What Is Your Favorite Book...

[hellonurse]

Of the last year?

Of all time?

I'm looking for new (to me) books to read.

To answer my own question, it would be Gone Girl and The Bell Jar.

[ijack]

The Night Circus
The Power of One

[janedoe]

I really enjoy Emily Giffin books, like "Something Borrowed", "Love the one you're with" and I can't think of the others. I don't think they are my all time favorite but they were definitely good

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Gone Girl
The Harry Potter Series

I've really been enjoying Laura Lippmann books lately.

[magdala9]

I really loved the Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (sp) and the Game of Thrones series (George R. R. Martin). My all time favorite is Bradbury's Farenheit 451.

[hellonurse]

Dec 3, 2012 22:06:56 GMT -5 @libgrl said:

Gone Girl
The Harry Potter Series

I've really been enjoying Laura Lippmann books lately.

Oh! I saw this on amazon the other day and thought of you.

www.amazon.com/Unemployed-Philosophers-Guild-Banned-Book/dp/B007MOLSXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354590555&sr=8-1&keywords=banned+books+mug

[mrst2]

The Bronze Horseman
The Good Earth, The Joy Luck Club

[DarcyLongfellow]

Of the last year?
I've read a lot of good books this year. I enjoyed the Game of Thrones series, but they're incredibly dense. On the other end of the spectrum, I really loved the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It's very fluffy and fun.

Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth were really good if you're into young adult dystopian fiction.

Of all time? The Time Traveler's Wife

[limey]

2012: Toss up between S Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
and
G Colvin Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

Also, Heath & Heath Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard is fantastic if you are even remotely interested in business psychology or philosophy type books

All time:
Tom Robbins' Skinny Legs and All

[huskymom]

Dec 3, 2012 21:58:51 GMT -5 ijack said:

The Night Circus
The Power of One

Um, I was going to answer this way exactly before I read your post!

Now, if you tell me you hated Gone Girl, you will have me convinced you're my sister from another mister.

Night circus was so, so beautiful. Read it!

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Dec 3, 2012 22:10:21 GMT -5 hellonurse said:

Dec 3, 2012 22:06:56 GMT -5 @libgrl said:

Gone Girl
The Harry Potter Series

I've really been enjoying Laura Lippmann books lately.

Oh! I saw this on amazon the other day and thought of you.

www.amazon.com/Unemployed-Philosophers-Guild-Banned-Book/dp/B007MOLSXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354590555&sr=8-1&keywords=banned+books+mug

Love it! Added it to my wish list! Thanks!

[Velvetshady]

Fav of 2012: The HElp (yes, I was late in reading it)

Fav all-time doesn't compute. Bel Canto, A Thousand Splendid Suns come to mind for general fiction. I've been enjoying Alan Bradley and Andrea Camilleri for mysteries this year. George RR Martin and Robin Hobb for fantasy series. Alison Weir for Tudors fix. Classics are usually topped by Les Miserables and Watership Down.

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Insurgent
A Widow for One Year or One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Dec 3, 2012 22:58:58 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Dec 3, 2012 22:48:38 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

Insurgent
A Widow for One Year or One Hundred Years of Solitude

Oh, I'm having flash backs to junior year. I remember thinking this book was painfully boring back then.

It gets a lot of haters and it's been so long since I read it but I used to read it 2-3 times a year in college. Just so different and complicated.

[Deleted]

2012: 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I'm sure I read others I liked but that one stands out.

Of all time, I'd probably say the Harry Potter series. But I'm really bad at picking favorites and if you asked me this question next month, I'd probably answer differently. I usually either like or dislike things but have trouble ranking how much more I like/dislike something than another thing.

[joenali]

Charlotte's Web (I've read it over and over! I love reading it to my students)
Where'd You go Bernadette (I read a lot this year, for me anyway! And this book was by far the best, I actually laughed out loud at some parts. I think the ending could have been better, but overall it was the best for the year!)

[niki]

All time: Ender's Game. It changed my life.

Much less serious than that book was my faves of this year: The Southern Vampire Mysteries (on audiobook).

[bookqueen15]

This year: Discovery of Witches probably but I really enjoyed Divergent also.

Of all time: To Kill a Mockingbird or the Harry Potter series

This post is reminding me to read The Night Circus soon, been meaning to read it since the summer!

[pumpkin]

Last few years: The Historian

All time: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Outsiders, The Mill on the Floss, and The Notebook

[ladygrey]

I haven't been reading too many new books over the last year, but my all time favorite book is Gone With the Wind.

[Deleted]

Recently: The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Night Circus.
Forever: I love books and would feel guilty trying to single out just one.

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[sporky]

Last year: Outliers
All-time: A Prayer for Owen Meany

[mrshandy]

Recently: "And the Band Played On" It's new to me. But not new at all (published in the 80s). It's about the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. It was riveting and I couldn't put it down.

All time: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

[raangoli]

I am bad at reading books when they first come out, so I can't really answer this past year. Unless "Is everyone hanging out without me?" by Mindy Kaling counts. She's hilarious.

Of all time: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Apparently I like to support by brown sisters.

[Deleted]

Do not read J.K. Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy"

Of all time...too hard to answer!

But, this year I loved "The Chaperone" by Laura Moriarty and "Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life" by Justine Picarde.

Get the Coco book (if you decide to read it) from the library or purchase it, because it has great photographs and I'm so glad I didn't get it on my Kindle.

The Coco book is fascinating from not just a fashion perspective but also how she built her empire across the 1900's.

[iamali]

Of all time: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

This year: Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick

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Dec 4, 2012 9:26:25 GMT -5 @shoegal said:

Do not read J.K. Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy"

Seriously, don't read Casual Vacancy. It made me so upset I could not sleep at night. I read 150 pages and then gave it away.

Favorite this year: The Night Circus, 11/22/63
Favorite of all time: Atlas Shrugged

[hellonurse]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! I've heard lots of great things about A Prayer for Owen Meany, and after it being mentioned here a few times again, that might be next on my list.

[ijack]

I may be the only person in the world who hates John Irving His books totally bug me.

[Deleted]

No idea about all time.

My favorite books this year were The Kite Runner and When You Are Engulfed in Flames