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Listal's Favorite Books Poll (Ongoing)
 138  8.7 77 rewster (10), Apo Thom (10), quisma88 (24), luuhs (8), JPHOLT (9), Fraterlucis (10), Fortunato (1), EmmSton (5)
737 8.2 64 Bml93 (6), rewster (8), Banaanipalmu (4), Apo Thom (7), JPHOLT (10), Fraterlucis (9), EmmSton (10), FG93 (10)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
 
985 8.4 57 the giraffe (1) the count (10), johanlefourbe (8), sunset96 (10), Apo Thom (6), Usurping_Python (10), Severin Severin (10), FG93 (2)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
994 8.5 56 Bml93 (9) phillydude (9), Elizardc (10), luuhs (6), JPHOLT (8), FG93 (8), EmmSton (6)
70 9.2 46 Ruisperkele (10), popguns (9), Banaanipalmu (8), quisma88 (10), maddiee (9)
345 8.2 35 Xanadon't (5), boludotanooki (1), johanlefourbe (3), popguns (2), Banaanipalmu (5), DeathWish (7), Severin Severin (7), mirinbuddy (5)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
474 8.3 30 Orpheus Anathema (3), Hootsaidtheowl (10), sunset96 (3), Ruisperkele (5), Banaanipalmu (3), Severin Severin (1), PhineasPoe (5)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
 
20 8.9 29 the count (9), Moriartry (10),Fortunato (10)
569 8.1 29 love_kills_slowly (10), Victorian Fantasy (9), Lisebell (10)
368 8.3 28 rewster (5), Apo Thom (8), TeamDaiGurren (7), KingStefou (8)
785 7.8 27 Hootsaidtheowl (3), sunset96 (9), TeamDaiGurren (4), KingStefou (7), luuhs (4)
422 7.8 26 geojones100 (6), Banaanipalmu (10), DeathWish (10)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
1715 8.1 24 Bml93 (10), JPHOLT (5), EmmSton (9)
1525 8.1 22 Bml93 (5), JPHOLT (6), EmmSton (2), Lisebell (9)
136 8.6 22 sunset96 (7), Ruisperkele (8), popguns (1), DeathWish (5), englishmajor (1)
319 8.1 22 sunset96 (4), KingStefou (4), englishmajor (9), Fraterlucis (4), FG93 (1)
120 7.4 21 Orpheus Anathema (6), geojones100 (10), sunset96 (2), Fraterlucis (3)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
 
212 8.3 21 the giraffe (6), Ruisperkele (3), Banaanipalmu (7), KingStefou (2), Severin Severin (3)
1487 8.2 19 Bml93 (4), rewster (7), JPHOLT (7), EmmSton (1)
1559 7.9 18 Bml93 (7), JPHOLT (4), FG93 (7)
223 8.7 18 the count (1), Moriartry(8), Apo Thom (5), maddiee (4)
70 8.7 18 boludotanooki (9), Moriartry(9)
126 8.8 16 rewster (6), Apo Thom (5), quisma88 (5)
601 7.7 16 maddiee (8), Victorian Fantasy (8) [I couldn't find the box set]
316 8 15 johanlefourbe (1), KingStefou (10), Severin Severin (4)
1553 8 14 Bml93 (8), JPHOLT (2), EmmSton (4)
307 8.5 13 Orpheus Anathema (10), Hootsaidtheowl (2), sunset96 (1)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
179 8 13 Elizardc (8), love_kills_slowly (5)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
195 7.6 13 sunset96 (8), mirinbuddy (5)
405 8.3 12 johanlefourbe (2), maddiee (10)
559 8.3 11 popguns (3), love_kills_slowly (8)
The Picture of Dorian Gray was censored when released. You might want to read the annotated and uncesored edition. Mr. Saturn's rating:
968 7 10 Bml93 (2), EmmSton (8)
Mr. Saturn's rating:
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7. Poems in two volumes - William Wordsworth (poetry)
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9. It - Stephen King
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That's fine. I haven't read that many books either. Everyone's welcome to participate in this poll.
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6. Fight Club
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3. Middlemarch – George Eliot
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5. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
6. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
7. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
8. Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
9. In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past) – Marcel Proust
10. The Trial – Franz Kafka
2.The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
3.The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkien
4. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
8. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
9. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
10. Dracula - Bram Stoker
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3.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4.Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
5.The One you Really Want - Jill Mansell
6.A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
7.Invitatie la vals - Mihail Drumes
8.Elevul Dima dintr-a saptea - Mihail Drumes
9.One Day - David Nicholls
10.Scrisoare de dragoste - Mihail Drumes
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3. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
4. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
5. Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
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7. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
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3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
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3. Interview with the Vampire http://www.listal.com/book/interview-vampire-anne-rice
4. The Shadow of the Wind http://www.listal.com/book/shadow-wind-carlos-ruiz-zafon
5. The Shining
6. The Name of the Rose
7. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
8. Under the Dome
9. And Then There Were None http://www.listal.com/book/then-there-were-none-agatha-christie
10. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
5. The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
6. Beowulf - Anonymous
7. Hamlet - Shakespeare
8. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
9. The Branch Will Not Break - James Wright
10. White Fang - Jack London
You can use the Seamus Heaney version of Beowulf.
1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice (using the box set would be easiest)
4. The Pendergast Series - Preston and Child
5. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
6. Earth Medicine - Jamie Samms
7. The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
8. The Psychic Vampire Codex - Michelle Belanger
9. Complete stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
10. Varney the Vampire - James Malcolm Rymer
2. No Longer Human-Osamu Dazai
3. Molloy-Samuel Beckett
4. The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
5. The Trial-Franz Kafka
That's all I have so far. I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on this, I'll finih once I've read more
2. From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
3. The Penultimate Peril (Lemony Snicket)
4. The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
5. Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face (Jack Prelutsky)
6. The Curious Education of Nicholas Benedict (Trenton Lee Stewart)
7. And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
8. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
9. Peter and the Starcatchers (Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson)
10. Peter and the Shadow Thieves (Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson)
Condensing my favorite books down to ten titles is possibly the hardest thing I've ever done. XD
2 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
4 The Stranger by Albert Camus
5 Venus In Furs by Leopold Von Sascher-Masoch
6 I Claudius by Robert Graves
7 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
8 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
9 The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
10 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction - H. P. Lovecraft
3. The Stand - Stephen King
4. The Last Herald Mage - Mercedes Lackey
5. Moonheart - Charles de Lint
6. Spiritwalk - Charles de Lint
7. A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny
8. Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
9. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
10. Watership Down - Richard Adams
2. Animal Farm
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
5. Dracula
6. Treasure Island
7. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
8. The Hunger Games
9. 1984
10. Hamlet
1. Ulysses-James Joyce
2. The Recognitions-William Gaddis
3. Gravity's Rainbow-Thomas Pynchon
4. Catch 22-Joseph Heller
5. The Sound and the Fury
6. No Longer Human-Osamu Dazai
7. Molloy-Samuel Beckett
8. Under the Volcano-Malcom Lowry
9. Notes from the Underground-Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
2. Harry Potter 6
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. Angels & Demons
5. Harry Potter 7
6. The Lord of the Rings
7. Harry Potter 5
8. Harry Potter 2
9. Harry Potter 4
10. Harry Potter 3
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3) Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
4) John Dies At The End - David Wong
5) The Ill-Made Mute - Cecelia Dart-Thornoton
6) Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
7) Hold Me Closer, Necromancer - Lish McBride
8) The Golden Queen - Dave Wolverton
9) The Call of the Wild - Jack London
10) Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
2. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
3. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
4. Generation Kill - Evan Wright
5. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzuchelli
6. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
7. American Tabloid - James Ellroy
8. Kiss me Judas - Will Christopher Baer
9. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
10. World War Z - Max Brooks
The Stranger (L'etranger) / Albert Camus
L’Amant / Marguerite Duras
South of The Border,West of The Sun / Haruki Murakami
The Metamorphosis /Franz Kafka
The Sound of The Mountain / Yasunari Kawabata
My Sweet Orange Tree /Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos
Narcissus and Goldmund /Hermann Hesse
I haven't read many books, 7 vote for now .
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3. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
7. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
8. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
9. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
10. The Stranger by Albert Camus