Add your opinion of your favorite books. They do not have to be considered literary classics to be your favorite.

1. Look Homeward, Angel-Thomas Wolfe
2. Of Time and the River-Thomas Wolfe
3. Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
4. Johnathon Livingston Seagull-Richard Bach
5. Flowers for Algernon-Daniel Keyes
6. Lake Wobegon Days-Garrison Keillor
7. It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It-Robert Fulghum
8. The Sweet Hereafter-Russell Banks
9. We Are Still Married-Garrison Keillor
10. Spoon River Anthology-Edgar Lee Masters

ok this will be fun...

in no particular order but the first one is my favorite...

Up the down staircase- Bel Kaufman
The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Where the Sidewalk Ends-Shel Silverstein
Lady Chatterly's Lover-DH Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Taming of the Shrew-Shakespeare

*The Wings of a Falcon, Cynthia Voigt
*The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
*Ishmael (and it's sequel), Daniel Quinn
*Nine Tomorrows, Isaac Asimov
*Startide Rising, David Brin
*Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

and books for younger people:
*San Domingo, the Medicine Hat Stallion, M. Henry
*Born to Trot, M. Henry
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

I'm sure I'm forgetting some...

Just one for now, which I've just finished reading and is an amazingly wonderful book:

Roots, Alex Haley.

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If this is supposed to be a top ten list, then I'm cheating.
1. The Count of Monte Christ Alexandre Dumas
2. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
3. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein
4. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
5. Little Big Man Thomas Berger
6. Any Sherlock Holmes story!
7. Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
8. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin
9. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
10. Lady Chatterly's Lover DH Lawrence
11. Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks
12. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
13. The Idiot Fyodor Doestoyevsky
14. Les Miserables Victor Hugo

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Cool, it does not have to be a top 10 list, just your favorites !

1. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
2. Niels Bohr's Times: In Physics, Philosophy and Polity - Abraham Pais
3. 16 years in Sibiria - Rachel and Israel Rachlin
4. Seven years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
5. Poetry of the Universe - Robert Osserman

Ooh, this could be fun--

1. "Cloudsplitter" Russell Banks
2. "Benito Cereno" Herman Melville
3. "Guns, Germs & Steel" Jared Diamond
4. "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man" Denis Johnson
5. "American Tabloid" James Ellroy
6. "The Bone People" Keri Hulme
7. "I, Claudius" Robert Graves
8. "The Berlin Wall Cafe" Paul Durcan (books of poetry count)
9. "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" Frank Miller (so do comic books, when really well done)
10. "The Real Thing" Tom Stoppard (not a book, but a play, but I read it, not saw it. And it's one of the finest things I've ever read)
11. "Water Music", "East is East", "The Road to Wellville" T. Coraghessan Boyle
12. "Slaughter-House 5", "Breakfast of Champions", "Cat's Cradle" Kurt Vonnegut

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Tomije, Cludsplitter is one terrific book !!! I just finished it, it was gripping ! I have to now add taht to my list also !!

I like books with a vicious sense of humour, so would go for anything by Joseph Connolly - especially "This Is It".

My all time favorite books are (in no particular order):
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
An Interview with the Vampire - Ann Rice
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Complete Works - Edger Allen Poe
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Fiction:
Cry to Heaven--Anne Rice (about the castrati and the human idea of gender, truly heartbreaking!!)
The Vampire Lestat--Anne Rice (about so much more than vampires)
The Queen of the Damned--Anne Rice (third in vampire series)
A Density of Souls--Christopher Rice (yes, her son)
Twice Told Tales--Nathaniel Hawthorne(short stories, wonderful)
A Wrinkle in Time--Madeleine L'Engle (a favorite since 5th grade)
all the Narnia Chronicles--C.S. Lewis (yeah, I know their Christian stories, I still love them)

Non-fiction:
The Twelve Caesars--Suetonius
The Sixteen Satires--Juvenal
Billions and Billions--Carl Sagan (the only Sagan I've read)
A History of God--Karen Armstrong (not for the faint of heart or mind)
Brain Droppings--George Carlin

That's all I can think of right now.

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Catcher in the Rye: JD Salinger
Nine Stories: JD Salinger
Franny and Zooey: JD Salinger
Henry V: William Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway
A Seperate Peace: John Knowles
Hardball: Chris Matthews
The O'Reilly Factor: Bill O'Reilly
Sophies Choice: I can't remember who wrote it
Bleeding Orange: Kirk Bohls and John Maher
Friday Night Lights: H.G. Bissinger

Aren't there any horror fans out there, nobody has mentioned the king of authors Stephen King or Dean Koontz.

