2007-04-07 04:22:01 · 17 answers · asked by Jackie Oh! 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
patriot games - tom clancy
the hunt for red october - tom clancy
net force - tom clancy
harry potter and the goblet of fire- J.k. rowling
the hobbit - j.r.r. tolkein
2007-04-07 04:25:45 · answer #1 · answered by awesome-o 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You didn't say whether my top five books were to be fiction or non-fiction.
Nor did you lay down a standard for "top" or highest value.
My five books I think are the most important for their correct ideas--leaving artistry or presentation aside--are:
1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand; there are small errors but the conception is breathtaking--and generally anti-collectivist.
2. The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton It's short, hastily written, but the most haunting and imaginative storyline I have ever encountered.
3. The Complete Works of Shakespeare by The Shakespearean Author and Others The poetry and the intelligent scene triumph here over Medieval philosophy and flawed-character portraits; 37 plays, sonnets, poems etc, much of it beautifully written.
4. The Peloponnesian Wars Tetralogy by Donal S. Kagan His definitive attempt to raise and perhaps answer questions surrounding the War between Sparta and Athens that turned human history away from liberty and toward collectivism, Roman and Medieval, for 2000 years.
5. The Bible, King James version While I do not agree with one word of its philosophy of antiworldism, the work is historical as well as religious, universal as well as sectarian and contains fascinating biographies thrilling war stores and interesting allegorical attempts at romances, moral questions and the psalms, before presenting a detailed record of the Early Church's thinkers' history.
2007-04-07 12:03:42 · answer #2 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
3. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
3a. Lenin's Tomb- David Reminick
4. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin
5. Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
2007-04-07 12:04:06 · answer #3 · answered by Standing Stone 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
The "Gunslinger" Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
The Harry Potter Series
The Lord of the Rings Series and other books by JRR Tolkein
Anythiing by Scott Cunningham or D J Conway or Grimassi
2007-04-07 11:32:16 · answer #4 · answered by Nepetarias 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King - The Stand
Stephen King - The Dark Tower Series
Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove Series
James Clavell - Shogun Series
Frank Herbert - Dune
2007-04-07 11:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are probably by top 5 but it is very hard and I still have many years of reading ahead of me(hopefully).
1.To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
3.Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
4.Huck Finn by Mark Twain
5.Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
5a.Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Go ahead...Wrap my knuckles I have not read the books by Hemingway and Steinbeck considered to me the best. Also I am yet to finish the real Bible.
2007-04-07 18:45:07 · answer #6 · answered by natedawg008 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu: Jean Giraudoux
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
Much Ado about Nothing: William Shakespeare
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
2007-04-07 15:33:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
His Dark Materials trilogy- Phillip Pullman
Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell
Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
all works of Roald Dahl
Anansi boys- Neil Gaiman.
2007-04-07 12:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by rummyrox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5.Harry Potter(1)
4.Romiette and Julio
3.This Side of Paradise
2.The Lottery Rose
1. A Child Called It & The House of the Scorpion
These are mine. They are very well written books!
2007-04-07 11:29:26 · answer #9 · answered by Booky524 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Cry of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai
2) Roots by Alex Haley
3) Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
4) Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konisburg
5) Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
2007-04-07 11:31:47 · answer #10 · answered by Samarama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
3- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomerry
4- The Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
5- Germinal by Emile Zola
2007-04-07 11:59:23 · answer #11 · answered by adémo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