Your Favorite Fiction---Top Five!

For those of us who enjoy reading fiction, I thought it might be fun to list your five favorite works.

In the interest of keeping the thread wide open, there are no limits to what you can choose. So long as it's fiction, you can pick any author or subject you like---fantasy, romance (yuk), science-fiction, war, peace, war and peace---whatever, even poetry. And from any era, as well. Enjoy reading Old English poetry? Is Beowulf your thing? 8O Well now you can tell eveyone what a weirdo you are. "Burning" to tell us how much you love Dante? Bring it on. Or is Jackie Collins your idea of a great companion while relaxing by the pool? Tell us.

Here's mine, in no particular order.

"Native Son" by Richard Wright
"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
"The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
"The Rama" series by Arthur C. Clark and Gentry Lee

:S

Jeff…

Except for the local newspaper, I don't read much fiction. Anyway, here are four of my favorites, all of which I have read at least twice:

* "Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa" by George W. Peck (1883). My copy (handed down from my grandfather and father) dates from 1900. Peck was a newpaper publisher, mayor of Milwaukee, and governor of Wisconsin. IMHO, the Peck's Bad Boy series is some of the funniest stuff ever written.

* "Von Ryan's Express" by David Westheimer. A good POW escape story. The movie was OK, the book is better.

* "The Tunnel at Loibl Pass" by Andre Lacaze. Another good POW escape story.

* "The Trial of Adolf Hitler" by Philippe van Rjndt. What if Hitler had survived the war and stood trial?

Most the fiction I DO read is historical fiction. There's a lot of good WWII historical fiction out there. I also like the Sherlock Holmes stories (A.C. Doyle) and Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, etc.), but haven't read them in a while. I read 30-40 books a year, and maybe one or two are fiction.

Fred

Top five: Roger Zelazny, " Lord of Light", Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead", Sean McMullen, "Souls in the Great Machine", "The Miocene Arrow". All science fiction, all adult and well conceived.

James Adams

Cool thread!

In no particular order... ok, maybe there is!

Carl Hiaasen - Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season
Carl Hiaasen - Stormy Weather
Okay, for brevity... anything by Carl Hiaasen!
Edna Buchanan - Suitable for Framing (an oldie)
Dave Barry - Tricky Business

Hmmm, I see a pattern developing. :S

Pillars of the Earth, and anything by Elmore Leonard.

Hmmm...tough to pick....only five?

The Gods Themselves - Asimov

The Dead Zone - King

Anton York, Immortal - Binder

The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy(counting them as one story )

And I used to love the Conan the Barbarian stories - Robert E. Howard (also counting them as one story since they were basically all the same after the first few )

Yikes. Let's see if I can muster five...

...in no particular order:

Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Color of Light - William Goldman
Lamb - Christopher Moore
something by Vonnegut

Cheers and dog ears.
-Dan