What are the 5 best books you've ever read? (novel, edition, book club)

[blossom4792]

My top five in the last few years (not counting re-reads of Shakespeare, Dante, and T.S. Eliot et all: Shadow of the Wind; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; When Nietzsche Wept; The Emperor of Ocean Park (love this one); The Price of Loyalty (non-fiction)
apologies, my messages are no longer getting formatted ..

[lovinCarl]

Kingdom of Shadows --- Barbara Erskine
Memoirs of Cleopatra --- Margaret George
Lady of Hay ---- Barbara Erskine
Here Be Dragons ---- Sharon Kay Penman (along w/the other 2 in the trilogy)
Needful Things, The Stand, The Talisman, The Shining, basically anything by Stephen King
GONE WITH THE WIND!!! Never gets old... love it

[Rakhi]

The Fountain Head- Ayn Rand
The Secret Garden- Frances Burnett
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin
Malgudi Days- R.K Narayan
Love Story- Erich Segal

[Rakhi]

Originally Posted by MsHell

Recent books I've read, which I thought were excellent.

1. Tending Roses, Lisa Wingate
2. Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (made into a movie)
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

I really loved reading Kite Runner. But I am not 100% sure if it can grip me like it did the first time.
Did you read his another book, A Thousand Splendid Suns? It makes a great read.

[blossom4792]

Originally Posted by Rakhi

I really loved reading Kite Runner. But I am not 100% sure if it can grip me like it did the first time.
Did you read his another book, A Thousand Splendid Suns? It makes a great read.

I liked reading the "Kite Runner" but then I've gone a few years telling people I don't recommend it - sort of a bad "after taste". Well, it was just just included by my book club so I saw the movie and just cried and cried - at the end, at least. It's a complex story, worth reading; the book is also worth reading separately or together (with the movie).

[maciesmom]

Originally Posted by blossom4792

I liked reading the "Kite Runner" but then I've gone a few years telling people I don't recommend it - sort of a bad "after taste". Well, it was just just included by my book club so I saw the movie and just cried and cried - at the end, at least. It's a complex story, worth reading; the book is also worth reading separately or together (with the movie).

Did you read Thousand Splendid Suns? Talk about complex and devastating.... Very powerful.

[cislga]

Life of Pi -Yann Martel
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Glass Castle - Non- Fiction- recent book can't find it to name author but she's corrsp. for MSNBC
Cumberland Island - Strong Women, Wild Horses damm- JFK JR. for getting married there!
The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker

[maciesmom]

Originally Posted by cislga

Life of Pi -Yann Martel
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Glass Castle - Non- Fiction- recent book can't find it to name author but she's corrsp. for MSNBC
Cumberland Island - Strong Women, Wild Horses damm- JFK JR. for getting married there!
The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker

Glass Castle was written by Jeanette Walls....

[lovinCarl]

Originally Posted by cislga

Life of Pi -Yann Martel
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
Glass Castle - Non- Fiction- recent book can't find it to name author but she's corrsp. for MSNBC
Cumberland Island - Strong Women, Wild Horses damm- JFK JR. for getting married there!
The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker

House of Sand and Fog movie was one of the most DEPRESSING movies I have ever seen in my life. Is the book that sad?? Or did the movie take liberties?

[cislga]

Did not like the movie but loved the book. It shows just how far people will take things when they think they are in the right.

I loved the movie Atonement, but I could never get through the book.