Which are your three favourite books?

[Kyriakos]

You can name up to three different ones, either all from one author or from different authors. They can be in any genre of fiction that you want- but only of fiction- and their size can also vary (ie you can name a very short story if you want to). It doesnt matter if you have read thousants of books or just a few, you can just name some that you feel were really worth reading

My choices are: (in no particular order)

The basement (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The castle (Franz Kafka)
The horla (Guy de Maupassant)

 

[ComradeDavo]

Hmmmmm.....

Lord Of The Rings - JRR Tolkein (I bet you saw that one coming!)
The Farseer Triolgy (3 books which are just one long story) - Ryan Hobb
1984 - George Orwell (I bet you saw this one coming to )

 

[stormbind]

Oh, that is quite hard to answer. The following favorites are not what I consider the most important books:

1. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
2. The Perl Cookbook (and complementing series) from O'Reilly publishing
3. Guards, Guards! (and complementing series) by Terry Pratchett

 

[LoopyLewis]

1. 1984
2. Catch-22
3. All Quiet on the Western Front

1984 is amazing. It still haunts me now

 

[Margim]

Empyrion - Stephen Lawhead
The Pendragon Cycle (in particular, 'Arthur') - Stephen Lawhead
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

 

[thetrooper]

Knut Hamsun - Mysterier.
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms.
Henrik Ibsen - Peer Gynt.

 

[IglooDame]

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody - Will Cuppy (And for all of you historians out there, if you haven't read this book, you are truly missing out.)

A third does not readily come to mind.

 

[knorman]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
1984 - George Orwell
De Mensheid Zij Geprezen - Arnon Grunberg (Dutchman)

 

[Fetus4188]

I'm going to cheat and go with some series

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

1. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

2. Discworld (can't pick a fave from this series)

A third one did not leap to mind, so I'll leave it at two. Or thirty-something if you count all 30+ discworld books.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Sticking to fiction, something like this:

1) The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2) Dune, Frank Herbert
3) Hari Seldon and Foundation, Isaac Asimov

(Yeah, I'm an SF/Fantasy sort of person, so sue me! I'm also a Pratchett fan.)

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

1)Interview with the Vampire
2)The Vampire Lestat
3)Blackwood Farm

All by Anne Rice, guess I'm a vampire fan then.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't think I read that many...

 

[Kyriakos]

It seems that LOTR is the most popular book of the thread. I havent read it though, only read the hobbit, when i was in London, but i didnt like it (the hobbit that is )

I havent read much english literature, i think only Machen, some R.L.Stevenson, two stories by Dickens and then some Poe and H.P.Lovecraft. Oh and Henry James. Infact i reading a second story by H. James these days, the "turn of the screw".

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

1) The whole series of books by David Gemmell (my favourite author)
2) Dune, Frank Herbert.
3) No other real favourites.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

1) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
2) Biggles and the Camel Squadron - Capt. W.E. Johns
3) Voyage of the Dawntreader (The Chronicles of Narnia) - C.S. Lewis

 

[nonconformist]

Mebbe:

1. Das Boot-Gunther Lothar-Buchheim
2. 1984-George Orwell

 

[Ramius75]

I don't think I read that many...

well, there must be something u read ? maybe han christian anderson ?

mine was

1) Red mars trilogy
2) 2001 series
3) Animal farm

 

[Urederra]

The little prince by Antonie de Saint Exupéry

1984 by Geroge Orwell (catching The lord of the Rings)
One hundred years of solitude By Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

and, many, many, many others, not only Science Fiction, but other genres, and not only written originally in English, but also in other languages. I wish I could read them in their original languages.

I didn´t like 2001 an Space Oddisey, is the narration of the movie. It is said that when they make a movie based on a book, people think the book is better. Clarke wrote the book based on the movie, and the movie is much, much better. Rendez vous with Rama is excellent, though.

 

[Truronian]

The Empty Chair - Jeffrey Deaver
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

That said, I'm not much of a fiction reader