I read quite a bit and it would be impossible to keep every book I read. So with that said there are certain books that are part of my permnant collection.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexendar Dumas

Of Mice and Men by John Steinback

and last but not least

Lust for Life by Irving Stone

What is part of yours?

Chad

My favourite Book so far would have to be a story a book called Malleus written by Dan Abnett.

I strongly recommend it.

The story is dark and gritty and explores the underworld of the future and all its evils at once.

Well written and very addictive.



~Raven.

In the past I've read a lot of Science Fantasy, not really crossed over to the Science Fiction. The Dragon Lance series came close to being a permanant part of my collection.

Chad

My favorite book so far is "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini.

Couldn't pick one. Either something of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling or something by Stephen King. Maybe Salem's Lot.

Gravity - Tess Gerritsen

my all time favorite..i loved the characters and the space background

At one time I heard a movie was coming...i guess production stopped on it or its not being made..kinda bummed about that

:/

I would have to say "I Know This Much is True" by Wally Lamb. I loved it. I couldn't put it down when I read it.

When I was growing up, Roald Dahl's "Matilda" and Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" were my two fav books. "Matilda" opened up my imagination and "Salem's Lot" just scared the pants off me. Nowadays, if I had to choose one, it would be James Kelman's "A Disaffection". I love it. But to be honest, I think I'm still searching for my all-time favourite book.

Gotta say my absolute fave is The Outsiders~ S.E. Hinton. Amazing! all her work is, for that matter. That Was Then, This is Now is a close second.

The HP books kick arse as well.

And for empowering female kick-arse books, Tamora Pierce. The best are the Trickster series!

Either Lolita or Steppenwolf.

Slaughter House 9 by Kurt Vonnegut was good in the fact that it was strange and moving at the same time. And the Hitchhikers Guide series was light and satirical, still havent gotten around to reading the last book, thought yet.

This is a very hard one!

One of my favourites is The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood.

While I was younger Bambi was one of my favourites, not Disney's Bambi, but the original novel by Felix Salten.

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen will always be in bookcase as well.

"Night" by Elie Wiesel was a wonderful book. Very easy read and yet so thought provoking. Did that in one night.

The Lake House, by James Patterson was excellent.

My favorite reads would have to be all things Jane Austen. Most recently, "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. I have come to the conclusion that I am an 19th century soul stuck in modern times.

Oh woe is me. lol :)

My favourite Book so far would have to be a story a book called Malleus written by Dan Abnett.

I strongly recommend it.

The story is dark and gritty and explores the underworld of the future and all its evils at once.

Well written and very addictive.



~Raven.

Will definitely have to check that out. Thanks...

my favourite books are fantasy stories. i have to say that my top couple are;

Mary Hoffman
Stravaganza: City of Masks, City of Stars (i haven't read the third in the series yet) they are brillaint books set in a parralel universe of Italy.

J.K.Rowling
all of the Harry Potter books are brilliant.

Kate Mosse
The Labyrinth, an ezcellent book that i cried at the end of :'(

heather

Where's Wally :):):)

Well I used to get them out of the library all the time when I was in primary school, was so much fun back then, haven't seen a Where's Wally book in a long time though, might go check the town library.

My favourite book is probably Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. It's just funny. I like all the other adrian mole books but this one was special.

Mine is the famous lord of the rings trilogy. I love them i've read them so many different times.

Mine is the famous lord of the rings trilogy. I love them i've read them so many different times.

I could never get into that series. I always fell asleep when I tried to read it.

Rats Saw God
Rob Thomas
Inspired me to start wrting....

My favorite book changes all the time, but right now I'd have to say

Orhan Pamuk's "Snow" or "My Name is Red"
and
Milerad Pavic's "Dictionary of the Khazars"

i've just finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha, and i think that that is an amazing book. i also like Flying With Condors, the autobiography of a female paragliding / handgliding champion.
heather

Animal Farm, by George Orwell, and Of mice and men, by John Steinbeck.

We had to read Animal Farm at school. Possibly the most boring quarter of an hour a day of my life.

Anything by Shaun Hutson... or the Edge Chronicles.

Yeah, it's not for everyone.

Eragon is my very favourite, then Eldest and im waiting for the third one so I can add it to the list

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchet

My favourite is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
after that comes Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn, and On Writing by Stephen King.

a porcupine named fluffy!
'nuff said

My new favourite book for this week is... 'The Time Traveler's Wife'. Great story, in my opinion, and nice for light reading. I'm also reading 'The Inner Voice' a biography on opera singer Renee Fleming, which is really well done, and a nutrition book called 'Nourishing Traditions', which is absolutely awesome!
My opinions on books change from week to week.
My staple favorite is Gone With The Wind.

I have no favourite book BUT I do have a favourite bunch of series.
Anyone know the forgotten realms series's that R.A.Salvatore has done with Drizzt Do'Urden and the like. Those without a doubt are my favourite books, though I like them all equally.

Eragon and Eldest come up close but they're too childish to be my favourites.

Wow...an impossible question. I like Nabokov's Pale Fire, Borges' Labyrinths, The Arcades Project by Walkter Benjamin, A Confederacy of Dunces,The Ticklish Subject....but I think my all time number one has to be Jeeves In the Offing by P.G.Wodehouse. That man makes me laugh like a lunatic on the train in the mornings. As we say 抱腹絶倒！

It's not Eragon.
...
...
...
Really, It's not.

The Stand by Stephen King ... what a journey that was.

Monsoon, by Wilbur Smith. Read it if you're into the epic without the fantasy. Great historical nove.

Wilbur Smith.. you have a taste.

The Dark tower series here.

Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune... indeed, one of the most excellent books to date...

Well I did love "the Pillars of Solomon" by jon land

Hard to pick, really. They're all pretty diverse.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Library of Congress called it the second most influential book ever written.

The deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon

Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries by Rosemary Edghill.

Anything by Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, or Diane Duane.

READ THEM.

My two favorite books/series are The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell and Harry Potter.

My all time favourite book, especially at about the age of 16, is by an Australian author - Bryce Courtenay, and is called the Power Of One. It was eventually made into a dreadful movie, but I read my original copy til it fell apart. Over and over! It is just beautiful, and so emotive.

I've been avoiding Bryce for some reason. But I think I'll pick up one of his books in the near future. He does get good reviews.

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Dune by Frank Hubert
Wizard & Glass by Stephen King (in my opinion it is the best of the Dark Tower series)
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Do you really like Wizard & Glass that much? I thought it was a little boring. Not as bad as Song of Susannah. My personal favourite was The Drawing of the Three, followed by The Dark Tower (minus where King added himself in), the journey to the tower was so great. Many memorable moments.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Although in a different league I have tremendously enjoyed recently the satire on the French that Stephen Clarke has been putting out - In The Merde, Merde Actually etc

Do you really like Wizard & Glass that much? I thought it was a little boring. Not as bad as Song of Susannah. My personal favourite was The Drawing of the Three, followed by The Dark Tower (minus where King added himself in), the journey to the tower was so great. Many memorable moments.

Yeah, I really did like it. I can see where someone could see it as a slow story. I also may have given The Drawing of the Three an undeserved knock. However, that was not what I wanted to do. I just enjoyed finally learning more about Roland as a more full character. It may also be that there was about 2+ years between Wastelands and Wizard & Glass. How could he tourture constant reader like that?

Rob

Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. is my favorite right now.

But anything I've read by Marquez would easily qualify for a very high position in my top.

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima

Rahomon by Akutagawa


War and Peace by Tolstoi

The Death Blow by Marguerite Yourcenar but that's because I relate to it very much.

The Book Of Happines by Nina Berberova. It's just so light and yet complicated at the same time.

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

my alltime favorite book is the curios incident of the dog in the nite timeby mark haddon it'l be hard to put down.



p.s. the author apparently malested a chicken no joke check it out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haddon

Mine is Hunter by James Byron Huggins. In fact my signature is a battle scene from that book.

It's about this prehistoric man-beast thing that gets loose out of a lab somewhere's in the arctic circle and runs rampant killing everything in it's path.

To stop it the military get a tracker named Nathan Hunter to track down the monster so their highly tactical and awesome team can blow the **** out of it.

Think of Predator only plotted in an arcitc desert, without Arnold telling everyone to "Run to the Chopper!" It even reads like an action movie- really fast paced. It's awethsome.

I would have to say The Freedom Writers is my all time favorite. That book is so amazing and its all true stories. I have not put it down... and the movie is great also... Just Wonderful

Adverbs - Daniel Handler
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Though most things that are written for style (Nabakov, Robbins) make it up on the list. Those two in particular stand out for me.

American Gods - Neil Gaiman


*hugs*

Little Women, beautiful story, Louis M Alcott would be one of my favourite authors, just for that book, it's great

My favorite book would have to Be Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. I don't know why I can just sit down and read that book anytime; it doesn't matter how many times I have read I still enjoy reading it again.

Although I do liked the Legends of Dune Trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. They were a really good read. I need to recheck them out from the library, as long as I can pay the fines I have.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman is definately on my list as well - the first time I read through it, I thought it was kind of dense but worth the effort, but it was wonderful to read it the second time through knowing more about the mythology, the illusions and allusions.

And If On a Winter's Night a Traveller [Italo Calvino] is definately my favorite out of any book I've read recently. A whole book about books and reading! And it's wonderfully written and, I suspect, another one of those books that gets better the second time through.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman is definately on my list as well - the first time I read through it, I thought it was kind of dense but worth the effort, but it was wonderful to read it the second time through knowing more about the mythology, the illusions and allusions.


*hugs you too*

Either The Godfather (I have just finished reading it for the third time)
Or Angels and Demonds.

American Psycho, without a doubt. A book which agrees with me, morally.

Lately mine is Flight Of The Eisenstien. Written by James Swallow

I can honestly say that I don't currently have a "favourite" book, i'm still looking for it... will let you know if and when I do find it though :D

Like somebody else though (can't remember who said it), my favourite book growing up was Matilda by Roald Dahl.

Now that I think about it, I never enjoyed any other book as much as I did The Phantom Tollbooth.

My favourites are:

The dictionary.
The thesaurus.

Sad but true.:rolleyes:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

Why Shoot the Teacher? by Maxx Braithwaite

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene


If I had to choose just one my head would blow up.

The Truth about Forever
By: Sarah Dessen

I have recently read Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hanibal Rising by Thomas Harris and they are amazing. i am about to start readin Hanibal later (my mam bought me it when she went down the town earlier.)
Heather

Isn't 'Silence of the Lambs' a movie as well? Isn't it suppose to be a horror movie or something like that?

Just reread a childhood favourite - Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree - and would like to proclaim this my favourite ever book.

Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk

The Faraway tree... I used to love that book. I really hope It didn't get thrown away. I read that book heaps of times. I gotta go find it now!

MY favorite is Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It was her fisrts book and a major bestseller. Shes like my role-model. I hope that happens to me anyway its an absolutely amazing fiction book. A romance with a twist. I won't ruin it for you.

I like a lot of other books but theres far too many to name. :p

The love of my life in literature has to be Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. When I ever feel blue I put that 1960's edition copy of that old book to my heart and all is well again.
The story is that of a painted world full of love, betrayl, adultery, mystery, suspence, suicide, murder, wisdom, and friendship.
The main character, who has no name perhaps portraying every woman's heart and intuition and youth, finds a friendship with a widowed man. The inside of his home is neat and tidy with busy maids and butlers, but the lingering effect his late wife's spirit lives on. The story unravels and our heroine faces the fact that she is not wanted by the people her husband trusts the most, it takes a long journey of selfdoubt to relize the strength within herself.
This is the greatest peice of literature written, it's better even that To Kill A Mocking Bird. I LOVE IT!:) :) <3<3<3<3

i have recently finished reading the Hanibal series by Thomas Harris and i think that they are just excellent. i absolutly loved them. i also loved Memoirs of a Geisha and some of the old Enid Blyton books like the Island of Adventure, or the Mountain of Adventure.
Heather

some of my favourites are:

notes from the underground - Dostoevsky

cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee

frankenstein - Mary Shelley

fear and loathing in las vegas - Hunter s Thompson

Catcher in the Rye -J. D. Salinger

In cold blood - Capote


I don't think I have an ultimate favourite novel ...although if I had to pick from that list it would be In Cold Blood; Capote's descriptions are inspiring and that story is so well told. It's also especially chilling as this really happened and Capote met with the murders and was researching it before they were found. I really am selling it quite poorly, but trust me it's such an exhilarating read.

The Shinning.
What can I say. It freaked me out the first time I read it and it still freaks me out when I read it again.

My favorite book right now is"IMPROBABLE" by Adam Fower. A really thrilling and indepth dtory about chance, possibility and probablilities based on mathematical theories. Very good book! Would highly recommend it!

My favourite Book to date is Flight Of The Eisenstien.

Unfortunetely, I haven't read a TON of books...but out of the ones I have read, I really rather enjoyed The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley.

I guess it was the first book I felt I connected with and really understood....not too hard of a read...it's directed at young adult readers, but... I think it's special to me. XD I know, that sounds a little lame...

it's difficult to chose a 'favorite' book, but at the moment i enjoy Absurdistan (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-5257727-4438210?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=absurdistan&Go.x=9&Go.y=9&Go=Go) by Gary Shteyngart.. i also love the work of David Sedaris and am determined to match his writing style/ability...one day!

I know eh, it's definately hard to choose a single favorite... but the first that came to mind is Timeline by Michael Crichton. Actually I love a lot of his books but this one appealed to me. He does have quite a collection of books under his belt.

I love J.K Rowling's HP books as well they're really addicting. :)

In no particular order...

-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (whole series)

-All the original Sherlock Holmes Novels (except valley of fear)

-Catch-22

-Timeline

-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

-The Autobiography of Malcom X (I consider it a story)

-Confederacy of Dunces

-Chronicles of Narnia (whole series)

Cheers
-Falcatarius

I don't really re-read any books since they tend to bore me after the first time. Though, there are two books that I catch myself re-reading all the time.

The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

and

Cell by Stephan King

Cell can keep my attention, and about the only Stephan King book I truly enjoy... I find he can't keep my attention. That book gets right to the action.

Walter Moers... it's like his books go into my mind =P When I read his books it's like perfection for my imagination. Meaning, I'm a child at heart.

I'm finishing Les Misérables; I might be able to finish it by the end of the month. I think this is my new favorite now though I still have 200 pages left to read. This novel is pretty amazing ...

The Kite Runner

The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver

The Outsiders was a favorite. It's still a movie I'll throw in when I'm bored. =] S.E. Hinton was a good writer. =]
When I was younger, I rememer The Tale of Despereaux was a favorite, too.
The RedWall series. I NEVER get too old to love Mattimeo. ^-^
Harry Potter. The ONLY one I didn't like was the Order of the Phoenix. It was too... I don't know. I didn't like that one.
Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. Possibly the only vampire series I'll ever love. I'm also thrilled by the fact that Robert Pattinson is playing Edward. ^-^
Maximum Ride. I still have to read the 4th one!!
Pendragon. I've lost my place in that one (how many are even out now?!?).
And I'll never be too old to enjoy a good ol' Nancy Drew mystery. =P

Edit: I completely forgot!!!! A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet, Far Thing by Libba Bray. I'm surprised at myself!!

I don't read too much which is weird for a writer, but being a huge fan of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett I have to say its between Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Mort. Both are brilliantly funny and entertaining and I love the random and weird events that happen. These two books are the main reason I got into writing, because I'd like to become soryt of the new kid on the block for this type of storytelling.

I also read some Terry Brookes novels which are more intense and fantasy like, but there's something about his writing that annoys me and I aren't entirely sure what it is. Probably that I'd wish he'd chill out and make it a bit more uplifting rather than deep and depressive.

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. :D

sense and sensibility - Jane Austen

The series of Harry Potter books have been my all time fevourite, also most Dean Koontz books, my favourite one of his "The Taking". Et voila, my favies

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

It'll prolly change to New Moon once I read that. ;)

I absolutely love anything by Ted Dekker. Definitely my favorite author.

My favorites of his would have to be Showdown, Saint, and House (which he co-authored with Frank Peretti). I honestly can't pick the best out of those three.

The Twilight series all the way. I dont know many people who dont like these books. well, I dont know many guys who have read them, but every girl in the world has read at least the first one, which makes you want to read all of them. Do it. Read the Twilight Series.

