Favourite 10 books

Stoner (John Williams)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
1984 (Orson Welles)
The Old Man & The Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
A Series of Unfortunate Events 1-13 (Lemony Snicket)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

Tyrants and Kings Trilogy (The Jackal of Nar, The Grand Design, Saints of the Sword) - John Marco
Bronze Knight Series (Eyes of God, Devils Armor, Sword of Angels, Forever Knight) - John Marco
The Elenium Series (The Diamond Throne, Ruby Knight, Sapphire Rose) - David Eddings
Napalm and Silly Putty - George Carlin
Brain Droppings - George Carlin
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
Gateways to the Otherworld - Phillip K. Gardener
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Complete Fiction - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Star Wars: Republic Commando(Hard Contact, True Colours, Triple Zero, Order 66, The 501st) - Karen Traviss

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As of now it's like that, but I'm sure it'll change a lot.

1 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume)
2 Anything by Peter Singer
3 1984 (George Orwell)
4 The Republic (Plato)
5 The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin) & The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
6 The Tunnel (Ernesto Sabato)
7 Why I'm Not a Christian (Bertrand Russell)
8 Discourse on Method (Rene Descartes)
9 The Symposium (Plato)
10 The Alchimist (Paulo Cohelo)

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It seems interesting! I love In Praise of Idleness of Russell.

Yeah it seems really good, I have it at home, but haven't read it yet.

Bertrand Russell is the man, great work on metaphysics and language. Why I'm not a Christian is his best work IMO.

I'm posting top 20 books that had influence on my world view or I had obsessions about them at some point in my life. I'm not including books that even though were interesting, but in time their impact faded into deep unnoticeable background of my psyche. Neither am I including books that seem rather redundant/ disagreeable to me by now.




1. Arthur Schopenhauer "The World as Will and Representation" (single, most important book I've ever read)

2. Arthur Schopenhauer "Parerga and Paralipomena" (I could not get enough of the insights it provided)

3. Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (incredibly uplifting, mind bending and poetically written book)

4. Friedrich Nietzsche "The Gay Science" (a book that is both light hearted and deep)

5. Baruch Spinoza "Ethics" (no other book has such iron logic that goes with most wonderful insights)

6. Laozi (holistic unification of transcendence and practical matters)

7. Immanuel Kant "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" (Kant might be the greatest philosopher and this book is more humanistic and down to earth but enlightening non the less)

8. Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" (lessons for a ruler who would have to be necessarily ruthless to achieve power for the ultimate greater good)

9. Plato "Republic" (state philosophy that is no less relevant to this day)

10. Carl von Clausewitz "On War" (military principles of war that could also be applied to general conflict situations)

11. Ernest Hemingway "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises"
12. Ernst Junger "Storm of Steel"
13. Erich Maria Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front"
14. Agatha Christie "And Then There Were None"
15. Agatha Christie "Murder on the Orient Express"
16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust"
17. Carl Jung "The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious"
18. Friedrich Nietzsche "On the Genealogy of Morality"
19. Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil"
20. Charles Darwin "On the Origin of Species"

1.go ask alice
2.sarahs key
3.troublemaker.

i love autobiographies though so ive mostly read that. have about 8 books from ebay coming this week

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1984 - George Orwell
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
True History of The Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Anything by Roald Dahl (cheating but he was my favourite author as a kid and i love so many of them)
The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires - Selwyn Raab
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty - G.J.Mayer
The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule

darn ... I thought this thread was gonna be about a new series of books I'd not heard of ala the Famous Five ones but with twice as many characters

1. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
2. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
3. Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
4. Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
5. The Sadeian Woman (Angela Carter)
6. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
7. Tender is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
8. Misery (Stephen King)
9. The Shining (Stephen King)
10. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
China Meiville - Perdido Street Station
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising Sequence
Carl Sagan - A Demon Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison
William Sleator - The Green Futures of Tycho
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
Arthur C. Clark - Rendevous with Rama
Stephen King - The Stand
Clive Barker - Imajica

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The Secret of Making Love by Harold Meadows
A Match Made in Space by George McFly
The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow
How I Did It by Victor Frankenstein
The Whisperer of the Dark by Sutter Cane
Necronomicon by Abdul Alhazred
I Don't Feel Well Today by Dr. Madeline Gravis
The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Professor James Moriarty
Misery by Paul Sheldon
The Mad Tryst by Sir Launcelot Canning

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

Not sure if I should call them my "favorites"; that gives the impression that you go back to them. I don't think I have enough time to re-read stuff, usually... but these are the best I've read (fiction only). Bumping to see others responses too (and if they've changed ).

Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment
Madam Bovary
Portrait of a Lady
Sorrows of the Young Werther

Frankenstein
The Magic Skin
Death in Venice
Women in Love
Fathers and Sons

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Last Man Standing Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy (James Curtis)
Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together (Frank Lisciandro)

Heartland (Mort Sahl)
Lennon on Lennon conversations with John Lennon

The trials of Jimmy Hoffa,: An autobiography (Hoffa)

Healing The Enemy (Larry Garrett)
Cassavetes On Cassavetes (Cassavetes, Carney)
Songs My Mother Taught Me: Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey
Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution (Kevin Booth, Michael Bertin)
Citizen Welles A Biography of Orson Welles (Frank Brady

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all non fiction:

the looming tower by lawrence wright
ghost wars by steve coll
in cold blood - truman capote
the executioner's song - norman mailer
the bully pulpit - doris kearns goodwin
reclaiming history - vincent bugliosi
hellbound on his trail - hampton sides
the devil and the white city - erik larsen
nixonland by rick perlstein
river of doubt by candace millard.