your favourite books?

[babyshambles]

it's all in the title :P what are your favourite books?

there hasnt been a question like this for a bit

[kick3m0n]

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre

To Kill a Mockingbird by Laurie Lee

[miss_chase]

1984 by George Orwell

[rja211077]

Harper, not Laurie Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

[malcy]

Richard Bach - Illusions, the adventures of a reluctant messiah.

David Guterson - Snow falling on Cedars

David Mason - Shadow over Babylon

[littleoldme]

Ah, To Kill a Mockingbird - I enjoyed that even though I was forced to read it at school!

Also, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - very touching and moving one minute, had me chortling and whooping like a demented howler monkey the next.

[nicola_red]

Another vote for Mockingbird - also The Dice Man by Luke Rheinhart, all Nick Hornby's and Time For Bed by David Baddiel.

[annavc]

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald.  The final few lines had a profound effect on me the first time I read it and as I age it becomes more and more true!

"...and so we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly in to the past."

[NewDazzler]

One of the most influential books I have ever read was "The phantom tollbooth" by Norton Juster, I have read it many times since the first time at age 8 and enjoyed it every time, I urge you to give it a try.

The Dark materials trilogy is worth look too, it works on so many levels.

[Golem]

Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler

The White Hotel - D.M. Thomas

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (all time fav.)

The Comforts of Madness - Paul Sayer

Tar Baby - Toni Morrison

Wedding Song - Naguib Mahfouz

House Mother Normal - B.S. Johnson

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake

Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman

Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman

Among The Hidden (series of children's books) - Margaret Haddix

Slake's Limbo (children) - Felice Holman

Holes - Louis Sachar

Sorry it's so long a list, but it would be a sin to leave some of these out!

[sanfran]

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis as a child.

 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins as an adult!

[SteveDerby]

Anything by Terry Pratchett, Tom Clancy or George Orwell

[CT]

I have just finished reading Carl Sagan-The Demon Haunted World. If you're remotely into science then I would recommend that you read this book. It's fantastic. It almost makes you want to jump up and become a scientist. Beautiful, amazing writing. I wish that this was core work at GCSE. Fantastic, motivational writing. If only this could be forced upon potiental scientist's at school. It would make them realise what an advantage they could have. Wish that I had read this at 15/16 instead of in my final year at uni. This man made so many become interested in science through Cosmos. Only wish this could be continued in the same sort of enthusiastic way.

[bernardo]

Fiction: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Factual: The Times Guide to the House of Commons

[kerrie_q]

a suitable boy - vikram seth

regeneration trilogy - pat barker

1984 - george orwell

catch 22 -heller

some other rainbow - john mc carthy

and really anything by anne rice frank herbert and will self esp dorian, the quantity theory of insanity and the sweet smell of psycosis

ohh and just cause it's pretty to look at the illustrated encyclopedia of faries (it's not just for kids)

[Dark Angel]

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Night Sins - Tami Hoag

Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie

I, Tina - Autobiography of Tina Turner

The Stranger Beside Me - dont know the author, but its the true story of Ted Bundy.

[natalie_1982]

Chronicles of Narnia / The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood - Julie Gregory

Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

My Story - Dave Pelzer (the trilogy)

[indian]

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath- it was as if she'd seen inside me and written how i was feeling at the time

[Dark Angel]

 

Princess - Jean Sasson

God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Onwards and Upwards - Arabella Weir

Pocket full of Rye - Agatha Christie

Diana, Her True Story - Andrew Morton

Life Wish - Jill Ireland (autobiography)

[Beth1989]

Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

Anything by Louise Rennison

[babyshambles]

Bell Jar is great, and I love To Kill A Mockingbird!  I read 1984 recently too, I loved it, it was so detailed and raw