Readers, please answer?

Question

Name your top 10 favorite books, if you only have five, list five.
Or you can cheat, like I did..

Mine are (in no particular order):

1. "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon (and all the other books in this series, to me it is just one long story)
3. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel (again include the others)
4. "The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy (Include other Jack Ryan books, but not the rest of the stuff he puts out.)
5. "The Stand" by Stephen King (can I say all other Stephen King?)
6. "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling (all of 'em, love it)
7. "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCollough(sp?)
8. "Illusions" by Richard Bach
9. "The Abandoned" by Paul Gallico
10. "Portrait of Jennie" by Robert Nathan

These might not be my absolute favorites, but they are pretty close.
Thanks for answering!

Answer 1

"The Forest House" Marion Zimmer Bradley

"The Mists of Avalon" Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Angels & Demons" Dan Brown

"Excell 2003 Formulas" by John Walkenbach (you betcha!)

"Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man" Tim Allen

"The DaVinci Code" Dan Brown

"Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain

"Illusions" Richard Bach

"Marker" Robin Cook

"Anatomy of the Spirit" Caroline Myss

And just about anything by Dean Koontz

Answer 2

1. Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, The Voyager, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, The Fiery Cross (Diana Gabaldon)

2. Harry Potter series

3. The Hobbit

4. The Lord of the Ring trilogy

5. Public Secrets (Nora Roberts)

6. True Evil (Greg Iles)

7. The entire J.D. Robb series (Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb

8. Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

9. Johnny Tremaine ???

10. Great Expectations

Answer 3

1. The Holy Bible- various

2. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee

3. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

4. The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck

5. A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens

6. A Room With a View- E.M. Forester

7. A Painted House- John Grisham

8. The Christmas Box- Richard Paul Evans

9. The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks

10. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn- Betty Smith

Answer 4

1. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon ( I sent an e-mail to her just before the 4th book and she answered me!)



2. Dragon Riders of P.E.R.N. by Ann McCaffery (and all the dragon books that go with them! lol)



3.Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear ect.)



4. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R Donaldson (First, Second, and the Last)



5. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan



6. Dune series by L Ron Hubbard (not the ghost written ones though)



7. Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind



getting away from the scifi/fantasy



8. The Butcher's Theater. sorry don't recall the author



9. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conrad (cry every time)



10. People of the Wolf buy Kathleen and Micheal Gear



I could go on and on with this one. and the multi novel ones ARE long stories! Heck Scifi/ authors have a gene that won't let them stop at one book they HAVE to write in 3's or more! lol

Answer 5

1. Ulysses - James Joyce

2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

3. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

4. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Richard Farina

5. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

6. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan

7.Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan

8. Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen

9. The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler

10. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

No particular order

Answer 6

1. The Stand by Stephen King

2. The Talisman by Stephen King

3. The Hobbitt by JRRTolkien

4. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

5. M is for Malice by Sue Grafton

6. Rose Madder by Stephen King

7. Ghost Story by Peter Straub

8. Eyes of Prey by John Sandford

9. The Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

10. The Ruins by Scott Smith

Answer 7

Yeah! Hooray for books! Almost as fun and exciting as MUSIC!

The Active Side of Infinity ... and all other Castaneda

Journeys Out Of The Body and Far Journeys . Robert Monroe

A Course In Miracles.....?

The Urantia Book.....?

Autobiography Of A Yogi... Paramahansa Yogananda

The Tao of Physics... Fritjof Capra

Franny And Zooey ... Salinger

A Peaceful Warrior... Danny Millman

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.. Dee Brown

Beyond The Bleep ... Alexandra Bruce

Living Buddha, Living Christ... Thich Nhat Hanh

that's my story and I'm stickin to it

Peace to you Sage several of yours I will have to read Clan of The Cave Bear (have it on the shelf gonna dust it off)

Answer 8

Okay, it's great to look at these lists, so I'll try my own:

1. Beyond the Western Sea, by Avi (two part adventure)

2. Six of One, by Rita Mae Brown, fun and hilarious

3. Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare, a classic

4. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond, fantastic scientific look at the unfolding of human cultures

5. The Truth, With Jokes, by Al Franken, fun, but infuriating

6. Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh, another kids' classic

7. Cider House Rules, the best of John Irving

8. Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, WOW

9. The Manny Files, by Christian Burch

10. Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone / Rajiv Chandrasekaran. You wanna know why things went bad and keep getting worse?

Answer 9

1. Hunt for Red October-all time modern war story

2. The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brien

3. Andersonville-McKinley Kantor-all time favorite historical

fiction

4.The Stand-favorite S. King book

5. Starship Trooper-Heinlein

6. Henry Potter series-how can you not like this series

7. Battlefield Earth=L.Ron Hubbard-only decent book he

wrote

8. Sea Wolf-Jack London-his best

9. Concrete Island- Ballard-different but interesting

10. Hornblower series-Forester-excellent series of British

Navy during Napoleonic era



So many choices. The above may not be the best "literature" but are some of my favorites.

