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May I Please Speak to the Complaints Department ([info]ladybirdsleeps) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2004-08-07 19:06:00


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Your top twenty books.
[info]naienko mentioned in this literary wank that she'd like to see what everyone's top twenty books are. I kicked the bitch down, stole her lunch money (and this idea), and here we are.

What are your top twenty? Feel free to interpret "top twenty" to whatever you want (within reason), 'cause we all have different ideas about what makes a book great.

(I'm posting mine in comments later because I've got company just pulling up in the drive. Besides, none of you care. ~_^)



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[info]iczer6
2004-08-08 12:31 am UTC (link)
Well for me it's

1. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

2. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling.

3. The Dark Tower by Stephen King

4. Animal Farm by George Orwell

5. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

6. Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

7. The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton

8. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

9. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

10. Angel Sanctuary by Kaori Yuki

11. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

12. The Great Gastby by F. Scott Fiztgerald

13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

14. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

15. The Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison

16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

17. The Wizard of Oz series by L. Frank Baum

18. Dune by Frank Herbert

19. Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura

20. Julius Ceaser by William Shakespear

Do I make in?

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[info]tekenduis
2004-08-08 12:35 am UTC (link)
This was WAY harder than I expected it to be...

1) A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
2) Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
3) Good Omens - Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman
4) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
5) Y Mabinogion
6) The Mitrokhin Archive - Vasiliy Mitrokhin / Chris Andrews
7) KGB: The Inside Story - Oleg Gordievsky / Chris Andrews
8) By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
9) No More Dead Dogs - Gordon Korman
10) Coraline - Neil Gaiman
11) An Earthly Knight - Janet McNaughton
12) Tithe - Holly Black
13) War of the Flowers - Tad Williams
14) Amphigorey (Too, Also) - Edward Gorey (Ogdred Weary!)
15) Tam Lin
16) Harry Potter - JK Rowling
17) Some Dogs Do - Jez Alborough
18) The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
19) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
20) Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-08-10 08:02 pm UTC
Yay!
[info]naienko
2004-08-08 12:35 am UTC (link)
Yay! Thanks, ladybird. Must make list now ...

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Re: Yay! - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 12:55 am UTC
Re: Yay! - allen, 2004-08-08 04:17 am UTC
Re: Yay! - [info]cie_anthy, 2004-08-08 04:19 am UTC
Re: Yay! - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 04:32 am UTC
Re: Yay! - [info]cie_anthy, 2004-08-08 04:46 am UTC
Re: Yay! - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 04:52 am UTC
Re: Yay! - (Anonymous), 2004-08-08 08:42 am UTC
Re: Yay! - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-08 06:19 pm UTC

[info]llama_treats
2004-08-08 01:30 am UTC (link)
My favorites, in no particular order:

1) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and sequels) - Douglas Adams
2) House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson
3) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
4) It Happened in Boston? - Russell H. Greenan
5) If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
6) The Star Diaries - Stanislaw Lem
7) The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
8) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
9) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World - Haruki Murakami
10) Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
11) The Roald Dahl Omnibus (short stories) - Roald Dahl
12) Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin
13) The Reprieve - Jean Paul Sartre
14) The Old Dog Barks Backwards - Ogden Nash
15) Ackroyd - Jules Feiffer
16) Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
17) The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
18) Side Effects - Woody Allen
19) Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
20) The Harry Potter Books - JK Rowling

(This is why I will gladly be rejected from the finer literary circles. Hooray!)

