Thread: Top 5 Books/Series

If I don't see one of these I generally try to start one on forums I join. I'm a huge fan of reading and love to get new suggestions and I find that a topic like this offers a lot of new titles to people that enjoy reading. Basically list your top 5(or more if you want) books or series. Try to list what genre the book is as well. Anyways, I'll get us started off...

1. A Song of Ice and Fire(series - fantasy) - George R. R. Martin
2. Mistborn(series - fantasy) - Brandon Sanderson
3. Wheel of Time(series - fantasy) - Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson now that Robert Jordan has passed away; RIP
4. Sword of Truth(series - fantasy) - Terry Goodkind
5. The Windup Girl(sci-fi) - Paolo Bacigalupi

I look forward to reading some new books!

1. The Vampire Chronicles(Series-Fantasy/Horror)- Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire (1976)
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Memnoch the Devil (1995)
The Vampire Armand (1998)
Merrick (2000)
Blood and Gold (2001)-Crossover of Vampire and Witches series
Blackwood Farm (2002)-Crossover of Vampire and Witches series
Blood Canticle (2003)-Crossover of Vampire and Witches series

2. New Tales of the Vampires(series-Fantasy/Horror)- Anne Rice
Pandora (1998)
Vittorio the Vampire (1999)

3. The Lives of the Mayfair Witches(series-Fantasy/Horror)- Anne Rice
The Witching Hour (1990)
Lasher (1993)
Taltos (1994)

4. Servant of the Bones (1996)- Anne Rice

5.The Mummy (1989)- Anne Rice

Oh did I mention I like Anne Rice? lol Also I added all the books in the series so you can check them out for yourself.

!) High Rise - JG Ballard
2) The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
3) The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
4) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
5) The Crow Road - Iain Banks

I'm not sure what genre you would put them in - literary perhaps?

I could have filled a top five with just JG Ballard's books as I think he seemed to analyse modern life amazingly accurately. The other books listed are just some others that I have read and enjoyed more than once.

Originally Posted by philocubist

!) High Rise - JG Ballard
2) The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
3) The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
4) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
5) The Crow Road - Iain Banks

I'm not sure what genre you would put them in - literary perhaps?

I could have filled a top five with just JG Ballard's books as I think he seemed to analyse modern life amazingly accurately. The other books listed are just some others that I have read and enjoyed more than once.

I think I will have to check out High Rise. I just read a review for it and it seems pretty interesting!

My favorites:

The Left Behind Series - Time Lahaye and Jerry B Jenkins
Harry Potter - JK Rowling
The Vampire Diaries - LJ Smith
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Series - Rick Riordan

1. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
2. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
3. The Idiot by Doystoyevsky
4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

1. Lord of the flies
2. The alchymists
3. Lord of the Rings
4. The witch of portobello
5. The Hobbit

I don't really read much, but I think this list is pretty much accurate :)

1. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. The Catch Trap - Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. Complete Short Fiction of Oscar Wilde
5. Earthsea Series - Ursula Le Guin

1.) Sirens of Titan - K. Vonnegut
2.) Anything by Neal Stephenson
3.) The Ancestors Tale - R. Dawkins
4.) The Hyperion Cantos (series) - D. Simmons
5.) The Zones of Thought diptych (A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky) - V. Vinge