Your top 5 books...

[saechalyn]

It needn't be your "top 5 of all time" or anything, just what comes to mind when someone says, Name 5 good books:

Ishmael- Daniel Quinn <----my favorite book ever

Choke- Chuck Palahniuk

The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway

1984- George Orwell

Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris

[phee]

Sci-Fi:

The "Nine Princes in Amber Series" - Roger Zelazny

"Enders Game" - Orson Scott Card

"Snowcrash" - Neil Stephenson

Historical Fiction:

"The Alienist" - Caleb Carr

Anything by Clive Barker...

"Satanic Veres" Salmon Rushti (sp?)

Nonfiction:

Hmmm.... "Into Thin Air" - John Krakaur

[Brenda Starrr]

"Face Forward"~Kevyn Aucoin

"Making Faces"~Kevyn Aucoin

"A Beautiful Life"~(the story of Kevyn Aucoin)

"No Lifeguard on Duty"~Janice Dickinson

"Underneath It All"~Tracy Lords

Seems shallow, but I'm a makeup artist and I love tragic, true-lifestories about people who go through serious shit and end up surviving it all.

[Shade Everdark]

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien. It has topped my list for a long, long time.

Paradise Lost - John Milton. Technically not a book, but an epic poem. Milton makes the Devil human. Brilliant.

Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville. Also not technically a book unto itself. A short story showing just how powerful despair and apathy can really be.

The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu. The first novel ever written, and a beautiful view of life in Heian Japan.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami Haruki. I can't even describe the sheer genius of his affable, bemused surreality. Also, every book he's ever written makes me hungry.

[DJ Nocker]

Changeling: The Dreaming

Vampire: The Masquerade

Mage: The Ascencion

Hunter: The Reckoning

Kindred of the East

YES IM AM RP GEEK!

I rule you.

[TheAbsynthFairy]

1. The unbearable lightness of being-Milan Kundera

2. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens

3. The Hottest State-Ethan Hawke

4. The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. Prep- Curtis Sittenfield

[bav]

7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh - Peter Trachtenberg

Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larsen

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Spider Robinson

Please Kill Me: An Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

[Guest Megalicious]

The wanting seed -Anthony Bugress

Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut

The perks of being a wallflower- Stephen Chibosky

Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf

And I've been thinking about kids books alot lately as far as what I want to read to my son ...

Bunnicula =) - Deabrah and James Howe =) (if you haven't read it and you have kids .. ITS GREAT! Not to mention a bit on the goth side, its about this rabbit that drains the juice from veggies and the cat thinks he is a vampire lol )

[bav]

The perks of being a wallflower- Stephen Chibosky

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After reading this book, I had to call a friend and walk over to her house for a hug.

It was a bit like the literary equivilant of smoking 5-MEO-DMT... it was amazing and I got a lot out of it, but I need hugs and don't think I can do it again.

Bunnicula =) - Deabrah and James Howe =) (if you haven't read it and you have kids .. ITS GREAT! Not to mention a bit on the goth side, its about this rabbit that drains the juice from veggies and the cat thinks he is a vampire lol )

I remember reading this and the "The Celery Stalks at Midnight" as a kid. They were fantastic! I especially liked the literary cat.

[Guest Megalicious]

I remember reading this and the "The Celery Stalks at Midnight" as a kid.  They were fantastic!  I especially liked the literary cat.

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Chester! =) I loved that book as a kid =)

[BrassFusion]

The Tontine- Thomas B. Costain

Animal Farm- George Orwell

Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein

Steel Beach- John Varley

The Gaean Trilogy- Titan, Wizard, Demon- John Varley

Those last three are just... inseparable...

[paradox]

paradise lost -milton

1984 -orwell

lord of the rings -tolkien

the cosmic serpent -narby

good omens -gaiman

edit: also fear and loathing in las vegas, cause its just a fun read, and i like breaking rules.

[Anathema]

Slaughterhouse-five ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Siddhartha ~ Hermann Hesse

Great Expectaions ~ Charles Dick

The Inferno ~ Dante Aligheri

Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained ~ John Milton

In no particular order of course...

[Guest Megalicious]

Slaughterhouse-five ~ Kurt Vonnegut

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That is a good one too.

The Crying of lot 49- Thomas Pynchon

Cathcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger

Movie Wars - Johanathan Rosenbaum

Ozma of Oz (yes I love the wizard of oz .. this is my favorite!) - L. Frank Baum

The expression of the emotions in man and animals - Charles Darwin ( I haven't finished it yet, but its a wonderful read .. if you like that sort of thing =) )

[fever blister]

carrie-stephen king

dope fiend-donald goines

outside providence-peter ferrelly

frankenstein or the modern prometheus-mary shelley

harry potter and the chamber of secrets-j.k. rowling

[TheLordShaper]

The Song of Fire and Ice Series --- George R R Martin

Good Omens - Neil Gamian

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintence - Robert Pirsing(sp?)

On the road -- Jack Kerouac

The big book of coctails -- hey I dont know I'm drinking.

TLS

[LuluVox]

[nitpick] People are calling Good Omens a Gaiman book, but let's not forget that Terry Pratchett wrote it with him. Also, it's on my list in invisible parentheses. [/nitpick]

Bunnicula =) - Deabrah and James Howe =) (if you haven't read it and you have kids .. ITS GREAT! Not to mention a bit on the goth side, its about this rabbit that drains the juice from veggies and the cat thinks he is a vampire lol )

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FUCK YES BUNNICULA. That book was a complete turning point in my childhood life. Ditto The Celery Stalks at Midnight.

As for me:

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (maybe cliche but a damned good book)

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Les Infants Terribles by Jean Cocteau

(Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman)

Blankets by Craig Thompson (I get a sixth choice because it's a graphic novel not a proper book, so...I can.)

[Blackmail]

Green Lantern: Rebirth - Geoff Johns

Losing the Race - John Mcwhorter

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman

Eat the Rich - PJ O'Rourke

True Faith: An Armchair guide to the bands New Order and Joy Division

[Der Nister]

Amadeus

The hobbit

Lord of the rings (trilogy)

[Raven]

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Redemption by Wayne Sharrocks

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

IT by Stephen King

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis