Board 8 > tell me your 10/10 books

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kateee
04/02/17 1:35:17 PM
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yes everything before was leading up to this! listings in this topic may be used as the first part of the top 100 books project that may or may not happen. topic for that below..

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75177057


i forgot what i said for the games topic and wish i had saved it so i could just paste it here. something about wanting to be finished with the medium in the sense that i've checked out everything that could potentially be a favorite that's already released and only concerning myself with the one or two new releases that interest me.

requirements for 10/10 may be different for people and blah blah.
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MysticBrohan
04/02/17 1:36:39 PM
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the bible
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Snake5555555555
04/02/17 1:38:24 PM
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The Stand
1984

Do comics count?
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tabiicat42
04/02/17 1:46:34 PM
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The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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masterplum
04/02/17 1:47:56 PM
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VeryInsane
04/02/17 1:47:57 PM
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My current top 10 in some order (Was gonna make do this when Top 10s were a thing)

Good Omens
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse Five
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Hyperion
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Flowers for Algernon
The Road
Dune
The Stand

Yeah I like Fantasy/Sci Fi

If we count plays, Othello, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Piano Lesson

For Graphic Novels I've been really digging the Sandman but I'm not 100% on it yet.

Nonfiction is a bit trickier to rank given it's heavily built on core arguments (at least ones I like to read)
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pyresword
04/02/17 1:48:35 PM
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Catcher in the Rye
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Possibly others but that's what I'll list for now
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CasanovaZelos
04/02/17 1:53:15 PM
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Don DeLillo - White Noise
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
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Jesse_Custer
04/02/17 2:02:35 PM
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1984 - George Orwell
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
Notes from Underground - Dostoyevsky
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

If graphic novels count, I have a lot more.
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Ligray
04/02/17 3:15:22 PM
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oops i forgot to list mine. i'll do that later.

i will make a separate topic for graphic novels, comics, etc.

what can be listed in THIS topic: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama
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JDPizza
04/02/17 3:23:35 PM
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A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
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profDEADPOOL
04/02/17 3:40:59 PM
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Changes - Jim Butcher
Skin Game - Jim Butcher
Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
Cold Days - Jim Butcher
Turn Coat - Jim Butcher
The Name Of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Dead Things - Stephen Blackmoore
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Bands Of Mourning - Brandon Sanderson


Should I put Light Novels here or somewhere else?
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NFUN
04/02/17 3:45:00 PM
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A Memory of Light (and some other Wheel of Time books) - Robert Jordan
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams
Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
Night Watch (and many other Discworld books) - Terry Pratchett
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand - Stephen King
The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin

I'm reading Handmaiden's Tale, Slaughterhouse Five and Welcome to the Monkey House next. Thanks Jesse, Tabii and VI.
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kateee
04/02/17 3:48:04 PM
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profDEADPOOL posted...
Should I put Light Novels here or somewhere else?

yeah include light novels here if you want to list them. other topic will be for sequential art.
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Snake5555555555
04/02/17 3:49:05 PM
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One more:

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
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kateee
04/02/17 3:50:23 PM
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Carroll
Blood Meridian – McCarthy
The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
East of Eden – Steinbeck
Fear of Flying – Jong
Lolita – Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – Golding
Macbeth – Shakespeare
One Hundred Years of Solitude – García Márquez
Portnoy’s Complaint – Roth
The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner
To Kill A Mockingbird – Lee
Stories of Flannery O’ Connor
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ZeroSignal620
04/02/17 3:51:42 PM
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Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Ready, Player One - Ernest Cline
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
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profDEADPOOL
04/02/17 4:02:31 PM
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1931 Local Chapter The Grand Punk Railroad - Ryōgo Narita
1931 Express Chapter The Grand Punk Railroad - Ryōgo Narita
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

I think that covers everything
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profDEADPOOL
04/02/17 4:03:09 PM
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Wait no damn I do need to figure out Discworld.

Meh imma just steal NFUN's

NFUN posted...
Night Watch (and many other Discworld books) - Terry Pratchett

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NFUN
04/02/17 4:08:16 PM
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profDEADPOOL posted...
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

also this
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digiiiiiiiii
04/02/17 4:44:17 PM
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Ablutions by Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
Sabriel by Garth Nix
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Firm by John Grisham
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Stormchaser by Paul Stewart
Eulalia by Brian Jecques
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Deathless by Catherynne Valente
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Farrell
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Sphere by Michael Crichton
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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pyresword
04/02/17 4:45:34 PM
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Oh I did really like the His Dark Materials trilogy, so I guess I can list that. I have no idea if that would hold up if I read it again while not in middle school though.
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tabiicat42
04/02/17 4:46:08 PM
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I will be adding more to my list.
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Menji
04/02/17 4:47:14 PM
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1984 - George Orwell
HP: Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
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Drakeryn
04/02/17 6:23:52 PM
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10/10:

Finch (Jeff VanderMeer)
The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin)
The Girl with All the Gifts (M.R. Carey)
Jhereg (Steven Brust)
Phoenix (Steven Brust)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Brandon Sanderson)

stuff other people listed that is not quite 10/10 but is still great:

City of Saints and Madmen
American Gods
Snow Crash
Ender's Game
Deathless
Lord of the Flies
Flowers for Algernon
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profDEADPOOL
04/02/17 8:29:38 PM
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Oh I forgot that.

It should be there.

The Inheritance Trilogy (N.K. Jemisin)
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WalkingWiki
04/02/17 8:31:33 PM
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The Green Mile (King) and The Martian (Weir)

Glad both have really good movie adaptations
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Esuriat
04/02/17 8:38:53 PM
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Watership Down - Richard Adams
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Stand - Stephen King
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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Yankees
04/02/17 8:50:05 PM
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The First Law - Joe Abercrombie
Sarantine Mosaic - Guy Gavriel Kay
A Song of Ice and Fire - GRRM
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Mega Mana
04/02/17 9:22:38 PM
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OTTOMH:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Shining, Stephen King
At Home, Bill Bryson
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Faithful, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King
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Jaded_Eye
04/02/17 10:48:21 PM
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The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson
Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bagicalupi
The Red Queen’s War (series), Mark Lawrence
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (series), Tad Williams
Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
Duma’s Key, Stephen King
Nightfall, Mickey Zucker Reichert
The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (series), Stephen R. Donaldson
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kateee
04/03/17 5:26:36 PM
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at least we passed last time
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kateee
04/04/17 1:33:12 AM
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upp
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ChichiriMuyo
04/04/17 2:34:24 AM
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Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood.

And now I must think.
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kateee
04/04/17 3:46:00 AM
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tell me your 7/10, 8/10 and 9/10 books here:

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75195714


also 10/10 if you missed it here
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