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Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by AlexDeedat(m): 11:36pm On Jan 21, 2018
For me, I read any books that find it ways to my table. Specifically, I Love reading Novels majorly Crime, Adventure and Science Fictions.

Below are the books I found appealing to my sight.

You may share yours as well for the benefit of others

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by policy12: 12:11am On Jan 22, 2018
Matrasse cycle by Robert Ludlum

All Francine Rivers book has been so inspiration especially the Hadassah.

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by sirgalahad26(m): 11:09pm On Jan 22, 2018
efuru by flora nwakpa things fall apart by chinua achebe ghana must go by taye selasi half of a yellow sun by chimamanda ngozi-adichie animal farm by george orwell

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Mynd44: 7:10am On Jan 23, 2018
The Bourne Series (Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum) (Robert Ludlum)
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
IT (Stephen King)
Tommyknockers (Stephen King)
Robots of Dawn (Issac Asimov)

Second batch

Harry Potter Series
The Hobbit. (Lord of the Rings was not so hot ad a book)
One week one trouble (Anezi Okoro) Hilarious AF
Violence (Festus Iyayi)
The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)

Would have added Percy Jackon Series but damn, the book is too childish. Interesting but childish

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by oubi: 7:12am On Jan 23, 2018
THINGS FALL APART

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Ramon92: 7:12am On Jan 23, 2018
So many novels I've read and they're more than just the best 5

The Alchemist.. Paolo Coelho
To kill a mockingbird
1984 by George Orwell
All novels by Dan Brown
House of cards series.. Michael Dobbs
Things fall apart.. Chinua Achebe
In cold blood.. Truman Capote
The Godfather trilogy

.. Reading at the moment, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by teamsynergy: 7:12am On Jan 23, 2018
devil on the cross by ngugu wa thiongo
the chamber by john grisham
art of war by sun tzu (not sure if it qualifies as a novel)

the lord of the rings by jrr tolkien
the adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur doyle

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Pubichairs(m): 7:13am On Jan 23, 2018
Purple Hibiscus
things fall apart
half of a yellow sun
.... smiley I reminisce when reading them

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by BruncleZuma: 7:13am On Jan 23, 2018
1984
Animal Farm
Anthills of the Savannah
Potter's Wheel
Why We Struck

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Williamstd9: 7:13am On Jan 23, 2018
Thinking Big____Ben Carson.

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by cerowo(f): 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
Accident by Danielle steel.
Star by Danielle steel.
Fools die by Mario puzo
perfect match( forgot the authors name)
For better for worse( forgotten the authors name as well)

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by bokunrawo(m): 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
DaVinci Code- Dan Brown
Harry Potter Series - Jk Rawlings
Doomsday conspiracy - Sydney Sheldon
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
Long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela

Bonus Book- Elon Musk book on the age of robots

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Officialpyper(m): 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie

Sizwe Bansi is dead

Hope in Anarchy(a must read for everyone)

A Woman in her Prime

Women of Owu

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by jericco1(m): 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
things fall apart. Oliver twist the famished road 1984 the joys of motherhood

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by ibkgab001: 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
There was a country Chinua acebe
There was a country
There was a country Abacha
There was a country
There was a country Buhari

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by IamMrNoble(m): 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
Cool
Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Aldebaran(m): 7:14am On Jan 23, 2018
The concubine by elechi amadi and Great Expectations,( hmm Miss Havisham,pip)are among my best

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Geoxplorer: 7:15am On Jan 23, 2018
Jane Eyre, Great expectations, joys of motherhood, oliver twist, a little princess...

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Kenzico(m): 7:15am On Jan 23, 2018
My best novels so far are

King Solomon Mines by H. Rider Riggard

Old man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Even Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney grin

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by soshi(m): 7:15am On Jan 23, 2018
round the world in eighty days- jule Verne's
Davinci code- Dan brown
inferno - Dan brown
animal farm- George Orwell
lord of the flies - William golding

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by Godspowerlive: 7:15am On Jan 23, 2018
History is very important

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by chiefolododo(m): 7:15am On Jan 23, 2018
oubi:
THINGS FALL APART
shame
Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by LordIsaac(m): 7:16am On Jan 23, 2018
Watchers- Dean Koontz
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Other Side of Midnight -Sidney Sheldon
48 Laws of Power -Robert Greene
Tenant of Widefell Hall -Anne Bronte

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by HotIce90(f): 7:16am On Jan 23, 2018
Davinci code
Angels and demons
Digital fortress
Lost symbol
Dante Inferno
All novels by Dan Brown

Have not read his new novel ORIGIN yet

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by b3llo(m): 7:17am On Jan 23, 2018
Things fall apart
Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by AkpaMgbor(m): 7:18am On Jan 23, 2018
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Iliad by homer
The inferno by Dan brown
A song of ice and fire( aka game of thrones)by Martins G.R
Things fall apart by chinua Achebe

Honorable mentions include
The da Vinci code by Dan brown
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
Dracula by bran stoker
Black beauty by Anna Sewell..

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by HotIce90(f): 7:19am On Jan 23, 2018
soshi:
round the world in eighty days- jule Verne's

Davinci code- Dan brown

inferno - Dan brown

animal farm- George Orwell

lord of the flies - William golding

Lord of the flies was my favorite when I was a kid. Love the movie too

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by livinus009(m): 7:19am On Jan 23, 2018
Things Fall Apart..
Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by twinke209(m): 7:19am On Jan 23, 2018
HotIce90:
Davinci code Angels and demons Digital fortress Lost symbol Dante Inferno All novels by Dan Brown
Have not read his new novel ORIGIN yet
We share the same author

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Re: Name Your Top 5 Novels Of All Time You Would Like Your Friends To Read. by sotall(m): 7:19am On Jan 23, 2018
My father's daughter by Maybell Segun

The Sucker punch by James Hardley Chase

Z for Zachariah......I have forgotten it's author


Animal farm by George Orwell

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