Thats a tough one… probably The Outsiders, Eleanor and Park, and Harry Potter. Those were the first to come to mind, it’ll probably change if you ask me again tomorrow XD
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Book Thief and To Kill A Mockingbird, but I’m going to add The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society add second second favorite.
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver),Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl), but it is very hard to name just 3…
The Great Gatsby, Looking for Alaska, The Source (although these probably more represent types of books and leaves out some others of my favorites like Notes from a Small Island and the Chronicles Of Narnia)
It’s very good, I read her other books but mists is her only good one I thought anyway. There was a movie on cable,but it’s to big a book to do it right!
REALLY hard to name just 3. I think we have favorite books at different times of our lives, Books that come immediately to mind are: Gone With the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Kite Runner, Plainsong, Ordinary Grace – gotta stop, I’m past 3 already!
The Book Thief, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Invention of Wings are 3 favorites. So hard to choose. It’s like choosing one of your children over the others!
Agree that “of all time” is challenging. What I loved in my 40’s would ready differently now that I’m in my 70’s. Loved Outlander series and all books written by Bryce Courtenay. Anna Quindlen, Kristin Hannah….
Without thinking too hard All the Light We Cannot See is definitely on my list of favorites …. I”ll have to give it some thought to come up with my other two 😉
The Fountainhead for strength of purpose The chronicles of narnia (ever so slightly over lord of the rings) for good over evil Charlottes Web for love and Friendship
Omg, what a question! Ok, first off, it changes over time. My age effects what my favorites are, but all time? Well, in no particular order, right now, today, I would say… 1. A Discovery of Witches 2. Lonesome Dove 3. Lord Of The Rings ( tomorrow, my answer may be different)?
This is hard: Jane Eyre (Bronte) Lonesome Dove (McMurtey) and I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) (Gone With the Wind? These Is My Words–Nancy Turner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?? Follow the River-Thom, Captain and Kings -caldwell..East of Eden–Steinbeck, Christy–Marshall–I’m not doing well.)
We were living on the SC coast when Pat Conroy was teaching there and using our sailing and stomping ground for background for his books. Always had so much admiration for him and love his books.
I haven’t read The Thornbirds. My husband talks about how he loves other books by Colleen McCullough, so I’ll have to give it a shot….once I’m done with the seven books I have lined up for the rest of the summer.
Count of Monte Cristo, Secret Garden, & Pride and Prejudice. At least tonight. I might give an entirely different list tomorrow. There are too many wonderful books to choose only three.
A TOWN LOKE ALICE by Nevil Shute, THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan, and PERSUASION by Jane Austen But this is leaving out hundreds of favorites. It’s like picking which child you love the most. Everyone knows it depends on the day. (And you thought I was going to give you that “love them all the same” malarkey.
Siddhartha, Mists of Avalon and Stranger in a Strange Land- Mostly because of their powerful effect on my life not so focused on the quality of the writing. I would also add Black Elk Speaks to that list.
@Kristine i read it at a young age…in facr it belonged to a friend of my older sister, i started reading it and loved it and hid it under my bed when she left! it had such a deep impact on me, it was the first time i understood world events through the lense of another culture….i have read it dozens of times, so much in fact it’s held together by a rubber band! Just a few weeks ago i found another copy in the clearance section and picked it up, I’ll always keep my original!
I agree with so many of the best books that a lot of people have listed here. So I am adding some other books that I really loved… Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, State of Wonder, Once We Were Brothers, Defending Jacob, Light Between Oceans and Me Before You.
From where I’m sitting, looks like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, GONE WITH THE WIND, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, HARRY POTTER and LONESOME DOVE may be the top five (not a bad list)
Interesting to see Elswyth Thane on your list. I read all the Williamsburg series and Tryst when I was in high school. I used that series to start several adult non-reader who have since become dedicated readers of historical novels. Loved them.
It’s hard to list only three because I do have many favorite one, but Gone With the Wind, The Stand and The Joy Luck Club. But, then there’s The Lite Runner, Les Miserables……
An Altar in the World; Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith; A Clown in The Belfry (non-fiction) For Fiction: Death Comes to the Archbishop; Great Expectations, A Prayer for Owen Meany; and seriously, The Bible (RSV or NKJV would be my favorite)
@Amanda such a wonderful book! I remember begging my parents to read it over and over until my stupid little brother drew in it with his crayons. (He is 40 and I’m still mad)
Rising of the Lark, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The Crawford of Lymond Series by Dorothy Dunnet (technically 6 books, but you can’t just read one or you will feel sad)
I love the first two but I didn’t like the third. We read it in our book club. I thought it was negative and depressing. Different strokes for different folks, right?
Hmmmm. Cold Mountain (by Charles Frazier), A Very Long Engagement (by Sebastian Japrisot), and Mornings on Horseback (by McCollough. This is a nonfiction but still a favorite).
@Jessica, I used a read-through in a year plan for several years – until it became rote. That’s when I stopped the ‘plan’ – but, didn’t stop reading 🙂 The benefits as I’ve gotten older and life got more complicated are too numerous to set down here. I’ll just say that I will always be thankful that I followed the urge to ‘read through’ for as long as I did. It is the most powerful book ever! Blessings as you read!
A Women of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsyth Hailey, The Thorn Birds, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Glass Castle, (there are so many good ones!)
@Laurien, it’s a young adult book about two young women who become friends while working as radio operators in England during WWII. One goes on to become a pilot ferrying aircraft around the country for the RAF and the other becomes an interpreter working in intelligence. I know it’s fiction, but my response when I finished it was “I’m amazed that 1) the world survived the war and 2) the majority of those who fought were so young.” They truly were the greatest generation.
Hmmm, I’d like to cheat a little by choosing books before and after I was born. The older books would be: To kill a mockingbird, of Mice and Men, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Newer books: I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, In Cold Blood and Left to Tell.
I was criticized before for picking “In Cold blood “because some say it’s non fiction. But I think it’s kind of journalistic fiction. Based on facts but written like a novel, I think it was a great book.
Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter Series, Outlander Series, The Diary of Anne Frank, Black Beauty, Dracula, Island of the Blue Dolphins. Sorry – way more than 3!
Three is pretty impossible, but currently I will answer four instead of three with The Bible, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
100 Years of Solitude, The Giver (for youth), Frankenstein, and that which I haven’t read yet. So much room in my heart. Runners up, Alice in Wonderland, Winnie-the-Pooh, Romeo and Juliet, The Adventures of Huck berry Finn,
Yes… it is so heart breaking. It just shifted character narrative now, away from Mariam…
The first bit was truly harrowing to read. Just the initial short chapters with her parents… and narcissism and parental alienation… truth encoded with such bitterness vs. charm. The emotional abuse and dependency by mom, manipulation by dad… the cultural circumstance that created it… and the childs eyes…
As a coparent… with someone who is very narcissistic… it made me reflect deeply on the child’s perspective. And I was very interested in her moms Jin, because my daughter had epileptic seizures, which she has out grown thankfully, and since cross cultural treatment of epilepsy has fascinated me…
Mariam’s miscarriage, burying the coat and subsequent miscarriages… so heart breaking…
It is really vivid. I like how the author writes such vivid short chapters. It gives me hope, because it is the only way I could hack my way through writing a novel. ?
I read the Kite Runner… but, years ago. My memories are a bit fuzzy… I think I am liking this one more… But, I could stand to reread the Kite Runner for sure
Ginseng MacKay-Tisbert … Loved it to the point that it’s in my Top 3 like 20 years after reading it. I just remember it being so clever and creative. Also, you are now the 3rd person I have ever heard who has read it. So, yay you! Thanks for commenting. ☺
I loved Cold Sassy Tree. If you enjoyed Cold Sassy Tree I think you might really like Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith. One of my favorites!! I would love to know if you read it and what you thought! (Lonesome Dove is my second favorite book of all time!)
Alchemist don’t miss to read this book.. it’s a fiction story but the story will definitely inspire your life and life thoughts.. author of the book is paulo coelho
If some terrible tragedy struck and I had to replace my entire library, I would have to start with: The Bible, The Collected Works of Shakespeare, and the Complete Novels of Jane Austen in one volume. That’s three books….but if I had to choose only three novels after 1. Gone With the Wind, I would be mired in indecision forever….what is 2? Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, or To Kill a Mockingbird? One gets left out no matter what and then there’s no room for Harry Potter OR LOTR!!!
When Pride Still Mattered by David Mariness. It is a bio about Vince Lombardi. Alexader Hamilton by Ron Chernow. The musical was based on the book. Ben Franklin by Walter Issacon. Number of other books I like.
The Odyssey of Homer, Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies, and Life a Users Manual by Georges Perec. Odyssey was an entre into mythology, Davies vol 1 of the Cornish trilogy was my entre into the Canadian author, and Perec was an outstanding example of Oulipo.
Too hard to pick just 3. The three that come to my mind though are On the Beach by Nevil Shute, Anna Karenena by Tolstoy, and The Time Traveler’s Wife-all 3 are so memorable for me.
Oh goodness… only 3?! This’ll be tough… I’ll be a stereotype and say Pride & Prejudice is definitely one. But also my first and favorite series The Guests of War Trilogy by Kit Pearson (my childhood favorite). And third, probably Memoirs of a Geisha… or Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper… or maybe Dale Carnegie‘s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Oh wait, maybe The Lovely Bones. Vanity Fair? The Awakening? Harry Potter? White Fang? Black Star, Bright Dawn? Gaah only 3?!? You tease!?
I can quote many paragraphs from CCB. I read this novel with my 7th grade SS students, they loved it. Many wonderful life lessons, historical lessons and oh so funny.
So many it is hard to choose just 3….The Harry Potter series, The Hobbit, and The Stand. I could go on and on though…..I will sneak in one more….To Kill a Mockingbird. I have read all of those over and over.
I didn’t know anyone would mention The Proud Breed but I loved it too along with the Wild Swan series. So much history! I learned a lot from those books and fell in love with the characters.
I am, as well. Loved reading about all the well known giants of infectious disease and the impact of public health (when city officials paid attention). It was like reading a gripping mystery.
This is a fluid list depending on my mood. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
These are 3 that I have read more than once, but I have read so much fiction and non-fiction about WWII and WWI that to pick a favorite from that group of books is impossible.
As others have said, this list is fluid. But the most memorable in the last ten years is All the Light we Cannot See. Also, Pillars of the Earth trilogy.
Of all time is a little hard but my 3 favorite I’ve read this year are: Pride and Prejudice(which I’ve read many times and would also make the favorites of all time list), A Man Called Ove, and Mr Dickens and His Carol
Aaaaack! This is so hard. If I HAD to pick (since you’re making me)… “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” “Charlotte’s Web” and “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.” 🙂
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, others vary from time to time, maybe The Alchemist, maybe The Count of Monte Cristo or the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Pillars of the Earth/Follett, Charlotte’s Web/EB White, and The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler/EL Konisgburg. Although there are also thousands others!!
The Wind in the Willows; Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga [ but if I had to pick just one of them it would be Memory]; and one of the titles from the next tier would be Little Men.
