My 100 Favorite Books of All Time!

It’s a top 100 list for the new year. My Favorite Books of All Time. For now anyway.

[TimmacTR]

1. The histories, Herodotus (ancient history)
2. Complete chronicles of Conan
3. Complete fiction of Lovecraft
4. Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
5. Dracula, Stoker
6. I am legend, Matheson (end of the world)
7. Princess of Mars, Burroughs (mars trilogy science fiction, pulp fiction)
8. Frankenstein
9. Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
10. Mythology, Edith Hamilton (ancient history)
11. Lord of the rings
12. The big sleep, Chandler (novel)
13. City, Simak (science fiction novel)
14. Time Machine, Wells (science fiction)
15. Maltese Falcon, Hammett (detective)
16. 20'000 leagues under the sea (Jules Verne
17. Tarzan of the apes, Burroughs
18. Les miserables, victor hugo
19. Pet Sematary, Stephen king (horror)
20. Tender is the night, Fitzgerald (doomed relationship)
21. The great god Pan, Machen (fantasy horror)
22. Left hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin (science fiction)
23. History of the peloponnesian War, Thycydides (historical war, author lived through it)
24. Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
25. Gods of Mars, Burroughs (science fiction)
26. She, Haggard (lost world)
27. Bran mak morn, Howard (fantasy Conan, picts vs romans)
28. Dune
29. The big book of the continental OP, Hammet (continental OP saga about detectives)
30. The great gatsby
31. The iliad
32. The shrinking man, Matheson (horror science fiction)
33. Farewell, My lovely, Chandler (mystery)
34. War and Peace, Tolstoy
35. The three musketeers, Dumas
36. The dark eidolon and other fantasies, Smith (short fantasy novels)
37. The war of the worlds, Wells
38. The picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
39. The martian chronicles, Bradbury (science fiction)
40. The Galton Case, Macdonald (noir)
41. Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
42. Kull Exile of Atlantis, Howard (fantasy Conan)
43. Heart of Darkness
44. Appointment in Samarra
45. Return of Tarzan, Burroughs
46. The hobbit
47. The glass key, Hammett (detective)
48. Jane Eyre, Bronte
49. The odyssee
50. Treasure island, Stevenson (pirate)
51. The way some people die, Macdonald (detective)
52. Day of the Triffids, Wyndham (killer plants, end of the world)
53. Anabasis, Xenophon (persian expedition)
54. At the earth's core (lost world adventure)
55. Caves of Steel, Asimov (science fiction)
56. Island of doctor moreau, Wells
57. Ancient sorceries and other weird stories, Blackwood
58. Dark Gods, Klein (horror novels)
59. The Long goodbye, Chandler
60. For whom the bell tolls, Hemingway
61. Best of Richard matheson (short fiction)
62. The woman in white, Collins (novel)
63. King Solmon's mines (cowboy)
64. Ivanhoe, Scott (classic adventure novel middle ages)
65. The death of Grass, Christopher (famine and end of civilization)
66. Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
67. History of Rome, Livy (ancient history)
68. Night shift, Stephen King (horror stories)
69. Why not you and I, Wagner (horror stories)
70. Solomon Kane, Howard (pulp)
71. Best served cold, Abercrombie (fantasy revenge)
72. Copperfield, Dickens
73. Hell House, Matheson (haunted house)
74. Egypt, Greece and Rome, Freeman (ancient history of the ancient mediterannean)
75. House on the borderland (horror)
76. Allan Quatermain, Haggard (cowboy)
77. The histories, Polybius (Rise of the Roman Empire)
78. East of Eden, Steinbeck
79. Earth abides, Stewart (end of the world science fiction)
80. Bloodstone, Wagner (fantasy)
81. Gardens of the moon, Erikson (fantasy novel)
82. A tale of two cities, dickens
83. Hellenika, Xenophon (ancient history)
84. The haunting of hill house, jackson
85. Legend, Gemell (fantasy)
86. the lost world, arthur conan doyle (dinos)
87. Time and the gods, lord dunsany (fantasy)
88. Salem's lot, Stephen King (vampires)
89. The blade itself, abercrombie (fantasy series)
90. Campaigns of alexander, arrian
91. Planet of the apes
92. elric, moorcock (fantasy)
93. The lottery and other stories, Jackson (short stories packing a punch)
94. Moving target, Macdonald (first book in series)
95. Robots of Dawn, Asimov
96. Complete tales and poems of edgar alan poe
97. Land that time forgot (fantasy novel)
98. Musashi, Yoshikawa (japanese historical novel)
99. Darkness weaves (dark fantasy)
100.Journal of the gun years (dark western)

[GypsyRoSesx]

Superb list. I love that you read older books.

