DUers...Your Top 5 Books of All Time?

[bicentennial_baby]

Yes, it's *that* time again...Here we go! :bounce:

Here's mine:

1) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

2) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

3) Drawing Blood - Poppy Z Brite

4) American Gods - Neil Gaiman

5) A Cat on the Dovrefell - Tomie De Paola

What are yours? :bounce:

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. In no order.

1) Lord of the Rings
2) Catch-22
3) A Tale of Two Cities
4) Mists of Avalon
5) The Princess Bride (I've loved it since forever) / The Count of Monte Cristo



Ok, so I can't pick just five, leave me be! :P

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. If Catch-22 is a fav...

have you read "A Confederacy of Dunces" John Kennedy Toole? It was a burst-out-loud-laughing comedy for me. Also like Carl Hiassen's novels, eg. Sick Puppy. Love novels that make me laugh maniacally.

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. I haven't, but I'll check it out.

Thanks. :hi:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. My pleasure

:hi:

[Redstone]

22. Confederacy of Dunces should have made my list. It should be on everyone's list.

A truly astonishing book, and a terrfic backstory.

Redstone

[hfojvt]

93. I could not get into that at all. Started but did not finish it

Catch-22 was a fair amount of work too. 'Flies in his eyes'? WTF is he talking about? But I did eventually get into that one. Not enough to put it even on a top 100 list, but a little. I liked "Picture This" and even "God Knows" better.

[Richardo]

30. #1 Catch-22

then:

Huckleberry Finn
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

[jarab]

62. In total agreement with your #1. (nt)

...O...

[bicentennial_baby]

38. I was gonna pick #1, but

it was, like, 3 books!! :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

51. Blasphemer!

Lord of the Rings is one book! :P

[bicentennial_baby]

56. I agree!

I was, conflicted.... x(

:P

[Redstone]

2. Okla Hannali, by R.A. Lafferty.

Lamb, by Christopher Moore.

The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader.

Resurrection Day, by Brendan Du Bois.

Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore.

(And, yes, they're listed in order. And I bet you haven't heard of even ONE of them.)

Redstone

[Staph]

9. I've read two of them!

Ambrose Bierce cracks me up, in a weird, historical sort of way. I haven't read that one in years. But I've got Lamb on my nightstand -- just reread it over Christmas. It seemed the right thing to do.

[Redstone]

18. I actually used to write a newspaper column in a style similar to Bierce's, that's

how much his writing influenced me. He was one of the very best, in a field of damn good writers in California in those days.

Redstone

[TOhioLiberal]

11. I recognize two...

Lamb and Resurrection Day.

[Redstone]

16. Ha! I should not have underestimated DUers, should I?

Redstone

[TOhioLiberal]

19. Never...

...'cause some smartass will ALWAYS come along and prove you wrong!

:rofl:

[Redstone]

21. Every single time. Damn bright folks around here.

Redstone

[Arkham House]

15. "Bring the Jubilee" does, in a *lot* fewer words...

...everything Turtledove's elephantine alternate universe on the South Victorious does--only a lot better...

[Redstone]

20. Yes, it does that, indeed. Hey, do you think Turtledove actually DOES write a new book

about every two weeks, as it seems?

Redstone

[Arkham House]

33. Maybe three weeks...

:eyes:

[Arkham House]

34. By the way--I have the original copy of F&SF that "Bring the Jubilee" appeared in...

...how cool is that? As well as the legendary May, 1942 Astounding with the first Foundation story...and the Unknown with "Conjure Wife"...and the Galaxies with "The Stars My Destination"...and a few more original classics...:-)...

[Burma Jones]

27. The Unabridged Devils Dictionary is my main Bathroom Reading

And I do a lot of reading in there.....

Bierce and Mencken ruled the roost for sure.

[Redstone]

28. Two people ALWAYS worth re-reading.

Redstone

[w8liftinglady]

87. LOL...I was reading that today...what GREAT humor!

[bicentennial_baby]

39. No, you got me

:D

[Dervill Crow]

107. LOL - I gave my mum The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader for Mother's Day

when I was in high school. She loved it.

Very cool lady, my mom was.

[swag]

3. Tonight, they're

Two Girls Fat and Thin - Mary Gaitskill
Palimpsest - Gore Vidal
My Last Breath - Luis Bunuel
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Where Are the Customers' Yachts? - Fred Schwed, Jr.

[bicentennial_baby]

40. I'm honored that we have 1 in company

;)

[swag]

41. I think every time you ask this question, we have that one.

[bicentennial_baby]

58. pretty much....

and damn, you're onto me...You know my patterns... :yoiks:

[Arugula Latte]

115. How can you not love a book by Fred Schwed, Jr.?

Just the author's name alone means it must be a masterpiece!

[LibraLiz1973]

5. Mine are not very highbrow ... lol

1. Stephen King- Geralds Game

2. Dennis Lehane- Gone Baby Gone

3. Wally Lamb- She's Come Undone

4. Nick Hornby- About a Boy

5. Alice Sebold- The Lovely Bones

[Redstone]

32. Dennis Lehane is a damn good writer. I like his work a LOT.

Redstone

[Starbucks Anarchist]

105. Have you seen the movie version of Mystic River?

It was excellent. :thumbsup:

[bicentennial_baby]

42. i love Stephen King...

:D

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. Mine..

Siddhartha -- Hesse

The Trial -- Franz Kafka

1984 -- Orwell

Roughing It -- Mark Twain

Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[bicentennial_baby]

43. Excellent choices...

:thumbsup:

[GenDem]

8. My favorites - right this minute.

This could change by the minute...depending on my mood

-- Poisonwood Bible
-- The Kite Runner
-- The Great Gatsby
-- David Sedaris box set
-- Time Travelers Wife

[bicentennial_baby]

45. Yay for David Sedaris!

:bounce:

[GenDem]

76. I've been caught laughing out loud

in many a public places with one of his books in my lap. Is he not the greatest memoir writer? :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

77. Yes! I listened to his Paris stories while

riding the Metro in Paris, during my French classes....Talk about laughing out loud!! :rofl:

:D

[Nevernose]

12. Gatsby's a funny one, isn't it?

Most of us were forced to read it in high school, and most of us hated it.

I read it again a few years ago,and was entranced. I didn't understand it as a child. I understood the words, and what the teacher TOLD me to understand, but I didn't really get it.

Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, is the same way. Most of the people in my college class hated the whole thing. I hated most of it, granted, but there comes a point 2/3s of the way through that just GRABS you. The point where they realize their marriage is over and that they don't really like each other. Getting there is like getting kicked in the gut.

[bicentennial_baby]

46. I was never forced to read it....

hence, my love for it :)

[Nevernose]

106. These days, and w/ just a little maturity

Gatsby is brilliant. I liked most of the books I was forced to read, but I just didn't get Gatsby when I was a teenager.

Have you seen the movie of A Prairie Home Companion yet?

spoiler

paraphrased

Tommy Lee Jones sees a bust of F. Scott Fitzgerald and says, "Who's this guy?"

Kevin Kline replies, "F. Scott Fitzgerald."

"Oh yeah, who's that?"

"Oh, just some guy who liked the show."

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Dune, The Bible, Cryptonomicon. The other three always vary, depending.

often the Lord of the Rings is on the list, as well as Slaughterhouse Five. Sometimes Death in the Afternoon or Farewell to Arms.

[bicentennial_baby]

47. Excellent choices

:thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

54. Cryptonomicon.

Either people love that book or hate it.

:P

[Kutjara]

14. Here goes:

(1) Ulysses - James Joyce
(2) Gravity's Rainbow - Thomss Pynchon
(3) The Windup Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
(4) The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
(5) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

[bicentennial_baby]

48. What genre is Pullman?

[Kutjara]

79. Well, that's a bit tricky.

Superficially, the Dark Materials trilogy is a fantasy story. It's also supposed to be a children's story (or maybe a teenager's story), but it's actually a very adult fable that draws on not only mythology and history, but also modern physics and many-worlds theory. It's a beautiful, intelligent story, with real heart and soul, suitable for any age.

Read it now, before the film comes out next year and ruins the books forever.

