Your favorite book?

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  • RunnerInVT
    RunnerInVT Posts: 226 Member
    I also got hooked by Nancy Drew. The Flowers in the Attic were popular but disturbing now im an adult.
    Now I work in a K -8 th grade library I am really interested in the story telling of history. Im currently reading Lincoln's Last Days by Bill OReilly...excellent! And the my name is America Series.
    Im also loving my running books...Born to Run, The Little Red Book of Running and a few Runners World Marathon training and Racing Weight.
  • xvxCelticWandererxvx
    xvxCelticWandererxvx Posts: 2,890 Member
    Love You Forever - yes still, after 21 years. My son and I read it (well, I read and he had it memorized) it often for a few years. I still have that tattered book stored away.
  • dinogal
    dinogal Posts: 2 Member
    Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • ninu13
    ninu13 Posts: 196 Member
    "A orillas del rio piedra me sente y llore"by Paulo Cohelo
    "El Alquimista" Paulo Cohelo
  • tlsegar
    tlsegar Posts: 185 Member
    The Color Purple
  • NovemberJune
    NovemberJune Posts: 2,525 Member
    There are so many! The best book I've read lately is Shades of Grey -- not to be confused with Fifty Shades of Grey. lol.
    I loved To Kill a Mockingbird in school too, and the grapes of wrath.
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    I have so many!

    "The Accidental Sorcerer" by KE Mills
    "Stay" by Allie Larkin
    "Summer of my German Soldier" by Bette Greene
    "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
    "Oliver Twist" by Charles ****ens
  • macattack99
    macattack99 Posts: 26
    How is it that no one has said The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan! (13 book epic fantasy series)

    Also
    the Way of Kings
    -Armor
    -Forever War
    -Star Ship Troopers (not the MOVIE!)
  • celtbell3
    celtbell3 Posts: 738 Member
    The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
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  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    Guess. ;)
  • IronAddict86
    IronAddict86 Posts: 708
    Paradise Lost or The Satanic Bible. Do like Gothic literature for the imagery. Not particularly into the Satanism as far as practicing, I just find it fascinating to read about from a psychology point of view plus I have a pretty dark sense of humour & carnal attitude which the latter is pretty much all about
  • xandra
    xandra Posts: 101 Member
    In grammar school I loved, "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" by Judy Bloom. In HS my fave was, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Branbury. As an adult I liked "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.

    Currently I am reading "Inferno" by Dan Brown. I love his mix of religion, history and science.
  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
  • meagank28
    meagank28 Posts: 52
    As a child it was bunnicula......a story about a vampire rabbit that sucks veggies, told from the point of view from the cat and the dog. It is great! As an adult, I love anything thing but romance novels....
  • xandra
    xandra Posts: 101 Member
    In grammar school I loved, "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" by Judy Bloom. In HS my fave was, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Branbury. As an adult I liked "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.

    Currently I am reading "Inferno" by Dan Brown. I love his mix of religion, history and science.

    OMG I forgot to mention "Roots" by Alex Hailey. I cried every single page.
  • nytius
    nytius Posts: 173 Member
    Though I enjoyed reading many years before the discovery...The first book I absolutely adored was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is still one of the most powerful pieces of literature I've ever read and the only book I really love that I can not bring myself to read again. A pretty close second to this would be I know why the caged bird sings by the great Maya Angelou.

    Honorable mentions go to: Crime and punishment, lord of the flies, and The Color Purple.

    ETA: The person above me reminded me about roots. Roots wasn't the first into my heart but it might be the one buried the deepest.
  • rebbylicious
    rebbylicious Posts: 621 Member
    The count of Monte Crisco - Alexander Dumas
  • rebbylicious
    rebbylicious Posts: 621 Member
    Though I enjoyed reading many years before the discovery...The first book I absolutely adored was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is still one of the most powerful pieces of literature I've ever read and the only book I really love that I can not bring myself to read again. A pretty close second to this would be I know why the caged bird sings by the great Maya Angelou.

    Honorable mentions go to: Crime and punishment, lord of the flies, and The Color Purple.

    ETA: The person above me reminded me about roots. Roots wasn't the first into my heart but it might be the one buried the deepest.

