What's on your "book Mount Rushmore"? (2 Viewers)

[Cage1]

With Dune dropping today it got me thinking about my all time favorite books, Dune being among them. I gave up trying to rank it and just decided to come up with my favorite 4.

In no particular order:

Dune
Lord of the Rings (I know this is a cheat, but I'm not eating up 3 picks with one story)
Watership Down
Confederacy of Dunces.

And next week it might be different.

 

[Taurus]

LoTR
Time Enough for Love
The Stand
The Galactic Milieu

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

As cliche as it is, for me it’s truthfully Catcher in the Rye…. I read it in 8th grade and it totally changed the way i saw the world, even today…. Also How to Win Friends and Influnce People.. it didnt exactly make me Mr Popularity or anything, but it was just sort of fascinating, psychologically-speaking, and i really loved it‘s principles at the time i read it.


Also A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius… and The Firm

 

[The Nomad]

Neil Gaiman- American Gods
Terry Pratchett- Small Gods.
If I have to make it a total of four, it would be more Pratchett and it could be any of a dozen as he is the funniest, most sarcastic, cynical, writer of modern time.
No one understood humans better than Sir Terry.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Foucalt’s Pendulum -Eco
Joy Luck Club - Tan

 

[Sailorsaint]

In no particular order:
On A Pale Horse
Foundation
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
The World Set Free

 

[SWJJ]

Lord of the Flies
1984
Great Expectations
Watership Downs

 

[Cage1]

. . .Catcher in the Rye…. Also How to Win Friends and Influnce People..

 

[Cage1]

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

Dang. I need to rethink my list.

 

[2009ring]

Several Stephen King books
Interview with a Vampire series
The Jack Ryan books

that's off the top of my head I'm sure I"ll think of more

 

[Cage1]

Several Stephen King books
Interview with a Vampire series
The Jack Ryan books

 

[Optimus Prime]

Boys Life - Robert McCammon
River God - Wilber Smith
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Martian -Andy Weir

Can’t go wrong with Watership Down either

 

[Zack Lee]

It
The Witching Hour
I Know This Much is True
Boys Life

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Oxford English Dictionary
Joy of Cooking -Vol 1
Everybody Poops
Never Settle

 

[Saint_Ward]

I'm not well read enough, so that will bias my picks.

However. I agree with the LoTR trilogy.

Romeo and Juliette (I haven't read much other Shakespeare to know if I'm missing out).

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Siddhartha

Night by Elie Wiesel

And I think the Bible is going to take George Washington's spot, ya know?