Your Top 5 List is...

[SherlockianMan]

Here's the pitch, every week I'll post a theme and everyone will list their Top 5 things to match that theme.​

For example, this week's theme is:

Your Top 5 Books
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Update: Happy to see how many responses this received, so I thought I'd switch it up a bit early. Since the first one was pretty broad, I'm going more specific this time:

Your Top 5 Albums that Defined Your Teenage Years
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Another week has passed. Let's go for something more highbrow for this one:

Your Top 5 Favorite Paintings (photos/links encouraged)

Since we went high-brow last week, let's go with something everyone has an opinion on.

Your Top 5 Fried Foods (That Aren't Chicken)

Since I just got back from a massive comic convention, for this week I'm going with:

Your Top 5 Favorite Comic Characters
(Doesn't have to be superhero, could be webcomics or newspaper funnies)

Inspired by today's discussion in the Sex & Shenanigans thread, this week's topic is:

Your Top 5 Favorite TV Sitcoms

I missed a week or two so here's a new one

Your Top 5 Songs From Musicals
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RL has been crazy hectic this month, and sometimes you just need to cry it out. So, what are

Your Top 5 Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry​

I have totally been neglectful of this thread lately. BlahTime to resolve that.

Your Top 5 Favorite Stand-up Comedians


Your Top 5 Things to Cheer You Up


Your Top 5 Go-to Halloween Movies​

 

[SherlockianMan]

My Top 5 Books, not necessarily in this order

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

 

[Amanda330]

5 top books is so hard because there are so many I love. Ok. Not necessarily in order of amount of love:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Giver by Louis Lowry

 

[MindYaBitness]

Top 5 Books

I'm going to narrow it to contemporary fiction, or else I'm going to break the rules on Day 1:

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Of Moths & Butterflies by V.R. Christensen
Can You Keep a Secret by Sofie Kinsela
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Red Tent by Anita Diamont

 

[VoraciousValue]

Not necessarily in order:

The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
North and South trilogy by John Jakes (recently died, RIP)
Waylon: An Autobiography by Waylon Jennings and Lenny Kaye
Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns

 

[MischiefMakerAlways]

No order here, and I'm claiming series as one...
The Fellowship of the Ring - Tolkien
Paradise Lost - Milton
Michael Vey series - Evans
The Scott Horvarth series - Thor
Call of the Wild - London

 

[UnquietDreams]

Top 5 Books
I am also sticking to one book per author, or I would end up with mostly Zelazny, and fiction.

1) War for the Oaks, Emma Bull. (my favorite book, period).
2) Roadmarks, Roger Zelazny (could have been several different ones).
3) Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (it is one book published in three parts).
4) Ulysses, James Joyce (twofer, since you really need to read Homer's Odyssey with it, chapter by chapter. Emily Wilson's translation is amazing).
5) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (Novella, to balance out #4).

 

[SirConradPeckereye]

Top 5 books:

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton.
Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy.
Gunslinger Series, Stephen King.
Inside Delta Force, Eric Haney.
Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell.

 

[morelikeasong]

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Read this one recently and it broke me to pieces

and the Giver was my favorite book as a kid!

 

[Indie]

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
3. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
4. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

1. The Fall, Albert Camus
2. Taran Wanderer, Lloyd Alexander
3. East of Eden John Steinbeck
4. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
5. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

 

[UnquietDreams]

1. The Fall, Albert Camus
2. Tartan Wanderer, Lloyd Alexander
3. East of Eden John Steinbeck
4. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
5. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

Oh, very nice. I hate only having 5. But I think autocorrect changed Taran's name.

 

[rthnck]

1. The Wounded Land - Stephen R. Donaldson
2. Klondike - Pierre Berton
3. The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford
4. Caliban - Isaac Asimov
5. Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton

 

[Acktion]

Belgarath the Sorcerer by David Eddings
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Field of Dishonor by David Webber
Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Azure Bonds by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb

 

[ydahecnot]

Ball Four, Jim Bouton
Anywhere but Here, Mona Simpson
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
Chances Are, Richard Russo
Live From New York, Shales and Miller

 

[vagrantx]

1) A trilogy.. Cheating? The First Law by Joe Abercrombie, read my thoughts about it here.
2) American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis.
3) Doppler, by Erlend Loe. My father is dead. And yesterday, I killed an elk. What can I say? It was either her or me.
4) Zen, and the art of motorcycle maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig
5) Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison

 

[lavendersilk]

My Top 5 Books:

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[lavendersilk]

My Top 5 Books, not necessarily in this order

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

No Arthur Conan Doyle?

 

[13Fantasies]

So so many. And they change constantly.

No particular order:

LONESOME GODS by Louis L'Amour
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
THE 7 1/2 DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton
A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON by Piers Anthony

 

[UnquietDreams]

So so many. And they change constantly.

No particular order:

LONESOME GODS by Louis L'Amour
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
THE 7 1/2 DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton
A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON by Piers Anthony

A Gentleman in Moscow is an utterly remarkable book. I loved it.

 

[13Fantasies]

A Gentleman in Moscow is an utterly remarkable book. I loved it.

I enjoyed RULES OF CIVILITY too. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY was okay. Looking forward to getting his new one

 

[Whiskeyjack]

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

 

[Cyber_Bella]

Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Twilight- Stephenie Meyer
Where the Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens
Dream More-Dolly Parton

 

[StillRain]

1. Such a beautiful and moving story. I’ve read this until the book is in tatters and needed to be replaced, so I replaced it.


2. I had to read this for final year English, and have read it over and over again since. I fell in love with Anne Tyler’s stories with this one.


3. I’ve introduced the lit book club to this book I think. I do not recommend you read this book unless you are emotionally sound and in a good head space. It will leave you a wreck and in need of therapy. It is a traumatic read with traumatic subjects. It’s reverse ombré. Trust me.



4. A fun adventure and read. Wilbur is a story teller like no other.




5. A classic, it’ll suck you in.

 

[Wriggle]

Today....
Maybe...

Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke.
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin.
Perfume: Story of A Murderer - Patrick Suskind
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Book Of Ultimate Truths - Robert Rankin