What are the 5 best books you've ever read? (Follett, literature, tom clancy)

[NicoleJ]

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Magician - Raymond Feist

It has to be REALLY special for me to put it as a top book, so even though I read voraciously, I don't have more than 2 or 3 TOP books.

[One Thousand]

The five best is like asking what's your five favorite tools. Best to do what?

The Bible and anything Shakespeare gave me everything I needed to know about people.

"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith for economics and business. (If there was one "best" book, this would tie with The Bible.)

"Second Treatise of Government" by John Locke, "Leviathan" by Hobbes, "Democracy in America" by de Tocqueville for government.

"War and Peace" by Tolstoy to make me feel really insignificant. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to break my heart and hate how evil people can be.

"Kama Sutra", "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim and a couple others that might not be appropriate to mention to develop my pimp walk.

"How to Dress the Man" (can't remember the author) to, you know, know how to match colors and such.

Too vague a question.

[RDSLOTS]

Originally Posted by RDSLOTS

I have to stay away from this thread. It frustrates me to no end. I just don't seem to be able to think in terms of 5 best books I've read.

I see titles here, and agree, wholeheartedly, they are wonderful, superb, brilliant, but the best -- like in the best of the best? the best-est ever? There are so many titles out there that I've yet to read. How can I possibly say these five?

See my dilemma?


Let me introduce myself. My husband has begun calling me Mrs. Monk.

STILL struggling with this thread. Still Mrs. Monk, I guess.

[laysayfair]

Originally Posted by One Thousand

The five best is like asking what's your five favorite tools. Best to do what?

The Bible and anything Shakespeare gave me everything I needed to know about people.

"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith for economics and business. (If there was one "best" book, this would tie with The Bible.)

"Second Treatise of Government" by John Locke, "Leviathan" by Hobbes, "Democracy in America" by de Tocqueville for government.

"War and Peace" by Tolstoy to make me feel really insignificant. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to break my heart and hate how evil people can be.

"Kama Sutra", "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim and a couple others that might not be appropriate to mention to develop my pimp walk.

"How to Dress the Man" (can't remember the author) to, you know, know how to match colors and such.

Too vague a question.

Great List, One Thousand. Have you read Iceberg Slim's other book "Mama Black Widow"?

[One Thousand]

Originally Posted by laysayfair

Great List, One Thousand. Have you read Iceberg Slim's other book "Mama Black Widow"?

LOL. No, it took me six months to eliminate the B-word from my vocabulary after reading Slim... but once I smoothed out the rough edges, I did pack a mighty game... until I was caught in the net of sweet love...

[laysayfair]

Originally Posted by One Thousand

LOL. No, it took me six months to eliminate the B-word from my vocabulary after reading Slim... but once I smoothed out the rough edges, I did pack a mighty game... until I was caught in the net of sweet love...

You're funny! If you are ever in the mood for a horror movie just read "Mama Black Widow".
What a nightmare! I'm glad you got all suave and in love.

[lolagranola]

The Bible and anything Shakespeare gave me everything I needed to know about people.

Have you read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? When she has a baby, and is despairing on how to expand her child's horizons beyond the poverty of their life, the grandmother recommends reading every night... one page from the bible, one page from Shakespear!

[Go Big Red]

The Second Deadly Sin-Lawrence Sanders
Duma Key-Stphen King
Down River-John Hart
The Firm-John Grisham
The Last Picture Show-Larry McMurtrey

[allforcats]

Ahhhh.... thank you for asking! All of these substantially changed my perceptions, and so my life:


The Seat of The Soul, by Gary Zukav

The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield

Stalking The Wild Pendulum, by Itzhak Bentov

The Crack in The Cosmic Egg, by Joseph Chilton Pearce

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

Children Of All Nations, a child's book, author unknown

Anne of Green Gables, Lucy M. Montgomery

[pigeonhole]

The Magus John Fowles
Plexus, Nexus, Sexus Henry Miller
The Catcher in the Rye Salinger
For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway
On The Road Jack Kerouack

Old stuff, I know....