What are your top 5 novels??

Question: What are your top 5 novels!?!?

I want another option to read other than The Kite Runner!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I'll give you 86: It should give you something to read!.

1!. The Rum Diary!. Hunter S!. Thompson
2!. Lolita V!. Nabokov
3!. The Catcher in the rye!. J D Salinger
4!. The Heart of the Matter!. G Greene
5!. Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas!. Hunter S!. Thompson
6!. Darkness at Noon!. Arthur Koestler
7!. Waiting for the Barbarians!. J M Coetzee
8!. Love in the Time of Cholera G G Marquez
9!. Sophie's Choice!. W Styron
10!. The Alexandria Quartet!. L Durrell
11!. Lonesome Dove L!. McMurtry
12!. Middlesex!. J!. Eugenides!.
13!. A Confederacy of Dunces!. J K Toole
14!. Disgrace!. J M Coetzee
15!. Franny and Zooey!. J D Salinger
16!. One Flew over the cuckoo's nest!. Ken Kesey
17!. A Separate Peace, J Knowles
18!. Pale Fire!. V Nabokov
19!. Dance to the Music of Time!. Powell
20!. The World According to Garp!. J!. Irving!.
21!. The Magus!. J Fowles
22!. Naked Lunch!. WS Burroughs
23!. On the Road!. Jack Kerouac
24!. Under the Volcano!. M Lowry
25!. Portnoy's complaint!. P Roth
26!. At Swim -Two- Birds!. Flann O'Brien
27!. Brideshead Revisited!. Evelyn Waugh
28!. The Power and the Glory!. G!. Greene
29!. A High Wind in Jamaica!. R Hughes
30!. Scoop!. Evelyn Waugh!.
31!. The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
32!. Red Harvest!. D!. Hammett!.
33!. The Hobbit!. JRR Tolkien
34!. Being Dead!. J!. Crace!.
35!. Deliverance!. James Dickey
36!. Catch 22!. J Heller
37!. Tobacco Road!. E Caldwell!.
38!. East of Eden J!. Steinbeck
39!. Slaughterhouse Five!. K!. Vonnegut
40!. The Lord of the Rings!. JRR Tolkein!.
41!. Neuromancer W!. Gibson
42!. Herzog S Bellow
43!. Midnight's Children!. Salman Rushdie
44!. In Cold Blood!. Truman Capote
45!. From Here to Eternity!. J Jones
46!. Farewell to Arms!. Hemingway
47!. The day of the locust!. N West
48!. Zuleika Dobson!. Max Beerbohm
49!. Rabbit, Run!. J!. Updike!.
50!. Appointment in Samarra!. J O'Hara
51!. I, Claudius!. R Graves
52!. Ragtime!. Doctrow
53!. All the Kings Men!. R Penn Warren
54!. Oranges Are not the Only Fruit!. J Winterson
55!. A Clockwork Orange!. Anthony Burgess!.
56!. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle!. H!. Murakami
57!. Never Let Me Go!. Kazuo Ishiguro
58!. Maltese Falcon!. Dashiell Hammett!.
59!. Tropic of Capricorn!. H!. MIller
60!. Tropic of Cancer!. H Miller
61!. The Sot-Weed Factor J!. Barth
62!. Henderson the Rain King!. Saul Bellow
63!. The Grapes of Wrath J!. Steinbeck
64!. The Painted Bird!. J!. Kosinski
65!. Sometimes a Great Notion!. K!. Kesey
66!. Absalom, Absalom! W!. Faulkner
67!. The Moviegoer!. W Percy
68!. Howard's End!. E!.M Foster!.
69!. Cat's Cradle!. K!. Vonnegut!.
70!. The Sound and the Furry!. W!. Faulkner
71!. Invisible Man!. Ralph Ellison
72!. Wise Blood!. F!. O'Connor!.
73!. Of Mice and Men J!. Steinbeck
74!. Kane & Abel!. J!. Archer
75!. Lucky Jim!. K Amis
76!. The Rainbow!. DH Lawrence!.
77!. Libra D!. Delillo
78!. Exodus!. L!. Uris
79!. The old man and the Sea!. E Hemingway
80!. Stranger in a Strange Land!. R!. A!. Heinlein
81!. The big Sleep R!. Chandler
82!. American Psycho!. BE Ellis
83!. As I lay Dying!. W!. Faulkner
84!. Things Fall Apart!. C!. Achebe
85!. The Beautiful and the Damned F S Fitzgerald
86!. High Fidelity!. N!. HornbyWww@QuestionHome@Com

