My 20 Favorite Books of All Time (As of Now, Anyway) 

Excellent list. The Great Gatsby is my no.1 favorite. I also love Lonesome Dove and the Dave Robicheaux series. Shane is on my tbr for 2024.

Awesome list! I really need to read some Western fiction next year. Silence of the Lambs is a great entry. The World According To Garp is a great novel, really enjoyed it in my teens. 11/22/63 is one of my favorite books of the year, 5 stars for sure. Beautiful novel! I taught The Great Gatsby, 5 stars, some people will never understand how important and special this novel is. Great list Sir!

Lonesome Dove is definitely gonna be my next June on The Range read

I didn't read Tolkien until I was 30 and I felt like I'd wasted my teen years by missing out on such great adventure. I just found your channel so about to binge as I am also a literate Texan 😁

Great list! Lonesome Dove is a favorite of mine as well as all of Steinbeck. I will add Travels with Charley on to my Nonfic November list.

I have read about half the books on this list. Not Everything Matters, but I’ll put that one on the piles of possibilities.

Excellent video and channel! You definitely have a unique list of favorites. I admire your ability to speak clearly about these books. Looks like you do no editing, I wish I could do that! I have to edit all of my videos haha

Awesome picks -- we overlap on a bunch! Also, re your Russo project: The Risk Pool is awesome!

Loved seeing this list. Surprised to see Palahniuk on your list! Invisible Monsters by him is one of my all time faves. Spin has been lingering on my shelf for a while now. I need to just finally read it.

Interesting choices, Randy! King's 11/22/63 is a particular favourite of mine. Read that sucker in two days!

My heart jumped when I saw Tolkien on your list!

Great list, Randy. I always actually prefer Red Dragon to Silence Of The Lambs, but that's just my preference. Some of these are really hard to argue with. A really good and varied selection.

Shane is such a fave of mine. My first western - ever! Excellent picks! You should list all your books in the description box, just sayin’ 😂) - MJ

Woo hoo! Another Great Gatsby lover! I loved that book but I know so many people who hate it. I don't understand it! I also love Travels with Charley. The audiobook is narrated by Gary Sinise and is fantastic. Sometimes, I'll just put that one to listen to as I fall alseep.

I just read East of Eden and really loved it. We had to read Grapes of Wrath in High School and for awhile it was near the top of my list. I will have to go deeper I think into his other Ouvre.

Great list! Recently discovered Travels with Charley and enjoyed it immensely.

Excellent list! Subscribed!

I love Graham Greene and haven’t read that one yet! The End of The Affair is my fave so far. the World According to Gary is an old fave of mine!

I like your list, thanks. I love James Lee Burke as well. My favorite author. His descriptions and people always delight me. I'll really have to think about my favorites, the problem I have is that I am way to fickle and it changes hour by hour.

11/23/63 is also my favorite Stephen King novel. I cried my eyes out. I also thought the TV show was a terrible adaption- I stopped watching after the second episode. LOL I hope you get the opportunity to tell Stephen King you're his biggest fan. 😉😊😆

Nice list! Cat's Cradle, Great Gatsby, Travels with Charley, Quiet American, LOTR, and Sherlock Holmes are terrific. I'll have to check out Spin and Everything Matters. My only disappointment with Shane is the bit where the kid is poking around Shane's stuff and finds the gun with the sights filed down. I kept waiting for a hand to slam down on the kid's shoulder, whereupon he is spun around to have his forehead impaled by "Shane's" vile alien proboscis, all while the cat gazes admiringly from the shadows. Oh well, can't win 'em all. 😁

I just put Cat's Cradle on my TBR. I'm thinking of getting to it, soon. I've never read anything by him, before.

What a great list! You mentioned some titles I'd never heard of that sound great, like Spin, Barney's Version, and Everything Matters. I think it's time for a reread of The World According to Garp. I've already chosen Lonesome Dove as my classic for next year's Big Book Summer (a challenge I host every year). My dad LOVED Kurt Vonnegut, and I've only read Slaughterhouse Five so far, so I will read Cat's Cradle next. I reread The Grapes of Wrath this summer and loved it. I've never read Travels with Charley, so I'll put that one on my list. Oh, and I totally agree on 11/22/63 - my favorite Stephen King! Have you ever read Connie Willis' time travel books, the Oxford Time Travel series? They're all good, but Blackout and All-Clear (which go together) are outstanding! Wow, thanks for all the great recommendations! And nice to "meet" you :)

I haven’t read anything on the list except all the Steinbeck books. I have Great Gatsby waiting in Limbo. After the read what you own book challenge I’ll be be ordering Everything Matters.

Not to be a pedant but Tom Sawyer wasn’t a “prequel” as it was written and published before Huck Finn.

Been meaning to sit down and do a list of favorites. I know I've added one this year with A Master of Djinn.

the word terrific describe something good or bad?

Spin! I really enjoyed that one last December and still haven't gotten around to continuing the series in spite of that. Great list...I'll have to track down your #1 sometime to give it a read. My previous vid on my own Top 20: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WUM5c0kKyHA.htmlsi=OWBR-a_NtAGCCljL

Great books

Lord of the rings is #1