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Your Favourite Books of all time?


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#1 Walecs

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:31 AM

I'll post a list of mine:

1. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Aged 13 and 3/4 Sue Townsend

2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service                               Ian Fleming

3. A Clockwork Orange                                         Anthony Burgess

4. Perfect Dark: Initial Vector                                Greg Rucka

5. Jurassic Park                                                     Michael Crichton

6. Casino Royale                                                   Ian Fleming

7. A Study in Scarlet                                             Sir Arthur Conan Doyle                             

8. Fahrenheit 451                                                  Ray Bradbury   

9. 1984                                                                 George Orwell

10. The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening               L. J. Smith



#2 volante

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:46 AM

The Bodies Left Behind - Jeffery Deaver

A Sparrow Falls - Wilbur Smith

Shibumi - John Trevanian

Garden of Beasts - Jeffery Deaver

The Ninja - Eric Van Lustbader

On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming

Eyes Without a Face - PaulTaylor

High Time to Kill - Raymond Benson

The Sunbird - Wilbur Smith

The Story of O - Pauline Reage



#3 jrcjohnny99

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 06:11 PM

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

 

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

 

Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

 

The Sportswriter - Richard Ford

 

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

 

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

 

The Beach - Alex Garland

 

Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

 

The Stand - Stephen King

 

Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy



#4 Dustin

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 08:44 PM

The Cider House Rules &
The Hotel New Hampshire both by John Irving

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Dune by Frank Herbert

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

From Hell by Moore/Campbell

It &
The Stand &
Christine &
Hearts in Atlantis all by Stephen King

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The Tempest &
The Comedy of Errors &
Julius Caesar &
Othello &
Romeo and Juliet all by Shakespeare

The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser


These are just a few of my favourites, I could go on for hours. I avoided the thriller/action genre as no doubt most of my favourites will turn up here sooner or later.

EDIT: Discworld by Terry Pratchett of course...

Edited by Dustin, 08 July 2013 - 08:47 PM.


#5 glidrose

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 11:33 PM

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann



Mann's MM also one of Fleming's all time favorites.

#6 Eric Stromberg

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Posted 09 July 2013 - 02:11 AM

Killer thread.  In no particular order except by RAM...

 

Shogun - James Clavell

 

Dune - Frank Herbert

 

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Ronin - Frank Miller

 

Harlot's Ghost - Norman Mailer

 

Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

 

Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstatder



#7 Dustin

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Posted 09 July 2013 - 03:59 AM

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann


Mann's MM also one of Fleming's all time favorites.

Rightfully so, it's an amazing work,

#8 seawolfnyy

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Posted 09 July 2013 - 06:36 AM

Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck: A Love Story, Bite Me: A Love Story- Christopher Moore

The Stupidest Angel- Christopher Moore

Thank You For Smoking- Christopher Buckley

Boomsday- Christopher Buckley

Atlantis Found- Clive Cussler

The Hunt for Red October- Tom Clancy

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling

On Her Majesty's Secret Service- Ian Fleming

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Between a Rock and a Hard Place- Aron Ralston

American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis

Angels & Demons- Dan Brown

Into Thin Air- Jon Krakauer

Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

 

There are more, I just can't list them all.