What is your favorite book and why?

Question

I drive ALOT so I listen to books on CD. I have listened to everything from Dean Koontz. I like Harry Potter. But I also like Nicholas Sparks and Danielle Steel. I read pretty much everything. I am kind of stuck right now because I am looking for good books to get. What would you recommend?

Answer 1

I personally like books that are often in a series and completely immerse you in the plot and characters. Here are a couple.

Cell-Stephen King (not his standard work and while it is a little weird and not for the faint of heart, the character development is stunning)

Eragon-Christopher Paloni( If you like Harry Potter or LOTR, you have to read this series, Eragon is the first. They have a movie coming out in December)

Three-Ted Dekker (While dekker is a christian author, and this may or may not be appreciated, this book is pure excitement)

The Black,Red, and White trilogy-Ted Dekker(just read it)

The Last Jihad-Joel Rosenberg(I think he may be a christian, but its a cool book about how he thought things would go with terrorism. Written pre-Iraq. Part of a series. Very engrossing.

Never Stand Too Close to a Naked Man-Tim Allen (short, but one of the best non-fiction out there. Don't let the title give you the wrong impression)

Pandora's Clock-John C. Nance (Arguably one of the most exciting books ever penned)

And of course little ones like War and Peace, The Iliad, The Odyssey, and so on. Hope this helps and good luck!

Answer 2

Peter Benchley's "The Girl of the Sea of Cortez" or Dean Koontz's "Watchers".
Though Benchley's known best as the author of "Jaws", "The Girl of the Sea of Cortez" has always been my favorite because of the imagry. It takes place on an island and the descriptions of the sea life and of the characters make you a part of it. If you're listening to it while driving it's a great little escape to paradise while on the road.
As for Dean Koontz, I've always been a fan. I wouldn't recommend "Watchers" for a night drive since it is slightly scary but, the message at the end of the book is a good one. It gives you hope that there's more to animals than just cuteness.

Answer 3

If you like books about espionage/mystery, then any book by John Le Carre is great, with "The Honorable Schoolboy" being the best. I love this book because of the characters in it, and because of the scope it covers: from the inner workings of the British intelligence service in London to the Tuscan hills in Italy, from the skyscrapers of Hong Kong to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, it's a read that you can't put down.

You can read "Honorable Schoolboy" as a stand-alone, but it works best if you've read "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" first so that you get some of the background on the characters you're going to encounter. "Tinker, Tailor" is quite a read in itself.

Le Carre can take you into the worlds of international espionage in a way no other author can. He's also the author of "The Little Drummer Girl," which gets into the world of Israeli-Palestinian intelliegence and terrorism, and "The Constant Gardener," which was a hit movie last year.

I love Le Carre for the way he can put the reader into another world. I like authors who can do that for me, and Le Carre is one of the best at it.

Answer 4

My favorite story of all time is the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It tells the tales of the horrors of the mind like no other story I've ever read, it's an epic as far as I'm concerned. I've read most of his work over and over since I was thirteen, and I am amazed at how he can bleed the world he creates in this series of books(seven in all) into his other stories. I love his imagination and the fact that he can draw on that to ultimately talk about the scary things that dwell deep within ourselves :)

Answer 5

I'm listening to the Earth Children series right now and I like it a lot so far. The first book is "Clan of the Cave Bear." I also listened to Bag of Bones by Stephen King recently and I liked it a lot. Oh, and Memiors of a Geisha was really good also! If you haven't read Lord of the Rings, those would make good listening too. :)

Answer 6

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

It is one of the best books I have ever read. It is long. My teacher listened to it on tape and said that it was around like 33 hours or something (I might be exaggerating a little bit, but something like that) It's about human society and how one man is, like, truly the "top dog" of society, although he wouldn't come across that way. It is a wonderful book that I highly recommend. If you do decide to read it, then enjoy!

Answer 7

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters opens the door to her Amelia Peabody series. All of them are on audio. Mystery set in Egypt. Strong heroine and even stronger hero.

A Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. #6 on the list of 100 best mysteries of all time. A police detective sets out to prove or disprove a couple of famous murders from 400 years ago by looking at the contemporary evidence. His conclusion is not what you expect.

Answer 8

The Hiding place. It was a book about World War II. It was a true story about a family that tried to help. it was a great book.
another book The Secret Life of Bees. it by Sue Monk Kidd. Great Book. I couldn't put it down.

Answer 9

I'm sure you'll like "Visitors" by Bob Chapman, it's available on Amazon. I see you like harry Potter. yes the main character is a young boy and he has supernatural powers like Harry Potter ,but there the similarity ends.
There is also an eccentric English aunt who is very funny. Buy this book i promise you won't regret it.

Answer 10

Books on tape are tricky to recommend, considering it totally depends on who is reading them. The best book of all time is "The Exiles" but I would not recommend it on tape. I did hear a very good version of Huckleberry Finn on tape once - and I managed to get it free from the Internet!