Michelle Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Ok, I have a tough one for you - as we're 10 years old in July, I want to know your Top 10 books... of all time! To make it easier, you don't have to give them any order, you can include a series as one selection, and it's up to you what criteria you use. So the challenge is set - tell us your Top 10 books! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timstar Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Great question! Without thinking too much about it and in no pariticular order: The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Stand - Stephen King The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien A Song of Ice and Fire - GRR Martin Gentlemen B*stards - Scott Lynch Tales of the Ketty Jay - Chris Wooding IT - Stephen King Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Red Country - Joe Abercrombie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Here goes......My current (subject to change as time passes) top ten are; Gone To Soldiers by Marge PiercyHis Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip PullmanNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman Earthly Powers by Anthony BurgessNeuromancer by William Gibson Judas Child by Carol O'Connell Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Septimus Heap Series by Angie SageThe Tiffany Aching Series by Terry Pratchett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Mine are currently (in no particular order): (but honestly, it's so hard to narrow it down ..) Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson - The Wheel of Time series Peter F. Hamilton - The Night's Dawn series Diane Chamberlain - The Midwife's Confession Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper Stephen King - IT Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic series Sinéad Moriarty - Emma Huntington series David B. Coe - The Lontobyn Chronicles series James Clemens - The Banned and the Banished series Ann M. Martin - The BabySitter's Club series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 To make it easier, you don't have to give them any order, you can include a series as one selection, and it's up to you what criteria you use. Nope, that didn't make it any easier After much agonising . . . A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought series) by Vernor Vinge Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel Replay by Ken Grimwood The War of the Worlds by H G Wells The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson Dune by Frank Herbert The Reality Dysfunction / The Neutronium Alchemist / The Naked God (Night's Dawn trilogy) by Peter F Hamilton I Am Legend by Richard Matheson The Winter King / Enemy of God / Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles) by Bernard Cornwell And now I'll go and fret about all those I had to drop from the list (especially David Gemmell and Alastair Reynolds ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 And now I'll go and fret about all those I had to drop from the list (especially David Gemmell and Alastair Reynolds ) Awww You can always go and post here To make amends. Great topic, Michelle, I will come back later with my own answers. It might take a while... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 (edited) I've cheated a bit and slipped a couple of series in. If that's not allowed I'll restrict it to the first book in each series, which I've written in, and book 3 of HP below) Most of these are subject to change, so ask me again in 6 months time! Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Different Seasons - Stephen King Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Saga of the exiles (Book 1: The Many-coloured Land) - Julian May Pride & Predjudice - Jane Austen Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte It - Stephen King The Wind in the willows - Kenneth Graham Harry potter series - (...and the Prisoner of Azkaban) JK Rowling Edited April 28, 2015 by ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell Valley of the Dolls- Jacqueline Susann For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemmingway The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck A Scanner Darkly- Phillip K. Dick Man's Search for Meaning- Viktor E. Frankl Night- Elie Wiesel The Thorn Birds- Colleen McCullough Hiroshima- John Hersey Prozac Nation/ More, Now, Again- Elizabeth Wurtzel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Aaagh, I have 15! I'm going to write them in order of how great I thought they were and will see how it goes! Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks The Light Between Oceans - M.L Stedman Me Before You - Jojo Moyes Jellybird - Lezanne Clannachan Night Road - Kristin Hannah Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks That was sooooo hard!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Wow, lots of great and varied lists here! Here's mine, in no particular order: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Dracula by Bram Stoker Harry Potter JK Rowling (entire series) The Devil in the White City Erik Larson Ack, that was so difficult! The first eight spots were filled very quickly, but narrowing the rest down for the last two spots was difficult. I can't wait until BCF turns 20...then I won't be so restricted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck East of Eden – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway For Whom The Bells Toll – Ernest Hemingway Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens The Border Trilogy – Cormac McCarthy Some that I hate to leave off the list, but that may change by the time BCF hits 15 yrs old.: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman The House of Spirits – Isabelle Allende Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 A little bit of thinking required for this one! I *think* mine would be: The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton Persuasion by Jane Austen Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Suzanna Clarke Quartet In Autumn by Barbara Pym The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber Findings by Kathleen Jamie The order is just based on when I read them going from oldest to most recent, and I've limited myself to one book per author, otherwise it would have been a whole list of Ali Smith and Jane Austen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 So difficult and this won't be entirely accurate but it's close enough Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf Would have also included Crime and Punishment, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, Dracula, The Book Thief, I Capture the Castle, Gold, The Night Circus and the Thursday Next series if I could have stretched it out further and on another day .. any of these (and more) could replace any of the above. It's too hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 This was really difficult. The first four were easy but then it got really really tough going (The first four are my favorites, and they are in a chronological order of reading, and then the next 6 titles are in their own chronological order:) Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind Sofi Oksanen: Purge Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain Mary Roach: Stiff Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life Graeme Simsion: The Rosie Project (and the series) Subject to change should one ask me the same thing in a month.