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What are your top three favorite books?

Books are good. They give us a larger vocabulary, they provide us the opportunity of intellectual inquiry, they stir our imagination, and they make us look real smart. Everyone's got a favorite or at least a top 3, 5, or whatever. What's yours?

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not in any particular order
1. "wide sargasso sea"- jean rhys
2. "1984" -george orwell
3. "Notes from the underground" -fyodor dostoevsky

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Volkswagen Blues - Jacques Poulin Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Childhood's End by Sir Arthur Charles Clarke The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert

The Chris Farley Show - Tom Farley jr. & Tanner Colby Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi - Bob Woodward A Hard Days Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song - Steve Turner Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me - Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey

CANNOT choose amongst that which has become part of me. Sorry. I'd hurt their feelings. Different books for different times of life. All important. How could you choose three favourite children if you were Old Mother Hubbard living in a shoe, hmmmm?

picking just 3 is excruciatingly difficult. 1. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby 2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin 3. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo one flew over the cuckos nest, to kill a mockingbird, & watership down are pretty up there too :]

the prophet by kahlil gibran! it changed my life.

picking just three is difficult! as soon as i hit submit i am sure i will change my mind but here goes.... the celestine prophecy - james redfield sophie's world - jostein gaarder will there really be a morning? - frances farmer

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig Deep Survival -- Laurence Gonzales David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens

Totally Joe Circle of Cats The Five People You Meet in Heaven Catcher in the Rye

Not counting the Bible, The Prestige - Christopher Priest The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Between all of Steinbeck's greatness and Annie Dillard's ability to make me lose my mind in the greatest possible way, this is impossible.... Cannery Row Holy the Firm East of Eden That list will have changed by the time you read this, I'm sure. Oh, and Jonathan Safran Foer wrote a book called 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' that was one of the most creative books I've ever read. That might be up there, too. I have failed at this list.

these are the kind of questions that make me want to punch holes trough my books. 1. THE BIBLE... Psyched! seriously 1. The ballad of the sad café by Carson McCullers 2.Bang! by Henry Rollins 3.Where the wild things are by Maurice Sedak bonus: The wild Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

East of Eden Broken For You-Stephanie Kallos Holes In Cold Blood The Hobbit

The Catcher in the Rye What's Eating Gilbert Grape The Kite Runner

In no particular order.... Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Survivor's Quest by Timothy Zahn Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett I'll stop here before my list gets ridiculously long.

I have to do a top ten. In no particular order: Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five - KV Diary - Chuck Palahniuk 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Light in August - William Faulkner Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Man that was tough. @lauramike The Things They Carried is great.

This is so hard because I work at a bookstore. The logical answer would be for me to not answer, but i just love qustions involving books. Haha. Currently: A Great And Terrible Beauty Series by Libba Bray (this is better than twilight) Wicked Lovely Series by Melissa Marr Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball (it's her autobiography, published after she died) 1984 by George Orwell I have like ten billion more that I could say, but those are the books that are calling to me. haha.

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What are your top three favorite books?

becci1287

not in any particular order
1. "wide sargasso sea"- jean rhys
2. "1984" -george orwell
3. "Notes from the underground" -fyodor dostoevsky

BigAl

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Volkswagen Blues - Jacques Poulin Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Buckeyesummers

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Childhood's End by Sir Arthur Charles Clarke The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert

chrismazur

The Chris Farley Show - Tom Farley jr. & Tanner Colby Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi - Bob Woodward A Hard Days Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song - Steve Turner Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me - Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey

applegrass

CANNOT choose amongst that which has become part of me. Sorry. I'd hurt their feelings. Different books for different times of life. All important. How could you choose three favourite children if you were Old Mother Hubbard living in a shoe, hmmmm?

alishalawless

picking just 3 is excruciatingly difficult. 1. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby 2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin 3. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo one flew over the cuckos nest, to kill a mockingbird, & watership down are pretty up there too :]

StarLight

the prophet by kahlil gibran! it changed my life.

playgirlc

picking just three is difficult! as soon as i hit submit i am sure i will change my mind but here goes.... the celestine prophecy - james redfield sophie's world - jostein gaarder will there really be a morning? - frances farmer

Alvah

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig Deep Survival -- Laurence Gonzales David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens

partlycloudyholiday

Totally Joe Circle of Cats The Five People You Meet in Heaven Catcher in the Rye

chaotica

Not counting the Bible, The Prestige - Christopher Priest The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

jahredschmidt

Kajlito

these are the kind of questions that make me want to punch holes trough my books. 1. THE BIBLE... Psyched! seriously 1. The ballad of the sad café by Carson McCullers 2.Bang! by Henry Rollins 3.Where the wild things are by Maurice Sedak bonus: The wild Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

kdmask

East of Eden Broken For You-Stephanie Kallos Holes In Cold Blood The Hobbit

Sara

The Catcher in the Rye What's Eating Gilbert Grape The Kite Runner

jedikelb

jdharrison

brittneyjustis

lauramike

the great gatsby the little prince the things they carried

Pastor

The Bible The Lord of the Rings The Doctrine of Repentence

What are your top three favorite books?

not in any particular order1. "wide sargasso sea"- jean rhys2. "1984" -george orwell3. "Notes from the underground" -fyodor dostoevsky

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Volkswagen Blues - Jacques Poulin Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Childhood's End by Sir Arthur Charles Clarke The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert

The Chris Farley Show - Tom Farley jr. & Tanner Colby Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi - Bob Woodward A Hard Days Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song - Steve Turner Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me - Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey

CANNOT choose amongst that which has become part of me. Sorry. I'd hurt their feelings. Different books for different times of life. All important. How could you choose three favourite children if you were Old Mother Hubbard living in a shoe, hmmmm?

picking just 3 is excruciatingly difficult. 1. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby 2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin 3. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo one flew over the cuckos nest, to kill a mockingbird, & watership down are pretty up there too :]

the prophet by kahlil gibran! it changed my life.

picking just three is difficult! as soon as i hit submit i am sure i will change my mind but here goes.... the celestine prophecy - james redfield sophie's world - jostein gaarder will there really be a morning? - frances farmer

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig Deep Survival -- Laurence Gonzales David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens

Totally Joe Circle of Cats The Five People You Meet in Heaven Catcher in the Rye

Not counting the Bible, The Prestige - Christopher Priest The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

these are the kind of questions that make me want to punch holes trough my books. 1. THE BIBLE... Psyched! seriously 1. The ballad of the sad café by Carson McCullers 2.Bang! by Henry Rollins 3.Where the wild things are by Maurice Sedak bonus: The wild Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.

East of Eden Broken For You-Stephanie Kallos Holes In Cold Blood The Hobbit

The Catcher in the Rye What's Eating Gilbert Grape The Kite Runner

the great gatsby the little prince the things they carried

The Bible The Lord of the Rings The Doctrine of Repentence

What's Next?

not in any particular order
1. "wide sargasso sea"- jean rhys
2. "1984" -george orwell
3. "Notes from the underground" -fyodor dostoevsky