List your favorite books

[Cuivienen]

So, I did a search and didn`t find a previous thread on this topic.

I, for one, am an avid reader and always interested in finding new good books to read. I think on this forum I might get some interesting suggestions. So tell me, which books you have read so far did you think were best/most interesting? :)

Some of my favorites are
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
-Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Physicists
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

[Bear Warp]

My favorites are:

-Dune by Frank Herbert
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (I also enjoyed his essay The Doors of Perception)
-American Gods by Neil Gaiman
-1984 by George Orwell

Also, I suggest reading some of Franz Kafka's short stories.

Some other books I've read, while not being my favorites, are good nonetheless, include:

-Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
-A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Tsuru]

Hmm, I think my 5 favorites (in order) are:

-The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
-The Devil's Notebook (Anton Lavey)
-Human, All too Human (Nietzsche)
-The Satanic Bible (Anton Lavey)
-Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

[Doppelbock]

In approximate order:

1. The Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. BEST. BOOK. EVER. You can read the first chapter for free, here (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).
2. Anything that Robert A. Heinlein ever wrote, up until about 1978 or so, after which time everything he wrote sucked. In particular, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (~1966?) and Orphans of the Sky (~1942?) are two of my very favorites.
3. The Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov.
4. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
5. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.
6. Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco.
7. Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.

[yondyr]

Good thread, Cuivienen, thanks.
Being a second hand book dealer in a small way, lots pass through my hands, few are retained. (I dare not, already I have a 20 foot shipping container densely shelved with reference books). The following titles that have affected me come to mind.
David Kahn - The Codebreakers (after reading this, the unabridged, and following its bibliography, I've wallowed in 20th century autobiographies ever since..how people were affected by WWII is fascinating.)
Colin Chapman - Whose Promised Land (an excellent analysis of current and ancient middle eastern politics)
George Martin - Tuf Voyaging (his fantasy series of Song of Fire and Ice was a fun read but this is a clever sci/fi tale regarding social engineering.)
Sheri Tepper - The Fresco ( the only author whose books I've enjoyed enough to retain to reread, this title a tour de force on sci/fi/fantasy political whimsy..a hoot)

[Danisty]

Elric (the whole series) - Michael Moorcock
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

[BadMojo]

Boy do I stand out lol - Now don't kill me.

Harry Potter 1 - 7 - J.K. Rowling
Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends - Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss
Interview with a vampire - Anne Rice
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I read the English translation)
Any book by Terry Pratchett

[yondyr]

(condemns BadMojo to Discworld for the rest of his natural life)

[BadMojo]

Can I have a wizards hat that spells Wizzard on the rim? :D

[Theoden]

I second CRYPTONOMICON as the best book ever, ever.

[DeepPurple]

A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Still is one of my favorites)
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Harry Potter series

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Kindred by Octavia Butler

I don't read nonfiction unless it has something to do with Education, Astrology, Personality typing, psychology, etc. With that said, I enjoy Grace Llewellyn and Myra and David Sadker books.

[yondyr]

(Reprieves BadMojo for his assistance with posting pics, but allows him his hat)

[wise]

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[HackerX]

My favorites are:

-Dune by Frank Herbert
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
-A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess



Elric (the whole series) - Michael Moorcock

Agreed.

Add to that:
- Temple by Matthew Reilly - For pure unadulterated action. Not as outright masterful as the above, but the only book I haven't been able to put down
- Any of H.P.Lovecraft's stories

[xhaan]

1. Webster's Dictionary (seriously)
2. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps by Bruce Pandolfini
3. The Story of the Irish Race, by Seumas MacManus
4. The Keltiad, series by Patricia Kennealy
5. The Wheel of Time, series by Robert Jordan

[Cuivienen]

Thanks for your answers; I found it interesting that some of you also seem to share my tastes in liking Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein.

Many of the other books you named looked very interesting as well, I`ll especially have a look at that Cryptonomicon book.
The specific reason for making this thread was that I got an Amazon Gift Coupon for christmas. Can`t wait for some new reading material :cheesy:

[xhaan]

Thanks for your answers; I found it interesting that some of you also seem to share my tastes in liking Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein.

Many of the other books you named looked very interesting as well, I`ll especially have a look at that Cryptonomicon book.
The specific reason for making this thread was that I got an Amazon Gift Coupon for christmas. Can`t wait for some new reading material :cheesy:

Heheh, I need to read some Ayn Rand. From what I've read about her, I don't agree at all, but I find nearly any view to be interesting.

[1OFMANY]

To Kill a Mockingbird
A Brave New World
The Dark Elf trilogy( RA Salvatore)
The Richard Marcinko series ( Red Cell etc)


Non-fiction doesnt count :P

[AJ]

A bit of a long list, but here are my all time favorites:

The Vampire Chronicle by Anne Rice
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky (Great portrayal of an INTJ mind)
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
The Lord of the Ring Trilogy and other books relating to Middle-Earth by Tolkien
Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
Siddthartha by Hesse
The Harry Potter Heptalogy
Brave New World - Huxley

[Pinkie]

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
... in fact, anything by Louis de Bernieres
Lots of poetry, especially stuff by e.e. cummings, W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats and Louis Macneice
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

I also really like a book called Plague's Progress by Arno Karlen. It's really interesting if you're into diseases and such like.

[Rohsiph]

Recently studied British Romantic poetry, & learned the joy of John Keats, and to a slightly lesser extent P. B. Shelley.

