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

Hmm, let's see...

1. The Sword of Shadows series, by J V Jones
2. The Book of Words series, by J V Jones
3. The Song of the Lioness series, by Tamora Pierce (so what if they're kid's books?)
4. Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett
5. The Black Magician Triology, by Trudi Canavan
6. The Belgariad/ Mallorean series, by David Eddings
7. The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan
8. Any book by Raymond E Feist
9. The Morse books, by Colin Dexter
10. The Thomas Covenant Chronicles, by Stephen Donaldson

I've read far too many series to be able to pinpoint individual books

1. My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
2. Lord of the rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
5. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
6. Ants and gods, by Stefan Tsanev
7. The Alexandria Quartet, by
Lawrence Durrell
8. A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny
9. Farseer trilogy, by Robin Hobb
10.The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter

1. Jurrasic Park by Michael Crichton
2. The Langoliers by Stephen King
3. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. Red Dwarf by Grant, Naylor
5. Backwards by Rob Grant
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King
9. Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul by Douglas Adams
10.Kaleidoscope Century by John Barnes

In no particular order..........

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Illusions - Richard Bach
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
A Kestrel For A Knave - Barry Hines
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Charlottes Web - E.B. White
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

1. The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
2. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
3. Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
4. The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky
5. Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome
6. The Outsider, by Albert Camus
7. A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
8. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
9. Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
10. The Odyssey, by Homer

1. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, by Douglas Adams
2. So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, by Douglas Adams
3. Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
4. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
5. The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
6. Without Remorse, by Tom Clancy
7. Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
8. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
9. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
10. Fever Pitch, by Nick Horby

(yes I know it's a weird selection)

War and Peace?

What did you think?

Brilliant book - I didn't really know that much about the realities of war beforehand, and there are so many things you can learn from the book. Pierre way just really funny

1. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
2. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
4. Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
5. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
6. Watership Down by Richard Adams
7. On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
8. Omnivore by Piers Anthony
9. Star Bores by Steve Barlowe and Steve Skidmore
10. Vet in Harness by James Herriot

Good Omens is by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Pedantic, I know, but credit where credit is due...
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I realise that now. Sorry!

Thanks for letting me know, BTW!

Boy, do I feel foolish!

np As Mr Pratchett does not need any more pushing I would recommend reading any of Neil Gaiman's stuff that you can get your hands on. Two good starting places are his Sandman stuff and his American Gods novel Until later....
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The Galactic Milieu trilogy, by Julian May
The Saga of the Exiles, by Julian May
The Broken God, by David Zindell
Changing Planes, by Ursula le Guin
The Harry Potter set, by J. K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's trilogy, by Douglas Adams
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Valis, by Philip K. Dick
Starship Titanic, by Terry Jones

That's at least 22 books (one trilogy, one series of seven, one series of five and seven others)

Well, otherwise it'd be the four Saga books, Intervention, which is the two I see as tacked on the front of the three-part Milieu books. Which is nine by Julian May before I even got started on the other stuff. I figure it's better to clump them together. Nothing more boring that seing a list full of just one author.

Wo. And it's actually 29 in total.

9 by May
7 (eventually) by Rowling
5 by DNA
3 by Zindell
1 by le Guin
1 by Gaiman
1 by Bradbury
1 by Dick
1 by Jones

Fair enough.

Sounds like cheating to me!!!

Hmm. You think so? You want me to pare it down? *worries*

1. High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
2. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
3. Memnoch The Devil, by Anne Rice
4. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
5. River God, by Wilbur Smith
6. 1491, by Charles C Mann
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson
8. I, Lucifer, by Glen Duncan
9. The Count of Monte Christo, by Alexandre Dumas
10. 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez