List your Top 10 Books!

[Mellema]

Talking it Over - Julian Barnes
Bible Stories for Adults - James Morrow
Orphans of the Sky - Robert Heinlein
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
Anathem - Neal steephenson
Recluse series - L E Modesitt
Fool on the Hill - Matt Ruff
Going Postal - Stephen Jaramillo
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

[Kryssan]

In Fury Born - David Weber

Northworld Trilogy - David Drake

Encounter with Tiber - Buzz Aldrin

The Deed of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth Moon

Conquerors Trilogy - Timothy Zahn

The Hidden War - Michael Armstrong

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien/Zena Bernstein

Armageddon 2419 A.D. - Philip Francis Nowlan

Rama Revealed - Arthur C. Clarke

[Shalyn]

Not in any particular order:

Dune - Frank Herbert
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Chrysalids - John Wyndham
The White Plague - Frank Herbert
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys

God... University seriously made me hate reading A few of these were read when I was in junior high, but they really caught my imagination so I put them up.

Edit: Saw Sherlock Holmes mentioned! I haven't read the entire collection though, but it's up there too!

[Brill Weave]

Chico I just started reading the Alera series from Jim Butcher. I'm currently on Academ's Fury. Thoroughly enjoying them as well. I'm not really surprised because I like the Dresden novels as well.

[Dense]

1. Siddharta - Herman Hesse
2. Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson
3. Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy 5 part trilogy - Douglas Adams
4. Valis - Philip K. Dick
5. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
6. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
7. Black Elk Speaks - John Neihardt
8. Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
9. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
10. Dune - Frank Herbert

[Dense]

Not in any particular order:

Dune - Frank Herbert
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Chrysalids - John Wyndham
The White Plague - Frank Herbert
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys

God... University seriously made me hate reading A few of these were read when I was in junior high, but they really caught my imagination so I put them up.

Edit: Saw Sherlock Holmes mentioned! I haven't read the entire collection though, but it's up there too!

yay, a wyndham fan! Almost charted Triffids...

[Dense]

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.

No love for Cat's Cradle? As far as Vonnegut's style goes, Cat's Cradle characterises it perfectly. I'd even put Slaughterhouse and Breakfast of champions above Sirens. But Sirens is definitely better than Galapagos and Bluebird.

East of Eden is a cracking book.

[Dense]

i like books

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.

I should have charted that, but I can't think of books off of the top of my head anymore when making stupid lists. In fact, probably time for me to go back and re-read it now, as it has been 12 years o___O.

One and done, though, for Heller. I tried reading some of his other stuff, and it was all garbage...

[Acturus]

Fuck year. I used to think the only other Butcher fan on here was Elphaba(blech).

Psyched for the last Alera book in November, although I admit to a little trepidation since we've never seen Jim try to write an honest-to-god conclusion before, and he has a lot of threads to pull together. Even the best ending will be bittersweet though. I could read 20 books in this setting.

hey now, I'm one of the first replies, and I have a book from both series in my top 10.

[Deftscythe]

hey now, I'm one of the first replies, and I have a book from both series in my top 10.

I gave you a shout in my first reply to this thread.

Not going to post a list because my tastes are pretty much limited to sci-fi and fantasy, but ^5 to my fellow Butcher fans ITT even though Arcturus picked my least favorite Dresden.

[Suiram]

No love for Cat's Cradle? As far as Vonnegut's style goes, Cat's Cradle characterises it perfectly. I'd even put Slaughterhouse and Breakfast of champions above Sirens. But Sirens is definitely better than Galapagos and Bluebird.

East of Eden is a cracking book.

Sirens of Titan is also my favorite Vonnegut book. But really, that's just if you're asked to pick one. Really everyone should read all four of those lol

When I was about 13 or 14 a friend recommended Slaughterhouse Five to me, which I read and enjoyed so much that I read Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions immediately after. At that point I decided I should maybe branch out and read different authors, and I remembered a short story I had read in a class the year before that I'd enjoyed, and went back to find it to look up the author and any other works by him or her. Of course, when I found it, it turned out to be Harrison Bergeron so I just said "fuck it" and read Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. To this day he's still my favorite fiction writer.

[Dense]

Sirens of Titan is also my favorite Vonnegut book. But really, that's just if you're asked to pick one. Really everyone should read all four of those lol

When I was about 13 or 14 a friend recommended Slaughterhouse Five to me, which I read and enjoyed so much that I read Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions immediately after. At that point I decided I should maybe branch out and read different authors, and I remembered a short story I had read in a class the year before that I'd enjoyed, and went back to find it to look up the author and any other works by him or her. Of course, when I found it, it turned out to be Harrison Bergeron so I just said "fuck it" and read Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. To this day he's still my favorite fiction writer.

Ah yeah, forgot about Mother Night. I went through phases where Vonnegut was definitely my favourite, but he remains one of the writers that started to push my engaging of books into a different method. When I started reading Palahniuk, I was always marking him as the "new Vonnegut," but I no longer think that.

:D

[Acturus]

I gave you a shout in my first reply to this thread.

And it's now painfully obvious that I don't read replies as closely as I should.

[Brill Weave]

I think I'm one of the very few people who hate the Ender series. I think they are pure crap.

[Norellicus]

I think I'm one of the very few people who hate the Ender series. I think they are pure crap.

In what way?

Also don't lump Ender's Game with Ender's Shadow, they may be two sides of the same coin but they tell very different stories.

[aduidarnenye]

I think I'm one of the very few people who hate the Ender series. I think they are pure crap.

I second you on this. I recently listened to both of the series on audiobook (I use an iPod all day at work). I thought the first was okay, but silly. The thing with the kids felt like a gimmick the whole time and the big secret revealed to Ender at the end was totally obvious throughout the whole last half of the book. Also, the battles were really, really boring. The rest of the series was just Card prostelytizing his religious and political views in a heavy-handed way.


I'm also a big Wyndham fan. I loved 'The Crysalids'. I wish he had written more.

[Max™]

Ender's Game ruled, fuck the rest.

[aduidarnenye]

Oh, and I also thought Ender was massively emo. He was always going 'I'm Ender. My big brother was mean to me when I was five years old but I've never seen him since and this has damaged me for life. I'm way smarter than the rest of you and I have to kill the buggers. Oh poor me. Pity me and put up with my endless depression." He never manned up, but the rest of his jeesh did (and they only did it to promote Card's Mormon views).

[Max™]

That's why Ender rocked, as far as I know, the last thing I ever heard of that kid was he found out he murdered an entire race of aliens while he thought he was playing an awesome wargame.

The enemies gate is down.

[Trajan]

No love for Cat's Cradle? As far as Vonnegut's style goes, Cat's Cradle characterises it perfectly. I'd even put Slaughterhouse and Breakfast of champions above Sirens. But Sirens is definitely better than Galapagos and Bluebird.

East of Eden is a cracking book.

I haven't read Cat's Cradle yet, I plan on reading it now though lol. I do like Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions and Mother Night as well but I just love the way Vonnegut trivializes the whole point of human existence in Sirens.