If you could only have 5 books for whatever reason, what are your 5 must have books?

This includes any published book of any genre. From To Kill A Mockingbird to Webster's Dictionary to The Very Efficient Carpenter to the Bible to the Lyman 50th ed. Reloading Manual, etc.

The only book I read with regularity is Atlas Shrugged.

The rest of the list would have to be the complete set of Calvin and Hobbs.

The Book of Mormon
Green Eggs and Ham
How to Eat Clams and Not Suck
If at First You Don't Succeed, so Much for Skydiving
The History of Wheat (Volumes I-X)

That’s tough.

I’ll say:

The Bible
Atlas Shrugged
Hunt for Red October
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
And I don’t remember the title but I have an amazing American History college text book that I have read many times.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
The Book of Mormon
Green Eggs and Ham
How to Eat Clams and Not Suck
If at First You Don't Succeed, so Much for Skydiving
The History of Wheat (Volumes I-X)

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Very good

I read about 75 books a year - a blessing of retirement. I seldom read a book more than once. Exceptions would include the Scriptures, Hunt for Red October and Without Remorse. I might add Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruger to round out my 5.

The Art of War ~Sun Tzu
On War ~Carl von Clausewitz
The Prince ~Niccolo Machiavelli
The Gulag Archipelago ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bible

^^^ Very nice selection dino

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Originally posted by BlackTalonJHP:
^^^ Very nice selection dino

Thank you sir !

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Read and listen to twice a year)
2. Lonesome Dove
3. Gone with the Wind
4. The Hobbit
5. D-Day (Stephen Ambrose) Started my love for WW2 history

I can't really limit it to only five, but here are some favorites:

Nonfiction/History/Philosophy:

Art of War
The Prince
various Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Plato, Socrates, etc.
Douglas Adams' nonfiction articles/letters/etc.

Fiction:

A Confederacy of Dunces
A Debt to Pleasure
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Dante Club
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch-22
Running with Scissors
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

And 100 others of various categories.

A few books I have found at my local thrift store that will occupy my time this year:
Atlas Shrugged
The Creature from Jekyll Island
Rebel Yell (S.C. Gwynne of Empire of the Summer Moon fame)
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living

and finally, Had to spend good money (correction: currency) for:
The Constitution of Liberty (F.A. Hayek)

Go Rin No Sho
Shibumi
Under the Red Sea Sun
The 13th Valley
Horn of Africa

The Holy Bible

1984

Atlas Shrugged

Catcher in the Rye

The Brothers Karamazov

A Bible
Tales of the North
Back to Basics
Star Wars: A New Hope
The Art of War

At least, right now. The list changes from time to time.

Rembrandt's eyes
by Schama, Simon.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Art : a world history
... Art : a world history / Elke Linda Buchholz ... [et al.]. ...
Publisher, Date: New York : Abrams, 2007.

Ancient Art: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Margaret Ellen Mayo (1999-03-03)

Vietnam : the real war : a photographic history
by Associated Press, photographer.
Publisher, Date: New York : Abrams, 2013.

Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life

Gates of Fire
Red Storm Rising
The Bible
Without Remorse
We Were Soldiers Once, And Young

I have hundreds of books but these are the ones I find in my hands more often than any others.

The Old Man and the Boy

Without Remorse

John Bogle common sense on mutual funds

Eva’s Man

Pale Horse Coming

The Bible

Iliad and the odyssey

The complete works of William Shakespeare

Walden

The Prince

I like to recommend books in terms of series:
1. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
2. Foundation by Asimov; OK, technically far more than one series of books
3. Steve Perry’s Matador series... starting with The Man Who Never Missed
4. Joe Buff’s Submariner series... Book 1: Deep Sound Channel
5. Timothy Zahn’s Cobra Trilogy