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What are your top 3 favorite books of all time ?!?!

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Katie

1984
Great Gatsby
A Little Princess

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Zenaida

Rebecca, Harry Potter series and The Shadow of the wind

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Sheila

Loved Rebecca, then went on to read all of Daphne DuMaurier’s books. She wrote The Birds!

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Sharon

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.

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Cindy

I liked The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.

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Sheila

Loved Watership Down

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Teresa

TKAM, pride and Prej

TKAM, Pride and Prejudice and The House of Mirth

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Deborah

Especially love House of Mirth (all Edith Wharton). One of my cat’s is named Lily Bart!!

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Teresa

@Deborah Love Wharton and your cat’s name!!!

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Deborah

Thanks!

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Kyra

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

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Beth

It’s hard to pick just three, but I love seeing another Rainbow Rowell fan! <3

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Kyra

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 😃

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Sally

Poison wood bible. Eat Pray love. Book theif

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Alessandra

It’s hard to pick three, but here goes. The Stand, To Kill a Mockingbird,Pride and Prejudice.

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Karen

Anna Karenina, Of Mice and Men, Great Expectations

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Deborah

The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, The Secret Garden

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Mary

TKAM, Pillars, Harry Potter

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Kimberly

Harry Potter, The Martian, A Gentleman in Moscow

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Susan

Little Women
The Savannah series by Eugenia Price
Chronicles of Narnia

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Toni

I loved Little Women and Jo’s Boys.

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Sheila

Loved the Savannah series too

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Tammy

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.

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Beth

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.

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Karen

LOVED Guernsey!

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JillQuestion author

Loved it too!! One of my favs!

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Marnie

Gone with the Wind, Lolita, If on a Winters Night A Traveler

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Deborah

Love Lolita♡

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Joy

Poisonwood Bible, I Know This Much Is True, & Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff.

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Pam

Lamb- probably the funniest book I have ever read.

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Joy

@Pam, me too! It was fantastic 😊

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Sheri

a farewell to arms,the winds of war, to kill a mockingbird ties with a tree grows in brooklyn

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Beth

Jane Eyre, Persuasion, and Rebecca

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Sue

To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, and Lord of the Rings

AKA TKAM, GWTW, and LOTR

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Donna

😀

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Deborah

I named 3, but realize this is really impossible,lol!! I keep seeing more of my loves!!

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Kimberly

Totally agree

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Helen

On beauty by Zadie smith, never let me go, and Norwegian Woods

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Cindy

Never Let Me Go is a good one.

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Melaney

To Kill a Mockingbird, East of Eden, David Copperfield

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Lisa

The Book Thief, American Gods, and Memnoch the Devil

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Kathryn

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jude the Obscure, an American Tragedy

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Jane

The Red Tent, The Passage, Under the Banner of Heaven

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Cat

Ben Hur, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Rebecca

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Kathleen

Gone With the Wind, Lonesome Dove, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Mindy

Check out Renee’s Reading Club for great book recommendations📚

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Carrie

A Tale for the Time Being
Rebecca
To Kill a Mockingbird

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Beth

Outlander series, Lord of the Rings series, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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Carline

Dracula,White Fang,Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Karen

Is that a trick question???? That’s like asking a Mother which of her kids she likes the best! LOL

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Susan

Gone with the wind, The Nightingale, A Man Called Ove

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Cheri

Grapes of wrath, Harry Potter , Louise Penny .

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Diana

Elizabeth Enright’s “Gone-Away Lake” and “Return to Gone-Away”, and Mary Stewart’s “Moonspinners”.

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Mary

I am rereading The Moonspinners right now!

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Pam

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…

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Mullady

A Lesson Before Dying
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lonesome Dove

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Pam

Loved Lonesome Dove – read it twice.

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Lori

To Kill a Mockingbird
Fair and Tender Ladies
Little Women

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Sharon

A tree grows in Brooklyn,
the good earth
To kill a mockingbird
(Gone with the wind & the stand finish my top 5)

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Sabrina

Outlander series
Game of Thrones series
Gone with the wind

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Jennifer

Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor, Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan and The Faces of Eve by CS Lewis

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Jacqui

Rain of Gold is an awesome, magical story!

