What are your top 5 most favorite books of all time?

[Douglas Dubh]

Dune
Catch-22
Bright Lights Big City
Lord of Light
The Tomb

As many have said, most books I’ve loved were part of series.

 

[MouseOfCards]

Here's a few:

How To Traumatize Your Children - 7 Proven Methods to Help You Screw Up Your Kids Deliberately and With Skill
All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek
I Gave You My Heart, But You Sold It Online
No, He's Not a Monkey, He's an Ape and He's My Son
Men Read Newspapers, Not Minds
Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

 

[MouseOfCards]

A few more:

You ARE Old - Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life
How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety
Golden Years My As*: Adventures in Geriatric Indignity
How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Mummy Makes Notes of What Daddy Says, So She Can Bring Them Up Again in Ten Years

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

Catch-22 is my favorite. I can't rank them beyond that, there are too many greats.

 

[Pooh2]

Gift of Life- Henri Landwirth -The story of the founder of Give Kids the World.
Light From Lucas- Bob Vanderplatts

 

[NiceBlue]

Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Emma

 

[Shellsbutt]

I absolutely love this thread! So many great books out there, I'm taking notes, lol.

Growing up:
Little House on the Prairie series
The Chronicles of Narnia
Anne of Green Gables

Books read to my sons:
Harry Potter series
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Mysterious Benedict Society

As an adult:
The Good Earth
Like Water for Chocolate
Chocolat
Cutting for Stone
All the Light We Cannot See

 

[Boopuff]

As a child
Little House on the Prarie"
original Nancy Drew.
Adult:
The Stand - Stephen King
Dark Tower series - Stephen King
All Things Great and Small - James Herriott

 

[Mysterian]

Lord of Light

I have this book! I haven't read it yet. Love the premise though.

 

[Douglas Dubh]

I have this book! I haven't read it yet. Love the premise though.

I love Zelazny, but most of his books were series. I’ve read Lord of Light a couple of times.

 

[DisneyClassicFan]

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Prep by Curtis Sittenfield
The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma MacLaughlin
Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

When I was younger I loved American Girl, The Babysitters Club and Goosebumps and I've decided this year I'm going to reread these books and see if I still love them.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

It would be fun to meet up with all of you at a library! Enjoy a good book today, friends

 

[gmi3804]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Shining by Stephen King
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Choosing only five is difficult, but these stand out. Especially the Toole.

 

[disneyseniors]

I know there is a reading challenge thread, this is different. I absolutely love to read, have read many, many over 62 years. But I'm always in search of my next favorite. I use a Kindle, but love the library too. So when I say favorite, I mean, can't put down read all night kind of book, the kind that stays with you long after you read it. Here are mine, starting when I was young up till now.

1. Cashelmara-Susan Howatch
2. Anne Frank's Diary
3. And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie
4. Nightingale-Kristen Hannah
5. Shoemakers Wife-Adriana Trigiani

Those are my most favorite, but I have many, many more. How about you?

I am an avid reader, always have been.

I usually read all the books by an author I like, and I have many hard cover books in my collections.
1) Harry Potter books
2) Suzanne Brockman series of Troubleshooters
3) Preston/Child books with the strange FBI man, Pendergast
4) John Edward books
5) Karin Slaughter books, the Will Trent series
honorable mention, LOL, is Robert Crais books, he is a funny writer and keeps me laughing with his quirky detective series.

I guess I like suspense series with quirky characters. All those fit the bill.

 

[BrightMorningStar]

The Bible
The entire Narnia Series by CS Lewis, although I am adult, anything else by Lewis
Left Behind Series
Anne Frank's Diary
As a kid I liked anything by Judy Blume

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Anything by Sophie Kinsella, who wrote Confessions of a Shopaholic and many more.

 

[MissStitch626]

My favourites growing up were The Silver Sword, Maniac Magee, The Babysitters Club books, Point Horror books, and Sweet Valley High.

All-time/adult favourites are:

Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
The Owens family books by Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic, The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic)
Any book by Fannie Flagg
Stephen King books (especially Salem's Lot, Needful Things, and IT)

 

[RUDisney]

The entire Outlander series
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
The Swan
Gone with the Wind

 

[violina]

Children's:

• Charlotte's Web
• Little Princess
• Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
• The Little Prince
• Harry Potter series

Adult:

• Solaris
• One Day
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Sherlock Holmes

 

[hrhdhd]

1. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
5. (tie) anything by Peter Swanson
5. (tie) anything by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen