In no particular order (except for the first one) of importance (and with a great deal of help from Amazon.com:

1. The Bible
2. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
3. Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
4. Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
5. Lord of the Rings Series - J.R.R. Tolkein
6. Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott
7. The Fantasy Stories of George MacDonald - George Macdonald
*These stories are amazing! It's a four book set that I got for Christmas as a child and have never stopped reading.
8. Lillith and Phantastes - George MacDonald
9. The Attributes of God - A.W. Tozer
10. Soul Survivor (How My Faith Survived the Church) - Philip Yancey

I think my top ten looks something like this:

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Reaching Out - Henri Nouwen
The Four Loves - C.S.Lewis
Love and Living - Thomas Merton
The Alphabet of Grace - Frederick Buechner
Franny and Zoey - J.D. Salinger
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
Walking on Water - Madeleine L'Engle


Tozer's cool, yo. my favorite of his would've been Root of the Righteous.
I've yet to get around to reading those George Macdonald books, though they've been sitting on my shelf for nearly a decade.

I think stating "The Bible" as a favorite book is cheating. it's kind of like saying "my favorite Flannery O'Conner story is The Collected Stories". There are 66 "books" collected in that book (give or take the letters, which aren't really books). I say you have to pick one (or more) if you're going to put it in a favorite book list like this... (just my argumentative nickels worth...)

Wow... someone else who knows about this book, and also places it in their top 10? fantastico...

my top 10 in random order is probably as follows (excepting the first one, you know... and I do agree with brook's criticism, really...)

1. bible
2. walking on water - madeleine l'engle
3. wide sargasso sea - jean rhys
4. to the lighthouse - virginia woolf
5. orthodoxy - g.k. chesterton
6. sense and sensibility - jane austen
7. a wrinkle in time - madeleine l'engle
8. the lord of the rings - j.r.r. tolkein
9. me talk pretty one day - david sedaris
10. the canterbury tales - geoffrey chaucer


what can I say? I'm a rather eclectic gal. other wonderful people like anne lamott, seamus heaney, jane kenyon, and flannery o'conner were shamelessly left off the list, but I could have gone on forever, really.

I love WoW too. Great book! Haven't read it in years and loaned it to a friend who never returned it.
That goes on my 10 book list.

And, uh, I'll take "Habbakuk" or "II Chronicles" as my favorite book of the Bible.

I totally agree with you on #7 ~I LOVED those stories, and just had to say something because I so rarely hear of anyone else who has actually read them

Franny and Zooey-JD Salinger

Complete works-Flannery O'Connor

Lord of the Rings Trilogy-JRR Tolkien

Microserfs-Douglas Coupland

High Tide at Tuscon-Barbara Kingsolver

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek-Annie Dillard

Cosmicomics-Italo Calvino

Dyamics of Faith-Paul Tillich

Soil and Soul-Alastair McIntosh

Bless me, Ultima-Rudolfo Anaya

this is hard. others mentioned george mcdonald. i kept wondering where i might fit in perelandra by cs lewis. or many of the interesting fantasy novels i enjoy reading. there wasn't room to dare including any poetry.