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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1) The Selection
2) Gone
3) Safe Haven
4) To Catch A Pirate
5) TMI
1. Crime and Punishment
2. 1984
3. The Fire Next Time
3. Heart of Darkness
4. Brothers Karamazov
The Great Gatsby, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Beloved, Postcards, The Long Home.
1. Book of Negroes
2. What She Left Behind
3. The Kitchen House
4. Americanah
5. Church of Marvels
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
1. The Da Vinci Code
2. Eragon
3. Siddhartha
4. 1984
5. The Dark Half
Dark Matter, I Let You Go, Tuesdays with Morrie, She Said Yes, and Love Anthony
Jurassic Park, A Court of Mist and Fury, Ptolemy’s Gate, The Haunting of Hill House, The Things They Carried
1) Acomaf
2) acowar
3) Anna and the French Kiss
4) Red queen
5) Harry Potter Series
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
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2. Room
3. The Shack
4.A Year of Rhymes
5. In Cold blood
1984, Gone with the wind, Norwegian wood, The bel jar, Americanah
Have yet to Read The Bell jar
I like your selection, specially the first one, also a favourite of mine…
Yes..A top five is hard lol
Oh I also love Americanah
Pride and prejudice, Neverwhere, The green mile, Harry Potter series, Handmaid’s Tale
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
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).
Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Station Eleven, Ready Player One, Sphere
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Going Bovine
3. Divine Comedy
4. The Handmaid’s Tale
5. Noggin
Divine comedy?..interesting!..tell why this book
It is artistic and poetic, and it displays more of Dante’s personal turmoil with his faith rather than a dream he had.
I like the book too..the prince too..and to kill a mockingbird..the crime and punishment…the alchemist…
You should read a clockwork orange if you like dystopia novels with a lot of character growth and internal conflicts.
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…
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.
Yeah..I planning to read it this summer..with to two other books..so are you into psychology?
I think it is interesting, but it’s not something I’m going into
To understand the way that people think..and why they do things ..well…do you write?
The book of negroes, water for elephants, kitchen house, the art of racing in the rain, the Nightingale
We have similar favourites!
Walden，The little prince,One hundred years of solitude,The lord of the rings,The three-body problem.
1) kite runner
2) girl online
3) a thousand splendid suns
4) looking for Alaska
5) my feudal lord
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
I agree with all except defy the stars because I haven’t read it yet!!!! Also how do i pick 5!!!!
I had to cut them back SO MUCH, and you need to read Defy the Stars already!!
I’m waiting for it!!!
@Elizabeth BE LESS PATIENT
Can’t make them bring it any faster!
Take a leaf outta my book and be more impatient
Shush you ?
nope
Um how about top 200?
Go ahead….if you ready lol
@Med i was not joking exaggerating maybe… But just a little…
@Adria i was not too…
C’mon..
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.
God !! you serious…well let’s talk about em later if there’s a chance
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.
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
I think we’ve all cut back majorly on our own lists ???
@Med sweeping floors + dusting tables does not = a great time. But thank you for your condolences.
Well what about enjoy what you got..and find joy in simple things
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.
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
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.
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
That was actually kind of beautiful, *note that I’m very picky about quotes, poems, descriptions, etc.*
well how i’m doing?..i just quoted one time
It was…decent. Especially for someone who isn’t a graduate from oxford because that’s generally my taste.
Well I’m guessing you’re not a graduate from oxford…i could be mistaken.
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?
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.
Okay..Good luck to you..well is there a way to keep the things you love besides studying..of we always have to sacrifice ?
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.
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
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.
It was wonderful to talk to you..so..can i say have a great time now?..and let us talk about your books later..
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.
Good luck..tough girl lol
The toughest ? goodbye
Yeah, I was going to say “I’m going to need at least 10” ?
@Elisa i believe i have around 50.
Listed right now.
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
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.
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
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
Cloud Atlas, The Lord of the Rings, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince, The Five People You Meet In Heaven.
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
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
Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Five people you Meet in Heaven, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Just Listen
Warbreaker
Mission Earth decalogy
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Pillars of the Earth
Best graphic novel: Saga (runner up: The Runaways)
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.
