Share your Top 5 favourite books of all time!

[Bobbie Crawford-McCoy]

Share and list your Top 5, favorite books of all time and if you'd like to, tell us why you love them so much.

 

 

 

[Shawn Lamb]

Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean

San Andreas by Alistair MacLean

The Arm and The Darkness by Taylor Caldwell

X-Wing Series by Michael Stackpole (yes, a series - sorry over the book limit - and the only Sci-fi books I read)

[Kathy Maxwell]

I read a few books by Taylor Caldwell when I was younger. I especially liked Dear and Glorious Physician!

[Rodney Mercer]

It by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

[Wayne Stree]

My Top 5 Books of All Time:
1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. The Summer of '49
3. The Gold Coast
4. Charm School
5. John Adams

[Roxan Murray]

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink-Yes, a children's book!
Grapes Of Wrath-John Steinbeck
Elementals by Michael McDowell
Cottontop by ?-Another children's book. For sentimental reasons.

[Kathy Maxwell]

I also like To Kill a Mockingbird, Baby Island, and Grapes of Wrath!!!

[Deborah Previte]

Oh, this is a daunting task given that I've read so many wonderful books. It's so hard to break it down into 5...just 5!
1) Wuthering Heights
2) The Scarlet Letter
3) Gone With The Wind
4) Woman on the Edge of Time
5) Jane Eyre

My favorite authors are also all the Bronte's, Henry James, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Susan Howatch, Jeffrey Deaver, John Shors, Dickens and so many others. There are many, many contemporary writers that I just love, too.

It's hard to say why we love the books we love. Classics are especially moving and have timeless messages that impact our hearts, spirits and minds; that's why they become classics. I wish everyone understood that and would read them.

I listed "Woman on the Edge of Time" because it was the first feminist and male-female inclusive book I'd ever read of significant caliber that was a time-travel book to a better future. It made a lingering impact on my life and perspective of gender roles and female empowerment. It's written by Marge Piercy...in the 1980's.

"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the classic American book that my English Lit. teacher chose especially for me to read and review when I was in advanced class, 11th grade. It's never been very far from my side. I have it in several different bound copies. He chose a different book for each of us in the class, so it's meant alot to me over the years.

"Gone With The Wind" the quintessential Southern novel...what self-respecting Southern girl hasn't read it? It was the first "adult" book I ever read and the book that first took me to levels of mind and emotion I'd never thought possible before. It's a nostalgic choice.

Deborah/TheBookishDame

[Kathy Maxwell]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
As a child, I was fascinated by Francie Nolan's lifestyle.

To Kill a Mockingbird It's a tremendous story about tolerance whose message is still relevant today.

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Elnora Comstock has so much force of character. She's not embittered by her mother's neglect. She has hope for the future.

The Edge of Time by Lola Grace Erdman
This was the first romance I read as a young teen. It's about a young married couple who settle in Texas.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
This book tells about a black family who owns land in the south. It's a great story of human courage and family love.

[Teric Darken]

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Adam by Ted Dekker

Comes a Horseman by Robert Liparulo

The Oath by Frank Peretti

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

[Jaidis Shaw]

I don't really rank the books I've read because I have read so many wonderful books. I couldn't even begin to list my top 5. But since my favorite book is part of a series, I suppose those would fill my top spots..lol. Those are the books in the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel:

The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Shelters of Stone
The Land of Painted Caves

[Gueh Yanting, Claudine]

Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens


Only 5? Can we pick more? =)

[Diane Shaskin]

Good question:

1. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

2. Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes

3. Appetite for Life - Noel Riley Fitch

4. The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman who Ruled It - Tilar J. Mazzeo

5. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth