My 25 Favorite Books (So Far)

1. Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa: 1935) (Japan)
2. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse: 1922) (Germany)
3. The Alchemist (O Alquimista) (Paulo Coelho: 1988) (Brazil)
4. On the Road (Jack Kerouac: 1957) (USA)
5. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger: 1951) (USA)
6. The Beach (Alex Garland: 1996) (UK)
7. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Douglas Coupland: 1991) (Canada)
8. Lord of the Flies (William Golding: 1954) (UK)
9. Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007) (UK)
10. No Beast So Fierce (Edward Bunker: 1973) (USA)
11. The Lord of the Rings Series (J.R.R. Tolkien: 1937, 1954, 1954, 1955, 1977) (UK)
12. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein: 1961) (USA)
13. The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice: 1976 - 2003) (USA)
14. In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Adrian Goldsworthy: 2004) (UK)
15. Tides of War (Steven Pressfield: 2001) (USA)
16. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell: 1949) (UK)
17. Elite da Tropa (Batista, Pimentel and Soares: 2006) (Brazil)
18. Gomorra (Roberto Saviano: 2006) (Italy)
19. Captains of the Sands (Capitães da Areia) (Jorge Amado: 1937) (Brazil)
20. The Spartans: An Epic History (Paul Cartledge: 2003) (UK)
21. Heavier Than Heaven (Charles R. Cross: 2001) (USA)
22. The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway: 1952) (USA)
23. The Giver (Lois Lowry: 1993, 2000, 2004, 2012) (USA)
24. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah: 2007) (USA)
25. O Ultimo Ano em Luanda (Tiago Rebelo: 2008) (Portugal)


Honorable Mentions
1. The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac: 1958) (USA)
2. Diary (Chuck Palahniuk: 2003) (USA)
3. La Saga dell'Alligatore (Massimo Carlotto: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009) (Italy)
4. Robert Langdon Series (Dan Brown: 2000, 2003, 2009) (USA)
5. The Tesseract (Alex Garland: 1998) (UK)
6. Holes (Louis Sachar: 1998) (USA)
7. The Pilgrimage (O Diário de um Mago) (Paulo Coelho: 1987) (Brazil)
8. Solaris (Stanislaw Lem: 1961) (Russia)
9. We (Yevgeny Zamyatin: 1924) (Russia)
10. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad: 1903) (UK)
11. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley: 1818) (UK)
12. Dracula (Bram Stoker: 1897) (Ireland)
13. Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk: 1996) (USA)
14. Mar Sem Fim (Amyr Klink: 2004) (Brazil)
15. Orphans of the Sky (Robert A. Heinlein: 1941) (USA)