What are some of your favorite novels and story collections?

[LundyAfterMidnight]

I'm an avid reader (mostly monster mags) as I'm sure many of you are. Here are some of my favorite books. What are some of yours?

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
all of Washington Irving's spooky stories, especially The Devil & Tom Walker (why has this never been filmed for TV or the movies, or has it?)
All of Ray Bradbury's story collections

[hammerfan]

Fahrenheit 451, A boy and his Dog, anything by Matheson, Anything by HP Lovecraft, most of RE Howards work. the Lucky Jack Aubrey series by Sullivan. Grapes of wrath, anything by MArk twain. Lord of the RIngs, all the Doc Savage books.

[Street Worm]

Ubik Philip K. Dick *
World Of Tiers (series) Philip Jose Farmer *
Radix AA Attanasio
Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler
Neuromancer William Gibson
Mind Killer Spider Robinson
Stranger In A Strange Land Robert Heinlein
The Illuminatus Trilogy! Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
An East Wind Coming Arthur Byron Cover
The Power Frank M. Robinson

both Dick & Farmer are the two authors I'll buy anything & everything by~

[The Creeper]

Stephen King (anything)
Dracula
H.P. Lovecraft (anything)
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Matheson (anything)
Frankenstein
and some of the Star Wars novels.
Also like to read books on real hauntings and ghosts.

[Wicked Lester]

It really amazes me that people in their 30s to 50s can pick out TOP faves in ANY genre.
I go thru phases meaning right now I am taking 2 weeks to get 100 pages into a book I enjoy. Over winter holidaze I was off for 11 days and read over 2000 pages. I am REAL picky on novels and prefer anthologies. Always exploring new authors. Long time faves,King Robert Leslie Bellem,Hugh B Cave, John Saul, Bentley Little, Richard Laymon and a host of indie authors in Cemetery Dance Magazine. OH and some guy named H.P Lovecraft,heard of him?

[Wich2]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Dracula
Camille
Treasure Island
Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol
Dumas's Musketeer Saga
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
Chandler's Phillip Marlowe
Kipling's Short Stories
Bradbury's Short Stories
Classic Short Horror Anthologies
Classic Short Science Fiction Anthologies

[Gillman-Fan]

In addition to all the great selections already mentioned, I also enjoy the works of Robert Bloch.

I'm currently reading The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte which served as the source material for the movie THE NINTH GATE.

Max Brooks also gets a nod from me.

[Fester]

Favorite novels? It will be pretty eclectic and in no particular order.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Twain)
No 44, The Mysterious Stranger (Twain)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne)
War of the Worlds (Wells)
The Time Machine (Wells)
The White Company (Conan Doyle)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Ron Hansen)
Desperados (Ron Hansen)
Good Omens (Gamin and Pratchett)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and most of the rest by Adams
Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (Adams)
The Sprawl Trilogy (Wm Gibson)
The Bridge Trilogy (Wm Gibson)
Snow Crash (Stephenson)
Three Man in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome)
Three Men on a Bummel (Jerome K Jerome)

Story Collections:
Sherlock Holmes stories & novels by Conan Doyle
Jeeves and Wooster stories & Novels by P.G. Wodehouse
Mr Mulliner stories P.G. Wodehouse
Guys and Dolls and any other story collections by Damon Runyon

Of these , my favorite authors are Wodehouse, Runyon and Jerome.  All three are the masters of the English language.  These writers could tell memorable stories in amazing styles.  Enjoyable stories aside, these guys are so much fun to read because of the way they use language.

[BaronLatos35]

Genre related:

- 'Salem's Lot

- Night Shift (King)

- Dracula

Otherwise currently read/have read military history (WWII, Vietnam, American Revolution), Cornel West, Bell Hooks, Glenn Singleton, various Latino writers, Stephen King,  etc.

[avenger]

Travis McGee novels by John D.MacDonald
The Man From U.N.C.L.E novels
The Avengers novels
Dracula
Salem's Lot

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

DragonLance novels
ForgottenRealms novels
Haunted by James Herbert
Louis L'amour novels
Conan by Robert E. Howard
Ted Dekker novels
Monster by Frank Perretti
Dean Koontz novels
Ivy Malone Mysteries
David Gemmel novels
I also enjoy reading books about myths and legends, which most focus on Sasquatch.

I really dont care for short stories, and I go through a great book in one day.

[RedKing]

I am a voracious reader! My favorites are HPL,Robert E Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, HG Wells, Dracula, Original series StarTek novels, DrWho novels,booksabout movies and cryptozoology and UFO books,especially ones from the 70s.

[Zombiology]

Love to read.  All time favorite author is Ray Bradbury.  Another is Olaf Stapledon.

Others
19th century
Poe (anything)
Dickens (Great Expectations)
Twain (Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer)
Wells (Time Machine)
Doyle (anything Holmes related)
Stevenson (Treasure Island)


20th century
Hoyle (Black Cloud)
Clarke (Tales From the White Hart)
Harbinson (Genesis)
Card (Speaker for the Dead)
McCaffrey (White Dragon)
Burroughs (Tarzan)
King (The Stand)
McCammon (anything)
Dickson (Dorsai series)
Piper (Fuzzy series)
Robeson (Doc Savage series)
Perry Rhodan series (multiple authors)
Garret (Lord D'Arcy series)
many, many more

[Unknown Primate]

The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

I'll think of some others, later.

[The Creeper]

The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

I'll think of some others, later.

I love Poe too!  I read the Complete works a few years ago and it was awesome!