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The Stand - Stephen King
Lucky Man - MIcheal J. Fox's Biography
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Little House books - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Holy Bible
Besides the Bible, it's hard to cut it down to five. Here are some of my favorites.
Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Chiefs by Stuart Woods
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Memory & Dream by Charles de Lint
Speaks the Nightbird volumn I & II by Robert McCammon
Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell
Anything by Barbara Kingsolver, esp Poisonwood Bible
She's an amazing writer; my favorite of hers is Animal Dreams. (I couldn't get into The Bean Trees, though, and didn't finish it.)
Silas Marner, George Eliot The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
top 5, top 5 ever ... let's see. Nope, too hard. How about the top 5 I've read in the last year:
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
An Island Away by Daniel Putkowski
Bitter Is the New Black by Jen Lancaster
3. The Counte of Monte Christo-Alexandre Dumas (no other book conveys a central character as successfully as this one)
4. Gone With the Wind-Margaret Mitchell (the greatest of love stories and the most flawed of heroines)
5. Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
honorable mentions: To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee, A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Predjudice-Jane Austen, Les Miserables-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame-Victor Hugo, Katherine-Anya Seton
The Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Song of Ice and Fire (series) - George R. R. Martin
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Yes, I know it's really a play)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Seeing how half the people here have mentioned it, I've read Pillars of the Earth too, and it's a really good book, but not in my top five. Maybe top fifteen.
Like Water For Chocolate- Laura Esquirel
Kitchen God's Wife- Amy Tan
The Pact- Jodi Picoult
Recipes For A Perfect Marriage- Morag Prunty
The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
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wow, this is tough!
