A Fraction of the Whole, All The Light We Cannot See, and The Bronze Horseman. And Gone with the Wind. And The Street Sweeper. It’s too hard to narrow down, and those are just the ones I remember right now!
Lonesome Dove is a great pick! I like Owen Meany (just chose this for my Book Club) and The Stand —-but Lonesome Dove was unexpectedly a favorite for me!
The Road Home by Rose Tremain Brothers by Bernice Reubens A Little Life
Also loved Owen Meany, Time Travellers wife, secret history, remains of the day, Rachel’s holiday, a fine balance, cutting for stone. So hard to narrow down.
I love both The Road Home and A Little Life. Haven’t heard of Brothers. A Fine Balance is also one of my all time favourite books. I don’t think I can choose only Three books!!
I read the clan of the cave bear series years ago and know so few people who’ve read it. It’s a fantastic series although I got fed up waiting for the next books to come out lol
At least, right now. In 5 minutes, I’ll want to edit this list because I’ll realize that Neil Gaiman isn’t on this list and I adore his writing or that Wuthering Heights is a strong contender for first spot, so is Bambi. Bambi reminds me that I also loved Watership Down from the time I was a kid too. The Martin was fantastic. The Girl with All the Gifts. All Creatures Great and Small. And, and, and….
Top three recent books that I’ve read: 1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 2. Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 3. Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto
some great titles! Let me offer up 3 of my favorites not already posted…’The Stand’ Stephen King, ‘Light a penny Candle’ Maeve Binchy and ‘Cashelmara’ Susan Howatch
The Alchemist, Glass Castle, Kite Runner, Spendid Suns, Girl on Train, A Fine Balance, Life of Pi, Gone Girl, Room, The Secret Daughter, Time Traveller’s Wife, She’s Come Undone, Promise Not to Tell, etc etc etc
The Mists of Avalon, The World According to Garp, she’s Come Undone
Good ones!
Luv ur number 2 & 3 choice! Excellent
This man Jem. Original sinners. T r …crossfire ..sd
A little life
The Road, Everything Matters!, The Walking Dead
Steelheart, I am Not A Serial Killer, Legend by Angie Wu
A Prayer For Owen Meany
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Time Travellers Wife
That’s tough. Fall On Your Knees, Girls of Tender Age, and Tender At The Bone. Just ones off the top of my head.
I loved ‘Fall on your Knees’
I loved Fall on your knees too, read it many years ago. Have you read other books by the author?
I’ve also read her novel ‘The Way the Crow Flies’
Shantaram, the book of negroes, a son of the circus.
A Confederacy of Dunces, Sullivan’s Island, and The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), MIdnight, Earthsearch.
A Fraction of the Whole, All The Light We Cannot See, and The Bronze Horseman. And Gone with the Wind. And The Street Sweeper. It’s too hard to narrow down, and those are just the ones I remember right now!
The Book Thief. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Memoirs of a Geisha.
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Currently – Light Between Oceans, The Road Between Us, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Stand
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a great pick! I like Owen Meany (just chose this for my Book Club) and The Stand —-but Lonesome Dove was unexpectedly a favorite for me!
Meg
Pet sematary
The kite runner
East of Eden, White Noise, The Castle
A piece of cake by Cupcake Brown , Scar Tissue, Unbroken
Pride and Prejudice, Catcher in the Rye , The Secret History.
The Nightingale
Pillars of the Earth
Catch 22
Hang on….I need to add a 4th. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
The nightingale
The secret wife
The storyteller
Most recent ones that left their mark – The cellist of Sarajevo, a man called Ove and the Boy made of Blocks
I’ve wanted to read The Cellist of Sarajevo for years now but had forgotten about it until reading your comment. Thank you!
1. The fault in our stars
2. Me before you
3. The last song
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Brothers by Bernice Reubens
A Little Life
Also loved Owen Meany, Time Travellers wife, secret history, remains of the day, Rachel’s holiday, a fine balance, cutting for stone. So hard to narrow down.
I love both The Road Home and A Little Life. Haven’t heard of Brothers. A Fine Balance is also one of my all time favourite books. I don’t think I can choose only Three books!!
Paint the wind. Last days of Rabbit Hayes. Night Road
The Kite Runner
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
The Nightingale
The kite runner and all Khaled Hosseini’s books are some of my favourites
Fine Balance,Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk , A Little Life and the Clan of the Cave bear series
I read the clan of the cave bear series years ago and know so few people who’ve read it. It’s a fantastic series although I got fed up waiting for the next books to come out lol
@Georgina I loved the series. Read them years ago and it still remains with me! I think I might read them again!
Not heard of Agaat or Clan of the cave bear but love your other two choices so I should check them out
Clan of the Cave Bear ????
Love clan of the cave bears
Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson
Between You And Me, Lisa Hall
I, Robot
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sacre Bleu
At least, right now. In 5 minutes, I’ll want to edit this list because I’ll realize that Neil Gaiman isn’t on this list and I adore his writing or that Wuthering Heights is a strong contender for first spot, so is Bambi. Bambi reminds me that I also loved Watership Down from the time I was a kid too. The Martin was fantastic. The Girl with All the Gifts. All Creatures Great and Small. And, and, and….
Watership Down, The Last Unicorn and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh! Classics from my childhood. (And I’ll always love Wuthering Heights)
The Amatuer Marraige. A Suitable Boy. The Little Drummer Girl.
Outlander series by Diana Gabeldon
The century trilogy by Ken Follett
Ready Player One
Just finished ‘Reaady Player One’ fun fun read!
1. Game of Thrones Series there’s 5 of them.
2. Harry Potter Series.
3. Black Dagger Brotherhood Series I think there’s like 7 of them not sure.
Love lack dagger brotherhood ? there is about 12 now
The last one I have is about John I think
Gone with the wind
Harry Potter
Still Alice
Top three recent books that I’ve read:
1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
3. Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto
The Help
The Rescue
The Pact
Gone with the wind, the sookie Stackhouse series, the help
1-Mao’s last dancer
2-The girl in the green sweater
3- The space between us
( ALSO – Cutting for stone )
Forever Amber, Nanking Road, Once and Future King
Handmaid’s Tale, The life we bury, Anne of Green gables
To kill a mockingbird
The mortal instruments series
Harry Potter series
Anathem by Neal Stephenson, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, Uprooted by Naomi Novik (won the Nebula Award last year).
The Glass Castle
Kite Runner
The Book Thief
The Bronze Horseman, The Nightengale, Cutting for Stone
Harry Potter series, On the Road and David Copperfield
The Glass Castle, The Help, A Marriage of Opposites
Shantaram
A thousand splendid suns
Kite runner
The Color of Water, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Kite Runner
some great titles! Let me offer up 3 of my favorites not already posted…’The Stand’ Stephen King, ‘Light a penny Candle’ Maeve Binchy and ‘Cashelmara’ Susan Howatch
A Prayer for Owen Meany, Kavalier and Clay, & Great Gatsby (first three that came to mind of SO many!)
The Alchemist, Glass Castle, Kite Runner, Spendid Suns, Girl on Train, A Fine Balance, Life of Pi, Gone Girl, Room, The Secret Daughter, Time Traveller’s Wife, She’s Come Undone, Promise Not to Tell, etc etc etc
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Far too difficult to choose just three books, I would struggle to choose my top 10
1984
The road
Of mice and men
Long Walk to Freedom, Strumpet City, Gone with the Wind……asking for your top ten choices would still have been difficult….
Atlas Shrugged, Time Traveller’s Wife, Rebecca.
The Casual Vacancy (J.K. Rowling), The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Neil Gaiman) and An Evil Mind (Chris Carter).
Paint the wind. Imzadi. Apache series (5 books)