Top of my list would have to be The Little Prince (St Exupery), closely followed by Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) and To kill a mockingbird (Lee). The Gathering (Isobelle Carmody)is also a favourite, despite the fact that I don't like fantasy!

Scottie

The Poisonwood Bibe - Barbara Kingsolver
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Handmaids Tale - Atwood
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Favorite novel: The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth. It raucuous irreverant, and raises vulgarity to the level of art. That, and I love baseball.

Favorite non-fiction: Many more to choose from!

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (my G-d, I cannot believe I just wrote that!)

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault

The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz

The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

What do these books have in common? They are all intensely well thought out and allow the reader to appreciate their processes even if s/he does not adopt their ideologies.

I would have to say my fav. book is

Redwall by Brian Jacques

His whole series of Redwall books is amazing because of its characters,the adventures,and especially the food!

I have a huge huge list of mystery writers that I like.
I also Loved the Earth Children Series by Jean Auel
and
Sacajawea was wonderful.
I love a good Biography and have read hundreds of them over the yrs.
I also like humerous novels like The Cracker Factory by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt.
Books to me are like gold or like visiting a friend who makes you feel good.
PF

Mick Harte Was Here.....Ive loved this book from the first time I read it in 4th grade!!

My favourite has to be "Cien años de soledad" ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") by Gabriel García Márquez. A masterpiece. Must have read it 5 times and still wonder at it!

Wuthering Heights
Heart of Darknesss
The Five Peeople You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Ablom changed my view of the worl...
Gone With the Wind
Catcher in the Rye
Anything Agatha Christie... Especially Endless Night, Ten Little Niggers, Murder at the Vicarage
Anything DH Lawrence
All the James Patterson books...an easy read
Harry Potter
LOTR
The Forsyte Saga
Glad to meet you all!!

Welcome jaysforever! Lots of yours coincide with lots of mine.

I would also add this; I have read Gone With the Wind SO many times, it hardly seems like fiction to me...almost like a the story of a long ago, wayward yet familiar ancestor.

I guess it never occurs to me anymore that it's really just a book... [ but I feel that way about Jane Eyre, too.]

I like:

The Clan of The Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
The Valley of Horses (Jean M. Auel)
The Mammoth Hunters (Jean M. Auel)
The Plains of Passage (Jean M. Auel)
The Shelters of Stone (Jean M. Auel)

I like these books because it's the story of a little girl named Ayla who is the future of her people.

I also like:

Flowers in The Attic (VC Andrews)
Petals On The Wind (VC Andrews)
If There Be Thorns (VC Andrews)
Seeds of Yesterday (VC Andrews)
A Garden of Shadows (VC Andrews)

I like these books because I never read of a more dysfunctional family in my life.

I love the Narnia series, because it reminds me of my childhood.

I like The Outsiders, Tex, Bully, any book pertaining Jack The Ripper. Any true crime book. Books on Elvis. I also like the new Lost book.

Favorite book. *snort* Favorite books, even. *snort* I'm not sure I can even come up with a list in any sort of order, and keeping it below, say, 100 would be a chore. It'd be easier to go with authors and specific examples...

I love Roald Dahl, particularly the Great Glass Elevator because of Vermiscious Knids. It's one of those things from my childhood that just stuck with me.

A whole set of fond memories from my childhood surround the authors Marguerite Henry (Misty of Chincoteague among many others) and Madeleine L'Engle (I had Wrinkle in Time read to me when I was 3, and I've loved her ever since! But when I was 8 or 9 I read a whole bunch of her non-science-fictiony stuff and loved it just as much.) Wrinkle in Time was one of the first books I ever read to my daughter. She was not even 2 months old yet. I've read Marguerite Henry as an adult too, and it's much more child-reading than L'Engle, but just as enchanting now as it was then.

I suppose that Wrinkle in Time must be considered one of my favorite books of all time, since it is one I chose to read to my daughter. Another one that can be judged on that scale is Charlotte's Web. Obviously, I have a soft spot for childrens' literature. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis, The Earthsea Saga by Ursula LeGuin and the Taran Wanderer series by Lloyd Alexander are some of the other childrens' books I just adore with all my childish heart. And that doesn't even begin to address picture books, like Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, anything by Rosemary Wells, Stellaluna and Verde by Janel Campbell and anything that Theodor Seuss Geisel ever wrote.

