Favorite books?

[DominoCat]

Mine is Moon Called - by Patricia Briggs
Has anyone here read the book??
Its AMAZING! A really good werewolf novel.

[Samurai Drifter]

My favorite story is The Legend of King Arthur in most of its many incarnations.

I also like "Anthem" by Ayn Rand, "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson, and basically everything by H.P. Lovecraft.

[Vaikyuko]

Hurm.

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (trilogy) - Yoshiyuki Tomino
The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

That's it for now, I guess. They're all pretty smashing. The Scarlet Letter was a potential one for this list, but I decided not to put it on.

[drgenestarwind]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Caves of Steel-Issac Asimov
Guns Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond

[Dorktron2000]

The Histories, Herodotus or The Iliad, Homer

You can draw so much from both, the first is more fun than a lot of fiction that I've read. My favorite stories, however, are probably the two Iphigenia plays by Euripides. It's really fun to see Achilles act like a dumb jock.

[Zen]

Tales of the Orori - Lian Hearn
Are You Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman
Join Me - Danny Wallace

[tenshi_a]

My favourite book of all time is "Beautiful Losers" by Leonard Cohen.

I haven't been able to satisfactorily read novels ever since. I only read things with pictures on every page, web forums and emails, news articles and computing textbooks... occasionally I read the words on a used public transport ticket and consider it as some kind of holy text.

[Talon]

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. ****

Honorable mention goes to anything by H.P. Lovecraft and Ian Fleming.

[DazzleKitty]

These are some of my all-time favorites.

Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
My Friend Flicka - Mary O'hara
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
House of Shadows - Susan Bowdan
An Unquiet Grave - PJ Parrish
Between Sisters - Kristin Hannah
The Things We do for Love - Kristin Hannah
Julie - Catherine Marshall
Christy - Catherine Marshall

[Illusions-chan]

Here's the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Dragonriders of Pern series - Anne McCaffery

The Sky is Falling - Kit Pearson

[Holy Knight]

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake tops my list. Genius made text right there.

The following are honourable mentions :

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
The Godmakers by Frank Herbert
Lila by Robert M. Pirsig
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchet

[whatsherface]

The first trash novel I read is my favorite book.
Warrior Song-Catherine Coulter

[Mika-chan]

For me it's:

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

[svrellia]

Not sure about favorite book since I have a hard time choosing, but most of my reading time is spent on Heinlein and also the Dragonlance books by Weis/Hickman specifically. The Dune books and Ender books too.

[Rawshark]

I have a hard time keeping focused to finish books so it's a short list

Song of Fire and Ice series by George RR Martin
1984 by George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Dune by Frank Herbert

[Amuro]

Frank Herbert (Dune)
Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
Timothy Zahn (Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy; Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn)
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton (not a fan of his books otherwise)


That's all that's coming to mind now..
If I had to pick a favorite children's book series, it might be The Unicorn Chronicles by Bruce Coville

I'm sure there's something I'm omitting, but that's about it..

[Sabate-kun]

Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED; you find out what man's purpose is)
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut (Also recommended; evolution, humanity, etc)
So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish - Douglas Adams (42, 'nuff said!)
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (war. sex. irrationality. black humor; insta-classic!)
House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer (cloning, ethics, opium farms. Mexican Mafia)

[Amuro]

Catch-22

Thanks for reminding me of one of those classic books that I've somehow missed out on. I think I'll read it in the near future to not be out of the loop.

[Leader Desslock]

^ Catch-22 is an utterly brilliant novel. It's laugh-out-loud funny in places, and then, everything changes. The stuff that was funny before starts to sit in your gut like a ball of lead. It takes incredible writing skill to change the audience's perceptions that quickly, completely, and subtly.

The sequel to Catch-22 was... eh. I own it, but it's not one I'd recommend as highly.

[jedisolo]

Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A place called Freedom, Lie down with the Lions, A Dangerous Fortune, and The Key to Rebecca all by Ken Follett. Most of the Star Wars books.

