what is your favorite book?

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  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
    House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
  • stardancer7
    stardancer7 Posts: 276 Member
    Watership Down--it has everything! I have re-read it every summer since I first picked it up in 1976.
  • AmyBecky74
    AmyBecky74 Posts: 437 Member
    I not sure of all-time fav but my top 3 are
    War and Peace
    Picture of Dorian Grey
    Comes The Blind Fury
  • windycitycupcake
    windycitycupcake Posts: 516 Member
    100 years of solitude
  • windycitycupcake
    windycitycupcake Posts: 516 Member
    i love hearing everyone's book choices!
  • SeaRunner26
    SeaRunner26 Posts: 5,143 Member
    Chronicles of Naria, specifically The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. They bring be back to my childhood. Very nostalgic.
  • ghostpixie
    ghostpixie Posts: 148 Member
    Looking For Alaska by John Green.
  • DollyMiel
    DollyMiel Posts: 377 Member
    Can't just pick one. Lots of books made huge impacts on me:

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
    The Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman
    Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
    Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
    His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
    Le Petit Prince/The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    The Bhagavad Gita
  • OhKelsey1
    OhKelsey1 Posts: 139
    Classic: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    Contemporary: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Short Story: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • jdennisj
    jdennisj Posts: 53
    My all time favorite is Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
    i have so many!! but if i had to pick one...it would be Gerald Durrell's " My family And Other Animals"


    Hooray!!!
  • Machdude
    Machdude Posts: 136 Member
    The Kid from Thomkinsville
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon... partly because it was set in my hometown (Pittsburgh) and featured a lot of places where I would hang out/visit in my college days, and partly because it was a damned funny read.
  • pwittek10
    pwittek10 Posts: 723 Member
    All the Janet Evanovich !
  • nikinonsense
    nikinonsense Posts: 14
    I love all of the X-Files novels. Not the ones based on episodes, the ones that were written as standalone stories.

    Also, the Rizzoli and Isles series the show was based off of. The books are completely different than the show, but I love both of them.
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
    Right now it's Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

    It's hard to just pick one though.
  • MFPBONNIE
    MFPBONNIE Posts: 94 Member
    GOLDEN EYES by John Gideon. One of the most talented-written books I've ever read. And quite scary.
  • cakelady69
    cakelady69 Posts: 228
    The wedding, Nicholas Sparks. I'm a romantic at heart.
  • Brendajo510
    Brendajo510 Posts: 153
    Fire by Kristin Cashore
  • sophiehart1
    sophiehart1 Posts: 8 Member
    My all time fav is The Secret Garden. This was the first book I ever received as a gift at the age of 9 and I have read it several times over the many years. It is the one that got me hooked on reading as an escape from everyday problems.
  • jlwbeans0823
    jlwbeans0823 Posts: 178 Member
    So hard to pick just one! Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author, really any of his short stories or books I could claim as a favorite. 2BR02B or Cat's Cradle are two of favorites. As a child I loved Charlotte's Web, Where the Wild Things Are and The Shark Lady. Currently reading Steve Martin's Cruel Shoes.
  • BFarnsworth
    BFarnsworth Posts: 210 Member
    The Wheel of time series.
  • citygirl04
    citygirl04 Posts: 286 Member
    Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice.
  • Mima79
    Mima79 Posts: 112 Member
    Fifty Shades of Grey--The trilogy OMG!!! :love: :heart: :glasses: :smokin:
  • Jojo1859
    Jojo1859 Posts: 58 Member
    Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye. Until I read her Shadow Of The Moon, then it's my favorite....until I read Pavilions again, then I switch. :tongue: Fantastic books, great historical fiction.

    Also love Hobbit & LOTR, and have read them all several times over. They get better every time.
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • HungerGame82
    HungerGame82 Posts: 41 Member
    Bump. People need to stop trying to impress and start being real.
  • hollyNhollywood
    hollyNhollywood Posts: 426 Member
    Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (set in Florence during Renaissance time.. )
    Followed by Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
    I love historical fiction :happy:

    The Immortal and The Gargoyle were pretty good too
  • HeatherPH
    HeatherPH Posts: 125 Member
    Bump. People need to stop trying to impress and start being real.

    Who says anyone's trying to impress anyone else? People have varied tastes and a lot of people read literature because it's actually really, really good. I've spent my life immersed in literary fiction and will choose War and Peace any day of the week over most contemporary genre novels. You don't see people judging based on less reputable books, so don't judge based on more literary novels.

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