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Since we already did music and movies...

 

I figure we can use some of the similar rules as the movies:

 

- can include a series as one entry

- graphic novels count - I suppose comics too? 

- no order necessary

- for movies, it was suggested no documentaries. Should we do fiction only for books? I don't really care either way - I know there are definitely folks who read only non-fiction.

 

 

 

I'll add mine shortly.

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The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

Last Of The Breed - Louis L'Amour

Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy

Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling

Storm Testament (series) - Lee Nelson

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith

Inca Gold - Clive Cussler

Redwall (series) - Brian Jacques

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Lots of classics, but it's impossible for me to leave them out.

 

House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski

Ask the Dust - John Fante

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

 

Close calls: A Tale of Two Cities, The Catcher in the Rye, Robinson Crusoe, Crime & Punishment, Irrational Man

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I've read more than ten books but I wouldn't include them in my favorites list, so here's just eight in no order:

 

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A Song of Ice and Fire Series - George R.R. Martin

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Scott Pilgrim - Brian Lee O'Malley

Dragon Ball - Akira Toriyama

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Autobiography - Morrissey

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

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Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Edit: Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

I carry my beat up Franny and Zooey with me whenever I go anywhere. And I own maybe 6 copies of HoL, signed and unsigned.

I finally picked up a copy of House of Leaves because you and batman love it so much.

I'll definitely do one of these.

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I've read more than ten books but I wouldn't include them in my favorites list, so here's just eight in no order:

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A Song of Ice and Fire Series - George R.R. Martin

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Scott Pilgrim - Brian Lee O'Malley

Dragon Ball - Akira Toriyama

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Autobiography - Morrissey

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Forgot about Perks. I enjoyed it a lot.

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The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Ubik - Philip K Dick

The World According to Garp - John Irving

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

The Pornographer's Poem - Michael Turner

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

The Instructions - Adam Levin

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

 

 

I discovered as I was writing the list that while I have a lot of favourite authors (Murakami, Hornby, Tom Perrotta, Jess Walter, Jonathan Tropper), I didn't quite have a favourite book by some of them.

Also honourable mentions to the follow graphic novel series: Scott Pilgrim, Essex County, Watchmen.

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Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Essex County - Jeff Lemire

Black Hole - Charles Burns

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 

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I have a writing degree, so I fucking love books. My list is filled with obvious classics, but they're classics for a reason. In no particular order...

The Grapes of Wrath

Catcher in the Rye

Extremly Loud and incredibly Close

The Complete Works of Flannery O'Connor

Animal Farm

The Road

As I Lay Dying

In Cold Blood

Watchmen

The Exorcist

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Guest BruceWillyAintDead

ok

It's really weird. I like reading. I like books. Ask me to name 10 I enjoy? No fucking clue.

Need 25 pages on a feminist reading of Frankenstein? Give me two adderall, a pack of cigarettes, 12 hours and I got this.

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C'mon, Bruce. You know none of us will ever need this.

Well you see, Victor Frankenstein is trying to use science to replace women...

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> The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

> The Call of the Wild - Jack London

> The Shining - Stephen King

> Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson

> Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling

> The Road - Cormac McCarthy

> Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

> Dracula - Bram Stoker

> Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

> A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

 

Honourable Mention:

The Hatchet - Gary Paulson

Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

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> The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

> The Call of the Wild - Jack London

> The Shining - Stephen King

> Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson

> Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling

> The Road - Cormac McCarthy

> Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

> Dracula - Bram Stoker

> Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

> A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

 

Honourable Mention:

The Hatchet - Gary Paulson

Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

 

So glad to see others respecting Jonathan Safran Foer's work.  I have autographed copies of both EiI and ELaIC on my bookshelves.  

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This is tough. I'll need a little more time to fully solidify it, but it shouldn't change much from this.

 

Dune (first 6)

The Wheel of Time

Battle Royale

2666

A Song of Ice and Fire

Black and White

Akira

A Brief History of Time

Kafka On the Shore

Catcher in the Rye

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This is tough. I'll need a little more time to fully solidify it, but it shouldn't change much from this.

Dune (first 6)

The Wheel of Time

Battle Royale

2666

A Song of Ice and Fire

Black and White

Akira

A Brief History of Time

Kafka On the Shore

Catcher in the Rye

2666 is so, so, so fucking good. Definitely in my top 10.

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