Oprah's Book Club (Official) discussion

Here are my top five books of all time. 1. "The Art of Being Human" by Richard Janaro & Thelma C. Altshuler. 2. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 3. "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. 4. "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. 5. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. Theses are my top five books of all time. What are yours?

Pillars of the earth
It
Bag of bones
Belonging
Firefly lane

This is so difficult.....

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Road
Riding the Bus With My Sister
Reading Lolita in Tehran

thank you, the Art of being Human sounds an interesting book.

My list
Celestine prophecy - influenced me most of all books and philosophies I ever came across

The Alchemist
God and evolving universe
Eat Pray Love
Wild

Vesna "The Art of Being Human" is a must read.

The Case for a Creator
Gone with the Wind
Wuthering Heights
The Help
To Kill a Mockingbird

My five:

The Hobbit
Gone With The Wind
Big Red (Children's Book)
The Lord of the Ring
The Obsession (Just finished)

Here are my top five book picks

GONE WITH THE WIND
THE FAR PAVILIONS
COME WINTER
FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT featuring THE LANGOLIERS
BLOODCHAINED

Forbidden Men
I ll give you the sun
Doll
Perfect
Styxx

The Poisonwood Bible
American Psycho
Drawing Blood
Naked Lunch
Misery

An Unknown Woman by Alice Koller
A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Anna Karanina by Tolstoy

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
5. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I love the book titled, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I also love the movie.

Top five reads:

1. The Poisonwood Bible
2. Water for Elephants
3. East of Eden
4. Prey
5. Little Bee

Top five books:

1.- Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)
2.- The Journeyer (Gary Jennings) literally changed my life into being more adventurous
3.- To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4.- The Captain Alatriste (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
5.- The Collected tales of Nicolai Gogol

Top Five:
1. The Bible
(hate to sound cliche but proverbs is the ultimate guide to spiritual, physical, mental, vocational and spiritual balance.)

2. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day.

3. Another Woman's Daughter

4. The Left Behind Series

5. Blank-still looking

That is # 1

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky
3. UnbrokenUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
4. Destiny of the RepublicDestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
5. Into the Darkest CornerInto the Darkest Corner
and many others.

I also liked To Kill A Mockingbird!!!!

Shaheer wrote: "Here are my top five books of all time. 1. "The Art of Being Human" by Richard Janaro & Thelma C. Altshuler. 2. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 3. "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wel..."

1. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte

2. "Hill towns" by Anne River Siddons

3. "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson

4. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

5. "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Here are my top five books of all time
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Platt
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken Kesey

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte had a great plot to it.

My top 5 Books of All Time.....

1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
3. The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

I really can't rank these, I feel like it changes depending on where I am in my life when I read them (haha), but my top five:

Top Classic: Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
Top Non-Fiction: Lean In-Cheryl Sandberg
Top Summer Read: The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas
Top YA/Fantasy: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-JK Rowling
Top Fiction: Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn

There are too many to list just five, but these are the titles I have read in the last 4-5 years that really impacted me the most. They are not in any special order.

1. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
2. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
3. Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I think Jeanette walls also wrote broken horses about her gram

Yes, she did. I started reading it, but stopped for some reason. I need to pick it up again.

Hi Stephanie, The Kitchen House's author Kathleen Grissom also has another book Glory Over Everything. Well worth the read.

I have a hard time picking five, but my all time favorite book is The Poisonwood Bible.

Middlemarch
Jane Eyre
A Suitable Boy
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
William Trevor Collected Short Stories

To kill a Mockingbird
Still Alice
Jane Eyre
The Stand
Angelique Marquise of the Angels

Hello. Thank you all for sharing your top five books of all time. When choosing a list it'd hard to find the correct books. However, if the book touched you in a special way; then it will find you.

It's hard. Excuse the typo.

My top five books of all time are:
The Count of Montecristo
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
Metamorphisis
House of Sand and foog

Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Angela's Ashes
The Shipping News
The House of Mirth

(a 5-book limit is tough!)

WAR AND PEACE is a great work of art. I was wondering when someone was going to mention that wonderful book. I loved it.

I'm listening to this on audiobooks now. I have a couple of long car trips. It's excellent

I have never even attempted War and Peace and have no idea what war it's about or the story or anything, what sort of story is it ?

One of my favorite books by Leo Tolstoy. I loved it too !

It is on my list. I enjoyed it immensely. No need to be intimidated by its length. If you are not familiar with Russian names, once you get comfortable, the story is very readable, and the characters and plot line are delightful.

Hi, I'm a writer and author and love to read but seem to listen to audiobooks much of my time these days. At the moment I am listening to
Isabel Allende -The Japanese lover
Stephen King -on writing

I love Leo Tolstoy-War and Peace

Good question - very difficult to answer, but I'll give it a try :-)

Uncle Tom's Cabin
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
The Island
World Without End

I keep thinking about reading any books about the Holocaust what was that one like? I think I would like to read Uncle Toms Cabin too. But I had Brain Cancer and i thought I was never going to be able to read again, i was very sad as I loved it, I have a really bad memory now so I may have told you this. Any books I now read must be on Kindle, as far as I'm concerned Kindle rules, ha ha.

Jane Eyre,
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Secret Life of Bees
I know why the cage bird sings

Ann Greenfield wrote: "I keep thinking about reading any books about the Holocaust what was that one like?"

Hi Ann

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer is an incredible an true story - a must read if you ask me :-)
Another book about the Holocaust is To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War. I have persuaded so many people to read this book and everyone loved it, even people that normally distance themselves from Holocaust books. As the title says; it's a true love story :-)
Right now I'm reading The Nightingale. I have a very hard time putting it down :-) The book is fiction, but it tells the story of the women and children left behind.
All 3 books are great and I highly recommend them all :-)

Hi, I'm Sheila, Of course there are more than 5 favorites- but here are the ones I chose for today.

Gitte wrote: "Good question - very difficult to answer, but I'll give it a try :-)

Uncle Tom's Cabin
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
In My Hands: M..."</i>

<i>Gitte wrote: "Good question - very difficult to answer, but I'll give it a try :-)

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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
In My Hands: M..."</i>

<i>Gitte wrote: "Good question - very difficult to answer, but I'll give it a try :-)

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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
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The Nazi Officer's Wife, by Edith Beers and Susan Dworkin ($12.99 - Kindle) is an excellent read. Highly recommend her story.

Sheila wrote: "Hi, I'm Sheila, Of course there are more than 5 favorites- but here are the ones I chose for today. "

Could you provide the authors for the books about the holocaust you listed?

Clare wrote: "Gitte wrote: "Good question - very difficult to answer, but I'll give it a try :-)

Uncle Tom's Cabin
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
..."</i>

Hi Clare

[book:The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust is on my to read list. Thank you :-)

Doris wrote: "Sheila wrote: "Hi, I'm Sheila, Of course there are more than 5 favorites- but here are the ones I chose for today. "

Could you provide the authors for the books about the holocaust you listed?"

Hi Doris

Not sure if your question is for me, but here's the authors of the books, I mentiones:

- Betty Schimmel

- Kristin Hannah

- Irene Gut Opdyke