Your Top 10 favourite books of all time?

[M. Robert Gibson]

Hard to choose, but if I use the criterion of having read a book more than once it must be a favourite, then my list looks something like:

Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkein
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Discworld - Terry Pratchett (Hard to pin down a particular book)
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate - Michael Moorcock
Conan - Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter

I'm leaving the last place open for a fight between Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series and Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation series.

 

[The Big Peat]

Carpe Jugulum - Sir Terry Pratchett
Smiley's People - John Le Carre
The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Time to Depart - Lindsey Davies
Changes - Jim Butcher
Ravenheart - David Gemmell
Jingo - Sir Terry Pratchett

*pause* Unsure of what the last two would be. Unsure of whether I even had the right books to begin with.

 

[nixie]

Noticed I haven't posted in here.
I'm not a fan of lists, mood dictates what I want also sheer difference in style makes it difficult. How can I compare Erikson's Memories of Ice with with something like Lud in the Mist?
I'll go with ones that stick in memory longest.

1. Erikson: Memories of Ice
2. Erikson: Midnight Tides.
3. Feist: Magician
4. King: The Waste Lands
5. King: The Drawing of the Three.
6. Feist: Darkness at Sethanon
7. Wheatley: The Devil Rides Out
8.Sanderson: The Stormlight Archives.
9. Esslemont: Dancer's Lament
10. Lawrence: Blood Sister.

Now I feel guilty because I haven't included any Abercrombie, Bakker's Prince of Nothing, Lynche's Gentleman Bastards or Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind and numerous others.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Favourite, most precious, and easily re-readable multiple times:

Byzantium - Stephen Lawhead
Fortune's Favourites - Colleen McCullough
Legend - David Gemmell
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Dragonlance Chronicles (Omnibus edition) - Hickman and Weiss
Dune - Frank Herbert
Worth Dying For - Lee Child
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
The Haunter of the Dark and other stories - HP Lovecraft
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse

 

[psikeyhackr]

I only listen 9 books on page 1.

#10. The Mote in God's Eye by Niven & Pournelle

 

[Harpo]

I'll give this a try, but much of my list will be different if I think again next month

Gargantua and Pantagruel - François Rabelais
Journey To The West - Wu Cheng'en
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
The Diceman - Luke Rhinehart
The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
William MacGonagall: The Truth At Last - Jack Hobbs & Spike Mlligan
Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Horton Hears A Hoo - Dr Seuss
Last And First Men - Olaf Stapledon

And finally, the book that has everything:
The Dictionary Of Imaginary Places - Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi

 

[BAYLOR]

1. The Star Rover by Jack London
2. LOTR by J R Tolkien
3. Tales From the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
4. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
5. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vince
6. Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
7. The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
8. Past Master by R A Lafferty
9. Conan the Hour of the Dragon by Robert E Howard
10. The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson


This is a difficult list given that there are som many books I do like.

 

[CrazyKB]

1. The Star Rover by Jack London
2. LOTR by J R Tolkien
3. Tales From the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
4. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
5. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vince
6. Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
7. The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
8. Past Master by R A Lafferty
9. Conan the Hour of the Dragon by Robert E Howard
10. The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson


This is a difficult list given that there are som many books I do like.

I read A Deepness in the sky, how does A Fire Upon the Deep compare?

 

[BAYLOR]

I read A Deepness in the sky, how does A Fire Upon the Deep compare?

Ive not actually read Deepness so I can't answer your question .

But I do very highly recommend A Fire Upon the Deep. It's one the best science fiction novels ive ever read .

On that list you might also want to take a look at Pastmaster by R A Lafferty Its unlike any other science fiction novel ive read. It's both a Dystopian/Utopian science fiction novel. Brilliant stuff .

 

[CrazyKB]

Ive not actually read Deepness so I can't answer your question .

But I do very highly recommend A Fire Upon the Deep. It's one the best science fiction novels ive ever read .

On that list you might also want to take a look at Pastmaster by R A Lafferty Its unlike any other science fiction novel ive read. It's both a Dystopian/Utopian science fiction novel. Brilliant stuff .

I finished A Deepness in the Sky last month, great book. There's a few characters in that novel which I truly hated. The last character I had that much disdain for was King Joffrey from Game of Thrones. I looked into Pastmaster (Goodreads) however couldn't find it. Is it obscure?

 

[BAYLOR]

I finished A Deepness in the Sky last month, great book. There's a few characters in that novel which I truly hated. The last character I had that much disdain for was King Joffrey from Game of Thrones. I looked into Pastmaster (Goodreads) however couldn't find it. Is it obscure?

Sorry , my fault it's Past Master two words not one .