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akinson Since: Dec, 2013
#1: Dec 15th 2013 at 11:50:13 AM

Books you consider near-perfect?

Lightflame Stick of the Fallen from where you can't find me Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Drowning in your pond, hoping you'll notice me
Stick of the Fallen
#2: Dec 15th 2013 at 3:17:24 PM

The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. A great concept, awesome deconstruction/reconstruction of typical tropes, cool characters, great twists, loads of snark, and solid writing in general. Also his novella The Emperor's Soul which manages to squeeze in more great character interaction, introspection, and worldbuilding than I would think possible in such a short book. It also has really good emotional payoff at the end. (It won a Hugo Award as well.)

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"
kalel94 Rascal King from Dragonstone Since: Feb, 2011
Rascal King
#3: Dec 15th 2013 at 3:25:23 PM

You're really on a kick with this 9.5 outta 10 stuff, aren't you?

The last hurrah? Nah, I'd do it again.
Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Absolutely no relation to NLK
#4: Dec 15th 2013 at 3:31:56 PM

Yeah, so I've noticed.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#5: Dec 15th 2013 at 3:33:41 PM

It's an effective way to filter out crap when you can just ask tropers what they consider to be (near) perfect. Even if it's not to them, they'll still probably find it to be good.

edited 15th Dec '13 3:59:04 PM by Ekuran

Funden u wot m8 from the maintenance tunnels Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: It's complicated
u wot m8
#6: Dec 15th 2013 at 4:03:20 PM

Dresden Files as a whole, but Dead Beat and Changes in particular.

The Way of Kings.

And, lastly, BZRK.

Lightflame Stick of the Fallen from where you can't find me Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Drowning in your pond, hoping you'll notice me
Stick of the Fallen
#7: Dec 15th 2013 at 5:09:18 PM

[up]Seconding The Way of Kings (nearly everything Brandon writes is gold) and The Dresden Files, but with Dresden I prefer Ghost Story and Proven Guilty.

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"
Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Absolutely no relation to NLK
#8: Dec 15th 2013 at 5:13:21 PM

Yeah, most anything written by Sanderson or Butcher. I don't know if quite 9.5 material, but I am a huge fan of Elantris and TWOK for the former, and especially Turn Coat for the latter.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#9: Dec 15th 2013 at 11:22:34 PM

Harry Potter. I wish the last two books were a little bit more polished, but it's certainly a great series.

Everything by Astrid Lindgreen or Erich Kästner

The Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh (honestly most of her work is unbelievable creative, but that's her best work, along with Tripoint and Finity's End)

The first two books of the Nightwatcher series by Lynn Flewelling

Nils Holgerson (honestly, read the book, the series doesn't even come close to capture the epic scale of it)

The Neverending Story and Momo by Michael Ende

edited 15th Dec '13 11:28:27 PM by Swanpride

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#10: Dec 16th 2013 at 12:24:39 AM

The Picture of Dorian Gray

That last chapter was incredible.

edited 16th Dec '13 12:25:21 AM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
shiro_okami Since: Apr, 2010
#11: Dec 16th 2013 at 4:47:40 PM

Seconding Mistborn, adding Dune (first book only), The Lord Of The Rings, and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep.

edited 16th Dec '13 4:48:18 PM by shiro_okami

Lightflame Stick of the Fallen from where you can't find me Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Drowning in your pond, hoping you'll notice me
Stick of the Fallen
#12: Dec 17th 2013 at 9:10:57 AM

I feel like some of the Warrior Cats books reach the 9.5-10 mark. Probably The Darkest Hour, Dark River, The Forgotten Warrior, The Last Hope, The Sun Trail, and Tallstar's Revenge.

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"
JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#13: Dec 17th 2013 at 3:58:45 PM

The anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural basically established the modern horror canon before horror was even considered its own genre. Even if I would have picked slightly different stories for, say, Poe and Machen and Lovecraft, it is still essential.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
BluBeriPi done w ur shit Since: Feb, 2013
done w ur shit
#14: Dec 17th 2013 at 5:35:42 PM

Pretty much everything by Neil Gaiman.

All of Disc World.

Good Omens is tops.

Nthing the Dresden Files and TWOK.

Adding in The King Killer Chronicles.

edited 17th Dec '13 5:36:16 PM by BluBeriPi

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#15: Dec 18th 2013 at 4:26:32 PM

Harry Potter. (I know, real original).

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (I know Gaiman was mentioned already, but it bears repeating smile).

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#16: Dec 19th 2013 at 6:25:18 PM

1632 by Eric Flint. I just adore it to bits.

InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#17: Dec 20th 2013 at 2:43:59 AM

Thud.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#18: Dec 21st 2013 at 10:46:43 AM

Hogfather.

Hell, just about all the Discworlds.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#19: Dec 22nd 2013 at 8:28:15 PM

Lord Of The Rings, Wuthering Heights, The Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and others I can't remember right now.

WarriorEowyn from Victoria Since: Oct, 2010
#20: Dec 23rd 2013 at 4:33:43 PM

Jane Eyre, The Lord of the Rings, and Les Miserables. My three favourite books, and all ones I can reread a virtually unlimited number of times.

edited 23rd Dec '13 4:33:54 PM by WarriorEowyn

resetlocksley Shut up! from Alone in the dark Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
Shut up!
#21: Dec 25th 2013 at 1:57:28 PM

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

edited 25th Dec '13 1:57:42 PM by resetlocksley

Fear is a superpower.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#22: Dec 25th 2013 at 8:18:33 PM

Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings and Mistborn. Robin Hobb's Farseer and Golden Fool trilogies. Most of the Discworld books. If we're allowed to say web-stuff, Worm by Wildbow and Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher.

Be not afraid...
FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#24: Dec 30th 2013 at 5:04:15 AM

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Jinxmenow Ghosts N' Stuff Remix from everywhere you look, everywhere you look Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
#25: Jan 11th 2014 at 10:06:45 AM

Good Omens

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

Slimed! An Oral History Of Nickelodeon (weird choice, I know)

Gravitys Rainbow

edited 11th Jan '14 10:07:06 AM by Jinxmenow

"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."

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