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Top Five Books Ever?

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Charlieboo30 · 11/04/2014 19:34

I'm an avid book worm - I read one a week, more if I'm on holiday - so get through a fair few books. It got me thinking, what would be my top five list.

I think (I will probably change my mind tomorrow) it would be:

'Chocolat' by Joanne Harris - the woman is a genius. I read this at least once a year. It's just magical.

'Just what kind of mother are you?' by Paula Daly. Only read this recently but I loved it. I'm very jealous of anyone who hasn't picked it up.

'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks. Had to read this for my A-levels and really didn't want to. In fact, I threw the mother of all strops and said it was a book for boys. I looked stupid when I admitted I had raced through it!

'Cross Stitch' by Diana Gabaldon. Not my genre at all but recommended by a friend. I couldn't put it down. Sadly the rest in the series are no-where near as good.

'The love of her life' by Harriet Evans. Not the most literary of books but a great easy read.

So not the most high brow of lists, but there you go! What would yours be?

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whitewitchofnarnia · 12/04/2014 17:50

The Harry potter books. Okay there is 7 but they are all brilliant

Treaclepot · 12/04/2014 17:49

The colour purple
To kill a mockingbird
Winnie the Pooh
Schindlers Arc
1984

all shaped my view of the world and helped set my moral compass.

Bowlersarm · 12/04/2014 17:33

Five on a Treasure Island Grin. Enid Blyton. It got me absorbed in reading from a young age. This book blew me away. Reading and enjoying reading was a whole new world.

Jane Eyre. As a young teenager I could read reasonably high brow fiction. Yay!

War and Peace. See above.

Dick Francis. Each and every one of them.

Agatha Christie/Harriet Evans (you sanctified that, OP, and have you read any sinead Moriarty?)/Winston Graham/and I've just scared myself rigid reading Alex Scarrow Armageddon scenario book which has scared me senseless-not the best of literary masterpieces but it will stay with me!!

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 12/04/2014 17:24

Stephen King's Dark Tower (the last one)

A Jane Austen - this varies according to the moon, but today I'll say, 'Sense and Sensibility'

Lolita

A Clockwork Orange

Erm...can't choose number five, so I'll have another Austen - Persuasion probs.

CoteDAzur · 12/04/2014 13:43

Oh Come On, PomBear! You are just baiting me now Grin

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 12/04/2014 01:29

Just going by the "books I wish everyone loved as much as I do" and books I read over and over again and still love just as much, and the ones where I wish I could have a "book amnesia pill" so I could forget them and read them for the first time all over again Grin I would say
On the Beach by Nevil Shute,
A Companion to Wolves by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Farseer Trilogy I know, I know by Robin Hobb.
Taken by the Hand by O. Douglas
and the fifth one changes by the second Grin

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OneEggIsAnOeuf · 11/04/2014 20:46

I very much like Joanne Harris too. Top 5 would probably be:

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin. One of the most beautiful books ever written.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Russian satire with a talking cat.

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov. Ukrainian satire with a ....penguin.

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. Started a life ling passion for all things Arthurian.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Well, anything by MA really.

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