salami_swami 
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Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars trilogy.
Reply #1. Jul 01 12, 12:08 AM
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| C30
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So many..............difficult to pick "best", but up there I would rate:-
Witches Abroad............................Terry Pratchett
The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream......G C Edmondson
Unto This Hour............................Tom Whicker
The Good Ship Venus.......................John Winton
Hornblower and the Atropos................CS Forrester
Many more, but those are all novels that "grabbed" me.
Reply #2. Jul 01 12, 2:33 AM
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blindcat78
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The Island Of The Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
The Little House On The Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
White Fang by Jack London
The Left Behind series by Tim Lahay & Jerry B. Jekins
The Trumpet Of The Swan by E. B. White
Reply #3. Jul 01 12, 5:19 AM
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lorance79
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I'm going to say "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Just stunning.
Reply #4. Aug 26 12, 12:33 AM
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paulmallon
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"The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk
Reply #5. Aug 30 12, 12:57 PM
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kaddarsgirl
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Well, my favorite is "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. I guess that means it's the best I've read, but I've read so many great novels it's really hard to choose. Steinbeck is my favorite writer, though, and "Of Mice and Men" is an incredible story, so I'm going with that one. I've got two copies of the book, in English and in French, and have read both of them. Also seen the movie (Gary Sinise love). Lenny!!
Also enjoyed Steinbeck's "The Pearl". The book is less than 100 pages, and I guess it's technically a novella. Very good book, and could not put it down. Only took about an hour and a half to read.
Didn't like "Grapes of Wrath" as much, and have also read "Tortilla Flat" and "Cannery Row". Soon to read "East of Eden" but that novel is HUGE.
Reply #6. Aug 31 12, 7:23 PM
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alexis722
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Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevski
The Little Prince - St Exupery
The Prophet - Gibran
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
The Hot Zone - Preston
Just some faves, but can't think of the best, so hard to choose.
Reply #7. Aug 31 12, 8:29 PM
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alexis722
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River of Time books - Jose Philip Martin {?} - they were just fun!
Wheel of Time - can't remember author
Cemetery Dance - Preston & Chil
The Ice Limit - one or both of the above authors
Polar Star - Martin Cruz Smith
Reply #8. Aug 31 12, 8:33 PM
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| C30
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Alexis722........do you mean Phillip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld" series? If so, I thoroughly enjoyed them too.......pity the subsequent film was rubbish!
paulmallon.......didn't realise that the ship I spent a short time in as guest of USN, back in 1965, was the same ship that starred in the movie of "The Caine Mutinty" - USS THOMPSON (DD627.
Reply #9. Sep 01 12, 1:48 AM
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triviabrandi
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Swan Song by Robert McKammon
Reply #10. Sep 01 12, 2:35 AM
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| adams627
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Can't pick one, but a few starters would be:
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Garcia Marquez
Catch-22- Heller
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky
Lolita- Nabokov (I know, I know. But Nabokov's writing in original English is amazing!)
Jane Eyre- C Bronte
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Chabon
These are a few I've read a couple of times and really enjoyed.
Reply #11. Sep 01 12, 6:02 AM
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george48
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Hands down, the most interesting and thought provoking
piece of literature i've ever laid my hands on.
It had major influence on shaping my political views, and although i never became a full fledged objectivist, i sympathise with her viewpoint.
Reply #12. Sep 01 12, 6:44 AM
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paulmallon
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C-30: a sincere thank you for your service!
Reply #13. Sep 01 12, 10:21 AM
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| Hiyori
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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Inseparable - Ann Major
Reply #14. Sep 04 12, 5:52 AM
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Nammage
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The best novel I ever read was The Republic attr. Plato. Though perhaps that's not actually a novel, per se.
-Nam
Reply #15. Dec 17 12, 12:06 PM
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Play3Away
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In Cold Blood Truman Capote also breakfast at Tiffany's. The movies are abominations.
Reply #16. Mar 27 13, 8:06 PM
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irishrusty
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Just finished reading My Antonia, This now is my most favourite book of all time.
Reply #17. May 02 13, 1:08 PM
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jabb5076
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Although I'm not a huge Hemingway fan, I think his belief that HF was the book that gave birth to all modern American literature was spot on.
Reply #18. May 02 13, 1:48 PM
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