A high school English teacher recommended The Magus by John Fowles about a year after I finished high school. I finished reading it about a year after that :) and enjoyed it.

Through the Looking-glass & What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll is delightful.

[Antares]

My favorite books are:

-Harry Potter Series by Rowling
-Darren Shan Series by Darren Shan
-A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
-The Shining by Stephen King
-Les Miserables (English Translation) by Victor Hugo
-1408 by Stephen King (not a book)
-Cosmos by Carl Sagan

[bubbles]

My favorite books in no particular order...

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
God's Debris, by Scott Adams
The Tao Is Silent, by Raymond Smullyan
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott
My chemistry textbook (seriously)

My favorite short stories (couldn't resist listing them :) ):
"The Gift of The Magi", by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
"The Black Cat", by Edgar Allen Poe

I have more, but I only listed the ones I remember well.

[ankeshkothari]

I loved reading Perry Mason mysteries. One summer, I read 3-4 of them every week!

My favorite books / authors:

All the books by Robert Greene.
Wizard of Ads Trilogy by Roy H. Williams
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Hitch hikers Guide by Douglas Adams
Mind Hacks

[danalaina]

not necessarily in this order:

Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - Roald Dahl

The Belgariad and The Malloreon - David Eddings (best.trash.fiction.evar.)

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

God Knows - Joseph Heller

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling

Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling





danalaina added to this post, 2 minutes and 12 seconds later...

Boy do I stand out lol - Now don't kill me.

Harry Potter 1 - 7 - J.K. Rowling
Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends - Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss
Interview with a vampire - Anne Rice
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I read the English translation)
Any book by Terry Pratchett

ooh! i left Ann Rice off my list. dang.

you don't need to feel bad. enjoyable is enjoyable, damnit. =D

but then again, i like Elvis movies and have been known to listen to the occasional Justin Timberlake song.





danalaina added to this post, 1 minutes and 32 seconds later...

Heheh, I need to read some Ayn Rand. From what I've read about her, I don't agree at all, but I find nearly any view to be interesting.

i'd start with Anthem, perhaps. it's short, and it really gets her ideas across succinctly, i think. you could make up your mind if you like her style enough to read further after that.

[BadMojo]

ooh! i left Ann Rice off my list. dang.

you don't need to feel bad. enjoyable is enjoyable, damnit. =D

but then again, i like Elvis movies and have been known to listen to the occasional Justin Timberlake song.

Hehe, if it's only one Justin Timberlake song, I can forgive you... :laugh:

[emaleth]

at the moment, my personal favorite book is : "Vellum" by Hal Duncan. :)

[The Rose]

Anything by Jane Austen.

I actually only used to own reference books. I only started reading fiction when I was in my 30's.

[intjatcranfield]

This is my first post friends. I found this thread really interesting . I have read Bertrand Russell's books like
1. The conquest of happiness
2. Why I am not a christian
3. Some unpopular essays

Ayn Rand's The fountainhead is also one of my favorites.

Cheers:)

[justmeiguess]

Firstly, welcome to the forum intjatcranfield!

Right now my favourite books include:

The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
1984 - George Orwell
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
Anything written by Harlan Ellison

I've probably forgotten a few but, that will do for now.

[karen]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostien Gaarder
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[prometheus]

For those that listed the Moon is a Harsh Mistress (one of my favorites also) you would probably also like Pallas By L. Neil Smith.

+1 on Hitchhikers guide
+1 on all Of Pratchett's discworld series
+100 on Atlas Shrugged
The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Milagro Bean Field War
Farnham's Freehold by Heinlein
Robert Service Poems
Jack London
(Guilty sin) Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peebody series. (don't tell anyone)

[DeadSpace]

Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
Ender series, Orson Scott Card
Coldfire trilogy, CS Friedman
The Gap into Power and the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson
Berserker universe, created by Fred Saberhagen
Bolo universe, created by Keith Laumer
Necroscope series, Brian Lumley
Amber series, Roger Zelazny
The Black Company series, Glen Cook
Lensmen series, ee 'Doc' Smith
top ten off the top of my head

[Danisty]

I need to add the Night Watch series by Sergei Lukanyenko. I just finished the second book and I'm loving it.

[BlueTopaz]

Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
Ender series, Orson Scott Card
Coldfire trilogy, CS Friedman
The Gap into Power and the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson
Berserker universe, created by Fred Saberhagen
Bolo universe, created by Keith Laumer
Necroscope series, Brian Lumley
Amber series, Roger Zelazny
The Black Company series, Glen Cook
Lensmen series, ee 'Doc' Smith
top ten off the top of my head

AHHHH Dead Space, get out of my head:surprised:

Ender series: orson scott card
The whole Gap series my man, AND Thomas Covenant, S.R. Donaldson
Amber Series, Zelazny
Foundation series, Arthur C. Clarke
LOTR trilogy and all middle earth stories: Tolkein
Dune series, Frank Herbert
Nova, Samuel Delany
anything by Lovecraft or H.G. Wells
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin
Wizard trilogy, John Varley
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Up the Line, Robert Silverberg
anything by W. Shakespeare
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

hmmm, just off the top of my head

[Merle]

Wooo... books! (I'm an English Lit student:))...
Actually, um, this is really hard lol...
1. 'The Portrait of a Lady' by Henry James
then following, and in no particular order:

'The Sheltering Sky' by Paul Bowles
'The Piano Teacher' by Elfriede Jelinek
'Collected English Poems' - George Herbert
'Four Quartets'- T.S. Eliot
'The Use of Speech'- Nathalie Sarraute
'Leviathan'- Thomas Hobbes
'Jane Eyre'- Charlotte Bronte
'Nana'- Emile Zola
'Narcissus and Goldmund'- Herman Hesse
'Elective Affinities' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'- Goethe
'Gulliver's Travels' and 'A Tale of a Tub'- Jonathan Swift
'Rappaccini's Daughter'- Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Swann's Way' and 'Time Regained' - Proust
'Dead Souls'- Gorky
'Collected POems'- W.H. Auden
um... loads of playwrights: Chekov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Eugene O'Neill in particular

And about a thousand more I can't think of right now lol

edit lol: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'- Ursula K. Le Guin
'The Crystal World'- J.G. Ballard

[DeadSpace]

AHHHH Dead Space, get out of my head:surprised:

Ender series: orson scott card
The whole Gap series my man, AND Thomas Covenant, S.R. Donaldson
Amber Series, Zelazny
Foundation series, Arthur C. Clarke
LOTR trilogy and all middle earth stories: Tolkein
Dune series, Frank Herbert
Nova, Samuel Delany
anything by Lovecraft or H.G. Wells
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin
Wizard trilogy, John Varley
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Up the Line, Robert Silverberg
anything by W. Shakespeare
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

hmmm, just off the top of my head

nevah ;) and thanks, forgot Dune can't believe i did that, i love the bene gesserit litany
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

[yondyr]

Someone analyse why INTJ's lists of books lean heavily onto the Sci/fi/fantasy.

[Jezebel]

Someone analyse why INTJ's lists of books lean heavily onto the Sci/fi/fantasy.
We've done this before (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

[Gabrielle]

Recently studied British Romantic poetry, & learned the joy of John Keats, and to a slightly lesser extent P. B. Shelley.

A high school English teacher recommended The Magus by John Fowles about a year after I finished high school. I finished reading it about a year after that :) and enjoyed it.

Through the Looking-glass & What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll is delightful.


ARRRGH! FOWLES! LOVED HIS BOOKS! So warped and yet so fantastical.

I also liked:

H2G2 (the first three only, around "So Long, and Thanks to All The Fish" I got confused)
Darkfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
Anything along the line of Drizzt Chronicles from Forgotten Realms
Dragonlance Legends By Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
The Spider Queen series from Forgotten Realms
Hannibal Lecter Series by Thomas Harris
The Fabric of Cosmos and The Elegant Universe by Brian Green
The New World of Mr. Tompkins by George Gamow (extremely funny introduction to relativity)
Alice in Quantumland by someone whose name I forgot. Alice in Wonderland, Quantum Physics style
Belgariad and Malloreon by David Eddings
Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
First Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Howard's End by Forster

[yondyr]

(pssst, if you forget titles, authors, you can do a search at Abebooks.. and a good place to find obscure books (looks across at Shaigar, blushing that I haven't answered his request for his list of books))

[FLBareBear]

Hi, All,

Newbe here. Have a only a few fiction:

Walden - Thoreau
The Invisible man - HG Wells

Then most any text or reference on:

Diesel engines
Rudolph Diesel
Einstein
Cummins
Hermitage

[yondyr]

I rather think reading books and gaming are two different things...

[BadMojo]

BTW. Has any of you ever read Rimbaud?

I've only read some English translations, but they are very good! + Rimbaud is a very fascinating character to say the least.

Here's a small snippet of his work:

Beauteous Being

Against the snow of Being a high-statured Beauty. Whistlings of death and circles of secret music make the adored body, like a specter, rise, expand, and quiver; wounds of black and scarlet burst in the superb flesh.-- Life's own colors darken, dance, and drift around the Visioning the making.-- Shudders rise and rumble, and the delirious savor of these effects clashing with the deadly hissings and the hoarse music that the world, far behind us, hurls at our mother of beauty,-- she recoils, she rears up. Oh, our bones are clothed with an amorous new body.

O the ashy faces, the horsehair emblem, the crystal arms! the cannon on which I am to fall in the melee of trees and of light air!

[denaria]

I read so much (12+ books per week - I don't watch much television) that I can't do a list of favourites. But a few of the many writers I have enjoyed include (in no particular order):

Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game etc)
Terry Pratchett's Discworld
The Rebus books by Ian Rankin (I'm sure Rebus is an INTJ)
Earlier Patricia Cornwell - say the first 4 or 5
Robert Goddard
Bernard Cornwell - terrific historical novels, I love them all
Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey & Maturin (is Maturin another INTJ?) books which I came late to and am in the middle of vacuuming up.
CS Forrester's Hornblower books
George MacDonald Fraser
Ruth Dudley Edwards (try to read her Amiss/Troutbeck books in the right order)
JK Rowling, of course
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is great
MC Beaton
Robert Harris
Richard Dawkins
Harlan Coben
Lee Child
Sue Grafton (Kinsey is another INTJ)
Chris Ryan
Andy McNab
Georgette Heyer (the original and the best)
Dick Francis
Peter Ackroyd

I love good American crime novels, but it's sad how many writers saddle their protagonists with long running girlfriends whom I would dearly love to strangle. I'm thinking of Alex Delaware's Robyn (Jonathan Kellerman) and Spencer's Susan (Robert B Parker) amongst too many others.

Some other recent-ish books that "got" me:

1421: the year China discovered America
Between Silk and Cyanide ( a"must" read)
Balkan Blue
The Victorians
Various books by Terry Jones (yes he of Monty Python fame) about medieval life which turned my preconceptions upside down.

I read vast quantities of sci-fi when I was a teenager, and agree with Doppelbock about Heinlein "going off" after 1978 (actually I suspect he went completely mad!) But he was amazing beforehand. It was interesting when I was at university how many students constructed entire philosophies of life and theories of religion out of "Stranger in a Strange Land". I went off Sci-Fi when it all seemed to suddenly tip into fantasy (I blame Anne MacCaffrey myself...) but got back into it with Ender's Game - once I had got over giggling about the Buggers (sorry, Brit English humour).

I read a lot of books to do with my love of patchwork and quilting and other needlecrafts. Mostly they're to do with specific techniques and would have little wider appeal. However Making Mathematics with Needlework has given me some ideas for interesting future projects. I'm also a quilt history buff and can recommend The Quilts of the British Isles, Quilt Treasures of Great Britain, and The Patchworks of Lucy Boston.

[Mr Galt]

The Fountainhead is my Bible.
I only recently started reading. Haven't touched on many books. Haven't read any other books I felt connected with while reading them. Suggestions anybody?

[ElstonGunn]

Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer
American Nomads- Richard Grant
The Bachelor Home Companion- PJ O'Rourke
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Music and the Mind- Anthony Storr
The Mother Tongue- Bill Bryson
Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo
The Enchiridion- Epictetus
The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald
Travels with Charley- John Steinbeck
The Death of Ivan Ilych, Master and Man, The Kreutzer Sonata- All by Leo Tolstoy
The Fool's Progress- Ed Abbey
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca- Cabeza de Vaca
Bound For Glory- Woody Guthrie

[HarleyQuinn]

Here's a list of my favorite horror books in alphabetical order.

Candle Bay - Tamara Thorne
Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison (and ensuing books 2-6)
Ghosts of Fear Street: Hide and Shriek - R.L. Stine. The scariest story I read between age 5 and age 18.
Haunted Ohio II - Chris Woodyard (Contains the creepiest non-fiction ghost story I've ever read)
It - Stephen King
Scary Stories series - Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell solely for the art work which I was seeing at age 6-7. Scariest artwork ever IMO.
The New England Ghost Files - Charles Turek Robinson (Contains the 2nd creepiest non-fiction ghost story I've ever read and the creepy drawing associated with that)
The Shining - Stephen King. Still one of the scariest stories I've ever read.
Thirteen - Various (Horror compendium)

[radioactivez0r]

H2G2 (the first three only, around "So Long, and Thanks to All The Fish" I got confused)
Darkfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
Anything along the line of Drizzt Chronicles from Forgotten Realms
Dragonlance Legends By Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
The Spider Queen series from Forgotten Realms
Hannibal Lecter Series by Thomas Harris
The Fabric of Cosmos and The Elegant Universe by Brian Green
The New World of Mr. Tompkins by George Gamow (extremely funny introduction to relativity)
Alice in Quantumland by someone whose name I forgot. Alice in Wonderland, Quantum Physics style
Belgariad and Malloreon by David Eddings
Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
First Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Howard's End by Forster

I've read every Drizzt book that exists (except the new one...I wait for the paperback versions) and I will keep reading them despite my growing dislike of Salvatore's style. :x I'm also going through the Dragonlance books that I missed. Re: Spider Queen series, which one? The multi-part by different authors or the original 4-parter?

Where was I? I feel like this was done before for some reason, but in go my 2 cents:

Catch-22, Heller
Animal Farm, Orwell (am I the only one that preferred it to 1984?)
Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas. This book infatuated me with his style, but beyond The Three Musketeers, for some reason I haven't been able to "get into" his other works.
Temeraire series, Naomi Novik

For other writers, of whose work I have no particular favorite - and now I really feel like we've covered this before - it generally comes to Poe, Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and my more recent introduction to Lovecraft. I forget who mentioned GEB, but I have that on the recommendation of someone whose opinion I highly respect, but I can't figure out how to approach it.

[Octavianus Caesar]

Favorite Series:

Harry Potter by JK Rowlin
Masters of Rome by Colleen McCoullgh
Wilbur Smith Egyptian Series
Terry Brooks Shannara Series
RA Salvatore the Drow Series
John Marco the Lukien Series
A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

[sonofone]

The Giving Tree

[Kotetsu]

Lord of the Rings
His Dark Materials
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird

[lordrrr]

Kinda lazy to list the authors... These are in NO particular order by the way.

The Da Vinci Code
The Martian Chronicles
Cirque du Freak
The Bible (all of the books)
The Last Chance Texaco
Speak
Farenheit 451
Sideways
Harry Potter
The House on Mango Street
Perfect Dark Initial Vector
The Hobbit

[Lei Yang]

The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Thus spoke Zarathustra
The Anti-Christ, Twilight of the Idols
Pan (Hamsun)
Caesar's commentaries on the gallic wars
Sword of Truth (Goodkind)

[dandylion]

Sirens of Titan
Flowers for Algernon

That's about it...

[narutofanninja]

Catcher in the Rye is my all time favorite.

[Iago]

I'm really enjoying Altered Carbon by Robert Morgan.....he's a relatively new writer that's getting great reviews about his sci fi/cyberpunk/detective novels....too way out to fit into one genre!

