What Are Your 5 Favorite Books? - Job Interview Question

I've held my current job for 19 years, but if I'm ever in the position of interviewing for a job again, I would like to answer the question, "What are your top 5 favorite books?" as follows because it's a good balance of my eclectic interests:

1) Ecclesiastes - I love many books in the collection of Biblical scriptures, but Ecclesiastes really sticks out.  It really gets you thinking about how easy it is to get caught up in unimportant things and calls out the reader to consider what real purpose is and to prioritize the things of life.  Because most things, regardless of how grand they seem, are just going to fade away and vanish over time.  Harsh, and not for the weak at heart.

2) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - These two books contained in one cover first gave me a real interest in reading for fun and not just for career purposes.  The books seemed to break every rule I was ever taught about plot structures and main ideas, and I absolutely loved the freedom resulting from that.  Lots of fun and timeless humor.  Not to mention an insane amount of creativity.  Something you have to read more than once.  If I ever published a book myself, I'd want it to look like these two books.

3) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - This might be the only book I've ever read that fits into the self-help category, but it's written so well I never felt the need to read any other self-help books.  It taught me about the Eisenhower Box method of organization, and the circle of concern method of prioritization, both of which I still use to this day.  This book and its techniques still give me the confidence to continuously and patiently pursue whatever goals I have, provided they are eventually within my reach before I pass away due to old age or some other cause.

4) Discovering Relativity For Yourself (by Sam Lilley) - Although this book was intended to make it easier to understand both special and general relativity, it's still extremely complicated and hard to follow.  But despite all that, it is the best mix of thoroughness and simplicity I can find on a subject that snugly fits into the category of inaccessible better than most any topic on the planet.  Extremely well written considering the supreme challenge of writing it.

5) William McGonagall, Collected Poems - My favorite poet ever.  No question.  The topics he chose to put into verse (particularly his disaster poems) were often highly questionable, and his meter was non-existent, but there's still a certain charm to his efforts despite the poet's lack of conventional ability.  His work earned him admiration even though it shouldn't have.  Like many films presented on Mystery Science Theater 3000, McGonagall's poems reinforce the idea that a presented work doesn't always have to be good quality to make its audience happy that it was made.