It is hard to create a list of favorite novels especially
considering that I have more favorite authors than novels so some of my
favorites will inevitably get left off which is why with this list of favorite
novels I will explain why I love some of these novels and the writer that wroth
it.
Enjoy!
I would love for you to list your own “Top 10”
and post them and don’t forget to comment of this list.
The list is in no particular order and don’t
for get to check out some of my other Lists:
1.
The
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
2.
The
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
3.
Sacrament/Weaveworld
by Clive Barker – I can’t really choose between these two as they are both some
of the best written modern fantasy I’ve ever read!
4.
Congo/Sphere/Airframe
by Michael Crichton – He is my favorite author of all time so it’s hard
for me to decide which of these three are my favorites but Airframe does get
elevated a bit higher as it is the one I’d love to direct as a film
5.
The
Exorcist/Legion by William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist is the better
novel but Legion was the first novel of his I ever read which prompted me to go
out and look for his other novels.
6.
Ringu/Loop/Dark
Water by Koji Suzuki – All three are equally magnificent (as are pretty
much everything he writes) but Loop does edge out the other just a little as it
has such an amazing premise with some heady themes and ideas like a Crichton
novel
7.
The
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
8.
Interpreter
of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri – I absolutely love her writing and think
she can do no wrong and even though I think all of her work are masterpieces
this is one of the few anthologies I think every story is a masterpiece
9.
The
Stepford Wives/Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin – A tie with these two as
it’s hard to decide which is the better novel.
10.
Misery
by Stephen King – This may not be his best novel but it is the novel from which
if I had never read it, I would have never read anything else he did. This is the first book of his that I ever
read in high school and I’ve been a fan ever since. Even after all the other novels of his I’ve
read I can still remember my first experience reading this one when most of the
other novels I’ve forgotten the experience.
