Top 10 favourite books

[HeyWayne]

Following on from another thread I started, I thought I'd join the trend of "top 10 favourite" threads.

Mine are (in no particular order)

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
The Ayre Affair - Jasper Fforde (I quite like Jasper Fforde)
Insomnia - Stephen King
The Portable Door - Tom Holt
Rose Madder - Stephen King (quite like him too)
Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
The Dark - James Herbert
The Fourth Procedure - Stanley Pottinger

[OverWyreGrower]

The Portable Door - Tom Holt

Oooo, great book!

[laura g]

Following on from another thread I started, I thought I'd join the trend of "top 10 favourite" threads.

Mine are (in no particular order)

Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
The Ayre Affair - Jasper Fforde (I quite like Jasper Fforde)

Wow!! actually found someone else who is a Thursday Next fan!!!! I'm obsessed by them but it is SO hard to recommend them to anyone because they are hard to describe. Have you read the nursery crime/jack spratt books???

Counting down the days till First Among Sequels!

Now have to go thinking about my top 10. Blummin difficult. Worse than music!

[Mrs Dobby]

Hmm, only 10!!!!!!!!

In no particular order then

Watership Down - Richard Adams
Dune - Frank Herbert
Boudicca - Dreaming the Hound - Manda Scott (2nd part of a brilliant quadrilogy)
Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell (2nd part of the Warlord (Arthurian) Chronicles)
The Stand - Stephen King
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen R Donaldson
Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey - so difficult to choose which one of her books, they are all soo good!

[OverWyreGrower]

Can't do this!

Blah! Can't possibly pick only 10 books!

Am going to pick 10 favourite authors instead!

Terry Pratchett - a man of absolute genius and wit
Tom Holt
Robert Jordan
Kathy Reichs
Karin Slaughter
Alexander McCall Smith
Harlen Coben
Lee Child
Poppy Z Brite
Patricia Cornwell

I'll happily sit down with pretty much anything they've ever written!

[laura g]

Here we go. although seeing other people's lists have set me thinking: i've no bernard cornell! Or douglas adams! or jeffrey deaver!

Jasper Fforde – The Eyre Affair
Enid Bagnold – National Velvet
Noel Streatfeild – The Growing Summer
Diana Pullein Thompson - 3 Ponies and Shannon
Susan Cooper – The Dark is Rising (best childrens books written EVER imo)
Alexander Frater – Beyond the Blue Horizon
Eleanor Brent-Dyer – Jo Returns to the Chalet School (Love all CS books)
Audrey Niffenburger - Time Travellers Wife
HE Bates - Darling Buds of May (I want to live in this series of books)
Clive Cussler - the Meditteranean Caper (yay! vintage dirk pitt)

[muckdiva]

Good thread Heywayne, but difficult

I'd go for
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Talking to the Dead, Helen Dunmore
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Diary of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain
Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor
and for sentimental reasons,
Shane Rides out from Berkeley, Ed Hattam (my dad).... never published

[moggssue]

Hmm, can I stick to authors as well ....

Anne Rice
Patricia Cornwell
Harlen Coben
Robert Goddard
Karin Slaughter
Terry Pratchett
Stephen King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Stephen Baxter
Jeffrey Deaver
and about 100 others!!!!

[HeyWayne]

Wow!! actually found someone else who is a Thursday Next fan!!!! I'm obsessed by them but it is SO hard to recommend them to anyone because they are hard to describe. Have you read the nursery crime/jack spratt books???

Counting down the days till First Among Sequels!

Now have to go thinking about my top 10. Blummin difficult. Worse than music!

Big Thursday Next fan, which is why I didn't get on so well with Jack Spratt. My wife bought The Big Over Easy for me a couple of Christmas's ago, and I didn't enjoy that as much. Not a big Nurserycrime fan. Can hardly wait for First Among Sequels too! Only a couple of months to go!

Blah! Can't possibly pick only 10 books!

Am going to pick 10 favourite authors instead!

Terry Pratchett - a man of absolute genius and wit
Tom Holt
Robert Jordan
Kathy Reichs
Karin Slaughter
Alexander McCall Smith
Harlen Coben
Lee Child
Poppy Z Brite
Patricia Cornwell

I'll happily sit down with pretty much anything they've ever written!

That's cheating! But I'll let you of, I noted you like Tom Holt. I would suggest trying some Jasper Fforde, I'm sure laura will back me up on this. Start with The Ayre Affair and work through them, fantastic and like nothing I've read before or since. Genius.

Read a few Patricia Cornwell too and I like them, I would suggest trying Stanley Pottinger. He's on a similar level, and is very good at plot twists. The Fourth Procedure is a great read.

[yoanbob]

hobbit
lord of the rings
discworld books
book of lost things
jitterbug perfume
northern lights trilogy
johnathon strange and mr norel
hitch hikers guide
dune
the far away tree

[madderbat]

I'm pleasantly surprised to see that others like some of my favourites too. I can't restrict myself to one book, so have put the series I really enjoy.

Dune series
Lord of the Rings
Robert Jordan Wheel of time series
Ursula LeGuin Earthsea
David Eddings Mallorean series
David Eddings (other) series
Robert Aspirin Mythadventures (series)
Terry Pratchett Discworld series
Enid Blyton Magic Faraway Tree
Little World of Don Camillo (author?)

[kernowyon]

ooh, this one got me thinking.

in no order.

lord of the flies
lord of the rings
warrior of mars, Michael Moorcock.
battlefield earth, L Ron Hubbard (crap film, great book)
kingdom of the wall, Robert Silverberg
The whole discworld series
The endless knot series, Robert Silverberg
Down Under, Bill Bryson
The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
Absolutley anything ever written by Bernard Cornwell, esp the Sharpe series.

[Flummery]

Glad to see a lot of other Discworlders out there. Love them all!

[Dobby]

suprised no gardening books on there!

DR D.G.Hessayon

[TEB]

in no particular order:
Terry Goodkind - hurry up with next book
Robert Jordan Wheel Of Time - hurry up with next book
Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy
David Gemmel (RIP )
Ann Bishop (Black Jewel trilogy)
L E Modesitt
Stephen Donaldson (Thomas Convenant - hurry up with next book)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Raymond Feist
Tad Williams

Any one read the new Tolkein book yet The Children of Hurin