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DEL.ICIO.USWhat are your top 5 books? Tell us now!
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The AJC Decatur Book Festival is coming up! To celebrate, we’re asking our readers about their favorite books.
Whether you’re a bibliophile, or you only pick up a book once in a blue moon, everyone has a few favorite titles. These might range from murder mysteries to comic books; romance novels to cookbooks; dictionaries to how-to books. Maybe it’s a book you read in high school or a book you’re reading to your kids right now. It might be a book you picked up at the airport duty-free shop to keep you busy on the long flight to Phoenix. Or maybe you’ve been swept up into the Harry Potter or “Twilight” series fads (we certainly have!).
Whatever the case may be, we want to hear your top 5 books of all time. The most popular top 5 mentioned in the comments below will be revealed in the AJC booth at the AJC Decatur Book Festival on August 29-31. This is a free event, so come check out which books Atlanta chose as their top 5!
To get you started, here are some of ours:
Will Johnston
- Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
- J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince”
- Steve Berry’s “The Templar Legacy”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”
- Richard Wright’s “Native Son”
Rebecca Merchant
- “Stitch ‘N Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook” by Debbie Stoller
- “Penguin Dreams” by Vivian Walsh and J.otto Seibold
- “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
- “Skinny Legs and All” by Tom Robbins
- “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson
Ryan Paul
- “Every Hand Revealed” - Gus Hansen
- “American Psycho” - Bret Easton Ellis
- “Crime and Punishment” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “Fight Club” - Chuck Palahniuk
- “1984” - George Orwell
Okay, your turn! Give us your top 5 below - we want to hear what you think! We’ll be taking entries for the Book Fair through August 26.
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By atlgirl
August 18, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this
Top 5:
By Sara Key
August 18, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this
1The AlchemistBy Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke
2The Lords of DisciplineBy Pat Conroy
3 The DirtBy Motley Crue with Neil Strauss
4 The Ruins by Scott Smith 5 Little Miss ShyBy Roger Hargreaves
By Peggy Cassell
August 19, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this
Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
By R. David
August 19, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Skinny Dip, Carl Hiassen Catch 22, Joseph Heller The Last Step, Rick Ridgeway The Last Sin Eater, Francine Rivers A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks
By PHR
August 19, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
My top 3:
The Stand by Stephen King Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
I read Water for Elephants and really enjoyed it once it got started. I also loved The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall.
By Merrill Bennington
August 19, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
The Client by John Grisham
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
The Prey Series by John Sandford
The Watchers by Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
By Jenni Williams
August 19, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold Fay-Larry Brown The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini Redeeming Love- Francine Rivers Interpreter of Maladies- Juhmpa Lahiri
By Corky
August 19, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
The Secret History by Donnna Tartt
By Rose Schisler
August 19, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
1) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 2) WATER FOR ELEPHANTS 3) I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE 4) THE KITE RUNNER 5) INTO THE WILD
By TOCONNICER
August 19, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
NEFERTITI - MICHELLE MORAN HARRY POTTER - J K ROWLING SEPTIMUS HEAP - ANGIE SAGE J CALIFORNIA COOPER CURTIS BLACK SERIES - KIMBERLA LAWSON ROBY
By beautykam
August 19, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
My top 5 are:
By ajonesgirl
August 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Top 5: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
By Rob Schreiber
August 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy The Great Gastsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
By ajonesgirl
August 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Top 5: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
By gary
August 19, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
By CindyMSM
August 19, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
By Carolyn
August 19, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
My Top Five: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
By Lighten-up
August 19, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Don’t read much fiction: The Green Mile The Ransom of Red Chief Edgar Allen Poe - Works The Scarlet Pipernel
By dave faison
August 19, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
1.purpose driven life
waking the dead
48 days to the work you love
doctors, by erich segal
finishing strong, by steve farrar
By Bud
August 19, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
1) Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 2) The Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam 3) Guns Of August by Barbara Tuchman 4) The Last Lion by William Manchester 5) Candide by Voltaire
By dawnybama
August 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
The order depends on my mood….
By Stephen
August 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
Rabbit, run - John Updike Breakfast of champions - Kurt Vonnegut Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Native Son - Richard Wright
By Kate
August 19, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
1,000 Splendid Suns - Kalad Hosseini
1,000 White Women: The Journals of May Dodd -Jim Fergus
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Ellis Island - Fred Mustard Stewart
The Glass castle - Jeannette Walls
By Judy McKinley
August 19, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Wicked
The Kite Runner
The Life of Pi
Animals in Translation
Letting Go by Byron Katie
By coolchick
August 19, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
here are my top 5 faves, including a couple of childhood ones:
By JJ
August 19, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
The absolute TOP 5 best (“readable”) books of all time (not to be confused with the top 5 books Americans lie about reading!) 1) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 2) Native Son - Richard Wright 3) Beloved - Toni Morrison 4) Invisible Man -Ralph Ellison 5) A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
By Sr.Citizen Dawg
August 19, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Otoole Marley and Me-John Grogan Memory of Running-Ron McLarty
By Kathy
August 19, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Gold Coast - Nelson Demille
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Wheel of Fortune - Susan Howatch
By RStoll
August 19, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
She’s Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kitchen God’s Wife - Amy Tan
By Shery
August 19, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabakov The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Great Bridge David McCullough
By LaTrina
August 19, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
-The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Clason -The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey -Renovation of the Heart, by Dallas Willard -Not a Day Goes By, by E. Lynn Harris -Driver, Eric Jerome Dickey
By jane
August 19, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this
The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen L Carter Palace Council - Stephen L Carter Sula - Toni Morrison The Devil in the Junior League - Linda Francis Lee Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell
By Mahogany
August 19, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
The Prophet, By Khalil Gibran
Someone Knows my Name, By Lawrence Hill
Parable of the Sower, By Octavia E. Butler
A Divine Revelation of Hell, By Mark K. Baxter
Whistle for Willie, By Ezra Jack Keats
By gaPeaches
August 19, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
a) Going Against the Wind: A Pictorial History of African-Americans in Atlanta by Herman “Skip” Mason
b) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
c) The First to Speak by Kristin Clark Taylor
d) The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
e) Good Hair: A Novel by Benilde Little
By G. Laskoski
August 19, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Ironweed — William Kennedy The Ginger Man — J.P. Donleavy The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser
By Cathy C. Hall
August 19, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Tough to name just five, but I’ll try:
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
ELLEN FOSTER by Kaye Gibbons
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE by Isabel Allende
PETER PAN AND WENDY by J.M. Barrie
By Charlene Ball
August 19, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
All-time favorite: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Current favorites: Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, Sarah Gristwood The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling Will in the World,” Stephen Greenblatt *Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
By SMP
August 19, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch The Frog Princess series by E D Baker A Walk to Remember Nicholas Sparks Anything by Judy Blume Anything by Lewis Grizzard
By Jim Clark
August 19, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
Dubliners by James Joyce
Before the Deluge, by Mark Aldanov
By Teresa Gay
August 19, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
The Road - Cormac McCarthy All Over but the Shoutin’ - Rick Bragg Water for Elephants - can’t remember A Million Little Pieces - James Frey The Work and the Glory series - Gerald Lund
By B. Smith
August 19, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Insomnia - Stephen King Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man - Fannie Flagg Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes The Stand - Stephen King The Gunslinger Series - Stephen King
By jschupp
August 19, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
1.) A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein; 2.) Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein; 3.) Cajun Night Before Christmas, Trosclair, Howard Jacobs and James Rice; 4.) Fly Fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel, James Prosek; 5.) Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway.
By Pepper
August 19, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
By jon liv
August 19, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this
How Green Was My Valley Uncle Tom’s Cabin Lorna Doone Cyrano de Bergerac Far from the madding crowd
By Jill W.
August 19, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Hands down, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon…it has everything. And I do mean EVERYTHING. Covers every genre out there! Outlander Dragonfly in Amber Voyager Drums of Autumn The Fiery Cross A Breath of Snow and Ashes
…and she ain’t done, yet!
By Audrey
August 19, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
*The Wedding by Dorothy West *The Pact by Drs Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt *The Coldest Winter by Sister Soulja *The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreves *This I Know is True by Tavis Smiley
By Bob Waters
August 19, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
By Toby Miller
August 19, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
By tracie lee
August 19, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
The time travelers wife The Thorn Birds Rage of Angels The Other Side of Midnight Rhett Butler’s People
By Donna Hill
August 19, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Stand by Stephen King The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Grass Roots by Stuart Woods
By J. Haag
August 19, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Three Musckateers by Alexander Dumas Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy Dune by Frank Herbert 1776 by David McCullough The Stand by Stephen King
By Trina
August 19, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this
My Top 5
By des
August 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
in no particular order - - - -
a) the bible - best scifi book ever written b) team yankee - harold coyle - great WWIII ‘war’ book c) the rats, the bats and the gargoyles - dave freer - funny d) the alienist - caleb carr - great historical read e) shadow of ararat - thomas harlan - alt history book set in roman times - good stuff
and please - for your own sales - DO NOT get suckered into Whitlet Streibers’ 2012 - it just pules
By Alisa Tell
August 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
By bdove
August 19, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
By J. D.
