My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists

My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five “Favorites” Lists

Movies

1. Star Wars (aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
2. Casablanca
3. Jaws
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (aka Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)
5. Summer of ‘42

Books (Non-fiction)

1. A Bridge Too Far (Cornelius Ryan)
2. Apollo 13 (James A. Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger)
3. The Liberation Trilogy (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light, by Rick Atkinson. Yeah, yeah…that’s three books, but they tell one story.)
4. The Vietnam War (Geoffrey C. Ward)
5. D-Day: June 6, 1944 (Stephen E. Ambrose)

Books (Fiction)

1. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
2. Red Storm Rising (Tom Clancy)
3. As Time Goes By: A Novel of Casablanca (Michael Walsh)
4. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
5. The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)

Computer/Video Games

1. Crusade in Europe (1986, MicroProse)
2. Regiments (2022, MicroProse/Bird’s Eye Games)
3. F-15 Strike Eagle III (1992, MicroProse)
4. Silent Service II (1990, MicroProse)
5. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV (2005, Firaxis Games)

Songs (Standards, Mostly)

1. All the Things You Are (Kern/Hammerstein)
2. Piano Man (Joel)
3. Just the Way You Look Tonight (Kern/Fields)
4. Perhaps Love (Denver)
5. Some Enchanted Evening (Rodgers/Hammerstein)