favorite books

[neurosurgon*]

what are your favorite books?

[acw]

Too many to mention but I will say:

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon is brilliant!

I love reading Bill Bryson as his books are HILARIOUS!

I keep meaning to read the rest of Dave Pelzer's books because "A Child Called It" was so compelling. 

 

[QmunkE]

The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
The Book of Ultimate Truths/Raiders of the Lost Car Park - Robert Rankin
The Belgariad/Malloreon - David Eddings

[spudqueen]

David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities - both Charles Dickens
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
Office Life - Keth Waterhouse
All The Harry Potter Books - J K Rowling
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Unlikely Ones - Mary Brown

[Aschenbach]

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

[indian]

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte

[katejess44]

acw is right about two things, there are too many to mention, and also about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.  It's an incredible book.

 

I confess to also being a Harry Potter fan, but I am also a Stephen King fan and although I keep harping on about it, The Stand is definitely a favourite.

[delilahcat]

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

Anything by Leslie Thomas, Bill Bryson and Kathy Lette.

Others too numerous to mention!

[Morrisonker]

Hitch-hikers Guide to The Galaxy (all 5 in the trilogy)

Lolita

The Virgin Suicides

Wuthering Heights

The Bride Striped Bare

[neurosurgon*]

robin Cooks vector, brain, invasion and i'm reading Chromizome 6.

I'm also reading Patricia cornwell's trace and Jack the Ripper- case closed

every book that i'v read except my brother sam is dead are my favorites

[shaneystar]

Although I am well past the age to read them I still love Little Women and the Just William books.
Other favourites are My Son,My Son by Howard Spring,The Stars look Down by A.J.Cronin,Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

[cat woman]

All of Catherine Cookson especially Tilly Trotter, The Mallon Streak, The Fifteen Streets, The Man Who Cried, the one I,ve read several times is Colour Blind. I read a book by Sheila Quigley called Run For Home it was so good I wrote to Random House who did the printing etc because I was so enthalled by the story. I also like reading spiritual books by Betty Shine, Doris Stokes and John Edward.

[julesy]

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
Ice Station, Matthew Reilly and Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt.

[magicdice]

tom holt's comedy/fantasy books, anna kavan's EVERYTHING, JG Ballard is a genius and i worship his every novel.

[maximo]

All of Bill Bryson's books ( absolutely hilarious ! )

The World according to Garp , A prayer for Owen by John Irving

Lolita by Nabokov

Anna Karenina

All Scarpetta ' s novels, by Patricia Cornwell

Sophie's Choice

Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie

...And many, many more !

[brionon]

Zen and the art ---

Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan { lots of B's there}  Cannery Row  by John Steinbeck and best of all The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek.