VOTE HERE FOR FAVOURITE BOOKS!!!

buck65

I have decided to conduct a little BOARDS survey on peoples favourite books.

I realise this will take a bit of work but I will try to work through the replies and create a shortened list that we can all vote on in a poll.

I know some people hate this kind of thing but maybe something good could come from it (we could be the new Oprah book club or Richard and Judy god forbid). But really it is only a bit of fun.

Everyone is entitled to 3 entries and there are no restrictions on these - they may be fiction, non fiction, biog, poetry - whatever .

Get your answers in please!! I will run this for a month or so.

buck65

I'll kick off

1 - Where I'm Calling From (Short stories) - Raymond Carver

2 - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

fated2pretend

1. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O' Brien

2. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

3. Underworld - Don DeLillo

Hermy

1. Pat McCabe - The Dead School
2.Jack Kerouac - On The Road
3.Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

Latchy

The Kennedys ,Dynasty and Disaster - John H davies

Dumb angel -The life and music of Dennis wilson -

D-Day - Stephen Ambrose

eclectichoney

Reolutionary road - Richard yates
the Sportswriter - Richard Ford
Light years - James Salter

(subject to change )

crotalus667

The Collector-John Fowles

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

The Catcher and the Rhy _ j.d

psweene2

1. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

2. The Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaardner

3. Jurassic Park - Micheal Crichton

Lizzykins

1. Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte

2. Little Women. Louisa May Alcott

3. Hatter's Castle. A.J. Cronin

biZrb

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

In Cold Blood - Tuman Capote

The Outsider/The Stranger - Albert Camus

cautioner

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

ClassicDisaster

Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Fight Club - Chuck Plinuck

jaffa20

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

The Stranger- Albert Camus

The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

Zaph

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Hrududu

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Atonement - Ian McEwan

At Swim Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill

Wombatman

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos

Acid_Violet

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

Beruthiel

Lord of the Rings - JR Tolkin

The picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

The Tales of the Malazan Empire (cheating - 7 books - so far) - Steven Erikson

Dades

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

Jello

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

DapperGent

Personally I think the best thing that could happen is that everyone who replies has three different books making a shortlist of retardedness an impossibility.

Psychedelic

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy

appleaddict

My favourite books are the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. They're unreal! But I also really like Artemis Fowl and The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.

smacl

Picking just three is kinda difficult, but...

The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaraslov Hasek
Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
The Cement Garden - Ian McKewan

thusspakeblixa

The Hitchikers' Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

,said the shotgun to the head - Saul Williams

greenapplesea

JD Salinfer's The Catcher in the Rye

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Looking forward to seeing the results of this!

buck65

Thankfully there is a very diverse range of titles here, with perhaps 3 or 4 books being mentioned by more than one person. I suppose the best way to gather a longlist for the poll is to select any book with more than one vote. There is still lots of time to vote.

chin_grin

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert R Pirsig
Lila ( ^ same author)

The Perfect Fool - Stewart Lee

The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (<- book that became Bladerunner)

Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy (^_^) - Douglas Adams

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EDIT: I'm not a religious person in any way. But it's gas no-one has mentioned the bible yet! Even in jest. Actually I'll mention it now. (I do mean to read it, even if it's just for sh!ts and giggles)

buck65

jeez you were asked for 3 not your whole library!
I'll go with the first 3 , unless you want to edit

Dr. Baltar

The Damage Done - Warren Fellows

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Belgariad Series by David Eddings

BroomBurner

1. Lord of The Rings - JRRT

2. Fluke - James Herbert

3. This Book Will Save Your Life - AM Homes

RonMexico

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

The Ginger Man - JP Donleavy

tHE vAGGABOND

3 books is hard..

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Question: if His Dark Materials and The Lord of the Rings are considered one book, and something like Dark Tower by Stephen King is considered one book [not mentioned here yet, but only a matter of time], then can Harry Potter be considered one book too - if it was it would make it into my list

buck65

Good question, maybe the mods should direct me in this but I would be willing to consider the Harry Potter books as one if that suits.

Ho-Hum

The Stand - Stephen King
1984 - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

paddybar

mine are
Catch 22 joseph heller
The Stand stephen king
The Bourne Identity robert ludlum

Macha

OK

A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
Any discworld novel by Terry Pratchett (Can't believe he hasn't been mentioned yet)
The Omnivore's dilemma (Michael Pollan) - non-fiction-you all should read this book.

raah!

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

doonothing

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Coileach dearg

Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kenndy Toole
An Béal Bocht - Myles na gCopaleen

orestes

The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

1984 - Orwell

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

stek

1 pillars of the earth - ken follett
2 star and the sea - joe o connor
3 sovereign - cj sansom

historical fiction..cant beat it

eVeNtInE

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*melanie*

1-neverwhere-neil gaiman
2-angels and demons-dan brown
3-american gods-neil gaiman

tinkletoes

On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
A note of Madness- Tabitha Suzuma
Brida- Paulo Coelho

buck65

LONGLIST COMING SOON - FOR YOUR VOTE!!

randomguy

Really hard to pick 3, but if I was stranded on a desert island I could survive with these 3, I think...

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

FruitLover

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

...don't think I can decide on a third.

buck65

THIS THREAD IS NOW FINISHED
FEEL FREE TO VOTE ON THE OTHER THREAD LONGLIST