Name the top 10 books you've read

[srboone]

Don't feel bad, I only had two horror books on my top 10, Ghost Story, The Shining; and someone else appreciates Lolita (my number one as well). Nice list.

[Tommy]

I agonized over this list and the only one I'm certain of is No. 1, will probably feel differently about it later but for right now...

10. Finnegans Wake (yes, I actually read it cover to cover and I love it for what it is, great bed-time reading)
9. In Cold Blood (recent stories in the news would suggest it is closer to fiction than previously thought but either way it is amazing)
8. Moby Dick
7. Blood Meridian
6. The Sound and the Fury
5. The Catcher in the Rye
4. Catch-22
3. Crime and Punishment (Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation, would probably be Brothers' Karamazov but I've only read the dry and too-literal Garnett translation so far)
2. The Great Gatsby
1. Lolita





So many others feel left out like Huckleberry Finn, A Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone, 1984, Metamorphoses by Ovid, The Metamorphosis and other Stories by Kafka, Hamlet, Nine Stories, sheesh I need a thread for TOP 100 I think, not too mention a separate one just for Horror

[srboone]

Some love for The Name of the Rose!!! I could have put any of Eco's novel in my list, but TNotR is his best I think. Nice list!!!

[HorrorScribe]

In alphabetical order by author:

Kealan Patrick Burke - The Master of the Moors
Simon Clark - Vampyrrhic
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Ray Garton - Ravenous
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Stephen King - Needful Things
Richard Matheson - What Dreams May Come
Anne Rice - Violin
Peter Straub - Under Venus
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

These are books that all made an impact on me for one reason or another, and they all still resonate with me. I'm sure that I forgot many more books that deserve to be on this list, but because the titles above appear here, they're right where they belong.

[noigeloverlord]

I'm gonna list top 10 books all with dif writers because other wise I will only have 3 writers listed

1. Freakshow - Bryan Smith
2. The Rising/City Of The Dead - BrianKeene yes I concider it 1 book
3. Swan Song - Robert McCammon
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Primative J.F. Gonzalez
6. The Bottoms - Joe R. Lansdale
7. The Traveling Vampire Show - Richard Laymon
8. Pressure - Jeff Strand
9. Infernal Trilogy - Edward Lee
10.

[jmcraven]

Hard list to compile. At first, I thought, Sheez... I have read 10 books, haven't I? The I start ticking them off in my head, and I think, How can I choose only 10??

I'll go with these, but I can't order them. The order would probably change daily, anyway, based on my mood.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
The Boys from Brazil, Levin
The Silence of the Lambs, Harris
The Stand, SK
Dracula, Stoker
The Short Stories, Hemingway
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis
All the King's Men, Warren
Education of a Wandering Man, L'Amour
On the Beach, Shute

[srboone]

Like to see love for The Sword of Shannara!!!

After a standard, but not unentertaining, beginning (about 300 pages), Brooks takes off on his own flights of imagination and the result is a highly enjoyable fantasy yarn.

Kelset is an extraordinary creation and is one of my favorite characters in all of fantasy literature.

[larryki]

sort of order I read them:
Princess of Mars by ERB
LOTR
Salem's Lot
Watchers by Koontz
Wolf's Hour by McCammon
Sword of Shannara by Brooks
Magician by Feist
Lightning by Koontz
The Stand
Swan Song

[Greg Lee]

In no particular order, except for the first book…

CARRION COMFORT by Dan Simmons
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW by Clive Barker
THE SHINING by Stephen King
SWAN SONG by Robert R McCammon
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
BLACKBURN by Bradley Denton
THE EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty
THE HYPERION novels by Dan Simmons (I’m counting 4 books as 1 here)
THE DEAD ZONE by Stephen King
TWILIGHT EYES by Dean Koontz

I could have ended up with several more Simmons novels and a few other King as well.

Greg

[Tito_Villa]

Hahaha opinions are great things & i didn't put rats in the list :P

[frik51]

Noooooo i really love those Herbert books, i'm tempted to replace Salem's Lot for W&G

I'm sorry, Tom, but Herbert doesn't even come close to what King does.
It has been years since I read on of his (Herbert's) books, so maybe I should get re-acquainted with him.

Rats I remember well - lots of blood and guts, no substance, though.

sk

[Tito_Villa]

I just fouund TDOTT bogged down by too much description and explination at times, especially with Susannah's part. In comparison i love the action with the wolves and the mystery of the stolen children in DT 5

[srboone]

Noooooo i really love those Herbert books, i'm tempted to replace Salem's Lot for W&G

And The Drawing of the Three is the worst one in my opinion, still great but not the best

I at least gave you the benfit of the doubt on Herbert's books as I've never read anything by him.

But TDot3 subbing for 'Salem' Lot would be acceptable. But Dot3 the worst? Compared to The Wolves of the Calla?

[Tito_Villa]

As it is mine!
So, just leave out one of Herbert's books and place W&G where it belongs!

sk

Noooooo i really love those Herbert books, i'm tempted to replace Salem's Lot for W&G

And The Drawing of the Three is the worst one in my opinion, still great but not the best

[srboone]

Negative, Ghost Rider. Remove The Hobbit and give The Drawing of the Three it's due place of honor!