That other forum stalwart - Fave Books

[Noodley]

Peter Pan
To Kill a Mocking Bird

...no point reading anything else after them really

 

[Apeman]

Great War For Civilisation;The Conquest of The Middle East
Wild Swans
Three Billy Goats Gruff
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Lord of The Rings
Revolting Rhymes

 

[col]

Im not a book reader normally,but i did read one called Tornado down,it was the british pilot and his co,that were shot down over the desert and held prisoner during the gulf war,very interesting read.

 

[Slim]

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Despatches - Michael Herr

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[Melvil]

Oh, and Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks. I read that book growing up and it was amazing, on a par with Junk by Melvin Burgess.

 

[Niall Estick]

The 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy is rather good

 

[Niall Estick]

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Despatches - Michael Herr

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Slim, I do like your sig.

 

[Slim]

Slim, I do like your sig.

I think it's Plato. Can't remember where I saw it but it's a good reminder to stay calm (until some bastard cuts me up to save themselves 30 seconds ).


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[wafflycat]

Hmm....

Let's see..

Can't do a full list right now (this lurgy is draining mentally as well as physically) but will start with

Julian May: Saga of the Exiles. Actually four books: The Many Coloured Land, The Golden Torc, The Non-Born King and The Adversary. Then on to her Galactic Milieu Series, comprising another four books: Intervention, Jack The Bodiless, Diamond Mask and Magnificat.

Then Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy, comprising Aizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore.

Then I do love factual books. Mostly science-based and have a library full of them.

 

[wafflycat]

Then there's Fungus The Bogeyman. Love that.

 

[goo_mason]

OK, there are so many books that I love that this list could go on forever, but here are some of my favourite reads:

A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Radio Romance - Garrison Keillor
Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster
Demian - Hermann Hesse
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Glamour - Christopher Priest
I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
The Sopranos - Alan Warner
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Four Letters Of Love - Niall Williams
Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James
The Regeneration Trilogy - Pat Barker

Any of Spike Milligan's war memoirs
Anything by Christopher Brookmyre
Anything by Bill Bryson
Anything by Kate Atkinson
Any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Just finished Savage Nights by Allan Guthrie - great, darkly black and set locally. Had me squirming towards the end !

 

[DJ]

Too many to mention but, from each period of my life, here goes,

Fungus the Bogey man

Swallows and Amazons- Arhtur Ransome

Islands in the stream or Green Hills of Africa- Hemingway

Vile Bodies- Evelyn Waugh

Nineteen eighty four - George Orwell

Le Miserables- Vitor Hugo.

Touching the void

South- Ernest Shakleton

The wasp factory - Ian Banks

and so on....................

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Then Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy, comprising Aizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore.

There are actually five Earthsea books now... Tehanu and The Other Wind were the fourth and fifth. Tehanu totally changes things, and lots of 'fans' didn't like it but I did. The Other Wind may be one of the most beautiful books Le Guin has ever written.

 

[Cheddar George]

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The time travellers wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Comedians - Graham Greene
Old Goriot - Balzac
Enders game - Orson Scott Card
The wasp factory - Iain Banks
Any Jack Reacher novel - Lee Child (they're all the same but enoyable)
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
A town like Alice - Nevil Shute
Raise the Titanic - Clive Cussler

all choices subject to change at any time

 

[cchapman]

For me, fantasy and sci-fi are ephemeral, and I can't see any book as life changing (except The Book perhaps) but having read peoples responses I find I have omitted what should have been #1, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. It wasn't life changing, it was life affirming, it was somehow verification that you were on the right path.

I also forgot that monumental work, Shogun.