All the books you'll ever need in 1000 life-times (list inside)

[Huike]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Watership Down
Non-stop (AKA Starship)
Hothouse (AKA The Long Afternoon of Earth)
Helliconia Spring
Helliconia Summer
Helliconia Winter
Tau Zero
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundations Edge
Foundation and Earth
The Gods Themselves
I, Robot
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The End of Eternity
The Handmaid's Tale
The Time Ships
The Last Unicorn
Blood Music
Darwin's Radio
Timescape
The Demolished Man
The Stars My Destination
A Case of Conscience
Cities in Flight
The Martian Chronicles
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Mists of Avalon
Sundiver
Startide Rising
The Uplift War
The Postman
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Stand on Zanzibar
Sheep Look Up
Falling Free
Shards of Honor
Barrayar
The Warriors Apprentice
The Vor Game
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Diplomatic Immunity
A Clockwork Orange
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City
Land of Laughs
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Cyteen
Downbelow Station
Stories of Your Life and Others
Childhood's End
The City and the Stars
2001: A Space Odyssey
Rendezvous with Rama
The Fountains of Paradise
Mission of Gravity
Little, Big
Lest Darkness Fall
Babel-17
Dhalgren
The Man in the High Castle
Martian Time-slip
Dr. Bloodmoney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly
Valis
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Camp Concentration
On Wings of Song
Lord Foul's Bane
The Illearth War
The Power that Preserves
The Year's Best Science Fiction
Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician's Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanters' End Game
Dangerous Visions
Deathbird Stories
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Time and Again
Alas, Babylon
American Gods
Coraline
Neuromancer
The Princess Bride
Replay
The Forever War
Forever Peace
Mindbridge
All My Sins Remembered
Worlds
Paradox Men (AKA Flight into Yesterday)
The Stainless Steel Rat
Make Room! Make Room!
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
The Puppet Masters
Double Star
The Door into Summer
Have Spacesuit - Will Travel
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Glory Road
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Time Enough for Love
Friday
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Mythago Wood
The Conan Chronicles
Brave New World
Flowers for Algernon
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Lathe Of Heaven
The Dispossessed
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tenahu
Tales from Earthsea
The Other Wind
Fafhrd and Gray Mouser/Lankhmar series
The Wanderer
Solaris
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
I Am Legend
The Shrinking Man
The Many-Coloured Land
Fairyland
Dragonflight
China Mountain Zhang
Dreamsnake
The Riddle-Master of Hed
Heir of Sea and Fire
Harpist in the Wind
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Speed of Dark
Gloriana (or the Unfulfill'd Queen)
Bring the Jubilee
Ringworld
The Mote in God's Eye
Vurt
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm
Rite of Passage
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
Titus Alone
Gateway
Man Plus
Jem
The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 1
The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 2
The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 3
The Space Merchants
The Anubis Gates
Last Call
Expiration Date
Earthquake Weather
Declare
Inverted World
The Separation
Pavane
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Female Man
The Sparrow
The Witches of Karres
Orbitsville
Frankenstein
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1
Science Fiction: 101 (AKA Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder)
The Book of Skulls
Dying Inside
Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades
Downward to the Earth
A Time of Changes
Up the Line
Tower of Glass
Lord Valentine's Castle
City
Way Station (AKA Here Gather the Stars)
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Ilium
Olympos
Tik-Tok
Roderick
Roderick at Random
A Door Into Ocean
The Rediscovery of Man
Norstrilia
Last and First Men
Star Maker
Odd John
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Earth Abides
Dracula
More than Human
Venus Plus X
The Dreaming Jewels (AKA The Synthetic Man)
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Dying Earth
Emphyrio
The John Varley Reader
Titan
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Snow Queen
A Fire upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
The World of Null-A
Slan
Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle
The Sirens of Titan
Player Piano
The Embedding
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Invisible Man
The First Men in the Moon
The Once and Future King
Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang
The Humanoids
Doomsday Book
To Say Nothing of the Dog
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
The Day of the Triffids
The Midwich Cuckoos (AKA Village of the Damned)
The Chrysalids
We
Lord of Light
Nine Princes in Amber
The Guns of Avalon
Sign of the Unicorn
The Hand of Oberon
The Courts of Chaos
This Immortal (AKA …And Call Me Conrad)
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth and Other Stories
Damnation Alley
Neverness

[Huike]

okay, maybe 100 life-times :D

[Naruto Jester]

i would read the lion the witch and the wordrob for most of thoughs lives i love that book my 3grade teacher showed me it

[mary no jutsu]

wow thats one long list.

well this is my list

harry potter series
hitchikersguide to the galaxy
enders game
enders shadow
lovely bones
to kill a mockingbird
chronicles of narnia
lord of the rings series

well those are the only books i can think of but all i know is that if i had not read these books then i would be a differant person.

[avraell]

mike, have you read all those, otherwise why make a list? and no, its pretty realistic to read those books over 2-5 years, and under one if you dont work/go to school.

[martryn]

Yeah, I've read about half of the ones you've listed. And you left off alot of my favorites too. Not to mention only some of Donaldson's work.

[Blue]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/spriteninja/Books.jpg

I've read all of those, although maybe 2 of them in the last 6 months - fucking forum. There's also a whole nother shelf to the right with fiction, these are mostly reference.

[Reznor]

http://forums.narutofan.com/announcement.php?f=82&a=94

[Lord Yu]

I wish I had the patience or time to read all thos books. Damn ADD and steroidal astma medicine

[Yasha]

Where is And Then There Were None:yelling ? Your long list will be meaningless without it!

[Lord Yu]

http://forums.narutofan.com/announcement.php?f=82&a=94
I use to watch that all the time lol

[avraell]

martryn, do you actually recommend most of those though, and which ones the most?

And KnK why do you have a Russian coke bottle? I don't remember them differing too much from American ones...except the glass is thinner and the top breaks instead of the cap coming off once in a while.

[Kaki]

Those are almost all science fiction right? I'm reading childhood's end right now....

[Blue]

And KnK why do you have a Russian coke bottle? I don't remember them differing too much from American ones...except the glass is thinner and the top breaks instead of the cap coming off once in a while.Novelty, mostly. It's actually Pepsi, I think. I'll take a picture once my digicam recharges.

[Jinaku]

Too bad i sont have the money to buy all of those books.

[Ruri]

Nice list - I should read more fantasy & sci-fi. ^_^

http://forums.narutofan.com/announcement.php?f=82&a=94

o.O

[Excalibur]

I've actually read most of those books...*is a sci-fi fiend*...but you are missing the last three books of the Dune series...oh...and anyone that mentions Ray Bradbury, which I did see The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, automatically gets an A+ from me because he is my favorite author. I'll have to read some of those again so I can remember them...xD

[martryn]

