Name your top ten favorite books

hm, 10? i'll give you one of them

The Great Gatsby

walden, hd thoreau

all anyone needs~!

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

To Kill A Mockingbird...Harper Lee

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

American Psycho (really anything BEE) - Bret Easton Ellis

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Bright Lights Big City - Jay Mcinerey

His Dark Materials (the whole trilogy) - Philip Pullman

My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk

Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

The Stranger (really anything Camus) - Albert Camus

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Be Here Now by Ram Dass (if you're ready... whoo boy, this'll kick you in the ass)

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

World Book Encyclopedia

1984

The Great Gatsby

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

The Fountainhead

The Lord of the Rings

All the King's Men by RP Warren

Those are my real favorites... they are all pretty cliche choices (except maybe Be Here Now), but there's a reason why they are so well respected.

Blood Meridian -Cormac McCarthy

Suttree -Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men -McCarthy

The Border Trilogy- McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain)

Child of God- McCarthy

The Orchard Keeper- McCarthy

The Road- McCarthy

Mason Dixon- Thomas Pynchon

Phineas wrote:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

American Psycho (really anything BEE) - Bret Easton Ellis

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Bright Lights Big City - Jay Mcinerey

His Dark Materials (the whole trilogy) - Philip Pullman

My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk

Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

The Stranger (really anything Camus) - Albert Camus

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Separate Peace??!?!?? That book was a homoerotic piece of literary crap!!!

westxrunner wrote:

Phineas wrote:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

American Psycho (really anything BEE) - Bret Easton Ellis

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Bright Lights Big City - Jay Mcinerey

His Dark Materials (the whole trilogy) - Philip Pullman

My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk

Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

The Stranger (really anything Camus) - Albert Camus

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Separate Peace??!?!?? That book was a homoerotic piece of literary crap!!!

Let me guess, you were forced to read it for school. To each his own.

Henry Miller

Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky

War and Peace - Tolstoy

American Pastoral - Philip Roth

Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor

The German Lesson- Siegfried Lenz

Breakheart Hill - Thomas H. Cook

Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle

Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

Phineas wrote:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

American Psycho (really anything BEE) - Bret Easton Ellis

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Bright Lights Big City - Jay Mcinerey

His Dark Materials (the whole trilogy) - Philip Pullman

My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk

Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

The Stranger (really anything Camus) - Albert Camus

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

J.M. is the biggest piece of trash since...Bret Easton Ellis.

Top 9:

A Sense of Where You Are - John McPhee

Trinity - Leon Uris

Life at these Speeds - Jeremy Jackson

Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks

Immortality - Milan Kundera

Plato's Republic

Paula - Isabel Allende

The Real Diary of a Real Boy - Henry Shute

Honorable mention:

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Bowerman and the Men of Oregon - Kenny Moore

The Silence of Great Distance - Frank Murphy

Ireland - Frank Delany

There are many books I love...

Among them,

- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

- Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud

- The Holy Terrors, Jean Cocteau

- The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet

- Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

- Sanctuary, William Faulkner

- The Very Lowly, Christian Bobin

- Phaedra, Jean Racine

- Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen

- Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

I could also add works from Alberto Moravia, André Gide, Albert Camus, Bret Easton Ellis (yes!), Paul Verlaine, Paul Valery, Alexander Pushkin...

I spent a lot of time reading as a child.

Into the Wild

On the Road

Top ten favorite books (in no particular order)

Catch-22- Heller

Picture This- Heller

As I Lay Dying-Faulkner

Lord of the Flies-Golding

1984-Orwell

Native Son-Richard Wright

Plato's Republic (I second this whoever mentioned it)

Catcher in the Rye- Salinger; cliche I know,but a great book

The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald

Of Mice and Men

seriously,,,,,,,,,, wrote:

J.M. is the biggest piece of trash since...Bret Easton Ellis.

Again, to each his own. I've only read BLBC from Mcinerey, never his writing on wine or other fiction. BLBC was pretty original when it came out (though was copied considerably) and just plain interesting to read something in the second person. I enjoyed this version of hitting rock bottom, then ultimately moving on. Mcinerey's writing also flows very well. Much like anything by BEE it's either love it or hate it, no in between.

seriously,,,,,,,,,, feel free to show us your excellent taste in books.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Dusty, I'll steal Enduring Love, Master and Margarita, and Dostoevsky from your list.

I'll also add Cyrano de Bergerac, by Rostand, to my list--sheer beauty!