Excelsior

This one's going around facebook lately, and I thought it might be fun to do here too

The idea: Share 10 books that stayed with you in some way - in no particular order.

Here are mine:

- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Welcome to the Monkey House (All of them, but most specifically: Long Walk to Forever, Epicac, and Welcome to the Monkey House)
- The Giving Tree
- Outlander
- A Prayer For Owen Meany
- Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
- The Hunger Games
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Bridge to Terabithia

Your turn!

Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin
Dungeons & Dragons by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Far Side Gallery Gary Larson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow
Gunslinger Girl by Yu Aida
Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Great idea! Good thing there is a limit of ten because I could go on and on, heh.

1984 by George Orwell
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Little Women by Louisa May Alcot
The Lord of the Rings Series by JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Through the Looking-Glass By Lewis Carroll

not a big book reader.. but growing up..
Goosebumps series
The Black Pearl
The Giver
Hatchet Series
The Lord of The Flies

The Hobbit
The FellowShip of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of The King
Harry Potter Books
Terry Pratchett's entire discworld series (counts as one)
Stephen Hawking - On The Shoulders of Giants
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Carl Sagan - The Cosmos

wait thats like 40+ counting potter and the discworld

so I suppose good enough

The Bible
i, Jedi- Michael stackpole
The Thrawn Trilogy- Timothy Zahn- (3 books)
Way of the clans/ Bloodname/ Falcon guard- Robert Thurston (Battletech FTW!)-(3 books)
The lost boys- Orson scott card
The New JEdi Order (whole series..can't eat just one!) yeah I'm a star wars fan so what?!?!
Prey-Michael Crichton

Anything by Terry Goodkind
Anything by Terry Brooks
Anything by Jim Butcher (Cedex of Alera series and Dresden series)

Game of Thrones series
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Currently reading Druid Lords by India Drummond (first book of series is free on amazon/b&n)

Nearly all of those mentioned above (Harry Potter Series, Brief History of Time, ASOIAF Series, etc. plus:

Robopocalypse/World War Z (depends on whether your prefer your Armageddons to contain robots or zombies)
Lone Survivor
Unbroken
Lies My Teacher Told Me

Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Farenheit 451
Andromeda Strain
Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
All Sherlock Holes stories
And then There Were None
Hardy Boys Novels (Got me to read more than comic books)
Chariot of the Gods (Got me to think outisde the status quo sort to speak)

All you cheaters, listing entire series instead of single books! =P

You guys have interested me in some new books, awesome!

Both Of Robert Rankin's brilliant satire

The hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse
and THCBOTA II the toyminator

Excellent just excellent especially if you enjoy something "innocent" getting warped ala Sondheim (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods)

OK, in no specific order:

Lord of the rings trilogy, by JRR Tolkien
At the mountains of madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
All of Edgar Allan Poe's works
The divine commedy , by Dante Alighieri
Don Quijote de La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes
Faust, by Goethe
The Nikopol trilogy, by Enki Bilal
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
Richard the third, by William Shakespeare
And, I think that makes eleven...

Granted, some of them are either theater or graphic novels, but it's part of my background.

Elfstones of Shannara -- Terry Brooks

Elvenbane -- Mercedes Lackey & Andre Norton
Half-elf protagonist raised by Dragons who aren't all in agreement whether the half elf is a person or a pet.

Earth -- David Brin
Science fiction set in a brilliantly predictive future earth

The Ring of Charon - Roger MacBride Allen
Because what do you do when inscrutable aliens steal the whole planet and it's *your fault?*

Kiln People -- David Brin
What if you could make copies of yourself every morning and reintegrate them every night? Imperfectly?

Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold -- Terry Brooks
Buyer beware.

Lucifer's Hammer -- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Foundation -- Isaac Asimov

1632 -- Eric Flint
A chunk of modern backwoods West Virginia relocated in time.

Star Wars Splinter Of The Minds Eye -- Alan Dean Foster
The *very first* novel I ever read. Ever. I was maybe 5 years old. The deal was: I had to read a page out loud. working out the various words. Then my father would read the next page out loud. Then I had to read another page.

Inconstant Moon -- Larry Niven
The moon is bright tonight. Far, far too bright. (Short story)

The Integral Trees -- Larry Niven
What if you had a ring of atmosphere orbiting a star... but no planet?

Arena one
maze runner
3 cups of tea
Good bye lollipops
The end of the world
Alas babylon
nightmare on the nile
felidae
the handmaids tale
A midwifes story

War of the worlds - HG Wells
Civilisation and its discontents -Sigmund Freud ( his only readable work, totally non phalic)
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The bible - ?? ( I'm a pastafarian but there always seems to be one around, has some good fantasy though)
Sword of shanarra - Terry Brooks
Hells Angels - Hunter S Thompson
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Civillian to Soldier - John A. Lee
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
Fear and loathing in las vegas -Hunter S Thompson