If you could only read 5 books for the rest of your life, what would they be?
If you could only read 5 books for the rest of your life, what would they be?
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If you could only read 5 books for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Are we counting a series as one book? *hopeful*
Hmmm, I’ll allow it. It’s technically more than one book but it’s one story.
That changes things! ?
Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion (Tolkein), Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald), Night (Elie Wiesel), Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Harry Potter series. Memoirs of a Geisha. The Time Traveler’s Wife. Boy’s Life. Gone With The Wind.
Memoirs of a geisha has been a must read for me for a long time. Is it really good?
@Jackie I love it! I’ve read it at least half a dozen times.
The Time Travelers Wife is one if my favorites as well.
It’s really good. One of my favourites
Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Middlemarch, Bible, and The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
Count of Monte Cristo
One Thousand and One Nights.
Only 5??? I would kill myself before how can you choose only 5???
Lonesome Dove
Centennial
Grapes of Wrath
The hearts invisible furies
Days without end
Chesapeake
Sorry that’s 6. Just gready ?
Just to know i have only 5 more books to read….could kill me!!!
Orphan Train,Man called Ove,water for Elephants,The Great Alone,and Christian books by Francine Rivers…Her Mother’s Hope and her Daughter’s Dream
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Magus, The Collector, The Stand, and The Long Walk
Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, William Shakespeare, the Dark is Rising, The Source.
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And The Mountains Echoed, 1Q84, The Martian
Probably 5 books out of the Ghost Bird Series by CL Stone. There are so many awesome characters that they would have the best chance of not becoming monotonous.
The Time Travelers Wife, Jane Eyre, My Name is Memory, Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, and Immortal Instruments.
Oh, no! Major heart palpitations here!
Bronze Horseman series, Clan of Cave Bear series, Outlander series, Harry Potter series, The Stand.
Do completed works count as one book??
I’ll allow it.
What of combo books?? Ive a Stokers Dracula/Shelley Frankenstein in one. 5 would be torture… trying to squeeze in as many as possible, lol.
Haha, as long as it’s in one book I’ll allow it. So if it’s two stories in the same book then it counts.
Like the HP series as 1 book???
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Stoker/Shelley combo book
The Born In Triology combo book Nora Roberts
Moonraker’s Bride by Madeleine Brent
That’d be a book to have @Carmel!!! I couldnt find one in English when I Googled it. Does it exist?? I need it for my HP collection if it does!! ♡♡
@Luna I don’t have 1- but I imagine if you bought a series on Kindle it may come in 1 attachment.. (my 50 shades came with all 3 in 1 click.)
Its definitely available via ereader in that manner. Im partial to hardbound though, lol.
@Luna me too. I was rereading the Twilight series on holidays- and book 3 won’t open!!! Grrrrr
War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (cheating??), Middlesex, David Copperfield. (Bonus pick The Collected Works of Mark Twain.)
Great picks ?
T.s. Elliott – Four Quartets, Shakespeare’s – midsummer night’s dream, Mary Oliver – Dreamwork, Kristin Hannah – Nightingale, Lyudmilla Petroshuvskiy – the woman who tried to kill her neighbor’s baby
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Diary of Anne Frank
Secret Bride by Diane Haeger
The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
In the Shadow of Lady Jane by Charles Edwards
I read five books in a week.
That’s great. But that wasn’t the question. ?
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by H. Murakami, Sea-ocean by A. Baricco, To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee and Perfume by P. Suskind
Question: Only 5? My friend wrote more than 5. Can I count all 30+ of hers?
Only 5? Say what?!
Time traveler’s wife, from the corner of his eye, watchers, lightning, running with scissors
Nightingale, complete works of Shakespeare, Wuthering heights, the hobbit, and the shining
I think I would go out on a limb and say I would read 5 of the “1001 Before You Die” Books. Books You Must Read, Paintings You Must See, Historic Sites You Must See, Battles That Changed the Course of History, and Days That Shaped the World. ???
1984 by Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
The road by McCarthy
The handmaids tale by Atwood
A brave new world by Huxley
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Shipping News by Anne Proulx, Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak.
5?? Umm, A Thousand splendid suns/ 1984/ The Little Prince/ Confess/The Great Gatsby
Beach Music by Pat Conroy, The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts( counting those as one) , The Wisdom of Sunday’s by Oprah Winfrey, Pride and Prejudice, and Little Women. And I have to add The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
Portrait of a Lady, Poisonwood Bible, Life of Pi, The Mother,, Crime and Punishment
Hobbit, Lord of the Rings series, Harry Potter series.
Prodigal Summer; Eat, Pray, Love; The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating; Anne of Green Gables; Alice in Wonderland
I think ….anne of green gables series…shela o Flanagan’s.. My favorite good bye…Jackie Collins lucky …pride and prejudice… Daniel steels the ring…there are more books…but u want 5…
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; Sacajawea by Anna Waldo, The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, Leaving Time by Jodi Piccolt and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
Following
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
1984, George Orwell
To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Idiot Dostoyvsky
Pride and Prigdice, Jane Austin
Ishi, The Last of His Tribe; I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou; A Thousand Splendid Suns; Walden, Thoreau; Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri. But ask again next week and my list might be different! Just FIVE out of all the amazing books out there? Hard to do!
*Bible.
*My Utmost for His Highest.
*Purpose-driven Life.
*A Road Less Travelled.
*Practice the Presence of God.
I hate such nightmares ??