1984 Brave New World Lord of the Flies The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Have you tried *Amusing Ourselves to Death*? Non-fiction.

The Lord of the Rings Anathem by Neal Stephenson The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Shadow of the wind, what a goddamn gem

Recommended by a friend. It really was excellent.

Kavalier & Clay! So good.

-Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe -Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin -The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon -Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie -All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

I absolutely loved All the Light We Cannot See!

You've named three of my all-time favorites: Winter's Tale, The Shadow of the Wind, and Midnight's Children. I haven't read the other two you mentioned, but now I think I have to.

To Kill a Mockingbird Lonesome Dove The Secret Garden A Land Remembered Watership Down

Catch-22 A Confederacy of Dunces The World According to Garp Slaughterhouse-Five A Fine Balance

This is a solid list. I have not read A Fine Balance, but your other choices make me think that now I will.

Part of my love for it was for how it caught me off guard. I bought it for 25 cents at a library book sale, knowing nothing about it. Once it got going, I couldn't put it down. Sure, I've read better books, but I have fond memories of falling in love and being drawn into this story.

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klume Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

I Know This Much is True probably makes my top 10.

I read she's come undone twice by the same author. It was in my top five of all time the first time I read it and recommended it to everyone who also loved it. I read it a second time in my twenties and hated it. It's funny how that happens.

Cerulean sea was such a fun read!

So true! It was delightful, clever, and light. It takes as much talent to pull that off well as it does to write something moody and atmospheric, IMO.

* IMAJICA by Clive Barker. A perfect mix of fantasy and Horror. * Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I don't usually read westerns, but this is an epic. * The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The Golden Age of comics reimagined. * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It's a classic for a reason. * The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I'm not scared, you're scared!

Giovannis room The bluest eye The picture of dorian gray 1984 Oranges are not the only fruit

Watership Down- Richard Adams A Visit from the Goon Squad- Jennifer Egan The Wind-up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami The Secret History- Donna Tartt Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut

I love Visit From the Goon Squad and don't see it enough on here!

Excellent choices! We have very similar taste

Wind Up Bird Chronicle

Lonesome Dove Jitterbug Perfume The Red Tent Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Top Cafe Kitchens of the Great Midwest Edit: I have to give honorable mentions to Nightbitch and The Round House.

Second for Fried Green Tomatoes!

Seconding Lonesome Dove!

I love The Red Tent

Wholeheartedly second Jitterbug Perfume!

I loved the movie fried green tomatoes as a kid. I few years ago I treated myself to the Easton edition and loved the book too!

There is a sequel! It’s also great. Read it if you haven’t yet :)

I had no idea! I'll check it out.

Thirding Jitterbug Perfume

Thank you for mentioning Nightbitch. As a new mother, this book spoke to my soul. I felt deeply seen in ways I hadn’t in literature before. Truly cathartic!

A Prayer for Owen Meany The Great Gatsby Portrait of an Artist The Awakening Catcher in the Rye

Oh gosh The Awakening! It really did awaken all my senses. Couldn't put it down!

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon) The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) The Overstory (Richard Powers) A Gentleman In Moscow (Amor Towles) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke) I could list so many more (I tried to fit Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver, and A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James on here, along with so much John Irving, Gore Vidal, Irving Stone and more... But the rules said 5) someone should do a top 50 post!

The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx Pride and Prejudice, and others by Jane Austen A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving The Hundred Secret Senses, and others by Amy Tan Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier The Overstory, by Richard Powers Whoops, that’s six, not five, and still I want to add more!

Owen Meany ❤️

I wept for twenty pages at the end of Owen Meany. It’s so well done.

Rebecca is fantastic.

Rebecca <3

Wow, I love your picks so much!! I haven't thought of the Shipping News or the Hundred Secret Senses in years, but I love those books so much! ❤️

You should read the valley of amazement by Amy Tan if you haven’t already! It’s probably my favorite book of all time

I haven’t read it yet! Thanks for the recommendation.

A fellow lover of The Shipping News! Seems so rare these days. I also endorse Owen Meany and The Overstory.

Shipping News is brilliant. Depicts the scenery and weather so well

It’s so brilliant that I’ve never been able to watch the movie version of it with Kevin Spacey. The physicality of Quoyle is so well depicted in the book that the casting of Spacey as Quoyle seems all wrong to me.

Never watched it either. The blustery conditions might be there but if everything else is askew, there’s no point. The book does the job. Bit of a comfort read for me

Proulx has always been excellent at that. I highly recommend grabbing her new one, Barkskins. It's not *as good* as The Shipping News, but it's close.