The Wind in the Willows, Man’s Search for Meaning, and, until I read Go Set a Watchman, To Kill a Mockingbird. I hated that Atticus was on the White Citizens Council, and it destroyed TKAM for me. Now Mrs. Mike is my third favorite.
@Beth I wish I’d done that. I got so excited when I saw that HarperCollins was publishing a manuscript by Harper Lee that I didn’t wait for the reviews.
@Suzanne East of Eden is awesome, epic and heart touching all at the same time. Not a quick read but you can certainly do it over the summer. Enjoy it.
John le carre, John le carre and John le carre. Within fiction, other authors often reference him. Several films made. George smiley in cold war, then social justice fiction.
The Torah, The Brothers Karamazov, and something of Dickens (various novels like David Copperfield and Great Expectations for the exquisite writing and Old Curiosity Shop and Little Dorrit (also Bleak House) because I used them in my Senior Thesis at Barnard College). A fourth would be Night or anything by Elie Wiesel.
You know, I can’t take it down to three books, or ten. While I’m reading a very good book it’s my favorite at the time. So there have been many favorites.
Can book series count? I have too many favorites and they change as I read more books. Currently, my top 3 favorite books are: The Kingdom Keepers (Series) by Ridley Pearson, The Gifted (Series) by Lisa T. Bergren, and Mark of the Lion (Series) by Francine Rivers.
This thread is a great reminder that there are the perfect books for every person, and they might be the perfectly NOT books for someone else! Different strokes for different folks, and for this I am grateful!
I am about 75% of the way through the audiobook (He’s doing the driving lesson now). I love it, and I don’t want it to end. I’ve lost track of the times it’s made me cry so far.
First two are easy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and East of Eden. So hard to pick a third because there are so many. Right now I would pick Rena’s Promise: A Story of Two Sisters in Auschwitz. That may change tomorrow but right now I can’t even think of that book without having intense feelings.
3 ? So funny. Besides my childhood books are so different from now but at the time they saved me. Today I read to enjoy but to learn nonfiction now is important to me.
I was reading In Cold Blood the night 50 years ago when I went into labor with my first child. Husband woke in middle of night asking if I was having contractions. Called doctor—we were 75 miles from the hospital. I would not leave the house until I finished that book!!! We lived on an island. I was fine. Doc and hubby nearly had heart attacks. ?
These are my favorite books to read:The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare, Murder at Monticello, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lost Laughter, Where the Red Fern Grows and Jane Eyre. I couldn’t just pick three.
So freaking hard… I probably would have to make a top 10 BUT – here goes, so far: The Secret Life of Bees, A Fine Balance, and The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade.
It’s very hard to choose, because i started at about age 5-6 and i’m now 59. I can’t imagine how many i’ve read as i’m addicted to reading. I mostly read non-fiction now as it’s hard for me to find great fiction.
@Jilly, all of Farley Mowat. The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be. The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float. Never Cry Wolf—that was a great movie. Those are laugh aloud books. Lots of interesting serious stuff too.
Like others I reserve the right to change my list, but off the top of my head: It Can’t Happen Here, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the Wizard Children of Finn.
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. This is a non fiction of a fresh look at plants and trees. The leper Spy. Story about a courageous lady with leprosy acting as spy in World War 2. Again non fiction Hunt for Red October which will keep u in suspense
I was wondering about your first two!! I will have to look at them again. I read the third one. I have a problem in that I love brand new books, ugh, instead of used or library. Afraid to spend money.
Must add TKAM, The Poisonwood Bible, Cold Mountain, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Sense and Sensibility, The Turn Of The Screw, The Witching Hour, Against the Wind, The Shadow of the Wind, A Naked Singularity, Ethan Frome, Silas Marner, Midnight’s Children, The Inspector Lynley series, The Dalgliesh series, so see it’s impossible to list only 3 favorites..
To Kill A Mockingbird, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Gone With The @Laura@Kris: I’m so glad you love A Thousand Splendid Suns. Everyone’s favorite seems to be The Kite Runner, which was phenomenal, but Suns will haunt me every day of my life
I read Atlas Shrugged and the Foutainhead when I was in high school in the early 60’s. I read them again in my 20’s and again in my 30’s. I’m a grandmother now and it’s time to read them again. I love Ayn Rand!
I read The Fountainhead, Anthem, and Atlas Shrugged in high school, as well. My calculus teacher talked to my volleyball coach about my reading Atlas in class, to which I replied, “Coach, this book is changing my life”. She dropped it ? I read Atlas again in college, and it even played a role in my husband’s proposal ? Each time I read it, I notice something new.
This is the first mention of AS that I’ve seen. I thot it was a pretty important, pivotal book, as well as just a great read and a big sense of accomplishment at the end of all gazillion pages. It’s one of those books that you think about for years after.
The Book Thief, The Stand, The Kite Runner, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, All the Light We Cannot See, The Secret Life of Bees, The Red Tent, oh, wait, that’s more than three…
Jill Smith Hanley, my paternal grandmother was a Hanley. She was born in Minnesota of Irish parents from Ontario Canada. I don’t see many Hanleys and assume your husband is one.
In some ways I’m jealous….I would love to read them again and not know the stories. Abraham Verghese is such a great writer. I wish he would write more.
1984
Great Gatsby
A Little Princess
Rebecca, Harry Potter series and The Shadow of the wind
Loved Rebecca, then went on to read all of Daphne DuMaurier’s books. She wrote The Birds!
Top 3 not on this list:
Watership Down
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Anathem
But it’s really hard to have just 3.
I liked The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.
Loved Watership Down
TKAM, pride and Prej
TKAM, Pride and Prejudice and The House of Mirth
Especially love House of Mirth (all Edith Wharton). One of my cat’s is named Lily Bart!!
@Deborah Love Wharton and your cat’s name!!!
Thanks!
Thats a tough one… probably The Outsiders, Eleanor and Park, and Harry Potter. Those were the first to come to mind, it’ll probably change if you ask me again tomorrow XD
It’s hard to pick just three, but I love seeing another Rainbow Rowell fan! <3
Ive read Eleanor and Park about 6 times and I love it just as much as when I read it the first time ❤️ I’ve read all her other books too ?
Poison wood bible. Eat Pray love. Book theif
It’s hard to pick three, but here goes. The Stand, To Kill a Mockingbird,Pride and Prejudice.
Anna Karenina, Of Mice and Men, Great Expectations
The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, The Secret Garden
TKAM, Pillars, Harry Potter
Harry Potter, The Martian, A Gentleman in Moscow
Little Women
The Savannah series by Eugenia Price
Chronicles of Narnia
I loved Little Women and Jo’s Boys.
Loved the Savannah series too
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Book Thief and To Kill A Mockingbird, but I’m going to add The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society add second second favorite.
I loved the Guernsey book! I bought about 10 copies when I was done and mailed them to family and friends and told them to read and pass it on.
LOVED Guernsey!
Loved it too!! One of my favs!
Gone with the Wind, Lolita, If on a Winters Night A Traveler
Love Lolita♡
Poisonwood Bible, I Know This Much Is True, & Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff.
Lamb- probably the funniest book I have ever read.
@Pam, me too! It was fantastic ?
a farewell to arms,the winds of war, to kill a mockingbird ties with a tree grows in brooklyn
Jane Eyre, Persuasion, and Rebecca
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, and Lord of the Rings
AKA TKAM, GWTW, and LOTR
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I named 3, but realize this is really impossible,lol!! I keep seeing more of my loves!!
Totally agree
On beauty by Zadie smith, never let me go, and Norwegian Woods
Never Let Me Go is a good one.
To Kill a Mockingbird, East of Eden, David Copperfield
The Book Thief, American Gods, and Memnoch the Devil
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jude the Obscure, an American Tragedy
The Red Tent, The Passage, Under the Banner of Heaven
Ben Hur, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Rebecca
Gone With the Wind, Lonesome Dove, To Kill a Mockingbird
Check out Renee’s Reading Club for great book recommendations?
A Tale for the Time Being
Rebecca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Outlander series, Lord of the Rings series, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Dracula,White Fang,Their Eyes Were Watching God
Is that a trick question???? That’s like asking a Mother which of her kids she likes the best! LOL
Gone with the wind, The Nightingale, A Man Called Ove
Grapes of wrath, Harry Potter , Louise Penny .
Elizabeth Enright’s “Gone-Away Lake” and “Return to Gone-Away”, and Mary Stewart’s “Moonspinners”.
I am rereading The Moonspinners right now!
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver),Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl), but it is very hard to name just 3…
A Lesson Before Dying
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lonesome Dove
Loved Lonesome Dove – read it twice.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fair and Tender Ladies
Little Women
A tree grows in Brooklyn,
the good earth
To kill a mockingbird
(Gone with the wind & the stand finish my top 5)
Outlander series
Game of Thrones series
Gone with the wind
Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor, Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan and The Faces of Eve by CS Lewis
Rain of Gold is an awesome, magical story!
The Great Gatsby, Looking for Alaska, The Source (although these probably more represent types of books and leaves out some others of my favorites like Notes from a Small Island and the Chronicles Of Narnia)
Loved The Source.
The Prince of Tides. Don Quixote and The Fountainhead.
Fountainhead on my list too
Outlander, Harry Potter and a town called Alice
Catcher in the Rye, Dr Zhivago, Was easy to pick two but impossible to eliminate so many by picking a third!
To kill a mockingbird, a tree grows in Brooklyn, gone with the wind
A Thousand Splendid Suns, White Oleander, My Sister’s Keeper
I love White Oleander-find myself reading it every summer!!
If I would have to pick at this very moment they would be The Power of One, Homegoing, and East of Eden.
East of Eden, The Book Thief, and the Nightingale
Wuthering Heights, The Book Thief, The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lonesome Dove, Lord of the Rings trilogy. Pretty hard decision!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, All the Light We Cannot See, Harry Potter Series
Yertle the Turtle, Winnie the pooh, and Charlotte’s Web
The War that Saved my Life, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Doll maker, water ship down and the art of racing in the rain.
Harry Potter
Little House on the Prairie
The Nightingale
Fahrenheit 451; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Storied Life of AJ Fikry
To Kill a Mockingbird; To Kill a Mockingbird(yes I voted twice); The Book Thief
The Red Tent, The Kitchen House, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Dracula, the help, to kill a mockingbird
Book of Dave, The Sparrow, No Country for Old Men
Mists of Avalon, Huckleberry Finn, Johnny got his gun
Always wanted the read Mists of Avalon
It’s very good, I read her other books but mists is her only good one I thought anyway. There was a movie on cable,but it’s to big a book to do it right!
That’s a tough one! For now, I’ll say “The Bridges of Madison County,” “All Over but the Shoutin’,” & “Fahrenheit 451.”
1. Continental Drift- Russell Banks
2. White Noise- Don Delillo
3. The Room- Hubert Selby Jr.
The Shadow of the Wind, Cutting for Stone, The Bronze Horseman and Wuthering Heights
Huck Finn, Harry Potter, Anna Karinina
Those are all good ones!
