If you could only have FIVE books in your home what would they be?

[homebird29]

Which books would be essentials on your bed side table or coffee table? Name 5, a bit of fun!

Dog grooming essentials; essential in my house for the mut.
Jamie's 30 minute meals, or I would starve.
Nigellisima, as I like to perv at pictures of her
Pride and Prejudice, adore it
Hollywood Babylon

Puckoon - Spike Milligan
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Dubliners - James Joyce

The Bell Jar
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Notes on a Scandal
Sex and the City
Jane Eyre

A Clockwork Orange
Anna Karinina
Rebecca
The complete works of Agatha Christie
Something funny like a Chris Brookmyre

Death On The Nile
The Hunger Games
Emma
The Ice Cream Girls
The Love Verb

King's Dark Tower - I'd like the whole lot but if I can only have one, I'll have the last one

Jane Austen - P&P, S&S and Persuasion

A poetry book - probably Philip Larkin

The little Prince
Testament of youth
The great Gatsby
The blood of others
Something by Bill Bryson for my comfort food reading.

Hmm...

The Book of Night Women (incredibly moving)
The Grapes of Wrath (1st book at school that sparked my love of literature)
To Kill A Mocking a Bird
Memoirs of a Geisha
...... And Something a bit lighter, maybe a good glossy cookbook by Nigella or Delia

Les Miserables
Tess Of The D'urbervilles
The Secret History
Moll Flanders
Cold Comfort Farm for, er, comfort reading