Readers, please answer?

Question

Name your top 10 favorite books, if you only have five, list five.
Or you can cheat, like I did..

Mine are (in no particular order):

1. "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon (and all the other books in this series, to me it is just one long story)
3. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel (again include the others)
4. "The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy (Include other Jack Ryan books, but not the rest of the stuff he puts out.)
5. "The Stand" by Stephen King (can I say all other Stephen King?)
6. "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling (all of 'em, love it)
7. "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCollough(sp?)
8. "Illusions" by Richard Bach
9. "The Abandoned" by Paul Gallico
10. "Portrait of Jennie" by Robert Nathan

These might not be my absolute favorites, but they are pretty close.
Thanks for answering!

Answer 1

"The Forest House" Marion Zimmer Bradley
"The Mists of Avalon" Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Angels & Demons" Dan Brown
"Excell 2003 Formulas" by John Walkenbach (you betcha!)
"Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man" Tim Allen
"The DaVinci Code" Dan Brown
"Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain
"Illusions" Richard Bach
"Marker" Robin Cook
"Anatomy of the Spirit" Caroline Myss
And just about anything by Dean Koontz

Answer 2

1. Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, The Voyager, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, The Fiery Cross (Diana Gabaldon)
2. Harry Potter series
3. The Hobbit
4. The Lord of the Ring trilogy
5. Public Secrets (Nora Roberts)
6. True Evil (Greg Iles)
7. The entire J.D. Robb series (Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb
8. Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
9. Johnny Tremaine ???
10. Great Expectations

Answer 3

1. The Holy Bible- various
2. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
3. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
4. The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
5. A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
6. A Room With a View- E.M. Forester
7. A Painted House- John Grisham
8. The Christmas Box- Richard Paul Evans
9. The Notebook- Nicholas Sparks
10. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn- Betty Smith

Answer 4

1. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon ( I sent an e-mail to her just before the 4th book and she answered me!)

2. Dragon Riders of P.E.R.N. by Ann McCaffery (and all the dragon books that go with them! lol)

3.Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear ect.)

4. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R Donaldson (First, Second, and the Last)

5. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

6. Dune series by L Ron Hubbard (not the ghost written ones though)

7. Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

getting away from the scifi/fantasy

8. The Butcher's Theater. sorry don't recall the author

9. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conrad (cry every time)

10. People of the Wolf buy Kathleen and Micheal Gear

I could go on and on with this one. and the multi novel ones ARE long stories! Heck Scifi/ authors have a gene that won't let them stop at one book they HAVE to write in 3's or more! lol

Answer 5

1. Ulysses - James Joyce
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
3. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
4. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me - Richard Farina
5. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
6. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
7.Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
8. Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
9. The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
10. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
No particular order

Answer 6

1. The Stand by Stephen King
2. The Talisman by Stephen King
3. The Hobbitt by JRRTolkien
4. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
5. M is for Malice by Sue Grafton
6. Rose Madder by Stephen King
7. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
8. Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
9. The Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
10. The Ruins by Scott Smith

Answer 7

Yeah! Hooray for books! Almost as fun and exciting as MUSIC!
The Active Side of Infinity ... and all other Castaneda
Journeys Out Of The Body and Far Journeys . Robert Monroe
A Course In Miracles.....?
The Urantia Book.....?
Autobiography Of A Yogi... Paramahansa Yogananda
The Tao of Physics... Fritjof Capra
Franny And Zooey ... Salinger
A Peaceful Warrior... Danny Millman
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.. Dee Brown
Beyond The Bleep ... Alexandra Bruce
Living Buddha, Living Christ... Thich Nhat Hanh
that's my story and I'm stickin to it
Peace to you Sage several of yours I will have to read Clan of The Cave Bear (have it on the shelf gonna dust it off)

Answer 8

Okay, it's great to look at these lists, so I'll try my own:
1. Beyond the Western Sea, by Avi (two part adventure)
2. Six of One, by Rita Mae Brown, fun and hilarious
3. Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare, a classic
4. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond, fantastic scientific look at the unfolding of human cultures
5. The Truth, With Jokes, by Al Franken, fun, but infuriating
6. Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh, another kids' classic
7. Cider House Rules, the best of John Irving
8. Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, WOW
9. The Manny Files, by Christian Burch
10. Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone / Rajiv Chandrasekaran. You wanna know why things went bad and keep getting worse?

Answer 9

1. Hunt for Red October-all time modern war story
2. The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brien
3. Andersonville-McKinley Kantor-all time favorite historical
fiction
4.The Stand-favorite S. King book
5. Starship Trooper-Heinlein
6. Henry Potter series-how can you not like this series
7. Battlefield Earth=L.Ron Hubbard-only decent book he
wrote
8. Sea Wolf-Jack London-his best
9. Concrete Island- Ballard-different but interesting
10. Hornblower series-Forester-excellent series of British
Navy during Napoleonic era

So many choices. The above may not be the best "literature" but are some of my favorites.

Answer 10

1. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
2. The Essential Mystics by Andrew Harvey
3. Chalktown by Melinda Haynes
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. A biography of Nietzshe that I keep turning back to...it's by Crane Brinton
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
8. Fahrenheit 451 451 by Ray Bradbury
9. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
10. Utopia by Thomas More

All are fantastic reads....