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Your Top 12 Books

Cricko

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Ok simple really, up to now can you name just 12 top books you have read and have made you think and that you would recommend to others.

I will start.

1984-George Orwell.
Mission-Patrick Tilley.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull- Richard Bach.
Tuesdays with Morrie-Mitch Albom.
The Celestine Prophecy- James Redfield.
The Monk who sold his Ferrari-Robin S.Sharma.
Sybil-Flora Rheta Schreiber.
Conversations with God-Neale Donald Walsch.
Illusions-Richard Bach.
The Five People you meet in Heaven-Mitch Albom.
Aesops Fables-Translated by S.A Handford.
The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom..er Guess who.
 
Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne
Folk of the Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Northern Lights / The Subtle Knife /Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
The Stand - Stephen King.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Microserfs - Douglas Coupeland
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
V For Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
 
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If I had a number 13 that would of been it ...great book.

Tougher than I thought! Plenty I love that I had to leave out... Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Maus 1 & 2, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Belgariad and Malloreon (though that's probably through rose tinted glasses as I don't do fantasy these days!), Animal Farm....
 
In no particular order.

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
The Stand - Stephen King
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Smiley's People - John Le Carre
The Tunnel Rats - Stephen Leather
Moscow Rules - Daniel Slva
Noble House - James Clavell
 
Tougher than I thought! Plenty I love that I had to leave out... Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Maus 1 & 2, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Belgariad and Malloreon (though that's probably through rose tinted glasses as I don't do fantasy these days!), Animal Farm....

That's not what Mrs MK told me. ;) I had the Thomas Covenant Chronicles but was never able to get into them.
 
That's not what Mrs MK told me. ;) I had the Thomas Covenant Chronicles but was never able to get into them.

Borrowed them off my brother as a teenager, loved them. But I can imagine at 38yr old me wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.
 
Oh it changes all the time.

But off the top of my head:

The Kid Stays in the Picture - Robert Evans
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Sidetracked - Henning Mankell
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Flashman's Lady - George McDonald Fraser
Blood on the Moon - James Ellroy
Needful Things - Stephen King
A Dysfunctional Success- Wreckless Eric
 
Some great titles there guy's but hardly any I would say have made you think!..a lot are just pantomime novels.

Go to the back of the class and think again lol
 
Ok....

To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Roots/Queen - Alex Haley
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Quentins - Maeve Binchy
Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton (set me off on a long, happy childhood of reading)
Wideacre trilogy - Phillipa Gregory
The Devil Rides Out - Denis Wheatley
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
 
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
1984 - George Orwell
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
If this is a Man - Primo Levi
Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-45 - William Sheridan Allen
Bible - Various
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek
Beyond a Boundary - CLR James
 
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Emperor series (Julius Caesar) - Conn Iggulden
Vintage Stuff - Tom Sharpe
The Avenger - Frederick Forsyth
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore (brilliant book)
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Richard Sharpe series - Bernard Cornwall
Jack Ryan series - Tom Clancy
Hannibal Lector series - Thomas Harris
Jack Reacher series - Lee Child
Ulysses - James Joyce (not an easy read, but interesting)
 
5 that I've read this year...

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom
All Gone To Look For America - Peter Miller
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac

plus 7 other favourites...

Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions or Timequake
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend In A Coma
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jon Snow - Shooting History​
 
Don't think I could find 12 on the spot, I'd have to think about it, but:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Fever Pitch
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Green Mile

Would all feature, I'll edit this when I come to it.
 
Lord of the rings - Tolkien (Great story, crap author)
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Love Labours Lost - Shakespeare
American Pshyco - Bret Ellis
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
1984 - George Orwell
The Reader - Bernerd Schlink
The Tamuli Trilogy - David Eddings
 
Spots First Christmas - Eric Hill
Very Old Engines - W Awdry
Asterix and Cleopatra - Rene Goscinny
Roger Red Hat - Sheila McCullagh
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
Mr Tickle - Roger Hargreaves
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Standing Out - Katie Price
Budgie The Little Helicopter - Big ginger bird
Danger Mouse Strikes Again - Greg Steddy
The Bible - God
What are theses strawberries doing on my nipples?: I need them for the Fruit Salad - Vanessa Feltz
 
I should add i didnt actually finish the bible as it got a little bit too unbelievable when the main charachter was murdered and then came alive again, but up until then it was actually a good read.
 
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