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Ann

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)

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Nancy

Loved The Source.

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Libby

The Prince of Tides. Don Quixote and The Fountainhead.

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Denise

Fountainhead on my list too

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Linda

Outlander, Harry Potter and a town called Alice

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Judy

Catcher in the Rye, Dr Zhivago, Was easy to pick two but impossible to eliminate so many by picking a third!

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Johanna

To kill a mockingbird, a tree grows in Brooklyn, gone with the wind

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Irene

A Thousand Splendid Suns, White Oleander, My Sister’s Keeper

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Allison

I love White Oleander-find myself reading it every summer!!

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Heidi

If I would have to pick at this very moment they would be The Power of One, Homegoing, and East of Eden.

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Laura

East of Eden, The Book Thief, and the Nightingale

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Cindy

Wuthering Heights, The Book Thief, The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

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Nancy

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lonesome Dove, Lord of the Rings trilogy. Pretty hard decision!

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Nancy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, All the Light We Cannot See, Harry Potter Series

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Meg

Yertle the Turtle, Winnie the pooh, and Charlotte’s Web

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Lori

The War that Saved my Life, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

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Tammy

Doll maker, water ship down and the art of racing in the rain.

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Linda

Harry Potter
Little House on the Prairie
The Nightingale

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Rachel

Fahrenheit 451; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Storied Life of AJ Fikry

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Mary

To Kill a Mockingbird; To Kill a Mockingbird(yes I voted twice); The Book Thief

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Charlotte

The Red Tent, The Kitchen House, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Diane

Dracula, the help, to kill a mockingbird

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Becky

Book of Dave, The Sparrow, No Country for Old Men

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Cynthia

Mists of Avalon, Huckleberry Finn, Johnny got his gun

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Lori

Always wanted the read Mists of Avalon

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Cynthia

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!

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Sonya

That’s a tough one! For now, I’ll say “The Bridges of Madison County,” “All Over but the Shoutin’,” & “Fahrenheit 451.”

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Daniel

1. Continental Drift- Russell Banks
2. White Noise- Don Delillo
3. The Room- Hubert Selby Jr.

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Eileen

The Shadow of the Wind, Cutting for Stone, The Bronze Horseman and Wuthering Heights

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Joyce

Huck Finn, Harry Potter, Anna Karinina

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Toni

Those are all good ones!

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Brandi

The Secret Garden
Pride & Prejudice
Harry Potter

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Sharon

Following

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Toni

Pillars of the Earth, The Help, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.

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Angela

The Outlander Gone With the Wind Blackdagger Brotherhood Series

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Allie

The Count of Monte Cristo, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Devil in the White City.

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Jamie

(1) To Kill a Mockingbird (2) Good Omens (3) A Short History of a Small Place.

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Bee

Outlander series. The Red Tent . Harry Potter

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Becky

Loved The Red Tent

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Jim

The Count of Monte Cristo, The Last of the Mohicans, The Chosen.

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Kathy

The Shell Seekers, Outlander, The Color Purple.

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Miranda

Oh my word…Rosamund Pilcher writes so beautifully! I loved The Shell Seekers!

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Donna

@Miranda me, too! 3 books is impossible! I keep thinking of all the other books I love!

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Miranda

@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.

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Emily

Today my answer is The Count of Monte Cristo, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The BFG.

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Sarah

Gone with the Wind, The Help, London by Edward Rutherfurd.

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Carol

1. Gone with the Wind 2. Lord of the Rings 3. A Christmas Carol

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Lacey

Bastard out of Carolina, Beloved, The Time Traveler’s Wife.

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Cindy

The Brothers Karamazov, Saint Maybe, A Prayer For Owen Meany. Oh but I also love Jitterbug Perfume.

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Becky

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner!

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Deborah

LOVE all 3!!!

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Dolores

The Brothers Karamazov, Gone with the Wind, Anna Karenina

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Ashlea

My kind of list!

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Robin

Hard to name just top 3, but loved Cutting for Stone and A Little Life

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Deborah

Love TKAM, & Beloved!

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Charlotte

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.

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Debbie

The Help, A Man called Ove and The Nightingale.

