Name your all-time three favorite novels, in order. No more than three, please

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  1. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
  2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  3. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
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-Moby Dick

-The Lord of the Rings

-Dracula

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The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Dune - Frank Herbert
The City & the City - China Mieville

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  1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
  2. Le grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
  3. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
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I’ll go with:

  1. Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell
  2. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  3. The Newcomes, by William Thackeray

(Hard to say if those are my all-time favourites, but I certainly like them better than all of the other books mentioned in this thread so far.)

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Lord of the Rings
Dune
Player of Games (if not this the then another Iain M Banks Culture novel)

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In no particular order:

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley

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Some many good novels already listed.

Here’s my three

  1. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey.
  2. The Road Home, Jim Harrison
  3. Some John Irving novel, I’ll pick The Hotel New Hampshire.
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Red Storm Rising

The Devil’s Alternative

Redwall

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A Gentleman In Moscow
The Graveyard Book
Young Mungo

I didn’t want these stories to end and I often think about the characters and what happened to them many years later.

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Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

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Difficult because it depends–favorites on reading? On re-reading? In a particular mood? That I’d take to the desert island?

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
  2. Hans Zinnser: Rats, Lice, and History
  3. Adrienne Rich: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
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  1. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
  2. Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
  3. The Custom of the Country (Edith Wharton)
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Pride And Prejudice
True Grit
Watership Down

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  1. Belgarath the Sorcerer, by David Eddings.
  2. Guards, Guards, by Terry Pratchett.
  3. Magic’s Pawn, by Mercedes Lackey
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  1. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
  2. Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
  3. Cugel’s Saga, Vance (technically a novella, I believe).
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  1. Catch-22 (my bible for 55 years)
  2. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey’s masterpiece)
  3. Deliverance (a disturbing story made beautiful by a poet’s mastery of words)

I’ve read all three of these many times.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There)

The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit)

A Wrinkle in Time

And if I could include another book it would be The Last Picture Show.

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By The Sword by Mercedes Lackey

Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein

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Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins