Your favorite book?
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller0
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My favorite book is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
I like Wally Lamb. I first read I Know This Much Is True0 -
The Count of Monte Cristo! LOVED IT!
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I love to read so I couldn't pick just one.0
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Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.
I'm a big horror fan so Clive is on my list as well. I also like guys like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene...ect.
Brian Keene is so under rated!! Love him.
You have to love Dark Hollow! Strange, weird, creepy but awesome.
Especially creepy!!0 -
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Was a fan when it was really his only book out, and long before the musical. I have given many copies of it away. And replaced a few copies when I lent it out and lost track of it.0
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Two books, because they go together:
The Winds of War and War & Remembrance by Herman Wouk.
Amazing books - historically accurate, emotionally gripping, and just incredibly well written.
I have also read She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb at least a dozen times.0 -
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Just. Awesome.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (subtitled: A Pure Woman) by Thomas Hardy. Amazing.0
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The help
Ya-Ya sisterhood
Sookie stackhouse novels
Tree grows in Brooklyn
Writing on my forehead-very awesome read
Anne of Green Gables (all the books)
Harry Potter (1-7)
For me anything historical fiction
anything Karen Essex writes0 -
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Trilogy) by Douglas Adams0
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Trinity by Leon Uris
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anything by Tony Hillerman (Southwest Navajo detective Jim Chee series)
Someone said the Bible. For me the Bible is not so much book as it is an owners manual
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The first book that found it's way to my heart? That's a tie, I recall two I read in elementary school that I bought on Amazon to re-read whenever the mood strikes me.
~Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
~A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan
Those two books were my favorites when I was young and I still enjoy them to this day!
Where the Red Fern Grows! My copy is falling apart, I should probably get another one. One of my teachers read it to our class and I fell in love with it.0 -
Anything John Grisham
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice0 -
The first book that found it's way to my heart? That's a tie, I recall two I read in elementary school that I bought on Amazon to re-read whenever the mood strikes me.
~Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
~A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan
Those two books were my favorites when I was young and I still enjoy them to this day!
Where the Red Fern Grows! My copy is falling apart, I should probably get another one. One of my teachers read it to our class and I fell in love with it.
I was coming here to say Where the Red Fern Grows. Only book I read more than once, until I was 18 and found Asoiaf. And as much as I liked those books the only reason I reread them was because I'd get lost otherwise when the next one came out :laugh:
In fact, I just reread it a couple of months ago.
Second place goes to The Giver.0 -
Pick a fav is hard I just LOVE to read
recently anything by jodi picoult
But I have aleays loved The Thornbirds0 -
Favourite: Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Runners Up...
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee0 -
First Book I was drawn to:
"Where the Red Fern Grows" - Wilson Rawls. I read this probably 5-6 times
Got me though High School:
"Hitchhikers Guide (Trilogy)" - Douglas Adams
Current Passion:
"Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand. I just started my second reading of this.0 -
Q & A by Vikas Swarup0
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"...few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart." - Carlos Ruiz Zafón from "The Shadow of the Wind"
Fellow bibliophiles - what was the first book to find it's way to your heart?
Mine was "To Kill a Mockingbird" It was assigned reading for my Sophomore English class and I literally read it four times before the class finished it.
BTW - anyone on Goodreads, feel free to add me - mnishi
Some other recs, if you liked Shadow of the Wind
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Maybe though, the first book that found its target was The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry0 -
Since very few of us are picking just one, I am going to add some more loves to my list...
The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, The Nirvana Blues(trilogy) - John Nichols
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy(cannot count how many summers I spent reading these since age 11 or 12)
The Stand - Stephen King
Comanche Moon - Larry McMurtry
Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
The Asian Saga(six books) - James Clavell0 -
it is so hard to decide since I love to read and have been reading since the age of 4. I would have to say that my favorite read is actually a short story "the last leaf" by O' Henry. A close second is "The Stand" by Stephen King.0
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I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*0
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The FIRST? "The Little Engine that Could" ...0
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My favorite book? Well, that's just the impossible question of the day.. I don't have just one, but if I had to narrow it down a bit, it would be "The Casual Vacancy", by J.K. Rowling, "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "Sabriel", by Garth Nix, "Good Omens", by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and.. Probably "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.
Really, I like a whole lot of other books. I can never narrow it down to less than 10 without a whole lot of issues, haha.0 -
I think Goosebumps and Nancy Drew were the childhood series which really helped me to develop my love of reading.
Agreed! ^____^
Third this...mine was fear street.
I forgot about those! I used to LOVE the Fear Street books.0 -
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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The Count of Monte Cristo, To Kill a Mockngbird, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice0
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Another vote for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Heinlein had a wonderful writing style, and it really helped fuel my desire to read when I was in high school.0
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my favorite book if I had to choose
novel: Narcissus & Goldmund by Herman Hesse
naturalism non-fiction: song of the dodo (forget author)
a couple other good non fiction books "the swerve: how the world became modern" " Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God "
"the unbearable lightness of being" Milan kundera
"a scanner darkly" Philip k. ****
ANYTHING VONNEGUT
especially "a man without a country"
the list goes on.... I cant pick one.0
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