Heck yes to warbreaker
@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.
@Kyra it’s just fantastic! Apparently there is going to be a sequel.
Ooh that’s awesome! I hope he writes it soon 🙂 I’m slowly making my way through his books and they don’t disappoint!
1. city of thieves
2. Her fearful symmetry
3. Oryx and Crake
4. Good As Gone
5. The thirteenth tale
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
I will read it then..just to see if you are right or you exaggerating haha..
But bear with me please..and write 4 books to complete your masterpiece.
? Challenge accepted
Waiting for you then …l
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
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
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
Well..I didn’t write mine so far..if you notice lol..isn’t weird
why don’t you write yours??
a court of mist and fury, unravel me, caraval, legend, paper princess
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
I’ll take from you the great Destoyevsky..and ana karenina…if you don’t mind lol
No problem ? I loove Russian literature 🙂
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
Loved A Christmas Memory. Wished he wrote more stories like it.
I read other stories, but that is definitely his best, very heartfelt.
Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
Pet Sematary Stephen king
Three dark crowns by KEndare Blake
The Cellar Natasha Preston
The book thief by Markus Zusak
Loved The Book Thief.
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)
1.big little lies liane Moriarty
2.Misery by Stephen king
3. The shining by Stephen king
4. Everything everything
5. The outsiders
The shining…well I love the movie…the great jack Nicholson..I know that the novel is better than the movie..most of times..
@Med I love anything Stephen king
What about the son..joe hill?
@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
Well..go ahead then
When I purchase it I will.
Iv just started it 🙂 x
@Lucy yay I hope you love it! It’s my favorite book of 2017 so far
1. Looking For Alaska
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns
4. The Kite Runner
5. Elenor & Park
i forgot to add The Kite Runner on my list. ? It’s just too hard to choose. ?
Ikr??
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)
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
The Egg Said Nothing by Caris O’Malley
The catcher in the rye – JD Salinger
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
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
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
1.memoirs of a geisha
2.me before you
3.girl on a train
4.every jodi picoult book
5.the gift
Not doing a top five just my top 1…The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The fault in Our stars
Divergent
A maiden’s Grave
The Vanished Man
Eleanor and Park
The Dark Tower
The Outsiders
Pachinko
Homegoing
And my favourite book of all time is Lolita ?
Dracula
Caraval
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Out of the Easy
Murder on the Orient Express
The bronze horseman, dusty, a great and terrible beauty, daughter of smoke and bone, blood and chocolate
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. The Hero of Ages
3. FullMetal Alchemist volume 7
4. The Giver
5. Gone Girl
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.
Les Miserables
Alchemist
Little Prince
The Perks of Being a Wall Flower
Flowers for Algernon
Interesting. What did you like most about Les Miserables
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.
fountainhead is also in my list. another masterpiece.
I actually love all the books in your list…
1. Harry Potter series
2. The Outsiders
3. The Nightingale
4. Uprooted
5. Hidden Figures
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
1. TMI
2. The Fault in our Stars
3. The Great Gatsby
4. To kill a mockingbird
5. The boy in the striped pajamas
I’ll take from you To kill a mockingbird…
Don’t like it?
@Marika no i take it from you to my favorites..coz it’s one of my top 5
oh okay gotchya ?
@Marika o yeah..
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
1. The handmaid’s Tale
2. The Mind Readers Series
3. The Gifting series
4. Harry Potter series
5. Meet Me At Myrtle Beach
PercyJackson
PercyJackson, heroes of Olympus, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes,
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
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 ?)
Dracula; Dear Nobody, Thirteen Reasons Why; The Little Princess; Gingerbread series. All in no particular order except Dracula.
Outlander, the Mortal Instruments, the Grave witch, Caraval, Harry Potter
the picture of dorian Grey
1.Anne of Green Gables
2. the book thief
3. station 11
4. mutant message down under
5. leaving time
WOOOOW..I don’t really know any book of those!!..can you believe it?
Anne of the green gables and its series is one of the best books I’ve read.
Lolita
Darkness Visible
The Alchemist
The Shack
Interview with the Vampire
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