Top 10 Favourite Book Collections: A Reading List Treasure for Those Who Are Searching What to Read Next – Part 4
Everyone has their own personal top list of favourite books. Written by the greatest literary minds of their time, these books have unique themes, great characters, unforgettable experiences, extreme emotions and engaging story lines that will be relevant throughout the ages. Some of them are the very inspiration from which this entire list have sprung up from. This is a reading list for people who don’t have time for unimportant books. Extracted from the most enthusiastic readers from Reddit, you’ll only find the best books to read in each category. You can be sure that each one is fantastic and will be worth your time.
This post is a reading list, sharing the best books to read in various categories based on many hours of reading and research by the wonderful Redditors. You’ll find hundreds of good books to read, organized by category. Unfortunately, we’ll be breaking those into smaller part of 10, so you’ll get 10 totally different collections of 10 different titles. This list is totally random, coming from an extremely random reading habits and styles from a random reader. Having said that, some Top 10 may not be your Top 10, but a nice starting place to randomly pick a new book to read.
Avid readers, and even casual readers will all have different opinions on which novel is truly the “greatest book ever written.” If you need a new book to add to your reading list, look no further than this roundup of the best books that caught the attention of many. Also, stay tuned for the other parts in the near future. Click on the book cover for a larger version as well to know the full title / author.
This is the fourth part of this Top 10 Favourite Book Series. If you’ve missed out the first few parts part, click here for the first post, second post and the third post.
01.ONE
top 10 favourite books
By u/wongie
- An Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
02.TWO
top 10 favourite books
By u/articulateantagonist
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Peter Pan by JM Barrie
03.THREE
top 10 favourite books
By u/PotatoQuie
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
- Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
- The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
- A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin
- Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry
- Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden
- The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
- Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
04.FOUR
top 10 favourite books
By u/crashXCI
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
- Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
05.FIVE
top 10 favourite books
By u/123smew
- The Nix by Nathan Hill
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Bliss by Peter Carey
- Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- The Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
- A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
- Freedom by Johnathan Franzen
06.SIX
top 10 favourite books
By u/etinacadiaego
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Decameron by Boccaccio
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
- The Chamber Plays by August Strindberg
- Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
- A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
07.SEVEN
top 10 favourite books
By u/OurContentWinter
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- On Liberty by J.S. Mill
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Robert Kennedy by Evan Thomas
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- 1984 by George Orwell
08.EIGHT
top 10 favourite books
By u/MikeBabyMetal
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnar
- Makura no Soshi by Shei Shonagon
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami
- I enjoyed reading the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
- Ten Obcy by Irena Jurgielewiczowa
09.NINE
top 10 favourite books
By Unknown
- Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
- Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Plague by Albert Camus
10.TEN
top 10 favourite books
By u/Geirrid
- Naive Super by Erlend Loe
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
This is the fourth part of this Top 10 Favourite Book Series. If you’ve missed out the first few parts part, click here for the first post, second post and the third post.
