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What are you top fifteen Favorite Novels / Series?

HenryIX

Acolyte
In no particular order:

The Lord of The Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkein
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
The Winter King (and subsequent)- Bernard Cornwell
Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell
Harry Potter - J K Rowling
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Dune - Frank Herbert
His Dark Materials Series - Philip Pullman
Sabriel (and subsequent) - Garth Nix
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
The Wind on Fire Series - William Nicholson
 
In no particular order,

Harry Potter - J K Rowling.
The Saxon Chronicles - Bernard Cornwell.
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss.
ASOIAF - GRR Martin.
It - Stephen King.
The Farseer Trilogy - Robyn Hobb
Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon.
The Bernicia Chronicles - Mathew Harffy.
The Stand - Stephen King.
Raven: Blood eye - Giles Cristian.
Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell.
11.22.63 - Stephen King.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien.
Knight of the seven kingdom novellas - GRR Martin.

That is all I can think of from memory. I have a feeling I am missing a lot off the list. The rest of my favourite books are not fiction novels but autobiographical.
 

gineraay

New Member
In no order, these books inspire/d me to write and read. Most classics don't. The list is dynamic.

1. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
2. The Hobbit - Tolkien
3. The Power - Naomi Alderman
4. Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Sherman Alexie
6. Hating Alison Ashley - Robin Klien
7. Watership Down - Richard Adams
8. Normal People - Sally Rooney
9. Short Stories - D H Lawrence
10. A Room With A View - E M Forster
11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
12. Bliss - Peter Carey
13. Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
14. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
15. Collected Stories - Flannery O'Connor

Honourable Mention to The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (because I read it last month) & Le Morte de Arthur
The best books i read now are usually non-fiction
 
1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2. Emma (Jane Austen)
3. Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens)
4. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
5. Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
6. Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare)
7. Harry Potter (all 7 books)
8. Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman with Subtle Knife being my favourite
9. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
10. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope (similar to Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale)
11. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
12. A Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis
13. Alice in Wonderland/Alice Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
14. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy/Restaurant at the end of the Universe by Douglas Adams
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
 
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