Yusuf’s Comments (group member since Feb 25, 2016)

Yusuf’s comments from the My Top Five Books group.

I love Hitchhiker's Guide. One of those books that connects to very positive emotions in my life.

Great list! I will have to start thinking of some springtime favorites.

It's an astonishing achievement, LES MIS.

Done! :-)

1. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (a wonder akin to the Sistine Chapel or the Great Wall of China)

2. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (I'm assuming I should only assign an author one book in such a list as this, and this one is the most amazing and world-shifting of the bunch)

3, Possession, A.S, Byatt (in which love of the written word becomes an obsession across time and space)

4. Fathers and Sons, Turgenev (character-driven template for countless great novels to come)

5.1 Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler (though any number of Tyler novels probably deserve a slot)

5.1 Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (because it changed my universe, and yes, I get to have a tie for fifth place)

Nice list! And I haven't read a single one. You are truly the Well Read One.