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    What it says on the tin folks.

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    Mine and Huxley's books.

    Because we're desperate.

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    Lexicon - by Max Bradbury
    The White Dragon - by Anne McCaffery
    Hood - By Stephen Lawhead (and the rest of the Kingraven series)
    The Child Thief - by Brom
    Rascal - by Sterling North

    Some of these books had profound affects on my childhood, and some on my more recent adult life. But all have made me think or feel things I hadn't expected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    Mine and Huxley's books.

    Because we're desperate.
    Could you please list the titles?

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    Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
    Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson
    The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
    Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson
    The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J.P. Donleavy

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    Colonel Angus has similar taste to mine. I'm not familiar with the Robert Charles Wilson or Donleavy works but I'd definitely have put Illuminatus! and Homage to Catalonia on my list and I can't fault the Thompson either. Others I'd add would be:

    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
    Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    And probably something by China Miéville, Thomas Pynchon, or Kurt Vonnegut; I just can't decide which book.

    Though I've completely neglected non-fiction here (apart from Homage) and could probably add another four non-fiction titles as well.
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    It is any book you want, you can list children's books or books about science, history, or even a biography if you want.

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    Yeah, I'm just completely at a loss for how I'd narrow down history and whatever else, which is why I didn't bother expanding beyond the titles I listed. Five is probably too few.
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    Jurassic Park
    Catch-22
    David Copperfield
    Crime and Punishment
    The Godfather

    My favorite books, basically.

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    Star Girl
    Fahrenheit 451
    Needful Things
    Salem's Lot
    The Giver

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    Casino Royale - Ian Flemming
    Vampire Hunter D - Hideyuki Kikuchi
    George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Miranda Carter
    The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft
    Death Gate Cycle Book 1: Dragon Wing - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

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    Would recommend the Harry Potter books but I think everyone on this site who wants to read them already knows about them.

    Wild Seed - Octavia Butler
    Kindred - Octavia Butler
    The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
    Who Fears Death? - Nnedi Okorafor
    Y the Last Man - Brian K. Vaughn & Pia Guerra
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    Mine and Huxley's books.

    Because we're desperate.
    Could you please list the titles?
    Windshifter
    Cricket Song
    The Road Leads Up

    As for my list, it's just one: Dawnthief, by James Barclay. If you like it, then keep reading the rest of the Raven books. There is an initial trilogy, a second trilogy and a final book, along with a spinoff book that tells of a man in the past in this world. Then if you really like the universe, there are three Elves books that you might also enjoy that he has released since, but they only feature one character from the Raven books and are set in times far, far earlier than the Raven books are set.
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    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    The Left Behind Series - Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
    Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
    A Song of Ice and Fire series (A Game of Thrones series) - George R. R. Martin

    That's all I got: 4.
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    I only have one because I feel like most of you have read the others I'd mention in high school or college.

    The Gargoyle - Because I think it's great love story and I really want to adapt it in to a film, but it will be pretty expensive to make. If you read it, you'll see why. It's not the atypical love story that gets so cliched. It's not The Notebook, though granted I liked that film. It's a lot darker, a lot more complex, and so few people I know have read it even though it is a bestseller.

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