1. The Things They Carried By Tim O'Brien
2. The Gunslinger By Stephen King
3. Entire Dark Tower series By Stephen King
4. Candide Voltaire
5. She's Come Undone By Wally Lamb
6. Forbidden Knowledge By Robert Shattuck

Lough

"In this best of all possible worlds....everything is for the best. If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?" Voltaire

My Favorite books....

• Gone with the Wind
• Christy
• The Pushcart War
• The Thrawn Triliogy
• Scarlett
• A Life on Stage and Screen : Julie Andrews
• and so many, many more.......

I love books! My all time favorites are:

The Bible
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Vinegar Hill - A. Manette Ansay
Fair and Tender Ladies - Lee Smith
The Ballad Series - Sharyn McCrumb
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
The Pilots Wife - Anita Shreve
I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
Perfida - Judith Rossner
Kings Oak - Anne Rivers Siddons
One True Thing - Anna Quindlan
The Crocodile Bird - Barbara Vine

Some of my most favourite books:
Lost Souls/ Poppy Z, Brite
Jane Eyre/ Chatlotte Bronte
The Thief Of Always/ Clive Barker
100 Years Of Solitude/ Gabriel G. Marquez
The Pariah/ Graham Masterton
The Phantom Of The Opera/ Gaston Leroux
The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell/ William Blake
Many books by Anne Rice, and many others...

Thought I'd add my two-pennorth :

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
- breathtaking use of language and descriptive vocabulary. Makes you want to visit Cephalonia in the Greek Islands.

Wiltby Tom Sharpe. Or any other book by him. Made me laugh out loud. I would particularly recommend the books set in South Africa which are hysterically funny indictments of the apartheid regime.

The Barrytown Trilogyby Roddy Doyle. A trio of stories consisting of The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van set on a housing estate in Dublin.

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. An account of growing up in Limerick in the 1930's.

Any book by Bill Bryson. Everything I've ever read by him is just brilliant. Particularly good at comparing and contrasting the different cultures of the British and Americans.

This is addictive - think I better stop there.

Bill (aka jigsawbill)

Forgot to mention Fermat's Last Theorem, the author of which escapes me for the moment. An account of a Cambridge mathematician's attempt to prove the Theorem. An absolutely essential read for the mathematically inclined.

Bill

I think it was a Princeton professor named Andrew Wiles who solved the theorum after a several year struggle in solitude. Singh wrote the book...good selection Bill...

1. The Outsider - Albert Camus (my favourite book of all time!!)
2. Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (I think!)
3. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegaut (sorry if I spelt that wrong!)
4. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7. And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
8. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
9. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
10. Needful Things - Stephen King

I'm going to stop at ten, for the sake of sanity!!

If anyone wants to read a book on England's royal women, read Alison Plowden! She's amazing.

As for fiction, I just finished a trilogy of Babylon 5 books by Peter David. i don't like his ST writing, but he's very good at B5.

And I like Julia Alvarez's "Yo!" and "How the Garcia Girls lost Their Accents."

This is going to be a long list!

1. "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux
2. "Phantom" by Susan Kay
3. "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb
4. "Maskerade" by Terry Pratchett
5. "Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String" by Michael Crawford
6. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
7. "Othello" by Shakespeare
8. "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
9. All 4 Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
10. "Night" by Ellie (sp?) Weisel (sp?)
11. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
12. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
13. "I Know This Much is True" By Wally Lamb
14. "Odd Balls" by William Sleator
15. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
16. "Ransom" by Lois Duncan
17. "Don't Look Behind You" by Lois Duncan
18. "BFG" by Roald Dahl
19. "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
20. "The 10th Kingdom" by Kathryn Wesley
21. "A Prayer For Owen Meany" by John Irving
22. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
23. "Tis" by Frank McCourt
24. "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennesse Williams
25. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
26. "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
27. "Pygmalion" by ?
28. "Where the Heart is" by ?
29. "Beasties" by William Sleator
30. "Weekened" by Christopher Pike

That was a long list Littlp...but a very good one!

'Night' was a fantastic book, by Elie Wiesel (that's the proper spelling!)

'Where the Heart Is' was by Billie Letts and 'Pygmalion' was by George Bernard Shaw!

I tend to be a creature of habit. If I like a certain author I tend to stick with them.

I especially like James Patterson, Dean Koontz (From The Corner Of His Eye is particularly good), John Grisham (The Chamber always makes me cry), and a non too well known british author called Martina Cole. Anything by Irvine Welsh also gets my vote, his book The Acid House is excellent.

Favorite books.... Here are some of mine:

The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
The Wheel of Time (series), by Robert Jordan
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf, by Max Shulman
Magic, by William Goldman
The Color of Light, by William Goldman
The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, by Grant Naylor
Better Than Life, by Grant Naylor

I know I'm forgetting a lot, but OH, WELL.

Thanks for letting me weigh in.

C.V. http://www.smorgenstern.com

lets see..

1. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien.
2. The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
3. The Hobbit - Tolkien
4. The Silmarillion - Tolkien
(can you tell im a big Tolkien fan yet?)
5. Needful Things - Stephen King
6. A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
7. The Dark Half - King
8. The Vampire Lestat - Rice

thats all i can think of right now.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Howard's End...I just love classic literature...

Well, i'm really into Sci-Fi and Fantasy so any book by Piers Anthony has got to be of my favorties! Especially the Xanth series. But Isle of Woman was just the best ever.

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