A Stitcher's Book Club discussion

What are the books that make up your current Top 5 favorites of all time? (The goal of this group is to hopefully change that list and add stuff to it!)

My Top 5, in no particular order
- The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Anything by Kate Quinn

Choosing top 5 is like Sophie's Choice!

- Pillars of the Earth/World Without End by Ken Follett
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Norwegian Wood/Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Oryx and Crake/The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

- Memory Man by David Baldacci
- Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd
- The Judge by Randy Singer
- Zero Day by David Baldacci
- In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

In no order:

1984 by George Orwell

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George

Ugh. That was hard. Honorable mentions go to And Then There Were None and Curtain by Agatha Christie and The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory. And many I'm sure I forgot.

"Sophie's Choice" by William Styron
"Lord Foul's Bane" Book One of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R Donaldson
"The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austin
"The Stand" by Stephen King

1. "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
2. "Lightning" by Dean Koontz
3. "Outlander" the entire series by Diana Gabledon
4. "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (because 42)

In no order
The Taking by Dean Koontz
Outlander by Diana Gabledon
It by Stephen King
The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

"Jane Eyre". Charlotte Bronte
"Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell
"Outlander" Diana Gabaldon
"Rebecca" Daphne du Maurier
"And Then There Were None" Agatha Christie

In no order and occasionally cheating
And then there were none, Agatha Christie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
(Slight cheating) The Thursday next series, jasper fforde (couldn't pick one)
Christmas carol, Charles Dickens

Green Mile by Stephen King
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Harry Potter series - definitely from Goblet of Fire onwards.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sophie Kinsella books
I know I'm cheating!

My favorites in no particular order.

1. - the whole series is great.
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Edited to add links. Thanks for the tutorial!

In no particular order :

1. Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
2. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
3. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
4. Percy Jackson (Whole series because I just can't pick!)
5. Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon


THIS WAS SOOO HARD!!! There are so many more!

My top 5 in no particular order:
1. Gone with the Wind (hey, gotta love the book that inspired my name!)
2. Loretta Mason Potts (read when I was in elementary school and remember it fondly)
3. The Friday Night Knitting Club
4. The Red Tent
5. The Lovely Bones

Mine are, in no particular order,

1. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
2. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
5. The Chosen - Chaim Potok

Apparently I like books that start with "the".... weird.

Ugh this is so hard... I'm probably forgetting a whole bunch of books.

1) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling
2) The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
3) The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
4) Falls Chance Ranch - Rolf & Ranger
5) The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch

1. Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone j.k. Rowling
2. Dark lover j.r. Ward
3. Dead witch walking Kim Harrison
4. Club dead charlaine Harris
5. Dragon Wytch Yasmin Galenorn

I think mine would be:

1. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
4. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
5. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Mine In no particular order

There are a lot of books I love on people's lists :) I find this a really difficult question. These are probably my all time most loved 5, but it was so hard to narrow by shelf of absolute favourites down! I went with my most reread books.

- The Tombs of Atuan (and all the other Earthsea books) by Ursula K Le Guin.

- The Children by Edith Wharton (I cry thinking about this book sometimes).

- Emily of New Moon and it's sequels by LM Montgomery (even better than the Anne books imho)

- The Running Man by Stephen King as Richard Bachman (but it's a toss up between this and his other dystopic books)

- Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome (because it makes me laugh, even in inappropriate public places, every time I read it)

The top three on my list are definitely my favorites but I couldn't decide on the last two so I put two books from Authors that I really enjoy.

1. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

2. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

3. The Winner by David Baldacci

4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini

5. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen

Hard one! After #1 they are in no order

1. Showdown by Ted Dekker
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
3. The Oath by Frank E. Peretti
4. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
5. As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers

1. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
2. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
3. Dark Tower series - Stephen King
4. The Century Trilogy - Ken Follett
5. Penn Cage series - Greg Isles
............ and so many more

Holly wrote: "My favorites in no particular order.

1. - the whole series is great.
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I love the wheel of time series!! I'm only on the third one, but they are wonderful!

So hard to choose just five , but here they are
1 -Headhunters

2- No Time for Goodbye

3- Me Before You

4- One Day

5- The Forgotten Garden

My 5 currently are:

1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

2. A Little Life by Hana Yanagihara

3. Summer People by Marge Piercy

4. Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons

5. So Much For That by Lionel Shriver