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In reply to the discussion: I need everyone's help again with a book list. This one is Top 5 books you've read. [View all]X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Five top fiction/fantasy books that you read as a kid?
-Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
-The Hobbit by Tolkein
-Watership Down by Richard Adams (Also Plague Dogs)
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
-Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Five top 'historical' books that you read as a kid?
-Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
-Oliver Twist by Dickens
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
-Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
-Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
(Couldn't decide between the last two)
Five top new (to me) books I've read in the last ten years?
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
-The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
-The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
-Freakanomics by Dubner and Levitt
-And on a lighter note, the City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau
The books I keep re-reading every couple of years?
-The Dune series by Frank Herbert (Forget the newer ones, though, they're crap.)
-The Golden Torc series by Julian May
-The Stand by Stephen King
-The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Right now, I'm reading a lot of YA and 'Urban Fantasy' (Charles deLint, etc).