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What’s the best book you’ve ever read?…put your top 5.

What’s the best book you’ve ever read?…put your top 5.

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Rosa

1) The Selection
2) Gone
3) Safe Haven
4) To Catch A Pirate
5) TMI

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Michael

1. Crime and Punishment
2. 1984
3. The Fire Next Time
3. Heart of Darkness
4. Brothers Karamazov

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Robbi

The Great Gatsby, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Beloved, Postcards, The Long Home.

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Kelsey

1. Book of Negroes
2. What She Left Behind
3. The Kitchen House
4. Americanah
5. Church of Marvels

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Athan

1. A Brief History of Time
2. The Future of the Mind
3. The Spy Who Came In from a Cold
4. The Catcher In the Rye
5. The Pillars of the Earth

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Meg

1. The Da Vinci Code
2. Eragon
3. Siddhartha
4. 1984
5. The Dark Half

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Kellye

Dark Matter, I Let You Go, Tuesdays with Morrie, She Said Yes, and Love Anthony

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Maggie

Jurassic Park, A Court of Mist and Fury, Ptolemy’s Gate, The Haunting of Hill House, The Things They Carried

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Fay

1) Acomaf
2) acowar
3) Anna and the French Kiss
4) Red queen
5) Harry Potter Series

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Milena

1- Brújulas que buscan sonrisas perdidas by Albert Espinosa
2-To kill a mockingbird
3-Los ojos del perro siberiano by Antonio Santa Ana
4-Every Last Word
4-A thousand splendid suns

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Bethany

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2. Room
3. The Shack
4.A Year of Rhymes
5. In Cold blood

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Silvia

1984, Gone with the wind, Norwegian wood, The bel jar, Americanah

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Bethany

Have yet to Read The Bell jar

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Silvia

I like your selection, specially the first one, also a favourite of mine…

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Bethany

Yes..A top five is hard lol

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Kelsey

Oh I also love Americanah

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Tamara

Pride and prejudice, Neverwhere, The green mile, Harry Potter series, Handmaid’s Tale

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Becca

1. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Badger by CM McKenna
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
5. The Forbidden Game by LJ Smith

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Richard

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hunger Games Trilogy, Harry Potter Series, The Inheritance Cycle, and The Twilight Saga(yes I am a fan).

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Matthew

Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Station Eleven, Ready Player One, Sphere

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Darian

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Going Bovine
3. Divine Comedy
4. The Handmaid’s Tale
5. Noggin

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MedQuestion author

Divine comedy?..interesting!..tell why this book

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Darian

It is artistic and poetic, and it displays more of Dante’s personal turmoil with his faith rather than a dream he had.

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MedQuestion author

I like the book too..the prince too..and to kill a mockingbird..the crime and punishment…the alchemist…

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Darian

You should read a clockwork orange if you like dystopia novels with a lot of character growth and internal conflicts.

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MedQuestion author

I know the novel..thank you for your recommendation…I know the movie too..and I know how the director avoided the last chapter of this great novel..that’s why I prefer to read books and then watch the movies ..I believe that we all need to find what we looking for in life first..that’s why we may do horrible things to just find our path…

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Darian

I honestly think Kubrick ruined the story. It was all violence and little narration, which makes it difficult to capture the true meaning in a film rather than a book. The book allows you to see what is going on in Alex’s head.

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MedQuestion author

Yeah..I planning to read it this summer..with to two other books..so are you into psychology?

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Darian

I think it is interesting, but it’s not something I’m going into

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MedQuestion author

To understand the way that people think..and why they do things ..well…do you write?

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Cathy

The book of negroes, water for elephants, kitchen house, the art of racing in the rain, the Nightingale

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Kelsey

We have similar favourites!

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Sophie

Walden,The little prince,One hundred years of solitude,The lord of the rings,The three-body problem.

