What is your favorite book?

Question

I like anything Sci-Fi or Fictional. What about you?

Answer 1

Wow...some really great answers here so far. I'm re-reading (for about the 8th time) "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean. If you thought the movie was good, the book will blow you away. One of the great books of American literature that is so often overlooked.

Answer 2

Given I read so much, here is a decent booklist:

Chocolat – Joanne Harris (the gypsy was based on me)

Unusual Point of View:

Skepticism – Bo Fowler (main character is a supermarket trolley)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – J. Safran Foer (main character is a boy whose dad called from World Trade Centre and left an answer phone message)

British:

Hemmingway’s Chair – Michael Palin
Not the End of the World – Christopher Brookmyre
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Making History – Stephen Fry
Popcorn – Ben Elton

International:

The Ringmaster’s Daughter – Jostein Gaarder
Memoirs of a Geisha – Authur Golden

Well paced:

Jonathon Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach*
The Beach – Alex Garland
Life of Pi – Yarn Merkel
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway *
Flud – Hilary Mantel

Non Fiction:

Round Ireland with a Fridge – Tony Hawks
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
Playing the Moldavian’s at Tennis – Tony Hawks
Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby

Classics:

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll *
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Madame Bouvary – Gustave Flaubert
Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervin Peake
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

Humor:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1st three books in the trilogy) – Douglas Adams
A Book of Nonsense – Mervin Peake *

Detective:

Complicity – Iain Banks
Filth – Irvine Welsh
Inspector Rebus novels – Ian Rankin

* books that I read cover to cover without putting down

Source(s):

my 360 Blog

Answer 3

I like a lot of the Star Trek novels, particularly by Peter David. Especially the New Frontier series. My favorite book is the Bible, which reads different every time.(I find something I didn't before). I also like A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and mysteries, like Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie. However, there's a book I've been reading called The Ghost of the Cavalier which is really good. I highly recommend that one.

Answer 4

Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer are the best books in the world! I have read them 6 times each! (Although I rebuff any comment about me being obsessed.) MTV is supposed to be making the Twilight series into movies and there are going to be 5 books.

The main idea of the books is that a girl named Isabella Swan moves to a tiny wet town in Washington, where she meets the Cullens. They are a family of vampires and the boyish bronze-haired beautiful Edward takes a fancy to her. The only catch is that her blood is the most appetizing that he has smelled in 80 years. Now the couple must deal with the fact that they love each other, but one of them could kill the other in a matter of seconds.

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Answer 5

I like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It includes 11 books so far, in addition to a Prequel. The first book in the series is The Eye of the World. Robert Jordan has a large following, and there are a lot of websites devoted to the WOT series.

It is a fantasy series / somewhat like a long, American version of Lord of the Rings.

Answer 6

hi there i enjoy reading sci fiction too and true stories and gangster and war stories book but I really like chicken soup books cause it's about the real life of people today I read the one about the twin towers u should buy some. be well be safe but nothing is better then the number one book the bible.

Answer 7

I usually read science fiction, but just recently have been reading some historical mysteries. Ellis Peters wrote short murder mysteries about the monk Brother Cadfael set in England in the 1100's. BBC made these into a miniseries, starring Derek Jacobi back in the 90's ( I think).

Answer 8

I'm a Scifi reader, too. I also like Autobiographies.

Try the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen R. Donaldson.

I've just discovered Dan Simmons' SciFi books that start with Hyperion - really smart well written books.

The best autobiograhy I've ever read is The Lemon Jelly Cake. I read it in high school so try a library if you want to look for it.

The first SciFi book I ever read was Ringworld by Larry Niven. It got me started and I'm still going. Actually, my friend was reading it and one of the characters (the feline/man) reminded her of my cat physically so she gave it to me to read. Then we shared the Covenant books. Now I've got some of my family reading these books, too.

Answer 9

"We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver

Incredible book.

If you like Sci Fi check out Robert J. Sawyer. He's great.

Answer 10

Twighlit and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer (they are romance/sci-fi/ fictional)

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (GREAT book there)

The Giver!!! so good!