[thebookishbryants]

One of my all-time favorite videos by one of the greatest Booktubers around. Thank you for the work I know it took to make this awesome video. This entire list are books I have read or books I want to read.

Excellence!

Scott.

[richardsonreads]

An amazing, impressive romp through your reading life. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Great stuff.

[larryyonce]

Nice to see which writers and genres press your reading pleasure buttons! I too have a soft spot for Edith Hamilton's _Mythology_
Got me interested in that subject at a young age. Great video and thanks for showing all those covers.

[imsathyasekar]

Truly an achievement. First, that you managed to get your thoughts together to put together a list of 100, and then you have presented it so well!! Really enjoyed the last. Happy to see a lot of my favourites on your list!

[MayberryBookclub]

This was great fun, thank you and Happy New Year!

But no Flaubert!? And now I am going to order the landmark Herodotus!

All the best!

[Shellyish]

This is quite the list. More Steinbeck than I would’ve imagined. I completely agree with your Gatsby ranking. Your number one surprised me a bit.

[wildmanz]

Happy New Year!🎊🎉
Great list. I make these lists on scrap paper all the time. Melville, Conrad, Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky always make it along with most of the ancient Greek and Romans I've read. Despite forcing myself to read postmodernism and current literature, most of it doesn't resonate with me.
Definitely need to read more classic pulp fiction; there's a lot of fun to be had!

[stevengentry]

That's an impressive achievement, and a wonderful list to watch. So many great books in there! I can't even imagine trying to list the 100 favorites. Not only would the list constantly be changing around, but the minute I decided on 100, there would be hundreds of, "oh, yeah, there's that one, too" moments that would take me back to the beginning. I really enjoyed your video.

[MsReadsAlot]

I don’t think I could come up with a list of 100 in order. Very impressive. I just read I am legend in December 😍 I have read many of your top 10 but not all. Thanks for sharing!

[joenightshade]

I was born in Woking Surrey where H.G Wells wrote the 'war of the worlds' there is a very large Martian war machine in the shopping centre. Also ran my fingers lightly across the desk where Robert Louis Stevenson began writing Treasure Island in Weybridge surrey...Great channel!

[urosmaric]

Hi Michael, i loved the video! The list was quite diverse and interesting. I have one question /request though : can you, sometimes in the future, make a video on ancient history books, go through your favourite ancient writers and tell us which modern versions are the best. I think that would be very entertaining!

[revenantreads]

Great list! Love the mix of classics and pulp!

[sgriffin]

This list must have taken a long time to put together! Nice to see that someone else appreciates Clifford D. Simak! Read Bran Mak Morn this year and loved it. Will be adding other books on your list to my TBR of course. Wishing you health and happiness this year!

[ItsTooLatetoApologize]

Wow!! What a list! So many great recommendations. I can’t wait to start my 2022 reading.

[duffypratt]

Love an eclectic list without pretension. There’s not much intersection with what I might come up with if I was brave enough to make such a list, but Ihave to admit that I love all the spots where we would overlap. Surprised you don’t include anything g from the other McDonald brothers (John and Philip). You make me think that I should dive into some of the ancient histories. Also, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is Jackson’s best book.

[MichaelRomeoTalksBooks]

Excellent list. I actually got excited over some of the titles as they popped up. Well done.

[dannyplaza]

I have such a hard time finding obscure gems of literature. You are definitely my go to for discovery of books that i never even thought about! Thank you so much expanding my knowledge of books to read beyond The NY Times bestseller lists ( not that there is anything wrong with that)! I love books, and your a great resource to expand my knowledge of the very best out there!

[anotherbibliophilereads]

Amazing list. True commitment getting all those covers up. Fortunately my software does have that feature so I can’t do a top 100.