Top Ten Fiction - General

I just found this topic. Top Ten Books. I am very excited. If I could review books on here I would be rating every moment I wasn't reading. I have an eclectic group of books on my list but I hope someone will read this and decide to read a few of these titles. So here is my list 1. "The Clan of the Cave Bear," by Jean M. Auel (A Prehistorical novel) So basically this is my favorite book of all time because it is the start of my favorite series, "Earth's Children" It is about a girl name Ayla who loses her family in a terrible earthquake and gets adopted by Neanderthals. She struggles for acceptance because she is an "other." ...  Read the complete review

Books are quite important to me! I think they can change the way you look at the world as well as being my favourite form of entertainment. There are just too many books I would like to read. I found this very hard to choose my top ten fiction books, would find it easier to choose my top 100! These are in no particular order, choosing your favourite book to me must be like choosing your favourite child as a parent! I will give a quick summary of each one but want to focus on why I have chosen it as some well-known ones here. 1. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. This tells the story of the Earnshaw family. Heathcliff is brought into the home and ...  Read the complete review

I just love books, and was delighted to see this category, but it caused me all sorts of problems. The problem is, my top ten fiction books changes regularly, depending on the mood I am in, so the following are how I feel right now. Some of this review is taken from other reviews I've done, as it didn't seem right to re-write about a book I've already written about, so apologies for any de-ja-vu. As you will see, I like educational and fantasy, bleak and hilarious, plays and novels, old and new. **No.10: 'Memoirs of a Geisha', by Arthur Golden** This fictional biography tells the story of Sayuri, from her impoverished childhood in early 20th ...  Read the complete review

I get on pretty well with books, it must be said. Probably a little too well, as they threaten to somewhat overwhelm my little flat - and there's a fair chance that they're breeding, rubbing cover-to-cover when I'm not looking. Still, it's a fairly healthy addiction, one that doesn't make me fat or bankrupt or prompt me to come down in sweaty shivers - there are certainly worse things to have an excess of. However, this does mean that the following top ten is a bit provisional; I haven't read half the books in my bedroom, let alone the bookshop, so my count-down is well-aware that it's probably missing a lot of entries that should be there, and probably will ...  Read the complete review

Below I have attempted my top 10 fiction books of all time. In coming up with this list, I have tried to be fair to myself and include books based on how I enjoyed them when I initially read them, not on how much I think I'd like them now. The books therefore reflect my changing tastes over the years. This left me with the dilemma of whether to include books I enjoyed as a child - eventually I decided to include them but limit children's books on the list to two. Books and reading are highly subjective, and everyone will have their own opinions on what makes a good book, and different people will also be looking for different things in a book. Some people ...  Read the complete review