Your top 10 books that must be perused

alan280170

Folks,

Got some free gift tokens to use and I need a list of your top ten books in no particular order. I read at least 1 book a week on average for the last 30 odd years, so I know most of the classic's but there are books that you read loads of times.
My most read book has got to be Tom Sharpes Wilt, the most funny book ever IMO, still reading a falling apart version from the 70's, when I need cheering up.

Garrett

My all time favorite but is out of print. but!

Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L Chalker.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Midnight-at-Well-Souls-ebook/dp/B00APAHP2Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360415797&sr=1-1


Best Clive Cussler book before his story's went south
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vixen-O3-Clive-Cussler/dp/0751505897/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360415355&sr=1-1

Here's as series of books that are even better than the TV series

hthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_(fictional_character)

Probably the longest book I read and enjoyed it all the way

Dark Rivers of the Heart: Amazon.co.uk: Dean Koontz: Books

Best Alister McLean book if you half like the film that's because its only half the story after the film ended there is the other half in the book.

Ice Station Zebra: Amazon.co.uk: Alistair MacLean: Books

FruitBat

Here's a couple of "off the top of my head" lists

SF
Cat's Cradle        Kurt Vonnegut
Dimension of Miracles        Robert Sheckley
The Stainless Steel Rat        Harry Harrison
Roadside Picnic        Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Futurological Congress        Stanislaw Lem
Ubik        Philip K Dick
The Paradox Men        Charles L. Harness
Echo Round His Bones        Thomas M Disch
The Chrysalids        John Wyndham
The Forever War        Joe Haldeman
Non-SF
The Tin Drum        Gunter Grass
Birdsong        Sebastian Foulkes
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy        John Le Carré
All Quiet on the Western Front        Erich Maria Remarque
Travels With My Aunt        Graham Greene
All Quiet On The Orient Express        Magnus Mills
The Wasp Factory        Iain Banks
The Master And Margarita        Mikhail Bulgakov
The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B        JP Donleavy
War and Peace        Leo Tolstoy
No repeated authors (otherwise it would probably be filled with Vonnegut and Le Carré).

Dazimus

Just looking through my Goodreads and these are a selection of books I've rated 5 stars:

Replay - Ken Grimwood
The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
The Last Policeman - Ben H. Winters
The Name Of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Norweigen Wood - Haruki Murakami
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion
Animal Farm - George Orwell
World War Z - Max Brooks
One Day - David Nicholls
The Art Of Racing In The Rain - Garth Stein
Game Of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

More than 10 books but always worth having more recommendations!

1LeeDenton

OK, some recommendations from me that other people may have mentioned before:

The Passage - Justin Cronin.
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey.
Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence.
King of Thorns - Mark Lawrence.
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel.
Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion.
Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig.
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt.

Good thread