martryn, do you actually recommend most of those though, and which ones the most?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Watership Down
Non-stop (AKA Starship)
Hothouse (AKA The Long Afternoon of Earth)
Helliconia Spring
Helliconia Summer
Helliconia Winter
Tau Zero
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundations Edge
Foundation and Earth
The Gods Themselves
I, Robot
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The End of Eternity
The Handmaid's Tale
The Time Ships
The Last Unicorn
Blood Music
Darwin's Radio
Timescape
The Demolished Man
The Stars My Destination
A Case of Conscience
Cities in Flight
The Martian Chronicles
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Mists of Avalon
Sundiver
Startide Rising
The Uplift War
The Postman
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Stand on Zanzibar
Sheep Look Up
Falling Free
Shards of Honor
Barrayar
The Warriors Apprentice
The Vor Game
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Diplomatic Immunity
A Clockwork Orange
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City
Land of Laughs
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Cyteen
Downbelow Station
Stories of Your Life and Others
Childhood's End
The City and the Stars
2001: A Space Odyssey
Rendezvous with Rama
The Fountains of Paradise
Mission of Gravity
Little, Big
Lest Darkness Fall
Babel-17
Dhalgren
The Man in the High Castle
Martian Time-slip
Dr. Bloodmoney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly
Valis
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Camp Concentration
On Wings of Song
Lord Foul's Bane
The Illearth War
The Power that Preserves
The Year's Best Science Fiction
Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician's Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanters' End Game
Dangerous Visions
Deathbird Stories
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Time and Again
Alas, Babylon
American Gods
Coraline
Neuromancer
The Princess Bride
Replay
The Forever War
Forever Peace
Mindbridge
All My Sins Remembered
Worlds
Paradox Men (AKA Flight into Yesterday)
The Stainless Steel Rat
Make Room! Make Room!
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
The Puppet Masters
Double Star
The Door into Summer
Have Spacesuit - Will Travel
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Glory Road
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Time Enough for Love
Friday
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Mythago Wood
The Conan Chronicles
Brave New World
Flowers for Algernon
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Lathe Of Heaven
The Dispossessed
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tenahu
Tales from Earthsea
The Other Wind
Fafhrd and Gray Mouser/Lankhmar series
The Wanderer
Solaris
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
I Am Legend
The Shrinking Man
The Many-Coloured Land
Fairyland
Dragonflight
China Mountain Zhang
Dreamsnake
The Riddle-Master of Hed
Heir of Sea and Fire
Harpist in the Wind
Perdido Street Station
The Scar
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Speed of Dark
Gloriana (or the Unfulfill'd Queen)
Bring the Jubilee
Ringworld
The Mote in God's Eye
Vurt
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm
Rite of Passage
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
Titus Alone
Gateway
Man Plus
Jem
The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 1
The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 2
The SFWA Grand Masters: Volume 3
The Space Merchants
The Anubis Gates
Last Call
Expiration Date
Earthquake Weather
Declare
Inverted World
The Separation
Pavane
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Female Man
The Sparrow
The Witches of Karres
Orbitsville
Frankenstein
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1
Science Fiction: 101 (AKA Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder)
The Book of Skulls
Dying Inside
Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades
Downward to the Earth
A Time of Changes
Up the Line
Tower of Glass
Lord Valentine's Castle
City
Way Station (AKA Here Gather the Stars)
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Ilium
Olympos
Tik-Tok
Roderick
Roderick at Random
A Door Into Ocean
The Rediscovery of Man
Norstrilia
Last and First Men
Star Maker
Odd John
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Earth Abides
Dracula
More than Human
Venus Plus X
The Dreaming Jewels (AKA The Synthetic Man)
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Dying Earth
Emphyrio
The John Varley Reader
Titan
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The Snow Queen
A Fire upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
The World of Null-A
Slan
Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle
The Sirens of Titan
Player Piano
The Embedding
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Invisible Man
The First Men in the Moon
The Once and Future King
Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang
The Humanoids
Doomsday Book
To Say Nothing of the Dog
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
The Day of the Triffids
The Midwich Cuckoos (AKA Village of the Damned)
The Chrysalids
We
Lord of Light
Nine Princes in Amber
The Guns of Avalon
Sign of the Unicorn
The Hand of Oberon
The Courts of Chaos
This Immortal (AKA …And Call Me Conrad)
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth and Other Stories
Damnation Alley
Neverness

The ones in red are the ones I can recommend. Most of the rest I've never even heard of. And all there is up there looks like sci-fi and fantasy, which I do read, but I can't say that that is all there is to read.

I most highly recommend: Hitchhiker's Guide series, anything by Aasimov (Foundation series), Donaldson (Lord Foul's Bane, Illearth War, The power that Preserves), Watership Down, The Once a Future King, and the first of the Dune books (they start to suck after the first one). Oh, and of course Ender's Game (just the 1st one) and LotR. Slaughterhouse V is good too. Most things by Vonnegut are. And Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is really good. Most of the books in that series are. Its what Bladerunner was based off of. And I can't remember, was Eater's of the Dead there too? That's a good one.

[rimpelcut]

crap I want to read books but I can't find them
does anyoneknow a place to download books?

[Nybarius]

I read about 120 books a year, but to be conservative let's say I read 100 a year. Now, supposing I live 100 years, that's -- um, like a hundred million books l0lz?

[Excalibur]

crap I want to read books but I can't find them
does anyoneknow a place to download books?

Project Gutenberg has a ton of free books to d/l...but nothing recent...mostly classics...

http://www.gutenberg.org/

[rimpelcut]

I didn't know it had classics thanks for pointing that out.
also what books do you read? sometimes I read books that are about science and stuff like that but it is filled with opinions from a person and kind of small talk. I hate that. It's like you are talking to a person but you can't communicate.

wow nybarius, when do you find the time to do sport, go out, watch tv and NF?

[TheChoji]

That's it. I'm going to take up reading.

[Nybarius]

wow nybarius, when do you find the time to do sport, go out, watch tv and NF?

I don't do any sports--NYC, I'd have to find a league--I have a gym in my building, I hardly ever go out, and I'm usually on NF with a book next to me.

[rimpelcut]

Your body needs stretching and body language is a huge deal in interesting(because>), humorous social ingagement. Thinking is fun but using skills in different ways and seeing creativity is the most unknown and therefore full of (thinking) enjoyment.
Anyway I am reading the hitchhikers guide. all 5 books. really fun man.

If anyone has some interesting books in pdf form. wanna trade?