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[MerinTB]

And if we're adding comic books then Jaka's Story by Dave Sim slips into my list as well, totally upsetting everything.

I think I'll leave my list as fiction, not-graphic, novels.

[bEVEsthda]

Robert Bakker: The Dinosaur Heresies 

Douglas R. Hofstadter: Godel,Escher,Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Kernighan & Ritchie: The C Programming Language

Bruce Eckel: Thinking In Java

Georges Ifrah: From One to Zero. A Universal History of Numbers


I'll get back later to this thread with novels (fiction)

[bEVEsthda]

I don't think I can put up 5 "favorite" novels. It feels impossible. What I think I can do is put up the 5 novels that have impacted me most profoundly. I don't think they're necessarily exactly my "favorite" though. They're up there, but I can't make such distinctions.

Frank Herbert: Dune.

John Fowles: The Magus

Gene Wolfe: Book of The New Sun

Jeanette Winterson: Lighthousekeeping

J.G. Ballard: Empire of the Sun

[Get Magna Carter]

while I do read a lot of SF and fantasy (and comics) I do read other things

My favourite crime novels/series are :-
1) The Dortmunder series by Donald E Westlake (series of heist comedies)
(Note-as a writer Westlake was one of the best storytellers ever, other recommended books include comedies- "Dancing Aztecs", "Help I'm being held prisoner" and more serious books "the ax", "the hook")
2) The Parker series by Richard Stark (thrillers concerning tough armed robber)
3) the Samuel Holt series by Samuel Holt (cop turned actor turned amateur detective)
4) the Mitch Tobin series by Tucker Coe (a guilt-ridden ex-cop trying to isolate himself from the world investigates murders [the last book "Don't Lie to Me" is an epilogue rather than part of the series])
5) the Scared Stiff by Judson Jack Carmichael

[bEVEsthda]

Get Magna Carter wrote...
1) The Dortmunder series by Donald E Westlake (series of heist comedies)
(Note-as a writer Westlake was one of the best storytellers ever, other recommended books include comedies- "Dancing Aztecs", "Help I'm being held prisoner" and more serious books "the ax", "the hook")

Lol, yes, D. E. Westlake is good stuff. I have had a lot of fun with those books too.

[Freddo]

Various Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Belgariad by David Eddings
Shogun by James Clavell

Not sure what I should place on the fifth spot, so many things to choose from, so I leave it be.

[chelseaisthepan]

1. The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)

(in no particular order)
2. The Stand (Stephen King)
3. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
4. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
5. The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher)

[HanErlik]

1. Martin Eden (Jack London)
2. Der Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
4. Faust (Goethe)
5. Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)