Hi There, just wondering what is the best book you have ever read or your top 3 x
Hi There, just wondering what is the best book you have ever read or your top 3 x
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Hi There, just wondering what is the best book you have ever read or your top 3 x
Easy!
Time Travelers Wife
The Other Boylen Girl
The Help
@Simona ooh I loved the film of The Help! Might try the book now. Thanks!
Girl get a copy!!! It has questions that everybody have to answer
@Dawn the book is great, even better than the film
The Other Bowylen Girl is fantastic
I tried to read The Time Travelers Wife more than once. Maybe I should try it again
The Help is wonderful!
My all time favorite is And Ladies of the Club. Then Henris Sisters and of course anything by Kate Morton
Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving; Shadowland, Peter Straub; Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
@Shelia Will get that Shadowland as one of my faves is Talisman by King/Straub. Winters Tale, is that a film too? I loved a film called Winters Tale with Russel Crowe, will give that a go too, thank u! x
@Dawn Read Talisman. Love Straub. The Winter’ Tale movie that I saw had Colin Ferrell. Loved that book. I have read these three books over and over.
@Shelia yes its the same one, Russell Crowe played the baddie. I’ll order the book today, excited!!
All My Love, Detrick series by Roberta Kagan, Secret of the Rose series by Michael Phillips, War Girl series by Marion Kummerow,
@Shirley thank u! I’m bed ridden for a while so need some new books! lol
Just finished a Prayer for Owen Meany
@Dawn I have over 1100 books in my Good Reads account, I have them all sorted and shelved by the kind of book. So I can pull from my library when someone wants a specific kind of book.
@Shirley I love fantasy and historical fiction. I’ve been reading books based on fairytales too lately. I don’t like books that r too sad. Hubby doesn’t like seeing me cry my eyes out like when I read Boy in the Striped Pyjamas!
I know what you mean I read The Alice Network and cried all way through the book. some good historical fiction that wasn’t too sad but I really enjoyed was the canteen series by Sara C. Putman. The first book is Canteen Dreams. It is about girls during the war holding a canteen for soldiers on the trains passing through. Sweet romance..clean fiction. I did like them a lot. One more series was The workshop girls series by Rosie Clarke. The first book was Lizzie’s secret. They were also clean fiction about the 2nd world war. Good books but not graphic. Also the books written by Diney Costeloe were very good.
Green Mile by Stephen King, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and anything that is a classic. Plus the Bible.
Gone With The Wind was great
@Gail – I can read it over and over.
@Janet They made an awful movie sequel but was there a sequel book??
Yes there is actually a series of books but by a different author.
@Janet Is it as good?
Has anyone read Scarlett?
Yes, i love Scarlett. There is also a book called, Rhett.
@Gail – excellent.
Interview With A Vampire
Forever
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, The Hobbit,
Time And Again
I guess I added 2 more great books
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn???
@Holly Have you seen the movie?
I have not! I should look it up
I really like The Smallest Kiss
Sarah j Maas series!!!
I’m reading Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt right now and it’s awesome
Jane Eyre, The Alchemist, Memoirs of a Geisha (reading currently), The Beautiful and Damned, Anna Karenina – top 5
The Treasure Box by Penelope Stokes, The Tortilla Curtain by T J Boyle and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Anne Perry William monk series Laura Carr Mac Faraday series & Steve demaree the dekker series
The Anne Perry Monk series is great
The Amber Room, The DaVincci Code and Looking for Me.
1. The Stand
2. Lonesome Dove
3. Rebecca
Top 3 Carrie Pilby, Fangirl, and Eleanor and park.
This is such a hard question to answer. There are just so many I love.
Beauty by Sheri S Tepper, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy and Polgara the Sorceress by David and Leigh Eddings are three of the one’s I have read many times over.
@Jenny I love David Eddings!! I have every one of his books and have read them all a few times over the yrs
@Dawn I have read heaps of Eddings too, I love them all but Polgara is my favourite. ?
@Jenny I mourn when I finish them ? I love all the characters!
@Jenny the Prince of Tides
@Stacey despite some of the subject matter and concepts in this book and how sad it is, I just love how beautifully written it is. Pat Conroy’s use of language is just stunning.
@Jenny I agree ?
a random three from my top 100-odd – First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield, Most Secret by Nevil Shute
Loved To Serve Them All My Days.
My top three, in order, are: The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.
The Day I Lost You by Alex Sinclair, The Waiting Room by Emily Bleeker and anything by James Patterson!
Top 3: 1. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. 2. Letters To The Lost by Iona Grey. 3. A Higher Call by Adam Makos
I can’t pick a top three but my all time favourite is By Reason of Insanity as Shane Stevens.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has been my favorite for years.Betty Smith oldie but goodie.
Outlander, Harry Potter, and The Nightengale… but there are so many more that are right up there…
All the Light We Cannot See, Middlesex,The Goldfinch
The fault in our stars, azaria and pet semetary
Under the Dome and The Stand, both by Stephen King.
Until today:
1 – The Physician (noah Gordon)
2 – Contact (Carl Sagan)
3 – The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
1) In This House of Brede/Rumer Godden; 2) Pillars of the Earth/Ken Follett; 3) Day of the Jackal/Frederick Forsyth.
I loved House of Brede!
Bel Canto, Anne Patchett; Hawaii by can’t remember; any Ann Tyler book.
The FUNNIEST books ever are “Confederacy of Dunces” (John Kennedy Toole) and “Augustus Carp” (H Bashford)
Harry Potter, Pride and prejudice and gone with the wind are my top 3. (Here are some of my other favorites: The little prince, Jane Eyre, little women, angels and demons)
I know we’re not talking kids books here but my all time favourite book since I was a child is Where the Wild Things Are. I loved it and read it to my kids and have given it as a gift to every child I know. I must have bought 50 copies at least in my time and when my boys have kids, they will get it too. ?
thats amazing!
Is it this book. Never read it but would like to & give to kids on my lending trike library.
@Dorothy yes that is the one. It is a classic. They even made a movie of it but it wasn’t very good. The book is so much better.
@Jenny thanks?
@Dorothy my pleasure. I so hope you love it as much as I do. ???
Anne of Green Gables, The Stand, Dragonsong. It’s a very diverse collection and there are an awful lot of books crowded right under there, but those are the three.
Vicious by v.e schwab
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Going Bovine by Libba Bray, and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.
All time fav – Shantaram
Prince of Tides and A Little Life.
The Cincinnati and Baltimore series by Karen Rose. I have read them over and over they are my favorite.
Man’s Search for Meaning, Thank You Mr. Falker, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dragon Series
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
1 The Jungle
2 So Big
3 An American Tragedy
4. Look Homeward Angel
5 A Raisin in the Sun
6 The Invisible Man
7 The Color Purple
8 The Plays of Shakespeare
9 The Love Poems of Rumi
10 The Bible As It Was
11 The Norrton Anthology of American Poetry
So Big was great!
It is a great American novel!
Giant by Edna Ferber is also good.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Winter Solstice!
1.a Gentleman in Moscow
2. Hawaii
3 Anything by Anne Patchett
4 way too many to go on!
I have too many to count, but at the top are Rebecca, To Kill Mockingbird, The Persian Pickle Club, and recently, Nightingale.
Ummm, can I go with series instead?!? Rise of the Iliri and Kiss of Death by Auryn Hadley. Then Redemption Saga by Kristen Banet
All time favorite is Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis + his other books also ? I mostly read non-fiction, but for a change of pace I do read historical fiction. Right now reading “Settling the Account” 3rd in a series on my Kindle, by Shayne Parkinson.
Nicholas and Alexandra, East of Eden and A Gentleman in Moscow.
My Grandmother told me to tell you she is Sorry, Outlander, Game of Thrones.
I’m sure that I have at least a top three hundred. I’ll give you an at-random response — the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
1.The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. And Then There Were None
3. Persuasion
Anything by Nora Roberts or Nicholas Sparks!
1) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2) Waiting for White Horses by Nathan
Jorgensen
3) The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Winter Solstice and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn