whats the best book you have ever read?

[webby27]

which book have you not been able to put down? That you have read time and time again. Or your fav author. i have enjoyed books by dean koontz pj tracy and danielle steel . Im looking for ideas.

[dotjhawkes]

Anything at all by Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.

[alijangra]

From childhood days I still adore all Roald Dahl books. My all time favourite is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is such a wonderful book and I have read it many times. The characters are fantastic.

[alijangra]

on a more adult note though, I think Patricia Cornwell is brilliant and Karin Slaughter.

[paddy_36]

Read two books recently that I could not put down:

1. The dark fields by Alan Glynn

2. The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini

Both compelling reads for totally different reasons.

[Poppy]

Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger

[noxlumos]

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As Dot says anything by the Brontes and as a kid the Amazing Mr Blunden and the Narnia Chronicles also anything by Terry Pratchett :)

[Celtigra3]

Don't laugh - The count of Monte Cristo - by Alexandre Dumas - I can't count how often I have read it. The films don't even come anywhere near the intricacies of the plot and sub-plots! Brilliant!

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Highlander series by Diana Gabaldon

And of course all the Dune novels by Frank Herbert and the prequels by his son

[Lonnie]

The Iliad, Homer.

[whiffey]

Jane Eyre

A Tale of Two Cities

[kick3m0n]

I'd agree with you alijangra on To Kill A Mockingbird. It's just brilliant.

I also Love The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, The Meaning Of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd and the Hitchiker's Guide series of books. All of which have been read several times.

[Coobeastie]

The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom.

Lord of the Rings.

And the majority output of Terry Pratchett

[mycatis]

Dune is my favourite book ever, also any of the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, and Wuthering Heights

[marwel7]

A Kind Of Loving by Stan Barstow.

[ianess]

HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean...must have read it at least a dozen times.

[monroe]

I agree with noxlumos about Shadow of the wind. I read the original version in Spanish and could not put it down. My other best book would be Fortune is a Woman, but I can't remember the author. It was a very long time ago.

[vivaciauk]

I love the Robin Hobb Trilogy starting with The Assasins Apprentice. It was one of those books that was on the returns shelf and i was in a rush and grabbed the first one..i couldnt put it down ..

[sammylane]

To kill a mockingbird is a great book, without doubt. Other favourites include Disgrace by JM Coetzee, Atonement/Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, the Alexander McCall Smith series of the No1 Ladies Detective Agency (though it's dragging on a bit now), Chocolat by Joanne Harris (pure comfort read) and Stephen Fry (The Liar, Moab is my Washpot).

[Trillipse]

BUKOWSKI

Steinbeck

M Amis' "The Information"

"An Innocent Millionaire" (which apparently has a huge following...) can't remember author

"A million tiny pieces" was VERY good

And usually anything i've read recently tend to be favourites

[gavski]

fiction

DEAN KOONTZ by the corner of his eye

an excellent read, my favourite koontz which means its superb. koontz as usual does well at portraying extremely varying thoughts from all characters along with a continual gripping storyline.

non-fiction

BILL BRYSON a short history of nearly everything

only bryson i've read, i intend to read plenty more. a very good humoured book that for the majority of the time puts things into a layman's (e.g. me) perspective.

seriosly, get on amazon or wh smith etc and buy these books.