Name the ten best books you've ever read...

[Ghostly Pie]

I so can't even name five D :

But I did enjoy Libba Bray's books- in each one you could tell she grew as an author. The ending of that series was very good- not too happy but realistic.  

[ze proffezionalle]

The Stranger by Albert Camus
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
There Are Two Errors in the The Title of This Book by Robert Martin
The Ice Man by Philip Carlo
And a free space.

I've read a lot of books but not many of them linger enough to become favorites. I have a questionable taste in books.  

[BoomBot Ninja]

ze proffezionalle

The Stranger by Albert Camus
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
There Are Two Errors in the The Title of This Book by Robert Martin
The Ice Man by Philip Carlo
And a free space.

I've read a lot of books but not many of them linger enough to become favorites. I have a questionable taste in books.

The Stranger sounds familiar...can you tell me what it's about? Would you recommend it?  

[ze proffezionalle]

BoomBot Ninja

The Stranger sounds familiar...can you tell me what it's about? Would you recommend it?

I would recommend it, only if you can bypass the main character's lack of likability. (Well..I like him, but that's because he's interesting.) It gives an interesting way of looking at things.

The book wouldn't be fascinating at all unless you first considered nihilism and absurdism. Nihilism says that life is overall without meaning or value, but absurdism argues that life does have meaning and life does have value, except that humans would never be able to find it. It also poses the question of destiny vs. free will, so that's something else to keep in mind as well.

It's hard to say what The Stranger is about since it's very subtle and traces no definitive plot. It starts off with main character Meursault commenting on the death of his mother. Following that, he begins a pseudo-romantic relationship with his co-worker Marie and then comes across his neighbor Raymond, who is a pimp. Naturally they befriend each other, and it goes on from there. (I don't want to spoil anything further..)  

[iEccentric]

I have not yet be fortunate enough to be able to name
10 favorite books, I do have 3 book that I adore very much.

1. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
2. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
3. Trials of Death by Darren Shan (another Vampire related book)

.. and there I go again with my obsession with Vampires sweatdrop

first it was witches now vampires.. rolleyes  

[Talkor]

I can't think of ten really, but some of my favorites are: I Am Legend, Dune, The Call of Cthulhu, Magician: Apprentice wasn't bad, World War Z, Mind Hacks was a good nonfiction...  

[Kismet Hitsuzen]

I have favorite [insert plural of series]....

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The Harry Potter series (of course)
The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix
The Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott
The So you Want to be a Wizard series by Diane Duane
The Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke
The "Heir" trilogy by Cinda Williams Chima
The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
and The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.  

[Organic Paranoia]

If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you

No particular order;

Laughter In The Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones
Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates
Marriage Most Scandalous by Johanna Lindsey
Malory Family series by Johanna Lindsey
Clayborne of Rosehill series by Julie Garwood
Insomnia by Steven King
Salem's Lot by Steven King

I could only come up with nine. ;-;
I never imagined I would have such a hard time picking 10 good books. XD
Anyway, I strongly recommend Sexy. It's hard to explain what it is about but it focuses mainly on relationships between characters and coming of age.
It's really good.
>w<

Looking so long at these pictures of you
But I never hold on to your heart
Looking so long for the words to be true
But always just breaking apart
My pictures of you

 

[valentineaiden]

Here's my top ten:

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Harry Potter and the ... [Entire series] by J.K. Rowling
1st to Die by James Patterson
Timeline by Michael Crichton
The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring
Please Stop Laughing At Me by Jodee Blanco
Night by Elie Wiesel

All great reads, of course. I'd recommend any on this list.  

[SuchSweetSadism]

This may not be the ten absolute favorites, because I think I have more like seven but the last three will be close to favorite status.

Catch 22 Joseph Heller
Slaughtehouse IV Kurt Vonnegut
White Fang Jack London
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
1984 George Orwell
On Writing Stephen King
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
Angels and Demons Dan Brown
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown  

[KaruKweh]

Top Ten, eh? Let me think, but you might not get many out of me...

#1. Carrie - Stephen King (In fact... anything By Stephen King.)
#2. Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz
#3. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe (Yeah, it's a short story, but it deserves to be mentioned.)

Oh jeez. I can't even get four out. Somebody, please, hit me so I can think!  

[Gnomes-san]

hm...just 10...
1: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2: East of Eden - John Steinbeck
3: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (though this is my favorite ever.)
4: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5: Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
6: 1984 - George Orwell
7: The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
8: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9: The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
10: The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis  

[Xibreidaz Nil]

I own most of these books because I only buy books that are actually good.
1. The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith ( Really like the whole vampire brothers want the same human girl thing. )
2. House of Night series by P.C. Cast ( They sorta make the vampires look like witches. )
3. Artemis Fowl ( Ah I love Artemis for being such a genius but yet a young boy for involving himself with fairies when he can use his IQ for something more adult. )
4. Wicked by Nancy Holder ( The heroine goes through a lot to save her family.
5. Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice ( I blame Lestat for making me love vampires.)
6. Maximum Ride ( reminds me of the X-men. )
7. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling ( I fell in love with Draco Malfoy.)
8. Judas Child ( Such a good mystery. )
9. Carrie by Stephen King ( The movie seriously disturbed me but the book gave me nightmares.)
10. The Scribber of Dreams ( Sorta of a modern Romeo and Juliet. )