[Sabate-kun]

Are those the paperback ones with nice front page art?

[Thousand Eyes]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[TwiztidKlownzTX]

Stephen King:
The Shining
The Dark Tower Series
It
Salems Lot
From A Buick 8

Dean Koontz:
Winter Moon
Cold Fire
The Bad Place
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Life Expectancy


Edgar Allen Poe

[proxie]

ANYTHING from Edgar Alan Poe
fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbery
Hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy- Douglas Adams
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

[cloudclone001]

Right off the top of my head:
-Rainbow Six by Tom Clancey
-The series by George R.R. Martin

Those are it for now.:unsure:

[JoeStrummer]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

[TheDarkHunter]

The Dark Hunter books by Sherlyn Kenyon
The Capthian books by Christine Feehan
The Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
Contact by Carl Sagan
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Prince of Twilight by Maggie Shayne
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
The Nymph King by Gene Showalter
and many more.

[iamecchi]

Maxine Hong Kingsone- The woman warrior

theres more but I'm too lazy to list

[sreeja]

My favorite books are The City Watch (love Carrot!) & Witches Discworld books by Terry Pratchett

[Masokick]

I can never decide between Tolkien's The Hobbit, and The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. I read both when I was young and they captured my imagination very well.

[boomsnapclap]

I like the Pendragon series. :]

[Meggles]

Life of Pi-Yann Martel

I LOVE this book! Its sooo awsome! Its about this guy named Pi who's trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger. Its gory in one part but its so amazing! I love the tiger's name: Richard Parker.

[lanaura]

Mine are
The Underland books
Harry Potter
Rachel Morgan books

[Meegle]

For a while last year I had and odd fascination with the great depression era gangsters so I read Public Enemies: Americas Greatest Crime Wave And The Birth Of The FBI 1933 - 34. It was very interesting.

[Waga]

Song of Ice and Fire-by George RR Martin

Described as the American Tolkien in a time magazine article, whilst his book was considered the only book in the fantasy genre that genuinely gives Lord a Rings a run for it's money as 'greatest ever'. Strangely he is not that well known (reasonably known, but not well known).

[StandingAlone]

The Illiad and Odyssey first and foremost
The Dark Tower Series
The Hobbit
Dragonlance series(as long as I could keep up with it)
The works of H.P. Lovecraft

[Jia]

Twilight, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and His Dark Materials.

[stingray]

I'm not much of a reader though there are a few books series I've read a few times over they are

Warriors (Erin Hunter)
Harry Potter
The O'malley Series (Dee Henderson)
The O'malley Series I've read at least three times since I got them and that is well over a year now.

[kya_tsukiko]

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
and
13 reasons why by Jay Asher

[Samurai Drifter]

His Dark Materials.
I don't believe I mentioned that series in my first post in this thread, but it's definitely my favorite book trilogy.

Can't wait until The Book of Dust comes out.

[Garbed]

Song of Ice and Fire-by George RR Martin

Amazing books. After I have all The Wheel of Time books I'll buy these.

[Miss Jei]

Eragon
Eldest
King Dork
Wicked Lovely
Twilight Series
The Misfits

[Knight of Seven]

The Noble Dead series by Barb and J.C. Hendee
The Aubrey Knight trilogy by Stephen Barnes
The Sellswords trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

[TalaRain]

Mercedes Lackey - Valdemar saga

Terry Goodking - Sword of Truth saga

Ann Bishop - Dark Jewels books

[Sora N]

These are a few of my top favorite books (I have more however I'm not in the mood to post more :P):

Hunter Way by Gerri Hill
Passion’s Bright Fury by Radclyffe
Force of Nature by Kim Baldwin
Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Star Trek Deep Space Nine “Warchild” by Esther Friesner

[stingray]

From both of the Transformers live action movies

Transformers Ghost of Yesterday (Movie Prequel) Alan Dean Foster
Transformers (Movie)
Transformers The Veiled Threat (Movie Prequel)
Transfomers Revenge of the Fallen

Few more of my favorite books