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1. Rumpole series, by John Mortimer
2. anything else, by John Mortimer
3. The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson
4. Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare
5. HHGG etc., by Douglas Adams
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare
7. Bride of the MacHugh, by Jan Cox Speas
8. Horrible Histories books, by Terry Deary
9. Henry V, by William Shakespeare
10. Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey

1. The "Trilogy", by Douglas Adams
2. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
3. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
4. Possession, by A.S.Byatt
5. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
6. The Annes, by L.M.Montgomery
7. The Harry Potters, by J.K.Rowling
8. A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
9. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
10. Eevan tyttäret (Daughters of Eve), by Kaari Utrio

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2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
4. The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
5. Flatland, by Edwin Abbott
6. Approaching Oblivion, by Harlan Ellison
7. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
8. The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
9. Grapes, by Don Cherry & Stan Fischler
10. Last Chance To See, by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwadine

1. Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert Heinlein
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
3. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
4. Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
5. The Princess Bride, William Goldam
6. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
7. The Chronicles of Narnia C.S Louis
8. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
9. Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams
10. Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov

'Carry On Mr. Bowditch'!!! *No one* reads that anymore! It is a good book, too. Cool.

1. The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien
2. The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny
3. The Fey Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
4. Broken God by David Zindel
5. The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
6. The Train Was On Time by Heinrich Boll
7. The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
8. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
9. Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
10. Awareness by Tony de Mello

1. Amanda & the Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, by Carole Hill
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J R R Tolkein
3. Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
4. The Firm, by John Grisham
5. Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy "Trilogy", by Douglas Adams
7. The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
8. The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes (or any other C&H book), by Bill Watterson
9. One Snowy Night, by Nick Butterworth
10. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

1. The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, by ADouglas Adams
2. The Greatest Show Off Earth, by Robert Rankin
3. Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
4. Noughts and Crosses, by Malory Blackman
5. The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
6. The redemption of Althalus, by David & Leigh Eddings
7. the tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
8. Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
9. How to be Good, by Nick Hornby
10. Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn

1. Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
2. The House at Pooh Corner, by AA Milne
3. Harry Potter & Goblet of Fire, by J K Rowling
4. The Stand, by Stephen King
5. Who Killed Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
6. His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
7. I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
8. Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson
9. Five Children and It, by E Nesbit
10. The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L Sayers

1. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
2. The Saga of the Exiles, by Julian May
3. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
4. Call of the Wild, by Jack London
5. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
6. Weaveworld, by Clive Barker
7. Cleopatra, by Margaret George
8. Gridlock, by Ben Elton
9. Necroscope Series, by Brian Lumley
10. The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudage

Very hard to make a list of books from my favourites, I mostly like all the books I read with the exception of a minority!

Hmmm...time to re-evaluate mine, not that Number Six will ever update the page, mind.

1) The Beiderbecke Trilogy - Alan Plater
2) Ice Station Zebra - Alistair Maclean
3) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4) Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman
5) We Joined The Navy - John Winton
6) Winnie The Pooh - AA Milne
7) Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less - Jeffrey Archer (sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry)
8) The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes - AC Doyle
9) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
10) Notes From A Big Country - Bill Bryson

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I'm sifting thro other hootooer's lists and find I'm thinking:

OOOooo yeh that's good..

Oh why didn't I think of that one too...

Gosh that's one I've meant to get for ages and keep forgetting..

Oh WOW....I should add that too...

I should perhaps revamp my list, but it's subject to change so much I'm just gonna leave it.

Perhaps there should be a top 5 of most disliked authors...you know I can't think of any of the top of my head...

That might start some rows and upset people tho, oh well never mind...

You know, the other night I dreamed I'd written Lord of the Rings.

I was Tolkien in my sleep...

Don't laugh at him, you'll make him worse.

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A top five most disliked might indeed be a good idea..

Ooh, sounds fun!

1) Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein. Unbelievably tedious.
2) The Science of Harry Potter - Roger Highfield. Unacceptably shallow.
3) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy. Unrelentingly mind-numbing.
4) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. Undyingly mediocre.
5) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens. Unappealingly messy.

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Oh, I quite like Lord of the Rings, in a historical sort of way. While at the airport today, I was watching a programme being shown in the National Geographic store which compared Lord of the Rings to people and events in history. Quite fascinating. For that reason alone, I can make the effort to like Lord of the Rings. When Aragorn is equated with William Wallace and Elizabeth I.

Yes,

1, War and Peace by Tolstoy....argghhh...miniscle small print, extra thin pages a stuffy massive tome of yawndom...at least the copy I had was, perhaps there is a short version that I don't know of...

2, Calculus by unknown - my most hated school book, I found it dull not being a mathmatician.

3, Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, mildly amusing but mostly drivel don't know what the raving was about.

4, Five Easy Steps to Learn Spanish by I forget who, don't bother...go get classes with some natives!

5, Mills and Boone

I forgot Michael Moore's Stupid White Men.

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