What is everyone's favorite book?

[Laika]

On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Junky - William Burroughs
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
1984 - George Orwell
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

 

[#juan]

Stranger in a Strange Land, Number of the Beast, by Robert Heinlein

Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card

Ringworld Trilogy by Larry Niven

These are all science fiction. My favorites seem to change. I enjoy all of Anne Perry's Inspector Pitt novels, and just about anything by James Patterson.

 

[Colpy]

Seriously.....

1984, by George Orwell

As for books on war, And No Birds Sang, by Farley Mowat

Rumor of War, by Philip Caputo

Currently I am reading a book by a female English Professor from Iran, about how she led a secret class in literature for girls in Tehran in the mid to late 199os.

This book should most definitely be read by anyone dreaming of defending the Iranian regime

Reading Lolita in Tehran, A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi

And, (showing my age here) ANYTHING by John Steinbeck, less so but still ANYTHING by Hemmingway. Old Macho writers.

 

[Riyko]

Shogun by James Clavell

This book was the most interesting book i've read in a long time.

 

[thecdn]

Dune by Frank Herbert.

 

[Said1]

And, (showing my age here) ANYTHING by John Steinbeck

The frog pond in Cannery Row :lol:

Who wouldn't like East of Eden anyway?

 

[Colpy]

Re: RE: What is everyone's favorite book?

And, (showing my age here) ANYTHING by John Steinbeck

The frog pond in Cannery Row :lol:

Who wouldn't like East of Eden anyway?

East of Eden is my favourite, much more so than Grapes of Wrath, for the truely serious stuff.

Cannery Row is wonderful. Did you ever see the movie with Nick Nolte? It is really good.

 

[#juan]

I'm not a big Hemmingway fan but I did enjoy: The Old Man and the Sea, and, For Whom the Bell Tolls

 

[Said1]

Re: RE: What is everyone's favorite book?

And, (showing my age here) ANYTHING by John Steinbeck

The frog pond in Cannery Row :lol:

Who wouldn't like East of Eden anyway?

East of Eden is my favourite, much more so than Grapes of Wrath, for the truely serious stuff.

Cannery Row is wonderful. Did you ever see the movie with Nick Nolte? It is really good.

I liked it a lot more too, but he did do a good job of capturing the atmosphere during the depression. Maybe that's why I didn't like it as much, too depressing. And didn't see the movie, Cannery Row.

 

[Vereya]

P. G. Wodehouse - The Full Moon. It's fantastic! Read it if you are ever in a bad mood.
I also enjoy classical English novels by Dickens, Austen and Wilkie Collins.
But the book I love the most is Master and Margarita by M. Bulgakov.

 

[RomSpaceKnight]

Johnathon Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, I always have a smile on my face when finished reading.

 

[wallyj]

I hignly recommend " A Confederacy of Dunces" by Toole.Nothing deep except for the belly laughs.

 

[wolfking99]

I recommend "The House of the Scorpions" by Nancy Farmer. Absolutely awesome plot, deep meanings, and fantastic book for critical thinkers.

 

[sanctus]

I don't have favourite books, per se, but my favourite series of books are the Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis. Still re-read them from time to time. Actually anything by Lewis appeals to me. I am fond also of Pearl S. Buck and Steinbeck.And The Bible is always a great source of reading pleasure.

 

[selfactivated]

Don Miguel Ruiz The four agreements

 

[snowles]

My holy trinity of books :laughing7:

 

[selfactivated]

I ADORE George

 

[snowles]

The sad thing is, I'm an English major. I think it pretty much destroyed my ability to enjoy a book on anything but an analytical level.

 

[Tonington]

My favorite is The Count of Monte Cristo. My favorite non-fiction is The Ingenuity Gap.

 

[Curiosity]

Way too many to list for me....

I go through at least five books a month and within my friends group we pass along so we don't have to buy everything that's hot on the lists...and things which have been forgotten or never read years past...

My favorite book? Cat In The Hat - my first introduction to reading on my own. Not a complete reading
because my siblings had obliterated many of the pages with peanut butter/jelly droppings, torn pages, missing pages, or crayon overlays.... but still was a whole new world to me.