Top 5 Best/Favourite Books

[Polly Ester]

Top 5 Best/Favourite Books – series is counted as one (eg. Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, LoTR, etc…)

Mine are:

Harry Potter series (JK Rowling) – Just love these books! My current favourite is Chamber of Secrets, but I love them all. Favourite characters are (of course) Snape, Harry, Hermione, Lupin, Lockhart and Luna, but there are heaps of others that I like as well. I can’t wait for the 6th book to come out, I hope JK doesn’t leave us in the lurch by not getting around to finishing them, eep

Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett) – These books are great! A lot harder to get into than HP, but once you do, you’ll have to keep reading It’s better if you can latch on to different characters. I love the wizards the most, they’re hilarious They’d get along well in the HP world, hehehe I can see it now… Mustrum Ridcully of DW meets Albus Dumbledore of HP… Let the craziness ensue Snape’d get mightily peeved, hehe!

Chronicles of Narnia (C.S Lewis) – Childrens’ classics, I grew up on these books, and the BBC TV version, LOL And there’s going to be a movie, that’ll be so cool! My favourite of the series was of course The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I also liked The Silver Chair (the book not the band, LOL ), which featured Puddleglum, who was played by Tom Baker in the BBC version

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt) – I had to read this for English in year 12 It was a huge book, and it was a bit daunting actually. But once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down, it was great! It’s a rather good mystery as well… It was made into a movie starring John Cusack (which was pretty good, and I like John Cusack too so that helped).

Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) – My favourite Agatha Christie mystery… starring that fantabulous little Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. I love all the AC mysteries I’ve read, but this is a stand out to me. It’s just so cleverly written and well thought out. Plus Hercule was such a neat little character, couldn’t help but like him, although I know a few people who prefer the Miss Marple mysteries

[Ghost of Cissa]

I read so rarely that I have just Top 3:

Harry Potter series (JK Rowling)- My favorite book is Goblet of Fire but I like Chamber of Secrets as well. My favorite characters are Snape, Lockhart, Lucius, Draco, Filch, Ron, Trelawney and McGonagall, and I'm interested in Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange, I'd really like to know more about them!

LoTR trilogy (JRR Tolkien)- Very good book, I really love Elrond, Eowyn, Merry, Pippin, Bilbo and Gandalf.

The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)- I love it! It's such a beautiful novel!

[Legion]

1. The Harry Potter Series of course ;D..... particularly leaning toward the most recent one.....

2. A Tale of Two Cities..... very slow at the beginning, but once you get into it, you don't wanna get outr of it.....

3. Love is Hell by Matt Groening..... okay, so its not really a book, but it makes me laugh every time I read it..... never gets old

4. Number the Stars..... 4th grade reading level, I know, but still a story that I will always love and cherish.....

5. What Men Know About Women a well done book by men, for men. It accurately details the extent of the male's knowledge of the female psyche..... all the pages are blank.....

[Polly Ester]

Legion said:

5. What Men Know About Women a well done book by men, for men. It accurately details the extent of the male's knowledge of the female psyche..... all the pages are blank.....

I'm not totally surprised

[wistfulseeker]

1. Harry Potter Book 3 and 5 - All the best characters are in it! ;D

2. Lord of the Rings - Book 1: I haven't completed it yet, but I don't understand why everyone's saying the books even confuse fans while reading it! I must be brighter then I thought these are better to interrprete then the movies, even more fun.

3. Sir A Conan Doyle - The Hounds Of The Baskervilles! - Haven't read the book yet (so any to read right now), but I still like it; I guess remembering to when I saw a bit of the black and white movie as a child seemed to just to give me the complexing urge to like it. Well written Mystery Mutt stories tend to compel me!

4. I can't remember the title if there was one, but this guy online wrote the story of his time in American Bootcamp, it was the first story I ever read the entire of in my teen years. He only had a few pages on his website, so I wrote to him and he sent me he full thing ;D Maybe since it is on the computer about 80 A4 pages but it just had me! I still have it, should get it out again!

[BlackCherry]

1. 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
2. 'Catcher In The Rye'
3. 'The Rules Of Attraction'
4. 'Naomi's Room'
5. The 'Harry Potter' series

[megbymanyothernames]

No particular order:

1) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee--while everyone else was watching the (very good) movie in my 7th grade civics class, I was reading the book )

2) Charlotte's Web by E.B White--one of my most favorite books since I first read it in 1st grade (and it's a book with a 5th grade reading level so that shows you how much of a reader I've always been)

3) Harry Potter series by JK Rowling--I had my doubts at first because it wasn't very popular at my school, but when I was in the 6th grade I finally got the nerve and bought the first book at the school book fair and I've been hooked ever since

4) Holes by Louis Sachar--one of the few books I read 95% of in one day, woke up in the middle of the night and read, and then finished the rest before I went to school the next day

5) Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien--I have to admit they're a little slow to get into and I didn't finish them in a week like the others, but I enjoyed reading them and the exciting parts were exciting

and, oh heck, I need a #6!

6) The Diary of Anne Frank--I loved reading this. I can relate to Anne in so many ways, but the thing I hate most about her diary is that she was a real person and everything that happened in it was real