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Beth

Outlander (series), A Prayer For Owen Meany and The Help (so far lol)

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Sue

Good Behavior, Excellent Women, the Space Between Us. Lots more of course.

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Kate

Have you started The Secrets between Us yet?

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Karen

To Kill a Mockingbird, Anne of Green Gables, Wonder & The Story of Beautiful Girl.

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Betty

The Alchemist, Outlander & The Count of Monte Cristo

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Patricia

Bel Canto, The Great Gatsby, Me Before You

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Karen

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Jane Eyre,” and “Gaudy Night”

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Beth

Mists of Avalon, Pillars of the Earth, Neverwhere.

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Jennifer

A Prayer For Owen Meany, The Secret History, The Color Of Light

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Lori

Owen! ❤

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Misty

The Godfather, Grapes of Wrath, The Kite Runner

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Lori

Kite Runner! Great book!

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Miranda

Jane Eyre, Angela’s Ashes & The Great Alone

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Sarah

The Oz Books
The Little Prince
Matilda

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Jaime

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.

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Beverly

To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre and Rebecca.

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Rebecca

Don’t think I could narrow it down to 3

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Kathi

Lonesome Dove, Prince of Tides, and Gone with the Wind.

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Lori

2 of 3 but I had Pillars of the earth instead of prince of tides

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Kathi

I loved Pillars too! I also forgot The Stand. Too hard to choose three!

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Kelly

Pride and Predjudice, Cutting for Stone, The Color Purple.

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Carmen

That’s an excellent selection

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Donna

Hatter’s Castle, A Prayer for Owen Meany and To Kill a Mockingbird. But it is really hard to pick just three!

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Monica

why not ask me to pick a favorite child???

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Aleksandra

Just 3? The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, The Book Thief, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Lori

Loved Frankie!

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Deborah

Kite Runner, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind (fiction) I love non-fiction, too.

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Susan

Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca

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Joseph

Following

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Piepie

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Little Women; Rebecca

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Sara

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Where The Wild Things Are, A Prayer For Owen Meany

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Leah

I Capture the Castle, Stoner, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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Paige

I’m so glad you mentioned ‘I Capture the Castle’. It is definitely a sleeper favorite❣️

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Lori

1. LOTR
2. Harry Potter
3. Pride and Prejudice

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Kim

The Kadin (Bernice Small) / The Crystal Cave (Mary Steward) / The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)

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Leah

Ooh, Anne of Greene Gables too!! It’s hard to choose. Everyone is naming good titles

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Keith

The Hours, The Awakening, and Three Junes! (I would say Harry Potter but I could never pick just one!)

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Judith

To Kill A Mockinbird, Lonesome Dove, These is M Words

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Carolyn

To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Libby

A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), Travels With Charlie (Steinbeck), and Mrs. Mike (Freedman’s)…three books I reread every few years.

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Dee

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Good Earth, and Rebecca.

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Cherie

To kill a mockingbird, Pride and Predjudice, Eat pray love

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Gayle

Cry The Beloved Country; Anthem; all Harry Potter books. I read all of these every year….

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Edie

Thank you for reminding me of Cry The Beloved Country!

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Gayle

my pleasure. The best book ever. I read it every year

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Mary

To Kill A Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Great Gatsby

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Donna

To Kill a Mockingbird, Christy, and Tales Of a Fourth Grade Nothing 🙂

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Kathy

Love Christy, too

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Donna

Retired Teacher here, @Kathy 😊

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Victoria

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Little Prince, Grapes of Wrath

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Beth

The Philip Pullman trilogy.

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Jerry

All the Pretty Horses
Captain Corellis Mandolin
Lonsome Dove

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Melissa

A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lonesome Dove, and the Little Prince

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Jessica

The Help, Lord of the Rings, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Cindy

Shutter Island, Abbott and Avery and The Stars Are Fire.

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Susan

To kill a mockingbird, the secret life of bees, a new song by Jan Karon

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Frances

The Great Gatsby, All the King’s Men, Portait of a Lady, An American Tragedy

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Gayle

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

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Debbie

The last one I read, the one I’m reading and the next one up LOL

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Gayle

great answer!