-Alex

[QUOTE=leopharry;149277]Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. Possibly the only vampire series I'll ever love. I'm also thrilled by the fact that Robert Pattinson is playing Edward. ^-^[QUOTE]

I am personally not thrilled with Robert Pattinson playing Edward. Edward is suppose to be gorgeous. Read the book, a movie could never compare.

-Alex

Beach Music by Pat Conroy and The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris.

"On the Road" by Kerouac is a long time favourite.

Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers
Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson
Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong
All books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
All books by Laurell K. Hamilton

Yes, those, I believe, are my top favs XP There's no way I can pick just one.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest


I usually don't read books too often but I really found time to sit down and read this one once I got started, but that's because it's awesome.

The memory brings a smile to my face. Senior year in high school: I'd read hundreds of science-fiction novels, but never anything of 'quality,' and I was being forced by the English teacher to do a book report on most anything except science-fiction. I wandered downstairs to the school library, experiencing mild shock and repulsion at the sight of all those 'quality' hardback books, and I quickly formulated the plan to find the smallest book so as to lessen my book report ordeal.

To my delight I found an itty-bitty book that was no more than about five inches square and about half an inch thick. At the time I was going to college in the mornings, going to high school in the afternoons, and I did all my college homework at high school. I figured I could have the little book read within one study hall.

The Good Earth was the title. The book exposed me to what I interpreted to be quality writing, and because the book became an important turning point in my life of reading, it remains my favorite. I've read no science-fiction since.

The Ice People by Rene Barjavel. It broke my heart and made me think differently about love- namely that it could be perfect. :P It's wonderful.

Rangers Apprentice: The Oakleaf bearers.

I got the first book of this series' in a book club oder in grade 5. I cried when i finished this book because it was so wonderfully excellent that i didn't want it to stop. I greatly anticipated the next book, and the next, and finally, the Oakleaf bearers. This book was amazing. It was so exciting, the war was so descriptive and excellently written... and more. words can't describe how good this book was. Anyone reading this post, i recommend you read every single rangers apprentice book. In australia, there are 7 books, which is the most in any county, so you might not be able to get your hands on all 7 if you are in another country.
I've read every single of one these books from the series on the day i could get my hands on them. They are simply wonderful.

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. Simply the best book ever written.

'Magician' Raymond.E Feist - Greatest book Ive read so far.

& one that I forgot the title too, but was {I granted it as a seriously good book, probably cause' it was the first real book I ever read} about Acient China, a slave girl that's master had to look after some of the last dragons in China. And so on so forth, you can guess what happend. It was still good though.

I find it very difficult to choose favourites when it comes to things like books and such.

In amongst my favourites, though, are:

Getting Used To Dying, by Xian Xang Liang - revolutionised the way I look at the value of words.

Across The Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn - The first in the series and one of the most absorbing books I have ever read.

The Ends Of The Earth, by Lucius Shepard - A collection of short stories that are - to me - science fiction/fantasy perfection. Every story is like an ever increasing heartbeat. ;)

Red Azalea, by Anchee Min - I love this book because it's an autobiography that only succeeded in being written when the author learned a new language (English) and was able to write in the freedom that it gave her, I'm endlessly fascinated by that concept.

The BFG, by Roald Dahl - Storytelling perfection, in my humble opinion. :)

This is going to sound really cliché but I am in love with the Twilight Saga!! I cannot wait for Breaking Dawn to come out!!

Anyone who is with me two thumbs up!!!

If you haven't read it... I reccomend reading at least the first two chapters... it will pull you in and you won't be able to stop until you read the last word of Eclipse(the 3rd in the series) :):):):)

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. Simply the best book ever written.

I enjoyed this series too... the ending upset me but did not suprise me as much as the reviews said it was going to... :)

I really enjoyed House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I plan on rereading it this summer, as my first read through was a bit sporadic.

Fav book with out a doubt = P.s I love You by Cecelia Ahern. beautiful x

There are so many... there are always ones that I've forgotten, but I'll do my best:

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander
Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst

Graphic novel series:
Sandman, Neil Gaiman
Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis

Short stories:
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
Animal Crackers, Hannah Tinti

Non-fiction:
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klostermann
The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine