Top 10 Favorite Books

Whether they be works of fiction, non-fiction, "classics", biographies, autobiographies, mysteries...etc, share your top 10 favorite books, in no particular order, thus far!

Myself:
1.) Thomas Jefferson: Scientist by Edwin T. Martin
2.) History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova
3.) The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
4.) The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
5.) The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
6.) Louis the Beloved by Olivier Bernier
7.) Memoirs of Madame du Barri by Madame Du Barri
8.) The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones
9.) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
10.) Candide & Other Short Stories by Voltaire

Aeneid by Vergil

Odyssey by Homer

The Diggerʻs Game by George V. Higgins

Gospel of John

Gospel of Luke

War and Peace by {Lev Tolstoi

Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes

Fasti by Ovid

Othello, Julius Caesar, the Merchant of Venice,
The Tempest, and Twelfth Night
by Shakespeare

The Informer by Liam OʻFlaherty

Zarathrustra, Confucius, and Muhammad
by Claude Emmanuel Pastoret

Pythian Ode IV by Pindar

- Mad River Road – Joy Fielding - 978-1416577775 – Excellent high level of suspense

- Grand Avenue – Jody Fielding - 978-0743407083 – A thriller twist at the end and romantic drama throughout.

- Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult - 978-0743496759 – Character driven and with a plot filled with debatable issues and intellectual questions.

- Conquer All Obstacles – Jo-Anne Vandermeulen - 978-0984168019 - An emotional thrill ride as it pulls on the heart strings, fans the flames of anger, and tugs at the smile within.

- A Walk to Remember – Nicholas Sparks - 978-0446693806 - A love story that stirs emotions and is a recommended read.

- The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks - 978-0446605236 – Character driven, the plot braids itself with pure passion of true love that never completely fades.

- Nights in Rodanthe- Nicholas Sparks - 978-0446612708 – Middle years romance, the characters carefully juggle their emotions yet are caught with true passion.

- One Day at a Time – Danielle Steel - 978-0385340298 – Family struggles, secret love affair and the life of three different couples as to what appears as a ‘happily-ever-after’ journey.

- Stone Heart – Luanne Rice - 978-0553587821 – Engaging read with the solution of psychological issues using the family bond.

- The Perfect Summer - 978-0553584042 – A family drama filled with heart warming timeless themes.

- Heartstopper – Joy Fielding - 978-1416527015 – A mother’s instinct to protect at all cost, even tangling with a serial killer.

- Charlie’s Web – Joy Fielding - 978-1416527046 - A thriller suspense that will grip at the heart of any parent as the main character must face the worse scenario.

10 of my alltime favourites

1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2. Cosmos : a sketch of a physical description of the universe by Alexander von Humboldt - and more by this Genius
3. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers - and every other Wimsey-Whodunnit
4. Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster
5. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel - and more of him
7. Everything by Somerset Maugham
8. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
9. War and Piece by Leo Tolstoi
10.Essays by Michel de Montaigne

This is tough, and I was tempted to include some identified by others, like Gaudy Night. My top ten favorites:

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
3. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley
4. The Castle by Franz Kafka
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
8. Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
9. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles.
10. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

So hard to keep it to 10, but here is my attempt:

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Unicorn Creed by Elizabeth Scarborough
Ransom by Lee Rowan
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Mediator: Twilight by Meg Cabot
Ogre, Ogre by Piers Anthony

I'm going to have to come back with my last two...

Adding:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

It was a toss up in the end between these and a few others. Also, I decided not to even go into my favorite manga as it would make things even harder and just stuck with novels.

Can you tell I love to read for pure entertainment? :-)

@ Jensen_AKA_DL: It is VERY hard, I know. And for all the readers on this site, I think even a top 20 would prove just as difficult. ^^

@ jnwelch: Kudos to you for including Alice in Wonderland and Neil Gaiman in your list! :D

This top 10 list does not include the many, many Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K.Chesterton books that I've read because then it would become a mystery top 50.

1. Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen: Timeless and classic. A book with a very, very strong and assertive heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, one of the main reasons I love this book.

2. The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: I love reading plays. This play is a classic comedy that never gets old.

3. Seryozha: Several Stories from the Life of a Very Small Boy. Vera Panova: This is a childhood favorite. I remember reading it one summer holiday and have re-read it many times since.

4. Plays Pleasant. George Bernard Shaw: Four funny plays that lighten up my day whenever I read them.

5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams: This is probably the funniest book that I’ve ever read.

6. The Playboy of the Western World. J. M. Synge: A dark comedy about human weaknesses. Only someone like Synge can make the situations in this play seem believable.

7. Short stories of to-day. J.W.Marriott: A collection of short stories. A very rare book published in the 40’s. One of my precious possessions.

