List Your TOP 10 Best Books You have Ever READ.

[Courtney]

The Host

The following are not in any order;

The Immortal Rules
The Eternity Cure
The Forever Song
Dark Kiss
Wicked Kiss
Sea Horses
Sea Horses: Gathering Storm: Gathering Storm
Sea Horses: The Last Secret: The Last Secret
The Faraway Tree Stories

Ach!!! There are so many more. 21 more in fact!!! Ach!!! D :

[Michele]

I had to limit this list to books I'd read in the past 5 years. Otherwise, it would get out of hand! In no particular order:

The Light Between Oceans – M.L. Stedman
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Heretic’s Daughter – Kathleen Kent
Mudbound – Hillary Jordan
Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
The People of the Book –Geraldine Brooks
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
Dreamers of the Day – Mary Doria Russell
A Thousand Splendid Suns –Khaled Hosseini
Five Quarters of the Orange – Joanne Harris

[Michele]

Had to add one more:
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

[Christine]

Geoffrey wrote: "Malcolm
If you liked My family and other animals, you probably will enjoy the DRUNKEN FOREST by the same author"

But first, read "A Zoo in My Luggage" and "The Bafut Beagles." They were the first two books he wrote about his collecting, and they're full of humor and interesting characters. My mother and I read our copies literally to rags, and we giggled every time.

[Christine]

In no particular order, just as I think of them:
Lonesome Traveler, by Weldon Hill
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
The Morgaine Series, by C. J. Cherryh
The Chanur Series, by C. J. Cherryh
The Flandry Series, by Poul Anderson
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Little Women, by L. M. Alcott
Anything by Luke Short
Born of the Sun, by John H. Culp

[David]

10 is nice but I would consider 12 an essential number. Here are my favorites, though I have plenty more to share.

01) The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
02) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
03) The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
04) East of Eden, Steinbeck
05) Niels Lyhne, Jacobsen
06) The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson
07) The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro
08) The Magic Mountain, Mann
09) The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
10) The Book of Disquiet, Pessoa
11) Catch-22, Heller
12) Independent People, Laxness

[Geoffrey]

Christine wrote: "Geoffrey wrote: "Malcolm
If you liked My family and other animals, you probably will enjoy the DRUNKEN FOREST by the same author"

But first, read "A Zoo in My Luggage" and "The Bafut Beagles." Th..."


Thanx Christine. I enjoyed Drunken Forest so much that I will check out the others.

[Chris]

Tough list... probably will change...not in any particular order

[Beck]

Currently,and in no particular order
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
Stitching Snow by R.C Lewis
Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce
A wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S Lewis
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

[Chloe]

Rebecca wrote: "Currently,and in no particular order
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
Stitching Snow by R.C Lewis
Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Song of th..."

Ooohh I love Maggie Stiefvater have you read any David Estes?

[Beck]

No, but the name's familiar. Could you recommend anything of his to start on?

[Griffin]

These are 10 best. Book Thief is the BEST!


1.The book thief by Markus Zusak
2.Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3.Harry Potter by J K Rowling
4.The Merchant of Death by D J Machale
5.The Underdogs by Markus Zusak
6.Legend by Marie Lu
7.Eragon by Christopher Paolini
8.Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
9.Mythology by Edith Hamilton
10.I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

[Renee E]

Mark, since you liked Edith Hamilton's Mythology so well, have you read any of Joseph Campbell's works on mythology?

[Amy]

My favorite books are...(in order)

1.Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien
2.The Hobbit- JRR Tolkien
3.The Hunger Games triology- Suzanne Collins
4.Life of Pi- Yann Martel
5.With or Without You- Brian Fairey
6.The Host- Stephenie Meyer
7.To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
8.One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
9.Sacrifice- Cayla Kluver
10.City of Ashes- Cassandra Clare

[Stephen]

1. Bataille - The Story of the Eye
2. Calvino - Mr. Palomar
3. Long - Descent
4. McCarthy - Blood Meridian
5. Zola - Germinal
6. Haines - Notes from the Glacier
7. Merton - The Way of Chaung Tzu
8. Ackerman - A Natural History of the Senses
9. Dillard - Teaching a Stone to Talk
10.Eisely - The Night Country

[Alexis]

In no particular order and likely to change soon. . .

1)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -J.K. Rowling
2)Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
3)The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
4)The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
5)Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
6)Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
7)The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
8)IT - Stephen King
9)The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
10)Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

[Mark]

For mine, and there are some series' in there too, as it is too hard to appreciate a book without reading the whole series. In no particular order...

01. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
02. Raymond Feist's Empire Series (Servant, Mistress & Daughter)
03. Christopher Brookmyre - A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away.
04. Piers Anthony - For Love Of Evil (Book 6 of Incarnations of Immortality)
05. Terry Goodkind - Faith Of The Fallen (Book 6 of Sword of Truth)
06. Stephen King - It
07. George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords (Book whatever it is of you know what it is)
08. Peter David - Q Squared (Star Trek - Next Gen)
09. Garth Ennis - Preacher series
10. Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy

[Rob]

I must apologize in advance for the slaughter of the authors names Trying to do this from memory.

1 Everyday By David Levithan
2 24/7 by James Brown
3 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
4 Enders Game by Orsen Scott Card
5 Ender's Shadow by Orsen Scott Card
6 The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
7 Summer Island by Kristen Hannah
8 The Rangers Apprentice by John Flanagan
9 The Golden Compass By Philip Pullman
10 American Dreams by John Jakes

[Lia]

ill list top three
that i enjoy just cause
1)that was then this is now
2)exiles valor
3)havemercy

[Stephen]

Lia wrote: "ill list top three
that i enjoy just cause
1)that was then this is now
2)exiles valor
3)havemercy"

Who? Who are the authors?

[Christine]

Stephen wrote: "Lia wrote: "ill list top three
that i enjoy just cause
1)that was then this is now
2)exiles valor
3)havemercy"

Who? Who are the authors?"

Well, #1 is by S. E. Hinton. The other two come from fantasy series, but I don't remember which ones. (Try looking them up here on Goodreads!)

[Laura]

As of right now, in no particular order, but as with all, they are subject to change at a moment's notice!

11-22-63 - Stephen King
It - Stephen King
The Talisman series - Stephen King
Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
The Stormlight Chronicles - Brandon Sanderson
The Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothsfuss
The Oxford Time Travel Series - Connie Willis
The Farseer Series - Robin Hobb
The Deeds of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth Moon
The Night Angel Series - Brent Weeks

[Laura]

So so many faves but these are all books that have stuck with me over the years:

1. The Lord of the Rings -JRR Tolkien
2. The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. Tears of a Giraffe - Alexander McCall-Smith
4. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
5. Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
6. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
7. A Scandal in Bohemia(Sherlock Holmes) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
9. All HP books, but specifically the Goblet of Fire
10. Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

[Christopher]

The Game of Thrones Series (1st by far)
The Stand
It
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
(OK that's probably more than ten books in all...but thy are all so good!)

[Vickie]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lucifers Hammer
Little Women
Pride and Predjudice

can't narrow down any more at this time

[Elanna]

So painful. I will just think of ten of them and write them down without a second thought.

Ulysses - James Joyce
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
La Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust
The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The History - Elsa Morante
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm - George Orwell

I see only now that these are actually the ones I consider as the most important, more than the best written. The first five of them simply tick all the boxes :)

[Uthpala]

1.Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
2.Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
3.Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
4.Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
5.Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
6.The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
7.Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
8.Anthills of Savannah by Chinua Achebe
9.The Beach by Alex Garland
10.Unless by Carol Shield
If I am to remove the two memoirs here and add novels in their place,
.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
.Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
just finding an excuse to add more books :)

[Randall]

Let's see if I can do this. Not sure of the order, except Da Vinci Code at number one. I think it would be the following, though it might change over time:

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Timeline - Michael Crichton
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
Thr3e - Ted Dekker
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Eight - Katherine Neville
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

[Randall]

KryZad The Last Knight Templar wrote: "1. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
2. Inferno by Dan Brown
3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
4. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
5. Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. The Hobbit by J.R...."

The only one on this list I haven't read is The Godfather. Excellent taste in books I might say. A lot of these are in my top 10, and the others are very near the top as well. I'd say top 25 at the very least.

[Bob]

Subject (...of course...) to revision, new releases, vagaries of mood, etc., for as long as my eyes, my heart, and my brain hold out:

(1) "Labyrinths" -- by Jorge Luis Borges

(2) "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" -- by Lewis Carroll; since I have a copy where both books are published within the same binding, I've lumped them together...

(3) "The Odyssey" -- attributed to Homer

(4) "The Arabian Nights" -- the 1001 Tales, however titled; likely attributable to multiple storytellers

(5) "The Inferno" -- by Dante Alighieri. It's embarrasing to admit it, but I have never read any translation of the entire "Divine Comedy"; not yet, anyway...

(6) "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" -- by Samuel Clemens

(7) "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" -- by Italo Calvino

(8) "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" -- by Edgar Allen Poe. One of the earliest compilations.

(9) "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" -- by Jules Verne

(10) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" -- by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Saving People, Hunting Things~ The Family Business]

A Separate Peace
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Bartleby, the Scrivener
The Neverending Story
Black Boy
A Modest Proposal
The Freedom Writers
The Lorax
Death Note
Atados a una estrella

[Chloe]

Also
Oh The Places You'll Go
The Selection

[Damara]

In no particular order. May change . . . .

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
The Secret History - Donna. Tartt
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
Slouching toward Bethlehem - Joan Didion
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Germinal - Emile Zola
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

[Riverreed]

Jane Eyre, seriously? There were words in there I couldn't find in a dictionary.

[Catherine]

This was hard...and if I did the list, even ten minutes from now, it may even be different!!

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austin
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Swan Song - Robert McCammon
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski
Lightning - Dean Koontz
1984 - George Orwell
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

[Mochaspresso]

How do I make a list like this and keep it consistent, because it is bound to change as time passes. I think I am just going list the books that I think had the most profound impact on me at the time that I read them.

