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..

[pokilty]

Nobody mentioned The Davinci Code yet!

[badassbob]

The only four books i've read since I left school: Harry Potter Fight Club The Hobbit The Outsiders

[Super Duck]

Oh dear God. I have no idea of the order onf mine so I'll just name them in a randomly ordered list. The Egde Chronicles (last one comes out soon ) The Dream Merchant Raven's Gate (I think the series was called Poer Of Five) To Kill a Mockingbird The Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit Books (or at least when i was a kid) The Spiderwick Chronicles (again, when i was a bit younger) The Magician's House Series(again, when i was a bit younger, lol)

[Bayside]

All of the Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling of course.... The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton The Time of the Doves - Merce Rodereda In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe The Colour Purple - Alice Walker That's all that comes to mind for the minute, I've never been much of a reader until lately....

[Burns]

Harry Potter series Lord of the Rings series Any Dean Koontz novels

[Identity X]

Water Margin / Outlaws of The Marsh - Luo Guanzhong Romance Of The Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong Tentatively (after twenty pages): Journey To The West - Wu Cheng'En Wild Swans - Jung Chang I'm not Chinese by the way.

[Mrs. Jones]

most everything i start reading doesn't get finished. i have a short attention span, or maybe it's my shit reading comprehension skills. -HP, duh. the rest are in no particular order. -Alice in Wonderland -Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison (nothing really happens, but very funny.) -Junie B. Jones, by Barbara Park i think, back when i was 7 or so. -Anastasia/Sam Krupnik series, by Lois Lowry -Tom Robbins, esp. Jitterbug Perfume (i've never finished his books, i don't have the patience. theyre good nonetheless) -Dan Brown -Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus -i forget -Godless, by Pete Hautman -Gail Carson Levine -David Bowie biographies....

[Howie]

Remember when the Blue Meanie received money for his birthday to spend on all the books he wanted? That post has a great list of good good books. But I could not find it. 1.Harry potter Harry Potter series Lord of the Rings series Any Dean Koontz novels Did you read Intensity? - awesome

[Dallian]

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 1984 - Orwell Othello - Shakespeare Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis Phantastes - George MacDonald Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis His Dark Materials trilogy - Phillip Pullman Pippi Longstocking stories by Edgar Allen Poe novels by Ted Dekker There's more, I know it, but then again I couldn't be expected to remember all of my favorite books.

[Xox]

Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling True To The Game - Teri Woods If You Come Softly & Miracles Boys - Jacqueline Woodson Oedipus - Sophocles Money Power Respect - Erick S. Gray Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume Finding Home - ? Cant Think Of Anything Else...

[Liquidnine]

Hmm nobodys into any science fictionesque books? Anyway: I Am legend - Richard matheson Perdido Street Station - China Mieville The Scar - China Mieville Ubik - Philip K Dick Coyote Series - Allen Steele The City And The Stars - Arthur C. Clarke Dune Series - Frank Herbert

[wannywan]

Ah, Liquidnine, a fellow norn iron inhabitant! Where are you from? Anyway, on with the books. 1984 His Dark Materials The Dark Tower series Lord of the Rings (including The Silmarillion etc.) The Time Traveller's Wife Anne Rice's Vampire series Any Terry Pratchett novel A Tale of Time City Arthur C Clarke's short stories Loads more I can't think of right now.

[zoo york is cool]

Well I've read a couple Harry Potter, but I'm into horror. I read Stephen King books and Dean Koonts. My favorite stories are: Firestarter Cujo Thomas Odd Christine Salems Lot

[Amethyst Star]

Anything by Robin Hobb! Dune series Harry Potter series Chronicles of Narnia Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevskii I also used to like Robin McKinley until she wrote that traversty "Sunshine". She really let me down with that one I don't think she really wrote anything after that... not that I've been interested to find out. I loved "The Hero and the Crown" and "The Blue Sword," though. They're not "blow your mind" good, but they're enjoyable if you like fantasy.

[SurvivorKylie]

Lots of Harry Potter fans, then? Rumor has it that JKR is writing another book now-- detective crime novel. We'll see how that turns out. My favorites... in no particular order. Anything by Trudi Canavan-- (Age of Five trilogy, Black Magician trilogy) Harry Potter Lord of the Rings Anything by Micheal Crichton (Timeline is my fav) A Prayer for Owen Meany Memoirs of a Geisha (didn't like the movie, love the book) Ender's Game / Shadow Most books by John Grisham

[pyroguy305]

No particular order... -A Song of Ice and Fire series -Lord of the Rings Trilogy -Children of Hurin -The Count of Monte Cristo -Treasure Island -Robinson Crusoe -1984

[mr.faded_glory]

Anything By Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell and Stephen king

[Alban]

1. The Wheels of Commerce - Fernand Braudel 2. Plough, Sword and Book - Earnest Gelner 3. Globalization and its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz 4. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 5. Anything by Dostoyevsky Very dry, I know, but it counterbalances my general shallowness

[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