Five Favourites are hard! I love too many books! I think if I had to choose though, it would be as such:

The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand (I read it for pleasure and story once, then took a philosophy class and got a whole different excitement from re-reading it!)
Choke- Chuck Palahniuk (definitely interesting, have always been impressed with his writing)
Slaughter House Five- Vonnegut
A Scanner Darkly- Philip K Dick (love his sci-fi)
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy (just now reading it, but can tell already it'll be a favourite!)

In no particular order. The Sun Also Rises-Hemingway The Praise of Folly-Erasmus Don Quixote-Cervantes You Can't Go Home Again-Wolfe The Razor's Edge-Maugham Doctor Zhivago-Pasternak Democracy in America-Tocqueville Inferno-Dante The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Kundera Bill The Galactic Hero-Harrison The Theory of The Leisure Class-Veblen Joy of Cooking-Rombauer-Becker 2001 A Space Odyssey-Clarke The White Mary-Salak Cool Hand Luke-Pearce Diplomacy-Kissinger Bottom Dogs-Dahlberg West With The Night-Markham Star of the Unborn-Wertel Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee-Brown The Maltese Falcon-Hammett The Glass Bead Game-Hess The Jungle-Sinclair The Story of Civilization-Durant Get Shorty-Leonard The Ruins or The Meditation of the Revolutions of Empires-Volney The Descent of Man-Darwin Rimbaud Just to name but a few favored reads. It may be to say that for a genuine reader, What one book could you care an eternity fore? All great literature is born from the poverty of the soul of humankind. One merely needs to track the rise of great literature, to witness where the next great burst, of the civilized world will come.A renewed assent of the soul.I do love your history, And I will always have a fondness for your will,Though I do deplore the self serving nature of the human species.I will give you this,Evolution is at work everyday.As for me, What one will I care an eternity fore? Its simple, I will care for the Story of You.

The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Solstice - Joyce Carol Oates

It's really hard to pick five favorites, but I'll try:

1) The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
2) Identität und Lebenszyklus - Erikson
3) The Importance Of Being Eernest - Oscar Wilde
4) Wuthering Heigts - Emily Bronte
5) Pet Sematary - Stephen King

uod_sa_libro wrote: The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

I really liked all the books King and Straub did together. I always thought it was funny that the first few chapters you could always tell which writer was which, but as the books went along they really melded together with one voice.

I love making lists of things! I feel like this would be something good to have in our profiles. 'Tis a book forum, after all.

It's hard for me to say what order these would be in, but here goes:
1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Neuromancer by William Gibson
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers

Whew, that was hard! The fifth spot is always the toughest. I give honourable mention to Starfish, Tithe, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Survivor, Neverwhere... oh, I'm such a cheater, that makes ten!

Blindness-Jose Saramago
The Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
A Woman In Berlin-Anonymous
Shutter Island-Dennis Lehane
My Sister's Keeper-Jodi Picoult

though I may have 5 different ones tomorrow

N3M0 wrote:It's really hard to pick five favorites, but I'll try:

1) The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson

Ah, one of my recent favorites. A bit hard to take at the beginning until you get used to, uh, the treatment he's undergoing, but highly original and certainly a page-turner. Did you have the copy with the black-lined pages?

I don't play favourites, but here are five books I'd be confident to recommend.

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Seven Types of Ambiguity - Eliot Perlman
The Accidentals - Ali Smith
Windblown World - Jack Kerouac
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

(in no specific order)

His Dark Materials (series) - Philip Pullman (I'm counting three books as one because they need each other and I have so many other favorites that need to fight their way onto this list )
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
World War Z - Max Brooks

That last one could be any of like 12 books...I can't really choose 5 favorites but I'm staying within the topic rules.