The Forbidden Game by L.J. Smith
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
The Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth
Nightlife by Rob Thurman
The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
Silver by Rhiannon Held
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

[Diana]

In no particular order here are Ten of my top books:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Stoner by John Edward Williams
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets by James Bowen
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Stalker by Lars Kepler

[Rebecca]

Here is my top 10 :-)

1. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
2. Me before You by Jojo Moyes
3. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
4. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
5. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
6. Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
7. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
8. The Kiss of Deception by Mary E Pearson
9. Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery
10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

My top 10, in no particular order:
- Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler - Philip Marlowe #2, a heartbreaking and beautiful detective story
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - counter-culture classic that eclipses the movie version
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman - a fairy tale for grown-ups
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - first half is slow but interesting, second half is like a runaway freight train
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy - post-apocalyptic story that will haunt any parent
- A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin - fantasy epic with medieval politics hooked me right from the start
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick - oddly hilarious but still plenty of deeper themes to explore
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester - outer space retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo was far ahead of its time
- Neuromancer by William Gibson - the poetic birth of cyberpunk, never to be equaled
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - gotta love the main character's name: Hiro Protagonist

Just Missed the Cut (I didn't vote for these or add them to the list, just wanted to give them an honorary mention):
- The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien - has a special place in my heart but may have faded after the fifteenth reading or so
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - kicked off a huge series but the original is by far the best
- Parliament of Whores by P J O'Rourke - hilarious look at politics while still making some very valid points
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis - read this if you think Wall Street isn't the most corrupt den of thieves in the world
- Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card - Seventh Son #2 but the best of the series, fantasy set in early frontier USA
- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris - The birth of Hannibal Lector, the series should have stopped after #2 (this one is a must read if you want to have any chance at deciphering the author's intent in the much-maligned third installment)
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick - Might be PKD's greatest achievement, alternate history book suggesting Axis forces won WWII

Only three of my top ten were already posted so I added the others. Only one (A Game of Thrones) was in the Top 100.

[Tania]

Here are my top 10 - I added those to the list that weren't already there:

- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- The Hunger Games
- Catch-22
- Charlotte's Web
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
- The Arabian Nights
- Flowers in the Attic
- A Little Princess
- The Big Five for Life

[Taylor C]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Princess Bride
The Hobbit
A Corner of the Universe
Looking for Alaska
Tuesdays with Morrie
Holes
Water for Elephants
The Guardian
Cinder

[Clare]

Harder than I thought it would be but my top ten books in no particular order:
1 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2 The Help
3 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
4 Wuthering Heights
5 Gone with the Wind
6 The Owl Service
7 Rebecca
8 The Graveyard Book
9 Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
10 Sparkling Cyanide

Honorary mentions have to go to some of the other books that I've loved over the years and still reread:

Kes
The Thorn Birds
The Company of Wolves
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Hiding Place

[Christa]

So tough! Here are my 10 (in no particular order):

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
House of Leaves
The Screwtape Letters
The Name of the Wind
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
S.
To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
The Humans
The Raven King

[Kadijah Michelle]

I noticed a few of you love The Master and Margarita as much as I do! I just want you all to know a special 50th Anniversary Deluxe edition comes out tomorrow! I just ordered it on Amazon. Also, I think it would be a great group read. I'm going to have to find a theme it will fit.

[Laurie]

1. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
4. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
5. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
6. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
8. Perfect Days by Raphael Montes
9. Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard
10. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I'm excited to check out other books on everyone else's lists! :)

[Rachel]

A very, very difficult choice but these were the first 10 that came to mind (in no particular order):

1. Little Women
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Jane Eyre
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (I love them all, but if I had to pick just one it would be this one)
5. House Rules
6. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
7. Rebecca
8. Atonement
9. Defending Jacob
10. The Time Traveler's Wife

[Luísa]

My list:

Pride and Prejudice
Me Before You
The Lightning Thief
The Choice
Anna and the French Kiss
Wonder
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brave New World
The Princess Diaries
The One

So hard to come up with this list! Those are definitely not in order :S

[Candiss]

- Here's my 10, in no particular order, although #1 is the book that has made the longest-lasting impression on me. I only included books I find myself thinking of again and again and will reread.

A Country Year: Living the Questions- Sue Hubbell
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente
Embassytown - China Mieville
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer- Patrick Suskind
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington

- Honorable mentions - not added to the Listopia, of course:
the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (I can't choose just one book from the series!)
the Dark Tower series - Stephen King (ditto)
Seven Japanese Tales - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams - Catherynne M. Valente
The City and the City - China Mieville
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff VanderMeer
Houdini Heart - Ki Longfellow
Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
Promethea - Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III
The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
The Griffin and Sabine trilogy - Nick Bantock (I have wonderful memories of this, but I read it over 20 years ago.)
Dune - Frank Herbert (ditto)
The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny (ditto)
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (ditto)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard (ditto)
Many Names for Eileen - Peggy Sullivan (childhood)
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (childhood)
Lavender Green Magic - Andre Norton (childhood)
The Witch's Buttons - Ruth Chew (childhood)
Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers (childhood)
Merlin Trilogy - Mary Stewart (childhood)
Watership Down - Richard Adams (teens)
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (teens)
The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis (teens)
Our Town - Thornton Wilder (teens)
Ten Plays by Euripides - Euripides (teens)
The Complete Plays - Aristophanes (teens)

[Diane L]

Added my 10, in no particular order:

Armageddon - Leon Uris
Poland - James Michener
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster - Svetlana Alexievich
The Kappillan of Malta - Nicholas Monsarrat
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
The Rose Garden - Susanna Kearsley
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen

[Margaret]

That was fun. Here is my top 10:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Phantom Tollbooth
Station Eleven
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bleak House
A Thread of Grace
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Macbeth
Antigone
Les Misérables