of these books, but I'd put the following in my 'best ever' grouping:
The Brothers Karamazov
Night
The Road
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Lord of the Rings, Brave New World, Animal Farm, and so many others needs to be on the list...but I kept it to five.
I can't say that I enjoyed reading Les Miserables...there were way too many tangents.