Your five favourite books?

[suitefrancaise]

This is difficult but I'd have to say...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
And because I can’t think of anything else, I’ll have to say: Atonement by Ian McEwan

[spoonwood]

I don't know about favorite, but some books I have enjoyed very much are the following (in no particular order):

1) Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
2) In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant (historical fiction)
3) High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver (non-fiction, a book of essays)
4) Eve: A Biography by Pamela Norris (Women's studies)

Shantaram is over 900 pages long I believe, but a real page-turner! I recommend it to everyone.

[realiz]

but since these 5 came to mind, they must have had an impact that remained with me.

I did the same, just chosen the first five to come to mind. These books have stayed on my mind, or at least the titles have, for various reasons.

Along Came a Dog
by Meindert DeJong

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

This Much I know to be True
Wally Lamb

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

[giselle]

I had trouble narrowing down to just 5 but these are my picks. All memorable reads.

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
On the Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findley
Welcome to Hard Times, E.I. Doctorow

[s.kundan]

Listing down all time favorites is difficult. Few of the recent ones are

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Those In Peril by Wilbur Smith
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

I hope you all will like these.