    I never read the book but the movie "the color purple" Had me bawling the entire time. Does the book make you cry more or less?
  • vedra_b
    vedra_b Posts: 136 Member
    I love to read! My first book i can remember reading and loving was the Box car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. i still read it to my children to this day and will probably read it to my grandchildren. As an adult I would say Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt also a Child called it-Dave Pelzer. Amazing writers.
  • nytius
    nytius Posts: 173 Member
    Though I enjoyed reading many years before the discovery...The first book I absolutely adored was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is still one of the most powerful pieces of literature I've ever read and the only book I really love that I can not bring myself to read again. A pretty close second to this would be I know why the caged bird sings by the great Maya Angelou.

    Honorable mentions go to: Crime and punishment, lord of the flies, and The Color Purple.

    ETA: The person above me reminded me about roots. Roots wasn't the first into my heart but it might be the one buried the deepest.

    I never read the book but the movie "the color purple" Had me bawling the entire time. Does the book make you cry more or less?

    The movie was good but it was pretty extensively censored version of the book. I think the book is less sad and more empowering than the movie but I definitely cried at parts while reading.
  • rebbylicious
    rebbylicious Posts: 621 Member
    My first favorite book was "Fox in Sox" by Dr Seuss :)

    These are the ones that won my heart as I grew older:

    Animal Farm & 1984 by George Orwell
    Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
    Anne Rice's Vampire novels and her Witch series
    Shannara books by Terry Brooks

    Catcher in the Rye
    A Tale of Two Cities



    I am just coming into Disc World - late I know and am reading Neil Gaiman now too. (Hitchhiker's Guide is also an old favorite)

    I was into Scifi and fantasy novels before they were cool. I love what Harry Potter, Twilight and Game of Thrones have done for the both Genres.

    You sound like my husband, he is a fiction writer and obsesses over catcher in the rye and animal farm. ( i loved catcher in the rye, so much humor and reflecting on innocence/ coming of age. )
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  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
    I forgot to mention Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card...an excellent book.

    Other favorites of mine include:

    The First Men in the Moon - HG Wells
    Gnomes - Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet
    Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
    The Harry Potter series
    As well as Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and tales of the Mayfair Witches.
  • vedra_b
    vedra_b Posts: 136 Member
    i forgot about those books i need to get a set!
  • BunnyW22
    BunnyW22 Posts: 33
    Sandman - Neil Gaiman
  • nytius
    nytius Posts: 173 Member
    I forgot to mention Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card...an excellent book.

    Other favorites of mine include:

    The First Men in the Moon - HG Wells
    Gnomes - Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet
    Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
    The Harry Potter series
    As well as Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and tales of the Mayfair Witches.

    How in the world did I forget about Ann Rice??? Yes! She set my vampire writing bar too high for others to reach LOL
  • LaurenEileen74
    LaurenEileen74 Posts: 142 Member
    East of Eden...hands down my favorite book of all time.
  • mmm_drop
    mmm_drop Posts: 1,126 Member
    But my absolute favorite books are the Dark Tower series by SK.

    I reread them every summer...I'm just about to begin on Wizard and Glass :love:

    I love the Dark Tower series. I've heard they are going to be made into a movie or tv series and I seriously hope it doesn't happen. It would just ruin it.

    I deeply and sincerely hope this doesn't happen.

    But Clint Eastwood would be the perfect Roland....imho.....the eyes, the voice. Yep.

    I agree with Clint Eastwood, but it would almost have to be him from 10-15 years ago. I really can't picture anyone else in the role.

    I could, and he's about the right age.... Mark Harmon!

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    Actually the last I heard it was going to be Russel Crowe. They were looking at Viggo Mortensen as well, but I think it is now going to be Russel Crowe...which I just don't see, personally.
  • mwilke
    mwilke Posts: 378 Member
    I can't say that I have a favorite. Among my favorites are "dark tower series", the hunger games trilogy, really like the game of thrones series (on book 3), 1984, johnny got his gun, brave new world, little women... the list goes on and on.

    haven't read fifty shades yet. Not sure that I want to, even though I have heard t hey are amazing. I may wait until all the hype is over...

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