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J.a.

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!

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Debbie

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!

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Laura

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.

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Keren

For me this is utterly impossible!😭

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Jane

The Glass Castle, Angela’s Ashes, Unbroken

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Valerie

Watership Down, Anne of Green Gables, A Fine Balance

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Laura

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!

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Valerie

@Laura i know!! I was so disappointed when it ended

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LiDe

Gone with the Wind, Crime and Punishment, and Alchemist.

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Vicki

Wuthering Heights,
The Joy Luck Club, Exodus

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Catherine

I don’t think I’ve read enough books yet to find my favorites

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Debbie

You must be young!

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Bryan

Catch 22, War and Peace, MacDonald Travis McGee novels

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Bryan

Darn it….forgot Owen Meany, Stephen King, Cloud Atlas, etc.

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Angela

Little Women, Gone with the Wind, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Stand, To Kill a Mockingbird….

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Tracy

Just too many great books to name 3

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Jane

War and Peace, Desiree, Pride and Prejudice

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AnnMarie

To Kill A Mockingbird, Tumbling, A Separate @Peace

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Kris

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….

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Joan

Depends on my mood…..
😀😂🤔😣😢🙃🤒

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Gabriel

Team of Rivals, Captains and Kings, Promise of Blood.

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Kathy

Captain and Kings is awesome, too

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Marcia

Interview with a Vampire, Kite Runner, the Alchemist

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Elyse

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 😉

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Mary

Gone With The Wind, To Kill A Mockingbird, Rebecca

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Reene

Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre and Little Women ❤️

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Lynne

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.

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Deborah

It IS hard…I keep adding more!

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Lynne

@Deborah Me too!

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Deborah

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, “The Accidental Tourist”, and “A Prayer for Owen Meany”!

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Susan

A Death in the Family, Pride and Prejudice, Sons and Lovers

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Cheryl

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.

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Peter

The Clan of the Cave Bear, A Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and Outlander.

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Patty

Twilight series, Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter.

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Joanna

The Outlander series, the Harry Potter series and To Kill a Mockingbird

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Denise

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

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Karen

Great! I love the reason you give behind each selection. ☺

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Sally

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)🤣

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Misty

The Bible, Anna Karenina, Outlander, Love in the Time of Cholera. OOps, that’s 4. It’s hard to name 3….

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Meredith

If you like Anna Karenina you might enjoy The Unbearable Lightness of Being- several allusions

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Misty

Thanks, @Meredith

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Meredith

Unbearable Lightness of Being . . . Can’t narrow down two others!

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Karyn

Wicked, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter

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Cherie

Pride and Prejudice, Alienist and, making A Charlie Brown Christmas

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Nancy

To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, The DaVinci Code

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Jessica

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer is my all time favorite, followed by The Sicilian by Mario Puzo, and The Body by Stephen King.

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Ginny

Gone With the Wind, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre

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Christen

The Jungle…i can’t even think of two more that come close!

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Sandy

Gone With the Wind, ….And the Ladies of the Club, and The Polar Express

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Rachel

The World According to Harp, The Dream Lover, Wild

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Rachel

How could I forget Duma Key(Stephen King).

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Patti

To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, Chesapeake –but it’s sooooo hard to stick with just three!

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Rachel

Geez. GARP.

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Deborah

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP: LOOOOVE!

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Rachel

@Deborah hi Deb!

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Deborah

@Rachel: Hi!

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Angela

Phantom of the Opera, Wuthering Heights, and A Wrinkle in Time (honorable mention to Don Quixote & Frankenstein)

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Johanne

I know this Much is True, winds of War, and to kill a mockingbird!

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Marissa

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Help, and Night

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Kay

The Stand, The Shack, and Of Mice and Men….

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Kerry

These happy golden years, When the music changed, Child Star 💕

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Theri

The Book Thief, Charlotte’s Web, Harry Potter series (can’t choose just one).

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Stacey

The entire Harry Potter Series, To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Beth

To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind, A Wrinkle In Time (the Bible is #1 but I didn’t count it in this)

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Gini

To Kill a Mockingbird, Skipping Christmas, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. This was WAY too difficult – my list could be different tomorrow. 😏

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Rachel

Like asking a favorite song.

