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5 Favourite Books

This thread is gold for making book lists...so here's mine in no order:

Memoirs of a Geisha
Nausea
Catcher in the Rye
Confederacy of Dunces
The Bell Jar

No room for sci-fi or thrills it seems, which is a shame because the likes of Dune, Contact, Stranger in a Strange Land, Red Dragon and Interview with a Vampire are all great books.
 
I'm new to this site, but here are my choices:

Gone with the Wind
The History of Tom Jones
The Horse Whisperer
Sacred Clowns
Les Miserables
 
I found the Bell Jar to be fascinating, but I would only read it if I were currently in excellent physical and mental health.
 
Ashlea said:
I found the Bell Jar to be fascinating, but I would only read it if I were currently in excellent physical and mental health.
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slylvia plath's poems are really different from those i have read. haven't read this book, the bell jar yet. but looking forward to it. I don't know why, but it kind hard for me to get immersed in her poems. :(
 
watercrystal said:
slylvia plath's poems are really different from those i have read. haven't read this book, the bell jar yet. but looking forward to it. I don't know why, but it kind hard for me to get immersed in her poems. :(
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I just watched the movie about her, so picked up her poems again. I appreciated them more this time, but they are very dense, the imagery is just packed in, so yes, I do find them a touch less accessible.

Also been reading Ted Hughes poems about her (Birthday Letters.)
 
In no certain order:
my top 5 are:
  • starseeker by tim bowler
  • jane eyre by charlotte bronte
  • harry potter by J.K rowling
  • Artemis Fowl series
  • Allys world series
that was a very hard choice and i probabally left something out. I have to say starseeker is probabally my favourite out of all of them but i doubt many people have heard of it. :rolleyes:
thankyou
 

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
 
JK Rowling - Harry Potter (all of them)
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Christopher Moore - Lamb
JM Barrie - Peter Pan
 
Just to pick five. Well, how about.....

Gone with the Wind
Mere Christianity
The Poisonwood Bible
Gods, Graves and Scholars
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Old Book)
 
My five faves (for the moment) are:
Lord of the Rings(a series counts as one, Martin)
Lonesome Dove- Larry McMurtry
Leap of Faith- Queen Noor
The Shining- Stephen King
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
 
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
The Age of.... series - Eric Hobsbawm (4 vol. but one choice)

A far from definitive list; ask me again tomorrow and it will have changed, no doubt.
 
My Top 5 in no particular order are :

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Captain Corellis Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clark

I am however reading Margaret Atwoods Oryx & Crake so this may have to sneak it's way in. It's very hard to pick five - I felt guilty leaving out other books I've really enjoyed (like they have feelings or something :confused: )
 
5 of my current favorites:

Pride & Prejudice - Austen
Oryx and Crake - Atwood
Blindness - Saramago
Day of the Triffids - Wyndham
Weaveworld - Barker
 
*Fannie Flagg's Standing in the Rainbow
*Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders Trilogy
*Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery
*Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses
*Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
 
1) The Sam McCade Series, by William C. Dietz (Great Sci-fi!)
2) Relic, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Suspenseful, awesome!)
3) The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Great!)
4) The Long Walk, by Richard Bachman/Stephen King (this book was...woah)
5) Prey, by Michael Crichton (Believable, technological thriller)

Yeah, I'd say those are my Top 5... for now. Until next time folks!
 
Bountyhunter said:
3) The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Great!)
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You really liked this one? I coudn't stand the end at all and I'm a huge Preston/ Child fan. It all seemed so unrealistic. :cool:
Relic is great but I love Attic too.
 
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