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28 January 2010

Fiction: My Top 40 Favourite


This is a list of my top 40 favourite books. That is my favourite fiction. I will do another list of my favourite non-fiction and my favourite plays and poetry at a later date. All of these books had an impact on me in some way. It may have been for the simple pleasure of reading them, I may have thought them the best I had read on a particular subject, they may have influenced the way I see the world or I may have liked how the words flow. The why isn’t really important. Put simply, these books are the ones I would rescue from a fire first!

  • Acheron – Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Beowulf – RM Liuzza translation
  • Birthright – Nora Roberts
  • Bitten – Kelley Armstrong
  • Boundary Lines – Nora Roberts
  • Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
  • Chrysalis – Libby Hathorn
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • Dune – Frank Herbert
  • Green Monkey Dreams – Isobelle Carmody
  • Greenmantle – Charles de Lint
  • Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  • Kirkland Revels – Victoria Holt
  • Lover Revealed – JR Ward
  • Magician – Raymond E Fiest
  • Merlin’s Keep – Madeline Brent
  • Mulengro – Charles de Lint
  • Obsidian Butterfly – Laurell K Hamilton
  • Persuasion – Jane Austen
  • Piers Plowman – William Langland
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • So Much To Tell You – James Marsden
  • Someplace To Be Flying – Charles de Lint
  • Spirits in the Wires – Charles de Lint
  • The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
  • The Horse and His Boy – CS Lewis
  • The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
  • The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
  • The Merry Go Round In The Sea – Randolph Stow
  • The Painted Men – Peter V Brett
  • The Reef – Nora Roberts
  • The Talisman – Stephen King and Peter Straub
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
  • The Wood Wife – Terri Windling
  • Trickster’s Choice – Tamora Pierce
  • Trickster’s Queen – Tamora Pierce
  • Waylander – David Gemmell


Although I read voraciously, and I have read a lot of books, there are still thousands of books waiting out there for me to read. I am sure I am missing some which will probably make the list after I read them LOL Don't argue with me for something I included that you think is substandard, but I would like to hear what you would include instead! And if you have any of these on your own list.

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