The Secret Garden
Pride & Prejudice
Harry Potter
Following
Pillars of the Earth, The Help, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
The Outlander Gone With the Wind Blackdagger Brotherhood Series
The Count of Monte Cristo, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Devil in the White City.
(1) To Kill a Mockingbird (2) Good Omens (3) A Short History of a Small Place.
Outlander series. The Red Tent . Harry Potter
Loved The Red Tent
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Last of the Mohicans, The Chosen.
The Shell Seekers, Outlander, The Color Purple.
Oh my word…Rosamund Pilcher writes so beautifully! I loved The Shell Seekers!
@Miranda me, too! 3 books is impossible! I keep thinking of all the other books I love!
@Donna I agree. Someone on here said that it is like trying to choose a favorite child. I agree.
I love so many books for so many different reasons.
Today my answer is The Count of Monte Cristo, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The BFG.
Gone with the Wind, The Help, London by Edward Rutherfurd.
1. Gone with the Wind 2. Lord of the Rings 3. A Christmas Carol
Bastard out of Carolina, Beloved, The Time Traveler’s Wife.
The Brothers Karamazov, Saint Maybe, A Prayer For Owen Meany. Oh but I also love Jitterbug Perfume.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner!
LOVE all 3!!!
The Brothers Karamazov, Gone with the Wind, Anna Karenina
My kind of list!
Hard to name just top 3, but loved Cutting for Stone and A Little Life
Love TKAM, & Beloved!
I was really impressed by The Great Alone and Beneath the Scarlet Sky. I can’t really pick favorites because the next book i read might blow me away.
The Help, A Man called Ove and The Nightingale.
Outlander (series), A Prayer For Owen Meany and The Help (so far lol)
Good Behavior, Excellent Women, the Space Between Us. Lots more of course.
Have you started The Secrets between Us yet?
To Kill a Mockingbird, Anne of Green Gables, Wonder & The Story of Beautiful Girl.
The Alchemist, Outlander & The Count of Monte Cristo
Bel Canto, The Great Gatsby, Me Before You
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Jane Eyre,” and “Gaudy Night”
Mists of Avalon, Pillars of the Earth, Neverwhere.
A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Secret History, The Color Of Light
Owen! ❤
The Godfather, Grapes of Wrath, The Kite Runner
Kite Runner! Great book!
Jane Eyre, Angela’s Ashes & The Great Alone
The Oz Books
The Little Prince
Matilda
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Anne of Green Gables and hmmm…. I cannot pick a third. There are too many that I like for too many different reasons.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre and Rebecca.
Don’t think I could narrow it down to 3
Lonesome Dove, Prince of Tides, and Gone with the Wind.
2 of 3 but I had Pillars of the earth instead of prince of tides
I loved Pillars too! I also forgot The Stand. Too hard to choose three!
Pride and Predjudice, Cutting for Stone, The Color Purple.
That’s an excellent selection
Hatter’s Castle, A Prayer for Owen Meany and To Kill a Mockingbird. But it is really hard to pick just three!
why not ask me to pick a favorite child???
Just 3? The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, The Book Thief, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Loved Frankie!
Kite Runner, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind (fiction) I love non-fiction, too.
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca
Following
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Little Women; Rebecca
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Where The Wild Things Are, A Prayer For Owen Meany
I Capture the Castle, Stoner, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
I’m so glad you mentioned ‘I Capture the Castle’. It is definitely a sleeper favorite❣️
1. LOTR
2. Harry Potter
3. Pride and Prejudice
The Kadin (Bernice Small) / The Crystal Cave (Mary Steward) / The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
Ooh, Anne of Greene Gables too!! It’s hard to choose. Everyone is naming good titles
The Hours, The Awakening, and Three Junes! (I would say Harry Potter but I could never pick just one!)
To Kill A Mockinbird, Lonesome Dove, These is M Words
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), Travels With Charlie (Steinbeck), and Mrs. Mike (Freedman’s)…three books I reread every few years.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Good Earth, and Rebecca.
To kill a mockingbird, Pride and Predjudice, Eat pray love
Cry The Beloved Country; Anthem; all Harry Potter books. I read all of these every year….
Thank you for reminding me of Cry The Beloved Country!
my pleasure. The best book ever. I read it every year
To Kill A Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird, Christy, and Tales Of a Fourth Grade Nothing 🙂
Love Christy, too
Retired Teacher here, @Kathy ?
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Little Prince, Grapes of Wrath
The Philip Pullman trilogy.
All the Pretty Horses
Captain Corellis Mandolin
Lonsome Dove
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lonesome Dove, and the Little Prince
The Help, Lord of the Rings, To Kill a Mockingbird
Shutter Island, Abbott and Avery and The Stars Are Fire.
To kill a mockingbird, the secret life of bees, a new song by Jan Karon
The Great Gatsby, All the King’s Men, Portait of a Lady, An American Tragedy
and just a side bar …. asking a reader to name three books is extremely unfair ….. I could give you the top thirty and still not be done! LOL
The last one I read, the one I’m reading and the next one up LOL
great answer!
REALLY hard to name just 3. I think we have favorite books at different times of our lives, Books that come immediately to mind are: Gone With the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Kite Runner, Plainsong, Ordinary Grace – gotta stop, I’m past 3 already!
The Book Thief, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Invention of Wings are 3 favorites. So hard to choose. It’s like choosing one of your children over the others!
East of Eden, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird (not to be cliche!!!) Also ate up A Fine Balance and I Know This Much Is True.
For me this is utterly impossible!?
The Glass Castle, Angela’s Ashes, Unbroken
Watership Down, Anne of Green Gables, A Fine Balance
Loved A Fine Balance! I couldn’t put it down — and it was a big one. My kids were little and I stole away every moment I could find to read!
@Laura i know!! I was so disappointed when it ended
Gone with the Wind, Crime and Punishment, and Alchemist.
Wuthering Heights,
The Joy Luck Club, Exodus
I don’t think I’ve read enough books yet to find my favorites
You must be young!
Catch 22, War and Peace, MacDonald Travis McGee novels
Darn it….forgot Owen Meany, Stephen King, Cloud Atlas, etc.
Little Women, Gone with the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Stand, To Kill a Mockingbird….
Just too many great books to name 3
War and Peace, Desiree, Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird, Tumbling, A Separate @Peace
Agree that “of all time” is challenging. What I loved in my 40’s would ready differently now that I’m in my 70’s. Loved Outlander series and all books written by Bryce Courtenay. Anna Quindlen, Kristin Hannah….
Depends on my mood…..
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Team of Rivals, Captains and Kings, Promise of Blood.
Captain and Kings is awesome, too
Interview with a Vampire, Kite Runner, the Alchemist
Without thinking too hard All the Light We Cannot See is definitely on my list of favorites …. I”ll have to give it some thought to come up with my other two 😉
Gone With The Wind, To Kill A Mockingbird, Rebecca
Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre and Little Women ❤️
So hard to pick three – Catcher in the Rye, The Book Thief and Forever Amber and so many more. It is very hard to pick three.
It IS hard…I keep adding more!
@Deborah Me too!
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, “The Accidental Tourist”, and “A Prayer for Owen Meany”!
A Death in the Family, Pride and Prejudice, Sons and Lovers
You’re the first person who’s mentioned James Agee. He won the Pulitzer Prize for A Death in the Family, which is one of my favorites, too.
The Clan of the Cave Bear, A Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and Outlander.
Twilight series, Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter.
The Outlander series, the Harry Potter series and To Kill a Mockingbird
The Fountainhead for strength of purpose
The chronicles of narnia (ever so slightly over lord of the rings) for good over evil
Charlottes Web for love and
Friendship
Great! I love the reason you give behind each selection. ☺
Omg, what a question! Ok, first off, it changes over time. My age effects what my favorites are, but all time? Well, in no particular order, right now, today, I would say…
1. A Discovery of Witches
2. Lonesome Dove
3. Lord Of The Rings
( tomorrow, my answer may be different)?
The Bible, Anna Karenina, Outlander, Love in the Time of Cholera. OOps, that’s 4. It’s hard to name 3….
If you like Anna Karenina you might enjoy The Unbearable Lightness of Being- several allusions
Thanks, @Meredith
Unbearable Lightness of Being . . . Can’t narrow down two others!
Wicked, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter
Pride and Prejudice, Alienist and, making A Charlie Brown Christmas
To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, The DaVinci Code
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer is my all time favorite, followed by The Sicilian by Mario Puzo, and The Body by Stephen King.
Gone With the Wind, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre
The Jungle…i can’t even think of two more that come close!
Gone With the Wind, ….And the Ladies of the Club, and The Polar Express
The World According to Harp, The Dream Lover, Wild
How could I forget Duma Key(Stephen King).
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, Chesapeake –but it’s sooooo hard to stick with just three!
Geez. GARP.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP: LOOOOVE!
@Deborah hi Deb!
@Rachel: Hi!
Phantom of the Opera, Wuthering Heights, and A Wrinkle in Time (honorable mention to Don Quixote & Frankenstein)
I know this Much is True, winds of War, and to kill a mockingbird!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Help, and Night
The Stand, The Shack, and Of Mice and Men….
These happy golden years, When the music changed, Child Star ?
The Book Thief, Charlotte’s Web, Harry Potter series (can’t choose just one).
The entire Harry Potter Series, To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, A Wrinkle In Time (the Bible is #1 but I didn’t count it in this)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Skipping Christmas, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. This was WAY too difficult – my list could be different tomorrow. ?
Like asking a favorite song.
Ragtime by EL Doctorow, Catcher in the Rye and A Man Called Ove.
The Poisonwood Bible, The Book Thief and The Secret Life of Bees.
Wow! I’ve actually read all of those ??
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy ?,coldest winter ever
I think about What Looks Like Crazy often. Thanks, Oprah!
Out of Africa, Les Misérables, Gone With the Wind
This is hard: Jane Eyre (Bronte) Lonesome Dove (McMurtey) and I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) (Gone With the Wind? These Is My Words–Nancy Turner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?? Follow the River-Thom, Captain and Kings -caldwell..East of Eden–Steinbeck, Christy–Marshall–I’m not doing well.)
Wuthering Heights, Rebecca and The Charm School.
I’d break my brain if I tried to narrow down my many loved books to a top 3. How do you even begin to decide???
Just 3?~!?~? Off the top of my head Man Called Ove, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Green Mansions.
And Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ivanhoe, I, Robot, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, I could name 33 and still not remember all my favorites…
Cold Sassy Tree
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Never heard of the last one!!
@Frankie I think you would like it! Set in Western NC/TN in the 1800s, I believe. It’s by Sharyn McCrumb. Check it out!
Devil In the White City
Gone with the Wind
Too many in third place
1. The Good Earth
2. Pillars of the Earth
3. Sweet Tooth
Gone With the Wind, Celia Garth, and The Outsiders.
Beach Music by Pat Conroy (Full Stop)
We were living on the SC coast when Pat Conroy was teaching there and using our sailing and stomping ground for background for his books. Always had so much admiration for him and love his books.
My family always vacationed in Charleston when I was growing up. Conroy’s books always take me back there, and his way with words is a dying art.
