What is the best book ever written?

Question

or what is your favorite book?

Answer 1

Murder of Rodger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie -best mystery book ever.

Tale of Genji- very famous japanese book upon which many many stories have been based upon.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -good for an adult or kid (though the language offends some modern readers)

Walking Drum by Louis La'mour -best medieval action adventure book ever written

Bible (many different writers though I and other say from one source)

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (you can find it as a complete book though it was never intended to be read as a single book)

Answer 2

I know it's strange, but both my favorite book and what I think is the best book ever written are both children's books.

My favorite book happens to be the Tale of Despereaux; It's a truely amazing story about love, courage, and a mouse with oversized ears.

And the best book ever written it the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. It is a tale of companionship, loss, and learning how to love, even after your heart has been shreded into a million pieces. I was sobbing at the ending!

Answer 3

#1 The Bible
#2 Gone With The Wind

Answer 4

I could tell some of them. For example, Dostojevski's Brothers Karamazovi are great as well as Stendal's Red and Black. Those were the most interesting for me during secondary school. Then I started to read Shakespeare and I was delighted. He really did great work! All those comedies, tragedies..my favourite is Much Ado About Nothing.
Anyways, my favorite is still The Great Gatsby.

Answer 5

My current fav is the Dresden files book series by Jim Butcher.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters(vampires,werewoves,fey).He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

My all time fav is Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.ts about a young French sailor who was unjustly imprisoned for 14 years before he escapes and ultimately takes revenge on his enemies.

Answer 6

The award for importance, both culturally and religiously, goes to the Bible.

The award for general brilliance goes to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings. The amount of depth in that book -- the languages, the characters, the backstory he created, the geography -- it's mind blowing.

Answer 7

Deuce already encouraged Screwtape Letters, that's pleasant. I was once going to mention virtually whatever by way of C.S.Lewis (who wrote Screwtape Letters). Mere Christianity may be very well, additionally The Great Divorce, Letters to Malcom, and of path the Narnia studies. He additionally wrote a technology fiction trilogy that's distinctive. The Narnia studies and the sci-fi trilogy aren't honestly approximately -Jesus-, however approximately Christian concepts. So folks who don't seem to be Christians can learn them and consider them. eight^)

Answer 8

Elsewhere by Gabrielle zevin
The Alison Rules by Catherine Clerk
Heart of the hunter by R.L.Stine
When Lighteneing strikes by jenny caroll
The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon

One of these

Answer 9

Geez, I don't think I could come up with an answer to this if I tried for my entire lifetime. But, I suppose... George Orwell's 1984.

Also, if you consider it a book, since it is really an epic poem, the original Latin version of Virgil's Aeneid.

Answer 10

The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker