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Whats your favorite book/novel?

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iTeen

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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!!!😀
 
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)
 
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.
 
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...
 
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.
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Ender's Game as mentioned above
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (the whole darned thing) Stephen Donaldson
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
 
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)
 
my favorites:
for whom the bell tolls - hemingway
you shall know our velocity - eggers
the sirens of titan - vonnegut
 
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
 
Either The DaVinci Code or Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. The man knows how to keep you hooked.
 
Probably "New Moon" or "Twilight". I'm sure a lot of you have heard of these titles, very popular with my age group.
 
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. 😛
 
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
 
rather than one book, i'll opt for ONE author.

terry pratchett

cuz 😀 discworld novels rule!



i think gary jennings put out some wild books too. 🙂

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edited to add:

tyranna= serious book reader
 
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