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

1. The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker
2. Free fall, by William Golding
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Name, by Douglas Adams
4. Happiness, by Will Ferguson
5. Talking it Over, by Julian Barnes
6. The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
7. Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
8. Captain Correlli's Mandolin, by Louis de Berniere
9. Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby
10. My diaries, by Lucky Star

1. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Magician, Raymond Feist
3. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
4. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
6. Lord Foul's Bane, Stephen Donaldson
7. Dune, Frank Herbert
8. Swords of Lankhmar, Fritz Leiber
9. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
10. Flower for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Right - we'll do non-fiction as well! Otherwise it's going to get *far* too complex with administrating this thing...

If anyone who's already submitted a list wants to change it, let me know!

1. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
2. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
3. Good Omens, Pratchett and Gaiman
4. Vipére au Poing (viper in my fist), Hervé Bazin
5. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
6. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
7. If this is a man, Primo Levi
8. Notes from a small island, Bill Bryson
9. Lempriére's dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk
10. La Peste, (the plague) Albert Camus

1. The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
2. The Zero Hour by Joseph Finder
3. HHGG by DNA
4. The Road to Mars by Eric Idle
5. Ishmeal by Daniel Quinn
6. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
7. I am David by Anne Holm
8. Paddle to the Amazon by Don Starkel
9. Extraordinary Powers by Joseph Finder
10. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

1. The Trilogy of 4, Douglas Adams
2. The Last Continent, Terry Pratchett
3. Magician, Raymond E. Feist
4. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
5. Mostly Human, Tom Holt
6. The Earthsea Quartet, Ursula la Guin
7. The Sprouts of Wrath, Robert Rankin
8. The Ship who Sang, Anne McAffrey
9. A Darkness at Sethanon, Raymond E. Feist
10. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. The Stand, Stephen King
3. It, Stephen King
4. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
5. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
6. The World According to Garp, John Irving
7. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
8. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
9. The House at Pooh Corner, AA Milne
10. The Magicians Nephew, CS Lewis

Oh, then put The Four Loves by CS Lewis and Walking on Water by Madeline L'engle back in, please.

1. Thy servant a dog, by Kipling
2. Of mice and men, by Steinbeck
3. Shibumi, by Trevanian
4. The Hobbit, by Tolkein
5. The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
6. Gone with the wind, by Margaret Mitchell
7. The magic faraway tree, by Enid Blyton
8. Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen
9. Breakfast in the ruins, by Michael Moorcock
10. Mr God this is Anna, by Fynn

Not in order...
1. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
2. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
4. Vanity Fair, Thackery
5. Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
6. The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
7. The Edge, Dick Francis
8. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
9. Silas Marner, George Elliott
10. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

1. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
2. Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Neuromancer, William Gibson
4. All Tomorrows Parties, William Gibson
5. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
6. Spectre of the Past, Timothy Zahn
7. Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien
8. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
9. Cats Cradle, Kurt Vonegut
10. Legacy, R. A. Salvatore

Whoops I have to have Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe in there...oh dear soemething has to go! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Raymond Feist definitely has at least 3 votes, how come he's not on the leader board?

(Riotous Assembly )

Because I am a fallible human being. I'll deal with it presently.

1. The Getaway, by Jim Thompson
2. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
3. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
4. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan
6. Other Paths to Glory, by Anthony Price
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
9. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
10. The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
2. A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks
3. James, by W. Dane Bank (very old book)
4. Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
5. 1984, by George Orwell
6. Hemingway's Chair, by Michael Palin
7. About a Boy, by Nick Hornby
8. Dead Famous, by Ben Elton
9. Five go Down to the Sea etc, Enid Blyton (I loved these books as a kid...)
10. The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy", by Douglas Adams

can you add The Hitch Hikers guide to my list Six sweetie?

I'll have the other three eventually

Will do, as soon as I have time for the next update...

1. Legend, by David Gemmel
2. Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
3. Live Ship Traders, by Robin Hobb
4. A Game of Thrones, by George R.R.Martin
5. Magician, by Raymond E. Feist
6. The Eye of The World, by Robert Jordan
7. Colonel Butler's Wolf, by Anthony Price
8. Flashman, by George McDonald Fraser
9. Potter's Field, by Patricia Cornwell
10. Sharpe's Waterloo, by Bernard Cornwell

1. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
2. My Century - Günther Grass
3. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
4. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
5. Silence - Shusaku Endo
6. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
7. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
8. House of Leaves - Mark Z.Danielewski
9. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
10. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

But not necessarily in that order.