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[Beocat]

1.  The Uplift Saga (series)  ~  Excellent sci-fi adventure with great characters. It's out of print now, but tracking down a copy of the series is well worth it.
2.  Riordan's Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series  ~  Riordan really has a great way of characterizing someone with both ADHD and dyslexia.  It may have been written in a simple fashion and probably for a different age group than myself, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. 
3.  Wicked  ~  Oh where to begin?  Even before the musical (which doesn't follow the path of the book) I loved this one.  You will never see the Wicked Witch of the West the same again after reading this book. 
4.  Star Wars:  The Tales of/from.... ~  This was a set of three books that did an excellent job of giving several shorter yet more interesting stories from locations and characters in the movies.  It also helped to explain some of things that happened which really gave the stories and movies a richer feel. 
5.  Star Wars:  The Bounty Hunter War series  ~  Also a nice change of pace from the usual.  Well written and memorable.  I haven't picked it up in years, but I still remember how I felt when reading it long ago.

[naughty99]

Wentletrap wrote...

Jorge Luis Borges - almost any of his short stories

Edgar Allan Poe - almost any of his short stories

YES! YES! YES!


My all time favorites would probably be A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr), the ASOIAF series (George R.R. Martin), Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) and the short story collections of Borges, Poe and Lovecraft.

More favorite reads (in no particular order) -
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
City of Illusions, The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin)
The Host (Stephenie Meyer - yes, I know she is responsible for Twilight, this one is a damn good book)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Junichiro Tanizaki)
The Stand, The Shining, The Dark Half, 11/22/63, The Gunslinger, Wizard and Glass (Stephen King)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Spring Snow, Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
The End of Eternity, Foundation's Edge (Isaac Asimov)
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Perdido Street Station, Kraken, The City & the City (China Mieville)
I am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru), Kokoro (Natsume Soseki)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
The Neanderthal Parallax (Robert J. Sawyer)
Eater (Gregory Benford)
100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch, The Last Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko)
Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers (Larry Niven)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Yiddish Policeman's Union (Michael Chabon)
The Postman (David Brin)
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (collection of PA short stories)

Modifié par naughty99, 14 janvier 2012 - 11:10 .

[whykikyouwhy]

There have been many books that I enjoyed, though I don't think I can narrow down 5 all-time favorites, exactly. Some novels that stand out though:

- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
- The Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc) - Stieg Larsson
- Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
- The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin - Colette Moody

And while not precisely literature, the graphic novel I Kill Giants - Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura.

[Andarthiel_Demigod]

1.Neuromancer Trilogy by William Gibson
2.The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko
3. The Count of Monte Cristo & The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
4.The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
5.Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll

That's just the top 5, I have plenty more on my list that I love including the plays of Shakespeare(I guess they're books of a sort)

Modifié par Andarthiel_Demigod, 12 janvier 2012 - 03:05 .

[slimgrin]

1. Odyssey
2. Beowulf
3. The invisible man ( short story, really )
4. Let me In
5. Dracula

Hard to choose just 5. I love Poe, Lovecraft, old Norse saga's, but it's the tales of a beleagured Greek warrior and the young Geat ripping off Grendel's arm that have stuck with me since I was 12.

Modifié par slimgrin, 12 janvier 2012 - 03:34 .

[UrkOfGreyhawk]

Tolkien! :-P

Okay FINE...
-100 Years of Solitude
-Fahrenheit 451
-Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Hmmmn... Havibg trouble here...

Some possibilities:
-Divine Comedy
-Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
-Belgariad
-Childhood's End
-Riverworld Series

Anyone ever read Grant Naylors "Red Dwarf" books? Seriously funny.

[CoffeeHolic93]

1: Death Note: Another Note.

When going in, I didn't expect to like this book. But as I was reading it, I found myself growing fond of the interactions between the protagonist(s), and their attempt to solve the puzzle was fun to partake in.

2: Of mice and men.

I can thank my english teacher for this one. Another book I didn't really expect to like, but Lennie was such an endearing character.

3: Deltora Quest

First of all, I love Emily Rodda's way of writing, but that's not the reason I like these books. I was in the hospital for lengthy periods of time as a kid, and this series was light enough for a kid to read (There's not too many gargantuan idioms which fabricate intelligence, so a kid would be able to follow along), yet it feels like R.R doesn't take the fact that children are stupid for granted, and she plays around with several subjects most people wouldn't care for in a "kid's series".

4: The Mass Effect Novels

These are fairly decent, and a good read if you like the Mass Effect universe.

5: ...Well, I'm not allowed to mention Tolkien's LOTR or Harry Potter... So I'll just take my leave now.

[Volus Warlord]

1.) Without Remorse-Tom Clancy
John Clark beats the hell out of Jack Ryan.

2.) The Hunt for Red October-Tom Clancy
classic.

3.) The Pilgrim's Progress-Jon Bunyan
First novel I ever read. Do not fear Apollyon!

4.) A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini
I had to read this in class and got in trouble for sympathizing for Jalil. Miserable read, but a more purposeful one.

5.) 1984-George Orwell
Another miserable, purposeful read. Why do those two go together?
"He who controls the past controls the future; he who controls the present controls the past."

Modifié par Volus Warlord, 12 janvier 2012 - 06:51 .

[Dominus]

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry.
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins.
Myst: The Book of Atrus. By Rand Miller.
There's a monster at the end of this book, by Grover.

And I'm planning on reading A Dance of Thunder and Water.

Modifié par DominusVita, 12 janvier 2012 - 08:40 .