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Katy

Ragtime by EL Doctorow, Catcher in the Rye and A Man Called Ove.

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Carole

The Poisonwood Bible, The Book Thief and The Secret Life of Bees.

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NAnnie

Wow! I’ve actually read all of those 😋😉

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Linda

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy 🌌,coldest winter ever

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Katie

I think about What Looks Like Crazy often. Thanks, Oprah!

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Gloria

Out of Africa, Les Misérables, Gone With the Wind

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Kathy

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.)

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Deborah

Wuthering Heights, Rebecca and The Charm School.

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Danielle

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???

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Charlene

Just 3?~!?~? Off the top of my head Man Called Ove, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Green Mansions.

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Charlene

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…

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Teresa

Cold Sassy Tree
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Ballad of Frankie Silver

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Frankie

Never heard of the last one!!

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Teresa

@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!

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Sandy

Devil In the White City
Gone with the Wind
Too many in third place

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Ryan

1. The Good Earth
2. Pillars of the Earth
3. Sweet Tooth

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Tracie

Gone With the Wind, Celia Garth, and The Outsiders.

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Kelly

Beach Music by Pat Conroy (Full Stop)

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Edie

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.

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Kelly

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.

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Angela

Gift from the Sea
The English Patient
The Guernsey Literary Potatoe Peel Pie Society

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Karla

The Thorn Birds, A Woman Of Substance and Gone With The Wind.

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Ryan

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.

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Lori

Edgar Sawtall, Racing in the Rain, Lonesome Dove.

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Karla

It is a great read.

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Donita

1. Angela’s Ashes
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. Pillars of the Earth

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Mary

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.

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Diane

To Kill a Mockingbird; The Bluest Eye; The Spook who Sat By The Door

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Katie

catcher in the rye, Owen Meany & Slaughterhouse Five

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Libby

The Thorn Birds, Gone with the wind, The Outsiders

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Sally

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.

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Lisa

To Kill A Mockingbird, The Outsiders,Persuasion

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Joan

Gone with the wind, pillers of the earth and to kill a mocking bird.

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Karen

The Last Convertible, Giants in the Earth, and To Kill a Mockingbird

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Donna

Grapes of Wrath, Geek Love, Love in the Time of Cholera

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Donna

Jane Eyre would be my 4th, The Good Earth would be my 5th…

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NAnnie

Ahhh, The Count of Monte Cristo 💗💕💓

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Ray

Watership Down, the Sherlock Holmes canon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.

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Elaine

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.

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Jessica

Anne of Green Gables, The Help, All the Light We Cannot See

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Donna

The Lord of The Rings, The Stand, Swan Song

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Susan

Following

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Ro

Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillars of the Earth.

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Kris

The Goldfinch, Like Water for Chocolate, and The Paris Wife

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Deborah

LOVED The Goldfinch!

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Ryan

Goldfinch was tremendous. It’s being made into a movie.

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Deborah

That worries me a bit. It’s rare when I’m happy with the film adaptation of a book I loved.

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Kim

All good. But I couldn’t hold any books up as my top 3 of all time.

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David

Lonesome dove by Larry . Cannery Row by Steinbeck and last but not least to Kill a Mockingbird

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NAnnie

Aww, The Count of Monte Cristo <3

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Cherry

The Stand. The Host. The once and future King

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Joan

Grapes of Wrath, Wuthering Heights, and Rebecca

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Renee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Dracula, Jane Eyre

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Toni

The Shack, Pride & Prejudice & The Thornbirds

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Tina

The Stand, Swan Song and The Dark Towers series.

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Kathy

The Stand, Lonesome Dove and Swan Song.

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Jill

All the Light we Cannot See, Gone With the Wind, Good Omens

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Bobbi

Yay. A Good Omens fan!

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Jill

@Bobbi I read it every year.

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Rickee

At this particular moment, Outlander, A Gentleman in Moscow and The Winter Sea, but subject to change.

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Chrissy

Heidi, The Neverending Story and The Phantom Tollbotth

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Angelica

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Phantom of the Opera and Pride and Prejudice.

