my seventy or so favorite books , in no particular order , are as follows : a princess of mars by edgar rice burroughs doc savage : the man of bronze by lester dent the girl in a swing and watership down by richard adams the little girl who lives down the lane by laird keonig ringworld by larry niven logans run by william f. nolan and george clayton johnson 2001 : a space odyssey by arthur c. clarke haunted mesa by louis lamour to kill a mockingbird by harper lee up the line by robert silverberg fever dream by george r. r. martin nine princes in amber and roadmarks by roger zelazny the lathe of heaven by ursula k. leguin the kin of ata are waiting for you by dorothy bryant final blackout and battlefield earth by l. ron hubbard twilight eyes by dean koontz voyage : a novel of 1898 by sterling hayden dune by frank herbert the greatest salesman in the world by og mandino lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry the prophet by kahlil gibran the thornbirds by colleen mccullough world without stars and the long way home by poul anderson the moon is a harsh mistress by robert a. heinlein the onion field by joseph wambaugh sho-gun and taipan by james clavell savage season by joe r. lansdale shadowlands by peter straub the call of the wild by jack london something wicked this way comes by ray bradbury the civil war : a narrative by shelby foote jonathan livingston seagull and illusions : the adventures of a reluctant messiah by richard bach the mote in gods eye and lucifers hammer by larry niven and jerry pournelle the stand by stephen king the lord of the rings and the silmarillion by j.r.r .