Fifteen Titles

[theoldwolf]

Fifteen titles
Gacked from dragonet2

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you, for whatever reasons. This isn't your top 15 canon or even books you'd necessarily recommend, just books that have made their mark on you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.


The Book of Mormon
The Holy Bible
Tolkien: Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (Counts as 1)
Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks
Saroyan: The Human Comedy
Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Klemmer: The Compassionate Samurai
The Arbinger Institute: The Anatomy of Peace
Asimov: The Foundation Trilogy (Counts as 1)
Dickens: Oliver Twist
Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Ten Boom: The Hiding Place
Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
Kopp: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!
Kozol: Death at an Early Age

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[secoh.livejournal.com]

I'm going to list series as single entries as when I start on one I generally don't stop.

Gordon R Dickson: The Dragon and the George
Tolkien: Hobbit/LOTR
Weis/Hickman: Dragonlance
CS Lewis: Narnia series
Douglas Adams: HHGTTG
Bruce Carter: The Perilous Descent
Colin Thiele: Storm Boy/Fire in the Stone/Albatross Two (Met him when I was very young when he visited our school too!)
Terry Pratchett: Discworld series - no actually, dammit, all of them.
Anne McCaffery: Dragon Rider series
Jim Butcher: Dresden Files
The Bible
Petr Beckmann: A History of Pi
George R R Martin: Wild Cards
Stephen King: Christine
Mercedes Lackey: Dragon's Bane
David Gemmel: Legend (first of the Druss series)

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Very nice list. Glad to see that the Bible has even moved such an old reprobate as yourself.



I loved the original Dragonriders of Pern series, but didn't read past the first three. Also didn't mention the Darkover novels, of which I read the ones which came out in the late 70's and early 80's, but not the later ones; and also the Dune series, which pissed me off mightily because the ones that appeared after Herbert's death (and I loved all his work, including the Whipping Star, the Dosadi Experiment, and other such) were more or less interpolations - nobody really knows how he intended the series to end. Growf!

[secoh.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding sexist, As much as I loved Anne McCaffrey's work it was definately a feminine and matriarchal view of the world. I read them all but have to admit only a few of them I can say I thoroughly enjoyed, but those few stay with me.

I enjoyed Dune but it wasn't on my all time favorites list.


Looking at my list now it's interesting there's only one non-fiction book there. A History of Pi is a fascinating read! Even though I'm hopeless at maths, it's a great book covering how numeracy developed through the ages.