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Bobbi

Not including novels (because I have way more than three): Ghost Boy, When Breath Becomes Air, and Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.

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Sheryl

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter

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Joan

Cutting for Stone, the Nightingale, the Shoemakers Wife.

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Jessica

OMG yes, The Nightengale was such a great book!!

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Kristine

Really loved “Cutting for Stone “. Have you read “The Tennis Partner”? By Verghese?

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Jane

Catherwood, Where The Heart Is and Roots.

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Jane

Cutting for Stone, A Gentleman in Moscow, To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Heather

I liked cutting for stone as well

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Amy

I keep trying to type something but five more pop into my head for every one I put down! 🙁

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Craig

Me 2

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Carol

Cry the Beloved Country, The Nightingale and Pillars of the Earth

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Hannah

War and Peace, Great Expectations, All Quiet on the Western Front, (and All the Light We Cannot See, I couldn’t just pick three!)

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Marilyn

Unbroken, The Nightingale, Loving Frank, A Dog’s Purpose – ok that’s 4 – and there are more. 😊

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Elizabeth

A dogs purpose! ❤️

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Marilyn

@Elizabeth – read it twice ❤️

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Kimberly

The Book Thief, All The Light We Cannot See and The Kite Runner

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Kathleen

So hard to pick three, The kite Runner, A Gentleman in Moscow, Arabs Wife

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Joanna

Pillars of the Earth, Secret Garden, Wishtree (new, by Katherine Applegate)

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Cherie

Pillars of the Earth. Very good.

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Denise

I can’t pick only 3……

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Laura

The Art of Racing in the Rain, she’s come undone and The Poisonwood Bible

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Jane

I almost put She’s Come Undone in my list. Poisonwood Bible was good also.

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Reene

@Jane love she’s come undone!

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Jane

I’ve read it several times and plan on reading it again when I get through a lengthy list of books to read.

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Jane

I plan on rereading Cold Mountain and The Bonesetter’s Daughter also.

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Cheryl

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. The Keeper of the Light by Diane Chamberlain. Small Great Things byJodi Piccoult

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Mary

Harry Potter series, Dune, The Mountain Between Us.

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Abbie

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A River Runs Through It, Pride and Prejudice

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Eileen

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn; Gone With The Wind and The Help.

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Reene

Love the help and a tree grows in Brooklyn too. So hard to just pick 3

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Eileen

@Reene it was HARD but these are the only 3 books I’ve read more than once so I went by that!

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Reene

@Eileen gone with the wind is my all time fav. Tied with Jane eyre and little women 😃

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Karen

Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers, and The Far Country by Nevil Shute.

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Kathleen

Have not heard of any of those, will have to check them out!

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Margaret

Anna Karenina, Poisonwood Bible, The Passion of Artemisia, Cutting for Stone..
Oops..that’s 4..it’ hard to choose..so many good books!!!

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Rachel

Lonesome Dove, Gone With the Wind, and Ride the Wind.

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Cecilia

Jane Eyre, The Silence of the Lambs, & Lady Chatterley’s Lover… at the moment

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Susan

Dune, Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Cecilia

♥️ all of these

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Nora

LOTR, TKAM, Ahab’s Wife…
I may change my mind tomorrow.

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Alisha

Pride and Prejudice, Before We Were Yours, Pleasure for Pleasure

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Elizabeth

Gone with the wind, The Godfather, The Kite Runner

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Anyte

Outlander series,poisonwood bible,Bell canto,many more…

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Nora

PB and Bel Canto May be on my list tomorrow…😉

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Beth

Jane Eyre, Howards End, Rebecca

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Paula

The Scarlet Letter, Mists of Avalon and Winter’s Tale

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Holly

East of Eden, To Kill A Mockingbird, Americanah

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Dianne

So Big, The Member of the Wedding, The Prince of Tides

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Linda

The Bible …. Beautiful…. let no man write my epitaph…. thorn birds .

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Nancy

Amelia Peabody series, In Death series, Harry Potter series.

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Kimberly

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Outlander

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Linda

Should say “ beautiful joe”

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Janice

Outlander series. The help. Gone with the wind.