Gift from the Sea
The English Patient
The Guernsey Literary Potatoe Peel Pie Society
The Thorn Birds, A Woman Of Substance and Gone With The Wind.
I haven’t read The Thornbirds. My husband talks about how he loves other books by Colleen McCullough, so I’ll have to give it a shot….once I’m done with the seven books I have lined up for the rest of the summer.
Edgar Sawtall, Racing in the Rain, Lonesome Dove.
It is a great read.
1. Angela’s Ashes
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. Pillars of the Earth
Count of Monte Cristo, Secret Garden, & Pride and Prejudice. At least tonight. I might give an entirely different list tomorrow. There are too many wonderful books to choose only three.
To Kill a Mockingbird; The Bluest Eye; The Spook who Sat By The Door
catcher in the rye, Owen Meany & Slaughterhouse Five
The Thorn Birds, Gone with the wind, The Outsiders
A TOWN LOKE ALICE by Nevil Shute, THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan, and PERSUASION by Jane Austen
But this is leaving out hundreds of favorites. It’s like picking which child you love the most. Everyone knows it depends on the day. (And you thought I was going to give you that “love them all the same” malarkey.
To Kill A Mockingbird, The Outsiders,Persuasion
Gone with the wind, pillers of the earth and to kill a mocking bird.
The Last Convertible, Giants in the Earth, and To Kill a Mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath, Geek Love, Love in the Time of Cholera
Jane Eyre would be my 4th, The Good Earth would be my 5th…
Ahhh, The Count of Monte Cristo ???
Watership Down, the Sherlock Holmes canon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
Siddhartha, Mists of Avalon and Stranger in a Strange Land- Mostly because of their powerful effect on my life not so focused on the quality of the writing. I would also add Black Elk Speaks to that list.
Anne of Green Gables, The Help, All the Light We Cannot See
The Lord of The Rings, The Stand, Swan Song
Following
Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillars of the Earth.
The Goldfinch, Like Water for Chocolate, and The Paris Wife
LOVED The Goldfinch!
Goldfinch was tremendous. It’s being made into a movie.
That worries me a bit. It’s rare when I’m happy with the film adaptation of a book I loved.
All good. But I couldn’t hold any books up as my top 3 of all time.
Lonesome dove by Larry . Cannery Row by Steinbeck and last but not least to Kill a Mockingbird
Aww, The Count of Monte Cristo <3
The Stand. The Host. The once and future King
Grapes of Wrath, Wuthering Heights, and Rebecca
To Kill a Mockingbird, Dracula, Jane Eyre
The Shack, Pride & Prejudice & The Thornbirds
The Stand, Swan Song and The Dark Towers series.
The Stand, Lonesome Dove and Swan Song.
All the Light we Cannot See, Gone With the Wind, Good Omens
Yay. A Good Omens fan!
@Bobbi I read it every year.
At this particular moment, Outlander, A Gentleman in Moscow and The Winter Sea, but subject to change.
Heidi, The Neverending Story and The Phantom Tollbotth
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Phantom of the Opera and Pride and Prejudice.
Not including novels (because I have way more than three): Ghost Boy, When Breath Becomes Air, and Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter
Cutting for Stone, the Nightingale, the Shoemakers Wife.
OMG yes, The Nightengale was such a great book!!
Really loved “Cutting for Stone “. Have you read “The Tennis Partner”? By Verghese?
Catherwood, Where The Heart Is and Roots.
Cutting for Stone, A Gentleman in Moscow, To Kill a Mockingbird.
I liked cutting for stone as well
I keep trying to type something but five more pop into my head for every one I put down! 🙁
Me 2
Cry the Beloved Country, The Nightingale and Pillars of the Earth
War and Peace, Great Expectations, All Quiet on the Western Front, (and All the Light We Cannot See, I couldn’t just pick three!)
Unbroken, The Nightingale, Loving Frank, A Dog’s Purpose – ok that’s 4 – and there are more. ?
A dogs purpose! ❤️
@Elizabeth – read it twice ❤️
The Book Thief, All The Light We Cannot See and The Kite Runner
So hard to pick three, The kite Runner, A Gentleman in Moscow, Arabs Wife
Pillars of the Earth, Secret Garden, Wishtree (new, by Katherine Applegate)
Pillars of the Earth. Very good.
I can’t pick only 3……
The Art of Racing in the Rain, she’s come undone and The Poisonwood Bible
I almost put She’s Come Undone in my list. Poisonwood Bible was good also.
@Jane love she’s come undone!
I’ve read it several times and plan on reading it again when I get through a lengthy list of books to read.
I plan on rereading Cold Mountain and The Bonesetter’s Daughter also.
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. The Keeper of the Light by Diane Chamberlain. Small Great Things byJodi Piccoult
Harry Potter series, Dune, The Mountain Between Us.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A River Runs Through It, Pride and Prejudice
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn; Gone With The Wind and The Help.
Love the help and a tree grows in Brooklyn too. So hard to just pick 3
@Reene it was HARD but these are the only 3 books I’ve read more than once so I went by that!
@Eileen gone with the wind is my all time fav. Tied with Jane eyre and little women ?
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers, and The Far Country by Nevil Shute.
Have not heard of any of those, will have to check them out!
Anna Karenina, Poisonwood Bible, The Passion of Artemisia, Cutting for Stone..
Oops..that’s 4..it’ hard to choose..so many good books!!!
Lonesome Dove, Gone With the Wind, and Ride the Wind.
Jane Eyre, The Silence of the Lambs, & Lady Chatterley’s Lover… at the moment
Dune, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
♥️ all of these
LOTR, TKAM, Ahab’s Wife…
I may change my mind tomorrow.
Pride and Prejudice, Before We Were Yours, Pleasure for Pleasure
Gone with the wind, The Godfather, The Kite Runner
Outlander series,poisonwood bible,Bell canto,many more…
PB and Bel Canto May be on my list tomorrow…?
Jane Eyre, Howards End, Rebecca
The Scarlet Letter, Mists of Avalon and Winter’s Tale
East of Eden, To Kill A Mockingbird, Americanah
So Big, The Member of the Wedding, The Prince of Tides
The Bible …. Beautiful…. let no man write my epitaph…. thorn birds .
Amelia Peabody series, In Death series, Harry Potter series.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Outlander
Should say “ beautiful joe”
Outlander series. The help. Gone with the wind.
In no particular order: Stephen King’s The Stand, Leon Uris’ Battle Cry, Harold Robbins’ The Carpetbaggers.
Gone with the Wind
Pillars of the Earth
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove ❤️❤️
Just Impossible! Is it harder because I’ve been reading voraciously for over 75 years?
Gone With the Wind
Posionwood Bible
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Modoc
No way I could only pick 3
Shadow of the Wind, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mrs. Pollifax.
As of now.. Outlander series, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Nightingale.
Lord of the Rings.Song of Solomon,Pride and Prejudice
The Stand, Game of Thrones, and The Poisonwood Bible (and many more, it’s like trying to pick your favorite child!)
Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnet, Outlander, only have a top 2
No way can I pick 3. Nope. Can’t do it.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, North and South (Gaskell)
Charlotte’s Web.. A Separate Peace… Harry Potter Series…Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Before We were yours, the silver star, the queen of palmyra, ordinary grace, the help
Grapes Of Wrath
Pillars Of The Earth
Winds of War
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillars of the Earth, and Gone with the Wind
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks, Dead Wake – Eric Larsen, Dr Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
الايام
بين القصرين
السكرية
Thy are Arabic books
To Kill A Mockingbird, The Poisonwood Bible and Gone With The Wind.
Gone with the Wind, To kill a Mockingbird. Tom Sawyer.
“Harry Potter” series, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and “Angela’s Ashes”
Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Thornbirds
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Gone with the Wind
Behold the Dreamers
These picks are even better than the top 100 GAR books! Really.
Agreed!
Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird and Anne of Green Gables
We Need to Talk About Kevin
A Kingdom of Dreams
Devil in the White City
Has to be Harry Potter series. But also Jane Eyre, Book Thief and Count of Monte Cristo
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and The Color Purple
Sophie’s Choice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Prince of Tides
The Good Earth.
Also Pillars of the Earth
Outlander, The Stand, A Lantern in Her Hand.
Gone With the Wind. The Book Thief. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Secret Gar’s 4den, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Gone With the WInd, Oh no, that
The Power of One
World Light
She’s Come Undone
Absolutely love Wally Lamb!!
Finally someone mentions “The Power of One”!
@Kristine i read it at a young age…in facr it belonged to a friend of my older sister, i started reading it and loved it and hid it under my bed when she left! it had such a deep impact on me, it was the first time i understood world events through the lense of another culture….i have read it dozens of times, so much in fact it’s held together by a rubber band! Just a few weeks ago i found another copy in the clearance section and picked it up, I’ll always keep my original!
@Allison i was shocked to find out he’s a man! His other books are good but that one is my favorite
I agree with so many of the best books that a lot of people have listed here. So I am adding some other books that I really loved…
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, State of Wonder, Once We Were Brothers, Defending Jacob, Light Between Oceans and Me Before You.
LOVED Me Before You and the sequel.
@Susan I just finished the next “sequel” which is the next chapter in Lou’s life…it is called Still Me. Loved that too!
Lonesome Dove, To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca. Not necessarily in that order. ?
Great Maria by Cecilia Holland; The Physician by Noah Gordon; Outlander.
The English Patient
A Lesson Before Dying
Corelli’s Mandolin
A Dream of Red Mansion, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Les Miserables
A time to kill, La llamarada (written by a puertorrican) and Great Gatsby
Only 3?
To Kill a Mockingbird, The People’s Republic of Desire, and The Abstinence Teacher.
The Stand, The Reluctant Prophet series and either Bel Canto or Where The Red Fern Grows
1.Daniel’s Story
2. I Know This Much is True
3. Mudbound
All the Light We Cannot See, The Shell Seeker, The Book Thief
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. A Little Princess
3. Fur Person
Prince of Tides of The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, and The Breath of God by Jeffery Small.
Middlesex by Eugenides
Disgrace by Coetzee
Tortilla Curtain by Boyle
Middlesex- what a fantastic story!
The Giver, Paula, Tuesday with Morrie
A Prayer For Owen Meany, Anna Karenina, The Book Thief.
The Scarlet Letter, Whispers and Lies, A Man Called Ove
Gone with the wind, boys in the boat. Anne Franks diary
From where I’m sitting, looks like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, GONE WITH THE WIND, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, HARRY POTTER and LONESOME DOVE may be the top five (not a bad list)
Pillars of the Earth, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Harry Potter
To Kill A Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, Roots
Gone With the Wind, Lonesome Dove, Mila 13 are my first 3. Can I have 3 more??
Bel Canto
Ellen Foster
Pride and Prejiduce
The Color Purple, The Coldest Winter and Nightmares and Dreamscapes
A Prayer for Owen Meany, To Kill a Mockingbird, Outlander….and many more?
Only 3? Michner’s “The Source”, “Gone With the Wind” and” The Light Heart” by Elswyth Thane. Those are the first 3 best books; too many more to count.
