What Are Your Favorite Books Of All Time

[Parche]

These are my favorites





:hi:

[ceile]

1. "A Small Death in Lisbon"

"Dune"
"Wuthering Heights"
"Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass"
"Steppenwolf"
"Death in Venice"

Right now reading "No Country for Old Men", and I'm sure it will be added to the list.

[Rockholm]

2. "A Prayer for Owen Meany"

[GCP]

21. Mine too - absolutely

Fantastic book!

[Rockholm]

30. I LOVED THAT BOOK!

a la Owen himself.

[BB1]

31. read it too, and thought it was great!

Saw a girl at a trainstation reading the dutch translation. It was her fourth read, she said.

Mine are:
1. Imagica (Clive Barker)
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Everything else by Clive Barker

[MissMillie]

33. That was the first book that came to my mind!

LOVE this book, and most of everything that Irving writes.

[puerco-bellies]

3. Cannery Row

Love in the Time of Cholera

[deepthought42]

4. You mean I have to choose????????

I love every book I own...and I own alot...let's see...

Wizard's First Rule/Stone of Tears/Faith of the Fallen/etc - Terry Goodkind
Daughter of the Forest/Wolkskin/Foxmask - Juliet Marillier
Green Rider/First Rider's Call - Kristen Britain
All the Kushiel's books by Jacqueline Carey
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Duh! ^__^ )



There's more...I just don't remember them right now...

[TZ]

7. I love your list!

Although I got pissed at Terry Goodkind when he started making his books into right wing lectures (Hillary and Bill are made into evil corrupt politicians in one book, and he kills anti-war protestors in another.
Kushiel's books are great too! Did you know there is a new one (just in the last few months).
Currently I have started reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and really liking it..Hitchhikers meets fantasy...Its freaking hilarious...

[deepthought42]

9. Oh yeah, I work at a bookstore, of course!

I saw a customer order for Kushiel's Justice and had to find a copy of my own...:rofl:


I don't know...they've never seemed r/w to me, though I do skim some of the looooooooong ideological monologues. The Imperial Order (the bad guys), think they're doing the Creator's work by killing or forcibly converting "heathens"... don't know what right-winger's would think of that...lol.

[TZ]

10. mmm

One of his book is a whole treatise on the evils of communism..But the one that really annoys me is from "Soul of the Fire"..Bertand Chamboor and Hildemara Chamboor...and hes a huge womanizer....
Its not all RW propaganda obviously, but enough for me to wander on to other projects..I haven't read past "Naked Empire"

[deepthought42]

11. Lol...

I should've stopped, but I'm a masochist and love the main characters. Working on the last book in the series now... as well as a few other books, including one about Lady Jane Grey...and I just bought the new book out by J.V. Jones, "A Sword of Red Ice".

[MrCoffee]

5. "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" - Jack Womack

"The Grapes of Wrath" - John Steinbeck

"Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" - Gen. Romeo Dallaire

"We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" - Phillip Gourevich

"Memory and the Mediterranean" - Fernand Braudel

"Neuromancer" - William Gibson

[AnneD]

6. Once and Future King....

I have a paperback edition that set me back 95 cents when I bought it new! I can't find find another copy so I hang on to it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. A few:

Lord of the Rings. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

Catch 22. - Joseph Heller.

A Tale of Two Cities. - Charles Dickens.

The Count of Monte Cristo. - Alexandre Dumas.

The Mists of Avalon. - Marion Zimmer Bradley.

The Princess Bride. - William Goldman.


And most recently for pure frivolous fun..Poison Study and Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder. With a third book (Fire Study) coming out in March. I so eggcited! :bounce:

[Lyric]

29. You and I would get along very well

I have 5 of those sitting on my bookshelves right now :hi:

[lost-in-nj]

12. not very literary

but there was a book called Nakoa's Woman by
Gayle Rogers

and I read the Stand twice....

other than that.....

I love (well I used to love) to read....


lost

[yellowdogintexas]

39. OHHH Nakoa's Woman was SOO GOOD!!! Do you think they both died

or do you think only Nakoa Died? I have never been sure of that and I read it a LONG time ago. Very good story

[laylah]

13. Too numerous to mention

but here are a few:

"The Shell Seekers" Rosamund Pilcher
"Goldcoast" ?
The Hobbit Trilogy
"Dances With Wolves" Michael Blake
"Jitterbug Perfume", "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues","Still Life with Woodpecker" Tom Robbins
Anything written by Louis Lamore
"Forever Amber" Kathleen Windsor (my grandmother was librarian in our small town in Illinois. I was 16 and had just seen the movie with Cornell Wilde and Linda Darnell. I asked to read the book and Gram pulled it out from under the counter where she kept it hidden because it was so "risque"....:rofl: I always thought that was pretty funny).

[Seashell Eyes]

14. "The Lords of Discipline"

"Slaughterhouse-Five", "Fahrenheit 451", and "Jesus' Son". I also love "The Kite Runner," which I'm reading right now.

[mainegreen]

15. Anything by Lovecraft, Phillip K Dick, Tolkien or Douglas Adams

[RetroLounge]

16. Off the top of my head

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Go Dog Go - PD Eastman
Where I'm Calling From (Short Stories) - Raymond Carver

RL

[lizziegrace]

19. Still Life with Woodpecker

inspired Dan Fogelberg's song "Make Love Stay". It's one of my favorite books too.

Now that we love
Now that the lonely nights are over
How do we make love stay?
Now that we know
The fire can burn bright or merely smolder
How do we keep it from dying away?

Elusive as dreams
Barely remembered in the morning
Love like a phantom flies
But held in the heart
It pales like the emply smile adorning
A statue with sightless eyes.

Moments fleet, taste sweet within the rapture
When precious flesh is greedily consumed
But mystery’s a thing not easily captured
And once deceased not easily exhumed.

Now that we love
Now that the lonely nights are over
How do we make love stay?

Moments fleet, taste so sweet within the rapture
When precious flesh is greedily consumed
But mystery’s a thing not easily captured
And once deceased not easily exhumed.

Now that we loved
Look at the moonless night and tell me
How do we make love stay?


Rest in peace, Dan.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. To Kill A Mockingbird....

Buffalo Brenda By Jill Pinkwater
Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Among others...
Besides the first, I'm sure no one has ever heard of the others.
Duckie

[hellbound-liberal]

18. Here are some of mine

[RushIsRot]

20. Topping off my list is:

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

then...

Cache Lake Country - John Rowlands

The Long-Shadowed Forest - Helen Hoover

Ringworld - Larry Niven

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[Broken_Hero]

22. Off the top of my head

Without Remorse-Tom Clancy

Needful Things-S. King

Homeland, Exile, Sojourn, and Passage to Dawn by RA Salvatore

Soldiers Live-G. Cook

Memnoch the Devil-A. Rice

[BlueIris]

26. Self-delete.

[Xipe Totec]

23. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras

[Chovexani]

24. Ah I can't narrow it down

-The Dune Chronicles (don't get me started on the shyte Herbert's son is cranking out though)
-Lord of the Rings
-Harry Potter
-Anything by David & Leigh Eddings
-The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (one of the very few novels she's written worth the paper it's printed on)
-Anything by Terry Pratchett, especially Good Omens
-Anything by Neil Gaiman, especially Neverwhere and Stardust
-A Song of Fire and Ice by George R. R. Martin
-Anything by Christopher Moore (especially Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)
-The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin
-The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
-Anything by Octavia Butler, especially Kindred and the Earthseed novels

Er, yeah, I kind of skew towards fantasy/sci-fi. :)

[IndianaJones]

37. you are the perfect person. nt.

[Chovexani]

38. I know.

And modest. :)

[Fox Mulder]

25. I love the books in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.

I also love all the books in The Dresden Files series.

I'd have to say that my absolute favorite books are: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, and Memnoch the Devil, all by Anne Rice. My favorite political book is Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda by Paul Wellstone.

Edit: There are so many others, but those are what popped in my head first.

[BlueIris]

27. "Play It As It Lays," by Joan Didion. nt

[ChazII]

28. Count of Monte Cristo n/t

[peacefreak]

32. This is like asking "who is your favorite child?"

Master & Margarita--Buglakov
Tin Drum--Gunter Grass
One Hundred Years of Solitude--Garcia Marquez
Lonesome Dove--McMurtry
Lamb--Christopher Moore(got to have me some Moore on this list!)
Time in it's Flight--Schaeffer
Some Other Place, the Right Place--Harington
With--Harington
Marie Blythe--Howard Frank Mosher
Winterdance--Paulson
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test--Wolfe
28 Barbary Lane Omnibus--Maupin (OK, this is probably cheating, because there's 7 of them)

I'm sure there's a number of titles nobody's ever heard of, but I still love them. Please, if you ever run out of things to read, check out Donald Harington, Christopher Moore & Howard Frank Mosher.

[Whisp]

41. 100 years of solitude,

ah, that's a fine one.
am planning to reread it soon.

A Winter's Tale - Halpern (?) read it years and years ago and still feel that magic.
Sexing The Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (so imaginative and off the wall, loved it)
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn - very strange topsy turvy neat
Poisonwood bible - Kingsolver
Jitterbug Perfume - Robbins
Empire of the Ants

[annonymous]

34. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
Slaughterhouse Five and Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaassen
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. One caveat: I read very little fiction.

