Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Five favorite books?

Quick! If you had to name five must-read novels, what would they be? What comes to mind immediately?

One of my Gotham students asked me to name just five. Impossible! But I tried.

I said:

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

Good Grief by Lolly Winston

Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner

Then I said, Light on Snow by Anita Shreve comes before Good Grief

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Then I think I changed it to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy)

And now I can think of dozens more that are favorites.

So, name the first five favorite books that come to mind.

3 comments:

~jolene said...

How about five favorites TONIGHT (subject to change without notice)...
1.) A Trip To The Stars - Nicholas Christopher
2.) The Forgetting Room - Nick Bantock
3.) Fluke - Christopher Moore
4.) Pigs In Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
5.) Mrs. Dalloway - Virgina Woolf

furiousmuse said...

in no particular order (except for the first one):

Body & Soul, Frank Conroy
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Birth of the Firebringer, Meredith Ann Pierce (favorited since i was a teen. now out of print...)

Anonymous said...

1 ... The Myth of You and Me
2 ... The Book of Joe (Jonathon Tropper)
3 ... Second Helpings (
4 ... Something Borrowed
5 ... The Queen of the Big Tim (Adrianna Trigiani)

Can't remember all the authors and I always loan out my favorites so don't have them here to check. That's my list for right now. I did love Good Grief and Light on Snow was okay.