In no particular order
One Hundred Years of Solitude (you should read this- it's easy and fun and considered terrific literature, which it is)
The Brothers Karamazov
The Sound and the Fury
Falling Man
Heart of Darkness

And the authors are:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Faulkner
Don DeLillo
Miguel de Cervantes

In case you ever get to this answer and want to read them, the degree of difficulty, on a scale of 1to ten, one being "as easy as a newspaper" and ten being "the hardest thing not in a foreign language", they are:
4 (fun but long)
7 (gets tedious at times)
10
3
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These aren't my top five, but you may like them:
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Marley & Me by John Grogan
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Anything on this list would be good: http://www!.nytimes!.com/pages/books/bests!.!.!.

Of course, you should read Pride and Prejudice, too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

5 of my favourites are:-
1!. A month in the Country - JL Carr (set in England just after WW1, story of 2 returned soldiers, easy and moving read)
2!. Kidnapped - Robert L Stevenson
3!. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
4!. The Chrysalis - John Wyndham
5!. A year in Provence - Peter Mayle

Don't forget to let us know if you pick any of the many suggestions given!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm going to say a series is a novel, bcause if i didn't do that, there would be ten with the harry potter and twilight series all jumbled

1!.Harry Potter
2!.Twilight
3!.The Maximum Ride series
4!.The mediator series
5!.The inkheart series

hmm!.!.!. they're all series!.

and because its so close im going to put 6,7, and 8

6!. Flush by Carl Hiiasen
7!.Mermaid Park by Mayall
8!.Hex EducationWww@QuestionHome@Com

1!. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
2!. Bel Canto by Patchett
3!. Graceland by Abani
4!. Swallows of Kabul by Khadra
5!. Song of Solomon by Morrison
also
6!. Q & A by Swarup
7!. East of Eden by SteinbeckWww@QuestionHome@Com

In no specific order!.!.!. (Otherwise this list would take me hours o_O):
1!. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2!. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (though the other two and The Hobbit were also incredible) - J!. R!. R!. Tolkien
3!. 1984 - George Orwell
4!. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5!. The Sight - David Clement DaviesWww@QuestionHome@Com

I'll give you my top 10:

1!. The Shining by Steven King
2!. 1984 by George Orwell
3!. A Tale of Two Citied by Charles Dickens
4!. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5!. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
6!. The Poet by Michael Connelly
7!. A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
8!. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
9!. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
10!. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

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1!. The Messenger by Markus Zusak
2!. The Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl by Barry Lyga
3!. It's kind of a funny story by Ned Vizzini
4!. Harry Potter(tired of hearing about it yet!?)
5!. The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd by Heather BrewerWww@QuestionHome@Com

1)To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2)Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
3)Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
4)Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
5)Harry Potter by J!. K!. RowlingWww@QuestionHome@Com

1: The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
2: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picult
3:The Bloody Jack series by L!.A!.Meyer
4:Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
5:19 Minutes by Jodi PicultWww@QuestionHome@Com

1) The Phantom of the Opera--Gaston Leroux
2) Les Miserables--Victor Hugo
3) Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
4) The Chronicles of Narnia--CS Lewis
5) The Silmarillion--JRR Tolkien

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1!.The Stand by Stephen King
2!.Jane Eyre by Chalotte Bronte
=3!. Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett
4!. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
5!. Swimming with the Fishes by MaryJanice DavidsonWww@QuestionHome@Com

Specials, by Scott Westerfield!.
Beka Cooper, Terrier!. by Tamora Pierce!.
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Pretties, by Scott Westerfield
Extras, by Scott westerfield!.!.

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1!. Eclipse
2!. Twilight
3!. New moon
4!. Harry potter 7
5!.The Borne(sp!?) ultimatumWww@QuestionHome@Com

1) Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
2) Dreamland - Sarah Dennesen
3) Homecoming
4) Say Goodnight Gracie
That's it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Twilight!.
New Moon!.
Eclipse!.
Gossip Girl!.
Girl in Development!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The DaVinci Code
A Child Called It
A Night at The Call Center
Chicken Soup for the Soul
The Diary of Anne FrankWww@QuestionHome@Com

Too many to pick from! But Twilight is one of them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com