I can't say that I can just pick 10 favorite books, but I have about 10 favorite authors that I will read anything and everything from them many times over. Of course there are particular favorites from each author, but anyway...
I went ahead and took the time to link them all to pages at
Buy.com for the heck of it and to get a feel for posting URLs...
All the books by
Stephen R. Lawhead, he's my favorite:
Byzantium
The entire Pendragon Cycle:
Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon, Grail, (Avalon: The Return of King Arthur)
The entire Song of Albion trilogy:
The Paradise War, Silver Hand, The Endless Knot
Emperion Saga:
Empyrion: The Search for Fierra and the Siege of Dome
Frank Peretti:
The Oath
J. R. R. Tolkien:
The entire Lord of The Rings 'Trilogy' (Including The Hobbit)
Orson Scott Card:
Ender's Game(And the others in the series)
Enchantment (Cool twist on Russian fairy tales)
Frank Herbert:
All the
Dune books
William Goldman:
The Princess Bride (The book is just as funny if not funnier than the movie)
Sharon Shinn, all the books in the Samaria saga:
Archangel, Jovah's Angel, The Alleluia Files, Angelica, Angel-Seeker
Michael Crichton, I love the (Science) of his books, they make me feel like I learned something:
Timeline (Quantum Physics / Mechanics)
Prey (Nanotechnology and programming to mimic animal group behavior)
Sphere (Deep Sea Aquatic Technology, Human Psychology, some Space Technology)
Bill Watterson, all the
Calvin and Hobbes books (So I'm an avid newspaper comics reader too. Sue me :-)
Frank Cho, cartoonist that does Liberty Meadows. Those are some funny comics:
Liberty Meadows, Volume 1: Eden
Liberty Meadows Volume 2: Creature Comforts
Dang, that took a long time...