Interesting to see Elswyth Thane on your list. I read all the Williamsburg series and Tryst when I was in high school. I used that series to start several adult non-reader who have since become dedicated readers of historical novels. Loved them.
I love them all too. So nice to hear someone else loved them.
@Loreen Have you read Frances Parkinson’s Keyes as well? How about Elizabeth Goudge? There are just too many to pick just three.
Elizabeth Goudge was a favorite. The White Witch….
A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving), Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison), Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Well…. this just shot my TBR list to the moon!!!!
Tonia West Denney, mine, too! So much fun… ?
Gone with the Wind, Portrait of a lady, MiddleMarch
Where The Red Fern Grows, Anne of Green Gables and Gone With The Wind
The Great Gatsby
A Little Princess
And Then there Were None
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, The Color Purple, and The Bluest Eye
Art teacher? ?
No, but I am an English teacher. I guess I just enjoy colorful titles. ?
I don’t think I can do top three books, but I can do top three authors: Wally Lamb, Fannie Flagg,Amy Tan, Pat Conroy, Lisa See…sorry, top 5
My all time favorite book.
WOW! Hadn’t thought about this author in a LONG time! THANKS for a “reminder”.
A truly great book
Keeps changing. Whatever book I just finished has a good chance of being my current favorite .
The Stand, Les Miserables, Lonesome Dove
The Stand, Stephen King
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Stand, The Witching Hour
I can never answer a question with the word “favorite” in it. My interests are too varied.
Gone with the Wind, East of Eden, Black Beauty.
East of Eden❤️
East of Eden ❤️❤️
East of Eden
has perhaps the most evil character ever written in Cathy and the most benevolent character in Lee.
Masterpiece.
The Poisonwood Bible
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Great Expectations
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. The Shell Seekers
3. Tough choice but maybe….Clan of the Cave Bears
Owen!❤
Into Thin Air, The Good Earth & The Firm
It’s hard to list only three because I do have many favorite one, but Gone With the Wind, The Stand and The Joy Luck Club. But, then there’s The Lite Runner, Les Miserables……
An Altar in the World; Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith; A Clown in The Belfry (non-fiction) For Fiction: Death Comes to the Archbishop; Great Expectations, A Prayer for Owen Meany; and seriously, The Bible (RSV or NKJV would be my favorite)
A Separate Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Dragonriders of Pern, the Odd Thomas series, Marguerite Henry’s Horse books. Way more than three.
Pern!!!! <3
Gone With The Wind, And Ladies of the Club, To Kill a Mockingbird
The Source, Unbroken, TheBoys in the Boat
The Monster at the End of this Book starring lovable Grover, Tale of Two Cities, Paris
The Monster at the End of this Book is hard to top ♥️
@Amanda It’s just so cute and funny with a great message. When my younger brother received it I read it and remember it even today
@Amanda such a wonderful book! I remember begging my parents to read it over and over until my stupid little brother drew in it with his crayons. (He is 40 and I’m still mad)
I read this to my daughter! I dont even know how we ended up with it! It surprised me with how good it is!
The Good Earth
Little Women
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Giving Tree, Oh The Places You’ll Go, Pride & Prejudice
Gone with the Wind, Pillars of Fire, Outlander. There are so many.
Behind closed doors, ARV-3, and the crossfire series
Anne Frank, Harry Potter & Gone With the Wind
following
I think I need more paper for my notebook!!!
Too hard to limit to 3!
1984, Guns Germs and Steel, 1491 (and Middlesex)
Stephen King also wrote a book about a car named “Christine.”
Pern series, Honor Harrington series, Inspector Lindley series
Gone With the Wind, Thorn Birds, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
The Alchemist
Bonus:
Life of Pi
I am surprised no one is mentioning The Alchemist.
Right above you! 🙂
@Paul they must have read my mind
The alchemist, Alexander Hamilton my Ron cheenov and God is in the waves.
Bonus- life of Pi-
lol bonus – outlander!
Rising of the Lark, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The Crawford of Lymond Series by Dorothy Dunnet (technically 6 books, but you can’t just read one or you will feel sad)
Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Man Called Ove
I love the first two but I didn’t like the third. We read it in our book club. I thought it was negative and depressing. Different strokes for different folks, right?
Hmmmm. Cold Mountain (by Charles Frazier), A Very Long Engagement (by Sebastian Japrisot), and Mornings on Horseback (by McCollough. This is a nonfiction but still a favorite).
Thorn Birds, To Kill a Mockingbird and Beach Music and have to add the entire Outlander Series.
Beloved, Wuthering Heights, The Remains of the Day, To Kill a Mockingbird. So 4. At least ?
Memoirs of a Geisha, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Poisonwood Bible, and The Goldfinch. Oops did you say 3?
Memoirs is on my list and in my possession- just finished a book earlier today. Thanks for the “poke” as this is my next read now!
Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, Sense and Sensibility
I love Anne of Green Gables, but I’ve never finished the others.
@Lora I’ve read every Lucy Maud Montgomery book! After Jane Austen she is my favorite!
Little Women
Wild Swan
The Nightingale
And Harry Potter and all my Star Wars books of course.
Stones from the River
A Man called Ove
Poisonwood Bible
All the Light we cannot see
Did you read A Man Called Ove’s author’s My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell you She’s Sorry…..hope I am close to the title.. I loved it! And Ove…
Other than he Bible, Gone with the Wind, Lonesome Dove and The Thornbirds would be up,at the top.
Catcher in the Rye. The Little Prince. Lonesome Dove……and so many more
To kill a mocking bird, War and peace and 1984
Bonus..Charles Martin’s The Mountain Between Us
My favorite series would be Outlander, Harry Potter And the Brooch series by Katherine Lowry Logan.
I love this thread! My top 3 books of all (my) time(s):
The Bible
Diary of Anne Frank
To Kill a Mockingbird
I’m in the process of reading through the Bible right now. It’s a slow go, one chapter a week, but I am getting a lot out of it!
@Jessica, I used a read-through in a year plan for several years – until it became rote. That’s when I stopped the ‘plan’ – but, didn’t stop reading 🙂 The benefits as I’ve gotten older and life got more complicated are too numerous to set down here. I’ll just say that I will always be thankful that I followed the urge to ‘read through’ for as long as I did. It is the most powerful book ever! Blessings as you read!
Thank you so much❤️❤️
The Stranger, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and And Then There Were None…
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Chosen.
And Then There Were None, Night, Angels and Demons
The Angels in America plays are great also
I have never enjoyed reading scripts and plays… but I read Angels in America for social justice class… it was amazing. I love that play!
Currently:
Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Ready, Player One
IQ by Joe Ide
Subject to change ??☕
Anne of Green Gables, Lord of the Rings (series), Bloody Jack (series).
A Red Bird Christmas by Fannie Flagg, Can I Get There by Candlelight, Just the Thing for Geraldine, The True Story of the Three Pigs
Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, and Jane Eyre, followed by The Hundred Acre Woods
East of Eden, Charlotte’s Web, and … still thinking …
Have you read Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men or Tortilla Flat?
@Donna I can’t remember, but for sure read Cannery Row. ?
Gone With the Wind
Outlander series
Beneath a Marble Sky
Had to add another! Pillars of the Earth
Keep Quite-Lisa Scottoline, Murder House-James Patterson, Ford County-John Grisham….I could go on and on!!!
Little Women, Harry Potter, The Great Gatsby
Hatchet gets an honorary mention
Pillars of the Earth, Lonesome Dove, HP series
Jane Ere, cold mountain, Lonesome Dove
… and Into Thin Air
Persuasion (followed very closely by P&P) Gone with the Wind, East of Eden
I love Steinbeck!
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, The Far Pavilions, Trinity
Love MM Kaye
Pride and Prejudice, Wonder, and The boy on the Wooden Stool.
I don’t have just three, so impossible to comment.
Animal Dreams, Ghana Must Go, The Immense Journey
A Discovery of Witches, Pillars of the Earth and Grapes of Wrath
Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Skinny Dip
Wildest Hearts too, sorry, got to put 4 books!
Gone with the Wind
Forever Amber
Memoirs of a Geisha
Grapes of Wrath, My Antonia, Heidi
Grapes of Wrath, yes! Also Of Mice and Men!
Cider house rules, veronica, six of crows
Gone With the Wind, The Secret Life of Bees, Shadow of the Moon.
And all the Harry Potter’s
Secret Life of Bees Yes! and Gone With The Wind ..dont know Shadow of The Moon ,will ck.it out 🙂
Snow Falling on Cedars, The Thorn Birds, House of Sand and Fog, Pillars of the Earth.
Two books show up often – Pride and Prejudice and Gone With the Wind.
And To Kill a Mockingbird
Pippi Longstocking, The Poisonwood Bible, Kristin Lavransdotter.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillars of the Earth and East of Eden
Two of those are in my top 3. I have not yet read Pillars of the Earth. ?
Marine Read it and let me know what you think
Only 3?
The Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, The Good Earth
Oh yes…To Kill A Mockingbird..how could I forget..
David Copperfield, The Great Gatsby, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Nightingale, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kite Runner
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Little Women, and The White Album.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Women of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsyth Hailey, The Thorn Birds, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Glass Castle, (there are so many good ones!)
I forgot about A Woman of Independent Means, fantastic book.
Pillars of the Earth. Pride and Prejudice. Rebecca
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Code Name Verity
Outlander
@Lina I agree with your first and last choice. I have not read the middle one.
@Laurien, it’s a young adult book about two young women who become friends while working as radio operators in England during WWII. One goes on to become a pilot ferrying aircraft around the country for the RAF and the other becomes an interpreter working in intelligence. I know it’s fiction, but my response when I finished it was “I’m amazed that 1) the world survived the war and 2) the majority of those who fought were so young.” They truly were the greatest generation.
@Lina It sounds like like a great book. I like historical fiction and ya books are good.
@Laurien historical fiction is my favorite.
Oh The Thorn Birds❤️
The Outsiders
Little Women
and
Mockingly (Book 3 in the hunger games series)
East of Eden, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter series
The Great Gatsby, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Americanah
Gone with the wind, Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer, The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Trinity, Great Expectations, West With the Night, Circling the Sun, The Pilot’s Wife, Wild
Old Man and the Sea; River Cross My Heart; What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
What week is it? I change my mind every day
Confederates in the Attic
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Wide Sargossa Sea
Hmmm, I’d like to cheat a little by choosing books before and after I was born. The older books would be: To kill a mockingbird, of Mice and Men, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Newer books: I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, In Cold Blood and Left to Tell.
I was criticized before for picking “In Cold blood “because some say it’s non fiction. But I think it’s kind of journalistic fiction. Based on facts but written like a novel, I think it was a great book.
I agree with you. I could not put it down.
Where The Red Fern Grows, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Hobbit
Knew you’d say “Gone With The Wind”
Dune. Being Mortal. The Good Earth
The Odyssey, Alice in Wonderland, The Count of Monte Cristo
Gone with the Wind, Twelve Years a Slave, A Boys Life
Great selection. Read “12 years “a couple years ago. It should be required reading in high school.