August 19, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Beowulf The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Aeneid by Virgil Hyperion by Dan Simmons Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
By Romrose
August 19, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
The Pillars of The Earth - Ken Follett; Love in The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini; The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand; The Host - Stephenie Meyer.
By Lou Stines
August 19, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
1) Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln 2) Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum 3) Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 4) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 5) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
By Carol
August 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
The Secret Life of Bees
By JRMB
August 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
House of Spirits by Isabel Allende I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
By C Beaman
August 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Jolie’s Last Bounce by James Lee Burke Skinwalker by Tony Hillermann Fried Green Tomatoes by Fanny Flagg Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
By Jim Vandeventer
August 19, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
1) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2) John Adams by David McCullough
3) Armageddon by Leon Uris
4) Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
5) The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
By Holly
August 19, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Outer Banks - Anne Rivers Siddons My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kid Memoirs of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
By E. Harrington
August 19, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Top Five:
By sllpeach
August 19, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
The Wedding Nicholas Sparks The Epicenter Joel Rosenberg Three Weeks with my Brother Nicholas Sparks Hissy Fit Mary Kay Andrews Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
By Sharon
August 19, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dosteyevsky Stones in the River, Ursula Hegi A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
By amy
August 19, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
my favorite tob five books: 1: The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham 2: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 3: Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman 4: Fahrenheight 451 by Ray Bradbury 5: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
By Nellie Mathis
August 19, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Little Bear by Elsa Minerek The Cat Who books by Lillian Jackson Braun
By Vondell
August 19, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
Claude Brown, “Manchild in the Promised Land” K’wan Foye, “Hoodlum” L.A. Banks, “Vampire Huntress Legend Series” Chinua Achebe, “Things Fall Apart” Zane, “Addicted”
By amy
August 19, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
ooh , add a 6th Les Miserable By Victor Hugo - Took me a whole summer of rainy weekends at a Summer house in NY to finish it. Well worth it!!
By Lou Stines
August 19, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
1) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 2) Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 3) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4) Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum 5) Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln.
By B. Hodges
August 19, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon; Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald; A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris; She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb; The Stand by Stephen King
By J. Haag
August 19, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
It’s too hard to list just five so I thought of 5 more: Of Mice and Men - George Steinbeck Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
By Jenny E. Jensen
August 19, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
By L'Wren
August 19, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Everything by Stephen King (except the Dark Tower series — hate those).
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Everything by J. California Cooper
All things John Grisham
By Jess
August 19, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Lamb - Christopher Moore; Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk; Gerald’s Game - Stephen King; Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
By JCD
August 19, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this
Their Eyes Were Watching God/ Zora Neale Hurston When Do the Good Things Start? / Rabbi Abraham Twerski,MD In Search Of Our Mothers Gardens /Alice Walker Ephiphany / Ferrell Sams Where’s Leon ?/ Jody Fabso Cassell
By John Gillespie
August 19, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
‘The Third Policeman’ by Flann O’Brien; ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ by Tom Robbins; ‘Factotum’ by Charles Bukowski; ‘Zorba the Greek’ by Nikos Kazantzakis; ‘Cities in Flight’ by James Blish
By charlie
August 19, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
top 5: 1: The Dark tower/Stephen King 2:good Omens/terry pratchett/neil gaimen 3:discworld series_32 books can’t pick a favorite/they are all good/Terry Pratchett 4:1984 George Orwell-just read recently/cant get it out of my head 5:American Gods-neil gaimen
By Bernard Seeman
August 19, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
I would like to add my favorite to the list which is “Crime & Punishment” by Dostoyevsky.
By Bernard Seeman
August 19, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this
I would like to add my favorite to the list which is “Crime & Punishment” by Dostoyevsky.
By Sandi Barber
August 19, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
1 all time favoriteThe House on The Strand - DuMaurier
2The Keep - F. Paul Wilson
3The Five People You Meet in Heaven
4Mrs. Mike
5The Little House Series - Wilder
(I’m 50 and enjoy reading them as much now as I did in Grade School.
By Hirsch Goldberg
August 19, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this
five books: War & Peace John Adams Plain Speaking Tropic of Cancer The White Hotel
By Karen Thomas
August 19, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Manchild in the Promised Land,Claude Brown In Search of Satisfaction, by J. California Cooper Trying to Sleep in the bed you made, Virginia Dewberry & Donna Gant The Coldest Winter, Sister Soulijah
By Don
August 19, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
By JMB
August 19, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
Three Cups Of Tea
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother
Fahrenheit 451 (or any other Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles…)
Hard to narrow it down to just 5 (Year of Wonders, Animal Farm, The Invisible Man, The Chosen, Madame Bovary… I could go on)
By Z
August 19, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom - Rita Marie Robinson Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Ender’s Game & Speaker for the Dead: Orson Scott Card The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Stanger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
By Lou Robinson
August 19, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Master & Commander by Patrick OBrian (actually the whole Aubrey Maturin Series) Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
By Edmond Gregory
August 19, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
My Favorites: 1. Atlas Shrugged, By Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, By Ayn Rand
Catch 22, By Joseph Heller
1984, By George Orwell
By rs
August 19, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
Malcolm X Fatherfound To Have & Have Not Miseducation of the Negro Audacity of Hope
By Valerie
August 19, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
Mina’s Joint by Keisha Ervin The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith Every Thug Needs A Lady by Wahida Clark Thug Matrimony by Wahida Clark
These are my top 5 books and ones I just recently finished.
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By Alice
August 19, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Run - Ann Patchet Love in the Present Tense - Catherine Ryan Hyde Three Junes - Julia Glass Sunbird - Wilbur Smith
By Anne
August 19, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
The Known World by Edward P Jones Snow by Orhan Pamuk Great Expectations by Charles Dickens One HUndred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Pride & Predjudice by Jane Austen
By Shawnna
August 19, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
Dutch 1 Dutch 2 Dutch the Finale-Kwame Teague Thug Matrimony-Wahida Clark(all 3 books) The Gangsta Girl Saga-Chunichi
By Terri
August 19, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this
-Alas Babylon - Pat Frank
-Harry Potter (4 - 7)
-City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
-Left Behind (whole series)
-The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
By Bobby G.
August 19, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
By Sharan
August 19, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
Devil In a Blue Dress- Walter Mosley
Fearless Jones- Walter Mosley
Monster- Johnathan Kellerman
One for the Money- Janet Evanovich
ALL OF THE ‘IN DEATHS’-J.D.Robb(Nora Roberts)
By Sharan
August 19, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Devil In a Blue Dress- Walter Mosley
Fearless Jones- Walter Mosley
Monster- Johnathan Kellerman
One for the Money- Janet Evanovich
ALL OF THE ‘IN DEATHS’-J.D.Robb(Nora Roberts)
By K. Pierce
August 19, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
These are the books that have made the biggest impression on me, I guess, since they are the first five I thought of…and I love each of them for different reasons. Enjoy! 1. London: The Novel, by Edward Rutherford 2. The Power of One, by Bryce Cortenay 3. Gerald’s Game, by Stephen King 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia), by C.S. Lewis
By Barbara Harper
August 19, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
The LAST LECTURE By Randy Pausch
Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers
The Good Earth By Pearl Buck
Christmas Stories for the Heart Compiled by Alice Gray
Memiors of a Geisha
By zagnut jones
August 19, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
Winston Churchill’s six volume set on World War II; Dune by Frank Herbert; Lost Horizon by James Hilton; Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
By JoanG
August 19, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
*The Book Thief- Marcus Zusak *1000 White Women- Jim Fergus *Year of Wonders- Geraldine Brooks *Half of a Yellow Sun-Adiche *Shadow of the Wind—-Zafon
By Jan DiPietro
August 19, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver What I Lived For - Joyce Carol Oates London Fields - Martin Amis The Tin Roof Blow Down - James Lee Burke Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsey
By Original Rick
August 19, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
My favs: Anything by John Irving (yeah, I know. OK: A Widow for One Year) From a Buick 8- Stephen King Time Enough for Love- Robert A Heinlein The Gulag Archipelago- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Every Christmas day I bring out the Hobbit and the Trilogy and read them again, complete. Been doing that for about 15 years now.
