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Tell me your top 10 books..fiction and non fiction both

Tell me your top 10 books…fiction and non fiction both

Harsha #review #fiction #nonfiction

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Aashish

1. Hitopadesha
2. Education and the significance of life
3. The Republic
4. Metamorphosis
5. Waiting for Godot
6. Panchtantra
7. Yaksha and Yudhisthir samnwaad
8. Look back in anger
9. Symposium
10. The trial

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Diane

Not in any order
Gone With The Wind
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter And Sweet
The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
The Thorn Birds
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Gift from the Sea
The Last Lecture
The Secret Life of Beas
Unbroken
The Pillars of the Earth
Educated:A Memoir
I guess that is more than 10 and I could add more.
The list is ever changing

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Sean

Loved the secret life of bees ?

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Kelsey

Not in any order:
Harry Potter
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Vicious by VE Schwab
A Court of Mist & Fury by Sarah J Maas
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
All the Ugly & Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood
Wonder by RJ Palacio

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Sean

Wonder was a really good read , should be required reading at school ?

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Kelsey

@Sean definitely!

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Whit

Tao Te Ching, Harry Potter, Man’s Search for Meaning, Mistborn, Sherlock Holmes, and so much by Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood. I know that’s more than 10, but it’s the best I can do right now. 🙂

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Laura

1) “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee,
2) “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou,
3) “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen Ambrose,
4) “All Creatures Great and Small” by James Herriot,
5) “Harry Potter” (entire series)
6) “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz,
7) “The Walking Drum” by Louis L’Amour,
8) “Everyday Greatness” by Stephen Covey,
9) “Redwall” by Brian Jacques,
10) “Band of Brothers” by Stephen Ambrose,
11) “Unbroken” by Lauren Hillenbrand,
12) “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon,
13) “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
14) “Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed,
15) “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan,
16) “The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss,
17) “Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurtry,
18) “The Art of Happiness” by H.H. Dalai Lama,
19) “Seal of Honor-Operation Red Wings” by Gary Williams,
20) “The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien (and trilogy).

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Sean

In no particular order ? and would probably be different tomorrow;
Les Miserable
The stand
1984
The road
Memoirs of a geisha
Catch 22
Rebecca
All quiet on the western front
Alone in Berlin
Frankenstein
Titus Andronicus

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Laura

Oh, great choices. 🙂

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Sean

@Laura thanks , so hard to narrow it down to ten

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Laura

So very true, Sean! ☮️??

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Chris

In no particular order
1. Sabbath’s Theater
2. Herzog
3. The Portrait of a Lady
4. White Noise
5. Humboldt’s Gift
6. Lolita
7. Lord Jim
8. In Search of Lost Time
9. The Recognitions
10. The Ghost Writer

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Melissa

Non Fiction lover here:
Lone Survivor
The Last Girl
The Long Road Home
Prisoner of Tehran
Cutting for Stone (fiction)
Unbroken
A Long Way Home
Never Stop Walking
The Golden Son (fiction)
Princess: Jean Sassoon

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Lori

My favorite nonfiction right now is A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Great book

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Melissa

that has been on my TBR list forever. I need to finally just read it ?

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HarshaQuestion author

Will definitely read all these recommendations

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Melissa

i recommend The Last Girl first… finished it a few months ago and it’s still with me. Such a great story of overcoming.

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HarshaQuestion author

@Melissa Thank you so much

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Diane

Who is the author of the Last Girl, please?

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Melissa

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Sharon

You would like A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout.

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Melissa

@Sharon yay it’s on my TBR list! I was going to read it a few weeks ago but some reviews deterred me a bit. But i will absolutely give it a try!

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Sharon

@Melissa I couldn’t put it down; everyone I passed it on to; same thing.

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Lanny

Control, The Greatest Miracle In The World, The Princess Bride, To Kill A Mockingbird, Marathon Man, The Angel, Pay It Forward, The Christ Comission, In Cold Blood, As You Wish(The Making Of The Movie The Princess Bride)

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Lori

No particular order:
1. Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn
2. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
4. Night by Elie Wiesel
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
6. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
8. Game of Thrones series by George RR Martin
9. Lord of the Rings trilogy (and The Hobbit) by JRR Tolkien
10. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

Boy that was hard. So many more that I loved! ??

