GTKY-Top 5 Fave Books

Monicagail1

I'm always looking for great new books to pass the time while traveling for work.  What are your top 5 favorite books?  I promise I won't even laugh if any of the Twilight books show up on your list, because I secretly love them too

Monicagail1

My top 5, in no particular order:

Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn

Call the Midwife-Jennifer Worth

The Help-Kathryn Stockett

Little Women (my nostalgia pick, lol).

The Queen's Fool-Phillipa Gregory

Helenahhandbasket

Not a huge reader these days, but I will play.

1- She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

2- Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides

3- We Need To Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver

4- Summer Sisters- Judy Blume

5- The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger (I have read this book maybe 75 times, seriously)

Monicagail1

Helenahhandbasket said:

Not a huge reader these days, but I will play.

1- She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

2- Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides

3- We Need To Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver

4- Summer Sisters- Judy Blume

5- The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger (I have read this book maybe 75 times, seriously)

I've read Middlesex.  Interesting book, and set mainly in my home state!

crystal959

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper

Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah

Dreamland - Sarah Dessen

Marley and Me - John Grogan

Helenahhandbasket

crystal959 said:

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper

Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah

Dreamland - Sarah Dessen

Marley and Me - John Grogan

This is a good one too!

lifeonthehill

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Virgin Suicides -Jeffrey Eugenides
Holes- Louis Sacher
Animals- Don Lepan

ProfessorMcGonagall

Harry Potter Series #1 always

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Belle Cora - Phillip Margulies

ashiscute

I love so many of these!  

1. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd- Agatha Christie

3. All Harry Potter

4.  I Know This Much Is True- Wally Lamb

5. The Spectacular Now- Tim Tharp

MoseyAnkles

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Any Dan Brown book (as a guilty pleasure)

It Works! The Famous Little Red Book That Makes Your Dreams Come True by RH Jarret

You 2 (the 2 is an exponent, so you pronounce the title "You Squared") by Pritchett Price

The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman (actually, if you start this book you have to read the whole  series! Young Adult all the way, but so good and imaginative)

sandcastlesinthesand

I love boooooooooooooooooks!

The Harry Potter series. I've read every book at least three times.

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (I think this was published under a different title in the US?)

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

ag120

What a fun way to get to know others! I am definitely a book nerd Just 5?? Hmmmm

Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee

Les Miserables-  Victor Hugo

The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings (yes I'm including them as one ha!)- JRR Tolkien

MrsRustyGriswold

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart

Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Bringing Down the house by Ben Mezrich

Mostly I like young adult sort of stuff because it's such an easy read.