Oh, and wait for all the fundy mouth-frothing when the film is released, because the God-botherers don't like the anti-Christian subtext in the books.

[blondeatlast]

17. Horton Hears a Who

To Kill a Mockingbird

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Pride and Prejudice

Bridget Jones' Diary

[bicentennial_baby]

49. Nice

:)

[Liberal Veteran]

23. Hmm.....well, mine certainly seem to have me pegged in reading habits

1) The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

2) Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

3) The Stand - Stephen King

4) Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice

5) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen Donaldson

[bicentennial_baby]

50. I LOVE The Stand

Excellent, if disturbing, reading :D

[WindRavenX]

24. my list changes all the time...

1)Contact--Carl Sagan
2)His Dark Materials trilogy--Phillup Pullman
3)The Odyessey--Homer
4)Slaughter-house Five--Kurt Vonnegut
5)Che: A Revolutionary Life--Jason Anderson

[bicentennial_baby]

52. OK, Pullman again...

Clue me in? :)

[XemaSab]

60. I'll clue you in!

:bounce:

It may technically be classified as young adult fantasy, a la Harry Potter, but it's HARDCORE. It starts out with a girl (aged about 11) who lives in a college in Oxford. Her best friend Roger is kidnapped by a shadowy group that is kidnapping street urchins, but before she can fully investigate the kidnapping, she is adopted by a beautiful and charming woman who turns out to be the head kidnapper. (This is a spoiler up to about page 50.) The rest of the series involves her trying to find her friend Roger in a series of parallel worlds.

It's AWESOME. :D

[WindRavenX]

61. pretty much the most amazing sci-fi/fantasy trilogy ever

It's based on "Paradise Lost" and basically tells the story of the fall of eve through this story of a girl and her daemon...and jesus, it's so good. Read "The Golden Compass".

[Burma Jones]

25. Five books eh?

The Riverside Shakespere
The Sun Also Rises
Ulysses (yes, I finished it)
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
A Confederacy of Dunces

[bicentennial_baby]

53. Love Confederacy of Dunces...

Haven't read it in years...Read it for 11th grade English :)

[gemdem]

26. I like collected works --

thus, the first two books in my list...

1. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Frontiersman -- Alan Eckert (I like the other books in Eckert's series, but this one is my favorite -- details history in my part of Ohio)
4. The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
5. White Fang -- Jack London (First book I ever bought -- it's dogeared and falling apart, but I still have it)

[hopein08]

29. My five...in no particular order...

"A Thread of Grace" --- Mary Doria Russell
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" --- Jean-Dominique Bauby
"Summer of My German Soldier" --- Bette Greene
"The Far Pavilion" --- M.M. Kaye
"Effi Briest" --- Theodore Fontane

[crim son]

I haven't thought of "The Far Pavilion" in years!

I remember I loved it but don't remember anything else.

[mentalsolstice]

31. Here it is, in no particular order

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - I'm from the south, and Harper Lee and Atticus Finch are heroes!
2. The Quiet American - need I say more...wish dubya had read just this one book in his lifetime! But he wasted it on "My Pet Goat"
3. Little Women - it just gave me such quiet pleasure as a child, and still does.
4. The Long Loneliness, by Dorothy Day - I'm Catholic, and this book just busts a lot of prejudgments about Catholics and Catholic women
5. Two books by Wally Lamb -
a. I Know This Much is True - my cousin, who grew up in my household, and is paranoid-schizophrenic. Fortunately, she's doing well right now...and I'm so moved by her accomplishments! This book has helped me through the hard times.
b. Couldn't Keep it to Myself - edited by Wally Lamb, and by women who have a very powerful story to tell! Get it! It will change your way of thinking!

On edit...I'm ONLY 46 years old, so I'm up for other suggestions!

[RetroLounge]

35. My list changes all the time...

Love in the Time of Cholera - Garcia-Marquez

Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niefenegger

Go Dog Go - PD Eastman (Read it as a kid, read it to my kids)

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

(I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird, but I just bought a copy and will soon...)

RL

[momophile]

36. om my goodness, I do like you so much

Go Dog Go is such a good book. It was a favorite of mine too as a child and I'm loving reading it to my girl. The dog party at the end in the big tree is truly fascinatingly fabulous.

