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Favorite 3 books of all time

That's a very difficult Question. Well, let's see:

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
And a random book by my favorite German author, Walter Moers.
 
Very difficult, I'll have to go by books that when I first read them, they rocked my world and changed my worldview to a certain extent.

Honorable mention:
Lolita; Vladimir Nabokov

Top 3
3.The Communist Manifesto; Karl Marx
2.Metamorphosis; Franz Kafka
1.1984; George Orwell
 
SFG75 said:

Honorable mention:
Lolita; Vladimir Nabokov
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:D :D :D

If I exclude the Bible, and dictionaries, I'd have to say

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Malevil by Robert Merle
Nabokov in General :cool:
 
i tried recently to remember all the books i've read... i failed miserably.

here's 3 good'ns that i do remember:

1. east of eden (john steinbeck)
2. kitchen confidential (anthony bourdain)
3. stranger in a strange land (robert a. heinlein)
 
my top three would be,
Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier
Violets are blue James Patterson
Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer
 
The very best books I have read so far amount to just two:

  1. In Cold Blood By Truman Capote (great writing)
  2. The Dark Tower series by Stephen King (great adventure)
 
Just three?

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, which rendered me utterly incapable of writing a word myself after I'd read it the first time. Beautiful;

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, which is one of the rare books that I've read a number of times over the years. Very funny;

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, which was my first really affecting experience of magic realism at the pint at which I first read it. There's a picaresque quality about it that I increasingly appreciate.
 
This is indeed very difficult. I don't know if the top five thread will be any easier though.

Having said that I don't think my top two will change, as they have been at the top of the list for many years, but third spot is very tricky..

1. From Here to Eternity
2. The Sand Pebbles
3. The Long Ships

or maybe Lord of the Rings..
 
Hmmm really tough to narrow it down to three. They'll probably change depending on mood.

H G Wells War of the Worlds
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
 
What a tough question!

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Of course, the list will change as I read more books.
 
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