Favourite 10 books (can be non-fiction)

[vandermolen]

1 A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens

2 The Kite Runner: K. Hosseini

3 The Little Prince:Antoine de Saint Exupery

4 The Compleet Molesworth: Willans and Searle

5 Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky

6 Man's Search for Himself: Rollo May

7 Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

6 The Lord of The Rings: Tolkein

7 Tao Te Ching: Lao Tze

8 1984: Orwell

9 Tintin 'The Castafiore Emerald': Herge (perhaps I should start a Tintin thread  )

10 War and Peace: Tolstoy

Not in any order - I probably did this before but am bored with school work.

[Franco]

Cormac McCarthy   Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy   Child of God
Cormac McCarthy   Suttree
William Faulkner   Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner   Light in August
William Faulkner   The Snopes Trilogy: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
William Faulkner   Absalom, Absalom!
Joseph Conrad         Nostromo
Shelby Foote           The Civil War
Raymond Carver   Collected Stories

EDIT: Taking the suggestion from Scarpia, I did combine the three Snopes books into one entry but not to add the two he offered, but two others that had not previously made the cut.

[Sergeant Rock]

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

J.P. Donleavy The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B

John Berryman Sonnets

John Berryman The Dream Songs

LTGen Harold Moore We Were Soldiers Once...And Young

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer

Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

Joseph Heller Catch-22


Sarge

[Scarpia]

Cormac McCarthy   Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy   Child of God
Cormac McCarthy   Suttree
William Faulkner   Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner   Light in August
William Faulkner   The Hamlet
William Faulkner   The Town
William Faulkner   The Mansion
William Faulkner   Absalom, Absalom!
Raymond Carver   Collected Stories

If the Vandermolen can make The Lord of the Rings one entry, you can put the Hamlet, Town and Mansion into one, which would give you room for Intruder in the Dust and The Reivers.

[vandermolen]

If the Vandermolen can make The Lord of the Rings one entry, you can put the Hamlet, Town and Mansion into one, which would give you room for Intruder in the Dust and The Reivers.

Fair enough! 

[Antoine Marchand]

Today:

Jorge Luis Borges, Otras inquisiciones

Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson

Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes

Michel de Montaigne, Ensayos

Ethan Canin, For Kings and Planets

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cine o sardina/ Arcadia todas las noches/ Un oficio del siglo XX

William Blake, Complete Poems

[Drasko]

I'll stick with fiction

Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones

Anton Chekhov - Collected stories

Anton Chekhov - Collected plays

G.G.Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Danilo Kis - Tomb for Boris Davidovich

William Faulkner - Sanctuary

Borislav Pekic - The New Jerusalem

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Robert E. Howard - Chronicles of Conan

Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita

Feodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

[MN Dave]

Good lord. I'm not sure I can do this right. Oh well, in no specific order:

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN - Gene Wolfe
THE DHAMMAPADA
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER - Thomas Ligotti
CHRONICLES - Volume One - Bob Dylan
(most any collection) - Robert E. Howard
LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS - Kurt Vonnegut
LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy

(or something like that...)

[Franco]

Yeh I really really like Lonesome Dove too.  And The Liars Club (Mary Carr) - I think of them together since that's how I read them and they both blew me away.  But, I couldn't displace any of the McCarthy or Faulkner for the top ten.

[WI Dan]

NIV Study Bible
- Zondervan

Endurance
- Alfred Lansing

Bushcraft
- Mors Kochanski

The Walking Drum
- Louis L'Amour

The River of Doubt
- Candice Millard

John Adams
- David McCullough

A Fine and Pleasant Misery
- Patrick F. McManus

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain

The New Way of the Wilderness
- Calvin Rutstrum

The Journals of Lewis and Clark
- M. Lewis, W. Clark, Bernard DeVoto

[Fëanor]

   This sounds like fun:

Historiography (1):  The Rise of the West ~ William H. McNeill

Historiography (2):  Collapse ~ Jared Diamond

Historiography (3):  Guns, Germs, and Steel ~ Jared Diamond

Political Sociology:  Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics ~ Seymour Martin Lipset

Historical Biography:  Adolf Hitler ~ John Toland

Science Fiction:  The Book of the New Sun tetralogy ~ Gene Wolfe

Fantasy (1):  The Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Fantasy (2):  The Worm Ouroboros ~ E.R. Eddison

Historical Fiction:  Creation: a Novel ~ Gore Vidal

Fiction/Fantasy:  Grendel ~ John Gardner

[bhodges]

Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood
Robertson Davies: The Deptford Trilogy
Isaac Asimov: Nightfall and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

--Bruce

[Elgarian]

My 'desert island' choice of long-term favourites (they come and they go, but they're always around):

Non-fiction
John Ruskin: Modern Painters (5 vols, 1843-1860)
James Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson
C.S. Lewis: Collected Letters (3 vols)
Jerrold Northrop Moore: Edward Elgar. A Creative Life
Leslie Parris & Ian Fleming-Williams: Constable (Tate Gallery blockbuster exhibition catalogue, 1991)
William Gaunt: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy

Poetry
William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
Ted Hughes: Complete Poems

Fiction
William Morris: The Well at the World's End
C.P. Snow: The Search

[Elgarian]

CHRONICLES - Volume One - Bob Dylan

Nice one, Dave.

[MN Dave]

Nice one, Dave.

Thanks. Strangely enough, it's what got me into him. 

[Elgarian]

Thanks. Strangely enough, it's what got me into him. 

I'd imagined that his readers would be mostly long-term committed fans, but how nice to discover that they weren't.

[Todd]

I generally read much more non-fiction than fiction, so my list reflects that.  Most of the titles are books I've read in the last 5-6 years that struck me as particularly good, though a few long term favorites are in the mix (eg, Dostoevsky).

DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Daniel Yergin: The Prize
Peter Hopkirk: The Great Game
Bertrand Russell: Power
Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

[vandermolen]

Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood
Robertson Davies: The Deptford Trilogy
Isaac Asimov: Nightfall and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

--Bruce

I also enjoyed The Deptford Trilogy very much - I must read some more by Robertson Davies.

[MN Dave]

Franz Kafka: The Trial
Cormac McCarthy: The Road

Yep.

[Wanderer]

Today it would be:

La Cousine Bette (Balzac)

The Murderess (Papadiamantis)

Vanity Fair (Thackeray)

Les fleurs du mal (Baudelaire)

Jean-Christophe (Rolland)

Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Silmarillion/Unfinished Tales/Hobbit/Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)

Q ("Blissett")

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)

The Fall of Constantinople (Runciman)