[starztimehalo]

Favorite Books:



Into the Wild - J. Krakauer
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
World Literature Anthology (for class)
Ender's Game series
The Republic, Apology, Crito - Plato

[ElstonGunn]

The Bible (all of the books)

Even Chronicles I? I had a friend who used to say that Psalm 119 was good bathroom reading. I'll let you figure out the joke for yourself...


Into the Wild - J. Krakauer

:thumbsup: :lovestruck: ;D :thumbsup: (I like that book so much that I'm willing to flagrantly abuse emoticons to convey my satisfaction that another person also happened to enjoy it.)

[lordrrr]

Even Chronicles I? I had a friend who used to say that Psalm 119 was good bathroom reading. I'll let you figure out the joke for yourself...




:thumbsup: :lovestruck: ;D :thumbsup: (I like that book so much that I'm willing to flagrantly abuse emoticons to convey my satisfaction that another person also happened to enjoy it.)

Yeah, there's also leviticus which is really boring :/

So yeah I guess just MOST of the books lol.

[ssfanatic]

In no particular order...

The Hobbit
Eragon
Eldest
Harry Potter 7
The World's Last Night and other Essays
Prey
Congo
Warrior's Heir.

[Colette]

A few recent favorites:

'Cultural Amnesia' - Clive James
'Balkan Ghosts' - Robert Kaplan
'Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia'
Anything by Kiran Desai (Indian/Canadian female writer)
Heart of Darkness - Conrad (recently re-read it)
L'Etranger -Camus (recently re-read this too)

[Darkmist]

Non Fiction
A History of Pagan Europe - Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick
The Enchanted World Series - Time Life Books
Roman Britain, Outpost of the Empire - H.H Scullard
A Treasury of Royal Scandals - Michael Farquhar
Saints Preserve Us - Sean Kelly & Rosemary Rogers
Warlords - Tim Newark
The Knights Templar - Stephen Howarth
Lucrezia Borgia - Sarah Bradford

There's more, but the list is getting too long

Fiction
Song of Ice and Fire Series - George R R Martin
Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends
Death Gate Cycle - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Terry Jones I will look into (I love Monty Python)

Ayn Rand sounds similar to R Scott Bakker with his Prince of Nothing fantasy series. I found the philosophy a bit dry but he did have some cool concepts. (what I've read so far. The series, like Martin's, isn't finished)


Bakker was Ok. Like I said, the concepts were great and a couple of the characters started out Wow! But he had many inconsistencies and sort of lost it in character development as the story went on. Still a good idea though . . .

[prometheus]

Into the Wild

:thumbsup: :lovestruck: ;D :thumbsup: (I like that book so much that I'm willing to flagrantly abuse emoticons to convey my satisfaction that another person also happened to enjoy it.)


I hated that book, the guy had his heart in the right place but unlike all of us super intelligent INTJs his lack of planning had me shaking my head the whole book. He eventually paid for it, so I guess there is a lesson there.

[Darkmist]

Oh, I forgot

The Shining
Flowers for Algernon
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

[Merle]

The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

I also forgot 'The Chrysalids' - what a fantastic book!

[PRBori]

I don't read anything unless is related to my goals or job at this point. I don't have college, I'm 100% self-taught. So I find other mediums to get the knowledge I need in order to succed on my career goals..

Right now, everything I read is related to IT Security

- Risk Assessments
- Configuration Management
- Contingency/Disaster Recovery
- Penetration Testing
- Software Lifecycle

and the list can go on and on... not to forget all the documents of guidelines that I have to access and documents which are over 60 e-books with min 100, max 400 pg each..

All the ones under DRAFT, FIPS, and SP located here:
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I think that's enough reading, in addition to developing my own application and writing management plans...

:p:p:p

[SeaCzar]

I must be the odd one out here. I like and have read a lot of the books mentioned, but I read amost exclusively non-fiction. Winston Churchill was a prolific writer. I would recommend The World Crisis, (about the First World War), 4/5 volumes, depending on the printing. The Secont World War, 6 volumes for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. Also, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 volumes.

Historians Sir Martin Gilbert, Max Hastings and Antony Beevor are excellent writers. I highly recommend the latter's Stalingrad. Great book.

As far as the human experience goes, in my opinion, there is no better book than The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) by Jean-Dominique Bauby.

[Dream Weaver]

I only have a few that I really like.

Dune Chronicles- Frank Herbert
The Plague- Albert Camus
Anthem- Ayn Rand
Anything by Michael Crichton
Hannibal Lecter Books by Thomas Harris

There's so much I haven't read yet. Might add some more to the list.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Anybody like the Robert Jordan series the Wheel of Time??

[integratedvelocity]

East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Mansfield Partk, Jane Austen
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Benjamin Friedman
Principles of Economics, N. Gregory Mankiw (funny guy)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle

and...

The Norton Anthology of English Literature. That's the end. IMO, nothing can top that.

[yondyr]

I tried, vaguely, to hack Robt Jordan but found it too dense for some reason, although other series like Martins 'Song of Ice and Fire' and Lisanne Normans 'Sholan Empire' I enjoyed. Even those, though I eventually gave up on with subsequent volumes. One series I will continue to buy is the stunning Jacqueline Careys 'Kushiels Dart'.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I tried, vaguely, to hack Robt Jordan but found it too dense for some reason, although other series like Martins 'Song of Ice and Fire' and Lisanne Normans 'Sholan Empire' I enjoyed. Even those, though I eventually gave up on with subsequent volumes. One series I will continue to buy is the stunning Jacqueline Careys 'Kushiels Dart'.
Oh..too bad.....I was hoping for a shoulder to cry on since R.J. died last September with his series unfinished.

[AntiCorp]

Some good books listed here so far. My favourites:

- Tao De Jing by Lao Tsu
- The Magus of Java by Kosta Danaos
- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

[yondyr]

Sokay, I'll lend one shoulder for RJ's fans and the other for WFBuckleys.. :)

[Homini Lupus]

Interesting "reference" books, some of wich I like to have close by hand:
-Bible and Catholic Catechism
They are good to confront with, sometimes the latter may be a harsh comparison with actual life.
-Thus spoke Zarathustra by F. Nietzsche
-Eudemonica by A. Schopenhauer
These two helped me a lot defining some periods of my existance.
-About Freedom by A. Schopenhauer
This book expresses the idea of freedom i matured through the years but in a more clear way.
-Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
-History of the second world war by H. B. Liddell Hart
-The rebel from A to Z by M. Fini
I disagree with some of his views but I also agree with many and with his intellectual courage

Novels:
-Inquisitor Eymerich series by Valerio Evangelisti
One of the best Lovecraftan legacies I would say
-Do androids sleep of electric sheeps? by P.K. Dick
-H.P Lovecraft in general
Old style, very fresh ideas
-The Lord of the Rings
Quite heavy but fascinating (at least it was before it became pop culture)

[N0c7urn3]

Of the top of my head;

Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
The Stranger - Albert Camus (Eng translation)

And Dawkin's God Delusion.
I remember reading this as I was recovering from a minor operation in the hospital, while people in the the beds next to be were praying for their surgeries to go well. That was an interesting moment. There was this Christian guy looking at me in a funny way. I wondered why they didn't give that funny look to the Muslim guy next to me praying to his god. The moment wouldn't have stuck if it hadn't been for the fact that I was reading that book. Of course, it wouldn't have happened if I wasn't reading that book either .......

[Darkmist]

Oh..too bad.....I was hoping for a shoulder to cry on since R.J. died last September with his series unfinished.

I doubt he ever would have finished that money-milking series. At any rate, I've heard that when he heard he was dying, he compiled tons of notes on what he wanted to accomplish with the final book. Supposedly his wife and another person (I can't recall exact details) are to finish the story for him. His death is talked about on Sffworld.com in the forums, so what I don't know, you can fill in there. (and get your shoulder to cry on)

Yes, I read the books. I liked them to begin with, but he lost me. Too much rubbish that didn't need to be there. IMHO.

[interjerator]

1984 Orwell
Animal Farm Orwell
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
Needful Things King
Catch22 Heller
Elevator 37

[eMachine]

Middlemarch - George Eliot
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan/Anne Druyan
Contact - Carl Sagan
Diary of a Drug Fiend - Aleister Crowley
Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

[Chevy Chase]

I just read The Quiet American.

Superb book.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I doubt he ever would have finished that money-milking series. At any rate, I've heard that when he heard he was dying, he compiled tons of notes on what he wanted to accomplish with the final book. Supposedly his wife and another person (I can't recall exact details) are to finish the story for him. His death is talked about on Sffworld.com in the forums, so what I don't know, you can fill in there. (and get your shoulder to cry on)

Yes, I read the books. I liked them to begin with, but he lost me. Too much rubbish that didn't need to be there. IMHO.
Rubbish?? Rubbish!!

Yeah.....I heard he actually has his wife and a team of writers to finish it, but I'm always sceptical of anyone else's abilities once a writer has me hooked. One of the things I liked about Jordan's writing was the way he wrote women. Not perfect, mind you, but so much more equality and power given to them than in most novels.

[CardinalXiminez]

WARNING: I'm not an INTJ, so I'm not sure you might appreciate my taste, at least for the same reasons I do. :blank:


Robert Musil: "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften"
Marcel Proust: "A la recherche du temps perdu"
James Joyce: "Ulysses"
Vladimir Nabokov: "Lolita"
Michel Foucault: "Surveiller et punir"
Baruch Spinoza: "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata"
Oscar Wilde: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Jorge Luis Borges: "Ficciones"
Franz Kafka: "Das Schloss"
Kobo Abe: "箱男"
Ray Bradbury: "The Illustrated Man"

I'm also very fond of poetry (Villon, Eliot, Yeats, Baudelaire, Heine, Celan... etc...)

[Lei Yang]

I like Yeats.

[Jerry]

A New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Fountainhead Ayn Rand

I have intentions of reading a book called "The Sickness Unto Death" by Soren Kierkegaard





Jerry added to this post, 3 minutes and 43 seconds later...

A book I enjoyed when I was younger was called "Walk Two Moons"

[E148]

In no order:

1984
DaVinci Code -- Almost anything by Brown
Animal Farm
Flowers for Algernon


[Psalm 119:9 ?] :laugh:

[Darkmist]

Vaguely:
By rubbish I mean too many plot threads and new characters that don't add to the story and IMHO, take away from it. I liked the books at first and especially his world creation, but he added too much clutter for my tastes. That may have been his publisher having him stretch out the series to make more money. That seems common of late.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Vaguely:
By rubbish I mean too many plot threads and new characters that don't add to the story and IMHO, take away from it. I liked the books at first and especially his world creation, but he added too much clutter for my tastes. That may have been his publisher having him stretch out the series to make more money. That seems common of late.
Funny 'cause I don't usually like clutter. But, I think you're right about stretching things out a bit. I found the same thing with Lord of the Rings. I guess I like clutter in my books, but not in my house.

