I read all the time, but have settled into a rut and would like to expand my horizons.
2006-07-10 15:22:50 · 19 answers · asked by davis0375 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
3. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
4. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
5. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
6. Dragonlance Chronicales - Weis & Hickman
7. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
8. Honeymoon with My Brother - Franz Wisner
9. The Other Boelyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
10. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling (children's yes, but very good and amusing)
2006-07-10 15:32:07 · answer #1 · answered by secrets_in_mind3 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit.
David and Leigh Eddings--The Belgariad (5 books in series Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magicians Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanters end Game)
and the companion series... The Mallorean (5 books--Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon lord of Karanda, Sorceress of Darshiva and The Seeress of Kell)
Maurice Walsh- The Blackcocks Feather
Jack London-White fang and Call of the Wild and everything else by him lots of good short stories.
Milo Hastings- The city of endless night
Douglas Niles- The Seven Circles Trilogy...Circle at Center, World Fall, The Goddess Worldweaver.
Frank Herbert and Brian Herbert- Dune series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune the series is continued by his son and is still very good)
Joanne Bertin- The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Pheonix
Anne McCaffery-Crystal Singer Series-Crystal Singer, Killashandra, Crystal Line. Also the Pern series too many books to list A few are Dragonflight, DragonQuest and The White Dragon.
Rudyard Kipling- Kim, The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous.
Robert Louis Stevenson- Kidnapped and Treasure Island
I know this is technically way more than ten of my favorite books but I love series and I read every book I can by a single author...I hope you enjoy some of thes books some are Science fiction, some fantasy and some just plain old fiction. I love to read!!
2006-07-10 18:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Final Blackout : L Ron Hubbard
Fight Club: Chuck Palahnuik
Battlefield Earth: L R Hubbard
Shame of Man : Piers Anthony
America the book: Jon Stewart
Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown
Xanth series: Piers Anthony
The Firm: John Grisham
Night Shift: Stephen King
Jurassic Park: M. Crichton
2006-07-10 16:39:15 · answer #3 · answered by fwaje 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand
The Wood Wife - Terri Windling
Memory and Dream - Charles de Lint
Bordertown, Borderland, and Life on the Border (a trilogy of anthologies) - edited by Terri Windling
Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint
Dreams of a Dead Dreamer - Thomas Ligotti
Lost - Poppy Z. Brite
any of the Valdemar books - Mercedes Lackey
War for the Oaks - Emma Bull
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
2006-07-10 18:22:23 · answer #4 · answered by AsDarknessFalls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are not in any order, but they are all my favorites
1. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
2. Jack & Jill, Louisa May Alcott
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
4. Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen
5. The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
6. The Pact, Jodi Picoulet
7. The Bible
8. Emma, Jane Austen
9. Persuasion, Jane Austen
10. Anything by Janet Evanovich
2006-07-10 16:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by stevie_jo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is in no particular order, but here goes
1. Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Old Man and the Sea--Ernest Hemingway
4. Jurassic Park--Michael Crichton
5. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Clear and Present Danger--Tom Clancy
8. Misery-Stephen King
9. 1776--David McCullough
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel--Jared Diamond
2006-07-10 15:29:23 · answer #6 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No particular order.
1. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood-Rebecca Wells
2. The Stand-Stepehen King
3. Rage-Jonathan Kellerman
4. Little Earthquakes-Jennifer Weiner
5. The entire Dark Tower series-Stephen King
6. Phenomenon-Sylvia Browne
7. Bet Me-Jennifer Crusie
8. insomnia-Stephen King
9. Hissy Fit-Mary Kay Andrews
10. Queen of the Damned-Anne Rice
2006-07-11 01:51:58 · answer #7 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Lovely Bones can't think of the author
Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
Forever Odd Dean Koontz
The Kite Runner
The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Running with Scissors
In Cold Blood
2006-07-10 16:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by Helen T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I've only got a top four (edit: ah! five! I give credit to the person who posted after me, laney po, for reminding me of #5!), but I've grouped them in series:
1: The first three books written by George R. R. Martin in the series "The Song of Ice and Fire" -- it's the best high fantasy fiction you'll find out there today, and I'm not exaggerating
2: Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are amazing sci-fi books written by Orson Scott Card -- they really bring out an awareness that you didn't know you had
3: The Harry Potter series -- self-explanatory =)
4: The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov -- classic novels, sci-fi
Edit - 5: The Chronicles of Narina by C.S. Lewis
2006-07-10 17:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. Wuthering Heights by Emelie Bronte
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Kingdom of God is Within by Tolstoy
6. The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
8. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
9..Ripley's Game (and the rest of the series) by Patricia Highsmith
10. The Bible by various authors, though often misattributed to "God" (Nietzsche has a great line, "Clever of God to have learned Greek when he wished to be a writer, cleverer still not to have learned it better.)
Honorable Mention:
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
God by Jack Miles
Shakespeare's plays
2006-07-10 16:04:55 · answer #10 · answered by coleriver 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