Favorite books of all time.

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Sept 17, 2012 20:39:31 GMT -5 @jehc said:

Harry Potter. All of them.

+1

[ktkl09]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Life of Pi
Little House on the Prarie Series

[fuckyourcouch]

all of the HP books
anything by John Steinbeck
anything by Stephen King
The Help
Dante's Divine Comedy
The Great Gatsby
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Sherlock Holmes
I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. I love reading.

I also have a couple of books about dogs I love, and some historical account type books that are so fascinating to me, but they aren't mainstream popular or anything.

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Sept 18, 2012 10:12:46 GMT -5 toledo said:

Peter the Great - Massie

Oh this one is faboo! So is his book on Nicolas and Alexandra.

I read one about two years ago about the Tudors that I found incredibly fascinating, especially when it started to discuss the effects of the destruction of the Catholic church and the emergence of the Protestant work ethic on the English people. It really had me when it started to explain why Elizabeth was such a sucktacular queen. I was all ooooooooooooooo!

I wish I could remember what it was called. I have it somewhere. Damn if I know where that is. Don't tell the library.

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Sept 17, 2012 21:03:51 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Sept 17, 2012 20:52:42 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Oh, and I also really loved The Other Boleyn Girl.

ARRRGGGHHH!!! :head explodes:

I kid, eb. Actually, have you read The Boleyn Inheritance? If you liked TOBG, you would probably like that as well. Even tho I wanna punch Gregory in the face. Sigh.

Why do you want to punch her?

Some of my favorites are The Lotus Eaters, A Thread of Grace, Here on Earth, One True Thing, City of Light, The Last Time They Met, State of Wonder, and The Witching Hour.

I also loved Rebecca, The Secret History, Pillars of Earth, and The Lovely Bones which I saw pp mention.

[peachykate]

I dislike so many of these favorites.

The best book I've read in the past 5 years was The Stand, hands down.
HP series
LOTR

I haven't read these in years but I remember loving Valley of the Dolls, GWTW, and The Thorn Birds.

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Scarlet Letter, Hunger Games, Divergent series, The Hot Zone, The Great Gatsby, My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes and The Tenth Circle.

[dana2006]

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Oh I forgot Fatherland.

I looooooooved that book even though it creeps me out.

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O' Pioneers!

Jane Eyre

Pride and Prejudice (I can't help it!)

Brave New World

[sprky79]

The Chosen

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Middlesex
Snow
To Kill A Mockingbird - cliched but true, loved it
Anything Edgar Allan Poe
Anna Karenina
Holes
Angela's Ashes
White Oleander
Faith
The Condition

[pedanticwench]

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Wheelers by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

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You know, I'm trying to work my way through the HP series since they're free on Amazon Prime, but I just can't seem to get into it. Will I start to give a shit about Harry at some point? I'm halfway through the first one.

[eb777888]

Sept 18, 2012 13:11:08 GMT -5 @lcap said:

Sept 17, 2012 21:03:51 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

ARRRGGGHHH!!! :head explodes:

I kid, eb. Actually, have you read The Boleyn Inheritance? If you liked TOBG, you would probably like that as well. Even tho I wanna punch Gregory in the face. Sigh.

Why do you want to punch her?

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Haha. I just saw this. It annoys her that The Other Boleyn girl is fiction.
And nic, I'll check that out, thanks!

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Sept 18, 2012 14:27:12 GMT -5 05heel said:

You know, I'm trying to work my way through the HP series since they're free on Amazon Prime, but I just can't seem to get into it. Will I start to give a shit about Harry at some point? I'm halfway through the first one.

I love the entire HP series, but the first two books are my least favorite. I think they start getting really good by the third.

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That's good to know, snickerdoodle. Maybe I'll keep plowing through. Since I'm a proper ML'er, I'll probably be to the third book by Friday at the latest. :-)

[laptopvixen]

I read the entire works of Ernest Hemingway last night. I'm not a fan, he seems really up himself and arrogant.

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05- The story gets much more dark and complex, so if you're not feeling it because it seems too much like a children's book (I'm not knocking children's books) I suggest pushing through if you're not too bored with it

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Yeah, I think that's the reason. I'll keep going.

[pedanticwench]

Sept 18, 2012 14:41:21 GMT -5 laptopvixen said:

I read the entire works of Ernest Hemingway last night. I'm not a fan, he seems really up himself and arrogant.

He was a misogynist asshole. I've hated every book and short story I've read by him.

Why would you put yourself through the misery of reading everything he's written?

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Sept 18, 2012 13:03:05 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

all of the HP books
anything by John Steinbeck
anything by Stephen King
The Help
Dante's Divine Comedy
The Great Gatsby
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Sherlock Holmes
I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. I love reading.

Lamb is one of my favorite all time books.

[ElizabethBennet]

Till We Have Faces
Harry Potter (my favorite was Half Blood Prince)
11/22/63
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Pride and Prejudice
Unbroken
Cain, by Jose Saramago
Any of Anne Lamott's non-fiction, not a huge fan of her fiction.
To Kill a Mockingbird
East of Eden
Mind of the Maker


There are tons more that I'm forgetting.

[scotty]

Superfudge
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
The Forbidden Game series.
The Shining.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Anything by Augusten Burroughs.
Anything by Anita Shreve.

[laptopvixen]

Sept 18, 2012 14:47:01 GMT -5 pedanticwench said:

Sept 18, 2012 14:41:21 GMT -5 laptopvixen said:

I read the entire works of Ernest Hemingway last night. I'm not a fan, he seems really up himself and arrogant.

He was a misogynist asshole. I've hated every book and short story I've read by him.

Why would you put yourself through the misery of reading everything he's written?

Um, joking?

And I love Hemingway, so fuck you, woman. lol.

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Laptop, I got it. LOLOLOL

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I'm not positive I'd put these on my favorites list, but I would recommend them as really interesting reads:

Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey

The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman

[pedanticwench]

Well, that went WAAAAAY over my head.

And I still hate Hemingway, so nyah.

[Gato]

The Westing Game
Zeitoun
Henrietta Lacks
Angle of Repose
Remains of the Day
anything by Michael Lewis

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anything by Christopher Moore
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
almost anything by Chuck Palahniuk.