Top 5
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I love that so many people on this message board like the same series
BTW, to make my new MFP friends jealous, I have met Jim Butcher (Dresden files) several times and even played Rock Band with him once. :P0 -
The Dark Tower series, Stephen King (In truth almost anything by King, but The Dark Tower & The Talisman mostly)
1984, George Orwell
I'm also going to hop on the Harry Potter bandwagon, they're just so readable and I could lose myself in that world again and again
The Lord of the Rings
The Road, Cormac McCarthy0 -
Love these series -
Harry Potter
All of Richelle Mead's series (Vampire Academy/Bloodlines, Georgina Kinkaid & Dark Swan)
House of Night
Twilight
Hunger Games
Sookie Stackhouse
most of the Sword of Truth books
I am currently reading the Merry Gentry series.0 -
Harry Potters (of course)
Fahrenheit 451
The Book Thief
Life of Pi
A Little Princess0 -
Some of my favorites -
Twilight series (don't judge lol)
Anne Rice - Vampire Chronicles
Naomi Novik - Temeraire series
Peter F Hamilton - Commonwealth Saga
Sheri S Tepper - The Companions
Mary Doria Russel - The Sparrow and Chidren of God
Harry Potter
anything Mercedes Lackey
anything Anne McCaffrey
Piers Anthony - Xanth novels
Kevin J Anderson - Saga of Seven Suns (7 book series)
Oops, guess that's more than 5. I'll quit while I'm ahead lol
oooh one more - Lord of the Rings0 -
Harry Potter series
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
The Handmaid's Tale
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series0 -
Any book written by Jane Austen
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward
Night Huntress series by Jeanine Frost
Just noticed I favor authors whose first names start with the letter "J".0 -
The Histories - Herodotus (and many of the Classics)
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The Plague - Albert Camus
Germinal - Emile Zola
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon0 -
so many i like have been mentioned already
i dont have a top 5 more of a top 30 so i can afford to be picky
one i cant ignore though... harry potter...
One day - david nicholls
Before i die - jenny downham < film comes out this month called " Now is good "
morgan ville vampires series - rachel cane i think... my eyesight isnt good enough to read the author from here...
across the nightingale floor
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My top read overs are
Harry Potter series
Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke
Both of Anne Perry's series
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe
anything by Agatha Christie0 -
The Celestine Prophesy
Mutant Message Down Under
Anything by Stuart Wood
Anything by James Patterson or under his name(deceased)
M.C Beaton is the best!!!!!0 -
Just joined the group and scrolled through the list of Top 5's. I can't name my top 5, but here are some of my most favorites:
Jane Eyre
Tale of Two Cities
Gone With The Wind
Atlas Shrugged
Fahrenheit 451
The English Patient
Girl W/ Dragon Tattoo (all 3)
My Antonia (Cather)
Handmaids Tale
*Stars My Destination (Bester)
Children of Men
The Great Gatsby
Davinci Code.....I better quit here:)0 -
Mine by far
1. Jane Eyre (Im such a romantic)
2. Anything by Austen
3.Journey of Faith by Nicole Nesbit New author check her book out on Amazon
4. Series of Unfortunate Events
5. The Yellow Wallpaper ( a very long short story) but a good one on the decent into phycosis
Theres so many more but these are just a few0 -
5 is tough! I don't like to re-read books but these had an impact - Actually I might just re-read Jane Eyre
Catcher in the Rye
Atonement
The Book Thief
Jane Eyre
A Thousand Splendid Suns0 -
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Night Huntress by Jeanine Frost
Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
The Black Dagger Warrior series by J.R. Ward
anything written by Jane Austen0 -
The Hobbit- J.R.R Tolkein
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's- John Elder Robinson
The Haunting of Hill House- Shirley Jackson
Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin0 -
In no particular order...
Imajica by Clive Barker
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (the whole trilogy, really)
Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Dresden Series by Jim Butcher0 -
Tough!! Probably...
Harry Potter series
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (have read that over and over)
Millenium books
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
I can't choose the last one!0 -
In no certain order (and sorry there will probably be more than 5) and leaving out Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Twilight only because they have been mentioned so many times, although they are high up...HP is probably #1 and I have done my job as a mother and passed my HP addiction on to the next generation!
-Midnight Louie series by Carole Nelson Douglas
-Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward
-Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (and her prequel series Infernal Devices)
-Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan (Actually all his series are great - to include 39 clues) Read all these to my kids as well.
-Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz (My kids loved this one too)
-Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris
-Lord of the Rings series JRR Tolkien (and The Hobbit)
-Game of Thrones series by George RR Martin
---all but 2 have been turned into tv series/movie0 -
1. Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton
2. Any of Sherrilyn Kenyons books (Night Play is my fav)
3. Katie Macalisters books (corset Diaries in my fav)
4. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
5. The alchemist0 -
Because a top 5 OVERALL list would be too hard, here is top 5 re-read books
In no real order
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oats
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexadre Dumas
The Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
The Complete tales of Uncle Remus by/as told by Julius Lester0 -
Top 5!! Ah, that's hard to do.
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan - I've already reread most of these 5 or 6 times and listen to them over and over on audible as well.
All of Jane Austen's - I reread her books every summer
Sword of Truth - Terry Goodkind
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
Anything written by Paulo Coelho
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
I just realized that most of these books I already read over and over. Other authors I read over and over: Laurell K. Hamilton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Morgan Llywelyn and Amy Tan. These books are like old friends, I don't think I could ever give them up.
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1. Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton
2. Any of Sherrilyn Kenyons books (Night Play is my fav)
3. Katie Macalisters books (corset Diaries in my fav)
4. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
5. The alchemist
I love Anita Blake, The Inheritance Cycle, and Paulo Coelho!! I'm going to have to look up the other two on your list and add them to my queue.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Night by Elie Wiesel
Just missed the list:
Perdido Station by China Mieville
Stranger in a Strange Land
Maus by Art Spiegleman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Books by Tim Powers
and many, many more...0 -
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
... and so many more.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
Oh ya! I haven't read that for a long time! That one deserves another reading! I read it when if first came out. My, I've changed since then! It will seem like a new book, I'm sure.0 -
My Top 5 books (to date):
1. How to Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Inheritance Cycle
3. The Secret Garden
4. Evil Genius
5. Anything by Bryce Courtney! 0 -
The Harry Potter Series - Love them!
And anything by the following authors:
Cathy Lamb, but especially Such a Pretty Face
Lori Wick
Judith McNaught
And finally - anything from the Noah Bishop series from Kay Hooper0 -
1. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
2. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
3. Jailbird by Heather Huffman
4. Throwaway by Heather Huffman
5. True Colors by Kristin Hannah
I support all books by Nicholas Sparks, Heather Huffman, & Sarah Dessen (her books are more for teens, but she's still a great writer).0 -
I tend to follow certain authors. Top 5 in no particular order.
Trudi Canavan - Traiter Spy Trilogy
Brent Weeks - Shadows Edge
Karen Miller - The Godspeaker Trilogy
Anne McCaffrey - Dragon novels e.g The dragonriders of Pern
Terry Goodkind - Wizards First rule and rest of series.0
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