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Iqra

1) kite runner
2) girl online
3) a thousand splendid suns
4) looking for Alaska
5) my feudal lord

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Ashleigh

Can’t really number them but here goes. Also just going to say series if I think the best is in the series
1. White tiger series – Kylie Chan
2. Throne of Glass series – Sarah J Maas
3. Defy the stars – Claudia Gray
4. Harry Potter Series – J.K Rowling
5. The Ancient Future series – Traci Harding

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Elizabeth

I agree with all except defy the stars because I haven’t read it yet!!!! Also how do i pick 5!!!!

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Ashleigh

I had to cut them back SO MUCH, and you need to read Defy the Stars already!!

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Elizabeth

I’m waiting for it!!!

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Ashleigh

@Elizabeth BE LESS PATIENT

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Elizabeth

Can’t make them bring it any faster!

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Ashleigh

Take a leaf outta my book and be more impatient

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Elizabeth

Shush you ?

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Ashleigh

nope

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Adria

Um how about top 200?

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MedQuestion author

Go ahead….if you ready lol

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Adria

@Med i was not joking exaggerating maybe… But just a little…

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MedQuestion author

@Adria i was not too…

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MedQuestion author

C’mon..

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Adria

Harry potter and the sorcerers stone

Harry potter and the goblet of fire

Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban

Harry potter and the half blood prince

Harry potter and the order of the pheonix

Harry potter and the cursed child

Harry potter and the chamber of secretes

Harry potter and the deathly hallows

Percy jackson and the lightning thief

City of bones

Percy jackson and the sea of monsters

Twilight

The hobbit

The selection

The elite

The one

Happily ever after

Matched

The giver

Romeo and Juliette

Breaking dawn

Miss.peregrines home for peculiar children ((i probably butchered her name))

The hunger games

Mocking jay

The host

Life and death

Divergent

Insurgent

Caraval

Into the wild

Wicked

The shifter

Hamlet

Me earl and the dying girl

Wonder

Counting by 7s

Fangirl

The memory of light

Time between us

Almost home

Tandem

The girl of fire and thorns

The crown of embers

The bitter kingdom

The sword of summer.

The host

The bad beginning

The carnivorous caravel

The revinition of jessica lefter

11 birthdays

The lost sun

The reply

Area 51

Hollow city

Crosses

Reached

Crossed
The red queen

Dorthy must die

And more but i have to go.? wish i could put them all sadly work must be done.

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MedQuestion author

God !! you serious…well let’s talk about em later if there’s a chance

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Adria

Um..didn’t i say i wasn’t joking…did you underestimate me sir?…pity most men do that to me…a lot actually i surprise a lot of people, and sure i love talking about books.

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MedQuestion author

yes you said that you wasn’t joking my lady..i wasn’t joking too..but i’m surprised because you wrote all those books in just a little time..so a new record of your name…well thanks for your replies ..and have a great time

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Ashleigh

I think we’ve all cut back majorly on our own lists ???

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Adria

@Med sweeping floors + dusting tables does not = a great time. But thank you for your condolences.

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MedQuestion author

Well what about enjoy what you got..and find joy in simple things

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Adria

If were being honest here I’m not a woman of simplicity i do enjoy a good rain and quite evening with my cup of tea and book that’s larger than me, but i also look forward to the big cities and bright lights of my future…here i am getting carried away again.

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MedQuestion author

Ambitions…you have all the right to imagine your future whatever you want..there’s a saying that i believe in… LOVE WHAT YOU DO TIL YOU DO WHAT YOU LOVE,,,,just let your imagination to carry you to your wonderland..a man without imagination is like a bird without wings..mouhamed ali

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Adria

Well one thing is for sure i did NOT expect the mouhamed card from you, please take no offense to that i just find most other people a bit to uncivilized and idiotic to understand powerful words such as those from ali.

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MedQuestion author

I have a lot of cards..expect everything from me lol…we are humans not perfect you know… but there’s a shining side in all of us even those who seems to be dark and mysterious..everything is relative and depends on the way we see the world..so..we will get bored if we think a little bit

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Adria

That was actually kind of beautiful, *note that I’m very picky about quotes, poems, descriptions, etc.*

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MedQuestion author

well how i’m doing?..i just quoted one time

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Adria

It was…decent. Especially for someone who isn’t a graduate from oxford because that’s generally my taste.

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Adria

Well I’m guessing you’re not a graduate from oxford…i could be mistaken.

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MedQuestion author

no i’m not..i just understand life..no one knows what’s gonna happen next but til now i’m doing good..what about you?

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Adria

Well I’m getting ready to study…a lot this upcoming year(s) so I’m trying to say a peaceful goodbye to some of the things i love, I’ll have to put studying in there place if i want to finish school with a 4.0.

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MedQuestion author

Okay..Good luck to you..well is there a way to keep the things you love besides studying..of we always have to sacrifice ?

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Adria

Sadly i see know other way, the universities that I’m applying to require a lot of extra circulars and top notch grades and a PERFECT record, if i mess up now i don’t know what i would do with myself.

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MedQuestion author

There’s always enough time for everything…just know exactly what you want in first place and make sure that you want it..then there’s ways..about your abilities ..you are the only one that knows the things that you able to do in your life..age is just a number..life is short? wrong who the hell know that lol..just relax ..and take a breath..there’s a life coming..don’t let the university to decides your future..you do whatever the hell you want..we will doe anyway..so Enjoy your time..always do…i don’t know you but i just say what i feel

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Adria

Lol i feel like I’m sitting across from a therapist. And trust me i am very strong minded i would never let anyone or anything decide my life for me, so don’t worry. I really have to go now though, it’s been a lovely chat and it was a pleasure to meet you.

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MedQuestion author

It was wonderful to talk to you..so..can i say have a great time now?..and let us talk about your books later..

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Adria

Ha! I suppose so even though brooms and i have a sort of eternal fude, i hate doing maid type work I’d rather work in the back with the men but since women still aren’t seen as equals I’ll just have to keep fighting. See ya around.

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MedQuestion author

Good luck..tough girl lol

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Adria

The toughest ? goodbye

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Elisa

Yeah, I was going to say “I’m going to need at least 10” ?

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Adria

@Elisa i believe i have around 50.

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Adria

Listed right now.

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Rodiana

1. Isle of Passion
2. Veronika Decides to Die
3. The Island Beneath the Sea
4. The shadow of the wind
5. Ine’s of my Soul

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Mary

Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lords of the Underworld by Gena Showalter

Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evonavich

In Death series by J D Robb

Kill Shot by Lilliana Hart

Marked Men series by Jay Crownover

So hard to pick and can’t forget lynsay Sands.

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Asheleigh

1. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
2. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
3. Jurassic Park (& The Lost World) by Michael Crichton
4. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
5. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

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Rhiannon

1: Entire white rabbit chronicles series
2: When we collided emery lord
3: The inexplicable logic of my life
4: I hunt killers trilogy
5: An abundance of Katherines by john green

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Gabriele

Cloud Atlas, The Lord of the Rings, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince, The Five People You Meet In Heaven.

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Xue

1. Night Road by Kristin Hannah
2. Endgame by Samuel Beckett
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
5. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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Marwa

1-it ends with us/hopeless/ugly love (EVERYTHING BY COLLEEN HOOVER)
2-beautiful disaster series
3-the selection series
4-everything everything
5-the duff

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Vanessa

Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Five people you Meet in Heaven, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Just Listen

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Elisa

Warbreaker
Mission Earth decalogy
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Pillars of the Earth
Best graphic novel: Saga (runner up: The Runaways)

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Gabriele

I keep seeing the Time Traveler’s Wife in book shops and always hesitate over it as I didn’t like the movie that much. The book sounds good but I always hesitate. It’s good to hear it’s a favourite on your list.

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Kyra

Heck yes to warbreaker

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Elisa

@Gabriele I didn’t see the movie, and I’m not sure I want to, to be honest — the book was truly beautiful, and I don’t say that a lot. I doubt it could be captured properly on screen.

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Elisa

@Kyra it’s just fantastic! Apparently there is going to be a sequel.

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Kyra

Ooh that’s awesome! I hope he writes it soon 🙂 I’m slowly making my way through his books and they don’t disappoint!