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Dave

In no particular order: Stephen King’s The Stand, Leon Uris’ Battle Cry, Harold Robbins’ The Carpetbaggers.

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Lori

Gone with the Wind
Pillars of the Earth
Lonesome Dove

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Becky

Lonesome Dove ❤️❤️

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Edie

Just Impossible! Is it harder because I’ve been reading voraciously for over 75 years?

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Sheryl

Gone With the Wind
Posionwood Bible
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Modoc
No way I could only pick 3

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Susan

Shadow of the Wind, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mrs. Pollifax.

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Kandace

As of now.. Outlander series, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Nightingale.

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Carolyn

Lord of the Rings.Song of Solomon,Pride and Prejudice

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Nicole

The Stand, Game of Thrones, and The Poisonwood Bible (and many more, it’s like trying to pick your favorite child!)

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Sharyn

Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnet, Outlander, only have a top 2

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Wendy

No way can I pick 3. Nope. Can’t do it.

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Tracy

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, North and South (Gaskell)

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Carrie

Charlotte’s Web.. A Separate Peace… Harry Potter Series…Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Lisa

Before We were yours, the silver star, the queen of palmyra, ordinary grace, the help

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Peggy

Grapes Of Wrath
Pillars Of The Earth
Winds of War

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Jeanne

To Kill a Mockingbird, Pillars of the Earth, and Gone with the Wind

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Katherine

People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks, Dead Wake – Eric Larsen, Dr Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

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Sujood

الايام
بين القصرين
السكرية
Thy are Arabic books

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Chris

To Kill A Mockingbird, The Poisonwood Bible and Gone With The Wind.

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Linda

Gone with the Wind, To kill a Mockingbird. Tom Sawyer.

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Dani

“Harry Potter” series, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and “Angela’s Ashes”

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Charlotte

Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Thornbirds

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Cyndy

The Art of Racing in the Rain
Gone with the Wind
Behold the Dreamers

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Sharon

These picks are even better than the top 100 GAR books! Really.

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Melinda

Agreed!

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Gelene

Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird and Anne of Green Gables

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Jessica

We Need to Talk About Kevin
A Kingdom of Dreams
Devil in the White City

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Dee

Has to be Harry Potter series. But also Jane Eyre, Book Thief and Count of Monte Cristo

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Denise

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and The Color Purple

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Susan

Sophie’s Choice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Prince of Tides

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Nancy

The Good Earth.

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Nancy

Also Pillars of the Earth

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Melinda

Outlander, The Stand, A Lantern in Her Hand.

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Jean

Gone With the Wind. The Book Thief. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Pam

Secret Gar’s 4den, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Gone With the WInd, Oh no, that

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Dana

The Power of One
World Light
She’s Come Undone

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Allison

Absolutely love Wally Lamb!!

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Kristine

Finally someone mentions “The Power of One”!

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Dana

@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!

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Dana

@Allison i was shocked to find out he’s a man! His other books are good but that one is my favorite

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Paula

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.

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Susan

LOVED Me Before You and the sequel.

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Paula

@Susan I just finished the next “sequel” which is the next chapter in Lou’s life…it is called Still Me. Loved that too!

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Emily

Lonesome Dove, To Kill a Mockingbird and Rebecca. Not necessarily in that order. 😉

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Sandra

Great Maria by Cecilia Holland; The Physician by Noah Gordon; Outlander.

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Anne

The English Patient
A Lesson Before Dying
Corelli’s Mandolin

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Jeff

A Dream of Red Mansion, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Les Miserables

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Elba

A time to kill, La llamarada (written by a puertorrican) and Great Gatsby

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Ellen

Only 3?

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Celeste

To Kill a Mockingbird, The People’s Republic of Desire, and The Abstinence Teacher.

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Nikki

The Stand, The Reluctant Prophet series and either Bel Canto or Where The Red Fern Grows

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Allison

1.Daniel’s Story
2. I Know This Much is True
3. Mudbound

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Virginia

All the Light We Cannot See, The Shell Seeker, The Book Thief

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Sheri

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. A Little Princess
3. Fur Person

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Marilyn

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.

