EWB's Top 50 Books

[Guest Ringo Masterson]

At least the only book Liam's ever read is a good one

[CKN]

1. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

2. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

3. Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

4. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger - Stephen King

5. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

6. The Running Man - Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

7. The Stand - Stephen King

8. Phantoms - Dean Koontz

9. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks

10. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

As you can see I love me some Chuck Palahniuk and Stephen King.

[Liam]

At least the only book Liam's ever read is a good one

I've read more books than that, but other than a lot of the generic crime books, not much has stood out.

Jeffery Deaver "The Blue Nowhere"

Tess Gerritsen "The Surgeon"

Lucas Rhinehart "The Dice Man"

Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

Once I get past them, I start looking at sticking in books I didn't necessarily like, but I at least remembered reading, like "Frankenstein" or "Animal Farm"...and some of the other generic crime novels I've read have been pretty good, just not really worthy of getting voted that high.

[Rashid]

Wait, does manga count? Cause if so, then I can easily make a top 30.

[Lowerdeck]

I only have two votes, both positives.

1984 and Jennifer Government

[MalaCloudy Black]

Must it be fiction? Can an entire series of books count?

Positive:

Orwell's 1984

Foley's Have A Nice Day

King's It

King's Dark Tower series

Edited November 14, 2006 by Cloudy

[Quom]

1. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin

2. The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry

3. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

3. Insomnia - Stephen King

4. American Tabloid - Jame Ellroy

5. Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola

6. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (in reality any of the books in the series) - Sue Townsend

7. Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac

8. The Long Walk - Stephen King as Richard Bachman

9. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

10. Jazz - Toni Morrison

-1. Da Vinci Code

-2. Tender Is the Night - Fitzgerald

-3. HERmione - H.D.

[TGC]

My real list which may get edited and what not:

1. Lightning Dean Koontz

2. Salem's Lot Stephen King

3. The Stand Stephen King

4. The Great And Secret Show Clive Barker

5. The Gunslinger Stephen King

6. The Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay Michael Chabon

7. It Stephen King

8. The Firm John Grisham

9. Good Omens Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

10. The 4th K Mario Puzo

I forgot this awesome book by Puzo as well as The Firm, an excellent novel turned into a piss poor movie, so Frankenstein and Dracula have to go.

Edited November 15, 2006 by The New Blood TGC

[Vorizon]

"THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER"

- Stephen Chbosky

[Zaz]

1. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

2. The Gunslinger by Stephen King

3. Tomorrow, When The War Began by John Marsden

4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

5. Harry Potter by JK Rowling

6. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

7. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

8. The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

9. Of Mice and Men

10. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Edited November 15, 2006 by Zaz

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I can't negative vote the Potter books as I've never read them.

I'm not voting for plays or factual works, or biographies etc. Purely fiction.

Anyways....

1) Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World - Haruki Murakami

2) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

3) Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

4) 1984 - George Orwell

5) Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami

6) White Noise - Don DeLillo (Not what that stupid film was based on)

7) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

8) Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

9) The Trial - Franz Kafka

10) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy (and yeah I've read it and it's a good book)

Seriously if anyone EVER feels like a beautiful, emotional and still weird and ultra modern read, hunt down Murakami.

[Plankton]

1. The Book of Ralph

2. The Virgin Suicides

3. The Catcher in the Rye

4. 1984

5. Animal Farm

6. Notes From Underground

7. A Clockwork Orange

8. Pastoralia

9. Nice Big American Baby

10. Where I'm calling From

It's depressing to see the lack of Salinger love.

EDIT: I edited out Lord of the Rings since it's a series.

Edited November 16, 2006 by Plankton

[ROC]

1. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

2. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

3. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

4. Animal Farm, George Orwell

5. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

6. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

I'll think of more at some point, I'm sure. >_>

[Scruffy The Janitor]

01) Bram Stoker - Dracula

02) J.R. Tokien - Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

03) Mick Foley - Have A Nice Day

04) Anne Rice - Interview With The Vampire

05) George Orwells - 1984

06) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of The Baskervilles

07) Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

08) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

09) George Orwell - Animal Farm

10) Mick Foley - Foley Is Good

Edited November 15, 2006 by Steaming Pile Of Shit

[Pepsi]

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (whole series) - Douglas Adams

2. Swan Song - Robert McCammon

3. The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams

4. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

5. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

6. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

7. Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.

8. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

9. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

10. Who Censored Roger Rabbit? - Gary Wolf

[thuganomic]

1. Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

3. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnuget

4. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

5. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

6. Any Sherlock Holmes (whichver one people voted for) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

7. Crash - Jerry Spinelli

8. Holes - Lewis Sachar

9. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

10. Primal Fear - William Diehl

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I found Farenheit 451 sadly so disappointing...

A fantastic dystopian setting, well realised but not very well written.

It shows that it was his first full length novel....

[Skummy]

Must it be fiction? Can an entire series of books count?

It doesn't need to be fiction, an entire series is a grey area, though, admittedly, and I don't think I'll allow it. If someone *has* voted an entire series, I'll check if anyone else has voted for a specific book from said series and just add it in as another vote for that, I suppose. My reasoning for that is someone could vote for something like the Discworld series, which is a huge amount of books, and they're not at all representative of one another, if you get my meaning.

[Scruffy The Janitor]

Must it be fiction? Can an entire series of books count?

It doesn't need to be fiction, an entire series is a grey area, though, admittedly, and I don't think I'll allow it. If someone *has* voted an entire series, I'll check if anyone else has voted for a specific book from said series and just add it in as another vote for that, I suppose. My reasoning for that is someone could vote for something like the Discworld series, which is a huge amount of books, and they're not at all representative of one another, if you get my meaning.

[Skummy]

....that way works better.