Hi, RetroLounge!:hi:

[RetroLounge]

37. Life is a big dog party after all!

:hi:

RL

[Arugula Latte]

118. I was entranced with that picture when I was a kid, and I still am

when I've read it to my kids.

I like the boat/moonlight-on-the-water picture, as well.

[bicentennial_baby]

55. Hence my love for you....

"The scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love..."

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

59. Best opening line in any novel!

Pulled me right in...

:loveya:

RL

[bicentennial_baby]

63. Same here....sigh

:loveya:

[XemaSab]

44. I dunno about literary merit...

But my favorites are "No Night is too Long," "The Secret History," "Lolita," "Pelican Blood," Harry Potter (specifically "Order of the Phoenix"), the His Dark Materials trilogy, "Lord of the Flies," and "Confederacy of Dunces."

Today. :D

Ask again tomorrow and you will probably get different answers. :D

On edit: "Poisonwood Bible" is a TERRIFIC book.

[sir_captain]

57. I'll play

It's always changing, but I'd have to go:

1) The Moviegoer -- Walker Percy (I highly suggest this if you like Fitzgerals)
2) The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
3) Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
4) Love in the Ruins -- Walker Percy
5) Portnoy's Complaint -- Philip Roth

Hard to narrow it down, really

[bicentennial_baby]

64. Gatsby seems to be common-ish

Hmmmmmm... :)

[bridgit]

65. i don't know from 'all time' cause there's so many but i like these too...

1) Winds of War - Herman Wouk
2) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
3) Farewell To Arms - Hemingway
4) Save Me the Waltz - Zelda Fitzgerald
5) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

and one for the road...

6) Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

[stuntcat]

66. ( )Oo....

- The Portable Dorothy Parker
- the dictionary, any dictionary
- The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
- Fairies by Brian Froud (because my Grandma gave it to me)
- Watership Down :blush:


If anyone reads this who likes to stack catagorize and flush their books you should go to LibraryThing dot com, it's neato.
I've started it and now I can't stop. My name there is Stuntcat!

[bicentennial_baby]

67. I do love a dictionary

:hi:

[Danger Mouse]

68. I'm always reading and trying to add more to my list...but so far...

1.) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

2.) The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

3.) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

4.) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

5.) Candide - Voltaire

At least, that's it for now...if I were allowed to include plays, I would add the following:

1.) After the Fall - Arthur Miller

2.) Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill

3.) The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill

4.) No Exit - Sartre

5.) An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

[bicentennial_baby]

71. Yay for No Exit!

:bounce:

Although, it's kinda weird to say 'Yay' to that... :P

:hi:

[Danger Mouse]

72. "Hell is other people' is just about my favorite line from anything ever...

=)

[bicentennial_baby]

74. "L'infer, c'est les autres...."

:D

[Danger Mouse]

75. And what's more, it's true!

Ever read 'after the fall'? it's a beautiful little play, if you like melancholy...of course, melancholy movies, books, music, i love them all...what does that say about me as a person? =P

[Bassic]

102. That's "L'Enfer, c'est les autres"

I know, I'm a grammar (or in the case spelling) nazi. :hide:


Edit 'cause sometimes I'm a nazi, even to myself.

[crim son]

69. It's impossible for me to pick my top five. Here are some favorites:

The Once and Future King - T.H. White.
Vanity Fair - W.M Thackeray
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

[bicentennial_baby]

70. #4.....

:thumbsup:

[crim son]

73. I'm glad you approve.

:hi:

[ganeshji]

78. Ok.

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Qu'ran
The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz

[Arugula Latte]

119. To the Lighthouse --

Read that in college -- it really stays with you, doesn't it?

