Top 100
Top 100
These are my 100 favourite books. I wrote them down as they occurred to me, so the order is roughly best to worst. Your taste might not be exactly in line with mine, but I’m willing to bet that whoever you are, you’ll enjoy the hell out of most of these.
- It – Stephen King
- Drood – Dan Simmons
- Summer of Night – Dan Simmons
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R Tolkien
- Harry Potter 1 – 7 – J.K. Rowling
- The Dark Tower series – Stephen King
- Coraline – Neil Gaiman
- Carrie – Stephen King
- The Terror – Dan Simmons
- Flashback – Dan Simmons
- Tommyknockers – Stephen King
- Needful Things – Stephen King
- Jack Reacher Series – Lee Child
- Live by Night – Dennis Lehane
- Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
- The Damnation Game – Clive Barker
- The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie
- First Law Trilogy – Joe Abercrombie
- Game of Thrones series – George R.R. Martin
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stephenson
- The Witches – Roald Dahl
- Orphan X Series – Gregg Hurwitz
- Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
- The Silence of the Lambs – Robert Harris
- The Great God Pan – Arthur Machen
- The Ruins – Scott Smith
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- Gates of Fire – Steven Pressfield
- The Last Kingdom series – Bernard Cornwell
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’ Brian
- Let the Right One In – Joh Ajvide Lindqvist
- Books of Blood – Clive Barker
- Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson
- Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
- Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jnr.
- Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
- The Beach – Alex Garland
- Post Office – Charles Buckowski
- A Time to Kill – John Grisham
- Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
- Pirate Latitudes – Michael Chrichton
- Eaters of the Dead – Michael Chrichton
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 -13
- The Stand – Stephen King
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Call of the Wild – Jack London
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- The Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins
- Perfume – Patrick Suskind
- Joyland – Stephen King
- Audition – Ryu Murakami
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
- She – H. Rider Haggard
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
- The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- Dr. No – Ian Fleming
- Artemis Fowl 1 – 3 – Eoin Colfer
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Firm – John Grisham
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
- The Help – Katherine Stockett
- Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King
- The Shining – Stephen King
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Shwartz and Stephen Gammell
- Pet Sematary – Stephen King
- The Eyes of the Dragon – Stephen King
- Some Will Not Sleep – Adam Nevill
- Bird Box – Josh Malerman
- The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- NOS4R2 – Joe Hill
- The Princess Bride – William Goldman
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
- Marina – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie
- Red Country – Joe Abercrombie
- Sharpe series 1 – 24 – Bernard Cornwell
- The Woman – Jack Ketchum
- I am Legend – Richard Matheson
- The Thief of Always – Clive Barker
- The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien
- 20th Century Ghosts – Joe Hill
- Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill
- Ghost Story – Peter Straub
- Rant – Chuck Palahniuk
- I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
- Minority Report – Phillip K. Dick
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
- Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Many of these would be on my list too. What was your favorite of the Dark Tower series?
Tough call, gotta say though Wolves of the Calla stands out. Pretty keen for the movie to come out as well