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5 Favourite Books

It's difficult to choose only five, but without this suggestion my list would be awfully long, so:

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Les Miserables by V. Hugo
3. Lord Jim by J. Conrad
4. Little Prince by A. de Saint-Exupery
5. Master and Margaret by M. Bulhakov (and this title is my own translation. Hope it's similar. I know I could have chosen some other book, but this one is so marvellous! I just had to put it here.)
 
Gosh, what a difficult question. Mine, like many others, is in a constant state of change. It depends on my mood really. Sometimes there is nothing better than a good twisted crime novel (even though I know it won't win any awards) and other times I marvel at the classics. So at the moment these are my top 5 in no particular order:

'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker
'The Stand' by Stephen King
'In the Heart of the Sea' by Nathaniel Philbrick
'Blue Diary' by Alice Hoffman
'Naomi's Room' by Jonathan Aycliffe
 
"The Executioner's song" Norman Mailer
"The Thorn Birds" Colleen McCollough
"Evening" Susan Minot
"Salem's Lot" Stephen King
"The Matarese Circle" Robert Ludlum
Only 5? That is so hard- may have a different list tomorrow! ~Kalley
 
Hard to pick, and it often changes, but currently I'd have to say (in no particular order):

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Aztec by Gary Jennings
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
 
Pride and Prejudice
The Once and Future King
Huckleberry Finn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The whole In Death Series by J.D. Robb

Oh, yeah -- And Then There Were None, To Kill a Mockingbird, The BFG, etc, etc. It's too hard to limit it to five!
 
OK I'll keep the thread alive a bit more :)

5, eh? OK tough but off the top of my head,

1) Imajica - Clive Barker
2) Hyperion - Dan Simmons
3) Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
4) Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
5)
I have to cheat. I'm leaving #5 a tie between these suspense novels because they were just so good.
Mortal Fear - Greg Iles
Mercy - David Lindsey
The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid
Headhunter - Michael Slade
 
-Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
-A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
-Harry Potter Series
-Confessions Of A Shopaholic
-The Red Tent
 
im a newbie but hers my top five(and to tell u the truth i havent read much authors so i wont have a very big range)

#5.the harry potter series
#4.Conspiracies(a repairman jack novel) by F. paul wilson
#3.False Memory by Dean Koonz
#2.The Adversary Cycle(The keep,the tomb,the touch,reborn,reprisal,night world) by F. paul Wilson
#1.The Tomb(a reparman jack novel) by F. Paul Wilson

if anyone knows of any good horror/suspense novels please share
 
My 5 fav. books are, not in any order,
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte...it fills my need for a romance, plus has the crazy wife in the attic!
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Blindness by Jose Saramago
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
Now that I have written these down I remember so many other books that I could nominate, but these are a good representation!:rolleyes:
 
Here are a newcomers 5

- Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg
- Wind up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Cochane, Britannia's sea wolf - Donald Thomas (all right its not fiction but it reads like it)
- Crime Wave at Blandings (short stroy in Lord Emsworth and Others) - P.G Wodehouse. Funniest thing ever on paper.
- Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkein. Dammnit if you're brought up with it you can't help it
 
Another newcomer's 5

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Theophilus North - Wilder
A Year in Provence - Mayle
The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
Our Town - Wilder

I hope that plays are allowed on the list? ;)
 
My five most favorite books are:

SnowFall (thats why i chose the name):D
Sabrielle
Lirael
White Fang
Jane eyre...........I can list like a hundred more!!!
I just love reading!!!
It's so fun!!!
 
Hmm, this is extremely difficult but:
1.Life Of Pi-Yann Martel
2.The Catcher In The Rye-J.D. Salinger
3.His dark Materials Trilogy-Philip Pullman
4.White Lightning-Justin Cartwright
5.The Tesseract-Alex Garland
 
Earlyturtle - you found the Tesseract a better read than the Beach then? Personally i enjoyed both of them, but i found the Beach to be a more easily accessible read - all of that jumping around in time in the Tesseract i found very confusing :confused:

Phil
 
I haven't read The Beach, I've only seen the film, Once I've finished the list of books I have to read first I'll start reading it.
 
Five favorite? So many books..

1. The Thorn Birds by McCullough
2. The Far Pavillions by M M Kaye
3. The Mists of Avalon by M Z Bradley
4. Wheel of Time series by R Jordan
5. Bleak House by C Dickens
 
another newbies list, off the top of my head
The Bourne Identity- Robert Ludlum
King Rat- James Clavell
The Doctor and The Damned- Albert Haas
Watchers- Dean Koontz
Queenie- Michael Korda
 
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Butterfly - Kathryn Harvey
Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
Shopaholic Series - Sophie Kinsella
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
(Thorn Birds was right up there too. The Stand and Gone With the Wind are both on my "to read" pile.)
 
I forgot all about Butterfly. It's one of my fave books,too! I read another one of hers, I think it was called Stars. Not quite as good though, I thought.
 
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