Your five favorite books.

[SAHDS]

So, I have a list of books to read before I die (nice, huh?) and I'm flying through it. I have maybe 10 books left and am wanting to add more. So, I need your help!

What are your 5 favorite books? Funny, sad, happy, witty, life-changing, fluff, deep, whatever.

Let me know!

[A&A]

The Grapes of Wrath
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Peace Like a River
Death of a Salesman (play, actually)

[KYCat]

Off the cuff :
Harry Potter series
To Kill a Mockingbird
Good Omens
Prayer for Owen Meany
Bel Canto

and of course for a quick fun emotional read the Twilight series )

[SAHDS]

Thanks A&A!

I really liked Tuesdays With Morrie (although I liked his other 2 even better), The Grapes of Wrath and Death of a Salesman. The Color of Water is on my list but I've never heard of Peace Like A River.

Thanks KYCat!

The Harry Potter series is the closest to my heart (probably in all of literature). I enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird and LOVED A Prayer For Owen Meany! Never heard of Good Omens and/or Bel Canto, I'll have to give those a looksy.

As for Twilight... not so much. The first was good, the second okay, the third blah and I didn't even bother with the fourth. Maybe if I get desperate enough, LOL.

[teale]

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Time Traveler's Wife
Pride & Prejudice
The Five People You Will Meet In Heaven (which is ironic, since I'm agnostic)
Wicked

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by teale

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Time Traveler's Wife
Pride & Prejudice
The Five People You Will Meet In Heaven (which is ironic, since I'm agnostic)
Wicked

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of my fav. books of all-time (For One More Day is amazing too!), loved Wicked (Son of A Witch was good). The Time Traveller's Wife is on my list and I'm going back and forth deciding whether to read Pride & Prejudice. Unfortunately, I saw the movie first (I HATE when that happens) so I'm undecided.

THANKS.

These are GREAT. Keep 'em coming!

I'm just finishing up Till We have Faces by C.S. Lewis and then I'm headed for the library!

[Alyantavid]

I saw this post earlier and have been trying to narrow it down to five.

Water for Elephants
Memoirs of a Geisha
Harry Potter series
Twilight series (Can't help it, I loved them!)
any of the Frank McCourt books

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by Alyantavid

I saw this post earlier and have been trying to narrow it down to five.

Water for Elephants
Memoirs of a Geisha
Harry Potter series
Twilight series (Can't help it, I loved them!)
any of the Frank McCourt books

Loved Water For Elephants and Memoirs of A Geisha!

Angela's Ashes is already on my list, do you specifically recommend any of his other books?

I'm such a book nerd, I am stalking this thread like a crazy person.

[kirstenb]

Harry Potter
The House of the Spirits
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Pillars of the Earth
The Catcher in the Rye

[Alyantavid]

Angela's Ashes is already on my list, do you specifically recommend any of his other books?

I'd read them in order, Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and Teacher Man. Angela's Ashes is definitely the best though.

I'm a big Hemingway fan too, so any of his books would be good.

[ALittleBitCrunchy]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ("ultimate" set includes the entire series) by Douglas Adams
The series by Conrad Richter - The Trees, The Fields, The Town
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Anything by Wilbur Smith

[tinybutterfly]

The Hobbit, LOTRs
Harry Potter series
Twilight series
The Stand, Stephen King
A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken

[samstress]

i could go on, these were just the first five that came to mind...

crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky
i know this much is true - wally lamb
she's come undone - wally lamb
frankenstein - mary shelley
the jungle - upton sinclair

[Lisalee2]

Hmmm...Here is a list of my five favorite books that I've recently read.

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

[A&A]

Sounds like you've already covered a lot of the classics. I also really liked Odd Hours and The Memory Keeper's Daughter lately.

[Samm]

Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Memoirs of a Geisha
Three Cups of Tea and Infidel are recent favorites
Ann Tyler has some great quirky characters
hmm, I'll add more later, this is a fun thread

[greeny]

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl

All the short stories of Raymond Carver (they're in various collections)

Bee Season - Myla Goldberg (I actually only read this once, years ago, but I remember loving it very much)

As I Lay Dying - Faulkner (don't love all of Faulkner, but really like this book)

Short stories of Tobias Wolf (he also has several collections)

[morganlefay]

Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
The Road--Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying--William Faulkner
Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
Angela's Ashes--Frank McCourt

English major here--I could go on and on

[tinybutterfly]

Originally Posted by samstress

i could go on, these were just the first five that came to mind...

Yea, that.

Silas Marner-George Eliot
Dance Upon the Air, Heaven and Earth, Face the Fire ( trilogy)-Nora Roberts
Serenity Bay-Bette Nordberg
Forever Amber-Kathleen Winsor
Animal Dreams-Barbara Kingsolver

[A&A]

Originally Posted by Samm

Anne Tyler has some great quirky characters

I especially like her book Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant