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My Top 10


This is a list of my 10 favourite books.
I know there is 15 here but it was freakin difficult enough to cut
the list that short. I tried to pick the ones that I felt most
influenced me, or that I just thought were real cool.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

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The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

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Ubik

Philip K Dick

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The Age of Pussyfoot

Frederik Pohl

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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1984 - Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

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The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

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The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

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The Princess Bride

William Goldman

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

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Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C Clarke

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Ringworld

Larry Niven

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

There are a lot more books that aren’t on the list that I still consider part of my top 10. To keep the list relatively short I limited myself to one book per Author and I had to cut some of my other favourites.

I wanted to put on All of Douglas Adams’ work, especially Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and

Everything by Philip K. Dick, in particular The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said and A Scanner Darkly

Some other books I wanted to put on the list were

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, A World Out of Time by Larry Niven, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

To name a few…

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