What's your personal book-toplist?

[stuetzl]

I've been searching for a thread like this, but there is none. Therefore, I feel urged to start one. As the title says, I'm curious about your personal book-toplist. Please post, to keep it a bit in an order, title of the book and the autho. Here we go, my personal one without a particular order: Harry Potter Series (obviously ) - Joanne K. Rowling (OK that's a cheap one, now we're getting serious...) Otherland - Tad Williams The Dark Tower - Stephen King The Dragoncrone War Cycle - Michael A. Stackpole Dark Elf Series - R.A. Salvatore Wit'ch Series - James Clemens Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Tales of the Otori Trilogy - Lian Hearn Die Dunkle Zeit (german for "The Dark Time/Age")- Markus Heitz

[stuetzl]

does nobody read books?

[nina]

I think this is a good topic. I sorta have strange taste in books...in that, my reading style is all over the place. Up until the last year I actually hardly ever read, and I didn't enjoy it...and anything that I did read was nonfiction. I guess I had this stupid idea that since I'm such a creative person and am often living in a fantasy world anyway, that I don't need to read fiction. PLUS...I think I've had a negative view of reading because of being forced to do book reports in school. However...last September...on a flight to Sweden I picked up a really cheap book in the airport called Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. I thought it sounded interesting so I read it. I've never been able to finish a book...but I actually really liked it...and it got me into reading fiction again which is great. Plus...I love the Harry Potter movies...but I hadn't read any of the books, and I kept asking my friend what was going on in the movie when we were watching it because somethings didn't make sense and he kept saying "you'd have to read the book" ...so I listened to Order of the Phoenix on audio tape. Loved it! Then listened to all the HP books on audio. =) Sooo...here's my list...(keeping in mind that I've only been reading fiction for a year now) ...in no particular order - Harry Potter books - The Hobbit - Wicked - Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo - Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting (awesome non-fiction self help type of book) - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (I got this because I loved Wicked but am having ALOT of trouble getting into it, and I've had it for several months now) - Septimus Heap Magyk - was ok - Catcher in the Rye - The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (esp. Alice in Wonderland) All the other books I've read are about polymer clay, design, or software manuals heh.

[Oneironaut Zero]

In no particular order: -Memnoch the Devil (Anne Rice) -The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice) -Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice) -Brimstone (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) -Dance of Death (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) -The Holographic Universe (Michael Talbot) -Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Movie Magazine) -The Death and Life of Superman (Roger Stern) -A Lawyer Presents a Case for the Afterlife (ebook by Victor Zammit) -Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) -The Lost World (Michael Crichton)

[Elwood]

-The Shannara Series, best books ive ever read. -The Hobbit -The Halo books Thats about it ive read, 5 Shannara books 600 pages with small lettering. I read the first part of a tom clancy book but it was sorta hard to understand but i was in 5th grade.

[Snooze]

ugh, this sucks, all the books titles are translated in finland. so i just got to sum it up, I like most of King's books; Town of despair n such. Then the book about the life of Frank McCourt, it MIGHT be named Angelas Ashes since the movie of the book is titled that. umm, ill add more when I remember more, its a while since i read any books on my free time , school books take most of the time..

[telaranrhiod walker]

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.

[Oneironaught]

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.

[strinky]

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.