Your Top 5 Books/Series

**AheeK** · 01-28-2007, 10:01 PM

Continuing on from the 1001 Best Books thread, I'm curious as to what you consider your top 5 books/series to be. Mine are:
1. The Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery
2. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
3. Earth's Children Series - Jean Auel
4. Anne of Green Gables Series - L. M. Montgomery
5. The Belgariad - David Eddings

**kaykwilts** · 01-29-2007, 08:47 AM

My oldest DD and DH love the Harry Potter series but I have yet to read the first one.

**Bethany** · 01-29-2007, 10:56 AM

Oh, I love to talk about books!
Off the top of my head, my five fav books are:
1) The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
2) The Kite Runner
3) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
4) Couldn't Keep it to Myself (compilation of stories of incarcerated women)
5) Transister Radio by Chris Bohjalian

**movaly1** · 01-29-2007, 10:58 AM

Janet Evanovich's Stepanie Plum Series (One for the Money, etc.) - LOVE these!!! so funny

**pqb57** · 01-29-2007, 11:24 AM

The Lord Of The Ring Trilogy
Earths Children Series
The Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes
Harry Potter Series
The Dead Zone by Stephen King

**danni** · 01-29-2007, 03:00 PM

Chronicles of Narnia series
Little House on the Prairie series
A Wrinkle in Time
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Harry Potter series

**redmaples** · 01-29-2007, 04:07 PM

Alexander McCall Smith's books are great:
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is the first in a very good series.

**Nada.Leona** · 01-29-2007, 06:55 PM

1. The Redwall Series by Brian Jaques (written for young adults but can definitely be appreciated by adults)

2. Beauty: A Retelling of the Tale of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley

3. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

4. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (brilliant!!!)

5. The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy D. (had to put a plug in for Amy!

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**Darlene** · 01-29-2007, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Naderbug

1. The Redwall Series by Brian Jaques (written for young adults but can definitely be appreciated by adults)

I loved those books & rarely see them ever mentioned & yes I read them as an adult. Love the Harry Potter books too.
Have you read the books about Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert?
They are wonderful. Love how animals come to life to save the day. I do like to believe animals all have a language all thier own and we all work together for wonderful magical happy endings.

Yes I talk to my cat often and we are close,lmao.

**kestrel91316** · 01-30-2007, 06:37 PM

Lord of the Rings trilogy
Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

**krissyre** · 01-30-2007, 07:36 PM

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott
3. Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
4. Harry Potter series
5. Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony

Amy (AheeK), I love the Blue Castle, too! One of my all-time favorites. I don't think I've ever "met" another person who's read it. I haven't read it in a few years, but now that you've reminded me, I'm gonna dig it out and re-read it this weekend. So, thanks for the reminder!

**EmilyD** · 01-30-2007, 08:05 PM

Little Woman
The Good Earth
James Herriott series
Little House Series
In Grandmother's Attic series

**AheeK** · 01-30-2007, 08:33 PM

Oooh, you guys have such good taste in books!! You've reminded me about so many that I have to go re-read. krissyre, you're the first person I've ever met who's read The Blue Castle too!! LOL! And I've seen the Redwall series a million times at the library, but I've always had something else on my mind and I don't know which book is the first one in the series. If I get the chance, I'm definitely going to check it out. I love the LOTR and Harry Potter and Outlander series too, but I knew someone else would put them down, so I didn't.

**Scattymum** · 02-02-2007, 06:35 AM

some of my favourite series
Anne of Green Gables
harry Potter
Stephanie Plum - janet Evanovitch
Kathy Reichs - temperance Brennan books
Lee Child - jack reacher books

oh man there are way to many to pick from!!

**chisgran** · 02-02-2007, 09:08 AM

I love books & love book series even more. I love:

1. Harry Potter series (this is a good read for adults, too). I have been mesmerized by these books & as soon as they come out, I run to Wal-mart (before work) & buy it.

2. Left Behind, adult series. When I started reading this the first time, I got bored around book 4 or 5. Years later when I decided that I would complete the series, I almost couldn't put the books down. They were fabulous.

3. Left Behind, kids series. Great great books. My 11 yr. old niece & I read up to book 9. There are about 40 books in the series & really opens up communication regarding what's right & what's wrong. We also have talked about what does she think she would do in a particular situation. It really helped with her learning & comprehension (which was my goal that summer). We've only read that far because we've switched to the Harry Potter books so we can read the last one when it comes out. I'd hate for her to hear how it ends from her friends.

4. Francine Rivers (christian fiction). She did a series about the women that were in Jesus Christ's lineage. The stories are:

Unshaken - Ruth
Unafraid - Mary
Unashamed - Rahab
Unspoken - Bathsheba
Unveiled - Tamar

At the end of the book, she ties these women in & you see how they were related to Jesus. Loved them!

If anyone is interested in reading a book or a series & then coming here & talking about it, I would love getting something like that started. Just a thought.