Thread: A Good Book

This one is really difficult, as there are of course zillions of good novelists. If i have to name top 3, it would be like this today. Tomorrow i propably might find some other names.

"fiction"
1. Melville - Moby Dick
2. Jose Saramago - all his novels
3. Mika Waltari - Mikael Karvajalka

"non-fiction"
1. Antti Tuuri: Rukajärvi war trilogy
2. Esko Valtaoja (Finnish professor of astronomy): whole production
3. Richard Dawkins: whole production

Just finished Beowulf and am currently enjoying the complete works of Plato.

I'd probably say Plato is my favourite.

I'm almost finished reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky. I'm also very slowly working my way through War and Peace by Tolstoy.

Aztec by Gary Jennings
The Journeyer by Gary Jennings
Swan Song by Robert McCammon

AHHHH these books are so good I didn't want them to end when they did.I think that's the mark of a good book.All epic novels,all outstanding!

James Joyce - Ulysses
Jeff Cooper - To ride, shoot straight and speak the truth
Ernest Hemingway - Green hills of Africa

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Kassandra - Christa Wolf
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

And everything from Terry Pratchett, Iain M Banks, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Irving etc etc

Thomas Harris The Hannibal Triology
Red Dragon
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
(haven't read Hannibal Rising)

Robert Ludlum The Bourne Trilogy
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bouren Supremecy
(haven't read the ripoffs and probably won't)

Michael Sharra The Killer Angels (M.)
Jeff Sharra Gods and Generals (J.)
The Last Full Measure (J.)

For lovers of recent Irish history dealing with the troubles Thomas Flanagan's trilogy ;

The Year of the French

The Tenants of Time

The End of the Game

I've delved into my copy of The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg from time to time for forty years. Twenty five years ago I went on a civil war kick and slogged through the six volume Sandburg's Lincoln, The Prairie Years and The War Years, and it was a worthwhile experience.

In my case.......

Non Fiction....since I love history:

1. The World Crisis ( A history of WWI in five volumes by Winston S. Churchill)
2. France & England in North America (Two volume set by Francis Parkman)
3. Two Years before the mast and other voyages. By Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Fiction....way too many; but here it is:

1. The Name of the Rose. By umberto Eco
2. I, Claudius. By Robert Graves
3. JRR Tolkien's Trilogy.
4. Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island. A trilogy by charles Noddhoff and James Norman Hall.

Hard to say "most favorite" but I love Aldous Huxley's short stories and novels. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov is a Favorite of mine. I like fiction most, but as I type this I find it hard to come up with a complete list. Too many fine books to narrow down.- Oh "In Cold Blood" was a great read. I'll chime back in on this thread when I come up with more books.