What is/are the best book/books you have ever read in your life?

Answer 1

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow
The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Burden of Proof - Scott Turow

Answer 2

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was the best historical romance I've ever read, even though it lasted for a whopping 1024 pages. It also won a Pulitzer Prize.

C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity really got me thinking philosophically.

Thomas Hardy is one of my favorite classic authors - Far From the Madding Crowd is a great book, though Tess of the D'urbervilles and Jude the Obscure are his best-known works

Flowers for Algernon is another awesome, stunning, absolutely heart-rending book about lost opportunity and the harsh injustice of our world.

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome is a gently-humorous classic that'll have you grinning as you read.

Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous is a heart-warming tale that'll leave a fuzzy feeling inside you when you're done - at least, that's what it did to me.

White Fang by Jack London is a wild canine adventure that kept me on the edge every page of the way.

Answer 3

He Died With a Falafel In His Hand by John Birmingham
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Running With Scissors by Augustin Buroughs
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Killing me Softly by Nikki French
I escaped from Auschwitz
Skinny
Of love and Shadows by Isabelle Allende
Please Don't tell
The Tasmanian Babes Affair John Birmingham
The Diary of Anne Frank
I, Elizabeth by Rosaline Miles
Jane Eyre
pride and prejudice

and heaps more

Answer 4

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The House of Sand and Fog by ...Dumas; Heaven and Earth by Alice Hoffman; Back When we Were Grown-ups by Anne Tyler

Okay so I've added more than one. But with so many great books, it's hard to choose just one. I would recommend all of these books to someone looking for great books to read.

Answer 5

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
To Kill A Mockingbird
Fair and Tender Ladies

To name a few

As a child I loved The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, I still look at them from time to time.

Answer 6

Hoot by Carl Haaisen, and The Secret Life of Bees. Also The Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood.

Answer 7

Non-fiction:
The Tao of Pooh
A Brief History of Everything (Bryson)

Fiction:
Neverwhere (Gaiman)
Sandman (graphic novel, also Gaiman)
The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
Oryx and Crake (Atwood)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
Mort (Pratchett)
1984 (Orwell)

Answer 8

Jack Whyte, A Dream of Eagles series

Answer 9

fabulous qestion. as i always answer without reference sourses, i'm lazy, and as dramatists' not in the scope of question,the ultimate Master excluded: Shakespeare. (and the Greek tragedians) Would have to answer "War and Peace", just reread, profound, for myself had to read several times , still beyond my scope. My lim,itations, also "Ulysseus", again likle Tolstoy., reread Joyce. And must never forget the ultimate , in my opinion "Absolum, Absolum", the best most profound probing American novel ever written. So here is my list::
"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy
"Ulysseus", James Joyce
"Absolum, Absolum", William Faulkner
hey this is why why we read. Dawn

Answer 10

Catch 22, by Joseph Heller