BEST MOTHA EFFIN BOOKS EVER!

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1. World War Z - Max Brooks
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Jurassic Park - Michael Chrichton
4. The Giver - Lowis Lory
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

What are your top 5

Nice choices. I loved The Giver, World War Z, and Fahrenheit 451. (I hate spelling "Fahrenheit" though....)

I decided not to include graphic novels in my top 5 favorites (if I did then Watchmen, The Sandman, and JTHM would all be on it). These aren't in order. The list may change, naturally.

Satan Burger (SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE, READ THIS WONDERFUL BOOK!) - Carlton Mellick III
Harry Potter series (my favorite's the third but I'd like to include them all, heheh) - JK Rowling
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale series - Holly Black

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Odyssey by Homer


I'll have to edit the other two in later, once I've thought about it some more.

It's hard to decide!

I'll go with:
Silverlock by John Myers Myers
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Gold Coast -- Nelson DeMille
Perfect Storm -- Sebastian Junger
Confessions of a Street Addict -- Cramer
State of Fear -- MIchael Crichton
The Fourth K -- Mario Puzo
Liberal Fascism -- Jonah Goldberg
Hammer of the Gods -- Stephen Davis
Nightfall -- Nelson DeMille

I've never read any of those books


My favourites (no order because they're around equal for different reasons)

So B. It by Sarah Weeks (Not common but REALLY good)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (though I love all the rest of them too, this one is MY FAVOURITEST OF FAVOURITESTS from the series)
Inkheart/Inkspell
The Twilight series
And finally *drumrolls*
Chicken Soul for the Soul Series (Yep, I'm addicted )

The Perfect Mile-Neal Bascomb
The Four Minute Mile-Roger Bannister
Animals in Translation-Temple Grandin

1.most books by stephen king(pre 1999 car accident, when his books were still good)
2.enders game-orson scott card
3.the otherland series.- Tad williams
4.classic books like robinson crusoe
5. and many of the books posted above.

FICTION
1. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (and its sequels)
2. "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
3. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
4. "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick
5. "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby

NON-FICTION
1. "Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" by Chuck Klosterman (the rest of his books are also tied at #1)
2. "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace
3. "The Book of Lists" (and it's various and infrequent updates) by Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace and David Wallechinsky (these Wallaces are no relation to David Foster)
4. "Brain Droppings" by George Carlin
5. "Issac Asimov's Book of Facts" by Issac Asimov

1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
2. Moon is a harsh mistress - Robert Heinlein (all of his books are great)
3. Trilogy - The Deed of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth moon (Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, Oath of Gold)
4. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin
5. Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo

Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance - Robert M Pirsig.

"The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger
"Coraline" - Neil Gaiman
"The Bell Jar" - Sylvia Plath
"Frankenstein" - Mary Shelley
"Animal Farm" - George Orwell
"Lord of the Flies" - William Golding
"Trainspotting" - Irvine Welsh
The Lemony Snicket series - Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)

Fiction:
Always Coming Home - Ursula Le Guin
Sandman series - Neil Gaiman
Burying the Shadow - Storm Constantine
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

Non-fiction:
Heavier than Heaven - Charles R. Cross (bio of Kurt Cobain)
Hunting Mr. Heartbreak - Jonathan Raban (about the experiences of immigrants to the USA)
The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron (how to unlock your hidden creativity)
A Mouthful of Air - Anthony Burgess (fascinating stuff about language)
Never Too Late - John Holt (how a 40 year old guy learned to play the 'cello)

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND robert heinlen
IMAJICA clive barker
FAHRENHEIT 451 ray bradbury
1984 george orwell
THE WALKING DRUM louis l'amour
100 SECRET SENSES amy tan
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON daniel keyes
THE WHITE COMPANY arthur conan doyle
RIVER GOD wilbur smith
MISTS OF AVALON marion zimmer bradley

i also dig books in a series

THE WHEEL OF TIME robert jordan
SHANNARA TRILOGY AND
HERITAGE OF SHANNARA terry brooks
THE SKYSTONE SERIES jack whyte
DIRK PITT NOVELS clive cussler

Just fiction? Still makes it tough.

*Dune by Frank Herbert

*Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (a Discworld novel)

*All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane (a Doctor Who New Adventures novel, featuring a Sherlock Holmes crossover)

*House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

*Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.