top 5 fav

[jodie1404]

hi, im just curious wat evry1's top 5 fav books are?

mine are: -tainted lives (madasue heller), keeping it real (jodie marsh), boy called it (dave pelzer), the know (martina cole) and the kid (lewis kevin)   thanx!

[Jackanory]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian, Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner both by A A Milne.

From your list I have read Boy Called It & The Kid - both heart-rending.  Will give the others a go, thanx!  :o)

[blueeyedlass]

my favourites would be not without my daughter- betty mamoody(true story),trainspotting- irvin welsh, i love the flowers in the attic series _virginia andrews,the barrytown trilogy-roddy doyle,and inconcievable - ben elton.

[Romeo]

1984 (George Orwell),

Lord of the Flies (William Golding),

A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M Miller Jr),

The Black Corridor (Michael Moorcock),

Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett).

[Smiffy]

The Good Companions - J B Priestley

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Gaudy Night - Dorothy L Sayers

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? - Agatha Christie

The last makes the list not because it is a great book but because It was the very first crime/mystery book that I ever read and it introduced me to a genre that has entertained me for many years. 

[quibbmedusa]

mine would be:angels and d emons by dan brown
sleepers by lorenzo carcaterro
the exorcist by william peter blatty( so much better than the film
the lovely bones by alice seabold
and of course the half blood prince by j.k.rowling!

[mycatis]

ANY of the Vorkosigan series -Lois mcMaster Bujold
Dune - Frank Herbert
Legend - David Gemmell
Wuthering Height - Emily Bronte
most of the Discworld books -Terry Pratchett

And yes I know it's cheating but please dont make me narrow it down any further, lol

[sophie_1003]

mine would be (not in order)

The Hobbit-JRRTolkein

Little Women-Louisa May Alcott

The Bromeliad Trilogy-Terry Pratchett

Holes-Louis Sachar

Lord of the Flies-William Golding, I could do with doing my top 20, its well hard to decide which ones to put in!

[kick3m0n]

In no particular order.......The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and anything by Christopher Brookmyre

[spudqueen]

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Unlikely Ones - Mary Brown
The World of Tiers - Philip Jose Farmer
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

So difficult to choose, like sophie 1003 I could do with listing a top 20!

[Test4]

1/ Miss Smilla's feeling for snow (Peter Hoeck); 2/ Les Reveries du Promeneur solitaire (sorry I only know the title in French / Jean-Jacques Rousseau);3 / Pride and prjudice (Jane Austen); 4/ The Bible; 5/The wonderfull story of Henry Sugar (Road Dahl)

[gaisce1]

Underworld- Don DeLillo,

Moby Dick Herman Melville

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

That they may face the rising sun - John McGahern.

The Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy.

[cliffsdoll]

flowers in the attic

a child called it

the devil rides out

is that it   bob geldof

the little prisoner

[AndreaScopaz]

Madasue Heller - The Game
Madasue Heller - The Club
Martine Cole - The Game
Torey Hayden - Tiger Child
Paolo Coehlo - 11 minutes