h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thanks, Elizabeth and/or Louise, but you really have to type in your books and authors over what's there - the 'book name, by author' thing is just there to give the standard that I use to paste it into the main list.

Why not have another go?

Cheers,
Number Six

1. lord of the rings, j r r tolkein
2. order of the pheonix, j k rowling
3. the hitchiker guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
4. on the road, jack kerouac
5. caught in the crossfire, joe nick patowski & someone else
6. discworld series, terry pratchett
7. it, stephen king
8. the brentford triangle, robert rankin
9. notes from a small island, bill bryson
10. deathtrap dungeon, ian livingstone

1. The Witches, Ronald Dahl
2.The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
3. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
4. Stiches in Time, Barbra Micheals
5. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
6. Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
7. H2G2, Douglas Adams
8. Gormenghast trilogy, mervyn Peake
9. Hocus Pocus, Vonnegut
10.Vanish with the Rose, Barbara Micheals

1. The Lord of The Rings, J.R.R Tolkien
2. The Hichhikers guide to the galaxy - ultimate collection, Douglas Adams
3. L, Erlend Loe
4. Beatles, Lars Saabye Christensen
5. The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien
6. Silmarilion, J.R.R Tolkien
7. Ingen Grenser (No Borders), Thor Heyerdahl
8. NO LOGO, Naomi Klein
9. Facts about Finland, Erlend Loe
10. Naiv Super, Erlend Loe

Should've told me you were doing this before. All my top 10 would probably be non-fiction, to be honest, but here goes (Shakespeare excluded)...

1. The Beiderbecke Trilogy, by Alan Platwer
2. Ice Station Zebra, by Alastair MacLean
3. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
4. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, by Jeffrey Archer (no, really!)
5. We Joined the Navy, by John Winton
6. High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
7. 1984, by George Orwell
8. The Village Cricket Match, by John Parker
9. The Wind In The Willows, by Kenneth Graheme
10. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas

To be honest, I'm allowing non-fiction now - I must remember to update wherever you clicked through from to reflect that, so you can resubmit, if you like!

Beiderbecke One of my favourites as well! I might even go back and change mine...

You've read it too! Fantastic - I know very few people who have.

If we're going non-fiction, then several Bill Bryson books would worm their way into my top ten, along with Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart, The Great Rock Discography by Martin Strong and Halliwell's Film Companion. I'll leave the list as it is, though.

B

1. Daggerspell, by K. Kerr
2. Enders Game, O.S. Card
3. Dune, F. Herbert
4. Executive Orders, T. Clancy
5. I Robot, I. Asimov
6. Complicity, I. Banks
7. The Legacy Of Herot, L. Niven & J. Pournelle & S. Barnes
8. Tarot, P. Anthony
9. Stonehenge, B. Cornwall
10. Long dark teatime of the soul, D. Adams

1. Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
2. Racers, by Sally Armstrong
3. Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
4. The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett
5. All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
6. Airframe, by Michael Crighton
7. Dante's Peak, by Dewey Gram
8. Any Fool Can Be A Pig Farmer, by James Robertson
9. Adventure of the Little Wooden Horse, by Ursula Moray Williams
10. Boy and Going Solo, by Roald Dahl

1. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
2. Enemies, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
3. The Seville Communion, by Perez Reverte
4. The Scriptwriter and Aunt Julia, by Mario Vargas Llosa
5. Camille, by Alexandre Dumas Jnr
6. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
7. The Prince, by Machiavelli
8. The Ripley Novels, by Patricia Highsmith
9. LA Confidential, by James Ellroy
10. Complete Works, by Tennessee Williams

By Ashley

Ashley, does the complete works of Tennessee Williams count? He was a playwright after all, and plays are meant to be performed and not really read. Does the complete .. also contain his autobiography?

Well, a complete works seems like a bit of a cop-out to me but I've allowed it for DNA so I should be consisten...

And since I started accepting non-fiction, I reckon plays are also admissable.

It contains all his short stories, essays and observations, too. Many of the origins of his plays can be found in his short stories.

I got confused... the title says book, so I thought any fiction... eek!

Ashley

1. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
2. Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth - Gitta Sereny
3. Killing Rage - Eamon Collins
4. ...And The Horse He Rode In On - James Carville
5. The Zinn Reader - Howard Zinn
6. Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction - Michael Crick
7. The Football Factory - John King
8. Rebel Hearts - Kevin Toolis
9. In Sam We Trust - Bob Ortega
10. Jaguars Ripped My Flesh - Tim Cahill

Actually on reflection can I bin the John King novel and have Don DeLillo's Libra instead

Sure - I'm still not sure what I think about the Football Factory myself... still can't work out whether I like it or not, or whether I should...

I'll update the list when I get back.

Do these include the rest of the series? I hope so.


1. Hyperion (cantos) by Dan Simmons
2. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
3. Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, by DNA of course
5. Rendevous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
6. To your scattered Bodies Go, by Philip Jose Farmer
7. To be added
8. To be added
9. To be added
10.To be added

Do they have to be in order?
Well, these ones had an impression on me, not necessarily the best. Well, maybe, I don't know.

1. Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
2. About A Boy, by Nick Hornby
3. The Ogre Downstairs, by Diana Wynne Jones
4. Yoss, by Odo Hirsch
5. Pay It Forward, by Catherin Ryan Hyde
6. Moab is My Washpot, by Stephen Fry
7. The Luckiest Girl In the World, by Steven Leckner

I'll think of more later.

8. Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones

(How could I forget? Gnomon for also saying that!)

Aha!

9. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
10. Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles by Margaret Mahy