estudiocomik had a journal about his ten favorite books, so I had to think about mine. I posted 'em there, but I suppose I really oughta post 'em here.

In no particular order, and including several series for a lot more than ten books:

- The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov ... and, really, anything else Asimov wrote--he is my absolute topmost favorite writer, bar none.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell ... really needs no explanation. Even more disturbing on its annual re-read these past couple years.
- The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, by Douglas Adams. The books, the movie, the TV series, the radio program, the records, the computer game ... pure genius.
- A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking. Speaking of pure genius.
- Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner. Difficult, deep, disturbing.
- A Good Walk Spoiled, by John Feinstein. Arguably the best golf book ever written.
- The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling. But only through 'Order of the Phoenix'. I hated 'Half Blood Prince', and only read 'Deathly Hallows' out of momentum and a need to finish what I started.
- The Door... series, by Diane Duane. The book that brought me back to fantasy -- I was scared away from the genre by the Lord of the Rings series. Duane's heroes are mythic and human all at the same time.
- Cosmos, by Carl Sagan. Speaking again of pure genius.
- The Joy of Cooking (1971 edition), by Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker. Without a doubt, the best guide to the kitchen ever printed.

So, my top ten really includes 22 books... XD

Still, it's hard to not include A Year At The Movies by Kevin Murphy, All the Presidents' Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Harrington Street, by Jerry Garcia et al., or even the 'zine/APA I was in almost twenty years ago.

I'm just glad the question wasn't 'favorite DVDs'... there would be the sharp wet *splortch!* of my head exploding, and that would be that.