Again and again and again.. Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm...

Mr Bombastic

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

steve66613

"Inconvenient T***h" by Al Gore.....
fictional science.....that would be fi-sci? Pure fantasy!

I haven't read it, but, would likely qualify for "humor" too!

(Just trying to get my post count up.)

Mr Bombastic

Good grief! Doesn't anyone on here read books?

mongo Loc: TEXAS

Mr Bombastic wrote:

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

The "Jack Reacher" novels are some of my favorite.

SEMPER FI

servanttk

Ellery Queen mystery novels are good!

Mr Bombastic

mongo wrote:

The "Jack Reacher" novels are some of my favorite.

SEMPER FI

I might check them out. Sorta James Bondish with an attitude. A really bad attitude.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Mr Bombastic wrote:

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

I read the Dune series a few years ago. Fantastic.

Start at the chronological beginning.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Mr Bombastic wrote:

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

Sci-Fi? The Many Colored Land and it's three sequels,The Non-Born King, The Golden Torc, and The Adversary, by Julian May. Four of my all time favorites.
Childhood's End Arthur C Clarke.
Most of Robert Heinlein's stuff. I especially liked Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love, Job,, and Expanded Universe, (the last being an anthology.)
Exodus, and Mila 18 Leon Uris.
I have every one of Louis L'Amour's books.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
David Weber's Safehold series.
Most of Harry Turtledove's books.
If you like British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, CS Forester's Hornblower series is a are very readable, written by a British Naval Officer with a flair for storytelling.
Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction. The Last Kingdom series, about England in it's formative days, circa 800-900 AD.
It's late, and those are just a few off the top of my head.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

Mr Bombastic wrote:

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

I've enjoyed the works of E.E. (Doc) Smith, especially the old Lensmen series. Arther C. Clark, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury.

Asimov's robot series comes to mind.

Titles such a Ringword by Larry Niven.

If you want a headache read Ellison's "Stainless Steel Rat's Ass Revenge".

Edgar Rice Boroughs Martian series and of course the works of Jules Verne.

If you can't remember book names, Google the.list of sci fi authors from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. From that list you can Google lists of books for each author and a synopsis of each book to jiggle the memory

Chances are you can find most of them at Amazon.

Sorry I didn't get here sooner. We share the same affection for old sci fi.

Another good author was Andre Norton. She was very prolific and wrote from the feminist perspective.

As a kid on rainy days I'd pour over a stack of these wonderful books. It was like being there. So much better than today's video games.

Good luck.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Mr Bombastic wrote:

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

I have 1000's of books in my collection, but my all time favorite is the "wheel of time" series by Robert Jordan. Jordan died before completing the series, but had left copious notes, which Brandon Sanderson ( in consultation with Jordan's wife ) used in a masterful way to complete the series.

kenvrla Loc: East Tx Piney Woods

Any of the Louis L'Amour stories...he wrote many novels unrelated to westerns, but they are all excellent. Had a way of putting you THERE in the story.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Mr Bombastic wrote:

Need some help here. I've read countless books in my lifetime. I would love to read many of them again, but I just can't remember what they were. I'm talking about books that you can read over and over again. So, could you fellow bookworms please list some of your favorite books? I'm especially interested in sci-fi/fantasy books. Thanks.

the D**gon Lance chronicles....if you're into that sort of thing.

randel1

I found L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth series to be an entertaining read.

Mike Easterday

My collection contains mainly military history. Baa Baa Black Sheep , Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington , is still my favorite!

Mr Bombastic

Loki wrote:

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The Saga of the Pliocene Exile! Loved that series! I completely forgot about it, as well as the author. Another good one is the madness season, by C.S. Friedman. Thanks for jogging my memory.