Top Five Favorite Fiction Books

Good Omens is the best. You should so date me(the only reason I don't say marry me is because you don't have Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins... in yout five: we could never work).

misscullen! always a delight.

1. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

2. Demons (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

3. Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)

4. The Magus (John Fowles)

5. The Bamboo School in Bali (Udayana Tisna and Jef Last, trans. Marietta Moskin)

1. The Quiet American -- Graham Greene

2. Tom Sawyer --  Mark Twain

3. A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole

4. LOTR trilogy -- J.R.R. Tolkien

5. (A whole lot of others fall in here) Lolita, Still Life with woodpecker, Monsignoir Quixote, Travels with My Aunt, The Comedians, For Whom The bell Tolls, The Dubliners, A good Man is hard to find.......

if i may steal a couple from Coyote:

1. LOTR
2. Confederacy of Dunces
3. Catcher in the Rye
4. Slaughterhouse Five
5. 'Salem's Lot-LOVE Stephen King

Edit: Didn't see Dancing Fool's list when i started to type this, so I guess i have to inadvertently steal one there as well.

Have you read his "Dark Tower" series? I loved it - it's so bizarre and twisted. Where does he come up with this stuff?!

1. The Little Prince - Antoine de St Exupery
2. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
4. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut (not his best work, but my favorite)
5. The World According to Garp - John Irving

Yeah, liked the early books, but by the end it just seemed like he wanted to get it over with, given all that "deus ex machina" bullchit.

Since there are about 47 of them out there, you could have at least listed your top five Dune books.

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed in the ending in some ways, but still overall, it's pretty darned good.

There are SO many - I love fiction

Off the cuff because I have read all these more than once:

• Harry Potter series
• The Dark Tower Series
• The Stand
• DaVinci Code
• The Hobbit

1)  East of Eden - Steinbeck
2)  Sweet Thursday - Steinbeck
3)  Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy
4)  Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
5)  One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 Ooooh, lovin those books.

My list:
1. Pillars of the Earth - Follett
2. Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - Tolkein
3. To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee
4. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Pullman

I could probably come up with more, but I'm saving #5 for The Next Great Book.

I'm currently 80% done with World Without End, and really enjoying it. But I'm not quite sure it lives up to the first book.

Edit:  How in the world could I leave off Ice and Fire??  What's wrong with me!  Move that one to the top. 

Word!