More Top Tens.

[layne67]

Interesting discussion here at aprilkat's journal on the Top Ten of our favourite movies. Now I know what my LJ-friends like to watch!

What about books? What are your favourite ten books ( or more )? Books that you'll always remember and some you can even quote the lines by heart.

Here are mine :

LotR by JRR Tolkien.
Katya by Trevanian. A psychiatric thriller with a very gothic feel.
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
Dead Famous by Ben Elton. A mix of murder thriller and comedy. I stayed up all night reading it. A must-read for fans of reality TV shows.
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. I'm still lugging the book around with me, reading certain parts from time to time.
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. An all-time favourite of mine. Since knowing James, Tristan and Siegfried, I've never look at vets the same way again.
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. I love the heroine so much so that Ayla was one of the names short-listed if my baby were to be a girl.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. A whodunit classic.
Coastliners by Joanne Harris. Romance and intrigue at a small French village. From the same author who wrote 'Chocolat'.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and its sequel Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beaumann.
Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
Flowers in the Attic by Virginia C. Andrews.
Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell.
Harry Porter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rawling. I think that's her best and I also think the movie adaptation is the best of the four.

So, what are yours?

Comments

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

I've been pondering this one:
LOTR goes without saying
The Earthsea books by Ursula K LeGuin
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
CS Lewis' Space Trilogy

That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there's more...

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Almost forgot 'House of God' by Sam Shem, the classic novel on medical internship, and any of Richard Selzer's essay books: 'Rituals of Surgery,' 'Confessions of a Knife,' 'Letters to a Young Doctor.'

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Uhm, you're not into any of the medical thrillers written by say, Robin Cook and Michael Crighton?

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Haven't read any of Crichton's work. I'll occasionally pick up a Robin Cook novel in an airport, but not fond enough of his stuff to go looking for them. Don't think I've read any of his books in... oh, must be five or six years.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

You might be interested in reading Soul Flame (http://www.barbarawood.com/book10.htm) by Barbara Wood. It's a story of a woman-healer in ancient Rome. Very good read. A number of her books has woman-healers in them and the settings are mostly in the past eg Victorian London and early California.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Looks interesting - might have to scare up a copy of that!