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by **djkjr** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:11 am UTC

Hitchikers Guide (DNA)
1984 (Orwell)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
farenheit 451(Ray Bradbury)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
The Postman (David Brin)
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
The Stand (Stephen King)
Fight Club (Chuck P.)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewksi)
Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe (namely The Raven, The Black Cat and The Pit and the Pendulem)

Those are just the ones that came to me without having to think about it. Based on that, they must be my favorites!

by **jano** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:20 am UTC

The Stainless Steel Rat series - Harry Harrison
Jeeves, Blandings Castle and Mr Mulliner series - P.G. Wodehouse
Bartimaeus trilogy - Jonathan Stroud
Beasts and Superbeasts - Saki (and almost everything he wrote)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber
Letters Back to Ancient China - Herbert Rosendorfer
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift

by **lu6cifer** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:17 pm UTC

H2G2--Douglas Adams
Dune--Frank Herbert
Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
Childhood's End--Arthur C. Clarke
The Mysterious Island--Jules Verne
Snow Crash--Neal Stephenson
Ringworld--Larry Niven
Journey to the Center of the Earth--Jules Verne
The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
East of Eden--John Steinbeck
1984--George Orwell
Middlesex--Jeffrey Eugenides
Catch-22--Joseph Heller
Flatland--Edwin Abbott
The Count of Monte Cristo--Alexandre Dumas

EDIT: Does Watchmen count? Because I'd like to put that on my list too.

by **Microscopic cog** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:05 pm UTC

Hmm, first Calvin and Hobbes was on the list too but I think not allowing any graphic novels is the better option. So I removed Calvin and Hobbes. It's open for discussion though.

Here's the current list 169 books:

Spoiler:

by **HedgehogWarlord** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 5:11 pm UTC

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams*
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe by Douglas Adams*
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Circle Series by Ted Dekker
Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Stand by Stephen King
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
Don Quixote by Cervantes

*I did not vote for the series, I voted for the first two, because I personally didn't like the last ones that much.
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

by **Microscopic cog** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:24 pm UTC

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Series or the first book?

All noted.

by **Manticorehunter** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:36 pm UTC

Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card
Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
Dracula--Bram Stoker
The Good Earth--Pearl S. Buck
Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Never Let Me Go--Kazou Ishiguro
The Road--Cormac McCarthy

And I'm sure I'll think of more later.

by **HedgehogWarlord** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:42 am UTC

Series

by **Microscopic cog** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:23 am UTC

Neat, all listed.

by **Lithium33** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:51 am UTC

1984 (George Orwell)
Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahiunk)
Rant (Chuck Palahiunk)
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
Snow Crash (Neil Stephenson)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
John Dies at the End (David Wong)
Replay (Ken Grimwood)
The Stand (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower series (Stephen King)
World War Z (Max Brooks)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

Updated List:

Spoiler:

by **djkjr** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:48 pm UTC

Manticorehunter wrote:Dracula--Bram Stoker

o mg.... How the hell did I forget about Dracula?!?!
And the list can't have been updated entirely/correctly, for this book has been stated but not listed.

Dracula - Bram Stoker (2)

by **Microscopic cog** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:12 pm UTC

Though it's appreciated that he updated the list, he forgot to include the two posts after my last post so it isn't up-to-date.

209 Votes so far.

All updated and correctomundo:

Spoiler:

by **djkjr** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:47 pm UTC

So when's the cut-off? The thread speaks of 100 favorite books. Something tells me it's gone beyond that now.

I just may adopt this list for my winter reading. Anything and everything that I haven't read that's been voted on more than once.
I'm really very curious about "Ender's Game" it seems like something I should have already knew about, but I've never heard of it :-P

by **Nautilus** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 12:27 am UTC

The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
Discworld series- Terry Pratchett
Rumo- Walter Moers
The City of Dreaming Books- Walter Moers
Treason- Orson Scott Card
The Fresco- Sheri Teper
The Giver- Lois Lowry
Contact- Carl Sagan
World War Z- Max Brooks
The Far Pavilions- M. M. Kaye

by **Microscopic cog** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:06 pm UTC

djkjr wrote:So when's the cut-off? The thread speaks of 100 favorite books. Something tells me it's gone beyond that now.

I just may adopt this list for my winter reading. Anything and everything that I haven't read that's been voted on more than once.
I'm really very curious about "Ender's Game" it seems like something I should have already knew about, but I've never heard of it

I was thinking it as soon as we got 100 different places. Because right now, we only have 10 different places.

Just vote moar!

Natuilus' votes added and small mistake corrected for Stephen King's The Stand, which had three votes but was ranked witht he number twos.

I just may adopt this list for my winter reading. Anything and everything that I haven't read that's been voted on more than once.
I'm really very curious about "Ender's Game" it seems like something I should have already knew about, but I've never heard of it

Same here, I read some of it, but I haven't read more

by **fimzo** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:20 am UTC

Slightly off-topic, but I saw someone use H2G2 for The Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've heard this before... where does that last "2" come from?

by **Microscopic cog** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:16 pm UTC

fimzo wrote:Slightly off-topic, but I saw someone use H2G2 for The Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've heard this before... where does that last "2" come from?

I have no clue. I don't even understand where the guide part of the title went.

by **clockworkmonk** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:22 pm UTC

two Hs, two Gs.

Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
so, 2 of each.

by **fimzo** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:54 pm UTC

clockworkmonk wrote:two Hs, two Gs.

Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
so, 2 of each.

Ahh... I seem to remember it being something like that. Interesting way to shorten it.

by **existentialpanda** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:44 am UTC

I hope it's not too late to join in.

