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.