And I have TONS of books on many different subjects. I tried to read "Memoirs of a Geisha" and couldn't finish it. I thought it was boring because it was completely internal to the mind of the woman character.

Faves:
THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING, by Lin Yutang, first published 1936. A philosophy book about Confucianism and the 20th century. He was a philosopher as well as the first person to write a Chinese-English dictionary. Just wonderful if you're into Oriental philosophy. But he's far more concrete than Alan Watts.

Anything by Stuart Wilde (only New Age author with a sense of humor; he's British)www.stuartwilde.com

THE ASSAULT ON REASON by Al Gore

LETTERS FROM THE EARTH, by Mark Twain
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, by Mark Twain
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (the last chapters about the deaths of his wife and two of his daughters are very heavy reading and profound)

THE CIDER HOUSE RULES by John Irving (best damn novel I think I've ever read)

THE NANNY DIARIES (Much better than The Devil Wears Prada in my opinion)

MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert

I used to read true crime because it was better than fiction. I can recommend highly BLOOD AND MONEY (happened in Houston when I was a kid; I remember it in the newspapers) and FATAL VISION.

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM (new translation, not the Fitzgerald)

FANNY, being the True History of Fanny Hackabout-Jones by Erica Jong (much better than Fear of Flying; she has a Ph.D. in 18th Cent. English Lit and it shows--this is written in that style and is hilarious as well as adult).

THE REST OF US by Stephen Birmingham (about the Russian Jews who started Hollywood and became famous in many fields, not just entertainment. The movie stars had to change their names).

FREAKONOMICS

THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD and PALE BLUE DOT by Carl Sagan; really, anything by Sagan, including the TV series COSMOS on DVD. And going back to THE DRAGONS OF EDEN where he was the first author I was aware of who wrote about the primitive lizard brain.

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN

Health:
THE MIRACLE MINERAL SUPPLEMENT OF THE 21st CENTURY, by Jim Humble (available at www.miraclemineral.org)

WOMEN AND MADNESS by Phyllis Chesler



Funny, light stuff:
MEMOIRS OF AN AMNESIAC, by Oscar Levant

BRAIN DROPPINGS by George Carlin
WHEN WILL JESUS BRING THE PORK CHOPS? by George Carlin
NAPALM AND SILLY PUTTY by George Carlin

Stuff related to my interest in law:
MY LIFE IN COURT by Louis Nizer

ATTORNEY FOR THE DAMNED (about Clarence Darrow)

THE BEST DEFENSE by Alan Dershowitz
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SIX MEN by Alistair Cooke (he knew everybody who was anybody in the 20th century, apparently)

PRINCIPLES OF ORCHESTRATION by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (now published by Dover)

THE FAMILY by Kitty Kelley (expose of the Bush family over many generations)

SECRETS by Daniel Ellsberg

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And for the Science/Math Nerd on your list for whom money is no object: Celestial Mechanics by Pierre Simon Laplace, first edition, in French. Apparently he went a lot further than Newton did on the subject. It was available at powells.com for a mere $12K.

Cheaper books for the science/math nerd on your list:
GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS by Stephen Hawking.

MATHEMATICS: FROM THE BIRTH OF NUMBERS by Jan Gullberg

EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson

Any science fact books by Isaac Asimov.

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And I LOVE my Random House Unabridged Dictionary!!!

[opiate69]

36. Hitchiker's Guide, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Brief History of Time, and

Dracula; Prince of Many Faces ( a fascinating biography of the real Vlad Dracula/Tsepish)
http://www.amazon.com/Dracula-Prince-Many-Faces-Times/dp/B000JBY0RO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199944518&sr=1-1

[yellowdogintexas]

40. These are books I have re read which classifies them as long time favorites:

Jane Eyre
Tom Sawyer
Gone With The Wind
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Song of Ice and Fire series
Auntie Mame
The Joyous Season
Life Among the Savages
Raising Demons
An Episode of Sparrows
Exodus
She
King Solomon's Mines
A Short History of a Small Place
The Young Elizabeth

but man there are tons of wonderful books I have read that I have recommended to others over the years.

[YankeyMCC]

42. This is always a difficult question to answer for me but

let's try this list:

"Grapes of Wrath"
Asimov's Robot and Empire Novels (followed closely by the Foundation novels)
LoTR
Iliad/Odyssey

Funny that the first books I think of are fiction, there's no reason why the favorite books couldn't be non-fiction too and I have a few:
"The Metaphysical Club" Louis Menand
"A People's History of the US" by Zinn
"Lincoln's Virtues" by William Lee Miller
"Divided Ground" Alan Taylor
"Mayflower" by Nathaniel Philbrick