Here's a hard question for all my #readers and #writers
... What are your top five favorite #books?
Here's mine:
1. Insomnia - Stephen King
2. The Talisman - Stephen King and Peter Straub
3. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
4. Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
5. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
... What are your top five favorite #books?
Here's mine:
1. Insomnia - Stephen King
2. The Talisman - Stephen King and Peter Straub
3. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
4. Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
5. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
Comments
1. The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
2. Everville - Clive Barker
3. Moonheart - Charles De Lint
4. Sigma series by James Rollins. Or The Order of the Sanguines with Rebecca Cantrell.
5. Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
Oh I forgot Feist. And Stephen King. And Discovery of Witches. And the Obernewtyn Series by Isobelle Carmody. And the other Barker books. Oh and Mythago Wood by Holdstock. And Deverry Cycle. And...
A powerful book from the 2000s is Gateway, by Frederick Pohl. Character Drama with Sci Fi Mystery, a must read.
Ubik, by Philip K Dick, powerful enough to haunt me for life with it's hypothetical implications
Folly by Laurie R King
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
All of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
and, Ive not read them for years but I loved them back when.. The Martin Beck novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö
2) The Stand
3) Lord of the Rings trilogy
4) Skinny Legs and All
5) Ulysses
Fairytale was on my shortlist though …
1. Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle
2. Lydia Millet - A Children's Bible
3. NK Jemisin - Broken Earth Trilogy
4. Stephen King - IT
5. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Stick - Elmore Leonard
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Boy swallows universe - Trent Dalton
Greta and Valdin - Rebecca Reilly
A slightly edited list, to make me seem more widely read than I am
2. Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
3. Wicked Beyond Belief, The Hunt for The Yorkshire Ripper - Michael Bilton
4. Gulag, A History - Anne Applebaum
5. Wise Guy - Nicolas Pileggi
The Italian, by Arturo Pérez Reverte
The Dumas Club, by Arturo Pérez Reverte
Eon, by Greg Bear
Eternity, by Greg Bear
A more comprehensive list when I have time to think
2. Caliban’s War by James SA Corey (The Expanse)
3. Prince of the Blood by Raymond Feist
4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5. The Skystone by Jack Whyte
How to choose! Is it ones that I’ve reread most often? Or that have had the most impact? Or the most fun to read?
2. Wheel of time - Robert Jordan
3. Harry Potter (series)
4. Spillover - David Quammen
5. Dragonriders of Pern (any) - Anne McCaffery
2. Watership Down
3. Gormenghast
4. Phantom of the Opera
5. So hard... Lolita? Storm of Swords? Silence of the Lambs? I might have to go with Moominland Midwinter
2. Cannery Row – Steinbeck
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
4. The Deptford Trilogy – Robertson Davies
5. Street of Crocodiles – Bruno Schulz
2.IT- Stephen King
3. Neverending story
4.The Fourth Protocol- Federick Forsyth
5. Watchers- Dean R Koontz
But I think I’d have to say A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.