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Share with us your 10 favorites books of all time?

This'll be a slow thread 😵

THE DIVINE COMEDY (DANTE)
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (DOSTOYVESKY)
THE STRANGER (CAMUS)
MOBY DICK (MELVILLE)
DAMIEN (HESSE)
THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH (TOLSTOY)
THE TRIAL (KAFKA)
THE METAMORPHOSES (KAFKA)
DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (CERVANTES)
NAUSEA (SATRE)

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My ten favorite books arent the kind of literature you seem to have here. I've ready a good deal of Camus and Kafka, but I wouldn't call them my favorites. I like more scifi books. Also some straight science books. I'll post the list later.

Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnow
I'll post the list later.

these are the books i keep returning to again and again. in no particular order (sorry, couldn't narrow it down to 10):

100 years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
love in the time of cholera - also g.g.m.
lanark - alasdair gray
northern lights - philip pullman
are you experienced? - william sutcliffe
ham on rye - charles bukowski
the wild life of sailor and lula - barry gifford
the watchmen - alan moore
life of pi - yann martel
under the skin - michel faber
consider phlebas - iain m banks
the sopranos - alan warner
the master and margarita - mikhail bulgakov

a bit light on the classics, but there you go.

Originally posted by Bowmann
Yes, you should read them first 😵

1984 (Orwell)
Kapital (Marx)
LBJ Biographies (Caro)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
9/11 Commision Report (Am. Gov.)
Case Closed (Posner)
The Prince (Machiavelli)
The People's History of the U.S. (Zinn)
My Life (Clinton)
and....
Howrard Stern, Private Parts (Just kidding)😉

Originally posted by Nietzsche1844
Share with us your 10 favorites books of all time?

Originally posted by Edwardipov

lanark - alasdair gray
the watchmen - alan moore
consider phlebas - iain m banks

Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -- Douglas Hofstadter
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig
The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand
A Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood
Unpopular Essays -- Bertrand Russell
The Elements -- Euclid
Fifth Business -- Robertson Davies
The Metamorphosis -- Franz Kafka
Chaos -- James Gleick
A Devil's Chaplian -- Richard Dawkins

In no particular order:

Atheism: The case against god - George H Smith
Number 9 Dream - David Mitchell
Anvil of Stars - Greg Bear
Feersum Endjin - Ian M Banks
Dune - Frank Herbert
Lord of the Rings (Sextalogy) - J R R Tolkien
Dragonlance Legends (Trilogy) -Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Life is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera
Nostradamus ate my hamster - Robert Rankin
The tale of Samuel Whiskers (or The Roly-Poly Pudding) - Beatrix Potter

Originally posted by Starrman
Dragonlance Legends (Trilogy) -Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

There are a small number of books that continue to nourish with each rereading:

Simon Ortiz, From Sand Creek (poetry)
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses (novel)
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions (short stories)

There are books that intoduced me to a writer or a style, or changed my views of a writer, and that moved me in unexpected ways:

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (poetry)
Paul Bowles, A Distant Episode (short stories)
Donald Barthelme, Sadness (short stories)

Then, rounding out the top ten, I become indecisive, as I find it hard to decide among true classics that drew me in and held me close:

Solomon, Song of Solomon (erotica)
Georges Bataille, The Impossible (philosophy)
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (novel)
Hans Peter Duerr, Dreamtime (anthropology)

or more recent books that clarify the state of my part of the world better than others:

Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (history)
Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (political biography)
Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx (philosophy)

or the books I would hate to be without:

Dave Hughes, Trout Flies: A Tiers Reference (fly tying)
Emanuel Lasker, Lasker's Manual of Chess (chess)
Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (science)

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Hmm...did you include these because they left an indelible impression on you as a kid, or do you still go back to them?

I can't decide whether my favourite Beatrix Potter is Squirrel Nutkin (Gothic thriller) or Pigling Bland (masterly juxaposition of the sinister & homely...wonder if JRR Tolkien was a fan).