Top 5 Favourite Books

LovelightLovelight
edited February 2018 in General

For all you book lovers you can share your top 5 or more. :)

I barely read books though I am still reading "Benim Adım Kırmızı" in PDF/Audio.

I've read a few books before though nothing else sparked my interest so far. One day I found one book I couldn't put down at the library. Though I put it down to come back some other day and it's lost among the rest now. I don't remember a word of it, I just remember I liked. :D

  1. ...13 votes
    1. I barely read any.
        7.69%
    2. I love to read!
      69.23%
    3. I prefer Audio/Movies
      23.08%

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  • [Deleted User]Alternis (deleted user)

    The dark tower series was pretty cool, was also cool of them to finally make a movie.

    The wheel of time is also another good series. I wonder how long it would take someone to start that series and finish it, the books are immense.

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  • SideonSideon

    "A Room of One's Own" - Virginia Woolf
    "Riddlemaster" - Patricia McKillip
    "Tigana" - Guy Gavriel Kay
    "The Men from the Boys" - William Mann
    "A Wrinkle in Time" - Madeleine L'Engle

    I could go on and on, but this is part of my handful of favorites.

  • OldManGregOldManGreg

    I like to read and it's difficult to name top 5, or 10, but here are a couple which come to mind:

    1.) Team of Rivals -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
    2.) Truman -- David McCullough
    3.) At Dawn We Slept -- Gordon W. Prange
    4.) Rendesvous With Rama -- Arthur C. Clarke
    5. ) The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress -- Robert Heinlein

  • BlueIrisBlueIris Mod
    edited February 2018

    Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch
    Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India - Amana Fontanella-Khan
    Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
    Travels in West Africa - Mary Henrietta Kingsley
    Native Stranger: A Black Man's Journey into the Heart of Africa - Eddy L. Harris
    The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World - Nawal El-Saadawi
    Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa - Robert Klitgaard
    Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
    Nine Lives: Life and Death in New Orleans - Dan Baum
    A History of the Arab Peoples - Albert Hourani
    Eating India: An Odyssey Into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices - Chitrita Banerjee
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
    The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
    Akbar, Emperor of India - Richard von Garbe
    The Everything Soapmaking Book - Alicia Grosso
    The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
    Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    Midaq Alley - Naguid Mahfouz
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

  • CalNativeCalNative
    edited February 2018

    1) Master of the Senate. The third part (of five) of Robert Caro's LBJ series. The first 120 pages or so is a history of the US Senate and should be required reading in high school.

    2) The (Mis)Behavior of Markets. Benoit Mandlebrot. This is basically the source material for Nassim Taleb's Black Swan. Mandlebrot came to note for studying fractals and was the leading mathematician studying Chaos Theory.

    3) Stillwell and the American Experience in China. Barbara Tuchman. I loved this book better than her more familiar Guns of August. Great subject and great writing.

    4) The Power Broker. Robert Caro. Unbelievably well researched. Touches on political power in a behind the scenes way. Robert Moses had six decades of such unelected power in New York. It's quite a read at something like 1100 pages.

    5) Bones of the Master. George Crane. I stumbled upon this treasure looking for an Iris Chang book. Unbelievably good story. I'm not religious but one can appreciate the devotion.

    5 1/2) Joy of Cooking. Irma Rombauer. Fundamental techniques. The only cookbook I check.

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  • [Deleted User]DarrenWalker (deleted user)

    At the moment, I'd say my five favorites are probably:

    Spellfall [Katherine Roberts]
    The Picture of Dorian Gray [Oscar Wilde]
    High Wizardry [Diane Duane]
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell [Susanna Clarke]
    Hogfather [Terry Pratchett]

    Next month, though? Ahaha. No promises. They'll probably all still be fantasy, though!

    I like this thread, but it seems kind of dangerous—the odds of me being buried for the rest of my life in books I (alas!) have no time to read have just gone up, haven't they?

  • LovelightLovelight

    I'll add once I come across another book or two.

    Thanks for sharing all. :)

  • TenderJimTenderJim

    The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
    The Plague - Albert Camus
    The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
    The Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O'Toole
    Despair - Vladimir Nabokov

  • AlexBabyBoo23AlexBabyBoo23

    @Alternis, yes The Dark Tower!!!! Although I was disappointed by the movie - I am happy one was made. I started the series right before he finished the last book. Amazing.

    I've read nearly 50 of Stephen King's books and stort stories. I started the Outlander series two years ago, but I've been stuck on book 7 since starting it in May, because I started Med School...

  • I_am_PolyloverI_am_Polylover

    Anything by Robert A Heinlein especially The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
    Jean Auel's Earth's Children series especially Valley Of The Horses
    JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy
    Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation series
    AG Riddle's The Origin Mystery trilogy, Departure, I'm looking forward to Pandemic and Genome
    Julian May's Saga Of Pliocene Exile especially The Many Colored Land

    and many more
    <3 Jim

  • alaric1805alaric1805

    The Last Fine Time - Verlyn Klinkenborg
    With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge
    Winesburg Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    The Immense Journey - Loren Eisley

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