Difficult to pick 'top' three.

#1 because it changed my life

#2 because it's a joy to enter the world of Magic Realism

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#3 because it makes your head spin in a very hallucinogenic way and you become part of the book, part of the story.

 

In no particular order (except in the order that I read them)

 

#1 The Plague - Albert Camus

 

#2 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

 

#3 Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder 

 

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.