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Katherine

Middlesex by Eugenides
Disgrace by Coetzee
Tortilla Curtain by Boyle

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Carol

Middlesex- what a fantastic story!

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Paula

The Giver, Paula, Tuesday with Morrie

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Anne

A Prayer For Owen Meany, Anna Karenina, The Book Thief.

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Anita

The Scarlet Letter, Whispers and Lies, A Man Called Ove

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Wendy

Gone with the wind, boys in the boat. Anne Franks diary

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Kathy

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)

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Mindy

Pillars of the Earth, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Harry Potter

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Janet

To Kill A Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, Roots

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Kathy

Gone With the Wind, Lonesome Dove, Mila 13 are my first 3. Can I have 3 more😉?

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Jill

Bel Canto
Ellen Foster
Pride and Prejiduce

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Gregory

The Color Purple, The Coldest Winter and Nightmares and Dreamscapes

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Mary

A Prayer for Owen Meany, To Kill a Mockingbird, Outlander….and many more😁

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Leslie

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.

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Loreen

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.

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Leslie

I love them all too. So nice to hear someone else loved them.

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Leslie

@Loreen Have you read Frances Parkinson’s Keyes as well? How about Elizabeth Goudge? There are just too many to pick just three.

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Loreen

Elizabeth Goudge was a favorite. The White Witch….

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Paul

A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving), Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison), Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

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Tonia

Well…. this just shot my TBR list to the moon!!!!

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Melinda

Tonia West Denney, mine, too! So much fun… 💕

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Zahra

Gone with the Wind, Portrait of a lady, MiddleMarch

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Frances

Where The Red Fern Grows, Anne of Green Gables and Gone With The Wind

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Mysti

The Great Gatsby
A Little Princess
And Then there Were None

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Chelsea

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, The Color Purple, and The Bluest Eye

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Donna

Art teacher? 😊

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Chelsea

No, but I am an English teacher. I guess I just enjoy colorful titles. 😊

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Judy

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

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Anita

My all time favorite book.

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Donna

WOW! Hadn’t thought about this author in a LONG time! THANKS for a “reminder”.

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Paul

A truly great book

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Lynn

Keeps changing. Whatever book I just finished has a good chance of being my current favorite .

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Sandi

The Stand, Les Miserables, Lonesome Dove

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Whitney

The Stand, Stephen King
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier

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Kelly

To Kill a Mockingbird, The Stand, The Witching Hour

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Eileen

I can never answer a question with the word “favorite” in it. My interests are too varied.

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Mary

Gone with the Wind, East of Eden, Black Beauty.

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Melaney

East of Eden❤️

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Janet

East of Eden ❤️❤️

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Melaney

East of Eden
has perhaps the most evil character ever written in Cathy and the most benevolent character in Lee.
Masterpiece.

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Nicole

The Poisonwood Bible
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Great Expectations

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Kara

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. The Shell Seekers
3. Tough choice but maybe….Clan of the Cave Bears

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Lori

Owen!❤

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Susan

Into Thin Air, The Good Earth & The Firm

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Barbara

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……

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Ann

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)

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Gregory

A Separate Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Lisa

Dragonriders of Pern, the Odd Thomas series, Marguerite Henry’s Horse books. Way more than three.

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Ginseng

Pern!!!! <3

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Terrie

Gone With The Wind, And Ladies of the Club, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Ruth

The Source, Unbroken, TheBoys in the Boat

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Yvette

The Monster at the End of this Book starring lovable Grover, Tale of Two Cities, Paris

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Amanda

The Monster at the End of this Book is hard to top ♥️

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Yvette

@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

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Tonia

@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)

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Ginseng

I read this to my daughter! I dont even know how we ended up with it! It surprised me with how good it is!

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Laura

The Good Earth
Little Women
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Amanda

The Giving Tree, Oh The Places You’ll Go, Pride & Prejudice

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Linda

Gone with the Wind, Pillars of Fire, Outlander. There are so many.

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Makka

Behind closed doors, ARV-3, and the crossfire series

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Sally

Anne Frank, Harry Potter & Gone With the Wind

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Jan

following

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Lora

I think I need more paper for my notebook!!!

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Becky

Too hard to limit to 3!