8. The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens: This book is witty, clever and enjoyable. A combination that is very hard to find.

9. A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens: A classic story of undying love and ultimate sacrifice during the turbulent times of the French revolution.

10. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller: A play about shattered dreams. Always makes my heart ache.

Top ten of my reading life, so far-in no particular order

1. The Nunnally translation of all three of The Kristin Lavransdatter novels
2. Fifth Business
3. Dancing at the Rascal Fair
4. The Civil War, a Narrative
5. Lonesome Dove
6. The White Nile
7. The Caine Mutiny
8. The Fitzgerald translation of The Aeneid
9. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
10. The Aubrey/Maturin novel(s).

"Great Reads" is the tag in my library for most of the big hits.

I had to throw in, with everyone else it seems, and add an 11-The short stories of V.S. Pritchett. I could, of course, list a few more books/authors but ten is the whole point, not my 11.

Very difficult to keep it to ten. I'm sure I would have a different answer if you asked me tomorrow. In no set order:

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
3. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
8. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
10. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Like others, I had trouble picking just ten and might give you a different list tomorrow. But here's today's list:

The Lord of the Rings
The Book of the New Sun
A Confederacy of Dunces
Freddy and Fredericka
The Eyre Affair
All Mortal Flesh
The Universe is a Green Dragon
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
Godel, Escher, Bach
Watership Down

@ Porua: Pride and Prejudice. You're absolutely right, an excellent book, and even with a Victorian setting, it's amazing how every generation of ladies can cheer for Ms. Bennet! And respect to you for loving The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! As for A Tale of Two Cities, have you read Stendahl's The Red and the Black? I think you'd like it.

@ Smiley The Civil War, a Narrative? The Fitzgerald translation of The Aeneid? Can't say I've read them, but they sound interesting. I'm honestly going to check those out.

@SendersName: Glad to see others who prefer Huxley! The Count of Monte Cristo and The Time Machine, are favorites of mine as well :)

@Jim53: The ever-changing lists! Perhaps I should have made this a top 20 huh?

#12-Jim53,

The great thing about lists like this, besides finding more to add to the list of unreads, is looking 180 the other way.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller I only got through because of my respect for Calvino. Too much metafiction for me. Invisible Cities is my favorite with Mr. Palomar a close second.

#13-asukamaxwell,

Top 25 I could do easy, but I'm not going to be the first one.

The Civil War, A Narrative by Shelby Foote comes in three thick books. Hardback holds up better for reading. Slight caution: Foote, like Gibbon, is such an excellent and readable stylist that others have had minor quibbles with a few of his historical facts. Just envy or real disagreement? I don't think it matters. If there are errors they are small and the sweep of his history feels right and true, if with a slight Southern sympathy.

#13 Pride and Prejudice was my first Austen book and remains my favorite.

As for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy I not only love the book but also the original BBC radio productions of it. The original broadcast happened way before I was born. But luckily for me I was able to catch the re-telecast a few years ago.

And no I haven't read The Red and The Black. But I'll surely check it out. Thank you for your kind recommendation.

I'd have a hard time picking just one book to read. There would have to be conditions. I'd pick a different book to be left on a deserted island with than I would if, say I was going to a prison cell and could take just one, or if I had to have one buried with me for standing in line @ the beginning of the next bit.

#17-mollygrace,

You don't have to defend your choice, after all it is your choice. However, a choice, by the simple act itself, arouses interest in others for details. For me I can't even pick a single one from my list of 10 plus one above. Again, I need the conditions, and I might not even be able to do it then with any consistency.

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Boccaccio's Decameron
3. Wueen Victoria's Little Wars
4. Great Military Campaigns
5. The Moonstone
6. In Quest of the Lost Legions
7. Mulliner Nights
8. Fifth Business
9. The Rebel Angels
10. Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James

#19-senorgil,

Wodehouse was hard to leave out in general and the Mulliner stories slipped right by me.

edited from a books that changed your life post on Facebook..

To Kill a Mockingbird.. I read it the first time in 6th grade. My dad gave it to me to shut me up about wanting a ride to the library.

Charlotte's Web .. I had to have this book when I was in second grade. When Mrs. Harper read it to our class, I wanted a copy. Gram and Pop bought me a hardbound copy for Christmas and Gram put my name in it and the date.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn .. my favorite copy of this book is old and there is a nameplate in the front of the book saying it belonged to a soldier from World War II. How his book ended up at a garage sale I ended up at I'll never know, but it is a beautiful old book.

Knuffle Bunny.. I waited in line to see Mo Willems, as an adult with no kids because I love him and this bunny. Mo Willems said that pigeon is for the kids, and knuffle bunny is for the mommies. I'm not a mommy yet, but I can see the appeal.

Bridge to Terabithia.. It still makes me cry.

