What are your own personal top 10 favorite books? Not necessarily the books you think are best written, but books that you absolutely love and want other people to read. I think it would be cool to list 10 and give recommendations to others based on their lists. I’ll go first, and I’m cheating by listing honorable mentions.
Honorable mentions :
The Bastard – John Jakes
And the Violins Stopped Playing – Alexander Ramati
City of Thieves- David Benioff
Top 10 favorite books ever in no particular order:
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Stoner – John Williams
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
Reamde – Neal Stephenson
The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
China – Edward Rutherfurd
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The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maugham
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Plus:
The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
1) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2) Looking for Alaska by John Green
3) Book and The Sword by Jin Yong
4) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
5) Little Bee by Chris Cleave
6) Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
7) Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
8) Racing Manhattan by Terence Blacker
9) Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
10) Wing Jones by Katherine Webber
I’ve read so many, I don’t even remember some really good books I’ve read. Some of these are childhood favourites. Special place in my heart.
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr – Ram V (does this count a 5 books or 1 lol)
Yellowface – RF Kuang
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Circe – Madeline Miller
The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
A Prayer for the Crown Shy – Becky Chambers
Funny Story – Emily Henry
The Cursed Princess Club – Lambcat (using the term books loosely, this is a webcomic but it does have published editions!)