Top 10 Books

Hierarchical order would be unfair...

1. Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer / Tropic of Capricorn
2. Albert Camus - The Stranger
3. Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
4. Ernest Hemingway - For whom the bells toll
5. Julio Cortazar - Rayuela
6. Jasper Ridley - Mussolini
7. Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
8. Paco Ignacio Taibo II - Ernesto Guevara also known as 'Che'
9. Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea
10. Jack Kerouac - On the road

And I forget a lot, damn... no SciFi though, I loath it

My serious fiction list:

Orwell - 1984
Stendahl - Red and the Black
Dickins - Great Expectations
Nabokov - Lolita
Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Palahniuk - Fight Club
Rand - The Fountainhead
Dreiser - An American Tragedy
Wright - Native Sun
Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Jane Eyre

I first read this when I was 14 (23 years ago) and fell in love with it. I re-read it every couple of years and I am instantly transported into another world.

Of course this is only my humble opinion and it may not be deep and meaningful, but it is my favourite book.

Lisa

Here are some of my favorite Sci-Fi books:
Poul Anderson, Brainwave. Also Boat of a million years. Talk about prolific!
Spider Robinson, Callahan's crosstime saloon and Callahan's Lady.
He is also prolific, lots of Callahan stories.
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow and sequel, God's children.
She knows more about humanity than anyone!
Olaf Stapleton, the starmaker, oldie but definitely goodie!
Orson Scott Card, the Ender's game series. Also the Memory of Earth series., the Alvin series (fantasy)
I'll leave it at that for now for Sci Fi.
The Other America, Harrington
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

xaxaaxa LOL 😛.... never heard of Allen? ok I understand you because he is not really good ( nothing special)

Leo ??????????!!!!!!!

Have you ever heard of Ivo Andric ?

''Na Drini cuprija'' - Ivo Andric ( A bridge on the Drina)