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[info]teratologist
2004-08-08 02:03 am UTC (link)
Not really in order:

1.) The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky
2.) Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
3.) Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
4.) The Amateur Naturalist by Gerald Durrell
5.) The Monk by Matthew Lewis
6.) The Complete Works of Poe
7.) New York State Folktales, Legends, and Ballads by Harold W. Thompson
8.) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
9.) Letters from Earth by Mark Twain
10.) The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen
11.) Mr Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam by Kenneth Marlowe
12.) Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey
13.) Weaveworld by Clive Barker
14.) The Harry Potter series, regarded as a unified work
15.) The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
16.) H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (contains Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature and 21 of the stories he cites.)
17.) Any collection of H. P. Lovecraft's short stories that doesn't run too heavily to the Dream stories, preferably including The Rats in the Walls and Herbert West - Reanimator.
18.) King Lear with the Ian Pollack illustrations
19.) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
20.) The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (in a volume with other stories, including most especially The Bodysnatchers.)

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OoooO! - [info]fuzzytowers, 2004-08-08 01:39 pm UTC
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[info]25th_of_april
2004-08-08 02:16 am UTC (link)
I'm sure no one cares but..well, I like books :) In no particular order...

1. Everything Is Illuminated- Jonathan Safran Foer
2. The World According to Garp- John Irving
3. Set This House In Order- Matt Ruff
4. The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
5. The Dreyus Affair- Peter Lefcourt
6. In the Hand of the Goddess- Tamora Pierce
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chlbosky
8. House at Pooh Corner- AA Milne
9. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH- Robert C O'Brian
10. Pins- Jim Provenzano
11. Hotel New Hampshire- John Irving
12. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers
13. Fool on the Hill- Matt Ruff
14. Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
15. Lioness Rampant- Tamora Pierce
16. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
17. Where I'm Calling From- Raymond Carver
18. Naked- David Sedaris
19. Fluke- Christopher Moore
20. Dupont Circle- Paul Kafka-Gibbons

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(no subject) - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 04:21 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]teratologist, 2004-08-08 09:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]25th_of_april, 2004-08-09 12:17 am UTC
In No Particular Order:
[info]littlest_lurker
2004-08-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes On Returning To America After 20 Years Away - Bill Bryson
3. The Giver - Lois Lowry
4. The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
5. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
7. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
8. The Voyage of the Basset - James C. Christensen
9. Dune - Frank Herbert
10. Into the Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson
11. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
12. A Wrinkle in Time - Madelene L' Engle
13. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
14. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
15. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
16. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
17. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
18. Horrible Histories - Terry Deary, with Martin Brown
19. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
20. Holes - Louis Sacher

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Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]lulinda, 2004-08-08 02:37 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-08-08 03:00 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]telophase, 2004-08-08 04:01 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-08-08 04:24 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]telophase, 2004-08-08 04:27 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]chash, 2004-08-08 04:29 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-08-08 04:57 am UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-08 06:22 pm UTC
Re: In No Particular Order: - [info]teratologist, 2004-08-08 09:07 pm UTC

[info]lulinda
2004-08-08 02:34 am UTC (link)
Eek, am I am mainstream lowbrow type or what?

1. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
2. Barrytown Trilogy (specifically, The Van), Roddy Doyle
3. House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
4. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
5. The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux
6. American Tabloid, James Elroy
7. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
8. White Jazz, James Elroy
9. Up at the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
10. Playland, John Gregory Dunne
11. The Alienist, Caleb Carr
12. Ball Four, Jim Bouton
13. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
14. The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
15. White Jazz, James Elroy
16. Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy (yeah, yeah...)
17. Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
18. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
19. Claudius the God, Robert Graves (like this one less than I, Claudius)
20. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

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[info]oysteria
2004-08-08 02:55 am UTC (link)
In no particular order:

1) Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi. Yes, it's technically fourteen volumes--but I've read it five times, and I could read it a dozen more, because it's one of the best love stories ever.
2) The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester.
3) The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin.
4) The Little House on the Prarie series, Laura Ingalls Wilder. So there.
5) Tam Lin, Pamela Dean.
6) Gnome Man's Land, Esther Friesner.
7) Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold.
8) Commitment Hour, James Alan Gardner.
9) The first Amber series, Roger Zelazny.
10) Metamorphoses, Ovid.
11) The Wake from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (volume ten, I think).
12) Hamlet, Shakespeare.
13) The Arabian Nights--not just any version, but a particular version I was given as a child that devotes a fair amount of text to Shaharazad herself.
14) Aesop's Fables.
15) Drowned Ammet, Diana Wynne Jones.
16) The collected Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle.
17) Antigone, Sophocles.
18) The Warlock in Spite of Himself, Christopher Stasheff (narrowly beating out L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall or The Roaring Trumpet, mainly because Stasheff is funnier).
19) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams.
20) The Kestral, Lloyd Alexander.