Answer 10

1. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

2. The Essential Mystics by Andrew Harvey

3. Chalktown by Melinda Haynes

4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

5. A biography of Nietzshe that I keep turning back to...it's by Crane Brinton

6. 1984 by George Orwell

7. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

8. Fahrenheit 451 451 by Ray Bradbury

9. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

10. Utopia by Thomas More



All are fantastic reads....

Answer 11

1. "The Odyssey" Homer

2. "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell

3. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" J.K Rowling

4. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" J.K. Rowling

5. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" J.K. Rowling

6. "Eragon" Christopher Paolini

7. "The Lightning Thief" Rick Riordan

8. "The Sea of Monsters" Rick Riordan

9. "A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens

10. "The Giver" Lois Lowry

Answer 12

Oh god...ummm...ok... ah hell,I can cheat too



1. Waylander by David Gemmell

2. Daughter,Mistress and Servent of the Empire(thats three books,I cheated, sue me)

3. Legend by David Gemmell

4. Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell ((ahh hell, any David Gemmell)

5. The Stand by Stephen King

6. Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

7. Iliad by Homer

8. Any of the Tamul, Elenium trilogies by David Eddings

9. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett...(in fact any Terry Pratchett)

10. Phantom (can't remember author)

Answer 13

1. Eragon By Christopher Paolini

2. Eldest By Christopher Paolini

3. Wild Magic By Tamora Pierce

4. Catcher in the Rye by, gee, I don't remember.

5.The Golden Compass By someone Pullman.

Sorry the authors are vague, but I don't have the books here with me =D =P

Answer 14

1.The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 2.1984 by George Orwell 3.The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wild 4.Nights and Days of Arabia by Naggib Mahfouz 5.Weathered Heights by Emily Bronte 6.Last of Amazons by Steven Pressfield 7.Faoust by Goethe 8.When Nietzsche Cried by Irvin Yalom 9.The Historian by Elisabeth Kostova and 10.The Savouir-Vivre

Answer 15

Harry Potter series{just cant wait for the 7 th book}

All of John Grisham;s and Nelson DeMille's novels

Answer 16

in no particular order (sorry about all the series, but I can't separate them--guess I'm cheating, too!):



Outlander series (Gabaldon)

Dragonriders of Pern series (McCaffrey)

The Belgariad/Mallorean (Eddings)

Katherine (Anya Seton)

Legacy (S. Kay)

Murder Must Advertise (Sayers)

King Kelson's Bride (Kurtz)

almost anything by Mercedes Lackey (yep, that's probably close to 50 titles that I alone own--hmmm--try Owlsight, Children of the Night, or Ill-Met by Moonlight)

The Warlock Wandering (Stasheff)

Lioness Rampant (Pierce)





yep, cheated wildly--but like you say, a series is like a long story.

Answer 17

All the Harry Potter books (I can't wait for the 7th to come out!)

Maximum Ride by James Peterson (I think) (All 3 of them)

"And then there were none" by Augatha Christe



Hmmm, I think of any others right now, but those are my favorite in paticular order.

Answer 18

would have to start with

1.the raven by edger allen poe

2.of course all harry potter books

3.lord of the rings.by Jr tollken

4.all of the sherlock holms books.by sir aurther conan doyle

5.ellery queen mysterys.

6.The Hard boys an Nancy drew mysteries

Answer 19

here are mine!!!enjoy!(no particular order)

1. Song of the Lioness quartet- Tamora Pierce

2. Twilight- Stephanie Meyer

3. Eragon- Christopher Paolini

4. Terrier- Tamora Pierce

5. the book of mormon

Answer 20

in no particular order:



harry potter

eragon/eldest

star wars new jedi order

star wars episodes 2 and 3 (movies are better!!)

snow

Shakespeare's secret

farsala trilogy

alice in wonderland and through the looking glass

pellinor series

redwall books

books of bayern (goose girl/enna burning/river secrets)

jane eyre

chronicles of narnia

lord of the rings

the hobbit



its more than 10, i know.

Answer 21

1. illusions, jon L seagull, bridge across forever... richard bach

2. red trilogy... ted dekker

3. the oath... frank peretti

4. a short history of nearly everything

5. musashi... yoshikawa

6. lord of the rings trilogy / hobbit

7. harry potter

8. guns of the south

9. the empty mirror janwillem v d wettering

10 the prophet kahlil gibran

Answer 22

I don't know but here is a poem to make you feel happy.



Born fragile, born sweet,

Into the hands of rings.

Born a monster, born elite.



A monster's fate is his beat,

Hes just begininng to learn instinctive things.

Born fragile, born sweet.



Now knowing secrets of the street,

This young prince has grown horned wings.

Born a monster, born elite.



Siring children is his next feat,

Heirs is what that brings.

Born fragile, born sweet.



He died shameful, he died defeat,

Death brings joy to the valley for it sings.

Born a monster, born elite.



Father dead, repeat, repeat

But 'tis the way of Royalty, but 'tis the way of kings.

Born Fragile,born sweet,

Born a monster, born elite.

Answer 23

I loved Mists of Avalon! I don't often enough meet people who have read it. woo hoo!

Answer 24

to kill a mocking bird i can not remember who wrote it......i dont know if ur lookin for good books to read or what but thats a really good book