10 Book Challenge

[Bill Walker]

Name 10 books you have read that for some reason have stayed with you, not necessarily what you consider the best, just ones that mean (or have meant) something to you.




Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carre
Night Fall - Nelson DeMille
Brother Odd - Dean Koontz
The Secret Of Crinkley Hall - James Herbert
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist - Robert Tressell
Tune In - Mark Lewisholn
1984 - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Fourth Protocol _ Frederick Forsyth

 

[dronefromsector7g]

10 books?

Give me a day or two

 

[DelToro]

Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Shadowlands –Peter Straub
Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
The Passage – Justin Cronin
The March of Folly – Barbara Tuchman
The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
The Golden Keel – Desmond Bagley
A Rumour of War – Phillip Caputo
Alfred Hitchcocks’ The 3 Detectives
Seasonal Suicide Notes - Roger Lewis

 

[aguero93:20]

This is your brain on music - Daniel Levetin.
1984 - George Orwell
The Maribou Stork nightmares - Irvine Welsh
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
The Stand - Stephen King
Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Angela's Ashes - Francis McCourt
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Back from the brink - Paul McGrath
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

 

[york away to this!]

honey bear
little rogue
mike mulligan and his steam shovel
swallows and amazons
lord of the flies
the rats
Hitler, my part in his downfall
To kill a mocking bird
Bomber pilot
next directory

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

I can't limit it to 10 novels but instead have gone for 10 novelist whose work has made a lasting impression on me and whose work I return to repeatedly.

James Joyce
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Marcel Proust
Flann O' Brien
Gustave Flaubert
Stendhal
Jack Kerouac
Hermann Hesse
Jose Saramago

 

[bluetonium]

Maurice & His Amazing Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett (kids book, really?)
The Dirt - Motley Crue autobiography (funny, shocking, eye-opener)
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman (poss my fave book ever)
Needful Things - Stephen King (first of his I read, not the greatest of his stories but demonstrates how to befriend the reader)
The Jewels of Gwahlur - Robert E Howard (short story, from when I was a kid)
Sagittarius Whorl - Julian May (not sure why but always remember as a sci fi book that created a new universe very well)
The Menace from Earth - Robert A Heinlein (short story, probably a love story)
Wizard & Glass - Stephen King (pretty much a love story to be honest)
The Hobbit -Tolkien (still not seen the new film, images this book created in my mind as a child will always be more vivid)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (I blame the national curriculum for this one, on page 100: "B******s to the rules!)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monserrat
The Power & The Glory - Graham Greene
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
The Crossman Diaries - Richard Crossman
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Spycatcher - Peter Wright

 

[Always Ali]

The Rats - James Herbert
Man & Boy - Tony Parsons
Jaws - Peter Benchley
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
One Day - David Nicholls
Dogs in the Street - Murray Davies
Whale Nation - Heathcote Williams
The Hobbit - Tolkien
The Hunger Games (Trilogy) - Suzanne Collins

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

Should have put that in my list but not sure which one it would replace.