A Conversation for H2G2 Researchers' Top 10 Books
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
. Posted Oct 17, 2003
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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. My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
7. The Luckiest Girl In the World, by Steven Leckner
8. Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones
9. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
10. Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles by Margaret Mahy
Looks better But I change to quickly...
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
petesbarman Posted Oct 18, 2003
1. She's come undone, by Wally Lamb
2. Hitchhikers Guide o The Galaxy, By Douglas Adams
3. Legacy of Heorot, By Pournelle, Niven, Barnes
4. Foundation Trilogy, By Iasaac Asimov
5. IT, By Stephen King
6. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
7. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
8. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
9. Foucalts Pendulum, By Umberto Eco
10. Porttrait of the artist as a young man, By James Joyce
His Nibbs Top Ten Books
His Nibbs Posted Oct 18, 2003
1. Remembrance of things past, by Marcel Proust
2. The Hitchhikers "trilogy", by Douglas Adams
3. Collected Essays, by George Orwell
4. Collected Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan-Doyle
5. Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
6. Generation X, by Douglas Coupland
7. Seeing Things, by Oliver Postgate
8. The Man who was Thursday, by GK Chesterton
9. Life: a User manual, by George Perec
10. Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams
Titus' Top Ten
Titus Groan Posted Oct 19, 2003
1. Earth's Children, Jean M. Auel
2. West Of Eden, Harry Harrison
3. Magician, by Raymond E. Fiest
4. Intervention, by Julian May
5. The Count Of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
6. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
7. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agnecy, by Douglas Adams
8. Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake
9. The Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Cary
10. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
Favourite Books
Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Oct 19, 2003
1. Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
2. Creation, by Gore Vidal 3. Hopskotch, by Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Man in the High Castle, by Phillip K. Dick. 5. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
6. LOTR, by J.R.R. Tolkien 7. Emma, by Jane Austen
8. Hawk of May, by Gillian Bradshaw
9. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
10. Gloriana, by Michael Moorcock
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
django Posted Oct 20, 2003
1. Death is a Lonely Business, Ray Bradbury
2. Hich Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
4. Intervention, Julian May
5. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
6. Schrodingers Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson
7. Faranheit 451, Ray Bradbury
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. Elric of Melnibone, Michael Moorcock
10. Haunter of the Dark, H P Lovecraft
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
Recumbentman Posted Nov 11, 2003
1. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig
2. The selfish gene, by Richard Dawkins
3. How the mind works, by Steven Pinker
4. The moral animal, by Robert Wright
5. The brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Malone dies, by Samuel Beckett
8. The third policeman, by Flann O'Brien
9. Darwin, by Moore & Desmond
10. Wittgenstein, the duty of genius, by Ray Monk
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
Recumbentman Posted Nov 11, 2003
Gosh this is fascinating. Just looked at the results page; not one of my authors seems to have been mentioned by anyone else! I stand by my list though; near misses include Proust, Vonnegut and T H White (The Once and Future King -- the first Big Book I ever read).
Wittgenstein's Tractatus should be in there, but it's not so much a book, more a key to the riddle of life the universe and everything.
Nabokov (excellent writer!) is Vladimir byt the way, not Victor, and Where the Wild Things Are was written by Maurice Sendak, rather than Boris thingy.
Ursula Toad's Top Ten Books
UrsulaToad Posted Nov 15, 2003
1. Name of The Rose, by Umberto Echo
2. Piers Plowman, by William Langland
3. The Book and The Brotherhood, by Iris Murdoch
4. The Stand, by Stephen King
5. Posession, by A.S. Byatt
6. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
7. Eight Men and A Duck, by Nick Thorpe
8. Atonement, by Ian Mcewan
9. A History of Wales, by John Davies
10. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, By Dave Eggers
Ursula Toad's Top Ten Books
Jerk Gently in The USA Posted Nov 15, 2003
I wanna vote but all my books are in boxes and a good 20 miles away.
This will be amended tomorrow.
when will the final votes be counted?
*** waiting for tomorrow to become today***
Ursula Toad's Top Ten Books
Jerk Gently in The USA Posted Nov 24, 2003
I finaly got at my books and compiled a "top 10 list"
1. Less than human by Robert clarke
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The thief of Kalimar by Graham Diamond
4. The Misenchanted Sword by Lawrence Watt-Evans
5. Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain
6. I, Robot by Isaac Azimov
7. The Cat who walks through walls by Robert A. Heinlein
8. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
9. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
10. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
no particular order and yes, I did comletely ignore ALL the works of Douglas Adams. I love ALL of DNA's work but don't feel he needs any help getting on this list. If I did list one DNA book, or three, it would be one of those books with all his Hitchhiker stories, (including Zaphod plays it safe) and both of the Dirk Gently books.
There, I got all of DNA's fiction in 3 books
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
Wøñkø Posted Nov 30, 2003
1. Hyperion Series - Dam Simmons (4)
2. Ender's Game Series - Orson Scott Card (4_
3. Hitchiker's Guide Series- DNA (5)
4. Hary Potter Series - JK Rowling (5)
5. Alvin Maker series - Orson Scott Card (6)
6. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
7. Ender's Shadow Series -Orson Scott Card(3)
8. LOTR trilogy -JRR Tolkien (3)
---THE LIST FALLS APART FROM HERE BELOW---
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
Number Six Posted Dec 1, 2003
I'm not surprised the list falls apart after number 8 - that's 31 books for a top 10! I'm happy to include all that on the list, but if you'd like me to count your votes, Wonko, is there any you could get it down to 10 actual books?
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
reciprocalzero Posted Dec 11, 2003
1) Ender's Game (and sequels), by Orson Scott Card
1) Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A Heinlein
1) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
1) Dune (and sequels), by Frank Herbert
2) The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
4) Foundation (again, and sequels), by Isaac Asimov
3) Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
3) The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2) A Shadow on the Glass (and sequels...) by Ian Irvine
Second recommendations for Heinlein, Herbert, and Card.
Who am I to decide between such excellent books?
h2g2 Researchers' Top Ten Books
Wøñkø Posted Dec 12, 2003
mm...
1. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
2. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
3. Endymion - Dan Simmons
4. Hitchhiker's Guide - DNA
5. H.P. Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
6. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
7. Hyperion - Dan Simmons
8. The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
9. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
10. H.P. Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
still easy to see who my favorite authors are...
Montana Redhead's List
Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Jan 4, 2004
1. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy, by Tad Williams.
2. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen.
3. Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins.
4. Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins.
5. Basin and Range, by John Mcfee.
6. Snow Queen, by Joan Vinge
7. The History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, by Henry Charles Lea
8. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.
9. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman.
10. Emma, by Jane Austen.
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- 127: django (Oct 20, 2003)
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- 133: Jerk Gently in The USA (Nov 15, 2003)
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- 135: Number Six (Nov 24, 2003)
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- 138: reciprocalzero (Dec 11, 2003)
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