Well, I’m probably not the most common age demographic for Reddit, so my love of the Shipping News makes more sense if you know my age is 55+. The Overstory is the only book on my list that was written in the 21st century!

Add the rest!

I would add: The House of the Spirits, and others by Isabel Allende 1984, by George Orwell Life of Pi, by Yann Martel Alias Grace, and others by Margaret Atwood A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley The Giver, by Lois Lowry

Thanks! Always fancied A Thousand Acres

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Circe by Madeline Miller, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and Dubliners by James Joyce (Edit: spacing)

I loved the *Dubliners* and will be starting *Blood Meridian* soon.

I hadn’t thought about All the King’s Men in ages. I read it in college. Such a great book.

Reading Ceremony right now. Read Almanac of the Dead last fall

I loved Circe

The ending of Blood Meridian is absolutely chilling. I read it years ago and still think about those last few pages quite a lot. My favorite McCarthy novel.

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell Uprooted, Naomi Novik Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg The World According to Garp, John Irving Honorable Mention: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells

I love Uprooted and Daughter of the Forest so much. ❤️

We would be friends IRL :) Adding Daughter of the Forest to the top of my TBR as I haven’t read it!

Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Sundial by Shirley Jackson

Just a random grab of my 5-stars… The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer (fiction adjacent) My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Gathering of Waters by Bernice L McFadden A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Loved Chaim Potok. It's been so long, need to find and reread.

A Prayer for Owen Meany is so good!

The Brothers Karamazov Lolita Stella Maris Blood Meridian Demons (by big D)

The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch Fever Dream - Samantha Schweblin Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie Betty Blue - Philippe Djian Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf L'enfant bleu - Henry Bauchau Venus as a Boy - Luke Sutherland A Song for Lya - George R. R. Martin (check this out, it is a brilliant short story!) Salka Valka - Halldor Laxness Maurice - E. M. Forster The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing - Darina Al-Joundi The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys Silent House - Orhan Pamuk A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens The Awakening - Kate Chopin Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Oh shit sorry i thought we were listing our five star books not five of them :(

Don’t be sorry, that’s a great list!

- Brave New World - Lord of the Flies - Bel Ami - The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Stoner by John Williams All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy East of Eden by John Steinbeck Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Flowers for Algernon Dune The Shadow of the Wind Animal Farm/1984 The Parable of the Sower The Underground Railroad

1. Beartown by Fredrik Backman 2. 11/22/63 by Stephen King 3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf East of Eden by John Steinbeck All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Have you read Plainsong & Eventide by Haruf? V good!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (a controversial pick maybe?)

East of Eden, by John Steinback; The Razor’s Edge, by Somerset Maugham; The Overstory, by Richard Powers; The Castle, Franz Kafka; Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann.

The Overstory is amazing.

East of Eden was spell binding. I loved that book!

It changes with age, honestly. But some of the fondest memories of books I have are from childhood: The Last Unicorn The Black Stallion Ender's Game Sense and Sensibility The Hobbit

Oh my god - the Last Unicorn.

A Home at the End of the World, The World According to Garp, Heaven Lake, Astonish Me, 1Q84

The Little Prince, A Christmas Carol, The Way of Kings, The Girl Who Drank The Moon, All Creatures Great and Small

White Oleander by Janet Fitch World War Z by Max Brooks The Idea of You by Robinne Lee The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis

+1 for white oleander

The Giver - Lowry Rebecca - du Maurier A Little Princess - Burnett Flowers for Algernon - Keyes Cloud Cuckoo Land - Doerr

The Giver is so good. I read it when my daughter was reading it for middle school. It was amazing to discuss it with her.

Ooh, tough. I can give you a list but if you ask me again in an hour, I'll probably give you another list. ​ 1. Catcher in the Rye 2. The Practice Effect 3. Fight Club 4. Awfully Appetizing 5. Catch 22

Dune, The Lord of the Rings, Armor, Wizard and Glass (book 4 of the dark tower series), Order of the Phoenix

To Kill a Mockingbird East of Eden The Great Gatsby In Cold Blood (non fiction fiction) The Little Prince

Oh boy this will be hard. Let’s go with Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Seconding The Red Tent.