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Stacey

1. Outlander entire series 2. The Red Tent 3 . Water for elephants 4 . The time traveler’s wife 5 . 11/22/63 5 . The poisonwood bible 6 . LAMB the gospel
according to biff 7 . How to stop time 8 .The Nightingale 9. Slaughterhouse five 9. I know this much is true 10. Pride and prejudice

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Sean

Some great books☝️ the poisonwood bible, water for elephants, The nightingale abs pride and prejudice are all brilliant. I’m sure other times I’ve been asked this question they’ve been on my list.

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HarshaQuestion author

Thank you guys

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Kelly

1984
The Scarlet Letter
Faust
Siddhartha
T.S. Eliot poetry
Sappho fragments
Wasted
Never Let Me Go
The Remains of the Day
Haruki Murakami’s fiction

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Sean

I love Ishiguros books, great choices?

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Darren

Fantastic list! I love 1984 and Siddhartha as well.

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Michele

To Kill A Mockingbird
Macbeth
Othello

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Michele

Also Mercedes Lackey ‘s “Arrows” series
David Copperfield
JD Robb ‘s “In Death” series
Anything by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Jhalak

Not in a sequence all the beautiful lies, malice, the girl on the train, the gone girl

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Sharon

A Thousand Splendid Suns, A House in the Sky, Rebecca, East of Eden, The Thornbirds, An Invisible Thread, Valley of the Dolls, Redeeming Love, The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Memoirs of a Geisha.

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Andrea

I forgot all about Valley of the Dolls! I love that book?

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Jenny

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Stand
The Name of the Rose
Diary of Anne Frank
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
The Cider House Rules
A Man Called Ove
The Virgin Suicides
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
And Then There Were None

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Andrea

This list changes frequently, but for now :
Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
The Executioner’s Song- Norman Mailer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
The Goldfinch- Donna Tarrt
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
Celebrity- Thomas Thompson
Pet Semetary- Stephen King
The Bronze Horseman- Paullina Simons
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir- Paul Monette
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Breaking Night- Liz Murray
The Other Side of Midnight – Sidney Sheldon
Sorry , I couldn’t stop at 10?

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Emma

Not in any particular order
1 Harry Potter ( series)J K Rowling
2 The carrero (series )L t marshal
3 lord of the rings J R R Tolkien
4 The outsiders S E Hinton
5 To Kill a mockingbird Ken Kesey
6 Dead witch walking (Series )Kim Harrison
7 The chronicles of Narnia C S Lewis
8 Wuthering Hights Emily Bronte
9 Rivers of London Ben Aaronovich (series)
10 IT Stephen King

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Chris

Fine list; but a bit of a problem with #5

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Christine

Escapist here… all fiction…
Interview with the vampire
Queen of the damned
The diaries of the family dracul trilogy
Hunger games trilogy
The neverending story
A court of thorns and roses (book 1)

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Stephanie

Well I actually did a video on this but it doesn’t include some other favorites that weren’t eligible for this tag

https://youtu.be/myDQBTFpHYs

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Darren

1. The Rebel/The Myth of Sisyphus
2. The Stranger
3. 1984
4. Animal Farm
5. Brave New World
6. Siddhartha
7. Harry Potter series
8. God Is Not Great
9. No Country For Old Men
10. True Grit

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Shivani

Harry Potter series
Infernal devices series
Acotar series
Selection series
Penryn and the end of the day series
Unfortunate fairytale series
Hunger games
Strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender
Diary of a young girl
Covenant series

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Amanda

*Murder House
*Eat, Pray, Love
*Humans, Bow Down
*Sometimes You Win—Sometimes You Learn
*You Are A Badass
*The Five Love Languages
*Firefly Lane
*Heaven is for Real
*God is for Real
*Fifty Shades Series.

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Miggy

1. The Hunger Games
2. Aristotle and Dante discovers the Secrets of the Universe
3. The Half Blood Prince

4. Black Creek Crossing
5. A Boy worth Knowing
6. The Battle of the Labyrinth
7. Twilight
8. A Game of Thrones
9. The Hammer of Thor
10. IT

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Lisa

Books by – Kylie Scott – Books by – jay Crownover ..

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Diana-Katry

* Harry Potter series
* Skulduggery Pleasant series
* Lockwood & Co series
* A Darker Shades of Magic trilogy
* Jackaby
* Robert Asprin’s Myth series
* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
* Terry Pratchett books
* Rick Riordan books
Not in order, not single books and there’s probably more that I just did not remember at the moment ??

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