Ten Favorite Novels

[eyemaker]

In no particular order, this is my Top 10

A Separate Peace
Pride and Prejudice
Father and Sons
A Tale of Two Cities
Master and Margarita
War and Peace
Dune
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment

[Sir Bartholomew]

Emma (Jane Austen)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
Women in Love (DH Lawrence)
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
The Great Gtasby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Ginger Man (JP Donleavy)
The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)

[Joreads]

There are a lot of Top books of all time lists around at the moment. I thought that it would be interesting to see what your top ten books of all time are.

[Dharmabeat]

I'm by no means a very experienced reader, but if I had to pick 10 of my favourite books I've read, they'd have to be these. Obviously in no order! (And they are rather clichéd choices, so please, no judging )

1. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
4. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
5. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffry Eugenides
6. Junky - William S. Burroughs
7. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
8. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
9. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
10. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

[Dark Muse]

Well here is my list based on the books I have read thus far.

1. The Magus ~ John Fowles
2. Catcher in the Rye ~ J. D. Salinger
3. The Red Tent ~ Anita Diamant
4. Island of the Blue Dolphin (I know it is a kids book but I read it like three times and it really stuck with me. I loved it.) ~Scott O'Dell
5. Middlesex ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Brontë
7. Rainbow ~ D.H. Lawrence
8. A Passage To India ~ E.M. Forster
9. The Legend of Nightfall (Yes it is fantasy, but I thought it was brilliant, and ranks among my faveorites) ~Mickey Zucker Reichert
10. Call of the Wild ~ Jack London

[Hank Stamper]

Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Hunter S Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt
Bret Easton Ellis - American Pyscho
Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels
Charles Bukowski - The most Beautiful Woman in town
John Fante - The Bandini Quartet
George Orwell - Down and out in Paris and London
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

[Dharmabeat]

Ah, I really like your choices Hank.

I keep meaning to check out 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test'.
Will do so soon hopefully

[tscherff]

sometimes a great notion--kesey
catch 22---heller
absalom, absalom--faulkner
sound and the fury--faulkner
world according to garp
to the lighthouse---woolf
in search of lost time---proust
crime and punishment---dostoevski
heart of darkness---conrad
ancient evenings---mailor

[_Shannon_]

Ugh I dunno--I like so many different kinds of books--and like books for so many different reasons...

How about a list of 10 books I like a lot ( I started making my list and decided that I'd have to do fiction and non-fiction)
Fiction
1. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
2. Sister Carrie- Theodore Dreiser
3. The Good Soldier- Ford Maddox Ford
4. Jane Eyre- Charolette Bronte
5. The Dharma Bums- Jack Kerouac
6. Pudd'nhead Wilsom- Mark Twain
7. Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
8. Sanctuary- William Faulkner
9. Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
10. Appoinment in Samarra - John O'Hara

Non-Fiction
1. Dispatches- Michael Herr
2. They Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien
3. Home Town - Tracy Kidder
4. Friday Night Lights- Buzz Bissinger
5. In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
6. There Are No Children Here- Alex Kotlowitz
7. Rocket Boys - Homer Hickam (all three of the "Coalwood" books are awesome)
8. Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
9. Wait "til Next Year- Doris Kearns Goodwin
10. Executioner's Song- Norman Mailer

[Hank Stamper]

Ah, I really like your choices Hank.

I keep meaning to check out 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test'.
Will do so soon hopefully

do it. its great!

[THEfanatic]

1. The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Candide - Voltaire
3. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
5. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
6. Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
7. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
8. A Doll House - Henrik Ibsen
9. Faust - Goethe
10. A Living Chattel - Anton Chekhov

[amalia1985]

This is STRICTLY my personal opinion. It may very well be wrong, okay?

In no particular order:

1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
4) A Passage To India by E.M.Forster
5) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
8) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
10) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

[Hank Stamper]

sometimes a great notion--kesey

great book

[Statistic]

1) Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
2) Blue Lagoon
3) The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
4) Dr. Rat
5) Treasure Island
6) Survivor
7) The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
8) Heroics for Beginners
9) The Book of Three
10) Angela's Ashes

I tend to stick to low brow texts because most literary stuff deals with common morals with which I almost never agree. Religion, guilt, honor, courage. Bah, I'd rather hear about a dog who can talk.

[Dark Muse]

This is STRICTLY my personal opinion. It may very well be wrong, okay?

In no particular order:

1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
4) A Passage To India by E.M.Forster
5) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
8) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
10) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

We have simillar taste in books. I acutally went back and forth with The Sun Also Rises, almost added to my last, glad to see someone else did.