Now 5 books that should be required reading for everyone: Animal Farm- George Orwell 1984- George Orwell The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
By Carolyn Lee Wills
August 19, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Gone With the Wind John Adams Alice by Stacy Cordery Alexander Hamilton 1776
By Tavia
August 19, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
I just found the Stephanie Meyer series I really enjoyed it…
Anything by Nicholas Sparks it great also…
and of course classics such as Withering Heights, Pride and prejudice and Romeo and Juliet…
By vfrasier
August 19, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
Book of the Dead
Hershall Walker, Breaking Free
Double Cross
The Secret Lives of Bees
s’Tory Telling
By Donna
August 19, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
The Thorn Birds Dispatches from the edge by Anderson Cooper Something Borrowed by Emily Giffen Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich
By Mrs. S
August 19, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
I love anything written by the following authors:
Kimberla Lawson Roby Vanessa Davis Griggs Victoria Christopher Murray Kendra Norman Bellamy ReShonda Tate Billingsley
By nypeach
August 19, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this
A thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Husseini Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai The Secret History, Donna Tartt She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb The Milagro Beanfield War, John Nichols
By jim page
August 19, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Tony Horwitz, A Voyage Long and Strange; Alton Brown, Feasting on Asphalt; Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason and William Kelso, Jamestown the Buried Truth
By dorothy
August 19, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
The H.A.B. Theory
By CMB
August 19, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Joyce, Ulysses Nabokov, Speak Memory Nabokov, Lolita
By Original Rick
August 19, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
My favs: Anything by John Irving (yeah, I know. OK: A Widow for One Year) From a Buick 8- Stephen King Time Enough for Love- Robert A Heinlein The Gulag Archipelago- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Every Christmas day I bring out the Hobbit and the Trilogy and read them again, complete. Been doing that for about 15 years now.
Now 5 books that should be required reading for everyone: Animal Farm- George Orwell 1984- George Orwell The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
By CindyMSM
August 19, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
By Ellis Millsaps
August 19, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
The Great Gatsby All the King’s Men Sometimes a Great Notion Fair and Tender Ladies Raintree County
By M.R. Williams
August 19, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this
Top 5 Books Bible - King James Version Purpose Driven Life Left To Tell The Secret Life of Bees - Susan Monk No Greater Love - Danielle Steele
By A. Busby
August 19, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this
The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
Native Son by Richard Wright
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
By BB
August 19, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
Love In The Time of Cholera Cold Sassy Tree The Alchemist The Secret Life of Bees Atlas Shrugged
By Sarah
August 19, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
The Brothers Karmazov by Dostoevsky; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie; The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
By Mark
August 19, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
Clan of the cave bear - Jean M Auel Beyond Reach - Karin Slaughter The Firm - John Grisham Jester - James Patterson Wish you well - David Balducci
By ann main
August 19, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
My favorite books: Catcher In the Rye Anna Karenina Wuthering Heights Lords of Discipline Fountianhead
By Kendre
August 19, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Bluest Eye Sula Coldest Winter Ever Song of Solomon Tar Baby
By Tinisha Johnson
August 19, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
I really like the following books:
Duma Key by Stephen King Pleasures by Eric Jerome Dickey Searchable Whereabouts by Tinisha Nicole Johnson Consequences: When Love is Blind by Linda R. Herman
http://www.tinishanicolejohnson.com
By John
August 19, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Atlas Shrugged, To Kill a Mockingbird, Freedom at Midnight, Gone with the Wind,Shogun
By Rachael
August 19, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Hi it’s Rachael from Hazlehurst…
Queen Of the Damned-Anne Rice Witching Hour-Anne Rice Blood Canticle-Anne Rice To Kill a Mocking Bird Carrie-Stephen King
By Steven Riser
August 19, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
2001- Arthur C Clarke
Slaughterhouse 5 -Kurt Vounegut
A Farewell to Arms - E. Hemmingway
Coming of age in the Milky Way- Timothy Ferris
Cats Cradle - Kurt Vounegut
By Booklover
August 19, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
*Moneyball Michael Lewis *Sophie’s Heart Lori Wick *Betsy-Tacy Books Maud Hart Lovelace *Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen *Little House of the Prairie Books Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Bruce
August 19, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
By Sheri Gilligan
August 19, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1984 by George Orwell Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
By Jarrell in Savannah
August 19, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti, For One More Day by Mitch Albom, No Wonder They Call Him The Savior by Max Lucado, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (original text version by Mildred Wirt Benson)
By Joyce
August 19, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Winter’s Tale The Kite Runner Water for Elephants Three Cups of Tea
By susan
August 19, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd Mila 18 - Leon Uris Exodus - Leon Uris Kite Runner - Hosseini Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
By Charly
August 19, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this
By SB
August 19, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner Dorien Grey by Wilde *A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Husseini
By Gina H. Prescott
August 19, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
In alphabetical order…
Aura by Carlos Fuentes Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky Vanity Fair by William Thackeray Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
By Tina
August 19, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
Here Goes…these are all page turners 1)Douglass’ Women, by Jewell Parker Rhodes 2)Stolen Lives, by Malika Oufkir 3)Cooked, by Jeff Henderson 4)The Pact, by Jodi Picoult 5)Geneviere, by Eric Jerome Dickey
By June Gader
August 19, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
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August 19, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
Black Winds - F. Paul Wilson
The House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - JK Rowling
Night Play - Sherrilynn Kenyon
By Bear
August 19, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
I, Me, Mine by George Harrison; The Boggart by Susan Cooper; Our Hearts were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner; Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels and The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher
By Lily Toad
August 19, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Margaret Walker, Jubilee
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1000 Years of Solitude
By Amanda Day
August 19, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
(1) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (2) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (3) One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (4) The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (5) Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
By Gary Thomas
August 19, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Native Son - Richard Wright The Autobiography of Malcolm X Animal Farm - George Orwell
By LWR
August 19, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Sophie’s Choice by William Styron The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham The Last Folk Hero by Andrew Dietz Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
By tyrone
August 19, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
This is a book worth looking at. Out of Darkness and Into The Light
(http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-0190002-3841779?asin=1414034504&afid=yahoosspplpbmvd&lnm=1414034504|OutofDarknessandIntotheLight:Books&ref=tgtadv_XSNG1060)
By Waymon Poodle
August 19, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
By Taylor
August 19, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
Run with the Horsemen by Ferol Sams
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Holiday’s on Ice by David Sedaris
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
By Stephanie C.
August 19, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
Twilight Series- Stephenie Meyers The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory Memiors of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Good In Bed - Jennifer Weiner
By Kathryn
August 19, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (and all of Austen’s books); “The Persian Boy” by Mary Renault; “The Source” by James Michener; “The Blue Castle” by Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Short Fridays” by Issac Bashevis Singer
… and oh, so many more!
By Taylor
August 19, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
Run with the Horsemen A confederacy of dunces Holidays on Ice To kill a mockingbird Where the sidewalk ends
By Atico
August 19, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
You should be a lover and history and fiction/History to enjoy any of the above books. All are superbly written.
By Jim Ramsay
August 19, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Lord of the Rings - Tolkein Brothers Kamarazov - Dostoyevsky (in Russian, of course) Space Trilogy - CS Lewis The Covenant - John Grisham Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton
By Deveret
August 19, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
By Connie Venuso
August 19, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
Water For Elephants Nobody’s Fool Samurai’s Garden Kiterunner Three Cups of Tea
By sue
August 19, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Follett, The Lion’s Game by DeMille, A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, and The World is Flat by Friedman
By RJ Allen
August 19, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
Favorite Five: Gods in Alabama, Josyilyn Jackson;Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden; Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy; Run with the Horseman, Ferrol Sams; and Same Sweet Girls, Cassandra King
By Jay
August 19, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird Prince of Tides Gone with the Wind The Fountainhead The Shining Jane Eyre East of Eden Catcher in the Rye …and SO many more!
By Jackie Thurman
August 19, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Soulijah What Becomes of a Brokenhearted - E. Lynn Harris I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou I Wish I Had A Red Dress - Pearl Cleage Some Place, Some Other Place - J California Cooper
By michele
August 19, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this
top 3: 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
By jewelia.k
August 19, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
“Second Thyme Around” - Katie Fforde “White Rabbit” - Kate Phillips Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling “The Christmas Hope” - Donna VanLiere “Christmas Lights” -Christine Pisera Naman
By Mary Schaefer
August 19, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this
*Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
*The Pearl by John Steinbeck
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
*Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
*Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
By Miss D
August 19, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Hard to choose!
