Your all time Top 11 favorite books

[Chip R]

If RL can do music, I can do books.

1. If I Never Get Back - Darryl Brock
2. Master Of the Senate - Robert Caro
3. The First Boys of Summer - Greg Rhodes & John Erardi
4. The Hustler's Handbook - Bill Veeck & Ed Linn
5. Nice Guys Finish Last - Leo Durocher & Ed Linn
6. Big Ten Country - Bob Wood
7. Freedom - William Safire
8. The Fifties - Davd Halberstam
9. Have A Nice Day - Mankind (Mick Foley)
10. The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
11. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy - W.P. Kinsella

[deltachi8]

you mean for readin' and stuff?

[pedro]

This is incredibly hard for me as I read a lot and I've read nearly every book by the authors listed so I'll just toss out my favorites off the top of my head, knowing that I could never distill my favorites down to one list (This list is just novels)


A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
Skinny legs and All - Tom Robbins
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Skipped Parts - Tim Sandlin
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -Kurt Vonnegut
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Christopher Moore - Fluke
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

[westofyou]

Just Fiction

Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
David Copperfield - Dickens
Gone with the Wind - Margret Mitchell
Cats Cradle - Vonnegut
The Depford Trilogy - Robertson Davies
Huckleberry Finn - Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye

Shout out to

Battle Cry - Leon Uris

[Puffy]

1. Penthouse
2. Playboy
3. Big uns
4. Britney Spears: My life in Pictures
5. Pimpin for Dummies
6. Fart Jokes 2007
7. The Scouting Report by Marty Brennanmen
8. The Early Years of My Life (1888-1924) by RFS62
9. A Real Man's Guide to Banana Hammocks by ChipR
10. Get Off My Lawn by Roy Tucker
11. My Son Plays Youth League Football by Red Leader

[Dom Heffner]

To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
The Complete Correspondence Between Jefferson and Adams
Origins of the Bill of Rights- Levy

I'm drawing a blank- will have to post more later.

[Red Leader]

I'm so disappointed that my biography: My Dad's a Doctor, didn't make your list, Puffy.

[Puffy]

Originally Posted by Red Leader

I'm so disappointed that my biography: My Dad's a Doctor, didn't make your list, Puffy.

You made that a book - I just thought that was a pick up line.

Ohhhhh, a whole thread on Red Leader's pick up lines.......

[Sweetstop]

I'm emotionally attached to all the following for one reason or another.

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (w/o a doubt my favorite, I've read it over and over)

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (every time I read it, I like it better..the perfect novel)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (also read numerous times..I'll admit it, I'm in love w/ Mr. Darcy)

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (I just read this 3 summers ago while house and dog sitting in Chicago for my daughter and her husband when they went to France. I had lots of time to just relax and read and enjoy. Tolstoy has no equal. I will read it again before I'm gone.)

Middlemarch - George Eliot (I just read this in the last year, and as soon as I finished, I was ready to start it again. She was so far ahead of her time. I miss the characters.)

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (this isn't great lit. or anything, but I read it twice as a girl of 12, when all around me was falling apart, and it was my refuge. I also fell in love w/ Rhett Butler.)

The World According To Garp - John Irving (My introduction to Irving, I remember laughing my way through all the craziness and heartbreak and couldn't wait for his next book.)

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (he scared the begeezus out of me..a book I couldn't put down once I started reading it.)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem or The White Album - Joan Didion (for many reasons I identify w/ her and her writing. These compilations of essays and articles are my favorites.)

Little House Books - Laura Ingalls Wilder (I'm adding these because they are some of the first (non-picture variety) books I read aloud to my children when they were very young (3 or 4 maybe)..we loved them. The children basically learned to read w/ them. Just brings back that wonderful time, doing one of my favorite things.)

[pedro]

I'm a big fan of In Cold Blood and Gone with the Wind too.

Never read any Tolstoy.

[Ravenlord]

Originally Posted by pedro

Never read any Tolstoy.

he reminds me of Tolkein, only set in the real world.

[westofyou]

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (this isn't great lit. or anything, but I read it twice as a girl of 12, when all around me was falling apart, and it was my refuge. I also fell in love w/ Rhett Butler.)

Exactly why my wife loves it and why she turned me on to it.. I have a taste for the epic long ones.

The World According To Garp - John Irving (My introduction to Irving, I remember laughing my way through all the craziness and heartbreak and couldn't wait for his next book.)

I love Irving, he was and still a big part of my life in the 80's

[pedro]

Originally Posted by Ravenlord

he reminds me of Tolkein, only set in the real world.

Very descriptive?

[Ltlabner]

Where the Red Fern Grows
A Wrinkle in Time
Charlie Mike - Leonard B Scott
Sympathy for the Devil - Kent Anderson
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancey
Red Thrust - Steven Zaloga
Mutual Contempt - Jeff Shesol
Confessional - Jack Higgens
The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins
Treasure/Iceburg/Vixen 06/Raise The Titanic - Clive Cussler

[Ravenlord]

Originally Posted by pedro

Very descriptive?

yep. painfully even at times...at least in War and Peace. still a kick ass book though.