Post your favorite books

[bunny]

Lag has suggested we list what our favorite books are, great suggestion!

Some of bunny's favorite books:

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ~ Tolkien
2. Dune ~ Frank Herbert
3. The Dispossesed ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
4. The Left Hand of Darkness ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
5. The Awakeners ~ Sherry Tepper
6. The Outsiders ~ S. E. Hinton
7. Maus ~ Art Spiegelman
8. Sherlock Holmes ~ Conan Doyle
9. Dracula ~ Bram Stoker
10. Dr. Zhivago ~ Boris Pasternak
11. The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton
12. The House of Mirth ~ Edith Wharton
13. Tropic of Cancer ~ Henry Miller
14. Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo
15. A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
16. The Sleepwalkers ~ Arthur Koestler
17. The Copernican Revolution ~ Thomas Kuhn
18. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
19. Confessions of St Augustine ~ St. Augustine
20. The Odyssey ~ Homer
21. The Bhagavad Gita ~ Vyasa
22. Shivastotravali ~ Utpaladeva

[Koach]

I love the first 4 that bunny listed, and many of the others.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Ursula Le Guin
The Earthsea series

Isaac Asimov
The Robot Series
Foundation Series

Naomi Novik
Her Dragon Series with Temeraire

John Connelly
Any of his detective novels featuring Detective Hieronymus Bosch

Ken Follett

I have never been disappointed by any of his historical fiction.
These are particularly good:
The Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
A Column of Fire

James Clavell
All of his Asian series:

King Rat
Tai-Pan
Shōgun
Noble House 
Whirlwind
Gai-Jin

[Smiley]

 

Sci Fi

          Azimov:    Novels:       Foundation series

                                                  I Robot      

                                                  The Gods Themselves

                              Shorts:       Nightfall

          Card, Orson Scott       Ender’s Game

          Frank Herbert               Dune

          David Drake                  Hammers’ Slammers series

          Anne McCafferty          Dragon Flight

          Larry Niven                   Ring World

             w/ Jerry Pournelle   Lucifer’s Hammer

                                                   The Mote in God’s Eye

Fantasy     

          Tolkien       Novels:      Lord of the Rings (trilogy)

                                                  The Hobbit

Historical Fiction        

          Follet                              Pillars of the Earth

          Eco                                 The Name of the Rose

          Shaara, Wm                  The Killer Angels

          Sullivan, Mark               Beneath a Scarlet Sky

 

Cold War

          Le Carre                        The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Clancy                            The Hunt for Red October

(and all the Jack Ryan Series)