As for adult literature I have a great fondness for Mark Twain, particularly A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I couldn't even begin to pick a favorite of Tolkien's work. Among those books that are less eternally impactful and more pure enjoyment, I would say that Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson, the Ship who Sang (and subsequent joint novels) by Anne McCaffery and The Left Hand of Darkness, also by LeGuin, who I mentioned above, would be right at the top of the list. But it's so hard to tell. I mean, where does 1984 fit in? What about Les Miserables, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird...

Hmph. It's just a compeltely unfair question to ask!

I have all of Agatha Christies and Mary Higgins Clarks books. I love Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Graham, 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. I have just got into Karin Slaughter. One I can always read as well is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

I have lots of short-term favorites, but the one that has stuck with me for a l-o-n-g time is Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom."

It was not only a great read (once I got the hang of it), it changed the way I looked at things. That's my criteria for a favorite: not just pleasure but also insight.

my favorite books, to many to count I believe, but I'll name a few

the Harry Potter books - by J.K.Rowling
Lord of the rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
Dirk Pitt books - Clive Cussler
Jamie and Claire books - Diana Gabaldon
Alex Rider books - Anthony Horowitz
sword of thruth series - Terry Goodkind
most of the books by Raymond E. Feist, David Eddings, Tamora Pierce, Vera Henriksen, Jostein Gaarder

My favorite book...
Well I have a few...
Bag Of Bones by Stephen King....
The Fun House by Dean Koontz....
Guilty As Sin by Tami Hoag...
I have no reason for them being my favorites but they're the types of books I can read more than once!

My favourite books are:

All the Harry Potter books, by JK Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

I love to read. It's one of my favourite things to do.

BEING A LITTLE OLDER I LOVE FAMILY SAGAS. I HAVE FINISHED A BOOK CALLED 'MIDNIGHTS SMILING' BY ALEXANDRA CONNOR. BUT I LOVE ALL SALLY WORBOYES AND LILIAN HARRY BOOKS. WAITING FOR THE LATEST LILIAN HARRY TO COME OUT IN LARGE PRINT (GOT EYESIGHT PROBLEMS). IT'S A SEQUEL TO A BOOK I READ A LITTLE WHILE AGO.

The world is full of good books and I find it hard to just name one.So heres a few :
Jonathan Livingston Seagull:Richard Bach
A bridge across forever same author
Books that I read when i was young and still after all these years they have a lot to offer.
Bones would rain from the sky:Suzanne Clothier A book I can warmly recommend
to all doglovers.
Lately I've been into detective stories.
Read everything by Henning Mankell.A swedish author,that has been translated into several languages.Karin Fossum from Norway is another interesting writer of detective stories.

Perroja I too love jonathon Livingston Seagull, Have you read another by richard Bach called Illusions, if not then track it down.
Other favs include.
High fidelity - Nick Hornby
Catcher in the rye - Sallinger
Powder - Kevin Sampson
American skin - ?

Hi Bigeyedbean
Yes I've read Illusions, the journey of a reluctant Messiah,a wonderful book also.I once used this book while trying to explain my thoughts and believes in a
dispute with 2 persons from a religious
sect.They where telling me how right they are and how wrong I was,and that all the answers could be found in their book.I used Illusions to explain my way of seeing things.The world isn't black and white.Nor is the thruth to be found in one place only.It was quite interesting.
If you like this kind of books.There*s one that was originally written in german,called Der papalagi(1979)Thats the journey of a Samoan chief in europe.It is a lovely book,that shows a few of the absurdities of our civilization.Its available in finnish,so i should think you can get it in english too.

Peroja thankyou. I will look for that book. Have you also found that you have met people along the way that you have really clicked with and then discover that they are also fans of JLS

My top faves:

Any Honor Harrington book by David Weber (esp. "The Honor Of The Queen" book #2)

"Exile's Song" by Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Dragonsinger" by Anne McCaffery

These are the ones I can think of right off the top of my head.

1.The Stand-(because this was my first King book- and the beginning of my love for his work) Stephen King and anything by him.
2.Earths Children series-The Valley of the Horses,The Clan of the Cave Bear,The Mammoth Hunters,The Plains of Passage,The Shelters of Stone
3.Tai-Pan- James Clavell and his: Nobel House, Shogun, King Rat
4.The Karma Affair- Arsen Darnay
A Dinner of Herbs- Catherine Cookson
Flowers in the Attic series-Virginia C. Andrews (oh, this should have gone into the "books that make you cry" topic-real tear jerker.
any many, many more favs.

Here are mine:

Resident Evil series (S.D. Perry)
Resident Evil movie books
'Salem's Lot (Stephen King)
Underworld series (Greg Cox)


I mainly like books based on movies and videogames. Also vampires.