Top 5 Favorite Books of All-Time

[thirty-two]

I know there's a thread for your favorite authors and such, but anyway.

Just curious as to which books you could read over and over again.

Mine as of right now:

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4. The Chosen - Chaim Potok
5. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

 

[Djaughe]

Just curious as to which books you could read over and over again.

Ugh...lately I seem to be stuck on these....

1. Winnie the Pooh (any book)
2. The Berenstein Bears say Goodnight
3. The 3 little Pigs
4. Freddie goes on an airplane
5. Goodnight little grover

 

[Pariah]

Hmm. I generally don't read books more than once and have lots of "favorites" for lots of different reasons. But, here's a stab at it*:

1. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
2. The Emporer of Scent, forget who wrote it
3. Focault's Pendelum, Umberto Eco
4. I, Lucifer, forget who wrote it
5. Most everything else by Jim Thomspon (that's not to say "most everything else" is the name of a book, just a general reference to most of the books he's written. It's a cop-out, I know...)


*this list is subject to change for any reason at any time, so sayeth I.

 

[thirty-two]

Ugh...lately I seem to be stuck on these....

1. Winnie the Pooh (any book)
2. The Berenstein Bears say Goodnight
3. The 3 little Pigs
4. Freddie goes on an airplane
5. Goodnight little grover

No Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel?

I give you props for the Berenstein Bears, though!

 

[Pariah]

Ugh...lately I seem to be stuck on these....

1. Winnie the Pooh (any book)
2. The Berenstein Bears say Goodnight
3. The 3 little Pigs
4. Freddie goes on an airplane
5. Goodnight little grover

My favorite is There's a Monster at the End of This Book.

Spoiler: The monster is Grover, even though he's the one emploring you NOT to turn the pages because you get closer and closer to the monster. Genius! Pure. literary. genius!

 

[Djaughe]

No Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel?

I give you props for the Berenstein Bears, though!

My favorite is There's a Monster at the End of This Book.

Spoiler: The monster is Grover, even though he's the one emploring you NOT to turn the pages because you get closer and closer to the monster. Genius! Pure. literary. genius!

Thanks for the tips! Give me another year 32....

 

[abomb]

4. The Chosen - Chaim Potok

My gf has been totally consumed by this and the rest of the series. Sounds like some great stories, but unfortunately I only seem to read non-fiction.

A-Bomb

 

[thirty-two]

My gf has been totally consumed by this and the rest of the series. Sounds like some great stories, but unfortunately I only seem to read non-fiction.

A-Bomb

Yeah I read this book back in high school and immediately fell in love with it - then I went out and purchased the rest of Potok's books - lol.

The story was so interesting and I very much liked learning more about the Jewish faith, etc. I'm glad your GF likes the book, too!

 

[mdamien13]

Strega - by Andrew Vachss
Love Medicine - by Louise Erdrich
Watership Down - by Richard Adams
Bag of Bones - by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass - by Stephen King

 

[FischerKing]

wow - tough to narrow it down...but, in no particular order:

1. Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger
2. Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
3. Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
4. The Alienist - Caleb Carr
5. Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
6. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

shawn

p.s. - kate, thanks for trumping my other thread.

 

[thirty-two]

p.s. - kate, thanks for trumping my other thread.

sorry...boredom makes people do crazy things

 

[FischerKing]

sorry...boredom makes people do crazy things

don't you have a book to read?

ror - j/k

shawn

 

[Phlegyas]

Since I'm not sure about which ones I like more (and this includes books not on this list), so this is in no particular order:

1. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
2. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
3. The Drizzt Do'Urden books by R. A. Salvatore
4. The Shannara series by Terry Brooks
5. The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

 

[maddogkf]

My favorite is There's a Monster at the End of This Book.

Spoiler: The monster is Grover, even though he's the one emploring you NOT to turn the pages because you get closer and closer to the monster. Genius! Pure. literary. genius!

I just read this to my 2 year old last night. Genius. Pure genius

 

[Djaughe]

3. The Drizzt Do'Urden books by R. A. Salvatore

have you read the War of the Spider Queen series?

 

[FischerKing]

have you read the War of the Spider Queen series?

i haven't read the Spider Queen series but i love the the Drizzt books. i've bought the first book in his new trilogy "The Hunters Blade" but i haven't started reading the book yet.

shawn

 

[Pariah]

4. The Shannara series by Terry Brooks

I loved the first couple of these "Sword of..." and...was it "Wishsong of..."?

 

[Phlegyas]

have you read the War of the Spider Queen series?

No. It could be good, though.

I loved the first couple of these "Sword of..." and...was it "Wishsong of..."?

The first trilogy was The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara, and The Wishsong of Shannara. There was a prequel to this series, called First King of Shannara. After that came the four-book Heritage of Shannara sequence, the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy, and the new series, High Druid of Shannara.

i've bought the first book in his new trilogy "The Hunters Blade" but i haven't started reading the book yet.

That's a good book. The next one is already out, but I haven't read that one yet.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Okay, I'll play...

1. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
2. Rebels: The Irish Uprising of 1916 by Peter De Rosa
3. Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy
4. Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison by Bobby Sands
5. Can't think of a fifth right now, but know it was NOTHING I read in college!

 

[Dback Jon]

Okay, I'll play...

1. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
2. Rebels: The Irish Uprising of 1916 by Peter De Rosa
4. Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison by Bobby Sands

Irish, I take it!

 

[arthurracoon]

1. The Iliad -- Homer
2. Contact -- Carl Sagan
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Harry Potter Series
5. The Hammer of God - Arthur C. Clarke

 

[jenna2891]

1. catch 22 - joseph heller
2. the princess bride - william goldman
3. franny and zooey - j.d. salinger
4. one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey
5. to kill a mockingbird - harper lee

honorable mention:

• fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
• anything else by salinger
• a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
• a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers

 

[Louis]

In no particular order

Divine Invasion - Phillip K. Dick
Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Black Elk Speaks - John Neihardt
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

 

[ajcardfan]

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty

 

[Chaplin]

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
The Stand - Stephen King
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
My Autobiography - Charles Chaplin
Rebel Without a Crew - Robert Rodriguez