Your favourite EVER five books...

[Brighton Breezy]

I know there have been plenty of 'suggest a book' threads but what are your top five books EVER?

For me?

1. Awaydays by Kevin Sampson.
2. The way we wore by Robert Elms.
3. Diceman by Luke Reinhert.
4. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.
5. The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson.

Bubbling under: The Greatest Football you never saw by Paolo Hewitt and Paul McGuigan.

 

[m20gull]

Based on the number of times I must have read them

No drums, no trumpets - Alec le Vernoy
Wing Leader - Johnnie Johnson
Enemy Coast Ahead - Guy Gibson
Fly for your life - Larry Forrester
A man called Intrepid - William Stevenson

 

[Wardy]

In no specific order...

1. Rama - Arthur C Clarke
2. I Robot - Issac Asimov
3. River God - Wilber Smith
4. Voyage of The Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
5. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

 

[Slough Seagull]

Kenzaburo Oe - A Personal Matter
Paul Theroux - The Great Railway Bazaar
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Mark Hodkinson - Life Sentence - the most accurate description of supporting a football club (Rochdale) I have ever read.

 

[Biscuit]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain.
Catch 22, Jospeh Heller.
Starter for Ten, David Nichols.
The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Wuthering heights, Emily Bronte.

 

[Skaville]

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Survivor - Chuck Palahnuik
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

 

[Eggmundo]

Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky (sp?)
Sherlock Holmes Stories-ACD
Fear and Loathing-Hunter S Thompson
Stalingrad-Anthony Beevor
The Caravan of Adventure-Enid Blyton

 

[Brovion]

Biggles 'Fails to Return' - Capt. W.E. Johns (The first one where Biggles, Algy Ginger and Bertie work as a team).
Biggles of the Camel Squadron - Capt. W.E. Johns
Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter - Capt. W.E. Johns
Biggles Defies the Swastika - Capt W.E. Johns
Tom's Midnight Garden - Phillipa Pearce

 

[scooter1]

Powder - Kevin Sampson
Gridlock - Ben Elton
Shane - Tim Orchard
Tony Cascarinos Autobiography
Ecstacy - Irvine Welsh

 

[Seagullible]

Mr Nosey - Roger Hargreaves
Thomas, Percy and the Coal - Rev G W Audrey
Mort - Terry Pratchett
The Ghost of Thomas Kemp - can't remember
Left Foot Forward - Garry Nelson

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
If this is a man, Premo Levi
The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
The Book of Daniel, EL Doctorow
William Boyd, The New Confessions

 

[Eggmundo]

Mr Nosey - Roger Hargreaves

That's bollocks, the greatest Mr Man is without a doubt Mr Nonsense.
The man is off his FACE!

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

Birdsong - Sebastian Ffaulks
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Lords of the Rings - Tolkein

When I was younger - all the books by Willard Price with Hal and Roger - marvellous scenes

 

[Seagullible]

That's bollocks, the greatest Mr Man is without a doubt Mr Nonsense.
The man is off his FACE!

I don't do drugs so can't quite get into Mr Nonsense, gave up after page 4. Mr Nosey, however had me intrigued wanting to know more about him and his life, I'd like to see more about what happens in his life

 

[Eggmundo]

He sleeps in a boat, in a house, in a TREE.
He has a cup of toast for Breakfast.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

1. Awaydays- Kevin Sampson (Yay Richie!)
2. The Peoples act of Love - James Meek
3. The Revenge of Gaia- James Lovelock
4. The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
5. Legion of the Damned- Sven Hassel

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Down and out in Paris and London - Orwell
Regeneration (trilogy) - Pat Barker
A Farewell to arms - Hemingway
Our man in Havana - Graham Greene
Things the grandchildren should know - Mark Oliver Everett.

 

[Wardy]

Interesting to see that a few children's books are in peoples lists. For me it is down to the fact that I used to love reading when younger. I have a friend who is a head teacher at a primary school. She tells me that some children arrive at the school not even knowing which way up a book goes.

My soon-to-be 2 year old already has books that he loves, books that he hates and ones that he can live with. He will sit and read (or at least look through the book as though he is reading it) by himself for ages.

I try and buy him new books every week since for me it is important that he grows up not just knowing how to read but also enjoying reading.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Jane Eyre
The other Boleyn Girl
Pride and Prejudice
Harry potter and the deathly hallows
harry potter and the half blood prince

 

[Tubby Mondays]

trainspotting
brixton bwoy
birdsong
iced
roots