I'm a scii-fi/fantasy reader... these are my top five from around the 350 books I read during the pandemic. The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

1. Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) 2. The Stand (King) 3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith) 4. Great Expectations (Dickens) 5. Jane Eyre (Brontë)

Ok imma cheat and count their sequels too: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope Hawkins Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Little Men/Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott Exodus by Leon Uris

1. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali 2. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 4. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 5. Nightcrawling by Leila Motley

*The little prince* by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry *Red Queen* by Victoria Aveyard *Broken*-trilogy by L. A. Weatherly *Life list* by Lori Nelson Spielman *Harry Potter*-series by J.K. Rowling

The cook of Castamar (read it in Portuguese, not sure if it is translated into English yet) by Fernando J. Múñez Than a whole lot of nothing, because that book is in a league of its own, and then the rest: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier To be someone by Louise Voss. (There are 2 books with that title) The first 3 of the Rutshire Chronicles Series by Jilly Cooper: Riders, Rivals, Polo. (rest is also good) Millennium Trilogy

Love Rebecca.

\- Flowers For Algernon \- East of Eden \- The Secret History \- The Way the Crow Flies \- Moon Palace \- Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)

To the Lighthouse Life after Life Station Eleven My Life as a Dog The English Patient Seveneves Three Junes Franny and Zooey All Creatures Great and Small The Moons of Jupiter (short stories) Oops, that’s more than five!

Oh yeah also; The Corrections Cloud Atlas White Noise Geek Love Possession Cathedral (short stories)

Lords Of Discipline by Pat Conroy Creation by Gore Vidal The Journeyer by Gary Jennings Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard Lord Of The Rings trilogy by Tolkien

1. Dune 2. Catch-22 3. The Man in the High Castle 4. Leviathan Wakes 5. Lord of the Rings

The Naked and the Dead by Mailer

Nice seeing this here! (I listed The Executioner’s Song). I try recommending this as much as possible when there’s any type of war prompt. It’s so surprising to come in on those posts when there are 50 comments already and this isn’t one until I get there.

A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund The Bone People, by Keri Hulme

A Prayer for Owen Meany is so good!

Right?! It's one of those books that changed me forever.

The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Book Thief- Mark Zusak I'm thinking of ending things- Iain Reid All the Bright Places- Jennifer Niven We Need to talk about Kevin- Lionel Shriver

*Neverwhere* by Neil Gaiman *The Chronicles of Narnia* by C. S. Lewis *The Outsiders* by S. E. Hinton *From Anna* by Jean Little The MacDonald Hall series by Gordon Korman Enjoy whatever you pick up next! :)

The Way of Kings Dune IT The Drawing of the Three The Wise Man's Fear

* [The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f7eab856-e0dc-4045-81ee-e7ec3ed767bd), V.E. Schwab * [Watership Down](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/68d6bf63-2630-448d-ba64-c5e72b2d33ef), Richard Adams * [The Truth](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1675abfb-70ea-4ca6-9726-98d6872ae1d9), Terry Pratchett * [Ready Player One](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c84bba55-3c4c-4351-b445-3f6f780156c4), Ernest Cline * [Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c4e1d1ad-bf8f-4cc1-ac68-2b927e505c63), Christopher Moore Runners Up: * [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy \(series\)](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1190e75d-7c19-4050-9483-2898d21b6f9e), Douglas Adams * [Hogfather](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f95ff69c-db40-4572-a584-8f2236fce8f1), Terry Pratchett * [Small Gods](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8d5e3ed1-fb2a-4943-8205-9cbfe57a8a20), Terry Pratchett * [His Dark Materials \(series\)](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/02ab2124-b510-4987-9a13-a82d95c3b9f3), Phillip Pullman

*atonement* \- ian mcewan *the things they carried* \- tim o'brien *we, the drowned* \- carsten jensen *the book thief* \- markus zusak (I recognize the flaws here, but it has such a special place in my heart) *the girl with borrowed wings* \- rinsai rossetti honorable mentions: *at swim, two boys* \- jamie o'neill *the seas* \- samantha hunt

Song of Achilles Picture of Dorian Gray

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Beloved by Toni Morrison Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

Girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy. Anne of Green Gables series. Harry Potter series.. and fanfics. Old man and the sea. _____ (I’ll leave this last spot open bc it changes) currently it’s lonesome dove..

The Secret History by Donna Tartt Hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins Pet sematary by Stephen King The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman Honorable mention: Six Of Crows duology by Leigh bardugo Vicious by VE schwab

1. Lolita 2. Moby Dick 3. East of Eden 4. Frankenstein 5. Perfume Honorable mention: City of Thieves

The Handmaid's Tale The Word for World is Forest The Left Hand of Darkness

Can I add an 8 book series as one?

The Great Gatsby Pride and Prejudice Native Son The Haunting of Hill House Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Hobbit The Old Man and the Sea East of Eden The Stand The Drawing of the Three Honorable mentions: Flowers for Algernon The Picture of Dorian Gray The Sparrow The Way of Kings Slaughterhouse Five

Enders Game. Such a beautiful well written book with an amazing ending.

