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3 Favorite Books
Oct Bride asked me what my 3 favorite books are. I'm still not sure if I can narrow it down but what are yours?
Re: 3 Favorite Books
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Harry Potter Series
The Red Tent
Kite Runner
I think these would be my top 3...
Nineteen Minutes
Perfect Match
My Sister's Keeper
This is a tough one! ?I'd say right now the ones that stand out are:?
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Christmas Box Miracle by Richard Paul Evans
Autobiography of a Yogi (this book is kind of "out there" but oddly helped me leave a very unhappy job)?
Hmmm tough question...
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
btr-bride, you're cheating with the HP series, LOL!
I think I would say
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows (#7) by JK Rowling
3rd...hmm, I feel like I need to be standing in front of my bookcase to answer this question! Perhaps The Other Boelyn Girl by Philippa Gregory? Jemima J by Jane Green? The Josephine Bonaparte trio?
I've got 2 for sure:
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
My Year of Eating Meat, Ruth Ozeki - though, this may fall to 5-6 on the list if I keep thinking...
The Smoke Jumpers by Nicholas Evans
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Catcher in the Rye
The Pearl
Something Borrowed
the giver
brave new world
anne of green gables/little women/little house series (similar genre)
Wuthering heights
most anything by Dickens or Shakespeare
IMO most newer books dont hold a candle to these...
The only one I can definitely put on this list: The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.
A Secret History by Donna Tartt
She's Come Undone or I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Did you read them both? You hated one and read the other, still? Sometimes people hate She's Come Undone, but like the other one. No?
Teacher picks-
The Curious Inceident of the Dog in the Nightime
Harold and the Purple Crayon
fun picks-
Author: Kathy Reichs
1. The Giver - Lois Lowry
2. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'engle
3. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
These are all "kids" books, but I just remember them shaping me so much when I read them. I'll never forget the first time I read The Giver - it was so different from any other book I'd ever read. Loved it.
yep - read them both and HATED them both!
I didnt believe him as a female voice in She's come undone and I really really disliked the main character. I know this much is true was so dijointed and rambling, too long for the content and I just really did not like
This is one of the hardest questions I have ever been asked! Here are my answers for now, and no, I can't keep it to 5.
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
Jemima J, Jane Green
The Kite Runner, Khaled Something
P.S. I Love You, Cecelia Ahern
Kaffir Boy, can't remember the author
Ramona and the Pest, Beverly Cleary
#1 Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet - I'm actually rereading it now for the 4th or 5th time so I can read the sequel next.
#2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
#3 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
My Sister's Keeper, the Pact, To Kill a Monkingbird, and the Power of One are close runners up.
Is anyone else on goodreads.com? Its a website that catalogs the books you've read and you can look at your friends lists. Let me know and we could add each other.
Memiors of a Geisha
Midwives
Maiden Voyage by Tania Abei (random autobiography about sailing but I've read it more times than I can count)
I too hated the second Wally Lamb book. A large part of it has to do with the fact that my best friend had a psychotic break right before that book came out. I was living that book, didn't feel like I needed to read it.
This is what I can read over. and over. again.
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
Second Glance, by Jodi Picoult
Anne of Green Gables series
Tough one...
I'd have to say...
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, this is probably one of my all-time favorites. I just think it's a wondeful, compelling story.
Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, this book made me cry like a baby (in a good way) and I am so not a cryer. It's a poignant story and I think we all identify with the main character in one way or another. It's short and a quick read. I recommend it.
Even though it's really a "kid" book, I love Where the Red Fern Grows. Again, it's a simple, beautiful story of patience, persistence, devotion and love. I never get tired of it.
"Shopaholic" series by Sophie Kinsella
"I Know This Much is True" by Wally Lamb
"Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genuis" by David Eggers
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
Pillars of Earth - Ken Follett
Anna Karenia - Tolstoy
I'm picking 4!