Favorite books

Obviously, a lot of people here are going to mention LotR . I like all other Tolkien stuff as well. I also like other fantasy authors, such as Terry Brooks and Raymond E. Feist. In addition, I've read nearly all of the Star Wars Expanded Universe . Your favorites?

Some of my favorites........ LOTR, of course Dune / Herbert The Agony and the Ecstasy / Stone Slapstick / Vonnegut Confederacy of Dunces / can't remember presently Watership Down / Adams Magician / Feist Anything by Asmov

Now look what you've done, bmilder! This is going to take a long time! The Hobbit and LotR byTolkien Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (I'm working on the unabridged) Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol by Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis Most of Shakespeare's plays, especially Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, the Tempest, King Lear, Hamlet... and some others! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and all its sequels (that I've managed to read so far) by Douglas Adams The Work and the Glory series by Gerald Lund The Cat who... series by Lilian Jackson Braun And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Some of Louis L'Amour's western/sci-fi novels (yes there is sci-fi too) Parts of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist's Midkemia stuff I love some of the old 40's romance novels--they were good back then. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley--you people have to read that! Just about anything by Rudyard Kipling or Lewis Carroll. I could go on and on, but I'm sure you'd get tired of it. Maybe I'll edit some more in if something hits me with a bang.

I thought you liked Harry Potter books

Ok, this list could be long too... Crime and Punishment by Fjodor Dostojevskij The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux LOTR, The Silmarillion, The hobbit by Tolkien Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Treasure Island by Robert L Stevenson The Three Musketeers, The Count of Montechristo by Alexander Dumas The Foundation trilogy, Robots and Empire, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov Here are some non-fiction books I like: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell The Age of Extremes by E.J Hobsbawm A history of World Societies by J.P McKay

In no perticular order and definately not a complete list (some stuff is from when I was very young, but I still love it): The Hitchhicker Trilogy (etc.) Catcher in the Rye Watership Down The Once and Future King Most Asimov books Most Shakespeare Anything by Poe Night Animal Farm Lord of the Flies Cannery Row Princess and the Goblin The Robe Johnny Tremain The Chronicles of Narnia The Tracker MAD Magezine (Yeah!)

Although I am capable of reading, I can't stand it. Its so boring.

Ender's Game 1984

Hehe, look at this IP. Your topic is once again redundant :lol:

I never knew a thread like this ever even existed!

Hehehehe. Looks like you'll have to repost your stuff in here

Oh well, my list was rather shabby anyways...

Cool new topic.
It is hard to say what are my favorite books, since there are so many that I like. Here is a partial list and I will add more later.

Confederacy of Dunces
Traveller
Cats in the Belfrey
Cats in May
An Underground Education
The Killer Angels
Clockers
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Hitchhiker books (Adams)
Watership Down
The Stand
Tales of O'Henry
various works by James Thurber

Yay! Somoeone else has read Confederacy of Dunces!! There is a bronze statue of Ignatius standing on Canal Street in front of the store where he is first introduced in the book. I have my picture taken with him.

Have you ever been to New Orleans?

BTW, what is Clockers about? Who wrote it?

sorry, i just can't be bothered to list all my faves... would take way too long

i thought i heard someone say hitchhiker's guide? cool! have you heard the original radio production? its much better than the books, IMO

Away from SciFi or Fantasy I recommend:

Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe , Rebel and Arthurian series are all quite excellent historical fiction.

Any of the Civil War novels by Michael or Jeff Sharra are also quite good.

In no particular order: —

Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Bury's library edition)
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
‘Ellis Peters’: The Brother Cadfael series
Percy A. Scholes: The Oxford Companion to Music (4th edition, 1942) (I love rummaging in reference-books)
Julian May: The Saga of the Exiles
G. K. Chesterton: The Father Brown stories
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
A. Conan Doyle: The Sherlock Holmes and Brigadier Gerard stories and The Lost World
Margery Allingham: The Albert Campion novels (pre-war English whodunnits)
Rudyard Kipling: A Diversity of Creatures (and indeed most of his stories and poems)

Etc.

Just reading through this thread again... and I must say, my tastes are so much like Elanor's it can't be a coincidence!

If I could only ever have 21 books, they might be these:

1. Complete works - William Shakespeare. Naturally.
2. The Bible. Ditto.
3. The Historical Baseball Abstract - Bill James. The best mind since Plato.
4. Emma - Jane Austen.
5. Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Cardinal Newman.
6. The Rise and Fall of Practically Everybody - Will Cuppy. The greatest historian since Thucydides.
7. Sermons for Mixed Congregations - Cardinal Newman. The English language at its most eloquent.
8. Poems - Alfred Tennyson. Good stuff.
9. Poems - John Keats. More good stuff.
10. Total Baseball - Pete Palmer et al. The logic hidden in numbers - more awesome than Newton's Principia Mathematica.
11. Anne of Green Gables - L.M.Montgomery.
12. Shadows on the Rock - Willa Cather.
13. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer. Must reading for all who want to understand the last century.
14. Serve It Forth - M.F.K. Fisher.
15. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster. For lonely nights.
16. Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens.
17. Illuminations - Walter Benjamin. One work of "philosophy" is unavoidable.
18. The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolien.
19. The Oxford English Dictionary.
20. Kidnapped/Treasure Island - R.L. Stevenson.
21. Little Women - L.M. Alcott.

Ack! Somehow managed to neglect the 3 of the greatest - bar none - novels even written.

1. The Maltese Falcon
2. The Big Sleep
3. Double Indemnity