Top 5 Favorite books of All Time

[MRG]

Sorry, but i'm having a devil of time picking only 5.

1) Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
2) Bazil Broketail Series - Christopher Rowley
3) IT - Stephen King
4) Left Behind Series - Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
5) Shannara Series - Terry Brooks

Honorable Mentions By Author

1) Dean Koontz
2) Robert R Mccannon
3) Robert E Howard
4) John Steinbeck
5) Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

-MRG

 

[Sheepo]

Guns Up
1984
Andromeda Strain
The Stand
20,000 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

 

[Slug Advisor]

WTF, how did Mice and Men get on people's lists? Srsly, the book was enjoyable, briliant even, despite being quite short, but top five? No, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.

1. Lord of Chaos
2. The Fires of Heaven
3. The Eye of the World
4. The Shadow Rising
5. The Great Hunt

 

[dfc05]

WTF, how did Mice and Men get on people's lists? Srsly, the book was enjoyable, briliant even, despite being quite short, but top five? No, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.

1. Lord of Chaos
2. The Fires of Heaven
3. The Eye of the World
4. The Shadow Rising
5. The Great Hunt

Of Mice and Men was (almost) on my list because it managed to make me really care about the characters. You know you wanted to cry at the end when....

dangit where are the spoiler tags.

But the part where they're by the lake. And the thing with the bunnies. I was reading it in class and I had already read it before so I knew what to expect, but still.... ;(


Anyways, I just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy and I think I'm gonna have to switch up my top 5 list now. But I don't know what to kick off.

 

[Dan]

Duncton Wood
Lord of the Rings
...

 

[Emporius]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

This book is incredibly and fantasticly amazing, and the sequels -both branches- are just as good. I have reread this book upwards of ten times.

 

[VictimOfScience]

I just cannot limit it to 5...:E

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox
Berlin Noir - Philip Kerr
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
La-Bas (The Damned) - Joris-Karl Huysmans
A rebours (Against Nature) - Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Quincunx - Charles Palliser
The Beach - Alex Garland
Love and Death on Long Island - Gilbert Adair
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Wieland - Charles Brockden Brown
Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown
Edgar Huntly - Charles Brockden Brown

 

[Sheepo]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

This book is incredibly and fantasticly amazing, and the sequels -both branches- are just as good. I have reread this book upwards of ten times.

Agreed. Didn't make my top 5 but definitely great reads. Although I've only read Game and Shadow, but those are incredible

 

[repiV]

I'm reading Ender's Game at the moment. It seems disturbingly fascist in nature, and not very well written either - but maybe that's just me.

 

[Solaris]

1: For Whom the Bell Tolls
2: 1984
3: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
4: Surely you must be joking Mr. Feynman
5: Homage to Catalonia