Your favorite/most cherished books

[Meegle]

Like the title, for example I have a first edition For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemmingway, its old and ugly but I love the thing and its an awesome read. I don't think I could ever part with it.

[Meggles]

Not becauseits great literature, but I have a collection of Dr. Seuss stories. The book is so worn that the spine is falling off, but I love that thing.

[Holy Knight]

The Gormenghast Novels.

Too few people even know of their existence. :(

[goddessofanime]

The books that I've kept throughout the years:

Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion

(yes, I love Jane Austen)..

A copy of a Bernstein Bears book...my 9 year old cousin at the time gave it to me one year for Christmas. He had just lost his father a few months before.

Also:

Most of Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris...along with Memoirs of a Geisha(I got in a bookstore for two dollars).

THere's also some manga that I keep...more for sentimental purposes.

[Trefellin]

My copy of The Lord of the Flies that I bought in grade 6 at a teachers recommendation. The bloody pig's head on the cover is beautiful.

[Anamin]

Jane Eyre
The Last Unicorn (I liked it) had a few more things than the movie, also, less singing.

[Scandiadream]

- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Matilda
- Heidi
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Pride and Prejudice
- A Wrinkle In Time
- A Little Princess
- The Wizard of Oz series
- Choose Your Own Adventure series
- Encyclopedia Brown series
- Gulliver's Travels

And several others...

[JoeStrummer]

My copy of The Doors of Perception and Catcher in the Rye I've had since grade school

[loplop]

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien
Shogun by James Clavell
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
The House of Nire by Morio Kita
Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei by Shimei Futabatei
Space by James A. Michener

[superplough]

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. This is the first book I ever owned and I must have read it a million times.

Also, I no longer have my copy because it was destroyed/lost, but Dr Suess's Sleep Book. Read that one so much the cover fell off :lol:

[mooseegg1982]

The Simirillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

[Haro!]

"Are You My Mother?" because that book was the first book I was able to read on my own.

[ToyMachinist_86]

a copy of Jack Kerouak's "Dharma Bums(that looks to have been stolen from a library) that I found in a bag of mine while on a trip. no clue where it came from

My two Lupin III, and Azumanga Daioh vol 1 graphic novels that have been toted with me on many an adventure

My signed copies of Henry Rollins' Solipsist and First Five

My copy of "Back Pack Liturature" an small anthology i had for one of my classes that was simply amazing.

and my leather bound edition of Kipling's "Just So Stories

[Dr. Ezra]

Most of Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris...


I love you.

This is gonna sound really immature, but the Junie B. Jones books. I loved them as a kid and I still crack up when I look through them now.

[kimmy-chan <3]

Days of hope and Mr Maybe <3~ great books~

[Stelok]

Sun Tzu- Art of War

[Wolfgang]

My Little Bear books. When I was little, I loved to read to my dad while he played Nintendo. I would read those over and over and over again to him. My dad's not around anymore, but I like looking through Little Bear and remembering those good moments.

[YourDaddy]

Hmm, I'm very attached to my William Gibson books. :) Also, CJ CHerry's Finity's End.

[Jabberwock]

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is likely my most cherished piece of literature.

I've begun to wonder if this correlates somehow with my love of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Haro!]

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is likely my most cherished piece of literature.
I nearly forgot about that book. Damn you Jabberwock, I want to hate you but I just can't sometimes.

[NearDN]

The Cather in the Rye is a good one for me, not my favorite but it's a good motivator when the "phonies" have you feeling down :)

[LISA HAYES]

Jian - Eric van Lustbater

[Jabberwock]

I nearly forgot about that book. Damn you Jabberwock, I want to hate you but I just can't sometimes.

Glad to hear it, Haro!

Also, though not a conventional novel, one of my most cherished books is an old (read:1990s) Webster's Abridged Dictionary I have in my bookshelf that my father lent me as I learned to play Scrabble as a child. In fact, I still use it today when I don't have access to my official dictionary.

Another reference book that has deteriorated from my love for it is a much older (read: early 1900s) Roget's Thesaurus given to me as a gift by my uncle. Whenever I travel, I am always sure to bring it with me. When a stroke of brilliance wants to escape off the pen and onto paper, why diminish it with a poor vocabulary? :)

[quaze6]

all of my haruki murakami ( hardboiled wonerland and the end of the world after the quake, blind willow, sleeping woman, wind up bird chronicle, and norwegian wood. although after dark wasn't all that great), charles bukowski(women, factotum, ham on rye), james clavell(taipan, shogun, noble house.gaijin was not really too good, and i haven't read whirlwind yet) hemingway(snows of kilaminjaro, the sun also rises), one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the inheritence trilogy, and the hobbit.

[Kizoku Keenan]

For me it is going to be nearly every book by Roald Dahl, I own every one of his books and they are all original releases from when I was very young, I cherish these more than any other books I own and my favourite book is Georges Marvelous Medecine :)

[TalaRain]

Mecedes Lackey's Valdemar Series. (still on-going since 1980)

[LordGdawg]

The Belgariad and Mallorean Series by David and Leah Eddings.They were my first fantasy series and I fell in love with the genre from them I purchased both 5 book series 3 times due to moving and and misplaced enthusiasm to share the love.The current volumes WILL be buried with me and I WILL do violence to any one who tries to remove them from my shelves.

[Clayton]

Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher. Started my love of dragons.

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[Sora N]

One of my most cherished books is “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” by Judi and Ron Barrett...(I know it’s a children’s book however I have had this book since I was a child…it’s old and torn…however it’s still fun to read sometimes! :P)

I love collecting the FoxTrot comics by Bill Amend again not novels however I have been colleting FoxTrot since I was a child. My first FoxTrot book was “Pass The Loot” I read that book until the cover fell off and the pages started ripping (so I had to buy a new one.)

As far as novels go:

Star Trek Deep Space Nine “Warchild” by Esther Friesner
Hunters Way by Gerri Hill
The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer