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[Arctic]

the leaky pen is now accepting nominations for the Hobbit Required Reading List.

here's your chance to tell hobbit what to read (and for hobbit to voice his opinion too).

What are your top ten to twenty books?

After a few weeks I'll compile everyone's lists into a forum list of favorites. there are no limitations other than to try to keep your lists under twenty. I'm aiming ultimately for a top 42, but we'll see how things go. Think deserted island, or what you want to make sure your kids read, or whatever else it takes.

[masterthes]

(in no order)
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Stand by Stephen King
IT by Stephen King
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Ricw
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
1984 by George Orwell
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

[Ranthium]

Here are my favorite 20 of all time (so far) in no particular order:

1. The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells
2. Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
4. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
5. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
6. Jhereg - Steven Brust
7. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
8. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
9. Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
10. Taltos - Steven Brust
11. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
12. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
13. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
14. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
15. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. Another Fine Myth - Robert Asprin
18. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
19. Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
20. The Art of War - Sun Tzu


Quick Edit: The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester was originally released as Tiger, Tiger in the UK.

[Josh]

Incomplete and in no particular order:

1. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
2. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Tolkien)
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
4. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
5. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
6. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
7. The Door Into Summer (Robert A. Heinlein)
8. The Thrawn Trilogy - Star Wars (Timothy Zahn)
9. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
10. Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
11. Dragons Dawn (Anne McCaffery)
12. Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
13. War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
14. The Star Beast (Robert A. Heinlein)
15. Dune (Frank Herbert)
16. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
17. The Wizard of Oz

[Matt]

Random Order


1.) Undaunted Courage: The story of Meriweather Lewis and the Corps of Discovery by Stephen Ambrose

2) D-Day by Stephen Ambrose

3) Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

4) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

5) The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

6) Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling

7) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

8) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban by J.K. Rowling

9) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

10) A Good Walk Spoiled: A year on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein

11) A Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy

12) A Sum of all Fears by Tom Clancy

13) Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

14) The Iliad by Homer

15) The Odyssey by Homer

16) Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

17) Timeline by Michael Crichton

18) Sphere by Michael Crichton

19) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

20) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

21) White Cargo by Stuart Woods

22) The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

23) Nothing Like it in the World: The building of the Transcontinental Railroad by Stephen Ambrose

24) The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams

25) A March to Madness: A year of ACC Basketball by John Feinstein

[Abscynthe]

No particular order. It'd be harder for me to rank my favorite books than my favorite movies:

Swan Song by Robert McKammon
Stinger by Robert McKammon
The Stand by Stephen King
It by Stephen King
The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Dragontears by Dean Koontz
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Phantom by Susan Key
The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Huff
Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr
The works of Terry Goodkind
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold! by Terry Brooks
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Shadows by John Saul

[Arctic]

in no order :)

1 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3 The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce
4 1984 by George Orwell
5-7 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
8 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
9 The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
10 Catch 22 by Joseph L. Heller
11 High Tide in Tuscan by Barbara Kingsolver
12 The Republic by Plato
13 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
14 Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
15 Walden (and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience) by Henry David Thoreau
16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
17 Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray
18 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19 The Odyssey by Homer
20 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
(21 The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay)

[MRPween]

In micro order (ranked within writer or series):
Note: missing books by an author are either not good enough for my list or I havent read them yet. Authors not in Order

Orson Scott Card:
Enders Game
Rest of the Ender books
Shadow books

Ian M Banks:
Excession
Look To Windward
Player Of Games
Feersum Endjinn
All the rest of his books (!)

Robert Rankin:
All of his books make me laugh!

Tony Parsons:
Man and Boy

Ben Elton:
All of them are great

Tomas Harris:
Red Dragon

J.R.Rowling:
All of the Harry Potter books (preference in reverse order of writing)

Terry Pratchett:
Good Omens
Small Gods
The rest

Grant Naylor:
(Red Dwarf) Infinity welcomes careful drivers

Louis de Bernieres:
Catin Corellis Mandolin (Note - way better than the film)

Douglas Adams:
Dirk Gently series
Hitchhiker series

Tolkin:
Hobit & LOTR
(havent read the rest yet)

William Goldman:
The Princess Bride

[MartyRotten]

Okay I did this once but it disappeared so here it is again, from memory:

1.CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
2.SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.ALICE IN WONDERLAND/THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (tie) by Lewis Carroll
4.GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
5.THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka
6.TARZAN OF THE APES by Edgar Rice Burroughs
7.JUNGLE BOOKS by Rudyard Kipling
8.GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift
9.DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes
10.BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
11.1984 by George Orwell
12.THE RETURN OF TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs
13.ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
14.THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
15.GOD BLESS YOU MR. ROSEWATER by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
16.ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
17.CATCH 22 by Joseph Heller
18.PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde
19.MORE THAN HUMAN by Theodore Sturgeon
20.THE STRANGER by Albert Camus

[MRPween]

I forgot Catch 22 and 1984 - I love both of them!

[MartyRotten]

MRP, don't feel bad, there's one book I loved that I forgot, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole.

[Arctic]

MRP and Marty, (and anyone else for that matter) feel free to edit your posts if you change your mind or think of more books.

i've decided to make this a month long thing, seeing as we need more responses. i'll set the deadline at say, March 21 for all entries. until then, edit away everyone! and thanks to all who have responded so far.