Show Way.. I regret not buying a signed copy of this book when I had a chance but I was short on cash. I LOVED hearing Jacqueline Woodson read this book. It is a story about the women in her family through slavery to present.. and how show ways (quilts) survived to tell the story. It is very hopeful.

Diary of Anne Frank .. I'm probably the only person who needed to be talked into going to Amsterdam. I was leaning to going to Paris instead. But then I saw the Anne Frank Museum was in Amsterdam. I read every book the Lewis and Clark Public Library had about her as a sixth grader. It was before I knew about transferring books from one library to another and placing holds on books.

Ramona Quimby series .. I want to be Ramona when I grow up. She is sassy, brave and hilarious. I went to the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden last year when we were in Oregon. I got my picture taken with Ramona and walked on Klickitat Street. I re-read the series before going on our trip and am happy to report that the books are just as enjoyable for me now as they were when I was little.

Atonement .. loved it and loved the idea of Briony trying to re-write the past after learning the facts.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .. yes it is about a woman married to a gay man, but Maggie is powerful and sexy and amazing.

The Bean Trees .. Ms. Cowan loved this book and she made me want to be an English teacher. I became a librarian instead

The Girls who went Away .. it's not too often I re-read a book, much less a non-fiction book, and it's not too often a non-fiction book makes me cry.

The Giver .. again, I went to an author talk to see Lois Lowry and she left a crowd of excited librarians speechless. This is her most powerful book.

Nice list!

This is hard! I feel like an Oscar winner who only has time to thank ten people. Some great books are on here, as well as some I probably will not remember in a few years... obviously the solution is to read much, much more.

1. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (I think this will always be my favorite, and the book against which all future contenders will be judged)
2. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
3. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami (The weirdest and best Murakami.)
4. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
5. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann (my introduction to what I hope will be many Mann reads)
6. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz (a relatively recent read that I can't stop thinking about)
7. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (confusing but spellbinding)
8. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
9. Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto (A quiet, sweet book)
10. Battle Royale, Koushun Takami (The inevitable embarrassing-but-fun pick!)

Oh dear, I posted right at closing time on Friday and then haven't been back to LibraryThing since then. Little did I know my post went nuts and randomly multiplied!! (Sorry!!)

My top ten favorite reads of all time in no particular order are:
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson,
Cry, The Beloved Country byAlan Paton,
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell,
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak,
The Black Fawn by Jim Kjelgaard,
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen or Karen Blixen,
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett,
Little Women and Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, and
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Is that ten already? Nooooooooooo.
belva

31-- Belva, I just picked up a copy of Dr Zhivago for 50 cents at the library sale and was planning to read it soon, so I'm pleased to see it mentioned. :D What makes it one of your favorite books?

Hi moneybeets.
I love the time setting; that of the Russian Revolution. And I like that while the book is very political there is a beautiful love story going on beneath the layers of the war story.
Pasternak was a master at descriptive words and phrasing. When the trains are going through the Ural Mountains, one can see the villages, the people, see and smell the destruction, and also see the very simple beauty of the forests, mountains, and the snow. I love that this particular author puts the book within the framing of your eye's camera.
This was a very harrowing time in the history of Russia and Pasternak lets us see that in all of it's violence and it's beauty as well.
I hope you love it as much as I do.
belva

All time favorites? This is really hard. But here goes:

1a) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1b) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1c) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
4) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
7) If On A Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
8) Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
9) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
10) Paradise Lost by John Milton

Like others have mentioned, this process is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

1. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
8. What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
9. The Goldbug Variations by Richard Powers
10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

If you asked me on a different day, the list might change a bit; #1-6 would stay the same, but I might replace #7-10 with other selections such as The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, or Ulysses by James Joyce.

#1 is always Anna Karenina, but the others I can't really place one above any other.

2-10:
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (okay, this might actually be #2)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (the most recent entry to the list, read in 2007)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Candide by Voltaire
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Here are mine, in the order I read them:

Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Melusine by Sarah Monette
The Virtu by Sarah Monette
The Mirador by Sarah Monette
Corambis by Sarah Monette
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

For the record, I'm pretty sure that not all of those by Monette will remain on my Ultimate Favourites list. When I discover a new favourite series, the books tend to get so tangled up in my mind that I couldn't possibly pick a favourite and so have no choice but to add them all to the list. After I've reread them four or five times, I generally form a definite preference for one over the others. That's why I have Taran Wanderer on my list, but not the rest of Alexander's Prydain books. Ditto for The Vampire Lestat and the rest of the Vampire Chronicles. They were on there originally, and many of them are still on my Long List, but I've since figured out which one I like best. :)

War and Peace by Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Demons by Dostoevsky
Frankenstein by Shelley
Dracula by Stoker
Nicholas and Alexandra by Massie
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
The Prydain Chronicles by Alexander
Dead Souls by Gogol
Peter the Great by Massie

These are the ones that come to mind as stand-outs but, of course, there are many. Most of these I've read more than once, and the Prydain Chronicles I've read five times. I was so captivated by the Chronicles that I began a correspondence with Lloyd Alexander that lasted 30 years until his death.

My list changes all the time as I read more and more. I made a top 10 list a scant two months ago, but since then I have finished Les Misérables and Middlemarch, so the list has already changed! I'm reading War and Peace now, and I suspect that when I finish it in a month or two, my list will change again...

In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Middlemarch - Eliot
Les Misérables - Hugo
Emma or Persuasion, depends on my mood - Austen
A Room With a View - Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Straight Man - Richard Russo
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardboiled-Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Famished Road - Ben Okri

ETA: The two that got kicked off the list were Richard Powers' Plowing the Dark and Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler.

Sure is nice to see Middlemarch and Persuasion (to me much better than Emma) and Hardboiled Wonderland, in particular, on a top 10 list, Medellia. riverrust, 30 years correspondence with Lloyd Alexander?! How cool is that?!

Let's try (in no significant order):

Lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Emma by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Bröderna Lejonhjärta by Astrid Lindgren
The 2 1/2 pillars of wisdom by Alexander McCall Smith
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

One of the things that makes me happy: I have several books left to read by several of the contributors to the list.
Another thing that makes me happy: I also have yet to read most of the books listed above me.

That makes me happy too. A very easy "To Read" list already made for me.
belva

Jnwelch- I was glad to see Fagles' Odyssey on your list. I bought the Fagles box set (Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid) and plan to read it next year. The Book Thief, Pride and Prejudice, and Kafka on the Shore are all picks I agree with, too.

Sounds good, Medellia. I'm a Homer nerd, so I've read multiple translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and like the Fagles translations best. I also got a kick out of the more modern Stanley Lombardo ones.

But you've inspired me - I haven't read the Fagles Aeneid, and should.

Wow, I'm seeing Pride and Prejudice come up quite a few times. And that's saying something if big readers like yourselves put it in the top 10. Not that I'm really surprised, Jane Austen is amazing :)

1) Jane, Eyre
2) Ender's Game
3) Persuasion
4) The Book Thief
5) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7) The History of Love
8) The Shadow of the Wind
9) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
10) To Kill A Mockingbird

A few close runners up... Empire Falls, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Time Traveler's Wife, Anne of Green Gables, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, A Moveable Feast, Little Women, Lord of the Rings, Nine Stories.

Murakami Fans--Pinball, 1973, was Murakami's second novel, and also the second novel in his Trilogy of the Rat series. It was printed in English only for distribution in Japan and has been long out of print. There is a terrific blog called readersdiscotheque that covers novels that weave music into the story, which all Murakami's novels do. The blog uncovered a pdf of the original pocketbook edition and received Murakami's permission to make the pdf available for free (the blog has an interview with Murakami in the works). Not only can you download the novel but also all of the songs mentioned in Pinball, 1973. The cover is there, too, and it's amazing. the URL is http://readersdiscotheque.blogspot.com

These are the books that:
1. by page ten, I was mourning the fact that each one wasn't longer
2. I have given as gifts to anyone I know who hasn't yet read them
3. I could and will re-read to the end of my days
4. cause me to reach out and stroke the covers when I see them in book stores because it's like unexpectedly coming across old friends... which they are.

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Emaestra - I love that you listed The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks. What a great book! And movie! One of the few instances where BOTH the movie and the book are wonderful!

My list consists of the books that caused me to say "Oh Man!" quite frequently while reading them or that made me seek out others to discuss them with or books that I'm constantly pointing out to customers at the bookstore OR actually changed me or my way of thinking in some way (though, 10 hardly covers it).

In no particular order:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Stand by Stephen King
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
1984 by George Orwell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
How to Survive the End of the World As We Know it: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies For Uncertain Times by James Wesley Rawles

Ooof, this is really hard! Okay, my top 10 (only 10? aargh!) are books that I still think about, long after I've read (and usually reread) them. In no particular order, but with approx. year I first read them:

1. Lord of the Rings (1967)
2. The Sparrow (1997)
3. Pride and Prejudice (2007)
4. The Stand (1980?)
5. Jane Eyre (2008)
6. Team of Rivals (2007)
7. In Cold Blood (1970?)
8. The Lions of al-Rassan (2007)
9. The Killer Angels (2009)
10. I, Claudius (1975)

This is really really hard, because I know I am leaving out at least another 10 that I also consider to be amongst the top 10 of all time and, in addition, at least 10 I also consider to be amongst the top 10 of all time have slipped my mind. For that reason, I may end up editing this list. And re-editing.