[Martin]

The White Company/Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (also many of his other Historical novels plus Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and his collections of short stories. Oh and Sherlock Holmes too.)
Shogun - James Clavell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt - Rosen & Oxenbury
Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
Hotel Transylvania - Chelsea Quinn Yabro
The Scheme of Things - Lester del Rey

[MightySSStrawberry]

It is always difficult choosing favorites no matter what category they are under. I agree that lists of favorites change, but there are those few that will always remain rock-solid on the list. I am also a writer, so some of my favorite books are favorites because of style, pace, character development, etc.

1. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
2. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
3. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. A Voice in the Wind - Francine Rivers
6. An Echo in the Darkness - Francine Rivers
7. As Sure as the Dawn - Francine Rivers
8. Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
9. Paradise Lost - John Milton
10. The Inferno - Dante Alighieri

[Ajay]

Infinite Jest
Dune
East of Eden
The Lord of the Rings
Ender's Game
The Stranger
A Storm of Swords
The Brothers Karamazov
The Art of War
Catch 22

[Delaney]

In no particular order:
1. Harry Potter series-J.K Rowling
2. Percy Jackson series-Rick Riordan
3. The Book Thief-Marcus Zusak
4. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac-Gabrielle Zevin
5. Shadow and Bone-Leigh Bardugo
6. Holes-Louis Sachar
7. Paper Towns-John Green
8. Because of Winn Dixie-Kate DiCamillo
9. Enclave- Ann Aguirre
10. Daughter of Smoke and Bone- Laini Taylor
Or at least these are some of my favourites

[[deleted user]]

"The Shining" Stephen King
"Black House" Stephen King & Peter Straub
"The Talisman" Stephen King & Peter Straub
"The Scarlet Pimpernel" Baroness Orczy
"Relic" Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
"The Godfather" Mario Pugo
"Of Mice & Men" John Steinbeck
"Kidnapped" Robert Louis Stevens
"The Hobbit" J.R.R. Tolken
"Arabian Nights" Kathryn Wesley
The list is actually quite a bit longer, but these are the top ten.

[Chappy]

percy jackson series
inheritance cycle
harry potters
song of ice and fire
demonata series
series of unfortunate events
myth adventure series
bartimaeus series
hunger games series
rangers apprentice series


add me. I like to meet new people

[Anum]

LOTR -J R R Tolkien
Throne of Glass- Sarah J Maas
Harry Potter - J K Rowling
The Clifton Chronicles - Jeffery Archer
The Mortal Instruments -Cassandra Clare
The Infernal Devices Cassandra Clare
The Bane Chronicles -Cassandra Clare
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations Charles Dickens

[Phillip]

Only ten. That is hard, especially since there can't be a single list of all time favorites because there are different kinds of favorites. It boggles my mind not to have Walden Pond on the list or The Big Year. But the limiter of ten means some beloved books will have to be left off. What about the Edgar Rice Burroughs of my youth or the philosophy texts of my undergraduate days. But here is my list at this minute.

1. Being and Nothingness, Sartre
2. Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
3. Silmarillion, Tolkien
4. Moby Dick, Mellvile
5. The Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
6. Paradise Lost, Milton
7. V: a novel, Pynchon
8. Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
9. Aunts aren't Gentlemen, Wodehouse
10. Carry on Jeeves, Wodehouse

[Tyler]

1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (entire series)
3. Animal Farm
4. Chronicles of Narnia (entire series)
5. Harry Potter (entire series)
6. Life of Pi
7. Thunder Below
8. The Caine Mutiny
9. Replay
10. Atlas Shrugged

After a year of reading I need to make some changes:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (entire series)
3. The Book Thief
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany
5. Harry Potter (entire series)
6. Chronicles of Narnia (entire series)
7. Life of Pi
8. Animal Farm
9. The Caine Mutiny
10. Atlas Shrugged

[Joyce]

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (JRR Tolkien)
2. Gone With the Wind (M. Mitchell)
3. Of Human Bondage (Somerset Maugham)
4. An American Tragedy (T Dreiser)
5. Anna Karenina (Tolstoi)
6. Animal Farm (Orwell)
7. The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
8. Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin)
9. The Godfather (M Puzo)
10. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

[Phillip]

1. Being and Nothingness
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. The Silmarillion
4. V: a novel
5. The Naked Lunch
6. Paradise Lost
7. The Inimitable Jeeves
8. Aunts aren`t Gentlemen
9. The Code of the Woosters
10. Change Anything

[Walter]

OK, so my top 10 do change, but as of now (in no particular order):

*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (trilogy), Douglas Adams
*The Collected Essays, Letters & Journalism of George Orwell
*Postwar, Tony Judt
*Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
*A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, A.E. Housman
*The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
*The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
*Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
*Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
*The Norton Anthology of English Poetry

[Diane]

Gone with the Wind
Lonesome Dove
The Stand
Lord of the Rings
1984
everything by John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club
Brave New World
Animal Farm
The Handmaiden's Tale

[Peregrin]

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The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien
Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card
Pride and Prejudice-Jan..."

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