Top 10 of Any Genre

**cgw** · January 29th, 2009, 09:07 PM

My top ten:

Warren /All the Kings Men
Steinbeck/The Grapes of Wrath
Salinger/The Catcher in the Rye
Hemingway/For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway/The Sun Also Rises
Melville/Moby Dick
Cervantes/Don Quixote
Vonnegut/Cats Cradle
Heller /Catch 22
Hijeulos/The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

**Eldanuumea** · January 30th, 2009, 02:45 PM

Oh wow, someone else actually read Mambo Kings! That is a great read, also a good film, but hardly anyone I know has heard of either.

Looks like we're a pretty well-read bunch of folks.

**Colonel Worf** · February 26th, 2009, 10:26 AM

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
3. The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
4. Jupiter by Ben Bova
5. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
6. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
7. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
8. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
9. Forever War by Joe Haldeman
10. Deepsix by Jack McDevitt

**Seak** · February 27th, 2009, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by Colonel Worf

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
2. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
3. The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
4. Jupiter by Ben Bova
5. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
6. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
7. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
8. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
9. Forever War by Joe Haldeman
10. Deepsix by Jack McDevitt

I love Starship Troopers. Keep it on the Bounce.

**Bob Gray** · April 11th, 2012, 02:52 PM

Mainstream: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Horror: IT by Stephen King
Pet Semetary by Stephen King
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons

Fantasy: LotR by J.R.R. Tolkien
WoT by Robert Jordan
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Crime/Mystery: Headhunter by Michael Slade

YA: Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

I don't read much Sci-fi so I don't have a favorite.

**mshnd06** · April 26th, 2012, 02:28 PM

At the moment:

1) Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
2) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
3) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
4) Cien Anos de Soledad by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
6) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
7) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8) White Noise by Don Delillo
9) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
10) The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

**ClaraJ** · June 6th, 2012, 01:41 AM

I decided to pick one by each author. God, this was hard.

1. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. Diary of an Emotional Idiot - Maggie Estep
4. The Fault in our Stars - John Green
5. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
6. Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
7. Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
8. On A Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
9. Girl Goddess #9 - Francesca Lia Block
10. The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley

**Surt** · June 12th, 2012, 03:24 PM

My top ten in no specific order:

Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco
Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment (or Brothers Karamazov)
Bulgakov - Master & Margarita
Tolstoy - War and Peace
Martin - Storm of Swords
Wolfe - Book of The New Sun (sorry, can't choose)
Mieville - The Scar
McCarthy - Blood Meridian (or The Crossing)
Kay - Lions of Al-Rassan
Holdstock - Lavondyss

My no 11 would be Lovecraft - At The Mountains of Madness & Other Stories, but unfortunately there wasn't enough room. Sorry, HP.

**suciul** · June 12th, 2012, 11:00 PM

Including titles unavailable in English (*), while for some titles I used the better known original title than the English one:

1. Noaptea de Sanziene (The Forbidden Forest) by Mircea Eliade
2*. Caderea Constantinopolelui (Fall of Constatinople) by Vintila Corbul
3. The Roman by Mika Waltari
4. The Masters of Rome (7 vols) by Colleen McCullough
5. Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings 7 vols) by Maurice Druon
6*. Sfarsit de Mileniu (Chronicle of the 20th Century, 7 vols) by Radu Tudoran
7. Use of Weapons by IM Banks
8. The Honorverse (23 vols and counting) by David Weber
9. The Night's Dawn (3 vols) by Peter Hamilton
10. ASOIAF (5 vols and counting) by George RR Martin

If only books available in English count the extra 2 would be:

11: The Kushiel Legacy (9 vols) by Jacqueline Carey
12: Roma sub Rosa (13 vols and counting) by Steven Saylor

**Riothamus** · August 14th, 2012, 05:06 PM

In no particular order

1.Dune-Bar none the greatest science fiction novel ever.
2.A Song of Fire and Ice series
3.Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norrell
4.Ringworld
5.The Vampire Chronicles
6.The Works of H.P. Lovecraft
7. Looking For Alaska
8.The Elric Saga
9.The Dark Tower series
10.Stranger In A Strange Land

Others that make me wish this were a top twelve:
11.The Conan Stories
12.The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

In less traditional forms of literature:
V For Vendetta
The Watchmen

**Randy M.** · August 15th, 2012, 03:29 PM

A slightly different best of ...

MAINSTREAM:
"Guest of the Nation" by Frank O'Connor
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

MYSTERY:
"The Gutting of Couffignal" by Dashiell Hammett
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

HORROR:
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James
"The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft

S.F.:
"The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke
"Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester

FANTASY:
"The Sadness of Details" by Jonathan Carroll
"Le Peau Verte" by Caitlin R. Kiernan

And, of course, I retain the right to create an entirely different list tomorrow.

Randy

**kattygomes** · December 25th, 2012, 11:51 PM

I haven't read so many books, but still I would like share my top 5 favorite books.

The Wonder
The Vally of fear
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Eragon
Fight Club

Althogh generally I love to read only books that are written for young adults, but sometimes I read some books from other genre also.

**ralfy** · January 24th, 2013, 02:33 PM

Dante's Commedia
Cervantes' Don Quixote
Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji
The Bhagavad-Gita
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov
Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville's Moby-Dick
Goethe's Faust

**John Davy** · February 6th, 2013, 11:16 AM

Mine would be:

1. Beloved by Toni Morrison
2. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
3. Frost in May by Antonia White
4. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
5. The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
6. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
7. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
8. Under The Skin by Michel Faber
9. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
10. The Wolf Hunt by Gillian Bradshaw

**ian_sales** · February 7th, 2013, 02:45 AM

Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (er, 4 books)
Coelestis, Paul Park
Dhalgren, Samuel R Delany
Ascent, Jed Mercurio
Kairos, Gwyneth Jones
Aegypt Sequence, John Crowley (5 books)
Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland
The Master Mariner, Nicholas Monsarrat (1 book + 1 unfinished)
Ash: A Secret History, Mary Gentle
How Far Can You Go?, David Lodge