[yondyr]

There's also the problem of waiting for the next in the series and getting lost, losing interest when it finally does come out. That happened with me with Martins' Song of Ice and Fire, and to a degree, Careys' Kushiels Dart sequels.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

There's also the problem of waiting for the next in the series and getting lost, losing interest when it finally does come out. That happened with me with Martins' Song of Ice and Fire, and to a degree, Careys' Kushiels Dart sequels.
I never lost interest and reread the entire series a couple of times just before the new book was scheduled to come out. There are so few good fantasy writers that I make a glutton of myself on those who I like. I'd rather reread a good book than read a new mediocre one.

Do you have any suggestions for really high quality fantasy novels?

[lordrrr]

Who else enjoys the Wheel of Time series? I stopped reading it but will start reading it again soon.

[yondyr]

Oh, vaguely, you asked... I must implore you to read anything by Sheri Tepper. Particularly the fatter ones where she writes so very densely. Grass(not THAT grass), Beauty(allegorical), Raising the Stones, A Plague of Angels, Gibbons Decline and Fall... and most particularly, The Fresco (a very witty take on present day problems in the Middle East). And yet all are fantasies.

[aok]

1984, strange brains and genius, 101 ways of seeing yourself, party of one, doing nothing

[simoncpu]

I dunno. I pick up whatever random reading material that I fancy-- Startrek pocketbooks, scifi novels, programming references, news papers, pdfs, help files, man pages, web pages, cereal trivia, etc...

But the most fascinating book that I've read so far is Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The founder of the company that I currently work for gave it to me a few years ago. Very fascinating read.

[mabts]

Just to list a few off the top of my head...hard for me to make any definitive list...

- Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
- Sickness Unto Death - Kierkegaard
- All of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, especially Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation
- Faust Part 1 and 2 - Goethe
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Genius - Harold Bloom
- Lost in the Cosmos - Walker Percy
- In terms of economics, all of Rothbard and Ludwig Von Mises
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
- Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
- Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
- Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

[INTroJect]

Random order, not sure how to order by preference:

Book of Wisdom and Book of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
My Experiments With Truth M.K. Gandhi
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
John Adams and 1776 by David Mccullough
The World is Flat by T. Friedman
Virtue of WealthBenjamin Franklin
Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (currently reading, its FANTASTIC)
Letters to Shareholders By Warren Buffett
The Dhando Investor by M. Pabrai
The Life of Einstein by I Forget Who
Basic Economics Thomas Sewall

[integratedvelocity]

Random order, not sure how to order by preference:

Book of Wisdom and Book of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
My Experiments With Truth M.K. Gandhi
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
John Adams and 1776 by David Mccullough
The World is Flat by T. Friedman
Virtue of WealthBenjamin Franklin
Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (currently reading, its FANTASTIC)
Letters to Shareholders By Warren Buffett
The Dhando Investor by M. Pabrai
The Life of Einstein by I Forget Who
Basic Economics Thomas Sewall

Wow, I should adopt your booklist! I've read The Lexus and the Olive Tree by T. Friedman and really enjoyed it, I downloaded Wealth of Nations but haven't had time to read it yet. Though I could be reading it instead of typing this. But with all these economics books, you didn't include Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw! Ah well, it's not as exciting of a read as some of these others.

A book to add to my own list:

Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin Friedman. It is about how economic growth affects social policy. I particularly enjoyed the analysis of various European countries' economies.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Oh, vaguely, you asked... I must implore you to read anything by Sheri Tepper. Particularly the fatter ones where she writes so very densely. Grass(not THAT grass), Beauty(allegorical), Raising the Stones, A Plague of Angels, Gibbons Decline and Fall... and most particularly, The Fresco (a very witty take on present day problems in the Middle East). And yet all are fantasies.
I did have an answer here for you, but it seems to have disappeared so.........I will get one of the books you suggest for sure.

[eMachine]

Just to list a few off the top of my head...hard for me to make any definitive list...

- Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard
- Sickness Unto Death - Kierkegaard
- All of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, especially Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation
- Faust Part 1 and 2 - Goethe
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Genius - Harold Bloom
- Lost in the Cosmos - Walker Percy
- In terms of economics, all of Rothbard and Ludwig Von Mises
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
- Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
- Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
- Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

Oh this reminded me to add
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
to my list above.

[mabts]

Favorite Economics Authors List:
- Adam Smith
- Friedrich Hayek
- Ludwig Von Mises
- Murray Rothbard
- Frederic Bastiat
- Thomas Sowell

[Parallel]

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[Blaze2000]

I'm a bit partial to sci-fi, but here it goes:

The Forever War - Joe W Haldeman
Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Ring - Stephen Baxter
About Face - David Hackworth
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Folliet
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
Gateway - Frederik Pohl

[agkazama]

bible
zen mind beginner's mind
the fountainhead
anne frank
bobby fischer teaches chess

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fathers and sons

---------- Post added 04-30-2010 at 05:13 AM ----------

jane eyre
the house of spirits

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tao te ching

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one of the first books i've read was robin hood

[Firebrand]

Fiction :

Elric of Melnibone
Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends
Villains By Necessity
Dante's Inferno
Anything by HP Lovecraft
Meg
Jurassic Park
The Phantom Tollbooth


Non-Fiction :

Game Programming in 21 Days (inaccurate title)
Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus
OpenGL Game Programming
Game Design Secrets of the Sages
Masters of Doom
Game Over : Press Start to Continue
Book of id
The Prince
Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter
Arnold : The Education of a Bodybuilder
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, 1st ed
Think and Grow Rich
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Warriorship by Bud Malmstrom
Ninpo : Living and Thinking as a Warrior

[nabokov]

1. Catch-22
2. Pale Fire
3. 100 Years of Solitude
4. Notes From Underground
5. The Fall

[WhereIsNovember]

Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
Artemis Fowl Series - Eoin Colfer
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Shadow Club - Neal Shusterman
Death Note: Another Note - Nisio Isin
The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine

[lantern bearer]

The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
By Love Possessed, James Gould Cozzens
Song of Sixpence, A.J. Cronin
Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel
Pretty much all of Dickens, esp. David Copperfield

I agree on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, too, and of course, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Name of the Rose.
Interested to find Ayn Rand so popular.

[Firebrand]

Meg
Jurrasic Park
Elric of Melnibone series
Dragonlance Chronicales and Legends
HP Lovecraft Complete, especially The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Fountainhead



Game Over : Press Start to Continue
Masters of Doom
Book of id
Game Programming in 21 Days
OpenGL Game Programming
Game Design Secrets of the Sages



Think and Grow Rich



The Effects of Atomic Weapons
Sun Tzu : Art of War
The Prince by Machiavelli

[Xanthippe]

Ooh, glad this has been resurrected!

1. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (I've enjoyed other Nietzsche works, but they don't count because it was for class :p)
2. Catch-22 (love the black humour and then the horror that unfolds)
3. Dubliners (ZOMG!!!1!)
4. If on a winter's night a traveler (Italo Calvino - trying to make time for more of his stuff, as it's beautifully written but also philosophically intriguing.)
5. No Exit (Sartre - I read it in French. A terrifyingly brilliant examination of extroversion vs. introversion, among other things.)
6. Hamlet (no explanation needed)
7. Nausea (Sartre again - but my god, what a beautiful book. I still get weird perceptual effects from this one sometimes.)
8. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass (maybe this should be higher up - still love his sense of the absurd, though I read these about 3248175 times as a kid!)
9. The Fountainhead (funny how this practically puts me in the majority here, rather than in a small and marginal minority...)
10. Ovid's Metamorphoses (haven't read all of them, but love them so far - the language is so vivid and elegant)

"Problem" books that I've nonetheless enjoyed recently (no order):
Symposium (Plato)
A Clockwork Orange (Can't decide if the ending provides needed closure or just triteness. It's pretty brilliant otherwise, but the ending seems to take away all the impact...)
To the Lighthouse (Just got into Virginia Woolf - she seems awfully pretentious sometimes, but then there are moments of sheer genius. What gives?)
Atlas Shrugged (Philosophically, rather appealing. Practically, rather ridiculous. This one just makes me feel misanthropic and sad, if I think too much about it.)
Brave New World (Need to read this one again - I was sleep-deprived and overeager the first time round.)

And then there's Ulysses, the good old behemoth. The first four chapters were amazing, but they took all of last summer! Hoping for a nice peaceful stretch to read that one properly one day...

[Rohsiph]

Recently studied British Romantic poetry, & learned the joy of John Keats, and to a slightly lesser extent P. B. Shelley.

A high school English teacher recommended The Magus by John Fowles about a year after I finished high school. I finished reading it about a year after that :) and enjoyed it.

Through the Looking-glass & What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll is delightful.

wat

. . . hmm that was my Junior year of college. You're kidding me Internets! No? No? Oh ok. Does this make you feel old, INTJf?

My list looks like this now:
1) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - love Murakami's shadow worlds, and in this case he more or less one-ups Kafka at his own game
2) Lolita - perfectly crazy. Need to read more Nabokov for sure.
3) The Whisperer in the Dark - A year after reading everything by Lovecraft but his ghost-written stuff this remains firmly as my favorite--though plenty more lie just under #11 below (Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, Shadow over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness all had their perfect moments).
4) In the First Circle - I'm still processing my first Solzhenitsyn, but I liked this much more than Dostoevsky fwiw.
5) Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll was a book, or so I've said somewhere before.
6) The Magus - Less convinced this belongs here . . . I'll need to reread it soon to be sure.
7) The Poetic Eddas - Seeress' Prophecy was once the basis of my world-view.
8) Cleveland Anonymous - by my former fiction instructor; not just of personal value, he managed a brilliant balance between comedy and strangely touching drama.
9) Neuromancer - <3 3jane.
10) Kafka on the Shore - Um . . . no, no, there's not a trend among my favorites to deal with incest, you're just imagining things.
11) Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind - proof Miyazaki is a genius world-builder, not just a great cartoon-movie maker.

[eileen]

I love reading books, usually non fiction but my very favorite is The Da Vinci Code. I just finished Breaking Dawn and it was actually very good.

[katrin]

In no particular order:

Selected Poems of W. B. Yeats
The Riverside Shakespeare
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

[elfbrick]

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Return of the Native
Portrait of a Lady
Anything by Rex Stout
Brideshead Revisited
The Loved One

[SirJamesIII]

funny how i got into all of the literature you guys are talking about. Bunch of my favorite bands when I was younger based songs off of these books:

The Fountainhead=2112 by Rush
Brave New World=Brave New World by Iron Maiden
1984=Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche
Dune=To Tame a Land by Iron Maiden
Through the Looking Glass: Through the Looking Glass by Symphony X
don't think Stranger in a Strange land has to do with the Iron Maiden song of the same title though.