Thread: What's your personal book-toplist?

Malazan Book of the Fallen
A Song of Ice and Fire
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay, and Tad Williams
Dune Chronicles
Discworld
Watership Down
The Decameron
Canterbury Tails
The Nibelungenlied
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Earthsea Sequence
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Needless to say, I have a lot of favorites.

Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones

it takes me the same amount of time to read one book as it does to read 3. i don't have the attention span to focus on one storyline at a time.

currently reading:
-Jane Eyre
-Dracula
-A Farewell to Arms (school assignment)
-Oliver Twist

this was 3 months ago and i still haven't gotten past the first few chapters of each. LOL

Lord of the Flies
State of Fear
God's Debris (Its a novella!)

I love Of Mice and Men. It's such a perfect book. Clockwork Orange comes very close.

For lighter reading any of the Flashman, Sharpe, Everworld series are great fun, too.

Gah, there are countless others I'd recommend but these are probably the best.

The Necroscope series. Very fantastic take on the whole vampire and humans with 'special' abilities thing.

Ethan Frome. It's sort of slow, but over all I really enjoyed the story.

Of Mice and Men. I hated that ending

Hannibal Rising. <3

The Gunslinger. Best book in the Dark Tower series.

Between Angels and Demons. Far more interesting then the Da Vinci code.

Originally Posted by Daeva

Of Mice and Men. I hated that ending

Because you thought it was sad or because you thought it was badly written?

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

Because you thought it was sad or because you thought it was badly written?

It wouldn't be on my list if I didn't think the ending was up to par due to bad writing, I just didn't want what happened to happen.

Just wondered.

Yeah, the ending wasn't the best possible result.

Ender/Shadow series - Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game is the best book ever)
Song of Fire and Ice - George RR Martin
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan (RIP )
The Bad Place/Watchers/House of Thunder/Lightning ect - Dean Koontz
The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind
Yes, I love fantasy.

Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

No Order

Harry Potter series (given)
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Godless - I forget
Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini

I can't decide if i like the "lord of the rings" series or "The Wheel Of Time" series by Robert Jordan more. in the Wheel of Time there is a dream world(called tel aran rhiod), and dreamwalkers(lucid dreamers). Bt theres obviously some major differences, lol.

Anyways i also like the Narnia chronicals by c.s. Lewis, that series(eragon, eldest, empire) by christopher paolini-but i know its definately not as well written as lotr, or Wheel of Time.
i liked jane eyre and pride and prejuduce.
the odyssey, books by shakespeare, Divine Comedy
I like a lot of books(i've read hundreds) in fact i like most books and i read lots of diff genres.

The books i hated were Alice in Wonderland, Women warrior, Joyluck Club, and Fedrick doulas' auto-biography-I had to read them for school.

I've read sooo many books over the years. Very, very few non-fiction. But I will tell you that one of my most-used books is the dictionary. It's my Bible.

I love to read, so I had to post here. I thought it was funny that I like everything on Dallian's list, except Phillip Pullman. Anyway, in no particular order, here is my list:

Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (guilty pleasure)

Also, everything C. S. Lewis has written (especially The Abolition of Man), and anything by Edgar Allan Poe.