Yes - loved those, and the hardest time finding them for DS when he was young! I did eventually collect several, which I saved, and now my friend's little ones are enjoying them too.p.s. Did anyone else read those "choose your own adventure" stories where you could pick different endings? I LOVED them as a kid.
LOVED The Giver. Also loved The Chosen, by Chaim Potok. I'm not Jewish, but I found this fascinating.Harry Potter
Hunger Games
Handmaid’s Tale
The Stand
The Giver
-Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
-Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker (NOT to be confused with something I found by Sylvester Stallone)
-Harry Potter series (my daughter is now reading and tempted to re-read), J.K. Rowling
-1776, David McCullough
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
*If you are interested in Irish-American history/immigration or saw Gangs of NY, then Paradise Alley would be very enjoyable. First book that brought me to tears and I was in college!
p.s. Did anyone else read those "choose your own adventure" stories where you could pick different endings? I LOVED them as a kid.
I can still remember when I chose to be a Mayan sacrifice!Yes - loved those, and the hardest time finding them for DS when he was young! I did eventually collect several, which I saved, and now my friend's little ones are enjoying them too.
What do you mean by "in consideration of this thread's literary aspirations"?In consideration of this thread’s literary aspirations, I vote that its title be changed from “most favorite” to simply “favorite.” Thank you.
Listened to Phantom on tape with my son as we drove to batting practice. We were going to see the musical and he asked me what it was about, so I said let's find out. (All I knew was those awful horror movies.) But when I tried to read the book to him we would both fall asleep. I was impressed at how well the musical followed the original story and was true to the spirit.The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King's under appreciated best work IMO)
The Count of Monte Cristo (this one seems to be popular!)
Jane Eyre
The Phantom of the Opera (the musical is great, but the book it was based on is just so amazing!)
The Night Circus
It's so hard to limit to just 5 as there are others that I would also name as my favorites.
I just read Their Eyes Were Watching God this year - assigned reading for my daughter's high school class and I did a read-along. Excellent book.Almost too many to name, and too hard to narrow down, but will try, and also it's easier to just add my favorite authors
As a kid, Hardy Boys books
The Grapes of Wrath-always at the top of my list
The Awakening
Jane Eyre
The Sue Grafton series
Janet Evanovich Stepahnie Plum series (complete silliness, but they make me smile and lol.)
Their Eyes were Watching God
The Literary South-my textbook from my Southern lit class, full of the most well written short stories ever. Love shorts stories by Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, Tim Gautreaux, Ernest Gaines, and many, many more.
The Ballad series novels by Sharyn McCrumb
Shakespeare-especially Tempest and Twelfth Night, but all of the tragedies
Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
Tender is the Night and Great Gatsby-F Scott Fitzgerald
Several by Lee Smith, Fannie Flagg
The Color Purple-Alice walker
I have lots more books I appreciate, maybe they're not my favorite, but they were well written, like Song of Solomon, and others that I appreciated more at various times of my life, like Cold Sassy Tree
Haven't read a book in a couple years now, just spending leisure time on other activities (DIS boards. haha.) but want to get back to it. Lots I'd like to read
I love all of your book picks, but have never heard of Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. I'll have to check that one out!1984 - George Orwell
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
Jane Eyre - Emily Bronte
Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Not that I've read through it completely, but I'm surprised that there were no mentions of The Art of War by Sun Tzu.