Top 5 Books

[ShellBelle]

I love top 5 lists (I'm avoiding the phrase "top tens" due to the RO'CK connotations), maybe its because I have watched High Fidelity a few too many times.

Anyway, I am looking for ideas for books to read before my holliers so I thought everyone could share their top 5 fave books evah here and at the same time provide some inspiration to others looking for a good book to read.

My faves are:

1) The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
2) any of the Jeeves and Wooster books - PG Wodehouse
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
4) Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry (an autobiography as a fave book is unusual I know but it is a great book)
5) Wicked - Gregory Maguire

[breige]

ooh, great post! You'd love my book of lists! I'm going to think about this, as I love reading non-fiction

[danekawilson]

Getting it fierce hard to get top 5 books because there is so many so will do my fave authors if thats ok??!

1. Kate Morton
2. Kathy Reichs
3.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Steig Larsson- pity theres only 3 tho!
5. Tasmina Perry

I could go on and on and on...but i wont

[gabberific]

Oh I love this!!

1. Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. The Beach - Alex Garland
4. Any and all Harry Potter (I am a maaasssive child)
5. Dracula - Bram Stoker

Such a difficult Top 5! I know I've forgotten something...

[ShellBelle]

I can't believe I forgot the Harry Potters!! Love them!

[CiB]

I couldn't do a definite top five but five I really enjoyed are:

Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close
Room
All Harry Potters (I'm counting them as one book!)
The Book Thief
Skippy Dies

[cornflakegirl]

My all time fave book is and will probably always be The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Currently my four other faves are (these change regularly):

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Unbearable Lightness by Portia De Rossi
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

[cornflakegirl]

CiB-I loved Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, I've read it twice already and can see it being a book I return to again & again.

[aphrodite]

I can't do a top five - impossible! I am reading a BRILLIANT book at the moment Eugenides - The Marriage Plot#
So good, I can't put it down

Anyone else read it?

[CiB]

Cornflake, just noticed I wrote the title backwards, I'm a fool. Think it's one I'll read again and I'd recommed it to anyone.

I'm currently reading So Much for That by Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin) but I'm not loving it. I'm over a hundred pages in and while it's ok, it's not making me keen to read when I get home in the evenings, which I usually would be. I recently finished Anna Funders All That I Am, I enjoyed it, but didn't love it. Stasiland is one of my favourite books, so it was good to read something new from her.

I need to make a list and stock up on books for the christmas holidays.