List your Top 10 Books!

**MysteryMithra** · 2009-09-21 12:58

There is only one good book.

Jurassic Park.

**Mizango** · 2009-09-21 13:02

Originally Posted by BrillCS

I doubt your negrocity because you're white! Here's mine.

199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad

Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond: Haunted Places, Haunted Houses, Haunted People

The Ring, The Sword, and The Chalice series

Reign of the Dead

Apocalypse End: Reign of the Dead

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

Fantasic list man, I totally forgot about Max Brooks

Weave, lets go see Zombieland. Every time I see those promos I hate that you dont live closer lol.

No homo.

Originally Posted by Cream Soda

1-10: Soulja Boy Tell'em: from rags to riches.

Turn ur swag on dawg.

**Denchi** · 2009-09-21 13:06

ayn rand, puke.

#1 The Kid Who Climbed Everest - Bear Grylls

Sanoske · 2009-09-21 13:16

In no particular order:

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut

Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan (I can't choose one...)

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

World War Z - Max Brooks

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

In A Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson

Imaginary Parents - Sheila Ortiz Taylor

Inferno - Dante Alighieri

**The Stig** · 2009-09-21 13:17

The Bible

**Mizango** · 2009-09-21 13:18

Originally Posted by TheStig

The Bible

Kudos to you. I was beginning to wonder what was taking so long.

**Brill Weave** · 2009-09-21 13:21

Any time you want to take a ride up to Pittsburgh you'll have a place to crash. I'm still kind of torn about Zombieland. There are some guidelines that all zombie movies follow. The major one is if there is more than one hot chick that people have heard of, they are overcompensating for something. Right off the bat they have Amber Heard and Emma Stone. One is fine. Both is pushing it. They regained some cool points because Bill Murray has a cameo. But then they lost cool points because they got Jesse Eisenberg as the lead opposite Woody Harrelson and let's face it, Eisenberg is the poor man's Michael Sera. Then add on top of that the cool points they lost by actually casting Harrelson as the lead and they are way in the hole.

That being said I will probably still check it out since it is a zombie flick.

**Mizango** · 2009-09-21 13:34

Agreed 100%.

**The Stig** · 2009-09-21 13:39

Originally Posted by Mizango

Kudos to you. I was beginning to wonder what was taking so long.

We're missing the "other side", not implying anything however.

**Brill Weave** · 2009-09-21 13:46

We're missing the "other side", not implying anything however.

OH! OH! OH! OH! He means the Koran!

**Trajan** · 2009-09-21 14:01

In order:

1) East of Eden by Steinbeck (Really long but def the best book I have ever read)
2) The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut (Vonnegut's best book imo)
3) All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque

1984 and Animal Farm by Orwell are up there, Brave New World is as well, so are The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck but those three are my favorites.

**Shade** · 2009-09-21 14:13

Not necessarily in order, and man its hard to pick a favorite for some authors.

West of January - Dave Duncan
Villains by Necessity - Eve Forward
Deerskin - Robin McKinley
Catspaw - Joan D. Vinge
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Jhereg - Steven Brust
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Rocannon's World - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov

**Xajii** · 2009-09-21 14:29

i like books

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All time favorite. There are no words.

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Kudos to Sanoske or whoever who said it up there, great book, very well crafted narrative.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
As far as the distopian classics go, this has to be the best for me.

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
One of the better war books, captures the reality side of what Vonnegut had been looking into a lot with a more surreal lens.

The Dream Life of Sukhanov - Olga Grushin
Ex gf gave this book to me to read over the summer and I must say it is amazing, was written by a Russian lady who spoke English as her second language, but chose to write her novel in English anyway. Very beautifully written, captivating story, unique setting/subject. It's about a Russian artist who gave up his passions about art to become an extremely successful art critic, and his recollection of his troubling past through jarring dreams. Read it.

Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
One of my favorite non fiction (or almost non fiction) books I've read, takes the 1892 Chicago world's fair and puts it on its head, and almost reads like a novel. Well researched, well done.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A mastery of the "novella" to me- engaging tale with likable protagonist and unique perspectives on the future (and by extension the present).

Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
Maybe a cop-out as this isn't a novel or even really a "book" but a series of short stories, however Borges is one of the most diverse and talented writers of his place and time. The topics he writes on range from ancient history to science fiction, and he has a perfect grasp on the short narrative form.

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The fact that this was written when Mary was 19 plays a small part in how much I care about this book, because the idea of a young writer is inspiring to my own dreams, but I still think it was groundbreaking, and if you haven't read this, you should. This is a book I didn't realize how much I liked until I had to write a paper on it (this also happens to me with Shakespeare a lot).

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Another near-perfect "novella", and a testimony to the bad-ass of man. Not like, men in particular, but just humans. I'm saying this because Hemingway was a severe chauvinist. But anyway, the simple writing and determined protagonist make this one of my top choices, I guess.

**Dimmauk** · 2009-09-21 14:47

Originally Posted by TheStig

The Bible

Isnt that book the best selling Fiction book of all time?

**Meph** · 2009-09-21 14:50

Originally Posted by Dimmauk

Isnt that book the best selling Fiction book of all time?

according to wiki yeah, with the koran and the little red book in second

**Norellicus** · 2009-09-21 15:04

Originally Posted by Denchi

ayn rand, puke.

#1 The Kid Who Climbed Everest - Bear Grylls Opportunistic Fraud

Fixed.

I'd post a list but I have way too many books that I adore about equally. I can't number them fairly.

**Zilong** · 2009-09-21 15:12

Originally Posted by Dimmauk

Isnt that book the best selling Fiction book of all time?

Christians are ancient Scientologist?

**The Stig** · 2009-09-21 15:13

Originally Posted by Meph

according to wiki yeah, with the koran and the little red book in second

What's the little red book?

Nothing comes to mind.

**Max™** · 2009-09-21 15:15

Black Holes and Warped Spacetime (childhood)
The Trouble with Physics
The God Particle
50 Math Ideas You Should Know
Go Dog, Go (childhood)
1967 Encyclopedia Britannica Ma~Mp (childhood)
1967 Encyclopedia Britannica R (childhood)
Wikipedia
The Barbarians of Gor (childhood)
Years Best Science Fiction 18
Exultant

Not in any particular order, just the top 10 favorites that came to mind from my childhood and recently.

**Norellicus** · 2009-09-21 15:16

Originally Posted by TheStig

What's the little red book?

Nothing comes to mind.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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