[enigmatic]

80. 5

"Winesburg, Ohio"- Sherwood Anderson

"The Razor's Edge"- Somerset Maugham

"Big Sur"- Jack Kerouac

"Burning In Water/Drowning In Flame"- Charles Bukowski

"The Heart is A Lonley Hunter"- Carson McCullers

[bicentennial_baby]

83. YES to #5!

:bounce:

[w8liftinglady]

90. I read that as a teenager...what a powerful book!

[w8liftinglady]

81. OK ... don't shoot me - Atlas Shrugged

Johnny got his Gun
Anthem
J.T.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Godfather

[bicentennial_baby]

82. I'll try to forgive Rand...

:P

[w8liftinglady]

86. I Know,I Know...but

I found the story to be intriguing,and am surprised they haven't made it into a movie

[w8liftinglady]

85. allow me to add "1984"

[hfojvt]

94. ATLAS SHRUGGED???

Jejune, prolix, and anti-progressive. What's not to like?

[unsavedtrash]

84. for now

1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams

2. To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee

3. Job: A Comedy of Justice -Robert A. Heinlein

4. The Sirens of Titan -Kurt Vonnegut

5. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady -Florence King

Bonus-
Song of the Lark -Willa Cather

[idgiehkt]

88. mine

these are guesses because I'll leave some out.

1) Cold Mountain - Frazier
2) Girl in a Swing - Richard Adams
3) The Mists of Avalon - Zimmer Bradley
4) Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald
5) Bright Lights, Big City - McInerney

[bridgit]

89. Cold Mountain, good one...

:)

[bicentennial_baby]

91. Has nobody mentioned Middlesex yet?!

:wow:

[WindRavenX]

92. eh, I found that one to be highly overrated

but that's just me.

[Broken_Hero]

95. In no order....

1. Needful Things

2. Memnoch The Devil

3. The Prince

4. Dark Elf Trilogy(its all one book, I swear!)

5. The Dark Tower(book 7 of the series)

[bridgit]

98. i still say Dark Tower is some of his best work...

[Broken_Hero]

108. Same here, the whole series,

was...amazing...:D

[ellisonz]

96. For what it's worth:

1. Candide - Voltaire
2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
4. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Marie Remarque
5. Night - Elie Wiesel

Honorable mentions: The Iliad of Homer, Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara, Lord of the Flies, Naked Lunch, Dante's Inferno, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Clouds by Aristophanes, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Dao de Jing of Lao Tzu, The Old Testament, The Tempest by Shakespeare, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, Utopia by Sir Thomas More.

[Oeditpus Rex]

97. Hmmm...

This is gonna take some thinkin'. :freak:



Okay...

•"Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

•"In Cold Blood," Truman Capote

•"'The Good War'," Studs Terkel

•"If I Never Get Back," Darryl Brock

Fifth's gonna be a collection: the first, second, third and fourth Fireside Book(s) of Baseball, various authors. No baseball fan should be without 'em.

[mac56]

99. No particular order

Catch-22 - Heller
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Cannery Row - Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee
Huckleberry Finn - Twain

[applegrove]

123. I loved Cannery Row and To Kill a Mockingbird.

[jane_pippin]

100. I like *that* time

In no order:

The Children's Hospital--Chris Adrian

Cat's Cradle--Kurt Vonnegut

Middlesex--Jeffery Eugenides

Franny & Zooey--J.D. Salinger

Lincoln--Gore Vidal



(Also, congrats to you and the fam) :hi:

[Bassic]

101. Ok,

1) On the Road
2) Brave New World
3) Lord of the Rings
4) The Foundation Trilogy
5) 1984

[peacefreak]

103. Today's 5

Tin Drum--Gunter Grass
The Stand--Stephen King
With--Donald Harington
Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurty
Master & Margarita--Bugalov

[jmowreader]

104. I hope nonfiction is okay

I was going to put a Jane's book--these big catalogs of military equipment--here, but you need twelve different books to get your point across.

So let's see...

Slow Burn by Orrin deForest--the bio of a CIA interrogator in the Vietnam War.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
and a book of the works of Edgar Allan Poe

[Dervill Crow]

109. Okay, here goes . . .

The Witching Hour - Anne Rice

The Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon

The Secret Garden

Forever Amber

Stranger in a Strange Land

[Mz Pip]

110. Tough call

The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (It's actually a series of 6 books)

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clark

Plainsong - Haurff (sp?)