I'm sure that I'm leaving some goods ones out, but here's some that come to mind:

The Pillars of the Earth
River God
Plum Island
Atlas Shrugged
Ender's Game
Citizen of the Galaxy
A Boy's Life
The Wolf's Hour
Five Past Midnight
Lonesome Dove
The Challenger Series (by Feintuch)
The Relic

My 7 favorite books are:

1.-pillars of the earth-->Ken Follet
2.-Price and prejudice-->Jane Austen
3.-Jane Eyre-->Charlote Bronte
4.-Emma-->Jane Austen
5.-El quijote-->Cervantes
6.-Velvet series-->Jude Deveraux
7.-All the books of Katherine Neville

DUNE (& it's sequals)
Frank Herbert

LOST SOULS
Poppy Z. Brite

TALES OF PAIN AND WONDER
Caitlin R. Kiernan

BORDERLANDS (all four volumes)
ed. Thomas F. Monteleone

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Emily Bronte

FARENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury

THE SONJA BLUE COLLECTION
Nancy A. Collins

NEW MOON
Midori Snyder

DON QUIXOTE
Miguel de Cervantes

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For a collection of short fiction, I'd go with "Bagombo Snuff Box" by Kurt Vonnegut. It's quite enjoyable.

You can't go wrong with a complete collection of Shakespeare. I prefer the Riverside Shakespeare Collection

"Catcher in the Rye"-J.D. Salinger
"Fahrenheit 451"-Ray Bradbury
"To Kill a Mockingbird"-Harper Lee
"Little Women"-Louisa May Alcott
"The Flame and the Flower"-Kathleen Woodiwiss (best damn romance novel!)

Best book of all-time: "Kitty's New Doll" I've had this books since I was 6 and it's brilliant.

I had a hard time coming up with books (although I'm sure there's more that I should add!) because the majority of books I read are fluff. I read and enjoy plays more.

Plays:
"A Doll House"-Henrik Ibsen
"Fences"-August Wilson
"M. Butterfly"-David Henry Hwang
"Lysistrata"-Aristophanes

Actually, as much of Wilson's stuff you find, read it.
Same goes for Tom Stoppard.

Samuel Beckett has some good points, but "Endgame" about killed me it was so boring(although that was the point!)

August Strindberg is not too shabby. I suggest "Miss Julie."

Oh, Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is a must read, if for no other reason than to do well on JEOPARDY.

Read "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles, just to understand what people are talking about.

While you are in that era (Sophocles, Aristophanes) check out Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and "Medea" by Euripedes.

Here goes...

1. Peyton Place--Grace Metalious (or something like that)
2. To Kill A Mockingbird--Harper Lee
3. Scarlett--Alexandra Ripley
4. Brave New World--Aldous Huxley
5. The Merchant of Venice--Shakespeare
6. A Good Man is Hard to Find...--Flannery O'Connor
7. The Pearl--Steinbeck
8. Silas Marner--Geroge Eliot
9. Twice Told Tales (and other short stories)--Hawthorne
10. Canterbury Tales--Chaucer
11. Beowolf--By Who Knows...
12. Morte Darther--Sir Thomas Malory
13. Dr. Faustus--Christopher Marlowe
14. East of Eden--Steinbeck
15. Gone with the Wind--Margaret Mitchell

Fairly well read if I do say so myself, for a youngun...LOL!

That's just a start too...

Here goes...

1. Peyton Place--Grace Metalious (or something like that)
2. To Kill A Mockingbird--Harper Lee
3. Scarlett--Alexandra Ripley
4. Brave New World--Aldous Huxley
5. The Merchant of Venice--Shakespeare
6. A Good Man is Hard to Find...--Flannery O'Connor
7. The Pearl--Steinbeck
8. Silas Marner--Geroge Eliot
9. Twice Told Tales (and other short stories)--Hawthorne
10. Canterbury Tales--Chaucer
11. Beowolf--By Who Knows...
12. Morte Darther--Sir Thomas Malory
13. Dr. Faustus--Christopher Marlowe
14. East of Eden--Steinbeck
15. Gone with the Wind--Margaret Mitchell

Fairly well read if I do say so myself, for a youngun...LOL!

That's just a start too...

The books i enjoyed most were Virginia Andrews-"Flowers in the attic

Petals in the wind
If there be thorns
seeds of yesterday
Stephen King's-IT,Pet's Sematary

Hmm... favorite books. There are so many. I guess I'd have to start with these:

Beloved - Toni Morrison
Nam - Mark Baker
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - (can't remember who wrote this, silly me)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

(Notice a pattern here?)
And, finally:
The Outlandish Companion: In Which Much is Revealed Regarding Claire and Jamie Fraser, their Lives and Times, Antecedents, Adventures, Companions, and Progeny, with Learned Commentary (and Many Footnotes) by their Humble Creator ... by Diana Gabladon. It's a book about the books.

History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters - Julian Barnes
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Cock and Bull - Will Self
Grey - Will Self
New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Slaughter-House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Checkhov

The world is full of great books, but these I read at least every second year.

'Watership Down' - Richard Adams
'Lord of the Rings' - J R R Tolkien
'2001' - Arthur C Clarke
'The Foundation Trilogy' - Isaac Asimov
'The World According to Garp' - John Irving
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' - Lewis Carroll
'Through the Looking-Glass' - Lewis Carroll
'Papillon' - Henri Charriere
The Poetic Edda
Anything by Douglas Adams
Anything by Terry Pratchett

And of course a few Swedish books which I don't know if they have ever been translated, and what their English titles would be.