what are the best 5 novels u guys ever read?

Answer 1

This is very hard. First, I'm not sure I'd give you the same answer to your question as worded or "which were the five you liked best?" Because I am aware of getting pleasure from reading, and also getting wisdom from reading, but not always from the same reading. There's something in the Bible about wisdom often bringing sorrow. It does; you learn more about just how short of perfect we are as a species, and how much work is to be done to perfect us.

But it's our job now. Whether you say I'm cheating or not, I'm going to give you the five I've enjoyed most recently, but a couple are whole series, not single books.

1. Harry Potter; no further explanation needed.
2. Lord of the Rings, second mostly because I read it first so very long ago, have reread several times.
3. The DaVinci Code, because it is a unique perspective
4. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein; if you haven't read it, I recommend it for a unique perspective, even more so than DaVinci.
5. Gone With the Wind. I know, I know, it's more long than it is anything else noticeable, but there's an amazing complexity of character not available in any other book about that era.

Answer 2

I keep answering this question and it (strangely enough) seems to change a lot.

1. Ulysses. By: Joyce

2. A portrait of the artist as a young man. James Joyce.

***However, these two above, are always included in the list... and always on top.

3. Don Quixote (good, because it is daunting.) Cervantes.

4. The Abbess of Crew. Murial Spark.

5. The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer


I could however go on all day... I honestly have far too many favorites to list here. These are in no particular order of importance.

Some additional lists are as follows...

Swanns way. By: Marcel Proust

Travels with a donkey... By: Robert Louis Stevenson

A Theifs Journal. By: Jean Genet

(Proverbs for paranoids), Gravity's Rainbow By: Thomas Pynchon.

Anna Karenina By: Leo Tolstoy

Mother Night. By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


I'll stop here... but I could go on literally for DAYS! Because there are also French language, German, Dutch and Japanese that are also included in my "favorites."

Answer 3

In no particular order:

The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Corps - W.E.B. Griffin
Homeland, John Jakes

I could have named 50 more, but those are five books that I don't mind reading at least once a year or so.

Answer 4

J.R.R. Tolkien - "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"
Alan Dean Foster - the "Spellsinger" series
Isaac Asimov (and others) - the "Robots," "Empire," and "Foundation" series
Arthur C. Clarke (and Gentry Lee) - the "Odyssey" and "Rama" series, "Childhood's End," and "The Hammer of God"
Steven Barnes - "Streetlethal"
Neil Peart (drummer for Rush) - "The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa," "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road," and "Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times"

I know there are more than 5 and that some are actually *series* of novels, but they're all very good.

Answer 5

1. The Source by James A. Michener
2. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
3. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
4. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
5. The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West

Answer 6

In order of "coming to my head" are:
1. The Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis. all 7 books, the best is "The Last Battle", number 7
2. David Copperfield. Charles Dickens
3. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). Antoine de Saint Exupéry
4. L'Etranger. (The Stranger) Albert Camus
5. El Enano (The Dwarf). Par Lagerkvist, Swedish, 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of "Barabbas"

Also, Master Chen, from what I understand, 100 Years of Solitude (100 Años de Soledad) was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Steve Kluger might be the translator. If I am mistaken, forgive me and let me know! Thanks.

Answer 7

1. Starship Troopers-Robert Heinlen
2. Gates of Fire-Steven Pressfield
3. Flight of the Intruder-Steven Coonts
4. All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
5. Lonesome Dove-Larry McMurtry

Answer 8

Tolkien - Lord of the Rings series
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow & Thorn series
JK Rowling - Harry Potter series
Stephen King - The Stand
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

Answer 9

1. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
2. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
3. Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
5. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Answer 10

The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathan Stroud
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Rebel Angels - Libba Bray

~Not in that order~