@Laura I read it over 40 years ago in college, I have never forgotten it. He was enslaved near where I grew up in Louisiana
It’s such an amazing story. I love first person accounts and he tells it like it was. He was a really good writer, a very intelligent man I think.
Hard to pick just three! East of Eden, pride and prejudice, and Redwall by Brian Jacques.
East of Eden was a spellbinder
Yes! It just left me in awe ?
Pride and Prejudice, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Grapes of Wrath. For today only.
Bible, Redeeming Love, Gone with the Wind.
War and Peace, Another Country, Til We have Faces – but three? Please…
Love In the Time of Cholera, The Shipping News, How Green Was My Valley, The Kite Runner.
Mary, my favorite book is How Green was my Valley and I’ve never met anyone who’s even read it before!
Loved Love in the Time of Cholera
@Beth me too!
Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland.
Roots, Gone with the Wind & Before We were Yours
Harry Potter, The Book Thief and Ladies of the Club.
Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter Series, Outlander Series, The Diary of Anne Frank, Black Beauty, Dracula, Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Sorry – way more than 3!
Woman in White, The Forsythe Saga, Lord of the Rings, the Haunting of Hill House
Loved the Forsythe Saga, have you tried The Pallisers, they have the whole series for nintynine cents with the kindkle app.
@Pamela saw the TV production, loved it . Have read other Trollope and enjoyed. Have a new Trollope, the Small House at Arlington to read
I have the Forsythe Saga on my Kindle. Going to move it up on my list.
Kelly Loughran well-deserved Nobel Prize for literature. This saga launched the multi-generational family saga genre
Rebecca; Gone With the Wind; To Kill A Mockingbird…… Do I have to stop at three! 😀
Where the Red Fern Grows, The Old Man and the Sea and the Davinci Code
The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Too Late the Phalarope
The Crucible; The Fountainhead; To Kill a Mockingbiaard.
sic. Mockingbird…typo!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Stand and As I Lay Dying followed closely by The Shining.
Fun fact, my daughter got to meet Harper Lee when she spoke at her university in 2003.
How Green was my Valley, Dandelion Wine, A Winter’s Tale
Charlotte’s Web, Gone With The Wind, and To Kill A Mocking Bird.
A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Stand, David Copperfield
The Outsiders. The Glass Castle. Where the Heart Is.
The Book Thief
Shes come undone
Little Women
The cellist of Sarajevo, Atonement, and People of the Book
The Woman in White, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice
Going through my list of books from the last few years, narrowing to 3 favorites ??? Impossible 🙁
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is one of my favorites!
It is beautifully written!!
@Ginger No WAY!!! I’m sure I’d be in tears if I could see it!!!
@Ginger Oooh, thanks! I’ll head there now!
Clara Callan.
The Book of Negroes (called Someone Knows My Name in the United States).
Fall on Your Knees.
Three is pretty impossible, but currently I will answer four instead of three with The Bible, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.
100 Years of Solitude, The Giver (for youth), Frankenstein, and that which I haven’t read yet. So much room in my heart.
Runners up,
Alice in Wonderland, Winnie-the-Pooh, Romeo and Juliet, The Adventures of Huck berry Finn,
Crud! Just realized I left out The Bard! I would pick A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
I left a comma so I can keep adding, lol.
Holy Cow, The Alchemist, The Kite Runner, then a tie for #3-Of Mice and Men and A Thousand Splendid Suns
I am reading A Thousand Splendid Sons right now!
Are you enjoying it?
Yes… it is so heart breaking. It just shifted character narrative now, away from Mariam…
The first bit was truly harrowing to read. Just the initial short chapters with her parents… and narcissism and parental alienation… truth encoded with such bitterness vs. charm. The emotional abuse and dependency by mom, manipulation by dad… the cultural circumstance that created it… and the childs eyes…
As a coparent… with someone who is very narcissistic… it made me reflect deeply on the child’s perspective. And I was very interested in her moms Jin, because my daughter had epileptic seizures, which she has out grown thankfully, and since cross cultural treatment of epilepsy has fascinated me…
Mariam’s miscarriage, burying the coat and subsequent miscarriages… so heart breaking…
It is really vivid. I like how the author writes such vivid short chapters. It gives me hope, because it is the only way I could hack my way through writing a novel. ?
I also adore the descriptions of her clearing, the stream, Herat and Kabul- pre Taliban… Just lovely…
Yes!!! It is such a beautiful story!! Khaled Hosseini is incredibly talented with words! Have you read The Kite Runner by him?
Also, what a great blessing that your daughter grew out of the epileptic seizures!
I read the Kite Runner… but, years ago. My memories are a bit fuzzy… I think I am liking this one more… But, I could stand to reread the Kite Runner for sure
Never Let Me Go, As I Lay Dying, All quiet on the western front (just fiction though) (I know I’m forgetting some!)
Never Let Me Go. ❤️❤️
Oh, and “Skinny Legs and All”
+All Quiet on the Western Front”; “Johnny Got His Gun”; & “Red Badge of Courage”.
You’re torturing me by restricting it to 3.
If I could give a top 30 I’d give it a try.
+”My Dinner with Andre”; “Painted Bird”; & “Heart of Darkness”.
War and peace
The Odyssey
Gone with the Wind
Kafka on the Shore
Only Begotten Daughter
The Historian
Hey! I read Only Begotten Daughter a long time ago… It is a good book!
I have been wanting to read some Haruki Murakami.
Ginseng MacKay-Tisbert … Loved it to the point that it’s in my Top 3 like 20 years after reading it. I just remember it being so clever and creative. Also, you are now the 3rd person I have ever heard who has read it. So, yay you! Thanks for commenting. ☺
+”Last of the Mohicans”; “Frankenstein”; & “3:10 to Yuma”.
Cold Sassy Tree, Lonesome Dove, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I love Their Eyes Were Watching God <3
Add it to my list!
I loved Cold Sassy Tree. If you enjoyed Cold Sassy Tree I think you might really like Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith. One of my favorites!! I would love to know if you read it and what you thought! (Lonesome Dove is my second favorite book of all time!)
To Kill A Mockingbird my all time favorite….so many to choose from for 2nd and 3rd spots..
Lord of the a Rings, the entire Harry Potter series, and The Count of Monte Cristo!!!
This would change all the time … so hard… list is top favorite “ish” that come to mind at this moment.
* The Light in August
* Tell Me How Long the Train’s been Gone
* The Beans of Egypt Maine
*By the light of My Fathers Smile
* Dhalgren
* The Man in the Maze
I do not read a lot of fiction but I did so love Team of Rivals. Anything Soris Kearny Goodwin writes. I love biographies too.
Impossible to answer!
Maybe a top 10 but 3 is hard
Come to think of it, what a WONDERFUL dilemma that folks cannot identify “just 3” … 10 … or more! 😀 #ReadAway
Alchemist
don’t miss to read this book.. it’s a fiction story but the story will definitely inspire your life and life thoughts.. author of the book is paulo coelho
Also, nostalgic beloved from younger kid days:
Dragon Riders of Pern
Chronicles of Amber
Elric of Melnibone
<3
If some terrible tragedy struck and I had to replace my entire library, I would have to start with: The Bible, The Collected Works of Shakespeare, and the Complete Novels of Jane Austen in one volume. That’s three books….but if I had to choose only three novels after 1. Gone With the Wind, I would be mired in indecision forever….what is 2? Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, or To Kill a Mockingbird? One gets left out no matter what and then there’s no room for Harry Potter OR LOTR!!!
I collect Shakespeare’s works as well as anything Jane Austen… looking at everything on your list it seems we have the same taste in books! ?❤️
I’d count LOTR as ONE book since that’s how JRRT intended it. Now, to pick 2 more …..
I’m just starting The Hobbit now, and plan on reading LOTR next! Loving it so far.
@Abbie, I love many genres and modern books too, but the classics are just essential!
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You (Fred Chappell) and All Over But the Shoutin’ (Rick Bragg)
I read All Over But the Shoutin’-memorable, but not in my top 3
To
Kill a Mockingbird, Where the Red Fern Grows, Heidi
Heidi, yes truly, truly loved that book as a child.
When Pride Still Mattered by David Mariness. It is a bio about Vince Lombardi. Alexader Hamilton by Ron Chernow. The musical was based on the book. Ben Franklin by Walter Issacon. Number of other books I like.
The Outsiders Harry Potter and off the top of my head why known Earth which is more like a comic book
The Odyssey of Homer, Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies, and Life a Users Manual by Georges Perec. Odyssey was an entre into mythology, Davies vol 1 of the Cornish trilogy was my entre into the Canadian author, and Perec was an outstanding example of Oulipo.
TKAM, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables
Kafka by the Shore, A Gentleman in Moscow, Dinner with Buddha
The Giver, The Color Purple, The Handmaid’s Tale
I say the movie the giver
Harry Potter series, Little Women, and A Man Called Ove
I also read harry potter
Too hard to pick just 3. The three that come to my mind though are On the Beach by Nevil Shute, Anna Karenena by Tolstoy, and The Time Traveler’s Wife-all 3 are so memorable for me.
And how can Anna Karenena not be on the top 100 list?
Right?
The Color Purple, Neverwhere, and Passage (by Connie Willis).
Oh goodness… only 3?! This’ll be tough… I’ll be a stereotype and say Pride & Prejudice is definitely one. But also my first and favorite series The Guests of War Trilogy by Kit Pearson (my childhood favorite). And third, probably Memoirs of a Geisha… or Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper… or maybe Dale Carnegie‘s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Oh wait, maybe The Lovely Bones. Vanity Fair? The Awakening? Harry Potter? White Fang? Black Star, Bright Dawn? Gaah only 3?!? You tease!?
Loved Memoirs of a Geisha!
Little House series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catherine Called Birdy. Oh who am I fooling, I can’t answer this.
Loved Catherine, Called Birdy, and The Midwife’s Apprentice, The Battle of Lucy Whipple, and Matilda Bone. She is a fantastic author!
I can quote many paragraphs from CCB. I read this novel with my 7th grade SS students, they loved it. Many wonderful life lessons, historical lessons and oh so funny.
So many it is hard to choose just 3….The Harry Potter series, The Hobbit, and The Stand. I could go on and on though…..I will sneak in one more….To Kill a Mockingbird. I have read all of those over and over.
Lord of the Rings, Flowers in the Attic, the Stand.
GWTW, confederacy of dunces, ham on rye
East of Eden, The Virgin Suicides, and Catch-22. Close runner-up: 1Q84.
Jane Eyre, Les Miserable, Pride and Prejudice
My 13 yo daughter said: City of Bones, Cinder, and Wonder!
I so love the variety of favorites! My favorites? Anne of Green Gables, Harry Potter, and….Jane Eyre.
Persuasion. War and Peace, Gaudy Night
To Kill a Mocking Bird. Little Woman. Outlander.
Although I might name three others tomorrow.
Poisonwood Bible, East of Eden, Harry Potter series
Gone With the Wind, to Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter series
Little Women, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights/Jane Eyre. (Including both of the Bronte sisters classics b/c it varies which one I think is best.)
The Proud Breed, Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre…more more more…Outlander, To Kill a Mockingbird, Exodus, Mila 18….too many to choose.
I didn’t know anyone would mention The Proud Breed but I loved it too along with the Wild Swan series. So much history! I learned a lot from those books and fell in love with the characters.
I thought of the Proud Breed as a Gone With the Wind of California. So much history there.
Harry Potter, Tess of the d’Ubervilles and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Bambi, The Devil’s Advocate and Fields of Fire.
ULYSSES,FINNEGANS WAKE,and PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Don Quixote.
Grapes of Wrath, Dr. Zhivago, and Cannery Row
I’ve love Dr. Zhivago, the movie, I’ve tried reading the book a few times but I keep getting lost. I may try again
Steinbeck is one of my all time favorites.
The Great Influenza; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Night of Watching
I am a nurse, The Great Influenza was well written. I could not put it down.
I am, as well. Loved reading about all the well known giants of infectious disease and the impact of public health (when city officials paid attention). It was like reading a gripping mystery.
That would be like choosing your favorite child.
Isn’t that the truth? ?
The 3 that had the most positive impact on my life are Alcoholics Anonymous, When Bad Things Happen to Good People and Man’s Search for Meaning.
What is the What, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Strength in What Remains
A Wrinkle in TIme, The Little Prince, ad Mists of Avalon
Mists of Avalon, Chocolate, Bird By Bird
Chocolat? Where she opens a chocolate shop? (In France?)
Pillars of the earth, The Stand, and never tire of a little bible every morning!
Life and Death in Shanghai and A Land Remembered. I’m a Floridian and I love books about China history.
Ana Kerenina (Tolstoy), A Long Walk To Freedom (Nelson Mandela) and Personal History (Katherine Graham).
Olive Kitteridge, The Stand, To Kill a Mockingbird
Sandcastle girls, To kill a Mockingbird & Prince of Tides.
South of broad( pat Conroy) unbroken(Laura Hillenbrand) and The Glass Castle(Jeannette Walls)
Price and Prejudice, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikray
I also loved The Storied Life – wonderful
Gone With the Wind, Anna Karenina, and for fluff The Bachelors.
Dracula, the novel, @Chinelo and @Game.
Oliver Twist, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Mayor of Casterbridge.
This is a fluid list depending on my mood. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Michener’s THE SOURCE, CENTENNIAL, and Dean Koontz’s ASHLEY BELL.
Loved both Micheners. I haven’t read the Koontz. Will add to list. I did like his “Watchers”.
Rebecca, Anne of Green Gables, The Great Influenza
These are 3 that I have read more than once, but I have read so much fiction and non-fiction about WWII and WWI that to pick a favorite from that group of books is impossible.
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah. Get the audiobook. He reads it. Laughed and cried and very thought provoking.
Watership Down by Richard Adams, th Weird Sisters
Watership Down by Richard Adams, The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, Advise and Consent (series) by Allen Drury
I loved The Weird Sisters! I hardly ever see it mentioned, sadly…it was so good.
That’s a tough one!! But these three come to mind first: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Gone With the Wind, and Outlander are my favorites!
I’m 70, and just reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I enjoyed the prequel.
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Cider House Rules and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Kelly, Cider House Rules is my favorite John Irving book.
My favorite is A Prayer for Owen Meany but Cider House is a close second.
So far, The Great Gatsby, A Christmas Carol, and Walden.
As others have said, this list is fluid. But the most memorable in the last ten years is All the Light we Cannot See.
Also, Pillars of the Earth trilogy.
The Book Thief, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Code Name Verity
Of all time is a little hard but my 3 favorite I’ve read this year are: Pride and Prejudice(which I’ve read many times and would also make the favorites of all time list), A Man Called Ove, and Mr Dickens and His Carol
1984 by George Orwell. The Terror by Dan Simmons. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
Game of Thrones series I’ll count as one, The Art of Racing in the Rain and the Stand.
Love The Art of Racing in the Rain!!!!!!
I was so disappointed it was not in the 100
@Sue I hadn’t thought of it but I agree! I also wish “Wicked” has made the top 100
Too many to pick from!! So many great ones!!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Little Women. Wuthering Heights
AlsoA Christmas Carol. And Rebecca.
Invention of Wings, These is My Words, Where the Red Fern Grows
Invention of Wings! Yes!
Pride and Prejudice, Bambi, and Jurassic Park.
Siddhartha, The Stand, and East of Eden
Tuesdays With Morrie, The Left Hand of Darkness and Midnite in the Garden of Good and Evil
I’m a non-fiction person, I enjoy history.
Well then tell us your 3 favorite nonfiction reads
Michener’s THE SOURCE, THE BOOK THIEF, SEAT OF THE SOUL
I thought Michener’s books were interesting, but all his characters were so flat and one-dimensional that I couldn’t think of him as a novelist.
Wuthering Heights (Bronte), American Gods (Gaiman) and Watership Down (Adams)
Interpreter of Maladies, East of Eden and The Stand.
Reading East of Eden now. Enjoying!
@Sue a bit dark, but a great read.
@Yvonne Yes, but I saw the movie and am prepared.?
Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are the ones that come to mind.
I also pick A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as my number 1, GWTW #2 , but put Lonesome Dove as 3
Gone with the Wind, Watership Down, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Harry Potter series, Pride and Prejudice, and Silas Marner.
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles, The Far Pavillions by M.M.Kaye, and The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Pillars of the Earth , Pride and Prejudice , John Adams by David McCullough .I like all of his books I have read.
So, I can only pick the top 3 not the top 300?
Clan of Cave Bear series, The Book Thief, The Poisonwood Bible.
“The Way We Live Now,” “Bleak House” and “The Princess Bride.”
Beloved, Breakfast of Champions, 2666 (will change by the hr though…?)
I loved the first two. Haven’t read the third!
Angle of repose; a tree grows in Brooklyn ; House of Mirth!!
House of Mirth!!
Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter Series…so hard to pick just three!
Rabbit Series/Updike, The Woman in White/Wilkie Collins, Tom Jones/Fielding
Aaaaack! This is so hard. If I HAD to pick (since you’re making me)… “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” “Charlotte’s Web” and “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.” 🙂
All the Light We Cannot See, Catcher in the Rye, On The Road, A Separate Peace, Lord of the Flies, The Invisible Man.
Loved All the Light
To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, others vary from time to time, maybe The Alchemist, maybe The Count of Monte Cristo or the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Kim -Kipling, The Night Circus – Morgenstern, The Microbe Hunters – de Kruif (you will get a different answer every time you ask this!)
Creek Mary’s Blood-Brown//My Name is Sappho-Rofheart//Mischling-Konar.
Pillars of the Earth/Follett, Charlotte’s Web/EB White, and The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler/EL Konisgburg. Although there are also thousands others!!
1984, George Orwell Station Eleven, Emily Emily St. John Mandel and anything written by Jon Krakauer!!
All the Light You Cannot See, The Help, and Little Fires Everywhere, and Ready, Player, One
Anne of Green Gables, The Giver, The Neverending Story.
I’m just crazy about Anne of Green Gables <3
Me too!
Anne definitely changed my life. ??
The Wind in the Willows; Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga [ but if I had to pick just one of them it would be Memory]; and one of the titles from the next tier would be Little Men.
I ❤️ Wind in the Willows!!
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, Dr Zhivago.
The Wind in the Willows, Man’s Search for Meaning, and, until I read Go Set a Watchman, To Kill a Mockingbird. I hated that Atticus was on the White Citizens Council, and it destroyed TKAM for me. Now Mrs. Mike is my third favorite.
Which I why I have not read Go Set a Watchman. I love Atticus in Mockingbird and I don’t want to spoil it.
@Beth I wish I’d done that. I got so excited when I saw that HarperCollins was publishing a manuscript by Harper Lee that I didn’t wait for the reviews.
Les Miserables, East of Eden, and Anything by Isabel Allende!
I just read “The Grapes of Wrath” (for the first time) last month. (Wow!) Would love to get to “East of Eden” this summer as well. 🙂
@Suzanne East of Eden is awesome, epic and heart touching all at the same time. Not a quick read but you can certainly do it over the summer. Enjoy it.
@Suzanne I’ve tried to get into grapes multiple times and just can’t!
Harry Potter, the Alchemist, to kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird….and Harry potter books …the whole series…
The Great Gatsby, Gone With the Wind and The Outsiders
Outlander, Pride and Prejudice and The Outsiders.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Wrinkle in Time, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax
#1=Jane Eyre; #2 = Pride & Prejudice, #3 – Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself
To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice & Gone with the Wind.
John le carre, John le carre and John le carre. Within fiction, other authors often reference him. Several films made. George smiley in cold war, then social justice fiction.
Stones from the River (Hegi), A Fine Balance (Mistry) and Hawaii (Michener)
The Torah, The Brothers Karamazov, and something of Dickens (various novels like David Copperfield and Great Expectations for the exquisite writing and Old Curiosity Shop and Little Dorrit (also Bleak House) because I used them in my Senior Thesis at Barnard College). A fourth would be Night or anything by Elie Wiesel.
Great choices!
I think reading Night as a teenager was the first time I really understood the depth of The Holocaust.
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Art of Racing in the Rain and too many others to just pick one more.
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series; Harry Potter series; Pillars of the Earth series.
You know, I can’t take it down to three books, or ten. While I’m reading a very good book it’s my favorite at the time. So there have been many favorites.
Same problem
The Awakening by Chopin, The Stand by King, and The Secret Life of Bees.
How much time do you have? It is complicated!
I love it too!!
Can book series count? I have too many favorites and they change as I read more books. Currently, my top 3 favorite books are: The Kingdom Keepers (Series) by Ridley Pearson, The Gifted (Series) by Lisa T. Bergren, and Mark of the Lion (Series) by Francine Rivers.
Frankenstein, The Perfume, Cien años de soledad.
Love New York and Paris by Rutherford
This thread is a great reminder that there are the perfect books for every person, and they might be the perfectly NOT books for someone else! Different strokes for different folks, and for this I am grateful!
To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebecca and Dracula
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Runaway Jury and Keeping Faith
Outlander, The Tell, Harry @Potter
Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, and my first “grown up” book, The Good Earth.
I need to read The Good Earth!
Ok I answered yesterday but today add A Man Called Ove to the list ???
I am about 75% of the way through the audiobook (He’s doing the driving lesson now). I love it, and I don’t want it to end. I’ve lost track of the times it’s made me cry so far.
“The Decameron” by Giovanni Boccaccio, “Metamorphoses” by Ovid, and “The Trial” by Franz Kafka.
For a second, I thought you selected two by Kafka. 😉
First two are easy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and East of Eden. So hard to pick a third because there are so many. Right now I would pick Rena’s Promise: A Story of Two Sisters in Auschwitz. That may change tomorrow but right now I can’t even think of that book without having intense feelings.
Mists of Avalon, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Middlemarch, pride and prejudice, and the Belgariad series i read about 20 times until all the books fell apart as a teen.
I loved the Belgariad series!! I read them so many times in high school. I reread them after college and it was like visiting old friends. ?
A man called Ove. Pride and Prejudice, Gone with the Wind.
loved Ove!
Hahahaha No way I can list only three!!!
Pillars of the Earth, The Nightingale and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
The great alone, the book thief and The nightingale.
Zorba the Greek, Rebecca, and The Great Gatsby
Three?? Seriously?? That’s like asking what one book I would want with me on a desert island. Impossible limitations!
3 ? So funny. Besides my childhood books are so different from now but at the time they saved me. Today I read to enjoy but to learn nonfiction now is important to me.
North and south
whoa…why just 3???
I can’t pick three. It’s like picking my fav 3 movies. I just can’t.
hopefully I have not read them yet!
(1)Their Eyes Were Watching God-Zora Neale Hurston, (2)Pentimento-Lillian Hellman, (3)The Innocents Abroad-Mark Twain
Gone with the wind, Thorn Birds, Roots
Time Traveler, 11/22/63, Between Shades of Gray….are the first 3 that came to mind.
TKAM, In Cold Blood, The Diary of Anne Frank.
I was reading In Cold Blood the night 50 years ago when I went into labor with my first child. Husband woke in middle of night asking if I was having contractions. Called doctor—we were 75 miles from the hospital. I would not leave the house until I finished that book!!! We lived on an island. I was fine. Doc and hubby nearly had heart attacks. ?
Anne Frank’s Diary. The Secret Garden. Harry Potter series. Read them over and over and/or have stuck with me through decades.
“Catch 22”, “Watership Down” and “Neuromancer”
Oooo I completely forgot about Watership Down! Great book! I don’t see any one mentioning Animal Farm which was a great book also.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Sophie’s Choice, The Prince of Tides. But there are so many more….
I could not possibly pick three favorites. I have been reading a long time. My favorite is usually the last book I read
Lord of the Rings, Mists of Avalon, and Outlander.
The last 2 would be on my list
Ugh! The Grapes of Wrath! Superb!
These are my favorite books to read:The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare, Murder at Monticello, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lost Laughter, Where the Red Fern Grows and Jane Eyre. I couldn’t just pick three.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer and Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman.
the Bible, Shakespeare, Henry James
Harry Potter and Sorcerer Stone- Blackdagger Brotherhood Dark Lover & Nora Roberts Dance upon the air!!
I wish I could say all these intellectual-Deep thinking- world changing books but I really love a fun read that won’t make my head hurt!!
Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Gone With the Wind
I’m determined to read Rebecca and Gone With The Wind this year!!
So freaking hard… I probably would have to make a top 10 BUT – here goes, so far: The Secret Life of Bees, A Fine Balance, and The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade.
It’s very hard to choose, because i started at about age 5-6 and i’m now 59. I can’t imagine how many i’ve read as i’m addicted to reading. I mostly read non-fiction now as it’s hard for me to find great fiction.
@Jilly, all of Farley Mowat. The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be. The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float. Never Cry Wolf—that was a great movie. Those are laugh aloud books. Lots of interesting serious stuff too.
Thank you!
The Secret Life Of Bees, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill A Mockingbird… Have to add Jane Eyre
Love your choices!
I answered, but really that list would change daily — or every time I thought about it.
Too hard but I’m going to go with Phantom Tollbooth, The Hitchhiker Trilogy and maybe I, Robot? And I reserve the right to change those in 5 minutes 😉
Like others I reserve the right to change my list, but off the top of my head: It Can’t Happen Here, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the Wizard Children of Finn.
The help, orphan train, and Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban.
The Prophet
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Metamorphosis
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. This is a non fiction of a fresh look at plants and trees. The leper Spy. Story about a courageous lady with leprosy acting as spy in World War 2. Again non fiction Hunt for Red October which will keep u in suspense
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, and WATERSHIP DOWN
I was wondering about your first two!! I will have to look at them again. I read the third one. I have a problem in that I love brand new books, ugh, instead of used or library. Afraid to spend money.
@Jill me too, my biggest expense- books
God of Small Things, Gone with the Wind, World According to Garp.
Love all 3
Must add TKAM, The Poisonwood Bible, Cold Mountain, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Sense and Sensibility, The Turn Of The Screw, The Witching Hour, Against the Wind, The Shadow of the Wind, A Naked Singularity, Ethan Frome, Silas Marner, Midnight’s Children, The Inspector Lynley series, The Dalgliesh series, so see it’s impossible to list only 3 favorites..
All those listed were fiction of course, I could make a long list of excellent NF too
Same here @Shelley.
Wow! Thank you! How about historical fictions? I’m open!
To Kill A Mockingbird, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Gone With The @Laura @Kris: I’m so glad you love A Thousand Splendid Suns. Everyone’s favorite seems to be The Kite Runner, which was phenomenal, but Suns will haunt me every day of my life
Completely agree @Tammy!
The Great Gatsby….Lonesome Dove….The World AccordingTo Garp….I’m reading A Prayer For Owen Meany now….so, ask this question again in July….
LOVED Owen Meany!!
@Beth….I’m loving it so far, and I just started it….Man, it draws you right in, fast….
Loved Lonesome Dove!
Jane Eyre. Olive Kitteredge. A Man Called Ove
I finished Ove today❤️
Evergreen (Belva Plain) Hawaii (Michener) Zion Chronicles (Brock & Bodie Thoene)
Love Evergreen and the all her other books too!
East of Eden…The Life and Times of Robert F. Kennedy….The Heart is a lonely Hunter…..
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ashes of Fiery Weather
The Snow Child
I read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn when I was in 8th grade. I am a Grandmother now and it is still one of my favorite books.
Huckleberry Finn, Lonesome Dove and the entire Outlander series
Love Lonesome Dove!!
@Kathy I’ve read every single one of Larry McMurtry’s books, but “Lonesome Dove” is the one I’ve re-read several times.
…that cattle drive! :O
Impossible
Oh, I’ve read that at least 3 times. Wept each time.
I agree that is impossible. How about just favorite books that later became movies; Prince of Tides, Gone with the Wind, and Sophie’s Choice.
The Help, Ride the Wind, and The Glass Castle. Oh and Water for Elephants. And Anne of Green Gables. And A Moveable Feast.
A man called Ove
Loved reading Water for Elephants!
Love, love Ride the Wind!
Oh yeah! Prince of Tides for sure
Oh! I forgot The Great Santini. Read it and then straight thru a second timel Surprising how some books “grab” ya! Who knew/
I need to put that on my reading list!
Prince and Santini are equally good books!
Little Women, Persuasion, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen. I really didn’t like Pride and Prejudice
I like P & P but love Persuasion!
Agreed! Persuasion has so much more nuance and sophistication than P&P, IMHO.
As of this moment, Atlas Shrugged, Lonesome Dove, The Book Thief. Ask me again in five minutes ?
I read Atlas Shrugged and the Foutainhead when I was in high school in the early 60’s. I read them again in my 20’s and again in my 30’s. I’m a grandmother now and it’s time to read them again. I love Ayn Rand!
I read The Fountainhead, Anthem, and Atlas Shrugged in high school, as well. My calculus teacher talked to my volleyball coach about my reading Atlas in class, to which I replied, “Coach, this book is changing my life”. She dropped it ? I read Atlas again in college, and it even played a role in my husband’s proposal ? Each time I read it, I notice something new.
This is the first mention of AS that I’ve seen. I thot it was a pretty important, pivotal book, as well as just a great read and a big sense of accomplishment at the end of all gazillion pages. It’s one of those books that you think about for years after.
I love the fact i feel surrounded by people who love books as much as i do ????
The Book Thief, The Stand, The Kite Runner, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, All the Light We Cannot See, The Secret Life of Bees, The Red Tent, oh, wait, that’s more than three…
Love all those. I just brought up The Red Tent this morning in conversation.
Oh, I forgot about The Red Tent. Sooo good.
I am going to check out The Red Tent
Probably get it today
Watership down, the Harry Potter series, the Percy Jackson series!!
I recommended Watership Down to a younger friend. He thought it was about rabbits. I told him to read it again.
I just got the anniversary edition and plan to read it again this summer.
Jill Smith Hanley, my paternal grandmother was a Hanley. She was born in Minnesota of Irish parents from Ontario Canada. I don’t see many Hanleys and assume your husband is one.
Six of One, Shadow of the Wind, and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and a Man Called Ove.
Shadow of the Wind!!! I LOVE that book.
Pride & Prejudice, The Book Thief, and The Count of Monte Cristo
Loved The Book Thief!
I love all of those!
Cutting for Stone, Bel Canto and A Man Called Ove
I own all 3 of those and have read none of them yet!
In some ways I’m jealous….I would love to read them again and not know the stories. Abraham Verghese is such a great writer. I wish he would write more.
Anne of Green Gables; Tale of Two Cities; Atonement
(and To Kill A Mockingbird and Watership Down…. I’m ready to add about 70 more!)
And Shadow of the Wind.
Outlander series
Gone With the Wind
When Venus Fell by Deborah Smith
The Alienist, Frankenstein and Go Dog Go.
Loved The Alienist!
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / CRIME AND PUNISHMENT / SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Will finally read Crime And Punishment this year!!!
To Kill a Mockingbird/Lonesome Dove/Outlander (the series)
Yes, and “The Streets of Laredo”
To Kill a Mockingbird, Charlotte’s Web, The Great Gatsby.
As of now:
to Kill a Mockingbird,
Fahrenheit 451, and
Where The Red Fern Grows.
And I have to say Little Women also.
Outlander
Little Women
Mary Queen of Scots
Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Great Gatsby
The Other Boleyn Girl
To kill a mockingbird, the Harry Potter series, Louise Penny mysteries
Yes
My Brilliant Friend
The Story of a New Name
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of the Lost
Alex Cross series, Duma Key and Eragon series
Parable of the Sower, The Stand, In Search of Satisfaction
1000 White Women: Journal of May Dodd, Outlander (book 1), All The Light We Cannot See
Altar in the World, Night, to Kill a Mockingbird
The Handmaid’s Tale
Little Women
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird & Mama’s Bank Account.
The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Miserable, Tuesdays with Morrie
Loved Tuesday’s with Morrie!
Three favorite novels: Wuthering Heights, Gone With The Wind, Last Night at Chateau Marmont.
Pride & Prejudice, The Best Yes, and The Fringe Hours
Heidi,All This and Heaven Too,Outlander
Forgot about Heidi! First book I ever read, a beloved favorite!?
Heidi….!!!
My fave childhood book.
I read it over and over…
To kill a mockingbird, gone with the wind, and Stephen King’s the stand
No way I could narrow it down to just three
A stone for Danny Fisher….the other side of midnight….gone with the wind…only 3..? Lol
Loved A Stone for Danny Fisher…still have my original copy. I thought my brother and I were the only 2 people who read it!
Gone with the wind. The thorn birds. To kill a mockingbird
The Kite Runner
The Joy Luck Club
I Know this Much is True
Wally Lamb is one of my favorite authors!
Lonesome Dove, Gone with the wind, Little Women
I know this much is true, Before we were yours, Lilli de Jong…Too many books to just pick 3.
Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Book Thief & The Pioneer Family ?
To kill a mockingbird, Desperation, Wild