Top 5 Favorite Books of All-Time

[NEZCardsfan]

1. catch 22 - joseph heller
2. the princess bride - william goldman
3. franny and zooey - j.d. salinger
4. one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey
5. to kill a mockingbird - harper lee

honorable mention:

• fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
• anything else by salinger
• a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
• a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers

 

[Bada0Bing]

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
The Stand - Stephen King
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
My Autobiography - Charles Chaplin
Rebel Without a Crew - Robert Rodriguez

My favorite book of all-time. Nothing else I've read comes close.

 

[bratwurst]

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
Paula - Isabel Allende

 

[AZZenny]

The Sunne in Splendor - Sharon Kaye Penman
Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
The Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

Those are slam-dunk easy.
#5 is harder to choose. Probably:
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - Paul Reps
or
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

but on any given day might be:
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Concise Treasury of Great Poems - ed. Louis Untermeyer
The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Lauri R. King

 

[forkedtung]

I'll play along -

Beach Music - Pat Conroy
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Source - James Michener
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Winds of War/War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk

Just good old American classics. Love 'em like that.