1. The Dark Room - Minette Walters 2. Watchers - Dean Koontz 3. The Stand - Stephen King 4. The Easy Rawlins Series - Walter Mosley 5. The Nero Wolf Series - Rex Stout
By Josette
August 19, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
No Order
FICTION 1. Possession* A. S. Byatt 2. Stone Diaries* Carol Shields 3. Angle of Repose* Wallace Stegner (bump, Lou way above)
4. Pride & Predjudice Jane Austen TIE= 5. Anya Karenina Leo Tolstoy & 5. The Name of the Rose Umberto Ecco
ESSAYS: Seasons @ Eagle Pond Farm* Donald Hall
NON-FICTION Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe Laura Lisel
…I know, I cheated a bit…
*Nat/I’national Award Winner
By Joan
August 19, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
By Babs
August 19, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini The Tin Roof Blow Down by James Lee Burke (any one of his novels) Three Cups of Tea TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee Harry Potter series JK Rowling
By Sam J-B
August 19, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this
By NuBN76
August 19, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Il Principe (The Prince); Niccolo Machiavelli, a book about the politics of principalities; The Sign and the Seal; Graham Hancock, searching for the Ark of the Covenant; The Destruction of Black Civilization, Chancellor Williams, an authoritative work on Black civilizations; The African Origin of Civilization; Cheikh Anta Diop, the most scholarly work on this subject; Who Moved My Cheese; Spencer Johnson, very motivational
or
Julius Caesar; William Shakespeare, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen …”, the greatest political speech in history; Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Thought and Behavior; Marimba Ani, speaks for itself; The Chronicles of Narnia; C.S. Lewis, fantasy is the mind’s reward; DUNE; Frank Herbert, “the spice must flow” science fiction at its best; The Rape Art of War; Sun Tzu, intriquing; The Rape of the A-P-E, Allan Sherman, insightful and hysterically funny.
By Sandi
August 19, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
Ooh, The Stand (the only book I’ve ever read twice and enjoyed it BOTH times ;o)by Stephen King. New authors also catch my attention. Ace of Hearts by Jean Holloway 52 Broad Street by Diane Dorce Mpire by T.L. James and Unexpected Interruptions by Trice Hickman
By P.J.Smith
August 19, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
By R D JImenez
August 19, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
The Bible Jane Austen - Jane Eyre Star Trek -Ishmael Jane Austen - Emma Star Trek - The Mind Sifter
By Madge D. Owens
August 19, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A Time to Kill By John Grisham
Waiting to Exhale By Terry McMillan
The Godfather By Mario Puzo
Chances By Jackie Collins
The Naked Face By Sidney Sheldon
By Monique Colbert
August 19, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
1.The Maintenance Man- Michael Baisden
2.Rage of Angels- Sidney Sheldon
3.Sister Sister- Eric Jerome Dickey
4.Faith in the Valley- Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace- Iyanla Vanzant
5.I Wish I had a Red Dress- Pearl Cleage
By Toots
August 19, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
The Great Gatsby; Gone with the Wind; The Narnia Series by CS Lewis; Angela’s Ashes; To Kill a Mockingbird
By F.W.
August 19, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
*The Stand-Stephen King Dark Rivers of the Heart-Dean Koontz Code of Honor-Tom Clancy Men at War series by W.E.B.Griffen
By LeVette
August 19, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
LeVette’s Top 5: Native Son by Richard Wright Mr. Dream Merchant by Eroll Bailey A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown 72 Hour Hold by BeBe Moore Campbell The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
By Mel
August 19, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Thanks for the lists. Many greats that I’ve forgotten I love and many others I want to read!
2 very different books to add:
Lincoln by Gore Vidal Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
I love to read and think my favorites start to run together!
By bobby
August 19, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Roots by Alex Haley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
By LTBROWN
August 19, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this
I know why the caged bird sings-Maya Angelou
The Rose that grew from Concrete-Tupac Shakur
Time Will Reveal part one-Black Coffee
**The Other Woman-Eric Jerome Dickey
Time Will Reveal part two-Black Coffee
By Wendy
August 19, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird East of Eden The Catcher in the Rye The Great Gatsby The Color of Water
By cl
August 19, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
1 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 2 Where Are The Children - Mary H Clark 3 Watchers - Dean Koontz 4 The Stand - Stephen King 5 Strangers and/or The Hiding Place - KoontzSo many good books.
By Jessica Owen
August 19, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
By Sue B
August 19, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Godwin
By Noelle
August 19, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird And the Band Played On The Hot Zone Little House in the Big Woods Summer of ‘49
By VALERIE A HIGH
August 19, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Singsation by Jacquelin Thomas Defining Moments by Jacquelin Thomas Sin and a Shame by Victoria Christopher Murray Best Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby The Color of Love by Sandra Kitt
By Melissa
August 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Not All Tarts are Apple by Pip Granger
Point of Honour by Madeleine E. Robins
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
By Shirley
August 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
All Through the Night by Davis Bunn My Soul to Keep by Davis Bunn Thorn in My Heart by Liz Curtis Higgs Joshua by Joseph Girzone This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
By Dawn
August 19, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
Rules of Prey by John Sandford The gruesome Grant County series by local Karin Slaughter (she was destined to write thrillers, don’t you think?) The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Because it is Bitter and Because it is my Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
By Mudd
August 19, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
Middlesex, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Bonfire of the Vanities, The Godfather, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
By Annette
August 19, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
Although not a novel, the Bible is a good read! Also Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, My Antonia also by Willa Cather, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the Alan Banks mystery series by Peter Robinson. I could go on, but that’s five!
By jamila meah
August 19, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this
1) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 2) anything Harry Potter 3) The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 4) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 5) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
By Cheryl Whitfield
August 19, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
The Great Santini-Pat Conroy I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou What I Know for Sure-Tavis Smiley Secret Life of Bees-Sue Monk-Kidd Gone With the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
By sassyajc
August 19, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
all the harry potter and twilight books, cold sassy tree, hiking trails of georgia, the foxfire books, and anything by the following: tom robbins, hunter s. thompson, milan kundera, chuck palahniuk, kurt vonnegut, albert camus, jack kerouac, edward gorey, flannery o’connor, lewis grizzard, jamie oliver, anthony bourdain, pat conroy, stephen king, and ferrol sams. and many more.
By Teri Thomas
August 19, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
1) Gone With the Wind 2) To Kill a Mockingbird 3) The Godfather 4) The Great Gatsby 5) Pride & Prejudice
By WJSmith
August 19, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
My two favorite sci-fi novels are my choices 2. Dune by Frank Herbert and 3. Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Both are hard-core sci-fi and both are extraordinary for the worlds and societies created therein. Herbert’s use of names for people and places is exceptional in adding dimensions to plot and character development. Simmons uses the structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, infused with the poetry of John Keats, to tell book one of a 4 book series.
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. A mystical tale of love, war and passion set in Napoleonic France, Russia and Venice. Extraordinary economy of language with exactly the right words chosen.
Mallory’s Oracle by Carol O’Connell should be cookie-cutter, hard-boiled cop fiction. Should be, but isn’t. If you’ve read a million police-procedurals this book (the first in a series) will make the sub-genre seem brand new to you. If you’ve never read police-procedurals, no others will ever be this good or this satisfying.
By Soulfinger
August 19, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this
By glo
August 19, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this
Top 5 Favorite Books:
By Que
August 19, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Angle of Repose — Wallace Stegner Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett Like Water for Chocolate — Laura Esquivel Siddhartha —- Herman Hesse His Dark Materials (trilogy) — Philip Pullman
By June Gader
August 19, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this
1) “Blue Highways” by William Least Heat Moon; 2) “Vanished” or anything by Mary McGarry Morris; 3) “The End of the Affair,” by Graham Greene; 4) “The Ice Cream Wars” by William Boyd; 5) “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers
By Bea
August 19, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird Little Women The Secret Garden A Christmas Carol
By RetiredTeacher
August 19, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this
Newer Books:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Ghost Road by Pat Barker Naked by David Sedaris Close Range by Annie Proulx
Series: Harry Potter books by JK Rowling His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Classics:
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Giant by Edna Ferber
By Paul B.
August 19, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T.E. Lawrence) Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut) Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana Jr.) Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Skinny Dip almost made the top 5.
By Cindy
August 19, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
*The Shack - William P. Young *The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver *The Poisonwood Bible - also Barbara Kingsolver *90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper *19 Minutes - Jodi Picoult *My Sister’s Keeper - also Jodi Picoult *Goodbye Mr. Chips - James Hilton *Night - Eli Weisel
Couldn’t limit it to just 5. Could have listed more, but these are some of the best.