[slimgrin]

Ahh, yes. The God Delusion. How could I forget that one. Dawkins is the kind of guy I'd love to sit down and chat with over a glass of cabernet.

Modifié par slimgrin, 12 janvier 2012 - 04:47 .

[ErichHartmann]

No particular order:

Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
The Legend of Huma - Richard A. Knaak
The Nun - Denis Diderot
Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy - Weis and Hickman
1776 - David McCullough

Modifié par ErichHartmann, 12 janvier 2012 - 05:10 .

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

@slimgrin, Dawkins... Everything should have material explanation or is no more: Crap ... everyone believes in sort of God, even it is not Ibrahimic or else. They just don't want to admit it or it is not worthy of their worship, ... possibly the great universe Soul, logic, mathematics or science in general. Also Deist, Pantheist and Panentheists. It's the matter of how arrogant or humble you're to realize this greater force as God.
Even the great professor Mordin Solus believes in something

Modifié par Jedi Sentinel Arian, 12 janvier 2012 - 05:45 .

[Dutchess]

1. The Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Three wonderful books with amazing humor. Great fantasy as well.

2. The Kushiel trilogy by Jacqueline Carey. Again a great fantasy world with intriguing characters.

3. The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I've just finished the fourth book and am addicted.

4. The Elven series by Bernhard Hennen. I'm not sure if these are available in English. It's a German writer and I've read the books in Dutch. Again fantasy, as the name would suggest.

5. Twilight. Lol, no, just kidding. Those would be on top of my worst books ever list. I don't know at the moment. I've read plenty of books, but I can't come up with another truly amazing book at the mometn.

[Seagloom]

Props for choosing the original Kushiel trilogy. A shame the series careened over a cliff staring with Kushiel's Scion. Although I suppose the second trilogy was at least tolerable compared to Naamah's Kiss, ect.

[HoonDing]

I think it already careened over the cliff with the third book. I made it halfway through then tossed it away, being faced with the same shtick over again.

What irked me the most is the character suddenly going brain-dead for no reason other than to place her into a terrible predicament that she has to escape using her unique 'gifts'.

It's perhaps a strange comparison, but these books are almost like Gor novels with all the sexism filtered out.

[Seagloom]

I felt it ended just in time. Perhaps that was why I didn't think much of the later books. By then it was like more of the same with a duller cast. But yes, the novels are not what I would call high literature. I never read the Gor books given their reputation. Frightening.

[MerinTB]

slimgrin wrote...

Ahh, yes. The God Delusion. How could I forget that one. Dawkins is the kind of guy I'd love to sit down and chat with over a glass of cabernet.

I was avoiding non-fiction.

If we're including non-fiction, then The God Delusion is in there.  And Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation.

[Volus Warlord]

Ah Dawkins. That man jacks himself off far too much for my taste. Though watching idiots attempting to regurgitate his statements can be amusing.

[Zanallen]

The Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks
The Dresden Files novels - Jim Butcher
The Codex Alera - Jim Butcher
The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan with help from Brandon Sanderson
A Wizard in Rhyme series - Christopher Stasheff

Notable mentions would be the Warlock series also by Stasheff, the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, various books by Terry Brooks, Joel Rosenberg, Christopher Rowley, Terry Pratchett and R.A. Salvatore.

Note: I am really only including contemporary fantasy and science fiction.

[Cutlasskiwi]

The Felix Castor series by Mike Carey. - You follow the life of Felix Castor, London exorcist, through all his stuggles, jobs that always turn out to be dangerous and his fight with his own personal demons from past misstakes. Felix Castor is one of my favorite characters ever, love all the sarcasm. The books have nice Noir feel to them too. 
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. - Great characters and interesting plot.
A Song of Ice & Fire by George R.R. Martin. - ^^
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. - I usually don't read western books but this one really grabbed me and I was unable to put it down. 
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. - 42. 


Books from Hemingway, Vonnegut and the likes not included because then it would be impossible to pick.

[naughty99]

My initial expectations were low, but I was pleasantly surprised with 11/22/63. King's best writing in years.

[Andarthiel_Demigod]

 Yay, I can see a few Night Angel fans on this thread. Nice.
Also about Dawkins, he's way too arrogant and disrespectiful for my tastes and I am an atheist as well.

[DRUNK_CANADIAN]

The Hobbit....if we are talking fiction...

[SockPuppet317]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller -  My favorite book. Mirrors the total ludicrousness of human nature and all of that fun stuff. Yossarian is my hero.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - I realize that Mr. Burgess was rather upset at the disclusion of the final chapter when the book was first released in America, but I prefer it without chapter 21. Redemption stories are nice and all, but it doesn't make sense to me.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - Truth be told, I have yet to finish this book. It's... kind of a mindscrew. But I've really enjoyed what I've read so far. I've enjoyed it so much that I'm willing to list it in my top five favorite books.

Survivor or anything, really, by Chuck Palahniuk - I love his writing style. And his characters. And the insanity that is usually(always) found in his books. He's definitely not for the faint of heart.

John Constantine: Hellblazer - Well... Comics do count as books, right? John Constantine is one of my favorite characters in fiction.

It's a short story, but I figure that, because it's my absolute favorite piece of fiction, Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream deserves a shout out. It's so very intense, and I remember being rendered totally numb after first reading it. I think I was near tears, too.

[Seagloom]

If we can include comics then I'd be very tempted to add Strangers in Paradise to my list. That was a great series after a slow start. It's available cheap in paperback.