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 This is really tough, but I'll give it a try! In no particular order, my top ten books are: The Stand by Stephen King The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis (with the exception of A Horse and His Boy - I'm not keen on that one) The Plucker: An Illustrated Novel by Brom The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Ronia, The Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren A Room With A View by E M Forster The Princess Bride by William Golding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke This is going to be on BBC soon - a new TV series! Looking forward to seeing it. I've been meaning to read the book, but the programme looks pretty awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Ooh, this was very difficult, but here's my list (in no particular order) The Stand - Stephen King IT - Stephen King The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Life of Pi - Yann Mantell I've read all of these more than once, bar The Grapes of Wrath, which I read for the first time last year. There are a few on there that I plan to re-read soon, namely The Pillars of the Earth and A Short History of Nearly Everything, and maybe The Stand (which I have read a ridiculous number of times). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 My top 10 are . . . The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Empire trilogy by Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Magician by Raymond E. Feist Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie World War Z by Max Brooks The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson This was so hard! If you asked this again in six months I wonder how many of us would have completely different lists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 This is going to be on BBC soon - a new TV series! Looking forward to seeing it. I've been meaning to read the book, but the programme looks pretty awesome! I cannot wait!! I'm going to make a cake ready for the launch The book will get a lot of promotion (and a new cover ) which is great .. it deserves to be widely (or wildly ) read imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 10 International: Riotous assembly - Tom Sharpe Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 1984 - George Orwell Matilda - Roald Dahl Crime and punishment - Fyodor Dostoyewsky Child 312 - Hand-Ulrich Horster And then there were none - Agatha Christie Hamlet - William Shakespeare Candide - Voltaire The process - Franz Kafka 10 Swedish: The locked room - Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö The father - August Strindberg Doctor Glas - Hjalmar Söderberg Statsrådet och döden (The minister and death) - Bo Balderson The dying detective - Leif G.W. Persson The laser man - Gellert Tamas The girl with the dragon tattoo - Steig Larsson Seacrow island - Astrid Lindgren Kallocain - Karin Boye Women and apple trees - Moa Martinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page turner Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 wow you don't realize how many books are your favourite until you have to choose... The tomorrow series - John Marsden Matilda - Roald Dahl Inkheart - Cornelia Funke Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Charlotte's web - EB White The Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde Jack West Jr series - Matthew Reilly The Troy game series - Sara Douglass Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon There are probably another half a dozen that I would add if I could but these were the first to come to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I'm probably going to end up coming back and editing this post several times, but for now... Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (yes, it's a play, but one of my favourite 'stories') Inkheart - Cornelia Funke The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Paper Towns - John Green The Coldfire Trilogy - C. S. Friedman A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The Magicians - Lev Grossman Out Of Nowhere - Gerard Whelan Oh god that was hard. There are another 6 books I had to really fight myself on, but the above are all books/stories I've re-read multiple times, and I took that as my final deciding condition. I *might* replace The Book Thief with either To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris or with Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer. Or even with The Painted Man by Peter Brett. But I've only read each of those once, and they're sort of favourites-in-waiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Only ten.........? OK, here goes. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Look At the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov The Untouchable by John Banville Malevil by Robert Merle Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino Outlander (the series) by Diana Gabaldon Fortune's Favorites (one of the Masters of Rome series) by Colleen McCullough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (yes, it's a play, but one of my favourite 'stories') Now I see you've put a play on your list, I'm thinking of updating my list already! Maybe I should've included Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Now I see you've put a play on your list, I'm thinking of updating my list already! Maybe I should've included Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw … I considered Picture Of Dorian Gray just to include a novel, but I figured meh, it's not my favourite Oscar story, Earnest is. So meh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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