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List pictures from my favorite five? I don't get it.
1. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey, biography.
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Brabury, horror.
3. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, comedy.
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, classic and romance.
5. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, fiction.
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Brabury, horror.
3. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, comedy.
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, classic and romance.
5. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, fiction.

2. Misery by Stephen King, horror
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, classic fiction
4. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie, non-fiction/self-help
5. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy
I think the only King's work I've read is Misery, and I started to read the Shining, and I couldn't. I agree. He's very dark.

1. The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien. I have to take this as "one" book, and in my humble (and nerdy, I guess) opinion, it is the best. I'm not the only fanboi you've all ever met, so I wont' bore you.
In no particular order,
2. The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
3. Foundation, Asimov
4. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
5. 1984, Orwell
Admittedly, a couple of these (2/5) are books you problem read in school. But I could easily add others (Invisible Man, the Good Earth, All the King's Men, the Things They Carried) that you may have also read in school, but it doesn't make them any less incredible.
Just because they are read in school doesn't mean they aren't great. Some of my favorite books I first read in school.

I just finished reading The Things They Carried. I wasn't sure how I felt about it. I could never tell if it was fiction or fact. Was it supposed to be actual events or were they just stories BASED on actual events?



1. The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle), in Mystery.
2. The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, in Horror.
3. The Cassandra Clare books, esp. Touch the Dark (Chance), in Fantasy.
4. The third book in the BrainShip series... I can't for the life of me remember the title! (McCaffrey) in Sci-Fi
5. The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians (can't remember author), in Kids Story Books!
Hehe.

My top 5:
Lord of the Rings
Wheel of Time (I'm currently reading the series for the 7th time)
Banner in the Sky
The Princess Bride
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Some of my faves from different genres are:
Mere Christianity (theology)
Diaries of Anais Nin (journal/autobiography)
Intensity (horror)
To Kill a Mockingbird (fiction/classic lit)
Welcome to the Monkeyhouse (short stories/contemporary)
Books mentioned in this topic
The Fellowship of the Ring (other topics)The Great Gatsby (other topics)