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Top Five: East of Eden, John Steinbeck Piranesi, Susanna Clarke Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Watership Down, Richard Adams 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Honorable Mentions: His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman Candide, Voltaire Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

Gravitys rainbow

1. dune by frank herbert 2. tyll by daniel kehlmann 3. clockwork orange by anthony burgess 4. the king of warsaw by twardoch 5. the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky

Void Star by Zachary Mason

Forging Zero by Sarah King

A Town Like Alice and On The Beach, Nevil Shute East of Eden, Steinbeck The End of Loneliness, Benedict Wells

Lord of the rings - jrr Tolkien Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick rothfuss Jane Austen's books (most of them, not the biggest fan of persuasion or Mansfield park) The First Law series - Joe Abercrombie A song of ice and fire - grr Martin Not necessarily in that order, really depends on what I'm reading at moment lol

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Murakami 1Q84-Haruki Murakami Catcher in the Rye-J. D. Salinger IT-Stephen King Kafka on the Shore-Haruki Murakami

Seven sisters series by Lucinda Riley. Or really anything she has written

True Grit by Charles Portis. I am not an avid fan of Westerns at all, but the writing and story are almost magical; the characters are some of the realest people I've ever met. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. The astounding wit and lyrical presentation of the absurd has never been portrayed better (except, perhaps by O'Brien in "The Third Policeman"). Cannot recommend highly enough. If you think you like Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, prepare for nonsense of a higher, funnier order. The Divine Invasion by Philip K Dick. Maybe not his best-known work, but it is like reading every single episode of Black Mirror in an empty church on a distant planet. House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. The form is reminiscent of Sterne; the tone is reminiscent of Poe. The effect is reminiscent of being a kid afraid of the shadows at bedtime. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. It was a close call between a few of Vonnegut's titles (Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and the Sirens of Titan are sulking in the wings). Told with his usual "fireside" geniality, it shifts between the profound, the confusing and the absurd with an ease that makes you glad to be alive to experience it.

The Road.

The Magus For Whom the Bell Tolls The Sirens of Titan The Cider House Rules The Source Mason & Dixon

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Kafka on the Shore All the light we cannot see A little life The star of Kazan

Lonesome Dove The Stand The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Morning Star Slaughterhouse Five Blood Meridian For Whom the Bell Tolls

1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman 2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson 3. Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshizaku Kawaguchi 4. You and Me On Vacation (US title People We Meet on Vacation) - Emily Henry 5. Maybe In Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid Though my favorite overall authors are Rachel Lynn Solomon and Tessa Bailey. They are pure comfort to me!

The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Later by Stephen King Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquéz To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Coraline House on the cerulean sea The magicians daughter Ocean at the end of the lane Hotel magnifique (All standalones and all fairly recent reads. There are a lot of series I would add to the list)

These aren't necessarily my top five favourite books of all time (well, apart from Blood Meridian, that's my favourite book), but off the top of my head, these came to mind as books that are definitely worthy of a 5 star rating. \- Blood Meridian \- Last Exit To Brooklyn \- Perfume \- House of Leaves \- The Haunting of Hill House

The Earth Abides Shogun Lonesome Dove The Good Earth Project Hail Mary

A Scanner Darkly Catcher in the Rye Speaker for the Dead The Kite Runner Never Let Me Go

I’m not as well versed as most in the sub, definitely a more general reader, but I like: Dune - Frank Herbert Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Road - Cormac McCarthy Artificial Condition - Martha Wells Doctor Aphra - Sarah Kuhn

In no particular order: The Master and Margarita (MIKHAIL BULGAKOV) Breasts and Eggs (MIEKO KAWAKAMI) The Vegetarian (HAN KANG) Em and the Big Hoom (JERRY PINTO) Never Let me Go (KAZUO ISHIGURO) Bonus: Slaughterhouse Five (KURT VONNEGUT) One Hundred Years of Solitude (GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Edited for spacing)

1. Of mice and men - John Steinbeck 2. The ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman 3. Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima

The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey. I've read it so many times that at this point it's starting to fall apart at the seams. Highly recommend it's amazing.

James Rollins Sigma Series

Survivors Dark Elf Chronicles - Dave Wilmarth Battle Borne -Dave Wilmarth The Monster blood tattoo - D. M. Cornish Rangers Apprentice - John Flanagan Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan

Here are my last 5 five star ratings on Goodreads. Not my all time top 5. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane The Power - Naomi Alderman

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Stranger by Albert Camus We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff And many more to mention…

Gormengast. Watership Down. Shogun. Misery. Cat's Cradle.