Uh...technically, this is more like my top fifty books...

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[info]sepiamagpie
2004-08-08 03:02 am UTC (link)
hmm.

1. Many Things By Terry Pratchett (Jingo, Small Gods and Pyramids especially. I wish I could recall that one science fiction novel...)

2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

3. Good Omens by the above

4. Neverending Story by some german dude

5. Lullaby by Chuck Palanhiuk (proper spelling pending)

6. Thief Lord by another german

7. Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones

8. Spider Robinson's short story collections (not his damn novels)

9. I want to go home by Gordon Korman

and. dear god. I read regularily but I can't even reach ten on a top twenty list.

woe.

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(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-08 06:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2004-08-08 09:40 pm UTC
Top 30...restrained from doing top 50...
[info]wankprophet
2004-08-08 03:33 am UTC (link)
1. Labyrinths / Ficciones / hell, anything by... ~ Jorge Luis Borges
2. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" [untranslated because I don't need no goddamn translation] ~ the Pearl Poet
3. The Cement Garden ~ Ian McEwan
4. Adam Bede ~ George Eliot
5. The Middleman and Other Stories ~ Bharati Mukherjee
6. The "Wizard of Earthsea" trilogy ~ Ursula LeGuin
7. Name of the Rose ~ Umberto Eco
8. De divisione naturae ~ Johannes Scotus Erigena
9. Orientalism ~ Edward Said
10. Ancient Evenings ~ Norman Mailer
11. Tristram Shandy ~Laurence Sterne
12. As I Lay Dying ~ William Faulkner
13. Alice's Adventures in WOnderland / Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There ~ Lewis Carroll
14. From Dawn to Decadence ~ Jacques Barzun
15. Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels ~ Douglas Adams
16. The Tale of Genj ~ Lady Murasaki Shikibu (can't find my copy to note the translator right now)
17. Essays ~ Michel de Montaigne
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Marquez, of course
19. The Things They Carried ~ Tim O'Brien
20. The Fixer ~ Bernard Malamud
21. The Alliterative Morte Arthure followed by the Stanzaic Morte Arthure
22. Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum [once untranslated, doubtful I could still manage that well] ~ Bede
23. Beloved ~ Toni Morrison
24. The Colonizer and the Colonized Albert Memmi
25. The Myth of Sisyphus ~ Camus
26. the collected "Archy and Mehitabel" ~ Don Marquis
27. The Phenomenology of Mind ~ Hegel
28. Wycliffe's Sermons ~ John Wycliff
29 rough the Dark Continent, or, The sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean ~ Henry Stanley
30. Woman on the Edge of Time ~ Marge Piercy

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Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 04:03 am UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 04:25 am UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 04:31 am UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 04:34 am UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 04:40 am UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]naienko, 2004-08-08 04:50 am UTC
Hmmmm... - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 09:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kyuuketsukirui, 2004-08-08 06:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 04:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kyuuketsukirui, 2004-08-08 09:10 pm UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-08-09 04:56 pm UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - (Anonymous), 2004-08-08 02:49 pm UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 08:49 pm UTC
Re: Top 30...restrained from doing top 50... - [info]oysteria, 2004-08-08 05:36 pm UTC
Said - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 08:51 pm UTC
Apropos of nothing [and I spelt something wrong there] - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-08 06:32 pm UTC
Re: Apropos of nothing [and I spelt something wrong there] - [info]wankprophet, 2004-08-08 08:57 pm UTC
Re: Apropos of nothing [and I spelt something wrong there] - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2004-08-08 09:01 pm UTC
Re: Apropos of nothing [and I spelt something wrong there] - [info]sewingmyfish, 2004-08-09 02:20 am UTC