By DRM
August 19, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
By Donna
August 19, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
August 19, 5:00 PM My Sister’s Keeper; Plain Truth; Year of Wonders; Kite Runner; Leota’s Garden
By Dyamin
August 19, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
Both True to Da Game, Teri woods The Coldest Winter Ever, Sista Soulja Ms Ettas Fast House, Victor McGlothin Leslie, Omar Tyree W*******, Donald Goines
By Paula
August 19, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this
Lucifer’s Hammer, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Earth Abides, George R. Stewart You Can Negotiate Anything, Herb Cohen Telltale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe The Night Before Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore
By Rhea
August 19, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
By cindy
August 19, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver *The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver *90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper *19 Minutes - Jodi Picoult *My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult The Shack - William P. Young *Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton *Night - Eli Weisel
By Gaurav
August 19, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this
1984 -George Orwell Tin Drum-Gunther Grass To Kill a Mocking Bird- Harper Lee Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy A fine Balance-Rohinton Mistry
By Jenne
August 19, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
My top 5 for fantasy - yes, I like Harry Potter and the Twilight series, too, but here’s some good reading for those who want to branch out a bit.
-3. “Magdalen Rising, (and the sequels) by Elizabeth Cunningham. Not suitable for younger teens.
-4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien.
By Linda M.
August 19, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this
2.I dare you- Joyce Meyers
The Stand- Steven King
7 Habits of Highly Effective People- Stephen Covey
God came Near- Max Lucado
By Taylor Venee
August 19, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this
By Crystal Renee Womack
August 19, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
1.The Bible(even though I have yet to read it all the way through) 2.The Secret-Rhonda Byrne(the best spriitual/motivational book out now-it has changed my life!!) 3.Roots-Alex Haley 4.The Catcher In The Rye-J.D.Salinger 5.I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou
There are so many more,but 5 was the limit!!!
By Carolin Jones
August 19, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky The Left Behind Series, LaHaye/Jenkins The Godfather, Puzo
By Sondra Wright
August 19, 2008 7:07 PM | Link to this
My top five (and a few more): To Kill a Mockingbird Farenheit 451 The Mists of Avalon Interview with the Vampire Conversations with God (books 1-3) Anything by Patricia Cornwell or Linda Fairstein
By Ulrick
August 19, 2008 7:19 PM | Link to this
The Bible The Great Controversy by E.G. White The Desire of Ages by E.G. White The Ministry of Healing by E.G. White Steps to Christ by E.G. White
By olivia
August 19, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this
1) Paris to the Moon—Adam Gopnik
2) Harry Potter #7—JK Rowling
3) Among Friends—Caroline Cooney
4) Nothing to Declare—Mary Morris
5) Anne of Green Gables—Lucy Maud Montgomery
By Hilary
August 19, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
By Patti Poole Mobley
August 19, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this
By Allyson
August 19, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this
Johnny Lumpkin Wants a Friend is a children’s book. It’s about a typical five year old boy who loves to play with cars and trucks, but Johnny always seems to play alone. After two weeks of school Johnny still hasn’t made any friends in his kindergarten class. Every day Johnny runs to his teacher complaining that no one will play with him. After watching Johnny ignore his classmates, trying to play with him, Ms. White begins to suspect Johnny is having trouble hearing them, and so she calls his parents to schedule an appointment so she can talk to them about her suspicions. During the meeting Ms. White suggests to Johnny’s parents that they take him to the doctor to have his hearing examined. Author: Rhonda Boone Evans
By Renee
August 19, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this
1— Beloved by Toni Morrison
2— The Color Purple by Alice Walker
3— Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
4— Forever by Judy Blume
5— The Pistachio Prescription by Paula Danziger
LOVE MANY MORE AS WELL!!!!
By barb
August 19, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this
Gone With the Wind
Mob Lawyer
Scruples
any of Howard Fast’s books
Angry Housewives Eating BonBons
By barb
August 19, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this
I need to add….
The River is Wide (pat conroy)
By Sherry R
August 19, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Wuthering Heights The Portrait of Dorian Gray To Kill a Mockingbird The Great Gatsby
By susan
August 19, 2008 9:26 PM | Link to this
Kenneth Roberts— Northwest Passage Pearl S. Buck— The Good Earth Mary Gordon— Final Payments Louise Erdrich— The Beet Queen Richard Russo— Empire Falls
By susan
August 19, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this
Kenneth Roberts— Northwest Passage Pearl S. Buck— The Good Earth Mary Gordon— Final Payments Louise Erdrich— The Beet Queen Richard Russo— Empire Falls
By Zak in East Lake
August 19, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt
The Joy of Cookingby Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker
The Beautiful Room is Empty By Edmund White
Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
By jerry bosshart
August 19, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this
can’t do five….catcher in the rye, to kill a mockingbird, moby dick, catch-22, slaughterhouse 5, lord of the flies, great expectations, brave new world, burr, the shining
By Asha Mulchan
August 19, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this
The Bridge Over the River, translation by Joseph Wetzl The Prophet, Khalil Gibran The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield God Loves Fun, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar The Dead are Alive, Harold Sherman
By Emma
August 19, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this
Emma-Jane Austen, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz, The Eyre Affair-Jasper Fforde, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Betty Smith, One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By Suwanee Helen
August 19, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this
Impossible for me to answer. But while not great writing for the ages, Sandra Brown’s “Chill Factor” kept me flipping pages. One of the best I’ve read in a long time.
Contrast Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind” with Margaret Walker’s “Jubilee” which is more realistic for the period. Anything by Nicholas Sparks. Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” series is tops. I want more! For sheer fun, Janet Evanovich’s “Stephanie Plum” series which starts with “One for the Money,” then “Two for the Dough”—and she is up to “Lean Mean Fourteen” — is tops.
By Lois-Ann Clark
August 19, 2008 10:11 PM | Link to this
My absolute favoite book in the world is Indigo, by Beverly Jenkins. This book is histoical fiction and educates while it entertains. It is a beautiful story set in Michigan,before he Civil War. It deals with the Undergroung Rairoad.,and class issues between free people of color and those who had been enslaved.
After years of looking, I finally found a hardback copy,which I purchased today!
My second favorite book is Ties That Bind, by Brenda Jackson, a contemporary love story ,it chronicles the lives of a couple who meet while students at Howard University over thirty years.
By Joan Church
August 19, 2008 10:15 PM | Link to this
The Bible, romance books by LaVyrle Spencer, Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck, Dr. Seuss books, Biographies about anyone
By Marty
August 19, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this
Bible—King James Version The Good Earth by Pearl Buck To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Trespass by Phillip Finch Portraits by Cynthia Freeman Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul …and I could go on and on and on …..
By Alicia
August 19, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this
1) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (This is a series of four books and they are all excellent)
2) The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc by Loraine Despres
3) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
4) She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
5) The Cotton Queen by Pamela Morsi
By jp
August 19, 2008 10:28 PM | Link to this
The space between us/ Thrity Umrigar Magic Time or the Bridge/ Doug Marlette Widows Adventure/ Charles Dickinson Big Rock Candy Mountain/ Wallace Stegner Nobel Speech/ President Jimmy Carter
By Annalou
August 19, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this
Suzanne’s Diary To Nicholas, Gone With the Wind, A Stranger is Watching, and The Pact
By Matt Sinclair
August 19, 2008 11:23 PM | Link to this
1) The World According to Garp – John Irving 2) The Lord of the Rings trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien 3) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon 4) Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury 5) Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
By Dartha
August 19, 2008 11:31 PM | Link to this
A Woman of Substance - Barbara Taylor Bradford Three Weeks with my Brother - Nicholas Sparks East of Eden - John Steinbeck Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
By William Cox
August 19, 2008 11:49 PM | Link to this
1)My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 2)The Testament by John Grisham 3)The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy 4)Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 5)Alaska by James A Michener
By TWCOLE
August 20, 2008 12:18 AM | Link to this
* 1)Karin Slaughter- Tryptic 2) All Harry Potter 3)Angels Flight-Michael Connelly 4)Stephen King- The Stand 5) Heart Shaped Box- Joe Hill*
Would also like to add The Island (the book that got me reading almost 30 years ago and all the Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz
By Vindella
August 20, 2008 12:39 AM | Link to this
My top 5 books are:
Memoirs of a Geisha DaVinci Code Angels & Demons The Living Blood How Stella got her grove back
By Pat Myers
August 20, 2008 12:42 AM | Link to this
Lonesome Dove The Mist of Avalon
By William Thompson
August 20, 2008 12:58 AM | Link to this
John Adams, by David McCullough
Truman, by David McCullough
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by E. Hemingway
“The Making of the President” series, by Theodore H. White
Death of a President, by William Manchester
By Regina Long Southall
August 20, 2008 1:37 AM | Link to this
Favorite Books Poetry from the Heart by Regina Long Southall Hot and Bothered by It by Phyllis Johnson Woman to Woman by Joyce Meyer Become a Better you by Joel Osteen God Don’t Play by Mary Monroe
By Melody Hodge
August 20, 2008 2:16 AM | Link to this
1.”The Holy Bible” 2.”The Color Purple”, Alice Walker 3.”Gone with the Wind”, Margaret Mitchell 4.”Waiting to Exhale”, Terry McMillan 4.”The Firm”, John Grisham
By jillybeans
August 20, 2008 2:41 AM | Link to this
The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert Dark Nights of the Soul / Thomas More Stephanie Plum Series / Janet Evanovich Mitch Rapp Series / Vince Flynn
By Ricki
August 20, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this
Middlesex Stones From the River Devil in the White City Perfume The Book Thief
By Don henderson
August 20, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett Civil War Trilogy - Michael and Jeff Shaara The Firm - John Grisham Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy Fountain Head - Ann Rand Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
By Rudy
August 20, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
Marketing from the Trenches, Waldner Death in the Long Grass, Capstick Rules of the Wild, Marciano Garden of Eden, Hemingway The Greatest Salesman in the World, Mandino
By Donna Holifield
August 20, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Plain Truth; My Sister’s Keeper’ Leota’s Garden; Kite Runner; Year of Wonders
By Edward Wheeler
August 20, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this
By Frances Atkins
August 20, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
Bible by God Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell Tell of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Client by John Grisham Harry Potter by J K Rowlings
By Jennifer Lusk
August 20, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this
By Star
August 20, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
My favorite books are the ones that take me away from my day to day books that provide an escape. I read for entertainment and not always what is on the Best Sellers List. Having stated that I have to list my favorite authors because all of their books are GREAT.
