Top 10 favourite books

[Flummery]

Read most of your faves TEB. I was gutted at the end of the Thomas Covenant double trilogy (there must be a word for 6 books but it'll be sexy-summat!). I really felt conned to have read all that for the outcome at the end.

[TEB]

Hey Flummery
Your gonna have to make up a new word then because there is a new trilogy called the the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, book 1 has been out for a while and is callled The Runes of the Earth - really enjoyed it

[OverWyreGrower]

Robert Jordan Wheel Of Time - hurry up with next book

Yes, hurry up! Really want to find out what happens now! Wonder how many more books he'll spin it out over?

[TEB]

Yes, hurry up! Really want to find out what happens now! Wonder how many more books he'll spin it out over?

I read the next is the last - dont know how I feel about that

[mad_djg]

Difficult ... generally read Fantasy & SF so they form the majortiy of the list..

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
Mort - Terry Pratchett (still his best IMHO)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Who's afraid of Beowulf - Tom Holt
Stranger in a strange land - Robert Heinlein
The player of games - Iain M Banks
Legend - David Gemmell
Windhaven - Lisa Tuttle & George RR Martin
Magician - Raymond Feist
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy

oh damn - that's ten already

[zebedee]

1) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2) The Once & Future King - T S White
3) Johnathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
4) To Serve Them all My Days - R F Delderfield
5) Inherit the Stars - James P Hogan
6) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
7) Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
8) The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
9) Watership Down - Richard Adams
10) Anderton for Orders - can't remember the author, but a delightful tale of canal boats in the late 40's early 50's.

[laura g]

never read the Anderton book but seen it once or twice. wasnt it part of the working waterways series???

Delderfield! another forgotten author. Seven Men of Gascony really good book.

[Flummery]

Oh yes Zebedee - The Once and Future King - so funny and full of wisdom. Fantstic book.

[zebedee]

Laura, yes the whole book was about the all too short working life of a young man who was apprenticed to the British Road Services????? canal boats. A very evocative book. Also with Delderfield, also love the Horseman Riding By series.

[zebedee]

Oh yes Zebedee - The Once and Future King - so funny and full of wisdom. Fantstic book.

Flum, if you liked The Once and Future King, I thoroughly recommend Johnathan Livingstone Seagull. Read it with an open mind, and let yourself go.

[Littleweeme]

My top ten fave books are:

Terry Pratchetts first ten books in the discworld series, following those would be his next ten and then the rest of them.

I also liked
The Time Travellers Wife
Lovely Bones
and something else I forget the name of!

[heebiejeebie]

Oh my! Can't remember when I last read fiction - I've had stress-related anxiety/depresssion (much better now) and just can't settle to fiction. Recently I have really enjoyed:

Feet In The Clouds - Richard Askwith
Survival of the Fittest - Mike Stroud
Running Through The Wall - Neal Jamison
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

But I know I used to enjoy Discworld books, Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) and Phillip Pullman as well as Jasper Fforde!

[Seahorse]

It's hard to pick! In no particular order:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel
The Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett
Reasons to be Cheerful - Mark Steel
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
The Great Hedge of India - Roy Moxham

I'm also a big fan of crime series novels - Reg Hill, Lindsey Davis, Kathy Reichs, Stephen Booth, Peter Robinson...

Claire

[Littleweeme]

Oh my! Can't remember when I last read fiction - I've had stress-related anxiety/depresssion (much better now) and just can't settle to fiction.

That was why I left my job in Feb 06 heebiejeebie, Terry Pratchett and his Discworld creations gave me a break from 'the real world' and all its stresses including work and my divorce which is still ongoing at the mo. Then I had an op in Nov 06 which knocked me for 6.

Nanny Ogg, The Night Watch, Death, all the wizards and the rest of them kept me sane believe it or not. I think I read about 20 of them in 6 months, my dad is still finding his collection in his wardrobe and places for me.

I'm only just ready for work to be honest and I owe my sanity (or insanity as some people feel lol) to Mr P and his fabulous world atop 4 elephants!

[dexterdoglancashire]

What a darned good question! Something that will keep me thinking for....ages and ages and ages!.......Bernie