What are your top five favorite books of all time?
Hey folks, suggest your five favorite books of all time! These can be fiction or non-fiction, standalone stories or series. Please include the author as well as the title. Books can be in no particular order 🙂
When I was a kid, the hetty feather books by Jaqueline Wilson. I still have the copy of Hetty feather from when I was 5.
Percy Jackson by Rick roirdan was good
Mortal instruments by Cassandra Claire
Aaand the morganville vampires by.. Claire something or other
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The October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, Firestarter by Stephan King, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher, and the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
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It’s probably the Stand by Stephen King, I believe I’ve read it three times. Sword of Shanara is another one that I’ve read at least twice.
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No particular order:
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
Honorable Mention-
Requiem for a Dream, by Hubert Selby Jr.
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In no particular order:
Just Kids – Patti Smith, Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe, In Cold Blood – Truman Capote, The Eye of The World – Robert Jordan, Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind
Edit: formatting
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No set order and some are gonna be more from my childhood.
Geronimo Stilton series- I haven’t read it since grade school but I loved these books.
Percy Jackson series- loved in high school and rereading now in college and still loving the books.
Kafka on the shore- long read but a good book and is super sad whenever I look back to the overall story of the main character.
Fahrenheit 451- similar to 1984, and brave new world. I really like how this ends in comparison to the others.
Your lie in April: a six-person etude- makes more sense if you watch the anime your lie in April as a standalone it probably wouldn’t do that good.
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The Lord of the Rings- Tolkien
And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
The Expanse- James S.A. Corey
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
A Game of Thrones Books 1-3- George R.R. Martin
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In no particular order,
De ridder van de zeven koninkrijken (A knight of the seven kingdoms in english) by george R.R Martin.
De nedergrim (The nethergrim) by Matthew Jobin
All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque
Murderbot diaries by Martha Wells
The protectorate by Megan e. O’keefe
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
And what the heck, I’ll be that guy — Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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I like series so bear with me.
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Black Tide Rising by John Ringo
Freehold series by Michael Z Williamson
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
Singles would be:
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke
Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen by H Beam Piper
The Last Centurion by John Ringo
1632 by Eric Flint. It is a major series at this point and even has several volumes of the best fan fiction. The first book can be read as a stand alone.
The Peshawar Lancers by S M Stirling
It is hard to pick just five. These are favorites I have reread. One more series I never see here is Glen Cook’s Garrett PI books.
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When I was a kid, the hetty feather books by Jaqueline Wilson. I still have the copy of Hetty feather from when I was 5.
Percy Jackson by Rick roirdan was good
Mortal instruments by Cassandra Claire
Aaand the morganville vampires by.. Claire something or other
The October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, Firestarter by Stephan King, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher, and the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
It’s probably the Stand by Stephen King, I believe I’ve read it three times. Sword of Shanara is another one that I’ve read at least twice.
No particular order:
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
Honorable Mention-
Requiem for a Dream, by Hubert Selby Jr.
In no particular order:
Just Kids – Patti Smith, Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe, In Cold Blood – Truman Capote, The Eye of The World – Robert Jordan, Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind
Edit: formatting
No set order and some are gonna be more from my childhood.
Geronimo Stilton series- I haven’t read it since grade school but I loved these books.
Percy Jackson series- loved in high school and rereading now in college and still loving the books.
Kafka on the shore- long read but a good book and is super sad whenever I look back to the overall story of the main character.
Fahrenheit 451- similar to 1984, and brave new world. I really like how this ends in comparison to the others.
Your lie in April: a six-person etude- makes more sense if you watch the anime your lie in April as a standalone it probably wouldn’t do that good.
The Lord of the Rings- Tolkien
And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
The Expanse- James S.A. Corey
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
A Game of Thrones Books 1-3- George R.R. Martin
In no particular order,
De ridder van de zeven koninkrijken (A knight of the seven kingdoms in english) by george R.R Martin.
De nedergrim (The nethergrim) by Matthew Jobin
All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque
Murderbot diaries by Martha Wells
The protectorate by Megan e. O’keefe
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
And what the heck, I’ll be that guy — Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
I like series so bear with me.
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Black Tide Rising by John Ringo
Freehold series by Michael Z Williamson
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
Singles would be:
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke
Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen by H Beam Piper
The Last Centurion by John Ringo
1632 by Eric Flint. It is a major series at this point and even has several volumes of the best fan fiction. The first book can be read as a stand alone.
The Peshawar Lancers by S M Stirling
It is hard to pick just five. These are favorites I have reread. One more series I never see here is Glen Cook’s Garrett PI books.