Your Top Five Favorite Books?

[K-town]

What are your top five favorite books? The ones you never lend out, will read over and over again, rave about to friends and relatives ad nauseum, etc.

These are the books you want to have if your trapped on a deserted island (though not if you're airplane crashlands on a deserted island, because then you'll have Evangeline Lilly and the Others to distract you from reading). Alternately, these are the books you want with you when you have a 15 hour layover in a really bad airport (personally, I hate Atanta's, but that's just me).

I'll start with my top 5:

A Catskill Eagle by Robert B. Parker
The Killer Angels Michael Shaara
The Stand Stephen King
The Deus Machine Pierre Ouellette
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien (okay, cheated a little there)

I welcome your input, comments, suggestions, etc.

[MadtownPacker]

S King: Dark Tower series
Lord of the Flies
ummm let me think about it.

[pacfan]

My favorite Books:

The Prey series by John Sandford
The Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman
IT by Stephen King
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

There are tons more.....

[Anti-Polar Bear]

1. Brave New World
2. Shakespeare's stuff
3. Lolita (although I am only 23, this is a fascinating novel)
4. Bad As I Wanna Be, by Dennis Rodman
5. Beowulf

Books I want to read but is too lazy: Game of Shadow, Di Vinci Code....

The book I think Tarlam may like: Mein Kampf.

[Rastak]

1. 1984
2 This perfect Day
3 Lord of the rings
4 Harry Potter
5 Wheel of Time

[jack's smirking revenge]

I don't have a top 5, but The Stand is my favorite book. Wish they could've made a better production out of that than a TV miniseries (at least it starred Gary Sinise).

tyler

[MJZiggy]

Da Vinci
The Midwives
Harry Potter series
The Alchemist
Organizing from the Inside Out (sadly hasn't helped much)

[GBRulz]

Does anyone here read James Patterson? I think the latest installment in his ongoing murder books is on#5. I didn't read #4 as I kinda lost interest in #3...

[MJZiggy]

I liked Beach House and Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.

[Homer Jay]

Does anyone here read James Patterson? I think the latest installment in his ongoing murder books is on#5. I didn't read #4 as I kinda lost interest in #3...

I enjoy his Alex Cross series. I just watched Kiss the Girls again. The Lifeguard was good too. Stephen King is probably the author I have followed most. The Stand is my favorite, and It was tough to put down.

[Deputy Nutz]

I read Friday Night Lights at least once a year.

The Prey Series by John Sanford has already been mentioned, but I have been reading those since my senior year of high school

The Alex Cross series by James Paterson is also one of my favorites

I finished the Harry Potter series and I really liked it. I thought it would be very childish but I was impressed.

Anything by Stephen Ambrose.

[Badgepack]

When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi -- by David Maraniss
The Tommyknockers; Stephen King
Twilight Eyes; by Dean Koontz
Under the Lake; by Stuart Woods
When the Wind Blows; by James Patterson

[Rastak]

I love Koontz's stuff....


Tha Taking
Twilight Eyes
Dragon Tears
Sole Survivor
The Face was really cool......

[Badgepack]

Koontz has a couple books about a guy who can't go into the sunlight that are good, don't remember the name of the books though. Seems I never have fricking time to read anymore.

[MJZiggy]

When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi -- by David Maraniss
The Tommyknockers; Stephen King
Twilight Eyes; by Dean Koontz
Under the Lake; by Stuart Woods
When the Wind Blows; by James Patterson

I loved When Pride Still Mattered!!!

[Rastak]

Koontz has a couple books about a guy who can't go into the sunlight that are good, don't remember the name of the books though. Seems I never have fricking time to read anymore.

Yes, I read both.....they were very good.

[pacfan]

I loved When Pride Still Mattered!!!

I forgot to list that one, a great book. Every Packer fan should find time to read it, it provides some great insights into the 1960's and the Pack.

Maraniss third book (not great) "They marched into the Sunlight" has ties into the Lombardi book. Its about the UW-Madison campus, Viet Nam, and the Government. One of the Black Lions killed in October '67 was a star player for Lombardi when he was a coach at West Point. Both books show a different side to the events at the time.

Stephen Ambrose has written some great books about the soldiers in WWII.

If you're into detective stories with some supernatural elements; John Connolly has a series about a guy that sees dead people while investigating various murders. Be warned its pretty dark with some heavy religious content.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

1.Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
2.One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel GarcÃÂÂ*a Márquez
3. The Canterbuy Tales - Chaucer
4. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'brien
5. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

[MJZiggy]

How is 100 Years of Solitude? I have taken it on the last two vacations with me and it's sitting on my "Must-Read" bookshelf, but I'm afraid I'm going to get so immersed that I will get nothing else done all day so I haven't cracked it yet.

[Badgepack]

Tyrone Bigguns, Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins


Damn, it's been a long time since I thought about that book. It was really good from what I remember, think I'll read it again.