I suspect a large majority of our readers and contributors are at the 2008 ACFW conference. So, while there away, it’s the perfect time for those of us at home to have a little fun with Novel Journey.
What five novels are your top five favorite novels? Today mine are today they are:
1.) Jane Eyre
2.) Memoirs of a Geisha
3.) Lord of the Rings
4.) Pride and Prejudice
5.) Gone with the Wind
There's a lot of good books that would probably be on that list tomorrow, depending on my mood.
Okay, your turn. What are yours?
I have so many favorites, but for the moment I'd say (in no particular order):
ReplyDelete1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
2. The Preservationist (David Maine)
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman (Morris West)
4. Heaven Lake (John Dalton)
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Wow, I've only read one book on your list! To Kill a Mocking Bird, which would definitely make my top five another day.
ReplyDeleteI've been meaning to read A Thousand Splendid Suns for some time now.
Not in rank order and you might get a different list tomorrow but:
ReplyDelete1. Little Women (Louise May Alcott)
2. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
3. Demon: A Memoir (Tosca Lee)
4. Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
5. The Stand (Stephen King)
1. Watchers (Dean Koontz)
ReplyDelete2. Demon: A Memoir (Tosca Lee)
3. The Hobbit
4. Lord of The Rings
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
Hmmmm....
ReplyDelete1. Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
2. Emma (Jane Austen)
3. Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
4. Lord of the Rings (Tolkein)
5. Out of the Silent Planet (CS Lewis)
Yeah, I'm rather fickle about this stuff too, but here goes...
ReplyDelete-Straight Man by Richard Russo
-A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
-Jim The Boy by Tony Earley
-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-something by either Nick Hornby or Douglas Coupland
So far from these lists, I've read:
ReplyDeleteDemon, A Memoir --and have to agree that it's a great book. It's one you continue to think about long afterwards. Once again, I'm encouraging Novel Journey readers to go and read it.
Little Woman
Emma
Anne of Green Gables
Out of the Silent Planet
(Kara, I think our reading tastes would align very well. And Mike Snyder, nothing yet on your list! I'm glad you answered. I might find some new favorites.)
Loved Ken Kesey, both One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion.
ReplyDeleteRedeeming Love (Francine Rivers)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) (although I don't remember it much all these years later)
Secrets and Unforgotten by Kristen Heitzmann
This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, The Oath, Prophet (Frank Peretti)
Hey, so what if I cheated? So sue me. :) (Oh, and the Black Stallion books) :)
1. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
ReplyDelete2. Exodus by Leon Uris
3. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
5. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Donald James Parker
author of Reforming the Potter's Clay and All the Voices of the Wind
I listed these five in my journal when I was 17 ...
ReplyDelete1) Anne of Green Gables
2) Little Women
3) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
4) Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
5) The Secret Garden
For the sake of nostalgia, these will probably always be the top five. But there are others, as I've "grown up," that threaten to supplant.
1. Mom in the Middle by Mae Nunn
ReplyDelete2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
4. Get Out of that Pit by Beth Moore
5. All the Little House on Prairie books
I am big fan of Janette Oke's books and movies, I also have become a big fan of Mae Nunn and so many other inspirational authors I could list about 50 to 100 authors here.
God Bless.