What are your top five books?

[Richard Burley]

1. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
2. Same
3. Same
4. Same
5. Same

What the hell, I read it five times and each time it was the best thing I ever read.

 

[shootist51]

Killer Angels...Michael Shaara
Old Man and The Boy...Robert Ruark
The Road...Cormack McCarthy
One Second After...William R. Forstchen,He has also co-authored several good alternative histories with Newt Gingerich...my favorite is "Gettysburg"
Patriots...James Wesley, Rawles, also maintains a great survivalist blog called.....SurvivalBlog.com

All of James A. Michner's, particulary "Texas", "The Covenent" and "Cenntenial"

Another great book, if you can find it, as it was banned in the U.S. for years, is "The White Tribe" written by the same guy that wrote the Green Berets, Robin something, but his last name eludes me.

 

[DocRx]

The Day of the Jackal...F.Forsyth
Chesapeake...J Michner
Tale of Two Cities..C.Dickens
The Last of the Mohicans..J.F.Cooper
Truman..D.McCullough

 

[CyrilLucar]

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version
The Lord of the Rings with the Hobbit, Tolkien
Harry Potter, Rowling
The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
Future Grace, Piper

 

[Schacht]

• Dostojewskij - Crime And Punishment
• Hegel - The Phenomenology of Spirit
• Houellebecq - Platform
• Miller - Nexus, Sexus, Plexus (is this counting as one?)
• Roth - The Dying Animal

Not easy to pick only five - I love classic German literature, and the romantic period as well (how could I not). Please let me at least add Rilkes "The Book of Hours". That list would be so incomplete without some poetry.

 

[ten_fiver]

• Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien
• The Stand- Stephen King
• Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
• Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
• Catch 22- Joseph Heller

 

[alfredo_buscatti]

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Edith Wharton, a Biography, R.W.B. Lewis
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
The Bhagavad Gita
The Harry Potter Series, J. K. Rowling