Favorite Books...

[TruJewel]

Hi Everyone
I got this idea from Tsila! I was curious about what are your favorite book(s). Reading is a hobby and I also like to write poems. My favorite book is the "The Bluest Eye"by Toni Morrison
Peace and Love

Thanks Tsila

[Tsila]

Just one? Can't do it. :)

Here are a few:

Le Petit Prince: Antoine de St Exupery
9 Stories: JD Salinger
Le Mythe de Sisyphe: Albert Camus
The Molloy Trilogy: Samuel Beckett
Big Sur: Jack Kerouac
The Complete Stories: Flannery O'Connor
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are: Alan Watts
...anything at all by David Suzuki

I'm sure that I could come up with many more.

[Teri]

The Mists of Avalon, Marion Bradley
my favourite book this week anyway.

[MinnieFay]

Series:
Anne of Green Gables (fav book from series: Rilla of Ingleside)
Harry Potter (fav from series: HP & Prizoner of Azkaban)
Discworld (fav from series: Wyrd Sisters)

Books:
The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegert
Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day by (i can't remember! argh! Thor Haydinger or something like that maybe? the book is at my boyfriend's house)
Cider House Rules by John Irving (and i still havn't seen the movie)
Road from Corrain & True North by Jill Ker Conway
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Stiching a Revolution: THe making of the Aids Quilt (i forget the author)
...my list goes on and on :)

~becca

[Lord Golbez]

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky has been my favorite book for a few years, and looks to continue to be so. It's just so great, I can't even explain it! Philosophical and psychological depth is a characteristictrait of Dostoyevsky's novels! A close second would be Crime and Punishment.

For classic fantasy appeal, I'll choose The Lord of the Rings for my third favorite, or Return of the King if I must get specify my favorite book from the series.

[Catryna]

I like all of the harry potter book. A seres by jenny Carroll called 1-800 where-r-u and all of Tamora piersce bokks. Also, Sacred Sacrements.

[tofulina]

i'd have to say my favourite books are:
- A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- Not wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findlay
- Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Marques

These books will not dissapoint. (that's my opinion anyway)

[kerouac]

Lord G: Crime and Punishment is my favourite book as well :)

[Walter]

I can't pick just one either. I have a terrible habit of reading half a book and setting it down forever, so it seems to me that most books that I like are all of the ones I've ever finished. :p

I like books about the plight of the average person...

A Tale of Two Cities, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Jungle are all quite high on the list.

I really enjoyed 1984, which I recently read.

Then of course there's the Harry Potter series which is quite attention holding, and naturally, The Lord of the Rings, which is a completely perfect book. :smitten:

[SunnyK]

Wow, this thread is a year old!

Catch-22, plus everything by Kurt Vonnegut and Graham Greene, those top my list.

There are so, so many other things that I love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Solzhenitsin (sp!) come to mind....

[kraftykraft]

"Memoirs of a Geisha"
Harry Potter - Books Three and Four
Elizabeth George
Mary Higgins Clark
Patricia Cornwell - "All that Remains" "Body of Evidence"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"The Scarlet Letter"

[Cissy]

All the Harry Potter books, definitely - especially #5. - JK Rowling
The Little House Books - Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
The Chamber - John Grisham
Stick Figure - Lori Gottlieb
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgeson Burnett
To Kill a Mockingbird

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of any right now...

[michael_veggie]

The Harry Potter books except the 2nd (it sucked) - JK Rowling
You Can Save The Animals - Ingrid Newkirk (my hero)

[Ronelalala]

watership down/richard adams
good omens by terry pratchet and neil gaiman
an lord of the rings all 3 their great :wayne:

[natalie]

I really like the bell jar by sylvia plath (i think its the novel ive re-read the most),
alias grace - margaret atwood, the woman in white - wilke colins, and catcher in the rye - j d salinger. But if i have to recommend one, it would be woman on the edge of time - marge piercy. wow.

[SunnyK]

(Kids' books count, right?)

Oh, yes. I like Roald Dahl's.

[rigmarole]

I've read and love just about every Stephen King/Richard Bachman book. I especially liked IT, and Insomnia. But his some of his short storys have made me cry, or at least one that I can specifically remember. He's truely amazing, though I sometimes have to force myself to read the first 20 or so pages.

The Hobbit was a spectacular book.. I haven't been able to make myself finish Lord of the Rings. Ayn Rand the Fountainhead was really good too.

Miles and Me (a Miles Davis biography[?]) by Quincy Troupe was a great great book, but then again I'm addicted to Miles' music.

rigmarole

[iceflower]

big book nerd here :D can i only have one favourite?

Real Gorgeous – Kaz Cooke (really really recommend this for anyone who posts in Eat To Live)
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Street Lawyer – John Grisham
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (you guys have to read this one VBers would love it...its so funny)
Holy Cow - Sarah MacDonald
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Firm – John Grisham
KISS Guide To Yoga
The Stand – Stephen King
Girlosophy - Anthea Paul
Looking For Alibrandi -Melinda Marchetta
The Diary Of Kylie Mole
Ferren and the Angel - Richard Harland
Sleeping Dogs - Sonya Hartnett
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Kids Picture Books (That Are Better As You Get Older :)

The Sign of the Seahorse - Graeme Base
The 11th Hour - Graeme Base
Anamailia - Graeme Base
The Great Escape From the City Zoo – Tohby Riddle
Lisa In Wordland – Matt Groening (comic)
Brambly Hedge Treasury - Jill Barklem
Dinotopia - James Gurney
Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase - Bruce Whatley and Rosie Smith
Window – Jeannie Baker
The Paw – Terry Denton and Natalie Jane Prior
Lester and Clyde – James Reece
Possum Magic – Mem Fox
Boris and Borsh – Robin Klein and Cathy Wilcox
Finders Keepers – Emily Rodda and Noela Young
Bamboozled – David Legge
Power and Glory – Emily Rodda and Geoff Kelly
Button Moon – Shoebox Station - A Themes Magnet Book
The Biggest Sandwich Ever - Rita Golden Gelman, Mort Gerberg
Boss For A Week - Libby Handy, Jack Newnham
Angelina Ballerina - Helen Craig, Katherine Holabird
The Magnificant Mummy Maker – Elvira Woodruff
The Dentists Promise – Margaret Mahy and Wendy Smith
Beach Day (golden book)