In no particular order:

Calculating God - Robert J. Sawyer
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The Story of B - Daniel Quinn
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Ender's Game series - Orson Scott Card
Biting the Sun - Tanith Lee
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov (I know it's a short story. It should still count.)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
A Wrinkle In Time and sequels (is there a name?) - Madeleine L'engle
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
World War Z - Max Brooks
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

by **Microscopic cog** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:01 pm UTC

I don't think it's ever too late really.

A wrinkle in time is part of the Time Quarter series, according to wikipedia.

Spoiler:

by **Aiwendil42** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:42 pm UTC

I just noticed that there is a vote for the Dirk Gently series - if we are counting this series as one item, then my vote for The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul should count as a vote for Dirk Gently series.

Also, there appears to be a vote for the "Miles Vorkosigan series" and a separate vote for the "Vorkosigan saga". I think these are the same thing and should be combined.

by **Microscopic cog** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:59 pm UTC

Ah, thanks for saying. I try to avoid mistakes like that but truth is that I just have never heard of some books before, so they slip through.

Thanks for noticing.

Spoiler:

by **djkjr** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 7:44 pm UTC

existentialpanda wrote:Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The Story of B - Daniel Quinn

Oh hell yea! I forgot about those gems!

by **Jumble** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:22 pm UTC

Hmm, good question. I'll forget loads but:
The disc world series - Pratchett
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
The Smiley novels - John le Carre
Contact - Carl Sagan
Brazzaville Beach - William Boyd
Espedair Street - Iain Banks
Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
H2g2 - Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently series - Douglas Adams
Miss Smillas feeling for snow - Peter Hoeg
Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini
The woman in white - Willkie Collins
The Business - Iain Banks
One big damn puzzler - John Harding
To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee
Rebecca - du Maurrier
The 39 steps - John Buchan
Nemesis - Agatha Christie
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
The World of Pooh - A A Milne
2001- Arthur c Clarke

I'll think of loads later I've missed!

by **Microscopic cog** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:53 pm UTC

Both added.

262 votes, updated list, seems like Harry Potter and LotR is catching up with 1984.

Spoiler:

by **Adacore** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:11 pm UTC

I think you missed The Crow Road in either Jumble's list or mine - it should have two votes now

by **Microscopic cog** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:21 pm UTC

Woops, corrected.

Spoiler:

by **theGoldenCalf;** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:29 am UTC

in no particular order

Ulysses - James Joyce
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
History: A Novel - Elsa Morante
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The House of God - Samuel Shem
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Shogun - James Clavell
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Life Before Us - Romain Gary (yea, I know, Emile Ajar)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

by **clockworkmonk** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:01 pm UTC

Dune- Frank Herbert
Dirk Gently series- Douglas Adams
H2G2-Douglas Adams
Good Omens- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Snow Crash- Neil Stephenson
Dresden Files-Jim Butcher
Conan the Barbarian - Robert E Howard
A Scanner Darkly-Phillip K Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?-Phillip K Dick
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
Don Quixote-Cervantes
The Night Watch Series-Sergei Lukyanenko
Lamb-Christopher Moore
Under The Banner of Heaven-Jon Krakauer
A Short History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson
The Tao of Pooh-Benjamin Hoff

there is a list for me I suppose.

by **Microscopic cog** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:49 pm UTC

Updated, 295 votes.

Spoiler:

by **CulturalSolipsism** » Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:39 pm UTC

The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker (or list as The Second Apocalypse if the wider arc is more noted here)
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Dune by Frank Herbert
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (enough of him, before he clogs the rest of the list, damnit)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin

I'm sure I'll want to revise this, but will refrain from doing so.

by **fimzo** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:23 am UTC

I finally got around to reading 1984. Since I only posted about 8 books in my submission, I'm adding 1984.

by **Microscopic cog** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:50 am UTC

Booyah, updated. 316 votes.

Spoiler:

by **oagersnap** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:36 pm UTC

Voting for:
Hitchhiker's Guide series
The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird

Also nominating:
Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

by **icanus** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:35 am UTC

Discworld Series- Terry Pratchett
Dune Series - Frank Herbert
King Rat - James Clavell
Aubrey/Maturin series - Patrick O'Brian
The Warlord Trilogy (The Winter King/The Enemy of God/Excalibur)- Bernard Cornwell
The Eyes of Heisenberg - Frank Herbert
I, Claudius/Claudius the God - Robert Graves
LoTR - Tolkien
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard - Arthur Conan Doyle

by **Microscopic cog** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:22 pm UTC

330 votes.

Spoiler:

by **Hope_** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:33 am UTC

My votes

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series - Douglas Adams
Watchmen - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons (Regarding graphic novels: I think including comics like Calvin and Hobbes shouldn't be allowed (much as I love them) but bonafide graphic novels with one continuous plot should be (yes I'm biased, I just love Watchmen so much!))
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Harry Potter series - J K Rowling
Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer (massive part of my childhood..)
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
Wuthering heights - Emily Brontë (this isn't on there and I'm really surprised..)

Edit: Because I actually read the thread and the discussion of allowing graphic novels

by **C_Cube** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:44 pm UTC

Off the top of my head;

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Enders Game - OSC
H2G2 - Douglas Adams
1984 - George Orwell
Pride, Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Abarat - Clive Barker
The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett
IT - Stephen King
The Harry Potter Series - J.K.Rowling
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
His Dark Materials Trilogy - Phillip Pullman

by **Hope_** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:28 pm UTC

C_Cube wrote:Pride, Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Can I just throw in that I thought this could have been so much better. Instead of taking the story in a new direction, he basically flipped through the book picked pages at random and stuck some zombies in. I thought it was interesting but had the potential to be so much better. /rant (sorry)

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