[info]gaisce
2004-08-08 03:44 am UTC (link)
1. "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
2. "The Collected Works of T.S. Elliot"
3. "Taran Wanderer" by Lloyd Alexander
4. "Shade's Children" by Garth Nix
5. "Kingdom Come" by Mark Waid
6. "Othello" by William Shakespeare
7. "A Treasury of Mark Twain"
8. "Planet Ladder" by Yuri Narushima
9. "Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain" by Jeffery Moore
10. "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Lavigne
11. "The Skull of Truth" by Bruce Coville
12. "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
13. "Night" by Eli Wiesel
14. "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
15. "Smoke and Mirrors" by Eluki Bes Shahar
16. "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett
17. "The Dream Master" by Roger Zelazny
18. "Blade of the Immortal" by Hiroaki Samura
19. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury
20. "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

No particular order yadda yadda yadda...

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[info]deoridhe
2004-08-08 03:47 am UTC (link)
I'm doubling up authors and series, hope no one minds. ^_^

1. Night of Power and Mindkiller, by Spider Robinson
2. Ring of Endless Light (and others of those series), by Madeline L'Engle
3. The Blue Sword and Beauty, by Robin McKinley
4. The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
5. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
6. Anything by CLAMP
7. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin
8. Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, by the sisters Bronte
9. Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynn Jones
10. Fool's Run and The Riddle Master Trilogy, by Patricia McKillip
11. Oathbreakers, by Mercedes Lackey
12. A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis
13. Strands of Starlight, by Gael Baudino
14. The Time Master Trilogy, by Louise Cooper
15. Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
16. The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper
17. The Hounds of the MOrrigan by Pat O'Shea
18. The Master of White Storm, by Janny Wurts
19. Lord Valentine's Castle, by Rober Silverburg
20. The Princess and the Goblin by George McDOnald
21. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
22. Dreamsnake, by Vonda McIntyre
23. Good Omens by Terry Prattchett and Neil Gaiman

...*stops raiding library, looking slightly guilty*

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[info]cie_anthy
2004-08-08 03:49 am UTC (link)
1. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
2. A Bridge of Birds (and its two sequels) by Barry Hughart
3. Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc (various, but the first is the best)
4. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
5. Geisha by Liza Dalby
6. Kimono also by Liza Dalby
7. Basic Writings by Xunzi (Hsün Tzu)*
8. The Book of Songs
9. The Grand Scribe's Record by Sima Qian (Ssu-Ma Ch'ien)*
10. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
11. Tigana by Guy Gavariel Kay
12. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
13. The Collected Works of Hans Christian Anderson
14. The Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold
15. The Curse of Chalion series also by Lois McMaster Bujold
16. The Divine Comedy by Dante
17. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
18. Hamlet by Shakespeare
19. Les Miserables (Abridged only, I'm afraid, the original is too drawn out for me) by Victor Hugo
20. The Tale of Genj by Murasaki Shikibu

*Alternate spellings of the author's name in parentheses

Wow, that was really, really hard. There are so many other books that I love, but only as a sort of fluffy read, and I wouldn't call them my 'favorites'. Of course, I know I'm going to smack myself later and go 'Oh! That book! I should have put that one on the list!'

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[info]telophase
2004-08-08 04:14 am UTC (link)
No particular order, again. These are mostly books I keep coming back to, like old friends.

