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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

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