Top Five Favorite Fiction Books (Page 2)

I don't know if I can limit it to just five... but here are five that I really loved...

1. Dune (the first)
2. LOTR/Hobbit
3. The Sparrow (author--Mary Doria Russell)
4. Foundation series by Asimov -- kind of surprised it hasn't shown up yet
5. hard to decide: Crime and Punishment or Brothers karamazov by dostoevsky 

It's a very fluid list...

-Brian 

ohh its hard to get just five but here goes

1 Shantaram - Gregory Roberts

2 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

3 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

4 CloudStreet - Tim Winton

5 The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay (fav kids book)

I have tried several times to respond with my own list, but I just can't.....

But I am going to make a list of everyone else's for the next time I go to the book store!

1.  Hobbit & LOTR series, JRR Tolkien (yeah that's actually 4 -- so sue me).
2.  Startide Rising series, David Brin.
3.  A Fire Upon The Deep, Vernor Vinge.
4.  Harry Potter series.
5.  Dune series.

this was hard.

1) matilda (roald dahl - i loved this book my entire childhood)

2) the little house books (i've read every one ~10 times, my favorite ones probably 15)

3) kite runner (khaled hosseini)

4) ender's game (and the other ender/bean books) (orson scott card)  

5) harry potter series

it seems a lot of my favorites are in a series.  runners up - anne of green gables and chronicles of narnia. 

1. Song of Fire and Ice - George R.R. Martin

2. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.- Tad Williams

3. Lord Foul's Bane - (Thomas Covenent the Unbeliever series)- Stephen R. Donaldson

4. The Great and Secret Show- Clive Barker

5. On a Pale Horse- Piers Anthony

If I did this tomorrow, I'd come up with 5 different books.    This is what comes to mind today, in no particular order:

Kushiel's Dart (and the rest) by Jacqueline Carey.  Emotionally wracking, sexually daring, intricately plotted..

The Eye of the World (and most of the rest) by Robert Jordan.  Like a richly textured carpet, with so many threads you can't keep track of them all. 

Friday by Robert Heinlein.  I loved almost everything the Grand Master wrote, but from the opening sentence this one's his best.  Robert Heinlein and his friend, Theodore Sturgeon, were the exegesis of my formative years' thoughts.  If my mother knew that, she'd never forgive them. 

Ender's Game (and the rest, or perhaps Tales of Alvin Maker) by Orson Scott Card.  Card can write about the burdens of responsibility and power better than almost anyone.

Valediction by Robert Parker.  Before he got bored and started churing out pro forma contract books, Parker made me think about what it was to be a man.  Seriously.

1. The Thief of Always- Clive Barker (My all time favorite!)

2. Northwest Passage- Kenneth Roberts

3. The Stand- Stephen King

4. A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving

5. IT- Stephen King

Right on brotha.

The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

1. The World According to Garp

2. Catch-22

3.  LOTR

4.  To Kill a Mockingbird

5.  pretty much anything by Michael Moorcock

Wow.  There's a name and book I haven't heard in a LONG time.

Like all, list fluctates.

1.  Blood Meridian (gotta give Cormac some love )

2.  On Representative Government - J.S. Mill

3.  The Federalist Papers

4.  Heart Of Darkness - Robert Conrad

5.  Robert Jordan's WoT

Gotta love a guy who likes Mill, but I must point out that it's disqualified (as is The Federalist Papers) because it's not fiction.  But I really like Mill, so I'll give you bonus points just because! 

And my list... hmm.

1.  Pillars of the Earth (DH and I were also very fond of this from when we first read it oh so many years ago)

2.  Either The Gate to Women's Country or Grass - Shari Tepper. I like a lot of Tepper's work (feminist Sci Fi) although the themes can sometimes get repetitive.  Those two are the ones I re-read.

3.  Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.

4.  The Lymond Chronicles and The Niccolo Rising series by Dorothy Dunnett.  Complicated, intricate, fascinating historical fiction with strong lead characters.

5.  Depends on the day!  I've not read much recently, but I really enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Nifenegger.  I really need to start reading again... that was a couple of years ago!

I almost forgot Clive Barker's "Imajica".  I should re-read that sometime.  Lots of our books are currently in boxes as my husband ambles through a construction project - I hate not being able to put my hands on a book when I want it.