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Lauren

1. city of thieves
2. Her fearful symmetry
3. Oryx and Crake
4. Good As Gone
5. The thirteenth tale

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Lexi

The best book I’ve ever read is Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. I don’t need a top 5 as long as that book exists ? Easily the best story I’ve ever read

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MedQuestion author

I will read it then..just to see if you are right or you exaggerating haha..

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MedQuestion author

But bear with me please..and write 4 books to complete your masterpiece.

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Lexi

? Challenge accepted

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MedQuestion author

Waiting for you then …l

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Dorothy

1. Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
2. Confess by Colleen Hoover
3. Fuck Love by Tarryn Fisher
4. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
5. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

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Artchelle

1. Night by Elie Wiesel
2. History is all you left me
3. Our Chemical Hearts
4.Red Queen series ( waiting for book 4)
5.Power of Now

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Emilie

1. Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
2. The Fault in Our Stars
3. Perks of Being a Wallflower
4. Looking For Alaska
5. Everything, Everything

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MedQuestion author

Well..I didn’t write mine so far..if you notice lol..isn’t weird

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Silvia

why don’t you write yours??

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Amelia

a court of mist and fury, unravel me, caraval, legend, paper princess

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Iva

Ana Karenina love it so much. But also Jane Austen all of them, Zagorka ( It’s a Croatian writer but I swear I love her books the most-it’s the mixture of milstery, history and love), Little princ, Dan Brown (all) and also Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky

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MedQuestion author

I’ll take from you the great Destoyevsky..and ana karenina…if you don’t mind lol

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Iva

No problem ? I loove Russian literature 🙂

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Francesca

Not necessarily in this order:
1 The Stone Gods by J. Winterson
2 A Christmas Memory by T. Capote (short story)
3 Great Expectations by C. Dickens
4 Different Seasons by S. King (collection of novellas/short stories)
5 To Kill A Mockingbird by H. Lee

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Phyllis

Loved A Christmas Memory. Wished he wrote more stories like it.

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Francesca

I read other stories, but that is definitely his best, very heartfelt.

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Brittany

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
Pet Sematary Stephen king
Three dark crowns by KEndare Blake
The Cellar Natasha Preston
The book thief by Markus Zusak

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Phyllis

Loved The Book Thief.

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Phyllis

Five? 1. Little House in the Big Woods 2. Cotillion 3. Lord of the Rings trilogy 4. The Outsiders 5. Pride and Prejudice. (List is subject to change)

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Elena

1.big little lies liane Moriarty
2.Misery by Stephen king
3. The shining by Stephen king
4. Everything everything
5. The outsiders

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MedQuestion author

The shining…well I love the movie…the great jack Nicholson..I know that the novel is better than the movie..most of times..

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Elena

@Med I love anything Stephen king

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MedQuestion author

What about the son..joe hill?

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Elena

@Med I haven’t read anything by him yet but I really want to he has a book called Locke and key that I wanna read

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MedQuestion author

Well..go ahead then

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Elena

When I purchase it I will.

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Lucy

Iv just started it 🙂 x

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Elena

@Lucy yay I hope you love it! It’s my favorite book of 2017 so far

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Abhishek

1. Looking For Alaska
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns
4. The Kite Runner
5. Elenor & Park

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Annalyn

i forgot to add The Kite Runner on my list. ? It’s just too hard to choose. ?

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Abhishek

Ikr??

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Kyra

The Book Thief (Markus zusack), Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris), Marina (Carlos Ruiz zafon), Foxglove Summer (the whole Peter Grant series is great though) (Ben Aaronovitch)and His Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman)

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Shawntay

The Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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Roy

The Egg Said Nothing by Caris O’Malley

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Jamie

The catcher in the rye – JD Salinger

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Caine

No particular order
•The Hobbit
•HP and the Half Blood Prince
•Batman: Death of the Family
•A Wizard of Earthsea
•Battle of the Labyrinth

Honorable Mentions: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, All the Bright Places, 1984

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Daniyal

Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt
Why nations fail By Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson

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Shannon

1. The book thief – Markus Zusak
2. The Time Travellers wife – Audrey Niffenegger
3. I am the messenger – Markus Zusak
4. Simon vs The Homo-sapien agenda – Becky Albertalli
5. Everything Everything – Nicola Yoon

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Lucy

1.memoirs of a geisha
2.me before you
3.girl on a train
4.every jodi picoult book
5.the gift

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Tennille

Not doing a top five just my top 1…The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

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Arya

The fault in Our stars
Divergent
A maiden’s Grave
The Vanished Man
Eleanor and Park

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Tiffany

The Dark Tower
The Outsiders
Pachinko
Homegoing
And my favourite book of all time is Lolita ?

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Hannah

Dracula
Caraval
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Out of the Easy
Murder on the Orient Express

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Nina

The bronze horseman, dusty, a great and terrible beauty, daughter of smoke and bone, blood and chocolate

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Miguel

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. The Hero of Ages
3. FullMetal Alchemist volume 7
4. The Giver
5. Gone Girl

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Karen

It would depend on the time in my life when I read it. I’ve been around a while so I would have to break it up. Favs as a teen, favs as a young mother, favs as a senior citizen. 🙂 Can’t do it. lol I am afraid some would not pass the test of time.

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Annalyn

Les Miserables
Alchemist
Little Prince
The Perks of Being a Wall Flower
Flowers for Algernon

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Kelli

Interesting. What did you like most about Les Miserables

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Annalyn

the frustrations, all the heartaches, the injustices. all of these which were all too human and inhumane. a sliver of hope and happiness is a cause for celebration. yet.

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Annalyn

fountainhead is also in my list. another masterpiece.

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Silvia

I actually love all the books in your list…

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Kristen

1. Harry Potter series
2. The Outsiders
3. The Nightingale
4. Uprooted
5. Hidden Figures

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Neirouz

The harry potter books by jk Rowling
The book thief by Markus zusak
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Strange the dreamer by laini Taylor
The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen chbosky

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Marika

1. TMI
2. The Fault in our Stars
3. The Great Gatsby
4. To kill a mockingbird
5. The boy in the striped pajamas

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MedQuestion author

I’ll take from you To kill a mockingbird…

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Marika

Don’t like it?

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MedQuestion author

@Marika no i take it from you to my favorites..coz it’s one of my top 5

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Marika

oh okay gotchya ?

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MedQuestion author

@Marika o yeah..

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Karen

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3. Harry Potter series 4. Lamb by Christopher Moore (hilarious!) 5. Any book by Kate Morton, especially The Secret Keeper

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Diana

1. The handmaid’s Tale
2. The Mind Readers Series
3. The Gifting series
4. Harry Potter series
5. Meet Me At Myrtle Beach

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Etienne

PercyJackson

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Etienne

PercyJackson, heroes of Olympus, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes,

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Kelli

That’s hard!
1.Mark of the Lion Trilogy by Francine Rivers
2. Lowlands of Scotland series by Liz Curtis Higgs
3. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
4. an unpublished book called Songbird (or something to that effect) that an author friend of mine wrote but hasn’t released yet, along with its prequel Blossoms over Dinsmore, both by Celena Janton
5. The Remnants series by Lisa Tawn Bergen

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Rachel

Harry Potter series, The Book Thief, Mara Dyer Series, Ordinary Grace, and We Were Liars. (Couldn’t leave out HP and MD even though they’re series and not standalone books ?)

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Brittany

Dracula; Dear Nobody, Thirteen Reasons Why; The Little Princess; Gingerbread series. All in no particular order except Dracula.

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Milia

Outlander, the Mortal Instruments, the Grave witch, Caraval, Harry Potter

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Đạ

the picture of dorian Grey

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Alina

1.Anne of Green Gables
2. the book thief
3. station 11
4. mutant message down under
5. leaving time

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MedQuestion author

WOOOOW..I don’t really know any book of those!!..can you believe it?

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Viniket

Anne of the green gables and its series is one of the best books I’ve read.

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Callie

Lolita
Darkness Visible
The Alchemist
The Shack
Interview with the Vampire

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Viniket

1. Autobiography of a yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 3. Death be not proud by John Gunther
4. Light from many lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson
5. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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