Whats your favorite book/novel?

[iTeen]

To all those who read, what is you favorite book?

Mine is Duma Key, by Stephan King.
I also love all Clive Cussler books, and Dean Koontz

Post away!!!:D

[aethelbert]

I hate to say it, but probably Jane Eyre. Good book.

[Krafty]

Swallowing Stones

[ucfgrad93]

I have several. I have read each of these at least 4-5 times if not more.

Fiction
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Stand (Stephen King), The Dead Zone (Stephen King), Shogun (James Clavell)

Non-Fiction
Off the Planet (Jerry Linenger), Shadow Divers (Robert Kurson), Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

[prostuff1]

Read, ha, who still does that. Most of the books i consume are in audio form now. makes it so much easier when i am at work. I have probably spent a small fortune on audio books but it has been well worth it.

Anyway, i would have to say that my most favorite serious is the Ender's Game and Shadow of the Giant series by Orson Scott Card. Great, great books that i highly recommend to anyone.

I could list all the books i have read but that would be going into the 80's range and i don't fell like typing that much.

[Lord Blackadder]

The Three Musketeers and Twenty Tears After, Alexandre Dumas.

I am also a big fan of Machiavelli.


...but I am a massive bibliophile and find it very hard not to start listing everything I like...

[creator2456]

I'll be the first to admit that I don't read enough, but a book that I enjoyed was The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_They_Carried)
amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Carried-Tim-OBrien/dp/0767902890)

[UberGeek9]

The LOTR trilogy, the Hobbit.. and 1984.

[ravenvii]

Ender's Game as mentioned above
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (the whole darned thing) Stephen Donaldson
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

[bbbensen]

Well, my favorite books are... (My dorkyness is making me add some manga too....)

Books:

Jurrasic Park (Michael Crichton)

Battle Royale (I dont know who the author is....)

the Maximum Ride series (James Patterson, but the last book just sucked, and I dont like it.)

Manga:

SGT Frog

Death Note

Yoki Koto Kiku

R.O.D. (Both of them)

[basesloaded190]

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Michael Chabon

Fantastic book! couldn't put it down.

[jalagl]

Dune - Frank Herbert
The Count of Montecristo - Alexandre Dumas

[mininyaba]

my favorites:
for whom the bell tolls - hemingway
you shall know our velocity - eggers
the sirens of titan - vonnegut

[PlaceofDis]

there are too many to even possibly name.

but some include

Survivor - Pulahniuk
Coke - Pulahniuk
The Wasteland - Eliot (a poem but still my fav.)
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Junky - Burroughs
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Day of the Locust - West

[Prof.]

Either The DaVinci Code or Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. The man knows how to keep you hooked.

[riscy]

Sophie's world by Jostein Gaarder is a book I never tire of re-reading.

[Cassie]

Probably "New Moon" or "Twilight". I'm sure a lot of you have heard of these titles, very popular with my age group.

[Daveman Deluxe]

How can you ask me to pick just one? There's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, The Cost of Discipleship, The Great Gatsby, The Great Divorce, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and a buch more.

If I had to pick just one, I would pick Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Yes, that was two. You can't make me choose. :p

[fridgeymonster3]

Fiction:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Non-Fiction:
Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner

Series Honorable Mentions:
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series
Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series
Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy
Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels

[tyranna]

rather than one book, i'll opt for ONE author.

terry pratchett

cuz :D discworld novels rule!



i think gary jennings put out some wild books too. :)

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edited to add:

tyranna= serious book reader

[Regis27]

The Brothers Karamozov -- Dostoevsky

[Sogo]

I too choose Ender's Game as my favorite book. I may just read it again soon.

[John Jacob]

Fiction:
1984 - George Orwell.

Non-fiction:
Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan.

[MacHiavelli]

Arcadia Abandoned by Jack Watts
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale

[oblomow]

Can I pick two?

Fiction: Oblomow, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
SF: HHGTG

[JoshLV]

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

[amiga]

Enigma by Robert Harris

[Nicolecat]

This doesn't seem to be topic of choice...
...but I really enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha

The book was so much better than the movie. Very good descriptive imagery, and there was alot more story line that got left out of the movie (but that happens a lot due to time constraints)

I would recommend it to any avid reader.

[MacHipster]

The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing.

[psychofreak]

Fiction: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Non-Fiction: A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

[Xfujinon]

Quite a few, hard to pin down a "favorite" book among the many gems.

Possibly my favorite of all time, Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

Runners up:
Complications, by Dr. Atul Gawande
Stiff, by Mary Roach
Love in the Ruins, by Walker Percy
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
The Legends Trilogy, by Weis and Hickman
Dragonflight, Anne McCafferey

Books are sacred to me. I love reading.

[119576]

Without a doubt, my favourite novel is The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

My favourite book, however, is "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss.

[Stampyhead]

Probably "New Moon" or "Twilight". I'm sure a lot of you have heard of these titles, very popular with my age group.

It's amazing how popular those books have become with young people. My two nieces, who are around your same age, have devoured those books with the same voracity that they read the Harry Potter series, and are looking forward to the next one coming out in August. They keep telling me that I need to read them, but I haven't been able to bring myself to do so yet because I've never much cared for vampire stories.

Anyway, as far as my own reading goes, I haven't yet found a book that I enjoyed as much as Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. I read it in the original French and it was much more thrilling than it could ever be translated into English. Sadly I don't have much time to read these days, but I like to listen to audio books during my commute to/from the office. A favorite that I have listened to lately is "Innocent Traitor" by Allison Weir. It's the story of Lady Jane Grey, the girl who was Queen of England for 9 days between Edward VI and Mary I.

[roland.g]

I am a huge fan of the LOTR trilogy and the Hobbit.
But another personal fav is Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, though just about any of his books are great.

