Favorite books of all time.

[pantsparty]

Sept 17, 2012 22:19:17 GMT -5 sameoldash said:

The Fault in Our Stars
Number the Stars

I love both of these. I want to re-read The Fault in Our Stars but I don't feel ready yet.

:-(

[vanillacourage]

Timequake by Vonnegut

[onesweetworld]

Anything by Bill Bryson

[chickadee77]

Sept 17, 2012 20:59:18 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Sept 17, 2012 20:48:59 GMT -5 tators said:

This sounds nice...but in reality I think it would be uncomfortable.

Oh soft covers only, of course. It can't be any worse than rolling in money

Lol. I think I love you.

Love Paul Auster and Don DeLillo. But also love bubble gum and older YA fiction (think Katherine Patterson and such).

[textbookcase]

LHC - I loved The Secret History, as well.

This is always hard for me. Here are some that I can think of off the top of my head. I love to read.

- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Most things by David Sedaris, especially Me Talk Pretty One Day
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- On The Road
- Catcher in the Rye
- The Fault in Our Stars
- The Virgin Suicides

[BlackCanary]

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
And Then There Were None
Harry Potter series
Handmaid's Tale
Harry Dresden series
Codex of Alera series
The Shining

Also, the graphic novels Kingdom Come and The Killing Joke. Both are just brilliant.

[Linie]

There are so many good books.

Anything by Jane Austen
the Chocolat series is very good

The one I have read at least 15 times is : Das Parfum

I love Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley series)

Henry Troyat has written some very good novels too and Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt has written a wonderful book : La part de l'autre (what would have happened if Hitler had succeeded at art school ?) - but I do not think it has been translated into English.

[luckyval]

She's Come Undone

Song of Solomon

The Celestine Prophecies

The Harry Potter series

The Notebooks of Don Rigaberto

[copzgirl1171]

The Executioner's Song~Mailer
The Sun Also Rises~Hemingway

ETA:

All the Pretty Horses~McCarthy

[partiallysunny]

The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

[luckyval]

I will add that I quickly became obsessed with The Giver, Tuck Everlasting and the Anne of Green Gables series as a kid

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Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice, Queen by Alex Haley, The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.

It's a terrible book but I could read Scarlett until my eyes bleed.

I have two non-fiction books, one on the Holocaust and the other is a Time Life book on WWII that I love and adore. The latter is falling apart so I don't read it very often anymore.

[olivesyou]

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
She's Come Undone
American Wife

[luckyval]

I love that a couple people have listed She's Come Undone, I was floored by that book.

[anlo]

The Stand
IT
Under the Dome
The Long Walk
The Talisman (I LOVE SK, can you tell?)
The Book Thief
The Lovely Bones
The Night Circus

[iamali]

The End of the Affair (I usually re-read this once per year)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Art of Racing in the Rain
East of Eden
Still Alice
Where the Red Fern Grows (::sniff sniff:
The Glass Castle
Unbroken
The entire Harry Potter series


I miss reading for pleasure SO badly.

[lintscreen]

Catch-22. It took a little while to really get into it but it was worth it to make it through to the end.

[toital]

The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Yep, I said it.

[toital]

Oh, and The Great Gatsby.

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The Good Earth
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Little Women
Till We Have Faces
The Pearl
To Kill A Mockingbird

[janegold]

Sept 17, 2012 21:21:07 GMT -5 godiva said:

In no particular order:

The Red Tent
A Fine Balance
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Geek Love
The Stand
Roots

ETA:
The Hour I First Believed
World According To Garp

I could keep going...

I've never heard anyone else say they like Geek Love! I thought it was outstanding. Weird, yes...but very very good. Roots is another one of my all-time faves.

A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen.

[rageragerage]

The Handmaid's Tale
Pillars of the Earth
The Glass Castle

[wrathofkuus]

the Sandman comic series (the Neil Gaiman one)
Watchmen
The Worthing Saga
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
The Uncanny

[augustblue]

Rebecca

[papie]

L'écume des jours - Boris Vian
Anything by La Comtesse de Ségur (childhood favorites)
Anything by Stephen King
The entire Harry Potter series
Lord of the rings trilogy, and Bilbo
Emile Nelligan' poems
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Bridget Jones' Diary (first chick lit I read)


I'm all over the place.

[dcannie]

the post-american world, fareed zakaria
the family, mario puzo
fay, larry brown
letter to a christian nation, sam harris

[nahoku]

The Stand
HP series
Little Women
Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
Lolita
Nine Stories
Rebecca
Bag of Bones

[textbookcase]

I forgot a shit ton. This is hard! I like to many to narrow it down!

I also read a lot of Sylvia Plath when I was young and angsty.

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seriously, so far, anything by Jose Saramago.

Blindness is one of my favorite books, as is Death Interrupted and The Double. Blindness (and its sequel Seeing) have an interesting and sometimes cumbersome writing style. But the other two (and his other books in general) don't.

I really wish I read Portuguese so I could read these in their original language.

I also really liked Time-Traveler's Wife.

[partiallysunny]

Sept 17, 2012 22:10:08 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

Sept 17, 2012 21:12:00 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

When Christ and His Saints Slept (and the rest of the Sharon Penman Eleanor series)
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YES! I read her Welsh Princes trilogy first by mistake. I just finished Devil's Brood yesterday, onto Lionheart next!

Ditto! So good.