1) Tales of the Flat Earth Tanith Lee (Yes I know it's five books, dammit, leave me alone!
2) Blade of the Immortal Hiroaki Samura
3) Transmetroploitan
4) Lord of the Rings
5) Alan Mendohlson, the Boy from Mars Daniel Pinkwater
6) Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers
7) Steven Brusts's Jhereg books (what? no, I'm not going to pick one!)
8) Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series
9) The Book of the New Sun, all four volumes, by Gene Wolfe
10) The Black Company series by Glen Cook
11) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
12) the Green Knowe series by L. M. Boston
13) the Mary Poppins series by P.L. Travers
14) The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy
15) Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (I cna't wait for the Miyazaki movie!)
16) Road Fever by Tim Cahill
17) The Global Soul by Pico Iyer
18) Cotillion Georgette Heyer
19) Harry Potter
20) The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner

Ask me again next week and these will ahve completely changed, of course.

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[info]chash
2004-08-08 04:25 am UTC (link)
I ended up doing this same thing in my LJ. So yeah, my list:

1. I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
2. The Invention of Love (Tom Stoppard)
3. Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
4. Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
5. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie)
6. The Children of Green Knowe (Lucy M. Boston)
7. The Voyage of the Basset (James C. Christensen)
8. Pigs in Heaven (Barbara Kingsolver)
9. If on a winter's night a traveler (Italo Calvino)
10. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
11. The Wainscott Weasel (Tom Seidler)
12. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
13. A Shropshire Lad (A.E. Housman)
14. Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
15. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
16. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
17. Many Waters (Madeline L'Engle)
18. The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman)
19. The Boxcar Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner)
20. The View From Saturday (E.L. Koenigsberg)

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[info]naienko
2004-08-08 04:27 am UTC (link)
Anybody else noticing a distinct trend toward listing series and/or 'anything by author'? I know there's about three on my list, and at least half the lists up to now have at least one series listed.

Does that make us better read, or just more indecisive?

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[info]kijikun
2004-08-08 04:40 am UTC (link)
In no order at all:
1. The Hero with a thoundand faces - Joseph Campbell
2. Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
3. The Arabian Nights
4. Harry Potter - JK Rowling
5. Witches -
6. The House with the clock in its Walls
7. Eleanor of Aquitaine - Alison Weir
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. Beowulf
10. Eaters of the Dead (13th Warrior)
11. Hungry Lighting - Pei-lin Yu
12. Dead men do tell tales
13: Dealing with Dragons – Patricia C Wrede
14: Prince Bride
15: All of Sherlock Holmes
16:: Hamlet - Shakesphere
17: Grimm Faire Tales
19: Snow white and Rose Red - Patricia C. Wrede
20: Dracula

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[info]pokecheck
2004-08-08 04:55 am UTC (link)
No order.

1. Henry V Shakespeare (let's just get that out of the way)
2. The Belgariad, David Eddings (yes, I like the Belgariad and I don't like Lord of the Rings.)
3. All Creatures Great and Small etc., James Herriot
4. The Little Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupery (original and in translation)
5. Bleak House, Dickens
6. The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Edward Gorey
7. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
8. In the Bin: Reckless and Rude Stories from the Penalty Boxes of the NHL, Lloyd Freeberg
9. Captain Corelli's MandolinLouis de Bernieres
10. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy and all his nature books
11. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
12. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Fanny Flagg
13. Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
14. Titus Groan and Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
15. 1066 and All That, Sellar and Yeatman
16. Dave Barry Does Japan, Dave Barry
17. Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder
18. Harry Potter series
19. Cabinet of Curiosities Lincon & Child
20. Elfquest Graphic novels 1-6, the Pinis

Boy, do I suck as an English grad student or what?

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[info]sewingmyfish
2004-08-08 05:27 am UTC (link)
starting with my favorite and then no order
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Dark Descent edidted by David Hartwell
The Hot Blood Series Various
Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
1984 George Orwell
Ghost Story Peter Straub
The Short Stories of H.P Lovecraft
Danse Macabre Stephen King
The Short stories of Flannery O'Connor
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegutt
Jazz Toni Morrison
The Short Stories of William Faulkner
The House Next Door Anne Rivers Siddon
To Kill a MockingBird Harper Lee
Night Shift Stephan King
The Harry Potter Books J.K Rowling
The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter
The Snow White, Blood Red series edited by Ellen Datlow

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[info]telophase
2004-08-08 05:59 am UTC (link)
Roald Dahl! How could I have forgotten Roald Dahl in my list??

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[info]pokecheck
2004-08-08 06:17 am UTC (link)
Erg. I forgot the Dark is Rising series.

Darn.

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[info]limyaael
2004-08-08 06:29 am UTC (link)
You sure can't tell... /sarcasm

1) The Sarantine Mosaic Duology by Guy Gavriel Kay.
2) The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay.
3) The A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.
4) Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett.
5) Night Watch, Terry Pratchett.
6) Dragon by Steven Brust.
7) The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust.
8) The Rai-kirah books, Carol Berg.
9) Blue Moon Rising, Simon R. Green. (Yes, it's gore and one-liners. I still like it).
10) The Black Company series, Glen Cook.
11) The Time Master Trilogy, Louise Cooper.
12) Poems and Ballads, First Series, Algernon Charles Swinburne.
13) "The Raven" and Other Poems, Edgar Allan Poe.
14) We, Zamyatin.
15) The Language of the Night, Ursula K. LeGuin.
16) The Whole Music of Passion: New Essays on Swinburne, by a whole bunch of people.
17) The Silmarillion, Tolkien.
18) Shadows Fall, Simon R. Green.
19) Big Trouble, Dave Barry.
20) The Shining, Stephen King.

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[info]eris
2004-08-08 06:31 am UTC (link)
I gotta try this...

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. Heck, all of Oscar Wilde.
2. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
3. Collected works of Philip Larkin
4. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
5. Anything by Frances and Joseph Gies
6. Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
7. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
8. Metamorphosis, Ovid
9. Short Stories of Franz Kafka
10. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
11. Teleny, Oscar Wilde and others (because I must mention this one specifically)
12. The Green Mile, Stephen King
13. Jane Erye, Bronte
14. Maurice, E. M. Forester
15. The Quiet American, Ghramn Greene
16. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
17. Hamlet, Shakespeare
18. Jurrassic Park, Michael Crichton (guilty pleasure)
19.Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
20. Many Histories Deep, Roger Bowen

Wow this was harder than I thought.

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2004-08-08 03:14 pm UTC

[info]beandelphiki
2004-08-08 07:24 am UTC (link)
Yikes! This is impossibly hard. How could I remember all the books I've ever read, and weigh them against each other? This is just out of what I remember. And I feel sad, because there are some that are just so close to making the list, but I can't add them - The Picture of Dorian Gray, for example, which I haven't finished yet. And the lack of sci-fi on this list bothers me.

I think I'm just taking that community too seriously, but top five hispanic lit? What? Top five colonial authors? Top five Muslim authors?

Apparently, in 19 years (well, 13 really) of avid reading, I've read very little.

Fiction

1. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card. [OBVIOUSLY! I like most of the rest of the Ender's Game series too, but I won't take up the list with 'em.]

Besides that, in no real order:

2. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien [Fuck everything else by Tolkien, but I know I really ought to include this one, as I think it changed my view of fantasy forever, even if I can barely remember it.]
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
6. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - George Orwell
8. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien [[info]25th_of_april reminded me.]
9. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Most stuff by Poe, especially The Pit and the Pendulum. [And a soft spot for The Tell-Tale Heart, since it was the first Poe I ever read, way back in 4th grade, and it scared me half to death.]
12. Matilda - Roald Dahl
13. The Great Gastby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Othello - Shakespeare. [Everyone especially loves this one?]
15. Naked - David Sedaris
16. A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle
17. C.S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. [I couldn't stand The Horse and His Boy, so I got no further in the Chronicles than that.]

Non-fiction

18. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait
19. The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late - Thomas Sowell
20. nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - Randall Kennedy

That all seems a little one-dimensional.

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