Anything by ZANE
Eric Jerome Dickerson
3 e.Lynn Harris
5 John Gresham
By Trisha
August 20, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
Margaret Mitchell “Gone with the Wind” Elizabeth Musser “Swan House” Scott Smith “The Ruins” Dean Koontz “The Mask” Jodi Piccoult “My Sister’s Keeper”
By CMB
August 20, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this
Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Joyce, Ulysses Nabokov, Lolita Nabokov, Speak Memory
By Jim Henderson
August 20, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
The Godfather, Mario Puzo Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien The Good Earth, Pearl Buck Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
By Jaime De La Vega
August 20, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Belgariad Series by David Eddings
Shannara Series by Terry Brooks
Marketing from the Trenches By Rudolf Waldner
No Reservations by Anthony Bourdain
By Brenda Coker
August 20, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy Peachtree Road - Ann Rivers Siddons
By Maia Ajanaku-Locke
August 20, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
By Maia Ajanaku of Memphis My five favorite books are:
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler Thief of Letters by Janet Mountain Johnson The Autobiography Of Henry VIII by Margaret George Great Lion Of God by Taylor Caldwell Team Of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
By Angela Reid-President of Imani Literary Grp
August 20, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
[“Song of Solomon” Toni Morrison “Mama Day” by Gloria Naylor “Standing at the Scratch Line” by Guy Johnson “Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel “Song Yet Sung” by James McBride]
By Beverly Peurifoy-Green
August 20, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
“YOU, Me & HE” by Brooke Green, “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, “Conversations with GOD…The Trilogy” by Neal Donald Walsh.
By Cat
August 20, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Alienist by Caleb Carr Marketing from the Trenches by Rudolf Waldner Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
By monie
August 20, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
Native Son by Richard Wright; Chesapeake by James A. Michener; Lovely bones by Alice Sebold; Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini; Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
By Patty
August 20, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this
The Harry Potter series—Rowling Audition-Barbara Walters Anna Karenina—Tolstoy The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khalid Housseini Chronicles of Narnia, including Lion,Witch, and Wardrobe—C.S. Lewis
By Stacy
August 20, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston Inferno - Dante Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
By Mollie
August 20, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling; Ride the Wind - Lucia St. Clair Robson; Kushiel series - Jacqueline Carey; Sex with the Queen - Eleanor Herman; Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
By Michelle
August 20, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
1 - A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
2 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
3 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
5 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
By Susan
August 20, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
By Sylvia
August 20, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Tales of The South Pacific by James A Michener. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier The Bourne Idenity by Robert Ludlum
By Cathy
August 20, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
To Kill a Mockingbird Raintree County How Green was my Valley Prince of Tides The Color Purple
By Elaine Graybill
August 20, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this
By Brandon Mann
August 20, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this
By June Gader
August 20, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this
I LOVE it! So many mentions of Richard Wright, Maugham, the Brontes, Hemingway, Austen, Marquez, even Dostoyevsky, even Dumas; so few mentions of the current best seller-cheap thrills genre. The major unhappy surprise: the unending devotion to Ayn Rand. One would think the world might have outgrown her by now.
By Kathy
August 20, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
The Prince of Tides- Pat Conroy Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen Beautiful Boy- Dave Sheff Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling (to be far all 7 but I had to narrow it down to one
By Wanda
August 20, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
1: Two Little Girls in a Blue Dress - Mary Higgins Clark 2: Kane & Abel - Jeffery Archer 3: Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Pocidult 4: The Choice - Nicolas Sparks 5: A Time to Kill - John Grisham
By margarita majano
August 20, 2008 7:19 PM | Link to this
By Darlene
August 20, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this
The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver Palindrome by Stuart Woods The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
By Will
August 20, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this
Max Havelaar — Multatuli Homage to Catalonia — George Orwell Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck How to Play the 5-String Banjo — Pete Seeger
By Lorrie
August 20, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury Beyond Belief to Conviction—Josh McDowell Slapstick—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sirens of Titan—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—Douglas Adams
By John
August 20, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this
My TOP 3:
By Kathryn Lessen
August 20, 2008 11:50 PM | Link to this
My 5 favorite books are:
1) The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans
2) The Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt
3) Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
4) My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
5) Night Gardening by E. L. Swann
By Ava
August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this
Boys Life by Robert McGammon Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Charms for the Easy Life by Kay Gibbons Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll Pride & Predjudice by Jane Austen
By Richard Crippen
August 21, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
By Roxanne
August 21, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
My top three:
Marketing From the Trenches by Rudy Waldner
Marketing From the Trenches by Rudy Waldner
Marketing From the Trenches by Rudy Waldner
By Julie Blankenship
August 21, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
1) Atonement- I. McEwan 2) Gone With The Wind- M. Mitchell 3) Pull of the Moon- E. Berg 4) Rebecca-D. du Maurier 5) Jane Eyre- C. Bronte
By Rita
August 21, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
By MLR
August 21, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this
I can read these books over and over and I never get tired of reading them! The Stand by Stephen King A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith On the Road by Jack Kerouac Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
By Daniel Calloway
August 21, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this
A Confederacy of Dunces;John Kennedy Toole
Sophie’s Choice; William Styron
The World According to Garp; John Irving
The Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck
In Cold Blood; Truman Capote and I hate
that I can’t add Nelle Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird
By despr8housewife
August 21, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
my top 5 favorite books are 1- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, 2- Twilight series by Stephenie Myer, 3- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 4- The Color of Water, A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride, and 5- the Bourne series by Robert Ludlum
By Bujudude
August 21, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 1984 - George Orwell Autobiography of Malcolm X Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Sallinger
By Joseph Allen Jackson
August 21, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
Collected Stories of Noel Coward Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain, Stuart Miller, comp.
By Cathryn Duffy
August 21, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
My five favorite books in no particular order are: 1. John Adams by David McCullough 2. The Color of Water by James McBride 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 5. Managing Your Move by Cathryn Duffy
By Hygge
August 21, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher The Witching Hour by Anne Rice The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
By Jan
August 21, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this
Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines; Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall; All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg; I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephram; March by Geralding Brooks
By WHY
August 22, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
MY FAVORITE IS “MANAGING YOUR MOVE” BY CATHRYN DUFFY — AN ACCURATE, PRACTICAL, SENSIBLE, EASY-TO-FOLLOW RELOCATION GUIDE. DON’T MOVE WITHOUT IT!
By eg
August 22, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle, By Georgia State Head Football Coach, Bill Curry
Holy Bible, by numerous God inspired authors
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Seabiscuit
By Bre
August 22, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
I love christian fiction and romance. My top five fav books are: 1. “Testing Relationships” by Brittney Holmes 2. “Battle of Jericho” by Kendra Norman-Bellamy 3. “First Love” by Yolanda C. Brooks 4. “Passing by Samaria” by Sharon Ewell Foster 5. “Too Little Too Late” by Victoria Christopher Murray
And anything by Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Victoria Christopher Murray, Tia McCollors, and Stephanie Perry Moore.
By Blutxwmn
August 22, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
By Yvonne Holcombe
August 22, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
My Favorites are: Outlander - Diana Gabaldon Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon Dark Prince - Christine Feehan Birthright - Nora Roberts Dream Man - Linda Howard
By Yvonne
August 22, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
My Favorites are:
All books by Diana Gabaldon Dark Prince - Christine Feehan Dream Man - Linda Howard Triptych - Karin Slaughter
By L. Jones
August 22, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
I read the Rainbow through the Eyes of a Closet Homosexual’s Wife over the summer and really enjoyed it. It was about a woman who was struggling with alcoholism that met a deacon in a church whom during the course of the book she married only to find out he was gay and sleeping with the pastor of their church. The book made me laugh, cry and sometimes even shout out loud. I would recommend it to anyone.
