The Gnat Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Name says it all, what are your top 10 books or series? I say series, because my top 10 books would probably be at least half from the same series. 1. The Dresden Files (Series) 2. Stormlight Archives (Series) 3. It 4. The Reckoners (Series) 5. Harry Potter (Series) 6. Stardust 7. Swallows of Amazon (Series) 8. Daughter of Smoke and Bones (Series) 9. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 10. Good Omens That's for me, so that's way more than 10 books, but I really like these series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpulse Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 My top ten would be.... 1. Cat's Cradle 2. Crime and Punishment 3. R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms series of trilogies and tie ins 4. War and Peace 5. Slaughter House 5 6. Much Ado About Nothing 7. Great Expectations 8. The Satanic Verses 9. Fury 10. Breakfast of Champions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animaltested Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Ill preface with Im not much a reader, kinda dislike it (I'm a visual learner I guess). Most books I have read have been related to teaching. Candide - Voltaire The Stranger - Albert Camus Cyrano DeBergrac - Edmond Rostand The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway Meditations - Marcus Aurelias The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No Exit - Jean Paul Sarte Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K **** Blood Music - Greg Bear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 If we're talking any work of literature, that's one thing, but if it's just novels, that narrows it down a bit, at least. It's probably gonna change depending on when you ask me, but here's 10 in no particular order: Lolita Ubik A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Blood Meridian Heart of Darkness Portnoy's Complaint Midnight's Children Grendel Invisible Man (not The Invisible Man) The Sun Also Rises But it's really hard to pick between, and I'm sure there are a lot of others I'm forgetting that are right up there with some of these (Anthills of the Savannah, The Sound and the Fury, The Lord of the Rings, The Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, The Good Soldier, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketheadsdad Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Authors Tom Clancy Larry Bond Steven Coonts Clive Cussler Mark Levin Ted Bell Stephen King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Bucketheadsdad said: Authors Tom Clancy Larry Bond Steven Coonts Clive Cussler Mark Levin Ted Bell Stephen King I used to read a lot of Clancy back in the day. Patriot Games is a classic. My list for authors could also change from day to day, but for now, mine would look something like this: Cormac McCarthy is a clear 1. I’ve read everything he’s written. Hemingway is up there, Faulkner too, for obvious reasons. John Grisham because southern legal pulp. Salman Rushdie is maybe the greatest living writer. Joseph Conrad is another favorite Jin of mine. I think I’ve read four of his, and Heart of Darkness is one of my all time favorite books. John Updike and Philip Roth are two others I think were great from the second generation modern writers. Yukio Mishima writes some very interesting prose, and I’ve read four or five of his books. Then I guess Mark Twain too. There was a period in high school where I was absolutely obsessed with Twain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpulse Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, Daniel said: Salman Rushdie is maybe the greatest living writer. I second this. I am a big fan of Russian Literature. I know that's not popular lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, Deadpulse said: I second this. I am a big fan of Russian Literature. I know that's not popular lol I saw you had The Satanic Verses and Fury on your list. Shame is my second favorite of his personally. I am finally putting a Tolstoy on my tbr list now. I’ve read some Nabokov and Doestoyevsky, but it’s hard to commit to 1000 page books that are 400 pages of philosophical digressions very often. But what I’ve read has been good, at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpulse Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 4 minutes ago, Daniel said: I saw you had The Satanic Verses and Fury on your list. Shame is my second favorite of his personally. I am finally putting a Tolstoy on my tbr list now. I’ve read some Nabokov and Doestoyevsky, but it’s hard to commit to 1000 page books that are 400 pages of philosophical digressions very often. But what I’ve read has been good, at least. Tolstoy can be a chore, he is honestly my least favorite to read but man is he every bit as good as advertised. Doestoyevsky is for sure my favorite Russian writer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, Deadpulse said: Tolstoy can be a chore, he is honestly my least favorite to read but man is he every bit as good as advertised. Doestoyevsky is for sure my favorite Russian writer Would you recommend Anna Karenina or War and Peace first? I have a copy of both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpulse Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 28 minutes ago, Daniel said: Would you recommend Anna Karenina or War and Peace first? I have a copy of both. Anna Karenina is a MUCH easier read. Less characters, plot is simpler. War and Peace has oodles of characters all with the typical 4 or more Russian names while weaving through an intricate plot with various settings. War and Peace is better though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 24 minutes ago, Deadpulse said: War and Peace is better though Anna Karenina it is, then. Laziness always wins. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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