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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall => Topic started by: Jubal on April 03, 2010, 08:28:32 PM
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Had to be done. "Story" books only please, either fiction or historical novels. I'm also going to put the restriction that you may only put one book in from each author (so for example each of us can give one Terry Pratchett book but DD can't come in and post all of them in a list).
I'll start with the first 5.
1. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2. The Once and Future King - TH White
3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
4. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
5. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson.
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6. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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7. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
8. Rob Roy - Walter Scott
9. The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula K. le Guin
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10. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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^ Edited to keep the numbers in order.
11. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
12. The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
13. Cathedral of the Sea - Ildefonso Falcones
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14. Temeraire by Naomi Novik (It's an amazing series)
15. Gaunt's Ghosts by Dan Abnett (Pretty awesome series too)
16. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (Lost World by Michael Crichton is pretty awesome as well)
17. Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks (The whole Night Angel trilogy is great)
18. Corsair by Chris Bunch
19. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay (He has a lot of good ones but this was my favourite. Lions of Al-Rassan and the two Sarantine Mosaic books compete for the spot)
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The Forgotten Legion Trilogy - Ben Kane
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21. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
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22. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
23. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
24. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Because you'll never get to 101 at this rate.
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Good shouts!
26. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
27. The Odyssey - Homer
28. The Lost Books of the Odyssey - Zachary Mason
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I think this thread could do with some more entries, so here are some of my favourites:
29. "Cities in Flight" series (originally 4 books, probably published as 1 now) - James Blish
30. Engine Summer - John Crowley (most often available as part of a collection called "Three Novels" or "Otherwise")
31. The Worm Ouroboros - E. R. Eddison
32. Diaspora - Greg Egan
33. Ash: A Secret History - Mary Gentle
34. "A Sarantine Mosaic" series (2 books) - Guy Gavriel Kay (this got me hooked on Byzantine history)
35. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. le Guin
36. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
37. Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith (his short stories are also very good)
38. A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
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I'm pretty sure Glaurung has read every book ever written. Just saying.
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39. Neuromancer (and the rest of the Sprawl trilogy)- William Gibson
40. Burning Chrome - Short stories by William Gibson
41. Bridge Trilogy - William Gibson
What can I say, I like cyberpunk :P
Neuromancer is the best and probably most iconic out of those. Burning Chrome established the Johnny Mnemonic character and Molly Millions who appears in Neuromancer, so I guess if you want to get into it, read that first.
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Really can never forget this one:
42. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Best book I have EVER read.
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43. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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I just rediscovered this, we should probably get to 101 at some point. Also, I can't put in le Guin's Always Coming Home which was my immediate next thought when I found this thread again, because of the One Book Per Author rule.
Anyway, I'll add a few more:
44. Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees
45. The Broken Earth Trilogy, by N.K. Jemisin
46. The Daevabad Trilogy, by S.A. Chakraborty
47. Babel, by R.F. Kuang
48. One Thousand Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49. The Rogues of the Republic Trilogy, by Patrick Weekes