Forum Thread: What Are Your Favourite Books?

If you had to pick your top 5 favourite books of all time, what would they be? Ones that rocked your world, changed your life, or that you just love immensely?

Mine would be:

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In the Skin of a Lion

by Michael Ondaatje

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens