I would like to point out that there were no rules of any kind, simply what book you
had liked the most,
Some people suggested that a good book for one person isn’t the same for another,
quite true, but enjoyment is subjective. Some said that 'such and such' is required
reading, again this is subjective. Some mentioned several books, some only one, some
posted more than once but all have been included. Some that were mentioned, were
ones that they were reading at the time, some said that a book 'wasn’t as good
as.........', or was a little disappointing, and so may not have been included, some said
that a particular author’s books were all worth reading and these have been included
towards the end of the list. Also series of books and trilogies have been put under
their own headings. There were a couple of things, bits and pieces that were either
neither one or the other, or merely about certain things, they also appear at the end.
Books mentioned most are at the beginning, followed by authors who had more than
one book mentioned, followed by all other books, last are books without authors
mentioned. Hopefull they are in alphabetical order, but: I’m not perfect so if you see a
mistake then please tell me.
Some authors have been guessed at, so if you said a book and its not here, it might
have been the same title as another author mentioned and I have put them together, all
spelling mistakes have been retained, though most mistakes should have been
rectified (thanks to manolan), its also possible
that I’ve counted a book twice, but I doubt it.
Of course all Of Douglas Adams, Hitchikers, Dirk Gently's, The Meaning Of Liff's
and Last Chance To See, come top, naturally.
Title/Author/Times mentioned
Lord Of The Rings, by J.R.R.Tolkien 10
Espedair Street, by Iain Banks 6
The Crow Road, by Iain Banks 6
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 6
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess 5
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller 5
Dune, by Frank Herbert 5
Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse 4
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 4
The Bridge, by Iain Banks 3
Excession, by Iain Banks 3
Walking On Glass, by Iain Banks 3
Complicity, by Iain Banks 3
Not the end of the World, by Christopher Brookmyre 3
Fatherland, by Robert Harris 3
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse 3
Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert A Heinlein 3
1984, by George Orwell 3
Cat's Cradle, by Vonnegut 3
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach 2
I, Houdini, By Lynne Reid Banks 2
Quite Ugly One Morning, by Christopher Brookmyre 2
History Of The World In Ten and a Half Chapters, by Julian Barnes 2
The Dark Is Riseing, by Susan Cooper 2
American Psycho, by Brett Easton Ellis 2
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2
Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris 2
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley 2
The Chickens Are Restless, by Gary Larson 2
If This Is a Man?, by Primo Levi 2
The Truce, by Primo Levi 2
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath 2
Hocus Pocus, by Kurt Vonnegut 2
Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut 2
Breakfast Of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut 2
Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh 2
Authors With More Than One Book Mentioned
Last Chance To See, (a personal favourite,) the great Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
The Divine Comedy (La Divina Comedia, in Italian) by Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri
Bluebeard's Egg, by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Whit, by Iain Banks
Canal Dreams, by Iain Banks
The Business, by Iain Banks
Catcher In The Rye, by Iain Banks?
Inversions, by Iain M Banks
Player of Games, by Iain M Banks
State of the Art, by Iain M Banks
On the Yankee Station, by William Boyd
The Destiny of Nathalie X, by William Boyd
Enders Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
Speaker For The Dead, by Orson Scott Card
The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
Patagonia, by Bruce Chatwin
Childhood's End, by Arthur C Clarke
2001 A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, by Philip K Dick
Valis, by Philip K. Dick
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, by Philip K Dick
Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
England Made Me, by Graham Greene
Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
Mindbridge, by Joe Haldeman
Riddley walker, by Russel Hoban
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsman, by Russell Hoban
A Near Thing for Captain Najork, by Russell Hoban
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
About a Boy, by Nick Hornby
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
Owen Meany, by John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
On The Road, by Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac
The Long Walk, by Stephen King (or rather, Richard Bachman)
The Stand, by Stephen King
The Langoliers, by Steven King
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolve
Wildlife preserves, Far side by Gary Larson?
Gallery no5, Far side by Gary Larson?
Gallery no.4 Far side
Cows of our Planet, Far side
The Far Side Gallery, by Gary Larson
Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength, by C. S. Lewis
The Cosmic Trilogy, by CS Lewis
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
1984, by George Orwell
Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice
Lestat, by Anne Rice
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Contact, by Carl Sagan
No Exit, by Sarte
The Flys, by Sarte
Hamlet, by William Shakesphere
King Lear, by William Shakespeare
Othello, by William Shakespeare
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe
Authors A-Z Of Books Mentioned Once
A
London Fields, by Martin Amis
The Man Who Counts, by Poul Anderson
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
In The Country Of Last Things, by Paul Auster
B
Running From Safety, by Richard Bach
Flauberts Parrot, by Julian Barnes
Voyage, by Stephen Baxter
Wateing For Gadou, by Foust(?)1
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
Water Music, by T.C. Boyle
Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
Planet Of The Apes, by Pierre Boulle
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
The Colours Of Space, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Country Of The Blind, by Christopher Brookmyre
The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunne
Pilgrims Progress, by Bunyun
After the Hole, by Guy Burt
C
The Count Of Eleven, by Ramsey Campbell
The Stranger, by Alber Camu
The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho
Enemy Of God, by Bernard Cornwell
Sphere, by Michael Crichton
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
D
Star Trek TNG: Imzadi, by Peter David
Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevskii
E
LA CONFIDENTIAL, by James Ellroy
American Physcho, by Brett Easton Ellis
The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides
F
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philip Jose Farmer
Time and Again, by Jack Finney
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitxgerald
The Liar, by Stephen Fry
G
The Snow Goose, by Paul Gallico
Memoirs Of A Geisha, by Arthur Golden
Through The Net, by Simon Golding
Inner Tennis, by W. Timothy Gallwey
H
The Go Between, by LP Hartley
Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein
The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hesse
Playing Tennis with the Moldovans, by Tony Hawks
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
Der Plan von der Abschaffung des Dunkels (The plan of the elimination of darkness),
by Peter Hoeg
Expecting Someone Taller, by Tom Holt
The Stonor Eagles, by William Horwood
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
I
The Road To Mars, by Eric Idle
The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro
J
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
K
The Far Pavilions, by M M Kaye
Hyperspace - A Scientific Odyssey, by Michio Kaku
One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest, by Keasy
Just So Stories, by Kipling
Into Thin Air, by Krakauer
Failure Is Not An Option, by Gene Kranz
L
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence
Native Speaker, by Chang Rae Lee
Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee
If Not Now, When?, by Primo Levi
The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlam
M
The Prince, by Niccolo Macchiavelli
Thomas Cranmer - A Life, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
A Place Of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
100 Years of Loneliness, by Gabriel García Marquez
A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
The Heart of Redness, by Zakes Mda
Die Entdeckung des Himmels (The discovery of heaven), by Harry Mulisch
Music Of the Spheres, by Guy Murchie
N
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabakov
Under a Glass Bell, by Anais Nin
The Burning City, by Larry Niven
O
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C O'Brien
Running In The Family, by Michael Ondaatje
P
Fight Club, by Chuck Palanhuik
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Zen And The Art Of Motercycle Matanence, by Robert M. Pirsig
The Last Days of Socrates, by Plato
Falkenberg's Legion, by Jerry Pournelle
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
The Shipping News, by E. Annie Prolux
Q
R
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushidie
Even Cow Girls Get The Blues, by Tom Robbins
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
The Chalice, by Phil Rickman
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
S
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger,
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by Newt Scamander
Great Apes, by Will Self
A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute
Saltwater, by Charles Simmons
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley
American Gothic, by Gene Smith
Snowcrash, by Neil Stephenson
Galveston, by Sean Stewart
The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone
T
Fresco, by Sheri Teppar
Walden, by Thoreaho (Thoreau?)
Deliverance, by Gav Thorpe
Falling, by Colin Thubron
The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber
The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings - part 1): JRR Tolkein
Fear And Loathing In Las Vagas, by Hunter Tompson
The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
Huckleberry Finn, by Twain
U
V
Blue Champagne, by John Varley
The First Men On The Moon, by Jules Verne
Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
W
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Sopranos, by Alan Warner (the Scottish choir one, not the Mafia one)
Filth, by Irvine Welsh
Quidditch through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp
X
Y
Z
Books Without Authors Mentioned
A Dead Druid Is Powerful Magic
Book of Mormon
California Gold
Day After Tomorrow
I Robot
Lord Of The Flies
Moby Dick
Nathalie X
On The Yankee Station
Prelude to Foundation
Pride and Prejudice
Puppet Masters
Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry
Ripley's Game
The Secret Diary Of A. Mole
The Book Of Three
The Dark is Rising
The Stranger