Soldier of the Great War - Halprin

War & Peace - Tolstoy

Mz Pip
:Dem:

[rustydog]

111. Mine:

1: Where the red fern Grows
2: Man without a country
3: To Kill a Mocking Bird
4: Night
5: Black like Me

[mvd]

112. Here goes

1) Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)

2) Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)

3) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

4) 1984 (George Orwell)

5) A Painted House (John Grisham)

[NewWaveChick1981]

113. OMG, I knew Poppy Z. Brite in Chapel Hill when I lived there!!!!

I hadn't heard that name in many years until I opened your thread. She's a very interesting individual! She used to hang out with us science fiction geeks even though she was still in high school.

[bicentennial_baby]

114. SugarSmack had a class with her in college!

:wow: Small world! :o

She's a kickass writer...Horror fiction, primarily :D

:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

120. No kidding!

That's amazing! :) She had crushes on several members of the group. I knew she was writing, but I had not heard mention of her in a long, long time. :)

[YankeyMCC]

116. My Five

1. Illyad
2. Odyssey
3. LoTR (It really is a single story)
4. 1984
5. Frankenstein

[itsmesgd]

117. here's mine

1. To Kill A Mockingbird, I know not very original
2. The Monkeywrench Gang by Ed Abbey
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. In The Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
5. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

[DuaneBidoux]

121. Does nobody read nonfiction? All mine would be nonfiction.

[applegrove]

124. I read non-fiction. Go ahead. I'd love to get ideas...

[_testify_]

122. Not in order...

1. Lord of the Rings trilogy

2. Neuromancer by William Gibson

3. The Dark Tower series by Stephen King(I'm counting it as one book and not seven)

4. Weaveworld by Clive Barker

5. The Stand by Stephen King

[applegrove]

125. Pride & Predjudice, God's Little Bits of Wood, A Fine Balance, Fall On Your Knees

and Somerset Maugham Collected short stories.

[Left Is Write]

126. I'm still trying to narrow it down to five, rather unsuccessfully.

I'll post again when I get it figured out. They needn't all be fiction, correct?

[LostinVA]

127. Here are mine

1 - the Adrian Mole books
2 - Bill Bryson's books
3 - Tender at the Bone (one of the best memoirs in the last 50 years, imo)
4 - Harry Potter series
5 - Shopaholic series

[mark414]

128. BOUND FOR GLORY by woody guthrie

is the best book ever written

4 more?

dharma bums by jack kerouac

alice in wonderland and through the looking glass by c.s. lewis

travels with charley by john steinbeck

look homeward, angel by thomas wolfe

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

129. My favorites:

1) Finnegan's Wake -- James Joyce

2) The Village of Stepanchikovo -- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Ignat Avsey translation)

3) Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy (Norton Translation)

4) Piers the Ploughman -- William Langland

5) The Sorrows of Young Werther --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Vintage Classics Translation)

:D

[JitterbugPerfume]

130. Here goes--

Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy--Adams

A Handmaids Tale --Margaret Atwood

A Canticle for Liebowitz--Miller

On the Road -Jack Kerouac

he Monkey Wrench Gang--Abbey


A Confederacy of Dunces---Kennedy


as me again tomorrow , and my list will probably be different


I have to add Hiroshma Joe . I can't recall the author right now , but it is a very powerful book

[fudge stripe cookays]

131. I refuse to pick classics.

Just to be different.

1. The Boyfriend School - Sarah Bird
2. Anything Considered - Peter Mayle
3. The Memory of Eva Ryker- Donald Stanwood
4. They Sailed Into Oblivion - A. A. Hoehling
5. The Alienist - Caleb Carr

Honorable mention: Chiefs - Stuart Woods

[azmouse]

132. These:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons

A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin

Salems' Lot by Stephen King

And the 5th book would be whatever I'm currently reading.


But any of these is subject to change at any time.
I read a lot and am always discovering new great books!

[Babel_17]

133. All Sci-fi

On My Way To Paradise

Against A Dark Background

Glory Road

Lord Of Light

The Long Run

Ask me tomorrow and it will be a different list. :)

[The Traveler]

134. Lord of Light

Zelazny's best, in my opinion, and he had quite a few fine ones. A fabulous read.