Your Top 5 Books

[AchtungBaby]

It's simple: without thinking, list your top 5 books. Do it quick; go with your gut.

Here's mine:

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. It's Kind of a Funny Story
3. The Dead Zone
4. The October Country
5. To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[muskrat]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

On the Road

The Dark Tower

A Garden of Sand

The Long Goodbye

 

[fljoe0]

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Shining - (can't remember his name)
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Crooked Letter Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin
Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
The Darling - Russell Banks

 

[GNTLGNT]

-The Stand
-Odd Thomas
-The Martian Chronicles
-The Strain(trilogy)
-IT

 

[bhill]

really enjoyed S.M. Sterling's series about post-apocalyptic events....I think there are 5. Dies the Fire, is the first

 

[bhill]

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really enjoyed S.M. Sterling's series about post-apocalyptic events....I think there are 5. Dies the Fire, is the first

of course my favorite authors DT series..

 

[Doc Creed]

To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
The Grass Harp- Truman Capote
Shoeless Joe- W.P. Kinsella
Cry of Angels- Jeff Fields
Ballad of the Sad Café- Carson McCullers

Spoiler

Five more are rioting in my brain. I would most assuredly place A Prayer for Owen Meany among them.

 

[Zone D Dad]

Wow. I'll give it a shot:

American Tabloid - James Ellroy - No doubt about this one.
It - Stephen King - my favorite SK book
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (I know, I know) - The best book I was ever forced to read.
Swan Song - Robert McCammon - Thought I'd hate it because I had read The Stand. Turned out I LOVED it.
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Nightmares 'r Us. This one keeps you awake at night.

 

[staropeace]

Summer of Night...Dan Simmons
Insomnia...Stephen King
They Thirst....Rick MaCammon
A Breath of Snow and Ashes...Dianna Gabaldon
The Wolves of the Calla...Stephen King

 

[Kurben]

Lord Of the Flies - William Golding
Watership Down - Richard Adams
IT - Stephen King
A Boys Life - Rick McCammon
The Word For World Is Forest - Ursula K. LeGuin

 

[rudiroo]

Do it quick; go with your gut.

/QUOTE]

This is a great idea for a thread - reviewing a book with your gut and doing it fast isn't easy (that good ol' boy Intellect keeps trying to crash the party).
Anyway, here's my list, right here, right now (it could be different, tomorrow):

1. Schindler's Ark (Schindler's List in the US/title of the film) - Thomas Keneally
2. The Stand - SK
3. The World at Night - Alan Furst
4. The "Dead" series - TW Brown
5. The Last of the Savages - Jay McInerney

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

1:IT- Sk
2:The Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris (I liked "Red Dragon" and absolutely adored this book, only to get to the third one and feel immeasurable disappointment)
3:The Stand-Sk
4:The Outsiders -SE Hinton
5: Harry Potter book III- The Prisoner of Azkaban- JK Rowling (I like all the HP books but this one was really the high point of the series for me)

 

[Beatbox]

Pet sematary -SK
Horns - Joe Hill
The passage - Justin Cronin
Wizard and glass - SK
Lost boy lost girl - Peter Straub

 

[Mari Anne]

1. The haunting of Hill house. Shirley Jackson
2. The picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
3. Superstition by R.L. Stein
4. Huh-ho by Robert Fulgum
5. Insomnia by Stephen King

 

[osnafrank]

Bag of Bones
IT
Solaris
The Vagrant
The Art of War

 

[GNTLGNT]

1. The haunting of Hill house. Shirley Jackson
2. The picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
3. Superstition by R.L. Stein
4. Huh-ho by Robert Fulgum
5. Insomnia by Stephen King

....I love seeing someone posting Insomnia......not everyone's glass of milk, but I truly enjoyed it-and with each passing year, find it more and more true.....

 

[mal]

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
50 Shades of Grey - E. L. James
Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential - Joel Osteen
Scientology 8-8008: How to Increase Your Spirituality Ability from Zero to Infinity - L. Ron Hubbard
Hannah Montana: Recorder Fun! Pack - Miley Cyrus

...and anything by Stephen King of course!

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Back To Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills - Abigail R. Gehring
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook - David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell
Wilderness Living - Gregory J. Davenport
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times - James Wesley Rawles
The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining: How to Make and Drink Whiskey - Colin Spoelman, David Haskell

I've had a bad feeling about 2019... for some unknown reason.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Back To Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills - Abigail R. Gehring
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook - David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell
Wilderness Living - Gregory J. Davenport
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times - James Wesley Rawles
The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining: How to Make and Drink Whiskey - Colin Spoelman, David Haskell

I've had a bad feeling about 2019... for some unknown reason.

...do tell....

 

[DiO'Bolic]

...do tell....

A couple of years ago I had one of those dreams that you can't tell if it is real or you're dreaming (while you are dreaming). I woke up in a sweat and with a very bad uneasy feeling. The dream went away fast after waking but one of the things I remembered whatever happened it was while I was taking my youngest to college... which will be in 2019. Dreams are silly, right?