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The Moreau series by S. Andrew Swann. BTW, he is a fellow Clevelander (must be something in the water). When I first encountered this series, I had two simultaneous reactions:"Oh boy, somebody wrote the book I would have wrote!" and "Oh shit, somebody wrote the book I would have wrote!" If you are familiar with them, compare them to the Mammaloid series on my website. What are your favorite books?

1. The Bible
2. The enitre Narnia series
3. Anything by Terry Pratchett
4. Harry Potter
5. Treasure Island
6. Count of Monte Cristo
7. LOTR series
8. Around the World In 80 Days

Books I keep trying finish: Ben Hur, Secret Garden, and the Three Musketeers

THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH, Philip K Dick
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, Agatha Christie
All of Christie's Poirot novels, esp. DEATH ON THE NILE and THREE-ACT TRAGEDY
THE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES, G K Chesterton
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY, G K Chesterton
John D Macdonald's TRAVIS MAGEE series. The detective protagonist is a playboy, but one with a rigidly defined moral code; I like him for the same reason I like the Eastwood-Leone movies.
WE, Yevgeny Zamyatin (inspiration for both Orwell and Huxley)
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, C S Lewis
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET, C S Lewis

Here are my current list:

• 1) The Bible, God
  2) Narnia Chronicles (Anything by C. S. Lewis)
  3) The Mind of the Maker, Dorothy Sayers
  4) Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton
  5) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
  6) The Westminster Confession of Faith
  7) Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey
  8) The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
  9) Watership Down, Richard Adams
  10) John Adams, David McCullough
  12) The Hitchhiker's Guide Series, Douglas Adams
  13) LOTR, J.R.R. Tolkien
  14) The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  15) Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  16) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
  17) Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku
  18) Maus, Art Spiegelman
  19) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer
  20) The Dust of Death, Os Guiness
  21) The God Particle, Leon Lederman

Guess I had better stop ...

In no particular order:

Neuromancer by William Gibson
The entire Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

There are others, but I can't really think straight at the moment and remember them.

1 - Anything by Robert Heinlein.

2 - Anything by Isaac Asimov.

3 - Anything by Andre Norton.

4 - Anything by Christopher Stasheff.

5 - Anything by H. Beam Piper.

6 - Stainless Steel Rat series.

7 - Keith Laumer's "Bolo!" series.

8 - Anything by Alan Dean Foster.

9 - Gordon Dickson's "The Dragon & The George" series.

10 - Sharyn McCrumb's "Bimbos of the Death Sun/Zombies of the Gene Pool" series (because it mocks sci-fi/fantasy fandom so WELL!)

That about covers my first ten picks.

EdBecerra wrote: 9 - Gordon Dickson's "The Dragon & The George" series.

I forgot those. That is a VERY good series. It has so much. Knights, dragons, wizards, magic. And a pretty accurate history from what I hear.

1. - Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein.
2. - Anything else by Robert Heinlein.
3. - The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
4. - "Robot" series by Isaac Asimov.
5. - Dune, Frank Herbert.
6. - Executive Orders, Tom Clancy
7. - Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton
8. - The Blood of Kerensky Trilogy, Michael Stackpole
9. - RHJ books.
10. - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (Collection of all the books), Douglas Adams.
11. - Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II
12. - Reader's Digest World Atlas, 1989. (Points at map of East Germany and Soviet Union and laughs.) HA! HAHA! GOT YOU! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STUPID COMMUNIST [kssshhh]!

Some others I've forgotten, I'm sure... Might need to update this sometime.

I'm adding a few more to my list:

A KISS BEFORE DYING, Ira Levin
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, Robert A Heinlein
THE PEOPLE TRAP AND OTHER PITFALLS, Robert Sheckley
Anything by Richard B Matheson
Anything by George R R Martin - everybody talks about his ICE AND FIRE series, but I prefer TUF VOYAGING