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    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

    by Yedan-Derryg

    3 Comments

    1. 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

    2. 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.

    3. 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!)

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