crap, I forgot the Great Gatsby! What the hell is wrong with me! ok, knock out Martian Chronicles and put Great Gatsby in its place.

Ok Im good now

I broke down and figured out my list. These are mostly in order, but on a different night some of them might end up in different places.


1. Nightfall -Isaac Asimov
2. Lucifer's Hammer -Niven/Pournelle
3. Enders Game -Orson Scott Card
4. 1984 -George Orwell
5. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus -Orson Scott Card
6. Hamlet -William Shakespeare
7. Aliens -Alan Dean Foster
8. The Hobbit -J. R. R. Tolkien
9. Foundation -Isaac Asimov
10. The Stand –Stephen King


There's a hundred other books I could add to this list, but then it wouldn't be my ten favorite would it. These are basically the books I've read the most times and will again read in the future.

Standard No-Particular-Order disclaimer:

1 A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
2 Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Caroll
3 Nightmare of Ecstacy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., Rudolph Grey
4 Mahabharata (Get the William Buck translation)
5 The Odyssey, Homer
6 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki(4 Volumes)
7 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
8 Shane, Jack Schaeffer
9 The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
10 Without Feathers, Woody Allen

1) Conversations with God I,
2) " " II,
3) " " III (series- Neale Donald Walsch)
4) Friendship with God (also Neale Donald Walsch)
5) The New Revelations (also Neale Donald Walsch)
6) The Architecture of All Abundance (lenedra j. carroll)
7) Chasing Down the Dawn (Jewel)
8) Manifest your Destiny (Wayne Dyer)
9) The Celestine Prophesy (James Redfield/Carol Adrienne)
10) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)

In no particular order:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
The Alchemist, Paulo Cuehlo
2001: A Space Oddysey, Arthur C. Clarke
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
Run With the Horsemen, Ferrol Sams

My current "status" message (But outside it kept raining) is actually a line from A Farewell to Arms. The line comes at a crucial junction in the book, and given what the rain has come to symbolize and the events that precede the line, it sends a shiver up my spine everytime I read it. Such a simple line, and yet such beauty.

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Enigma - Robert Harris
The Dilbert Future - Scott Adams
The Pre-History of The Far Side - Gary Larson
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum
Hitchhikers Guide, etc - Douglas Adams
Farewell To Arms - Hemingway
David Copperfield - Dickens
The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Rule Of Four - Ian Caldwell & Justin Thomason
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Search For The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
The Shining - Stephen King
The Fog - James Herbert
'48 - James Herbert

Ten? Only ten? Gonna be hard....

I'd have to say (and in no particular order)
1. The Catcher In the Rye - JD Salinger
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling (dj, excellent taste ;) )
3. The Stand - Stephen King
4. Sahara - Clive Cussler
5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Any Kay Scarpetta novel - Patricia Cornwell
8. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
9. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Honorable Mention - Alive by Piers Paul Reid

I have mostly current fiction....I guess I just dont love the classics like a lot of people.

I decided to pick series just because. Well, there are too many bests, or favorites, so mentioning The Power of One, or Courtship Rites, or Floating Worlds is just too limiting. So in random order, 10 aggregates, or collectives or whatever you call 'em. There are many more, but I have to stop somewhere.

C.S. Forrester's Hornblower

Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicals of Thomas Covenant

Donald Jack's Bandy Papers

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman Papers

John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee

Tolkien's Hobbits

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

Larry Niven's Known Space

R.A.H's Methuselah

Dorothy Dunnet's House of Niccolo

No particular order...

Post Office - Bukowski
I Am Legend - Matheson
The Big Sleep - Chandler
Find A Victim - Macdonald
The Robots of Dawn - Asimov
Complete Tales & Poems - Poe
Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Welcome to the Monkey House - Vonnegut
Dracula - Stoker
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Wolfe

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Illusions - by Richard Bach
Foundation Trilogy -Asimov (Its three books but one long story)
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Farenheit 451 - Bradbury
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Flowers for Algernon - Keyes
The Talisman - King/Straub or "The Stand'" hard to choose.
Lucifer's Hammer - Niven/Pournelle
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein

hmm...
dune-herbert
ender saga-card
wheel of time-jordan
rama-clarke
lotr-duh
foundation-asimov
lot more than 10 books included in here :p

-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
-A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle
-Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
-Friday by Robert Heinlein
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
-Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
-Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
-The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
-Reviving Ophilia by Mary Pipher

Have to revise mine, as it was written over a year ago and much has changed.

1. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
2. The King of Heart's Heart by Sam Teague
3. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
5. The Brothers K by David James Duncan
6. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
7. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
8. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
9. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This is easier made into a top 20 list for me...Dammit

Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
Angels and Demons- Dan Brown
Digital fortress- Dan Brown
And all the Steven King series

I've love reading, but the book that set me to reading science fiction was Robert Heinlein's ROCKETSHIP GALLIEO. I was in Shriner's hospital in Portland, Oregon when I discovered a copy in the ward. I realize it's dated but it reminded me that what a friend and I had been doing, making our own gunpowder and launching rockets.
Also another good read, while dated, is WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE by Philip Wylie.
It is maddening as all hell that with all the great books and story lines in SciFi and fantasy the studios and networks can't find or do one right.