Your Favourite Books

The recent posts in the Random Off-Topic thread got me thinking about my favourite books... These are the books I have re-read on countless occassions and am always recommending to friends. Even though they are all so different, I have found them inspiring in their own way:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland (in a Ship of Her Own Making) by Catherynne M. Valente

His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman



So, what are your favourite books? (I need a new book to read!)

Here are some of mine: some you may know, others you may not know

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, A Song of Ice and Fire.

A Song of Ice and Fire
Wheel of Time

and Ian M. Banks books etc;

Lord of the Rings

Rangers Apprentice

I like A Song of Ice and Fire as well (before the Game of Thrones TV series, which I think is only okay). I haven't picked up the fifth book yet though... I'm waiting for the paperback since the rest of the books I have are paperback.

Seeing as this is a forum for a video game, has anybody read Ready Player One? I've been meaning to pick it up.

nsane, I've been trying to remember what that Rangers Apprentice series was called for the longest time. I now love you.

Also, the Inheritance Cycle is my favorite.

TehInfamousAmos wrote:A Song of Ice and Fire
Wheel of Time

and Ian M. Banks books etc;

Quarik wrote:The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, Game of Thrones.

bunnywink wrote:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman

I like all of your tastes in books

Erm not much too add here. assassins apprentice maybe. I enjoyed that series.


Inheritance cycle blundered on the last book IMHO

Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus.

Heir to the Empire.

Paradise Lost.

The Hobbit

IceIfrit666 wrote:nsane, I've been trying to remember what that Rangers Apprentice series was called for the longest time. I now love you.

Also, the Inheritance Cycle is my favorite.

yea its a great books series still need to finish it stoped at around book 5

All of Katharine Kerr’s books.
Raymon E Feists’s books.
John Flanagan’s books.
Philip Reeves books.

Those are my all time favorites. I have more but i can’t remember them now.

brian lumley...the necroscope series..
the hellbound heart and cabal....clive barker
anything by h.p. lovecraft
the chronicles of malus darkblade..dan abnett

Andrzej Sapkowski's 'Wiedźmin' i think they call it 'The Witcher' in england, read all the books when i was younger and now im playing the game.

But if God dose exist its Andrzej Sapkowski, that man is a F U C K I N G genius!

Eisenhorn and Ravenor (Dan Abnett) are my top two, closely followed by I am Legend (Richard Matheson) and the entire Gaunt's Ghosts franchise (also Dan Abnett).

Anything from Antony Beevor.

Stephen King, Dark Tower series in particular
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Anything Dave Barry
I Am America and So Can You by Stephen Colbert
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

^I love reading Stephen King. He has such a great writing style. I read and love The Dark Tower series ("The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." ), but it was a long time ago... I'd read it again, but it's such a commitment! Of his, I also read The Stand, It, Under the Dome, Cell (this one wasn't very good... ), Duma Key--I might be forgetting some. To be honest I don't even think his stories are very good, but his writing is a pleasure to read.

My favorite book, though: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas.

I also liked Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. Didn't care all that much for the stories or the characters, but I really enjoyed the detailed descriptions of the architecture, building techniques, and daily life. The "Dark Ages" is such a misunderstood period of time! Many great advances were made during that time, not just during the Renaissance.

I might read the Ender's series next--I think it's time I read something other than Stephen King! (Although, a cursory glance at Wikipedia just now tells me Ender's might be a bigger commitment than I'm in for...) If not, I'll read Le Comte again, brush up on my French.

(I'm so wordy... Why couldn't I just write a list like everyone else?)

(Edit: by the way, my screen name is from the Dark Tower. "Even the dead would run from Blaine, if they could...")

That's awesome. Blaine is tremendous. Love how they got him. What's the 1 for if you don't mind? You should check out Hearts In Atlantis. Great story about a Dark Tower minor character.

Count of Monte Cristo was awesome but that's another commitment

Ah, the 1 was out of necessity! I tried making it just Blaine, but the forums wouldn't let me for some reason... My PSN id is just Blaine.

+1 Nsane I love those books and have read them all at least 3 times each

I hear ya Blaine Blaine the choo choo train. I would prefer dropping the number on mine but it's usually taken most places or needs a number. Back to books, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Short but phenomenal

^Haha, never knew of them, but I had their poster in my college dorm room!

Lol. That's the whole book

Any and all Tom Clancy books, The Rangers apprentice, The Icemark Chronicles, Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic and Sequels, and Game of Thrones

The princess bride(also my favorite movie)
Tunnel in the sky
Battlefield earth
The winter king, enemy of god, Excalibur(trilogy about king Arthur)
On ravens wing(named my son after the main character)