Give me a list of your 10 favorite books

Discussion in 'The Bookshelf' started by The Nickatina, Dec 4, 2013.

  1. The alchemist

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  2. I like a lot of what I've seen here. Here's my input:
     
    1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    2. Jurassic Park
    3. Anthem
    4. All Quiet on the Western Front
    5. Elective Affinities
    6. Ender's Game
    7. Fahrenheit 451
    8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    9.The Andromeda Strain
    10. A Separate Reality
     
    I really like sci-fi hahah.
     
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  3. The church and the treasure
     
  4. Any 10 books by Kurt Vonnegut, Island, Brave New World, The Doors of Perception all by Huxley.
     
     
     
    No Animorphs?!
     
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  5. In no particular order.

    Island by Aldous Huxley
    1984 by George Orwell
    Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
    'The Vampyre', 'Deliver Us From Evil' and 'Supping With Panthers'a series by Tom Holland
    Misery and The Shining by Steven King
    Dune by Frank Herbert

    And that's about all I can think of right now.
     
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  6. I cannot be disputed that the Harry Potter series is worth a read, but everyone and their mother has read them so I won't include that.

    Some of my favourite books are;

    The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Robopocalypse
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    There's a book about Paris that I loved but I can't remember it's name.
    No bugles, No drums was a good one.
     
  7. In totally random ass order here is my list.


    98.6 Degrees the art of keeping your ass alive by Cody Lundin
    When all hell breaks loose the stuff you need to survive (again) by Cody Lundin
    The self sufficiency bible. by Simon Dawson.
    Misery by Steven King
    IT (again) by Steven King
    The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
    A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
    Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
     
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  8. gonna cheat a lil here and do more books, categorized by fav authors


    anything Shakespeare (ok not really books but they come in book form, so there!)
    anything Tolkien
    Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    all the GoT (Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin
    Otherworld series by Tad Williams
    Merlin series by Mary Stewart
    Caesar series by Colleen McCullough

    Watership Down and Maia by Richard Adams
    The Once and Future King by T.H. White
    The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (rest of the series was meh)
    Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (rest of the series was meh)
    Millennium series (Girl/Dragon Tattoo) by Stieg Larsson
    The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning


    yeah i went over count...i was never good with recognizing boundaries..lol...lucky y'all got off that easy, much as i read!...





     
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  9. heaven and hell- Huxley
    season in hell- Rimbaud
    be here now- ram dass
    psychedelic experience- leary
    naked lunch- burroughs
    existentialism for beginners
    communist manifesto- marx
    breakfast of champions- Vonnegut
    alice in wonderland- carrol
    dharmapadda- buddha
     
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  10. Harry Potter series, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Stick Up Kids, and Whiteout.


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  11. In no particular order aside from the first three:

    House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist
    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (really the whole o.g quartet)
    Prey by Michael Chrichton
    Otherland by Tad Williams
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
    Chronic City by Jonathan Letham
    the Myst trilogy by Rand and Robyn Miller
     
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  12. Most of mine are science fiction. Amazing science fiction.

    The Mote In God's Eye
    Hyperion Cantos(best book ive read)
    Foundation
    Dune
    Shogun
    Shantaram
    The Name of the Wind
    Spin
    Rendevous With Rama
    Ubik

    Etc etc I could go on and on.
     
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  13. Check out Hyperion by Dan Simmons
    Rendezvous With Rama - Clarke
    Foundation Series - Asimov
     
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  14. In no particular order:

    No Treason: A Constitution of No Authority - Lysander Spooner
    For a New Liberty - Murray Rothbard
    Economics In One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
    FREEDOM! - Adam Kokesh
    Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Hobbitt - J.R.R. Tolkien
    A Song of Fire and Ice - George R.R. Martin
    The Most Dangerous Superstition - Larken Rose
    The Creature From Jekyll Island - G. Edward Griffin
    Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand




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  15. Liberty Defined - Ron Paul
    Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
    A People without a Country (A book about Kurdistan)
    Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
    Socialism - Ludwig von Mises
    The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
    Art of War - Sun Tzu
    Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
    The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
    The Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
    The Dhammapada/ Tao Te Ching
     
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  16. Where to go for a free fuck?
    Eat, Run, Stay Fit and Die anyway
    You give me six weeks and I'll give you some bad disease
    Why You should never mumble with a Policeman
    The Stains in your shorts can indicate your future
    Earn big money while sitting in your car trunk
    Where to take a short woman
    I Gave Up Hope, And It worked Just fine
    Why you should never yodel during an electrical storm
    Why you must never give your self a neck operation
    Lightweight summer ensembles to wear on the toilet
    Why you should not sit more than six weeks in your own filth.


    Are just of some my favourite classics
     
  17. If you're into machine-pistol toting vampires, harley-riding dusters, kung-fu babes, gang wars and the archetype of cool, cig-smoking, one-liner dealin' protagonist, the very best out there is the Joe Pitt series by Charlie Huston. Starts off with Already Dead. It's got the best characters, the best violence, the best sex and the most gripping romance story underneath it all

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    Lots of punk, depravity and graham greene going on
     
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  18. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

    The Stand by Stephen King

    Between Here and the Yellow Sea by Nic Pizzolatto

    Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

    The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

    Dubliners by James Joyce

    Heart of Darkness

    Catcher in the Rye

    IT

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Salem's Lot

    Lovecraft overall, anything Lehane, plenty of King, idfk



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  19. I read almost every day. The books I enjoy most are Sci fi.
    I highly recommend these fine reads. Well in my opinion.
    The expanse book series.
    The passage
    The 12
    Halo series
    The long earth series (who dosent like a read that sets you stepping across parralell world's!)
    The stand
    Heavens shadow series
    The Tommy knockers
    The Martian

    Dammit there's so many good reads and I can't for the life of me think of many... lol
     
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  20. It's really hard to choose ten, but here goes, in no particular order. It's like choosing from among my children, though, so there are a number of other books that could equally be on this list.

    The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.
    The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
    The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance
    Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
    A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
    What's Bred in The Bone by Robertson Davies
    The Metamorphoses by Apuleius of Madaura
    Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
    1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle
    Words of My Roaring by Robert Kroetsch
     

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