By MMY
August 23, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
I found “Managing Your Move” incredibly thorough. Cathy Duffy did not leave out one single detail. After reading it, I had not one question. I immediately went out and bought 2 more copies for my sisters. They are in total agreement with me.
By Meg Barton
August 23, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Cathy Duffy has written a book entitled “Managing Your Move”. It is a great guide to the moving process and a must read for anyone about to undertake the daunting task of moving!
By Tricia Mahoney
August 23, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
1.) Secret Life of Bees- 2.) We the Living- Ayn Rand 3.) Water for Elephants 4.) Jane Eyre 5.) The Kite Runner
By Cait
August 23, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
5 books I read recently and would recommend: they were all really good, but completely diverse in their subject matter.
-The Other Boleyn Girl: a good, character driven and richly written novel
-Demiem - the Herman Hesse classic.
-Managing Your Move - not a novel, but a self-help book. I just moved across country and it was my bible for a few months.
-Water for Elephants - set in a failing 1930’s circus train, a very vivid and richly imagined novel.
By Rae Temperton
August 24, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
By Rae Ann:
Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace
Watership Down, by Adams
The White Dragon, by Anne McCaffery
The Gods of Mars, by E.R. Burroughs
Harry Potter Series, by JK Rowling
By Rae Temperton
August 24, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace
Watership Down, by Adams
The White Dragon, by Anne McCaffrey
The Gods of Mars, by ER Burroughs
Harry Potter Series, by JK Rowling
By Mary
August 24, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this
I have lived to read all my life—and I have many favorites, so it is really hard to narrow it down.
Prince of Tides—Pat Conroy Harry Potter series—JK Rowling Cold Sassy Tree-Olive Burns Elizabeth George mysteries How Green Was My Valley—LLwellyn Gone With the Wind—Margaret Mitchell Trinity—Leon Uris
By Elaine Drennon Little
August 24, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
The Great Santini - Pat Conroy A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Peachtree Road - Anne Rivers Siddons To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
By G. Delpin
August 24, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
Exodus-Leon Uris I Know This Much is True-Wally Lamb A Prayer for Owen Meany-John Irving The Fourth Hand-John Irving Until I Find You-John Irving
By Spellingbee
August 24, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this
All of the Easy Rawlings Detective Books by Walter Mosley; The Lord of the Rings; The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah; The Emperor of Ocean Park; The Belgariad and the Mallorean Series by David & Leigh Eddings.
By Heather N. Paxton
August 25, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin
By Sue Palmatier
August 25, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon; The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion; Little Women - Louisa May Alcott; Watership Down - Richard Adams; and all the Ramona Qimby books by Beverly Cleary.
By Sudie Lea O'Connor
August 25, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
Books have been the center of my life. They have been my friends, my teachers, my escape, and my inspiration. I will list four current ones that have made the greatest impact on me and one of my favorites to which I frequently refer.
l. “Descent Into Chaos” by Ahmed Rashid 2. “The Book Seller of Kabul” by Asre Seierstad 3. “Three Cups of Tea” by Gary Mortenson 4. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Kaled Hossini 5. “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift (This book is forever within my reach.)
By Debbie
August 25, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
VERY hard to narrow down to five but here goes:
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith The Color Purple Alice Walker
By Melanie
August 26, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd The Spirit of Sweetgrass - Nicole Seitz The Book of Marie - Terry Kay The Great Santini - Pat Conroy The Sunday Wife - Cassandra King
By Melanie
August 26, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd The Book of Marie - Terry Kay Spirit of Sweetgrass - Nicole Seitz Great Santini - Pat Conroy The Sunday Wife - Cassandra King
By Simone Wyler
August 26, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
By HanVance
August 26, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
By Angela Reid-President of Imani Literary Grp
August 26, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Mama Day” by Gloria Naylor *Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akousia Busia In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper In My Father’s House by Ernest Gaines Whirlwind by James Clavell Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Angela at angelyr@yahoo.com
By Robert
August 27, 2008 1:15 AM | Link to this
The Bible by many authors, inspired by God
Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
By Heather Clemons
August 27, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
All The King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix- J. K. Rowling The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
By Christine
August 27, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
By Brad B.
August 27, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
Off the top of my head, my favorites are: - Narcissus & Goldmund, Hermann Hesse (really, anything by Hesse — Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, etc.) - Anna Karenina, Tolstoy - East of Eden, Steinbeck - Suttree, Cormac McCarthy (most of McCarthy is up there for me) - On the Road, Kerouac (Dharma Bums too) - A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
By Richie Dagostino
August 27, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
Marketing from the Trenches - Waldner Question of the Day - Katkowsky I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single - Schaefer A Movable Feast - Hemingway Casa Rosa - Marciano
By Cara Eggers
August 27, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer The World According to Garp - John Irving Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer Life of Pi - Yann Martel the Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
By Lauren
August 27, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this
(Not in any particular order) Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Jane Eyre Their Eyes Were Watching God A People’s History of the United States Anna Karenina
By AJ
August 28, 2008 1:22 AM | Link to this
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
Khaled Hosseini’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Jenna Blum’s “Those Who Save Us”
Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love”
Jodi Picoult’s “My Sister’s Keeper”
By Dwan Hightower
August 28, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
Naked Came I by Weiss Summer and Smoke The Adventures The Divine Comedy Of Human Bondage
By Kira
August 28, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
*Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling *Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer *Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster *The Giving Tree - Shel Siverstein
By Mona
August 28, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
A New Earth, Eckert Tolle Tales of the City, Armisted Maupin The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote The 200 Year Legacy of Stephen Decatur, Ben Birindelli
By Sanda
August 28, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
1) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2) Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 3) Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet 4) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 5) Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl (two sequels are just as fun to read)
By Tricia
August 28, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
Twilight series: Twilight, Eclipse,Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer, Harry Potter Series, A little Princess,Snow-walker and Eragon series :Eragon and Eldest
By Shelia
August 29, 2008 12:54 AM | Link to this
My top five favorite novels are:Carl Weber-”Baby Momma Drama” —1st one -re-star reading novels
(2) Victoria C. Murray —- all (3) Brittney Holmes—“Living Consequences” (bought) (4) Kendra Norman-Bellamy— One Prayer Away (5) Mary B. Morrison—— all ** There are however many,many more to choose from.
By Anne Lovett
August 29, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
! The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 3. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 4. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 5.(Tie) Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury or The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
By Kayce
August 29, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this
To Dance With The White Dog by:Terry Kay The Secrete Life of Bees by:Sue Monk Kidd The Book of Marie by:Terry Kay We’re Just Like You Only Prettier by: Celia Rivenbark Two Weeks With My Brother by:Nicholas Sparks Please will someone tell me… Where is Terry Kay this weekend? His absence will be strongly felt!
