Top five books of all time. What's your top five?

[Anuradha]

Gitte wrote: "Doris wrote: "Sheila wrote: "Hi, I'm Sheila, Of course there are more than 5 favorites- but here are the ones I chose for today. "

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There are many favorites , but these are my top five :
1. Sense And Sensibility
2. Emma
3. Jane Eyre
4. The Painted Veil and
5. Gone With The Wind.

[Tati]

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

[A.]

Childe Rolande-Not Robert Browning Version but the original written in ancient Saxon without vowels
The Rhine of the Ancient Mariner
Go tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Sula Peace
Proud and Prejudice.

[Vickie]

Toni Morrison 'Soul mate dissipate & it's sequel.///The Great Gasby///Shakespeare///Dr. Robin Smith-"Lies at the altar"///Tommy Tenney & Rick Warren books.

[Athena]

A Selfless Man by Shawn Raymond Poalillo - A Must Read!

Lonesome Dove

The Hobbit

How Green Was My Valley

All Harry Potter books

[Seleman]

By my side
1.hunting air
2.love in the time of cholera
3.dear villain
4.gifted hands
5.the .....

[Mary]

Red Tent- Anita Diamant
The underground railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Secret of Midwives Sally Hepworth
101 White woman

[Hannah]

My top 5 are :-
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
Twelve years a slave - Solomon Northup
The war of the worlds - HG Wells
Jayne Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

[Anuradha]

Athena wrote: "A Selfless Man by Shawn Raymond Poalillo - A Must Read!

Lonesome Dove

The Hobbit

How Green Was My Valley

All Harry Potter books"

I've read How Green Was My Valley and watched the movie . A beautiful book !

[Shraddha]

Amazing question....quite difficult to answer....still my top 5 would be: -
Cinder by Marrisa Meyer
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Divergent by Veronica Roth and
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

[Leslie]

difficult to answer - top five - .... i would say
the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
the Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
Once and Future King by White
The Stand by Stephen King
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

These are the books that resonate the most in my character, I believe. But I love a good book and have thousands in my past and hopefully future.

[Carol]

Homer and Langley- E.L. Doctorow
Rabbit - John Updike
The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood
The Forsyte Saga -John Galsworthy
A Fan"s Notes- Frederick Exley

[Kelly]

Hi Everyone, I'm Kelly. I see some great reads on here, and some I will definitely add to my "to read" list!

Top 5 - wow, this is a hard one, but here goes:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Unbroken
The Help
Jane Eyre
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the entire series)

Honorable Mentions:
The Hunger Games series
Wild
Fall of Giants

[Kiki]

The Opportunist - Tarryn Fisher
The Gamble - Kristen Ashley
The Empty Jar - M. Leighton
His Light in the Dark - L. A. Fiore
In This Life - Christine Brae

[Abraham]

Where can get the copy of Game Throne in Nigeria?
By George R. R . Martin.

[David]

Nice! Great Question!! Hmm...

My Ishmael
The Diving Bell and Butterfly
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Don Quijote
The Milagro Beanfield War (Just Added not even finished it yet)

[Truant]

In no particular order, and could rotate with at least 5 more books:

Watership Down
Jitterbug Perfume
Post Office
A Man Without a Country
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

[Kate]

I'm working through a list of best books to read in your lifetime and I'm currently reading Watership Down. When I first stArted reading it I said to my partner 'I don't know how I'm going to get through this, it's about rabbits!' Now I'm loving it.

My top 5 would be:
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Daring Greatly - Brene Brown

[Alan]

Huckleberry Finn

Good Omens

The Riverside Shakespeare

The Code of the Woosters

Princess Bride

[Kriselle]

Zuly wrote: "Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Angela's Ashes
The Shipping News
The House of Mirth

(a 5-book limit is tough!)"

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[Ris]

My top five books of all time are:
1. Paul Auster - Moon Palace
2. Toni Morrison - Beloved
3. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
4. Jerzy Koszinski - The Painted Bird
5. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

[Michael]

All time are: 1). The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk; 2). The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough; 3). The Last Hurray by Edwin O'Connor; 4). Stones for a Pillow by Madeleine L'engle; 5). The Robe by Lloyd C DouglasMy top five books of

[Brendz]

1 A fine balance, Rohinton Mistry
2 One hundred years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3 A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4 Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabo
5 the Japanese Lover, Isabelle Allende

[Jennifer]

Life of Pi
Memoir of a Geisha
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Kite Runner
The Pearl

[Aidan]

1. I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells (Really, this entire series)
2. If I Can't Have You by Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris
3. Banished by Lauren Drain
4. Escape by Carolyn Jessop
5. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson & Neil Strauss

[A.]

Truant wrote: "In no particular order, and could rotate with at least 5 more books:

Watership Down
Jitterbug Perfume
Post Office
A Man Without a Country
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger"

I love the Gunslinger series too.

[A.]

Jennifer wrote: "Life of Pi
Memoir of a Geisha
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Kite Runner
The Pearl"

I love nearly all from this list. I haven't read "The Kite Runner" yet

[Aysha]

The complete Sherlock Holmes- By Sir Authur Conan Doyle
The complete Hercule Poirot- by Agatha Christie
The Last Mile- by David Baldacci
Along Came a spider- by James Patterson
The Bone collector- by Jeffrey Deaver

[Virginia]

I love all of James Patterson books and Mary Higgins Clark,Nora Roberts I have to read like I breath

[Amber]

Top Five!!

Taking Chances by Molly McAdams
Beautiful Distraction by JC Reed
RoomHate by Penelope Ward
Sexiest Man Alive by M Clarke
Octavian's Undoing by Airicka Phoenix

[Lisa]

My Top Five!

The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
Five People You Meet Heaven - Mitch Albom
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin
The Outlander Series (Outlander, #1-7) - Diana Gabaldon

[A.]

I love anything by Octavia Butler.

[Beth]

My Top Five:
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo (series) - Stieg Larsson

[Martha]

I remember only some
The Buddenbrooks - Roger Martin du Gard
Up the down staircase
The Kitchen sink papers

[A.]

My list is much longer. For as with most readers I have far more than five favorite books. But here are a few.

The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo (series) - Stieg Larsson
East of Eden-Steinbeck
The Fall of the House of Usher-Poe
Medea -Euripides
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-Samuel Coleridge

[Kay]

To Kill a Mockingbird (which opened my eyes when I was really young)
Infinite Jest
Cannery Row
Jitterbug Perfume
Jerusalem