Phosie

*grumbles* I can't believe I have to choose just five...

1. Sphere - Michael Crichton
2. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
3. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
4. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

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1. The Amber Spyglass
2. Oryx and Crake
3. The Rum Diary
4. deadkidsongs
5. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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jtassinaro

I actually stumbled across my copy of "The Other Side of Dark" and I started reading it and now I think it's horrible. I read it when I was about 15 and loved. It's funny how tastes change as you grow.

So my edited top 5 are as follows

5. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
3. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
2. An Hour is Forever (Ethel Blackledge)
1. All Around the Town (Marry Higgins Clark)

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In no particular order:

The Raj Quartet - Paul Scott (and yes, thank you, I can count these four books as one)
Behind The Scenes At The Museum - Kate Atkinson
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (excellent choice, Lyra)
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

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Dan

I mean this in good fun: I don't know if you should be denigrating anyone's personal favorite books when your list reads like a high school A.P. English syllabus.

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Did anyone mention The Chronicles Of Amber by Roger Zelazny ?

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Nefieslab

1/ IT
2/ The Dark Half (do i even need to say who the first two books are by?)
3/ Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
4/ The Warrior Heir

can't pick a fifth one. Way too much competition for slot number five

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Krim

5. Titus Groan (Peake)
4. Book of the Long Sun (Wolfe)
3. Tawny Man Trilogy (Hobb)
2. Book of the New Sun (Wolfe)
1. The Name of the Wind--probably will change when the hype of having read it wears off, or bumped back when the second book replaced it (Rothfuss)

Dark Tower's first four books deserve an honorable mention, as well as the Farseer Trilogy. Too many good books to put in a top five. I'd probably need a top twenty.

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"A terrible energy and strength began to grow in him. It grabbed his emotions and forged them into a solid bar of anger with one word stamped on it: revenge." - Eragon by Christopher Paolini, an international bestseller

Beethoven

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Steppenwolf
3. Notes From Underground
4. War and Peace
5. Madame Bovary (I don't know why I liked this book so much.)

Seppuku05

5- Bushido: The Way of the Samurai (Tsunetomo Yamamoto)

Great book on the samurai way of life by Samurai who speaks of his experience, written after his master's death.

4- Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)

The movie is nothing compared to the book, it reads really well and is a great FBI plot - I seriously do recommend it

3- Interview With a Vampire (Anne Rice)

Great movie, great book, it's about the Vampires Lestat and Louis, it's the first vampire chronicle and probably the best.
2- 1984 (George Orwell)

Fantastic book that shows the horror of what a totalitarian state can do with the human mind and a great plot to follow.
1- Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Sad story of 'special people' in the real world, basically the life story of one of these and I loved it to the very end - probably Ishiguro's greatest work yet. It has some chilling secrets that run through out, with sad truths, and a relationship between 3 friends that isn't always at it's greatest.

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Lance

1. Little Depression, Big Hurt
2. Depression hurts the dog to
3. Why be depressed when you could be working?
4. Once Depressed, Always Depressed
5. Depression. Its a statement

Lyra x.

No pun intended but - honestly, how depressing.

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Dan

Really? It cheered me right up.

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~Kouryuu~

Oooh ooh!!! ^_^

1: The man in the brown suit - Agatha Christie
2: The ring of the Slave Prince - Bjarne Reuter
3: Timeline - Michael Critchton
4: Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
5: The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas

Tee hee!!

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Shawn

I'd have added those on if I had more than 5 spots. That and The Count of Monte Cristo.

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