[spoon man]

Mine are...

Hellbound hearts:Cliver Barker

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star:Nikki Sixx,Ian Griffiths.

there both really worth a read :)

[Iscariot]

Cannery Row
The Outsider
Metamorphosis

[mac 2005]

Favorite novel (author dead): The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Favorite novel (currently re-reading): Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Favorite novel (author living): The Names, Don DeLillo

Favorite novel (planning to re-read): The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

In other words, I think it's best to have a favorite novel for multiple categories, real & imagined. Reading is a great thing.

[Qoxiivi]

Fiction: 1984 by George Orwell
Non-fiction: Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman

[iTeen]

Probably "New Moon" or "Twilight". I'm sure a lot of you have heard of these titles, very popular with my age group.
Actually, I have never heard of them.
I will have to give them a try.:D

[scotty96LSC]

Steve and Me, Teri Irwin; Big Russ and Me, Tim Russert, The 12th Angel, OG Mandino.

[Stridder44]

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. @#$%ing awesome book. :)

There was a Dean Kontz novel I loved too but can't remember the name of...

[Leareth]

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett.

Though the NightWatch/DayWatch/TwilightWatch trilogy by Sergei Lukyanenko comes a very close second

[faintember]

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King and A Brief History of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking.

[Badandy]

Dune - Frank Herbert


I've heard that this is the greatest Sci-Fi book of all time, and though I am weary of assigning rankings to books, which are personal preferences, it certainly intrigues me enough to add it to my reading list. I have to read "Kindred" by Octavia Butler for a course, so I'm 50 odd pages into that right now. After "Kindred" I am moving on to the "Foundation" series by Asimov, and right after that I'm onto "Dune", so I'm very excited.

And to answer the thread's question, I'm going to have to go with a book I finished not too long ago called "The Worthing Saga" by Orson Scott Card (of Ender/Shadow fame). I guess I will put that as my one favorite book not only because it is one of the most recent I have read, but I'm pretty confident it will stay at a very high position no matter what books I will read in the future.

There are so many other books I want to put here, but I'll stick to the thread and keep that one as my favorite.

[lofight]

I just read the autobiography of Eric Clapton, and it's very good! Harry Potter and some other too.

[applegoddess09]

It is a rather unknown book, but Bud, Not Buddy is always the first book that comes mind when asked about my favorite book.

[~Shard~]

One of my all-time favorites is The Art of War. Recently my favorite book has been The Four Hour Work Week, as I can relate to it a lot, have the same thinking and outlook at the author, and have found it to be very valuable in helping me take things to the next level of where I want to be.

[oblomow]

Without a doubt, my favourite novel is The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.



Friend! (or should I say weirdo?) I recently convinced my wife to read it, she said it was a very sick book. I like it though.

[andiwm2003]

sorry for reviving this old thread but i didn't want to create a new one just to recommend a book i'm reading right now.

its tom levenson's "newton and the counterfeiter".

its a true history book about isaac newton but it reads almost like a novel.

the thing is its not really about newton and gravity but rather about him being ward of the mint in london, the economic crisis at the time, the king letting parliament figure out a solution and then a cat and mouse game between newton and a counterfeiter who fakes silver coins.

it's a life and death situation because there is a death penalty on faking coins. the economy goes down the drain, there is a ponzi scheme going on and newton falls for it.

it is so much the same ***** as today it's unbelievable. and this historically true story happened hundreds of years ago and nobody learned from it.

[Roger Strummer]

Since the thread was revived, I'll recommend Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, amazingly well written, it became a personal favorite of mine.

[spillproof]

Oh wow old thread.

Don't really read much or have a favorite book, but my current book is The Host by Stephenie Meyer. Yes I am a guy, but it is really good so far about 1/3 the way in.

[AngryApple]

Stephen King's Cell is my favorite book. I also like Jeanne Deprau's City Of Ember books.

[poopyhead]

empire falls

followed by
I know this much is true
city lights pocket poet anthology
3 soldiers
the great gatsby
sanctuary
ethan frome

[Little HZ]

It's a tie for me: To Kill a Mockingbird and Catch-22.

[lostprophet894]

Stephen King's The Dark Tower. All seven books of the series are amazing (it's one long story broken into several books so it counts :p).

[xlii]

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. You can read the first chapter here... think biotech horror story set maybe 75 years in the future from now. Don't forget, just as technology solves old problems... it creates new ones. Oh, and save some of that can of soy o sardines will you? I here it tastes like real sardines.

First Chapter:
http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk/excerpt.asp

[fireshot91]

Stephen King's Cell is my favorite book. I
Really?

I picked it up the other day, for about $4 (Hardcover, and Borders was having a sale), but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Right now, I'm reading The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

[clocksun]

coke-
the also rises
the day of the locust

[DrewDaHilp1]

Non-Fiction = Lone Survival by Marcus Latrell
Fiction Dear = John by Nicholas Sparks

[BoyBach]

'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy.

[d_and_n5000]

I really, really like Les Miserables. The only problem I'm having is its so long and I'm so busy that I start reading and I go, "Wait, when did he come into the story? Where's he from? Who's he?" The story is so all-encompassing and there are just so many names. Still very interesting, though.

[Melrose]

I really, really like Les Miserables. The only problem I'm having is its so long and I'm so busy that I start reading and I go, "Wait, when did he come into the story? Where's he from? Who's he?" The story is so all-encompassing and there are just so many names. Still very interesting, though.

My dad read that book and had the same single complaint about it. It was so in-depth it got confusing at times. He still liked it though :)

[DoFoT9]

artemis fowl

im 20, i dont care. its interesting :D

i wish my IQ was a million.