Maybe the toughest thing I’ve done - make a list of the top 5 books I’ve read! Rather than attempt the impossible, I’ll use my own interpretation of what constitutes a’book’!
Mulk Raj Anand’s’Coolie’
JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, along with Hobbit
Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - the entire’Trilogy of Five’(His Dirk Gently novels too, but they branch in a different space, perpendicular to the orientation of this list!)
Jerome K. Jerome’s’Three Men in a Boat’ and’Three Men on the Bummel’ / Anything by P. G. Wodehouse
Umberto Eco’s’Name of the Rose, ’’Foucault’s Pendulum’ and’Island of the Day Before’ / Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories - all of them, including the novels.
Okay, to be’fair, ’ inasmuch as one can be in such an endeavour, here are the others that do not find a place on this list, though they very much belong there.
The Harry Potter series, though much appreciated by a lot of people and decried by another lot, is not featured here because, essentially, it is incomplete. It is a personal favourite, but I will put it in the list only after I read the seventh book:)
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time - again, incomplete, as I have read only 8 of the books.
Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories - I don’t care much for the Miss Marple ones.
And then some - I’m sure I’ve some great books I’ve read - shall update when I recall all of them.:)
Cheers!