What are you top fifteen Favorite Novels / Series?

[Mad Swede]

I forgot all about day of the triffids!

Trouble with Lichen is better in my view, if not as well known.

 

[skip.knox]

Upvoting on books mentioned by others but which didn't make my list.

A Fire Upon The Deep - wonderfully epic SF
Farewell My Lovely - anything and everything by Chandler, really
Red Harvest - and by Hammett
Heart of Darkness - let's add Conrad to the list of anything and everything they wrote

 

[Foxkeyes]

Trouble with Lichen is better in my view, if not as well known.

I was going to list that too, but not enough room.

 

[Deleted member 9365]

I don't have a favorite, and can neither name fiftneen, but I did like:

How To Train Your Dragon
( very childish humor at times, for obvious reasons, yet overall an okay read. Can't say I enjoyed the "viking" names though. Truly, the dragons were named better ),

Spirit Animals,
Guardians of Ga'Hoole,
Tailchaser's Song,
Don't you Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey,
Wolves of the Beyond,
The Tale of Despereaux,
White Fang,
Watership Down,
Wulfgard,
and Wings of Fire.

 

[Karlin]

To Where the Wind Goes (Haim Be'er, Hebrew, not translated, as far as I know)
Journey to the West (4 volumes, Yu's translation)
Don Quixote
Of Mice and Men (a novella, really)
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
Joseph Conrad, not sure which to choose. Did you know that English was not his native language?

I like many others, but the above stick in my mind.

 

[BJ Swabb]

Spirit Animals,

This is by Bandon Mull right? I haven't read this yet. Is it good?

 

[Deleted member 9365]

This is by Bandon Mull right? I haven't read this yet. Is it good?

Yes, and yes.

 

[BJ Swabb]

Yes, and yes.

He's my favorite author

 

[Fant@syaspiringauthor14]

Hey yall so I want to know what is your favorite 15 novels or series that you have read. Here are mine.

I know I'm like 3 years late, but I'm bored. Half of these are Rick Riordan by the way

1.Heroes of Olympus series
2.Trials of Apollo series
3.Magnus Chase series
4.Nico Di-Angelo's adventures
5.Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
6.Percy Jackson and his adventures to try and get into college in New Rome
7.Kane Chronicles series
8.The Hunger Games series
9.Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
10.The Descendants series
11.Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes
12.Harry Potter series (I don't agree with JK Rowling's beliefs by the way)
13.Watership Down
14.Seckry and the Seven Stars
15.The what if. . . Disney books

I tried to think of the authors, but I could remember very few and I am obsessed with Rick Riordan if you can't tell and a complete nerd when it comes to Greek mythology, but I don't know all of it and I'm very interested in all mythology. Rick Riordan is also who inspired me to write. As well as my imagination and the fact I've been writing similar things to what I'm writing right now since the age of 6,8 or 10. I'm now 14 though.

 

[Karlin]

To Where the Wind Goes (Haim Be'er, Hebrew, not translated, as far as I know)
Journey to the West (4 volumes, Yu's translation)
Don Quixote
Of Mice and Men (a novella, really)
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
Joseph Conrad, not sure which to choose. Did you know that English was not his native language?

I like many others, but the above stick in my mind.

In the meantime, I've struck up an aquaintance with one of the authors on this list

 

[CupofJoe]

Picking only one from each author/team:
Lord of the Rings [JRR Tolkien]
Night Watch [Terry Pratchett]
The Blessing Way [Tony Hillerman]
Neverwhere [Neil Gaiman]
To Kill a Mockingbird [Harper Lee]
Brave New World [Aldous Huxley]
Man in the High Castle [Philip K Dick]
Maltese Falcon [Dashiell Hament]
The Big Sleep [Raymond Chandler]
Pawn of Prophecy [David (& Leigh) Eddings]
At the Mountains of Madness [HP Lovecraft]
Asterix the Gaul [René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo]
Watchmen [Alan Moore]
Give Me Liberty [Frank Miller & Dave Gibbons]
Persepolis [Marjane Satrapi]

 

[Ban]

I have neglected my fiction reading over the years, so I'm certain this list will change in time when I ween myself off youtube and video games, and add in more fiction alongside my non-fiction reading. Sticking purely to fiction (no myths, sagas, folktales, etcetera), my current list would be:

1. Call of the Wild
2. White Fang
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz
4. Ben Hur
5. The "A song of Ice and Fire" series.
6. Butcher's Crossing
7. Watership Down
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
9. Heart of Darkness
10. Frankenstein
11. The Shadow over Innsmouth
12. At the Mountains of Madness
13. Dracula
14. The Asterix comic books (They count!)

And to add in a Dutch work I'll say: 15. The Dark Room of Damocles.

