Dune is a good one for sci-fi, yeah.

Kinda have to add more to the list, specifically short fiction, which I love.  Edgar Allan Poe has some good stuff, but Robert E. Howard's The Chronicles of Conan tops the list for it.  The Tower of the Elephant is just brilliant.  

The Shadow over Innsmouth. Hard to say it's my favorite but the last 1/3rd of the story I absolutely love. It's really a shame that Lovecraft was convinced he wasn't any good at action or high stakes scenes when he clearly did a great job with them in Innsmouth.

The Power of Positive Thinking. By Norman Vincent Peale.

The Once and Future King. Legendary book. Rereading it now after studying Malory for class, really amazing how much better it gets with some actual familiarity with Arthurian myth. In a way it's kind of the best fan fiction ever written, really just a delight, very weighty themes and fun at the same time.

But I have a few that compete with it. Old School by Tobias Wolff isn't well known, but it's definitely the best "novel for writers" I've ever read, and pretty short so super easy to get through in one day, cry, then give it a few years to go back and relive the experience. Then, Dickens' Great Expectations is, to me the perfect novel. It's not quite my favorite, but in terms of technique I think it's legitimately never been beaten, at least compared to anything else I've read.

JeremyThornton Wrote: My favorite novel is "The Great Gatsby" anyone read it?

Gatsby's great! I mean, we all had to read it for a reason.

Sir Terry Pratchett's Nation
A young islander experiences terrible loss during his coming of age, and encounters a girl stranded on his island. Together they must unite the straggling refugees and turn away a horrible evil.

The author of the Discworld series, his stuff overshadows just about everything I had read up to that point. I would have picked a book from Discworld itself, but Terry claimed that Nation was his "most important" work, and it covers a lot of the deeper things he touches on in Discworld.

Lord of Light is the greatest novel ever written.

thelejendaryj Wrote: Lord of Light is the greatest novel ever written.

I see, another zelazny enjoyer. At which page did you drop Today we  choose faces?

Lack Wrote:

thelejendaryj Wrote: Lord of Light is the greatest novel ever written.

I see, another zelazny enjoyer. At which page did you drop Today we  choose faces?

Page none, I'll have to check it out.

I've gotten a lot into graphic novels and comics lately. Anything by Stjepan Sejic I adore. Fortunately, he worked on Aphrodite IX which is one of my faves. Girl From The Other Side, Freaking Romance, Beware of The Villainess. I really like stories that are either wholesome, comedic, satirical or dramatic.

1. We are Legion (Bobiverse) - Dennis E. Taylor
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

I have a list of a few dozens of favourites.

At the top are the following:

Agent of change (and the sequels) from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
It's a space opera, and I have been throroughly convinced after reading it that this world is in dire need of clutch turtles.

A civil campaign by Lois McMasterBujold
It's one of the later books in the Barrayar series, so I wouldn't recommend it as an entry into the series, but for me it is the absolut best one. I have laughed so hard that I cried when I read it, at genius Miles' strategic and misguided efforts to win his beloved Ekaterin.

Jubilee trail by Gwen Bristow
An older book and one of my all time favourite feelgood stories about a young woman in the middle of the nineteenth century who travels with her husband to California.

Son of the shadows by Juliet Marillier
Part romance, part fairy tale that one gripped my with his hauntingly beautiful atmosphere.

Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan
Mostly a romance, but oh so very beautiful.