Name ten books you think should be better known...

[Arkham House]

...any books, old favorites, cult classics, out-of-prints you'd like to see back, books that made you laugh, cry, think. We all have 'em...here are ten of mine..

Fiction:

Calamity Town, by Ellery Queen
E Pluribus Unicorn, Theodore Sturgeon
The Red Right Hand, Joel Townsley Rogers
The Fabulous Clipjoint, Fredric Brown
The Dragon Waiting, John Ford

Non-Fiction:

Voltaire's Bastards, John Saul
A Carnival of Buncombe, H.L. Mencken
Delight, J.B. Priestly
Five Days in London, John Lukacs
Discriminations, Dwight MacDonald

[yellowdogintexas]

1. here goes

The Joyous Season, Patrick Dennis
Mila 18 Leon Uris
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Eight Cousins and Rose In Bloom Louisa May Alcott
A Song of Ice and Fire...series, not yet completed..
guess that is five

non fiction, that is harder because I don't read much non fiction.

[Richardo]

2. OK:

Non-fiction:
Boss: Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, by Mike Royko
The Story of English
Blind into Baghdad, by James Farrows
Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi
Isaac's Storm, by Erik Larsen

Fiction
The Annotated Alice, by Martin Gardner
My Ten Years in a Quandry, and How They Grew, by Robert Benchley
The Planets, by James Boylan
Roughing It, by Mark Twain
Thank You for Smoking, by Christopher Buckley

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I don't know if I can come up with ten...

The Collected Harlan Ellison
The complete works of Theodore Sturgeon
Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany
The complete works of Nikolai Gogol