By Caroline
August 29, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
Eat, Pray, Love Angela’s Ashes To Kill a Mockingbird The Grapes of Wrath Breakfast with Buddha
By kim mcneil
August 29, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
The Fountainhead -Ayn Rand One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert Heinlein The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde Ramona the Pest -Beverly Cleary
By Joel McLean
August 29, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
1) Shakespeare 2) The Complete Works of Percy B. Shelley 3) Moby Dick - H. Mellville 4) Crime and Punishment - F Dostoevsky 5) All the King’s Men - R. Penn Warren
By Lisa
August 29, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet Roots by Alex Hailey Eat,Pray,Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
By Jim Hinshaw
August 29, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
1.The Brother’s Karamozov, Fydor Dostoevsky. 2.War and Peace, Tolstoy. 3.The Web and the Rock/You Can’t Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe. 4.Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes. 5.Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
By Lynn
August 29, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this
1) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 2) Any Nancy Drew book when I was young, 3) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 4) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and 5) The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
By Kimberly
August 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
My top five books are:
Da Vinci Code To Kill A Mockingbird Kite Runner Waking the Sleeping Demon…26 Hours of Terror in Atlanta The Color Purple
By Allison
August 30, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
1)Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 2)A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle 3)Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 4)Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling 5)Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
By Jane Sarphie
August 30, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
By Emma Flynn
August 30, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By Emma Flynn
August 30, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By Emma Flynn
August 30, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By Ken Matthews
August 30, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb Rabbit Run, by John Updike
By Kimberlee
August 30, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
1)Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison; 2) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; 3) Linden Hills - Gloria Naylor; 4) Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor; 5) Sula - Toni Morrison
By Sushi
August 30, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Hello, Decatur Book Festival! After being persuaded by the people at the AJC booth, here are my top five books, in no particular order:
1) Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
2) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3) Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott
4) The Areas Of My Expertise, John Hodgman
5) Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
By Teresa
August 30, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Stand by Stephen King
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz-Zafon
By Jeff Hurd
August 30, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
I actually don’t read a lot of fiction, but my favorite novels are, 1. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien 2. The Republic - Plato 3. Thus Said Zarathustra - Nietzche 4. The Prince - Machiavelli 5. On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
By Carla
August 30, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
To Kill A Mockingbird The Kite Runner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Little Women
By Minynon
August 30, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this
By Kenney NelFran
August 30, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
1.Toot and Pudle 2.MVP 3.Holes 4.Things Not Seen
By Eloise Ragsdale
August 30, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
By Nicholas Kohn
August 30, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
Beowulf
Harry Potter Series
Airman Eoin Colfer
Blue Baillet series
Spiderwick Chroncles series
By Jihea Park
August 30, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
1.The Traveler’s Wife 2. My sister’s keeper 3. Lovely Bones 4. The Poisonwood Bible 5. Kite Runner
By Hailey Joel
August 30, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
By darlene
August 30, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
The Bible Color purple Good to great Eat pray love The rainbow
By darlene
August 30, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
The Bible Color purple Good to great Eat pray love The rainbow
By Michele
August 30, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Five favorites: The French Chef by Julia Child Hot Sour Salty Sweet by Alford and Duguid The Secret Garden by Barnett The Oxford Unabbridged Dictionary The Little Prince
By Lee Ann
August 30, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Chamber John Grisham
Little Bitty Lies
Red Bird Christmas by Fannie Flag
By Mary
August 30, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
The Bible Gone with the Wind Centennial Where the Red Fern Grows Little House on the Prairie
By ward Zischke
August 30, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
All Quiet On the Western Front Dracula At the Mountains of Madness 1984 Animal Farm
By Krystle
August 30, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Five Favorite Books:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Edgar Allen Poe Tell Tale Heart The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
By William Humphrey
August 30, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
By Charles Marvin
August 30, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
My favorite books are: Absalom,Absalom Faulkner The Possessed, Dostoevsky The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway L’Etranger (The Stranger), Camus The Shahnamah, Ferdowsi
By Betsy Marvin
August 30, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
East of Eden, Steinbeck Garden Open Today, B Nichols With Bold Fork and Knife, MFK Fisher Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver The Stones of Venice, Ruskin
By Charles Marvin
August 30, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
My favorite books are: Absalom,Absalom Faulkner The Possessed, Dostoevsky The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway L’Etranger (The Stranger), Camus The Shahnamah, Ferdowsi
By Betsy Marvin
August 30, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
East of Eden, Steinbeck Garden Open Today, B Nichols With Bold Fork and Knife, MFK Fisher Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver The Stones of Venice, Ruskin
By Jennifer
August 30, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Frankenstein The Known World Tomboy The Native Guard The Kite Runner
By Porche
August 30, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama The Secret by Rhonda Byrne The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah How I Made the Angels Cry by Melisia Betts
By Kathy
August 30, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Love Afair Time to Kill Dopefin How Stella Got her Groove Back The Aucacity of Hope
By Kathy
August 30, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
Love Afair Time to Kill Dopefin How Stella Got her Groove Back The Aucacity of Hope
By Don Montuori
August 30, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
Larry Gets Lost in Seattle The Babe Ruth Biography Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant The Wimpy Kid Diary The Pale Blue Eye
By joe fleischer
August 30, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
love what you do for the kids
1 Judy moody get famous
2 judy moody in the smelly bus
3.Madeline
4.Lizzy Migure get a clue
By Donna
August 30, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this
The Red Door
By Brenda Keen
August 30, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
1.harry potter series 2.lord of the rings 3.the color purple 4.all the kins men 5.to kill a mockingbird
By Joy
August 30, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Belly laughs by Jenny Mcarthy Conversations with God Story Telling By Tori Spelling Baby Laughs by Jenny Mcarthy The Road less traveled
By Renda Sullivan
August 30, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
Lonesome Dove Gone with the Wind Pillars of the Earth Harry Potter (any of them) The Good Earth
By Eunice
August 30, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
Pride and Prejudice Mountains Beyond Mountains The Solitaire Mystery Where the Red Fern Grows Blue Like Jazz
By Jefrey Taylor
August 30, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this
Marketing From the Trenches by Rudy Waldner The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo The Tao of Willie by Willie Nelson The Way you Wear your Hat by Bill Zehme The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
By Heatther
August 30, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
Ny five fav books are:
Jane Eyre Pride and Prejudice Anything by Dorothy Dunnett Anything Robert Crais Night of the Goat Boy
By Stew Grant
August 30, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Moby Dick The Iliad Absolom, Absolom No Country for Old Men Hercules My Shipmate, Robert Graves
By Stew Grant
August 30, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Moby Dick The Iliad Absolom, Absolom No Country for Old Men Hercules My Shipmate, Robert Graves
By Sandra Boul
August 30, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama Harry Potter - JK Rowling Lamb - Christopher Moore Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin The Kite Runner - Hosseini
By Melodie
August 30, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil Cannery Row Harry Potter (series) Gone With The Wind
By Dev Strischek
August 30, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this
By Jim
August 30, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
Catch 22 To Kill a Mockingbird Jane Ayre Fahrenheit 459 Grapes of Wrath
By Catherine Warren
August 30, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
By Catherine Warren
August 30, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
By Karl
August 30, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
5 favorites
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Lord of the Rings by Tolkein Lincoln by Gore Vidal Ender’s Game by Scott Orson Card
By cheis
August 30, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
By Tammy
August 30, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
1) Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen 2) The Shack - William P. Young 3) The Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseini 4) Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers 5) A Thousand Splendid Suns
By paul
August 30, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Swan House is my vote for number 1
By carter
August 30, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
I liked the Harry Potter series the best
By Caroline
August 30, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
The Giver To Kill A Mockingbird The Golden Compass (The Subtle Knife, etc) Inkheart Farenheit 451
By Claire
August 30, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
By Cynthia
August 30, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
My top 5 Favorite books: Seen it all and done the rest - Pearl Cleage I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou Love and Committment - Pamela D. Tate Prodigal Husband - Jacquelin Thomas The Coldest Winter Ever - Sista Soulja Sleeping with Enemies and Waking with Strangers - Eric Jerome Dickey
By Pamela Tate
August 30, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
I have 2 favorite books. Love and Commitment, written by me, Pamela D. Tate. Love and Commitment follows the journey of Juan and Payton and their love for each other. There are twists and turns, ups and downs, but ultimately, finding a place of peace…not just with one another but within themselves. Another book that I love which helped me through some rough times and continues to help me even now, is Hines Feet in High Places by Hannah Hanard.
By Joe Capelo
August 30, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this
By Robert J. Nebel
August 31, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
By Shannon
August 31, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty Ulysses - James Joyce The Hours - Michael Cunningham Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
By blue bell
August 31, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this
1-“West With The Night” — Beryl Markham 2-“The Great Gatsby”— Fitzgerald 3-“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”— Betty Smith 4-“The Color Purple” — Alice Walker 5-“An American Childhood” — Annie Dillard
By KJ
August 31, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
Infidel Asari The Woods Harlan Coben The Civil War Trilogy Shelby Foote 19 minutes Jodi Picoult The Shack XXXYoung
By e
August 31, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
Top 5: Choke - Palaniuhk American Psycho - Ellis David Sedaris
By florence duncan
August 31, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
It is so difficult to choose only five
but I decided to list the books which forced me to think……A LOT.
Paradise LostPilgrim’Progress Clan of the Cave Bear David Copperfield In His Steps
By Judy Wieder
August 31, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
This Book Festival is awesome. We bookophiles certainly appreciate all the many hours spent “behind athe scenes”. It is such a pleasure to experience the ambience of intellectual happenings—the air in Decatur was electrified this week-end! There are so many wonderful books in this world, including, but not limited to: World Without End by Follett Love in the Time of Cholerea by Marquez The Piano Tuner by Mason Exodus by Uris Captains and Kings by Taylor ….the list is endless
By Promoeventspecialist
August 31, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
By JESSICA O'QUINN
August 31, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
MY FIVE FAVORITE BOOKS ARE TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISLE STOP CAFE, FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES FOR SINGLES, THE LORD OF THE RINGS SERIES, AND CALL OF THE WILD. I LIKE ALL THESE BECAUSE THEY ARE BOOKS YOU CAN READ OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
By means
August 31, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
In The Woods, Tana French Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey St. Dale, Sharyn McCrumb Life of Pi, Yan Martell Jazz, Toni Morrison