As predicted, my stances have changed significantly as I've expanded my reading. My current fiction list would be:

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
3. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
4. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
5. Watership Down by Richard Adams
6. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
7. A European Education by Romain Gary
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
9. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
10. The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
11. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
12. When the Whales Leave by Yuri Rytkheu
13. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
14. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
15. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace

Some novels have remained, but new favourites have risen to the top and supplanted their predecessors. My "to read" list features a number of classic heavyweights, so I'm certain my list will be different yet again in another year or two.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

Only 15! This will require some serious thinking.


Ban I've heard good things about Solaris. Would you recommend any of Stanislaw Lem's other books?

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

I might have to cheat and put several books under one author. In no particular order:

Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Telling, Western Shore trilogy [Ursula Le Guin]
Dogsbody, Fire and Hemlock, The Dark Lord of Derkholm, House of Many Ways, Deep Secret, The Merlin Conspiracy [Diana Wynne Jones]
multiple Discworld books [Terry Pratchett]
Wayfarers quartet [Becky Chambers]
Dragon Pearl, Tiger Honour, Phoenix Extravagant [Yoon Ha Lee]
The Old Kingdom trilogy [Garth Nix]
The Eternal Library series [Cedar McCloud]
Silverwing series [Kenneth Oppel]
Circle of Magic quartet [Tamora Pierce]
The Complete Winnie the Pooh [A. A. Milne and Ernest Shepard]
The Never-Ending Story [Michael Ende]
The Tenfold Tenants [E. V. Belknap]
Legends and Lattes [Travis Baldree]
The Raven Tower [Ann Leckie]
The Lord of The Rings + The Silmarillion [J. R. R. Tolkien]


I'll have to cheat again and make an extra list for graphic novels, webcomics, and manga.

Aurora [OSP's Red]
The Last Dimension [Leafglem]
Always Human, Seven Days in Silverglen [Ari North]
Nevermore [Kate Flynn and Kit Trace]
Nimona [N. D. Stevenson]
The Witch Boy, The Girl From The Sea [Lee Knox Ostentag]
Crumbs [Dani Stirling]
Across A Field of Starlight [Blue Delliquanti]
Claymore [Norihiro Yagi]
Inuyasha [Rumiko Takahashi]
Natsume's Book of Friends [Yuki Midorikawa]
Dungeon Meshi [Ryoko Kui]
Fullmetal Alchemist [Hiromu Arakawa]
Witch Hat Atelier [Kamome Shirahama]
Cardcaptor Sakura [CLAMP]


There's many, many books that I'm going to read this year, and I'm hoping to absolutely love, so maybe in a few months I'll check back and see if there's any to add to this list.

 

[Ban]

Only 15! This will require some serious thinking.


Ban I've heard good things about Solaris. Would you recommend any of Stanislaw Lem's other books?

Haven't yet had a chance to read other works of his, but I'll be sure to let you know.

 

[Karlin]

As predicted, my stances have changed significantly as I've expanded my reading. My current fiction list would be:

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
3. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
4. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
5. Watership Down by Richard Adams
6. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
...

A Canticle for Leibowitz. Amazing work, but one that doesn't get much attention these days.

 

[Filifjonken]

Fun (-:
At the moment, my top fifteen might be these;

1. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. Barndommens Gade (The Street of Childhood) - Tove Ditlevsen
4. The Brothers Lionheart - Astrid Lindgren
5. (All of) A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
6. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
7. Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
8. Sommerbogen (The Summerbook) - Tove Jansson
9. Little Women - L.M. Alcott
10. A Fine and Private Place - Peter. S. Beagle
11. Metamorphosis/The Transformation - Franz Kafka
12. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
15. Tove Ditlevsens Samlede Digte (The Collected poems of Tove Ditlevsen) - Tove Ditlevsen

 

[Fant@syaspiringauthor14]

Fun (-:
At the moment, my top fifteen might be these;

1. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. Barndommens Gade (The Street of Childhood) - Tove Ditlevsen
4. The Brothers Lionheart - Astrid Lindgren
5. (All of) A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
6. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
7. Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
8. Sommerbogen (The Summerbook) - Tove Jansson
9. Little Women - L.M. Alcott
10. A Fine and Private Place - Peter. S. Beagle
11. Metamorphosis/The Transformation - Franz Kafka
12. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
15. Tove Ditlevsens Samlede Digte (The Collected poems of Tove Ditlevsen) - Tove Ditlevsen

I think I've read the last unicorn, I can't remember since it was a while ago. It might still be in my room if it's the one I'm thinking of.

 

[Fant@syaspiringauthor14]

I think I've read the last unicorn, I can't remember since it was a while ago. It might still be in my room if it's the one I'm thinking of.

Never mind, it was a different book.

 

[pmmg]

I think mine are probably still the same.

I've read some good ones more recently, but they would not knock anyone off the list.