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Re: Your five favourite books?

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I don’t read tons of fiction, but here are five entries that I have enjoyed very much in the past.

· Flashman, by George McDonald Fraser
· Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
· Most short stories by Edgar Allen Poe
· The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, by Sam Bawlf
(non-fiction, but quite speculative)
· The War in the Air, by HG Wells
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Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by A.C. bhaktivedanta Sri Prabhupada
Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsche
The Bible , Old and New testament, including cuniforms from which it came from revealed in books by Zachariah sitchin
The Qur'an
The Book of Certitude by Baha'ullah
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I like these types of questions, but I always remember more after I post! :) The first top five that come to mind are:

1) The Three Musketeers
2) Pride and Prejudice
3) The Villa by Nora Roberts
4) Treasure Island
5) The DaVinci Code (I'll admit it) :)
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Let me see. This is tough...

1. 1984

2. Perfume

3. The Road

4. Sense and Sensibility

5. The Blood of Flowers
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I have so many favorite books that it's hard to choose. But my top five are probably:
-The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
-Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
-Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
-Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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my five favorite books are
butterfly by Kathryn Harvey
lost souls by Lisa Jackson
honest illusions by Nora Roberts
rivers end by Nora Roberts
twilight
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My favorites are
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Matilda by Roald Dahl

as you can tell, I like children's literature.

Wait! Does manga count? If so, here are my top 5 mangas:
Godchild
Kitchen Princess
With the Light
Aoi House
Naruto
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It's so hard to pick five, these five are from my top ten:
The Monk - Lewis
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Radcliffe
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Castle of Otranto - Walpole
Faust - Goethe
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Oh, Goethe, interesting. He features on mine aswell. :)

In no particular order:
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Sorrows of Young Werter, by Goethe
The Host, by Stephanie Meyer (Tis amazing - much better than Twilight, I.M.O)
The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgeson Burnett
The Word on the Street, Rob Lacey
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It's hard to pick up only five. Also, it's difficult to remember many of the good books that I have read. I remember these five:

1) To the light house by Virginia Woolf
2) The wind up bird chronicles by Haruki Murakami
3) The book of laughter and forgetting by Milan Kundera
4) The periodic table by Primo Levi
5) The magic mountain by Thomas Mann

(Seems like I am inclined to books that start with the article 'The'. Coincidence!!!)

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