Your favourite EVER five books...

[Nibble]

The Stories of Raymond Carver - Raymond Carver
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson
Ernest Hemingway- Complete collection
Endurance - The Shackleton Story by Alfred Lansing
Do I come Here Often? - Henry Rollins

 

[OzMike]

Gorky Park-Martin Cruz Smith
Time Enough For Love-Robert A. Heinlein
Tschiffely's Ride-A.F.Tschiffely
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy-J.R.R.Tolkien
Monte Casino- Sven Hassel

 

[seagull_special]

in no particular order


To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee

Norwegian wood Haruki Murakami

The black dahlia James Ellroy

Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

The subtle knife Phillip Pullman

If you asked me tomorrow, I would probably come up with another 5 with ease, I am reading The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larrson and it shaping up brilliantly to be my read of the year

 

[seagull_special]

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.

All children love stories and the best ones come from books (not T.V) My four year old loves books his current favourites are the Hairy McLary from Donaldson's dairy stories by Lynley Dodd

they are brilliant!

 

[The Merry Prankster]

The Stories of Raymond Carver - Raymond Carver

To which I would add

ACD -Sherlock Holmes
Raymond Chandler - Any
Damon Runyon - Middle works
Tom Wolfe - Early works

 

[Tubby Mondays]

in no particular order

I am reading The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larrson and it shaping up brilliantly to be my read of the year

This book about this stoat with a tattoo, are there any pictures of her?

 

[francisg1]

1984 - George Orwell
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Seven Types of Ambiguity - Elliot Perlman
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

The Famous Five.
Five Go Camping
Five Get In A Fix

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Probably not my top 5 EVER, but here are five that immediately sprung to mind...

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
Kindness of Women - JG Ballard
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

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[ATFC Seagull]

Same again, first five that spring to mind:

'Eureka Street' by Robert McLiam Wilson
1984 by George Orwell (strange one cos I didn't necessarily enjoy the actual book so much as think the themes in it are so striking)
'The Woman in Black' by Susan Hill

And EVERYONE should read the following:
'It's Not About the Bike' & 'Every Second Counts' by Lance Armstrong
'Back From the Brink' by Paul Mcgrath

 

[pasty]

Sherlock Holmes Stories - Conan Doyle
Rumpole of the Bailey Stories - John Mortimer
Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
Boy George Autobiography
(From childhood) Mr Gallianos Circus - Enid Blyton

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - De Bernieres
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Moonstone - Collins