Top 10 Favorite Books

Also in no particular order:

Tom Clancy / Andy McNab / Chris Ryan / Dale Brown - et al: War Faction

Terry Pratchett: Disc World series

Mark Twain: When I was little I wanted to be Huck Finn

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations; Tale of Two Cities:
Of these, probably A Christmas Carol as favourite.

George Orwell: Animal Farm / we are all equal; but some are more equal than others.

Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days

Graham Green: Read Brighton Rock as part of a school course, the first book to 'get' to me.

John Gribben: Books on Quantum Theory

IT tech books: Anything that grabs me

Biographies: Of people I find / found interesting

History: Military

Old local books, with pictures of the area that I live in. To see what it was, to what it has become.

Sorry, I know it's over 10. But its taken a while to whittle it down to this..................

Imajica by Clive barker

The Stand by Stephem King

Weave Work by Clive Barker

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Crystal Singer Series by Anne McCaffrey

The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Wow a looking at others posts i dont think a top 10 is fair. there were alot of books/series listed by others that i would have put if i hadnt ran out of room.Like the lincoln rhyme series and the left behind books.

Haha, I agree Zombie! I love the Left Behind series too, they're great. Also, some old favorites...The Grapes of Wrath being one of them. Anyone read any of the Alex Cross series by James Sanders? They're really good too, if you like Lincoln Rhymes. Different scenario totally, but still really good suspenseful murders. :)

It's funny to me how across the board some of us read. It doesn't seem to matter what it is, if it strikes us as interesting, we'll read it.

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Tom Clancy / Andy McNab / Chris Ryan / Dale Brown - et al: War Faction

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Terrance Strong, Jack Higgins,Fredrick Forsythe etc,etc.

In no order.

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy: Len Deighton
No Mean Soldier: Peter MacAleese
LOTR: Tolkien
The Three Musketeers: Dumas
Anything by Le Carrie
All the Sharp Books: Bernard Cornwell
The Devils Guard: ?? Cant remember
Most of Leon Uris
All of Gerald Seymours
Virginia Cowel: The fantom Major.

I have been reading, Conrads The Heart Of Darkness for about 4 months. I will finish it one day :D

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Post Office by Charles Bukowski

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Ah! A Bukowski fan. :)

My Books:

• Catch-22
• The Complete Reference: C - Fourth Edition
• All The President's Men
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Lord of The Rings: Triology
• The Grapes of Wrath

Thats it for now.

I find it imposiable to give a definite top 10 as it changes as I read but here goes

: Tolkien (JRR for LOTR and Christopher his son for organising all his notes and publishing them in the history of middle earth series)
: Dune
: Ian M banks but especially use of weapons.
: Asmiovs foundation series
: Tom clancys the hunt for red october.
: Alexander kents Bolitho series. One of the best seafaring series I have read.
: Larry Nivean and Jerry Pournel.
: Turtledove for his colinisation series. He is one of the best alternative history writers at the moment.
: Robert A. Heinlein
: Stephan king It
: Stephen R. Donaldson THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER

I will probably want to change this at sometime because I am alwasy reading good books.

In no particular order:

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
LOTR & Hobbit - Tolkien
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Potter Series - JK Rowling
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Junky - William S Burroughs
The Underdogs - Mariano Azuela
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
The Artemis Fowl Series - Eoin Colfer

In particular Order

The Name of the Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
Quicksilver
Cryptonomicon
The Lord of the Dragon series (although I wish he would finsih it)
Been Down So long its starting to look like up
1 of God's Equation : Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
The Cuckoos Egg
Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment
Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition

The two system programming books save my a** in college in a couple of classes.

Cheers,
-D

These are 10 of the books that I like most:
And then there were none - Agatha Cristie
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Insomnia - Stephen King
Bag of Bones - Stephen King
It - Stephen King
Introduction to algorithms - Cormen,Leiserson,Rivest...
Oliver Twist - Victor Hugo
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
A journey to the center of earth - Jules Verne
Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe