GMG's 99 Most Entertaining Books Ever Written!

[Gurn Blanston]

Have to admit I was fairly stunned to not see this posted yet. Hopefully I just overlooked it. Since choosing is too difficult;

COMPLETE WORKS - Mark Twain

[karlhenning]

Have to admit I was fairly stunned to not see this posted yet. Hopefully I just overlooked it. Since choosing is too difficult;

COMPLETE WORKS - Mark Twain

That's fair; I think practically anything of his I have read, is entertaining.

[Keemun]

TEATRO GROTTESCO - Thomas Ligotti
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - Agatha Christie
DUNE - Frank Herbert

[MN Dave]

LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - Thomas Harris
PET SEMATARY - Stephen King
THE CYBERIAD - Stanislaw Lem
THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN - Steven Erikson
THE ROYAL FAMILY - William Vollmann
MRS. CALDWELL SPEAKS TO HER SON - Camilo Cela
THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY - Nicholson Baker
THANK YOU, JEEVES - PG Wodehouse
WATER MUSIC - TC Boyle
LEXICON OF MUSICAL INVECTIVE - Nicolas Slonimsky
YEAR IN PROVENCE - Peter Mayle
CASTLE RACKRENT - Maria Edgeworth
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO - Anne Radcliffe
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM - Norman Hunter
THE DA VINCI CODE - Dan Brown
THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - Andre Dubus III
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - Alexandre Dumas
THE END OF THE ROAD - John Barth
THE SIRENS OF TITAN -  Kurt Vonnegut
CATCH-22 - Joseph Heller
HANTARAM - Gregory David Roberts
THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE - Haruki Murakami
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Don Winslow
ENTER PSMITH - P.G. Wodehouse
COLLECTED LETTERS (3 vols) - C.S. Lewis
THE RUPERT BEAR ANNUAL (any year will do)
PANDORA'S STAR/JUDAS UNCHAINED - Peter F Hamilton
STILL-LIFE WITH WOODPECKER - Tom Robbins
PASTORALIA - George Saunders
THE LOST CONTINENT - Bill Bryson
THE COMPLETE CALVIN & HOBBES - Bill Watterson
THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London
THE HUMAN APE - Desmond Morris
THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy
VERNON GOD LITTLE - DBC Pierre
THE GREAT GAME - Peter Hopkirk
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS - Paul Kennedy
THE CIVIL WAR: A NARRATIVE VOL. 1-3- Shelby Foote
BASEBALL AMERICA- Donald Honig
LORD OF THE RINGS- JRR Tolkien
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY - Doug Adams
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG - Lester Bangs
THE HORSE IS DEAD - Robert Kane
LOLITA - Vladimir Nabokov
COMPLETE WORKS - Mark Twain
TEATRO GROTTESCO - Thomas Ligotti
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - Agatha Christie
DUNE - Frank Herbert
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*Please pick three, folks. Use the above format [title in caps, space dash space, author's name] Thanks!

[MN Dave]

TEATRO GROTTESCO - Thomas Ligotti
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - Agatha Christie
DUNE - Frank Herbert

My man! 

[Keemun]

Dave, have you read Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer?  It was reissued earlier this year and I'm making my way though it now.

[MN Dave]

Dave, have you read Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer?  It was reissued earlier this year and I'm making my way though it now.

Yep. I own the original paperback. 

[karlhenning]

Feeling some regret that my trio doesn't include Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ...

[karlhenning]

TTT

Our work here is not done!

[Brahmsian]

THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU - H.G. Wells
THE PERFECT STORM - Sebastian Junger
THE GODFATHER - Mario Puzo

[karlhenning]

Good choices, Ray.

[MN Dave]

LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - Thomas Harris
PET SEMATARY - Stephen King
THE CYBERIAD - Stanislaw Lem
THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN - Steven Erikson
THE ROYAL FAMILY - William Vollmann
MRS. CALDWELL SPEAKS TO HER SON - Camilo Cela
THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY - Nicholson Baker
THANK YOU, JEEVES - PG Wodehouse
WATER MUSIC - TC Boyle
LEXICON OF MUSICAL INVECTIVE - Nicolas Slonimsky
YEAR IN PROVENCE - Peter Mayle
CASTLE RACKRENT - Maria Edgeworth
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO - Anne Radcliffe
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM - Norman Hunter
THE DA VINCI CODE - Dan Brown
THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - Andre Dubus III
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - Alexandre Dumas
THE END OF THE ROAD - John Barth
THE SIRENS OF TITAN -  Kurt Vonnegut
CATCH-22 - Joseph Heller
HANTARAM - Gregory David Roberts
THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE - Haruki Murakami
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Don Winslow
ENTER PSMITH - P.G. Wodehouse
COLLECTED LETTERS (3 vols) - C.S. Lewis
THE RUPERT BEAR ANNUAL (any year will do)
PANDORA'S STAR/JUDAS UNCHAINED - Peter F Hamilton
STILL-LIFE WITH WOODPECKER - Tom Robbins
PASTORALIA - George Saunders
THE LOST CONTINENT - Bill Bryson
THE COMPLETE CALVIN & HOBBES - Bill Watterson
THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London
THE HUMAN APE - Desmond Morris
THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy
VERNON GOD LITTLE - DBC Pierre
THE GREAT GAME - Peter Hopkirk
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS - Paul Kennedy
THE CIVIL WAR: A NARRATIVE VOL. 1-3- Shelby Foote
BASEBALL AMERICA- Donald Honig
LORD OF THE RINGS- JRR Tolkien
HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY - Doug Adams
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG - Lester Bangs
THE HORSE IS DEAD - Robert Kane
LOLITA - Vladimir Nabokov
COMPLETE WORKS - Mark Twain
TEATRO GROTTESCO - Thomas Ligotti
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - Agatha Christie
DUNE - Frank Herbert
THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES - Paul Auster
EARTHLY POWERS - Anthony Burgess
NORWEGIAN WOOD - Haruki Murakami
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU - H.G. Wells
THE PERFECT STORM - Sebastian Junger
THE GODFATHER - Mario Puzo
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*Please pick three, folks. Use the above format [title in caps, space dash space, author's name] Thanks!

[The new erato]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[Florestan]

Atlas Shrugged.

I sometimes wonder who'd be the best choice for John Galt in a Hollywood production --- Woody Allen or Danny de Vito? 

[karlhenning]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Nicely played!

[DavidW]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Now there is the post of the week!

[matti]

Jaroslav Hasek: The Good Soldier Švejk
Chekhov: The Complete Short Stories
Mika Waltari: Sinuhe, the Egyptian

(About the last one: a friend of mine to whom I gave the English translation of the book told me this one was the first book his son, suffering from dyslexia, read through and enjoeyd it. And it is a THICK one.)

[Florestan]

Mika Waltari: Sinuhe, the Egyptian

(About the last one: a friend of mine to whom I gave the English translation of the book told me this one was the first book his son, suffering from dyslexia, read through and enjoeyd it. And it is a THICK one.)

Actually, everything by Waltari is worth reading. He really knew his history and the characters are completely of their time in all his books.

[Antoine Marchand]

Maybe 99 is a number too large to do any useful recommendation, but I have always related Ethan Canin's name with big fun, especially this novel: