Your Top 10 books!

[niko]

On 7/22/2018 at 3:07 AM, Megymoo said:

Not in any particular order:

 

Into the water Paula Hawkins. 

Christine Stephen King.

Lord of the Rings Series J.R.R Tolkien. 

Morganville Vampires Rachel Caine.

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 

A Monster Calls Patrick Ness 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou

The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 

the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 

It Stephen King. 

Oh, 'The Lord of the Rings' series is such a classic. I love it with all my heart!

[Limp]

Mario Puzo "The Godfather"
M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita"
James Joyce "Ulysses"
Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange"
Erich Maria Remarque "A Night in Lisbon", "Life to Live and Time to Die"
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Bernard Werber "The Empire of the Angels"

[itsmeagain]

I don't think I can do ten right now. Looking at it, I will commence with 

1. Crime and Punishment  by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

2. In the Eye of the Sun. Ahdaf Soueif..

TBC....😅 

Edited May 3, 2024 by itsmeagain

[EDDIE D]

Espedair Street Ian Banks

Wilt Tom Sharpe 

The Star’s Tennis Balls Stephen Fry

Gone Baby GoneDennis Lehane

Shutter Island Dennis Lehane

The Burglar Diaries Danny King

LA Requiem Robert Crais

Skin Tight Carl Hiaasen

The Green Mile Stephen King

Awakening Sharon Bolton

 

[Limp]

On 5/9/2024 at 2:54 AM, EDDIE D said:

Espedair Street Ian Banks

Wilt Tom Sharpe 

The Star’s Tennis Balls Stephen Fry

Gone Baby GoneDennis Lehane

Shutter Island Dennis Lehane

The Burglar Diaries Danny King

LA Requiem Robert Crais

Skin Tight Carl Hiaasen

The Green Mile Stephen King

Awakening Sharon Bolton

 

"The Star’s Tennis Balls " by Stephen Fry - Tough. Really tough. But as you keep reading, it draws you in...

[niko]

On 5/3/2024 at 1:44 AM, itsmeagain said:

I don't think I can do ten right now. Looking at it, I will commence with 

1. Crime and Punishment  by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

2. In the Eye of the Sun. Ahdaf Soueif..

TBC....😅 

‘Crime and Punishment’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I've read it. I love Russian classics!

[tzkay]

Smiley's People - J. le Carre

Fathers and Sons - Turgenev

Who has Seen the Wind - W.O. Mitchell

Dispatches - Michael Herr

Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow

Captive Mind - Czeslav Milosz

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington

Tears of Autumn - Charles McCarry

 

Some are favourites , some are significant  . Not always the same thing, y'know ?

 

 

[My OKR]

Payback Time - Phil Town

The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle

Justice - Michael J. Sandel

A Still Forest Pool - Ajahn Chah

Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer

[briber]

this is a hard choice. there are so many books I consider to be old friends who I visit and re-visit, but here goes.

 

1. Two Little Savages, by Ernest Thomas Seton.

I first read this 75 yrs ago and never forgot it. About 15yrs ago, walking round Dartmouth, as you do, I came across a second hand book shop and in the window was a copy of, 'Two Little Savages' I bought it and still find pleasure in it's contents.

2 Champion Road, by Frank Tilsley.

3 Armageddon, by Leon Uris.

4 Pilling Always Pays, by Thomas Armstrong.

5 Tinker, Sailor, Soldier Spy. by John LeCarre

6 Round The Bend, by Neville Shute. toss up between this one and A Town Like Alice. 

7The Cruel Sea, by Nicholas Monsarrat. 

8 The Caine Mutiny. Herman Wouk. selected if for no other reason than the showdown between the officer who defended the first mate and Keefer, the instigator of the mutiny.

9 Not As A Stranger, by Morton Thompson.

10 Officer Factory, by Hans Hellmut Kirst. translated from German.

 

I appreciate that most, in fact all, are old books probably way out of print. I obtained them over many years skulking in Charity Shops.

 

briber

[briber]

On 4/27/2024 at 12:20 PM, Limp said:

Mario Puzo "The Godfather"
M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita"
James Joyce "Ulysses"
Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange"
Erich Maria Remarque "A Night in Lisbon", "Life to Live and Time to Die"
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Bernard Werber "The Empire of the Angels"

 the Godfather ! nearly made it to my top ten.