This is a posting to show which titles were most impressive to me over the years.
In no particular order except when noted...(eg.. the top 8)
Top Ten:
1. Tom Jones, History of a Foundling, Henry Fielding (1749?)
2. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
3. Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
4. The Postman David Brin (Horrible movie)
5. The Breach Patrick Lee (any books by this guy are great!)
6. The complete Gulliver's Travels Jonathon Swift
7. Snow Crash Neal Stephenson (all good books)
8. Double Whammy Carl Hiasson (any fiction by this guy is good.)
9. Harry Potter, all of them JKK Rowling
Honorable Mentions:
Battlefield Earth Scientologist L. Ron Hubbard (Do NOT watch the movie, sucks)
Dead Red Fred (?) If anyone has read this please try and leave a comment with the real title. It is a story about some kids who find a desiccated alien in a cave who can still project thoughts. I recall they take him home and get him going again or ???
Hard Drive Sci-fi smuggling and class war. Hard to find this title again. Big fun in smuggling and war done on a private basis with stashed fighter jets coming out to play and hovercrafts doing some high speed smuggling.
Richard Sharpe series Napoleonic soldier, A favorite series! Sharpe starts out in the ranks and ends up through a series of books as a Major in the British Army.
Lord of the North series (Uhtred of Bebbinburg) Viking wars and raids
The Archer (story of the slaughter done to the French knighthood at Agincourt.
all by Bernard Cornwell, one of the best story tellers out there.
Captain Aubrey and Dr. Maturin series Napoleonic British Navy by Patrick Obrian
Captain Bolitho series By Alexander Kent Napoleonic British Navy
Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
The Black Tiger at .... series (Jr High reading)
The complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Stranger in a Strange Land black author about a black man living unseen by most Americans.
EZ Rawlings is a detective. author Walter Mosley (any)
Elvis Cole, World's Greatest Detective series Robert Crais
Spenser , tough PI with tough friends series Robert Parker
Stephanie Plum, whacko skip tracer girl in NJ series Janet Evonavich
Dune
Harry Potter series JKK Rowling (anything by her)
The Hobbit (et al) Tolkien
Ender's Game
Lonesome Dove
Kiln People, by David Brin
The Gray Man by Mark Greaney, there are about 3 books with the Gray Man, he kicks butt!
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