Top 10 Favourite Book Collections: A Reading List Treasure for Those Who Are Searching What to Read Next – Part 3
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 third part of this Top 10 Favourite Book Series. If you’ve missed out the first few parts part, click here for the first post and the second post to jump straight to the post.
top 10 favourite books
By u/JustJumpIt17
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
top 10 favourite books
By u/Rjunosuke
- Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Emma by Jane Austen
- A Sportman’s Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
- Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- Beetle in the Anthill by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
- Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
top 10 favourite books
By u/_ShrugDealer_
- Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
- Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
top 10 favourite books
By u/thevach
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Stoner by John Williams
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
top 10 favourite books
By unknown
- Simarillion by JRR Tolkien
- BFG by Roald Dahl
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Macbeth / Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
- Grunts by Mary Gentle
- Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
top 10 favourite books
By u/FreakyMed
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Perks of Being a Wall Flower by Stephen Chbosky
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Little Price by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- A Widow For One Year by John Irving
top 10 favourite books
By u/hashslingingbutthole
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
top 10 favourite books
By u/MindingTheGap0220
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- It by Stephen King
top 10 favourite books
By u/ZappSmithBrannigan
- Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
- Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel Cervantes
- Chasing Venus by Andrea Wolfe
- City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
- The Warhound and The Worlds Pain by Michael Moorcock
- The Electric Church by Jeff Sommers
- Fallen by Tim Lebbon
- Coming of Age In The Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
- Ms Leavitts Stars by George Johnson
- Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
top 10 favourite books
By u/ptosky
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Telling by Ursula Le Guin
- Nightwatch by Terry Pratchett
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Conan Arthur Doyle
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman