.: Top 5 Books in Your Life :.

[CassieXO]

1. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
2. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

[sportsguy33]

1.) "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" by Tucker Max
2.) "Now I Can Die in Peace" by Bill Simmons
3.) "Scooter" by Mick Foley
4.) "No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
5.) "Wisdom of our Fathers: Stories and Letters from Sons and Daughters" by Tim Russert

[lalaleanna]

1) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2) Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
3) Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
4) The f**k up by Arthur Nersesian
5) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[M]

Difficult

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
East of Eden John Steinbeck
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
Daggerspell Katherine Kerr
Random Acts of Heroic Love Danny Scheinmann

[perksofbeingme]

yes yes a very difficult question indeed, but a very good question.

mine would be:

Perks of being a wallflower-stephen chbosky

hairstyles of the damned-joe meno

diary- chuck palahniuk

speak-laurie halse anderson

1984-george orwell

ill probably curse myself later and wish i had put something else in place of something else, but for now these are my choices and im sticking to them!

[lv2read]

My five top books are:

1. Three Cups of Tea:
One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

2. The Stand

by Stephen King

3. Duma Key

by Stephen King

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

5. Memoirs Of A Geisha

by Arthur Golden

[anita blake]

Very hard choice


1: 1984 by George Orwell

2: Only Forward by Michael Marshal Smith

3: Autistic Children: One Way Through (The Doucecroft School Approach) by Ian B Ashton

4: Billy by Pamela Stephenson

5: Richard Hammond - on the edge by Richard and Mindy Hammond

[Walktherain]

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (sp?)
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara

[aemdis]

Wow that's a hard one.... hmm.

1. The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
2. Lasher - Anne Rice
3. The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice (hey they published 'em all in one book.)
4. A Wished For Song - Merri Cyr
5. (this is the tough one) but I would have to say Perfume by Patrick Suskind

[Sheila]

1. Gone With The Wind
2 & 3 The Complete Adentures of Sherlock Homles (That takes of up two books
4. East of Eden
5. The Mists of Avalon

[Ender]

Ok, I like what the person said before, about it being like "choosing between children" lol. I'm going to cheat a little bit, and allow some of these to be series. I'd make them all into one book if i could!

-The entire Ender's Game series, both sides. (Which includes Ender's Shadow and all books following)
-The Harry Potter Series (it'd be a big book, but i'd make it work)
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series (As I understand it, this has already been made into a compendium.)
-The Bible (I've heard this described as the greatest and most controversial book in the world, but I'll sport the Christian Religion)
-The fifth and final choice would be a toss up between The Twilight Series (I'm not sure on the re-readability of these books), The Eragon Series (again, re-readability), and the Everworld Series (I loved them during my youth, I'd want my kids to have a chance to check them out too:))

In my opinion, a truly great book should be something you can read more than once and still enjoy. I've read Ender's Game several times and loved each time just as much as the first.

[thisislissa]

If you could only have 5 books on your bookshelf for the rest of your life (these books being the only things you could ever read), what would they be?

Not necessarily my favorites but those that would keep me well fed forever:

1) The Bible (contains every story, great writing, endlessly interpretable .. . )
2) Complete Shakespeare (see above)
3) In Search of Lost Time by Proust (I swear this book describes everyone you'll ever meet. Finding a one volume edition would be tough, but it is considered one book by the critics so it counts right?)
4) Ulysses by Joyce (If it was the only game in town I’d finally be able to finish/understand it)
5) Lord of the Rings (Middle Earth is my favorite vacation destination)

My apologies to Catch-22, I hate to leave you behind, but them’s the rules . . .

[kajsa]

I'd have to choose:

1) A place to call home by Deborah Smith because I doubt I'll ever move back home & it's a book I read when I'm feeling lost.
2) Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul - because I am Canadian & it makes me very proud to read the stories in that book.
3) Murphy's Boy by Tory Haden - amazing book about a boy who learned to live in the "normal" world after being so badly treated by everyone in his world.
4) Snow falling on Cedars by David Guterson - great book!
5) A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

[birdview]

Lol ! Its quite hard to narrow it down to five, though I may try. These are some of my favs.:

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Jane Eyre by Jane Austen
Tell me your dreams by Sidney Sheldon
Men are from Mars women are from Venus.
Interview with the Vampire (just about to complete it)

[LawnTamer]

Just 5! That's almost impossible, but I'll try.....I may cheat a little.

1. The Bible
2. The Book of Mormon
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
4. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky.
5. A toss up, but probably Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, or perhaps Uncle Tom's Cabin.