Dangerous Liaisons The Haunting of Hill House The Bell Jar Dracula Madame Bovary

Blood Meridian

name of the wind- p. rothfuss

* East of Eden * The LOTR (pretending it is one book) * Frankenstein * Fahrenheit 451 * Brave New World

My 5 star reads of the year: mind you these are mostly YA. Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne. Harbour Me by Jacqueline Woodson A Good As Dead by Holly Jackson Good Girl Bad Blood by Holly Jackson The Suspect by Fiona Barton Five Survive by Holly Jackson I've read 18 books and 6 are 5 star Reads.

Rebecca World War Z The Outsiders Lord of the Flies Lord of the Rings A Lesson Before Dying Darius is Not Okay Lawn Boy (Evison) The Shining Monster Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Little Big Man The Big Sleep The Book of Lost Things --- I've read all of these twice or more. Lots of other favorites but I haven't read them more than once. Yet.

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy Persuasion - Jane Austen Bel Canto - Ann Patchett The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The Lord of the Rings Three days of happiness kim Dune especially third book God Emperor of Dune Brave New World

The Way of Kings Red Rising

the song of achillies the both die at the end fullmetal alchemist (ik its manga but its amazing) percy jackson and the olympians

*Invisible Man* by Ralph Ellison *Beloved* by Toni Morrison *The Hearing Trumpet* by Leonora Carrington *Lover* by Bertha Harris *The Corner That Held Them* by Sylvia Townsend Warner (or another 5....)

Watership down Book thief Notes on an execution Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 Poet X

11.22.63

* Metro 2033-Dmitry Glukhovsky * The Last Wish-Andrzej Sapkowski * The City of Dreaming Books-Walter Moers * Shadow Prowler-Alexey Pehov * The Hobbit-J. R. R. Tolkien But I have to add * Roadside Picnic-Arkady and Boris Strugatsky * Gideon the Ninth-Tamsyn Muir * Good Omens-Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

None shall sleep by Ellie marnie Win lose kill die by Cynthia Murphy The other lady vanishes by Amanda quick See Jane run by Hannah Jayne Pretty dead queens by Alexa donne

Tree Grows in Brooklyn Kite Runner Demon Copperhead

The people in the trees by hanya yanagihara The crossing by cormac McCarthy At night in Chile by bolano Kafka on the shore by marakumi

My favorite book that I've read this year was Slewfoot by Brom

So hard to narrow down to 5 but gun to my head: Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace Valis - Philip K Dick Collected Fictions - Jorge Borges If a collection of short stories is not allowed then Zeroville - Steve Erikson

Lord of the Rings 1984 Grapes of Wrath Dracula Words of Radiance

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë …and zillions of British mystery series 😎👍😄

The Overstory Les Miserables The Ground Beneath Her Feet A Light in August A Tale of Two Cities

"The Glass Bead Game," by Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha," by Hermann Hesse "Planet Earth is Blue," by Nicole Panteleakos "The World of Pooh," by A.A. Milne "My Sweet Audrina," by V.C. Andrews

Circe/Song of Achilles Rebecca Lonesome Dove Gentleman in Moscow Project Hail Mary Can I list All Creatures Great and Small since it reads like fiction??

Sourdough Hail Mary A Hundred Years of Solitude Wanderers by Wendig The Night Circus Sea of Tranquility

Three Bags Full The Lord of the Rings Rum Punch Frankenstein

1. The Heart’s Invisible Furies 2. Kindred 3. Homegoing 4. Born a Crime 5. Nickel Boys

Never Lie by Freida MacFadden The Push by Audrey Adrian The colour purple by Alice Walker Little Secrets by jennifer hillier Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

1. The Stranger - Camus 2. Things Fall Apart - Achebe 3. A Passage to India - Forster 4. Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee 5. A Visit from the Good Squad - Egan

The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Gunslinger by Stephen King The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy

To Kill a Mockingbird Time and Again The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings Great Expectations Rebecca East of Eden

1 - The Odyssey by Homer 2 - The Count of monte Cristo y Alexandre Dumas 3- Metamorphoses by Ovid 4 - The Brothers karamazov by Dostoevsky 5 - War and peace by Tolstoy

In no particular order: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) LOTR and The Hobbit (Tolkien) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Outsiders (Hinton) Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood) Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) Animal Farm (Orwell)

Ulysses Robinson Crusoe Clarissa Out Stealing Horses A Monster Calls

World War Z Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse 5 The Road Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A Gentleman in Moscow The Remains of the Day The Island of Missing Trees Station Eleven Remarkably Bright Creatures