Male Top 10 favourite books and Female Top 10 favourite books

[Dark Lady]

Since the title calls for people's favourite books and not the ones they think contain the best writing (and the two are not the same) I will be completely honest and to hell with my guilty pleasures being known. This is list is subject to change (and would probably be different tomorrow and would have been different yesterday) but right now:

Female

In alphebetical order of writer ('cause I'm that kind of geek);

Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Dickens, Charles Bleak House
Eliot, George Middlemarch
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
Niffenegger, Audrey The Time Traveller's Wife
Safran Foer, Jonathan Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Woolf, Virginia Mrs Dalloway


Also, I have stuck to novels because to add plays etc would have made it too complicated.

[rimbaud]

Which would be the best?? Crime and punishment?? Anyway, Dostoyevsky was a real genious. It´s really difficult to choose "the greatest masterpiece".

well if I HAVE to choose i'd say The brothers Karamazov
it's the best for me

[SupaStudy]

Might as well throw an 18 year old's favorites into the mix, I'm not ashamed of having less than refined tastes ;p
(in no particular order)

The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Dark Tower (series) - Stephen King
The Divine Comedy (trilogy) - Dante Alighieri
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Protector of the Small (quartet) - Tamora Pierce
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams
Its Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

Just to point it out, the Dark Tower series is quite engrossing and really beautiful; maybe Stephen King is a bit commercial and a lot of his horror can be campy, but if you put aside those prejudices you really find The Dark Tower series (which is non-horror btw) is something new and great.
As far as gender differences, I'm not sure if there will be a huge change. For instance I put the Protector of the Small series which I've always loved, and that's about as feminist as you get (as far as modern medieval/fantasy goes).

[bigben]

Karamozov
Huckleberry Finn
East of Eden
O Pioneers
Anna Karenina
The Old Man and the Sea
Franny and Zooey
Eugene Onegin
Quiet Flows the Don
The Sea Wolf

[Barbarous]

Might as well throw an 18 year old's favorites into the mix, I'm not ashamed of having less than refined tastes ;p
(in no particular order)

The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Dark Tower (series) - Stephen King
The Divine Comedy (trilogy) - Dante Alighieri
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Protector of the Small (quartet) - Tamora Pierce
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams
Its Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

Just to point it out, the Dark Tower series is quite engrossing and really beautiful; maybe Stephen King is a bit commercial and a lot of his horror can be campy, but if you put aside those prejudices you really find The Dark Tower series (which is non-horror btw) is something new and great.
As far as gender differences, I'm not sure if there will be a huge change. For instance I put the Protector of the Small series which I've always loved, and that's about as feminist as you get (as far as modern medieval/fantasy goes).

Great choices. I love the Dark Tower series as well and Invisible Man is the definition of the American novel.

[The Comedian]

Male

Walden
Watchmen
Desert Solitaire
Arctic Dreams
My Antonia
Lord of the Rings
Odyssey
Republic
The River Why
Lonesome Dove

[andave_ya]

female

The Bible
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Busman's Honeymoon (ditto)
Lord Peter (also ditto)
Collected Poems by Yeats
The Brothers Karamazov
Modern British Poetry (compiled by Louis Untermeyer)

Those are the top of my list. More later.

[Mariamosis]

I am of the female gender and my top 10 would have to be:

'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens
'Germinal' by Emile Zola
'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Mysterious Island' by Jules Verne
'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck
'The Mayor of Casterbridge' by Thomas Hardy
'King Solomon's Mines' by H. Rider Haggard
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' by Mark Twain
'The Sirens of Titan' by Kurt Vonnegut
'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[bazarov]

Male

Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Selimović - Dervish and The Death
Hugo - Les Miserables
The Bible

[My name is red]

well if I HAVE to choose i'd say The brothers Karamazov
it's the best for me

The brothers karamazov is like something bigger than a novel.i agree with you,i can't even compare it with the other dostoyevskis i've read.

[Delarge]

The brothers karamazov is like something bigger than a novel.i agree with you,i can't even compare it with the other dostoyevskis i've read.

I completely agree. The Brothers Karamazov is in it's own league. You can't explain it, you got to read it!

[rimbaud]

I completely agree. The Brothers Karamazov is in it's own league. You can't explain it, you got to read it!

and that's why he's the king
hahaha
i kinda yelled this after I first read the book

[Dimitra]

Female.
Journey to the End of the Night
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
In search of Lost Time
Wuthering Heights
The Sound and the Furry
Lolita
The Myth of Sisyphus
Dune
The Foundation Series
and..the HP series. lol

my taste is kinda..diverse.

[Griffith]

'Germinal' by Emile Zola

Great book, indeed. I have forgotten the great Emile Zola.

About the Dostoevsky discussion, someone thinks that Notes from underground has been hyped for a long time?? I´m not saying it´s bad but if you compare with The possessed, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and Notes from the House of the Dead the book is going to look clearly inferior. Even so, it´s incommensurably superior than any work of Kafka or other deceiver.

[rimbaud]

Great book, indeed. I have forgotten the great Emile Zola.

About the Dostoevsky discussion, someone thinks that Notes from underground has been hyped for a long time?? I´m not saying it´s bad but if you compare with The possessed, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and Notes from the House of the Dead the book is going to look clearly inferior. Even so, it´s incommensurably superior than any work of Kafka or other deceiver.

well, I wouldn't agree
I agree on that Dostoevsky is the best for me, and many others, the man is a genious, no one can deny, but to say that his "compared to the others inferior work" is still "incommensurably superior than any work of Kafka or other deceiver" is just wrong
you can express your opinion without forcing it on the others, this is online literature forum, which means that there are fans of Dostoevsky as well there are fans of Kafka.