Top five favorite books.

[Xavri]

I know these normally seem to pop up in places like these. It is always interesting to see what other people's favorite books are other than the night angel books. So, 1 being your all time favorite to 5.

Mine are:

5. Brave New World
4. Anthem
3. The Power of One
2. The Hobbit
1. The Green Mile

[John]

Great trilogy, one of the best I've read =) I liked the serpent war as well, but the recent darkwar and his initial Riftwar, I don't think they were nearly as good. Empire trilogy was a great read though =)

[Heather]

Okay I honestly tried to do this list but kept slamming my head up against a very bright red brick wall...I see things in genre or is sub genre....I can say with 100% certainity thought that my all time favorite book is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodle by Julie Andrews/Blake. It was read to me in the second grade and I have been hooked ever since. I can however try and list my top 5 fanatasy series...this is not the question but it is the best I can do since my forehead now has a very BIG knot on it.
Legend of the Guardian King (however the third book irked me)
The DeathGate Cyle
The Night Angel Trilogy
The First Law Trilogy
The First Six of Drangonlance
The Chronicles of Narnia

[Valiant]

First off, I live and breath all things star wars (at least the new age material, some books keep going backwards in time???)

Vampire Earth series - EE Knight
Noble Dead Series - Barb and J.C. Hendee
Sabriel (and rest in trilogy) - Garth Nix
Stardoc Series - S.L. Viehl ...what can I say, I like fiesty women
StarFist Series - David Sherman and Dan Cragg (until they did me wrong around book 6 or so)

Not listed in any particular order of favorite. (why are the authors destroying my star wars universe? First they kill Anakin, then they try to make Jacen turn into Darth Vader.... Jacen!!!! I've read all the books with him as a kid and he'd neeever do what they made him do, especially after whoopin tooshy in the Yuuzhan Vong war!)
Please excuse my rant.

[Krissy]

mine are ...
1. night angel trilogy
2. the annals of lindormyn
3. the first law books
4. the black magician trilogy
5. the age of five trilogy

[the95th]

ah damn it i love canavans work, i should of added it to my list! .... the new books that are soon to be released are going back to the black magician trilogy and i just cant wait!!!!

though unfortunatly the age of five trilogies ending was a little predictable!

[Krissy]

yes i thought that but the story line was really good.

[Ary Widdes]

iz rather hard to answer this with only five books....so I'm going to list series where applicable ^_^

1. A Song of Ice and Fire
2. Dragonlance (the ones by Weis and Hickman)
3. Wheel of Time
4. Night Angel (I've only read Way, but it was amazing, so I'm sure I'll love the other two!)
5. Death Gate Cycle (also Weis and Hickman >.>)

[Josh]

mine are

The Night Angel Trilogy
Eragon
Eldest
Gaunt’s Ghosts series
Kris Longknife:Deserter

[Craterus]

Yeah its definitely hard to nominate only 5 so i'm going to cheat and do series as well.

1. David Gemmells.. Drenai series and Troy series ( I haven't seen these mentioned here, anyone who hasnt tried Gemmell really should. The king of heroic fantasy and you'll love them)
2. Raymond Feists and Janny Wurts Empire Series..
3. Bernard Cornwells Sharpe and Warlord chronicles (historical fiction and probably the best in the genre)
4. Conn Igguldens Genghis Khan series (he's a relatively new author as well, you'll like him)
5 Tolkien - I mean you just can't leave him off any list can you!

I'm only half way through Brents first book so i'm afraid he cant make my list yet but I'm definitely hopefull he'll make the list.

[LilBuddha]

I'm going to cheat a little and go with series.

1) Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley
2) Codex Alera by Jim Butcher
3) Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
4) The Belgariad by David Eddings
5) Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist

ok so I have a few more

6) Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
7) Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight
8) Gunslinger Series by Stephen King
9) Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

[Jose Garcia]

wow this one is a hard one...all I know is Sherlock Holmes is definetly in my top 5. Where I don't know but considering the man is probably the most famous fictional character ever I'd say he might just be on top.

[ReWolf]

1 - Notes from a big country
Only because I was falling off my chair laughing - hands-down the funniest book I've ever read.

2 - Eisenhorn
Easy-going stories from a familiar universe. Loved the action and character development.

3 - Night's Dawn Trilogy
Epic Sci-fi-horror adventure. Not so easy to read but hugely epic (~3500-4000 pgs in total iirc), and full of interesting ideas and plots.

4 - The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Beautifully written story.

5 - The way of Shadows
Excellent ideas and concepts, well written.

This is what I come up with from memory (My bookshelf is far away :( )

6 - Dune series
Classics. Not an especially easy read but revolutionary.