Thread: Top 5 Faviroute Books

What are your top 5 faviroute books? Mine are:

5.To Kill a Mockingbird
4.Golden Compass
3.The Subtle Knife
2.Clockwork Orange
1.I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

5. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
4. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
3. The Other Side of Dark (Joan Lowery Nixon)
2. An Hour is Forever (Ethel Blackledge)
1. All Around the Town (Mary Higgins Clark)

Ooohh... that's a tough one...

Not really in any particular order, and off the top of my head, but:
5. Eisenhorn (Dan Abnett)
4. Galaxy in Flames (Graham McNeil)
3. Knife of Dreams (Robert Jordan)
2. The Stand (Stephen King)
1. Scion of Cyador (L.E Modesitt Jr.)

So many books so little time...in no particular order

1. For Whom the Bell Toll... Hemingway
2. The Fist of God............ Forsyth (Fredrick)
3. Pillars of the Earth........ Follett
4. Lonesome Dove............ McMurthy
5. Treasure Island............ Stevenson

IMO Stevenson's writing is the greatest prose ever written...

5. Northwest Passage - Kenneth Roberts
4. The Mirror Crack'd - Agatha Christie
3. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
2. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie... by far

Originally Posted by fjf1329

IMO Stevenson's writing is the greatest prose ever written...

1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2. My Uncle Oswald
3. The Girl Next Door
4. Boy's Life
5. Misery

Oh dear, whoever put 'All Around the Town' as their no1 book of all time.. eek! And I really don't think Agatha Christie should be up there either.

Mine:
1. The Bell-Jar - Sylvia Plath
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
4. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
5. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote.

Originally Posted by thedreamweaver

And I really don't think Agatha Christie should be up there either.

Queen of Crime... hello? The Bell Jar is a little cliche for being a favorite book, don't you think?

5. 1984
4. Clockwork Orange
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Tremor of Intent (two Burgess books, I know, but you can't go wrong with Burgess)
1. Any one of Charles Bukowski's stories (long or short, it doesn't matter).

Favorite books are a very individualistic decision, so there's no right or wrong answer.

I actually wanna ask Shawn: why those two out of like her bajillion others? And why #1? I'm a big fan of "And Then There were None" myself. Although "Murder on the Orient Express" is a close second. Have you played the computer game? :-P


So hard to choose a top 5. I know my top #1 for sure, the rest tend to switch places depending on my mood:

1. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (definitely my #1)
2. Alanna by Tamora Pierce (although I love all 4 in the series)
3. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
4. The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
5. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

No, I haven't played the game. But she sheds insight on British society that is invaluable to me. I would say that the Murder of Roger Ackroyd is her best.. it was, after all, the only one that stumped me completely.

I have to say I like Jane Marple more than Poirot, though.

Aw, I love Poirot. He's so funny and entertaining. Miss Marple always struck me as a busy-body, and one of the type of people that always kept me from moving to "close knit communities."

One of the hardest questions out there, if you ask me. I have too many favorites, and they often change!

But here they are, as of June 25th, 2007:

5. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
2. Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
1. EVERYTHING by Jasper FForde (they all tie as number one; I just can't pick!)

I have an addiction: Jasper Fforde.

haha, if you couldn't tell! lol

Racheal

Desert Flower (Waris Dirie)
The Poet (Michael Connolly)
Which brings me to you (Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott)
Stillriver (Andrew Rosenheim)
Derailed (James Seigel)


Lani

Originally Posted by Himani

Aw, I love Poirot. He's so funny and entertaining. Miss Marple always struck me as a busy-body, and one of the type of people that always kept me from moving to "close knit communities."

The only book that ever made me cry was Curtain: Poirot's Last Case. But Marple was always a sweet old lady who knew too much for her own good, for me.