List your 5 favorite novels.

First: A great list, made me think. As I am . . . well along in the category of chronological success, I've read a lot of novels. So, here's my five, considering your criteria, off the top of my head at this moment, which may include one surprise to many people:

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Inheritors, William Golding

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The list changes. At the moment:

The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow -- Thea Astley
Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier
The Owl Service -- Alan Garner
The Quiet American -- Graham Greene
Prodigal Summer -- Barbara Kingsolver

1) The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
2) One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes
3) Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
4) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
5) The Name of the Wind​ by Patrick Rothfuss

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Call of the Wild
Heidi
Watership Down
Brave New World

Fun!

Mine are, in no particular order:
I Know This Much Is True
Good Omens
Sense and Sensibility
The Kitchen God's Wife
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Shout-out for Prodigal Summer, Helix--I loved that book!

My favorites, having never read Game of Thrones...

1) The Name of the Wind
2) The Way of Kings
3) The Lies of Locke Lamora
4) Wizards First Rule
5) Gardens of the Moon

Also a fan of most of the Wheel of Time series

I feel like I have two all-time favorites followed by some that have changed over the years. My current list would probably be:

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
4. Roadside Picnic
5. Howl's Moving Castle

Oh man, just five? Let me think...
In no particular order

1). Dune - Frank Herbert
2). The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
3). American Gods - Neil Gaiman
4). Storm of Swords - GRR Martin
5). The Pearl - John Steinbeck

five, hmm...

1) The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck. For my money, the greatest author of all time.
2) The Gormenghast Trilogy- Peake. Beautifully written.
3) The Foundation Trilogy- Asimov. Nothing about this should work, the time jumps, the ever changing MC... but it works perfectly.
4) Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky. Shame about the tacked on conclusion, but otherwise it is the greatest game of cat-and-mouse ever written.
5) His Dark Materials- Pullman. Superb world-building and an exciting yarn.

I know I cheated by using three trilogies... but each of them is a complete work in its own right.

In no particular order:

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The Shining by Stephen King

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Camel Club by David Baldacci

Gosh, it's like choosing a favorite child or something. Maybe(?):

1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

2. Herzog by Saul Bellow

3. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

4. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (which is arguably a memoir and not a novel, but it is at the very least marketed as a novel)

My list would change any time I'm asked, I have so many. But here goes (for now):

1. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon/ The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerld
2. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
3. The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5. Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger

In no particular order and excluding the Harry Potter books because they'd take up the whole list and then some...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Carful Drivers by Grant Naylor
The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern (AKA: William Goldman)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tribe of Star Bear by Victoria Mihalyi

I had to think hard about this, because I have the opposite problem to most of you - I can barely think of 3 books I would call my favourite.

1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. River God - Wilbur Smith
3. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith

Those are the only ones that will always stay with me, and that I would read over and over. Nothing else has really stuck out.

Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
The Truth, Terry Pratchett
Thud!, Terry Pratchett
Wings, Terry Pratchett

Er...

These questions suck lol

• THE WRATH OF THE DAWN by Renee Ahdieh
• POISON PRINCESS by Kresley Cole
• THE PRINCESS CURSE by Merrie Haskell
• THE DEMON KING by Cinda Williams Chima
• A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin

1. Harry Potter (series count as one right?), JK Rowling
2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
3. The Book Thief, Markus Zuzak
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
5. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown

Hi,
I haven't read much lately, but I am changing that!
I do have a few I like, so will list them in no particular order.
1. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
2. Brandon Sanderson Cosmere Series - Every book is better than the last
3. Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic and Going Postal are my two favourites.
4. Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks
5. The Black Magician Trilogy - It is what got me into writing so holds a special place in my heart.
From
Ru

Just five!

• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
• The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse)
• The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
• Mort (Terry Pratchett)

(of course I would beg for the entire Hitchhikers series (+ the Dirk Gently novels), all the discworld novels, and everything by P.G Wodehouse each to be counted as a single choice...but that still means no Charlie Dickens, no Tom Hardy, no Vonnegut, no Phillip Dick, no George Orwell...)

In some order, off the top of my head, this minute:

Baltizar and Blimunda (Saramago)

The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)

The Road (McCarthy)

Cane (Toomer)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn)

It, by Stephen King
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
We Are Water, by Wally Lamb
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Weaveworld, by Clive Barker

Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin
These Old Shades Georgette Heyer
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope
Under the Skin Michel Faber

(On another day I'd give another list. Wolf Hall would still be on it and, probably, Atuan, but the others would change with mood and weather.)