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Monday, August 18, 2008
What are your top 5 books? Tell us now!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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