2007-06-29 07:30:47 · 19 answers · asked by slipstreamer 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Can be more than one favourite of course!
2007-06-29 07:31:19 · update #1
Imajica, by Clive Barker
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Otherland series by Tad Williams
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Beautiful Loosers, by Leonard Cohen
Books of poetry by Leonard Cohen, Robert Browning, T.S. Eliot
Smoke and Mirrors, a short story collection by Neil Gaiman
2007-06-29 08:49:21 · answer #1 · answered by Detourz 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Joyce's Finnegans Wake. I've reread it six times.
After that, it would have to say I've read and re-read most of Mark Twain's short stories and novels, more than any classic American author.
I also re-read Gene Wolf's Urth of the New Son books several times each. That's some wonderful fantasy.
I'll bet you don't get many answers here that recommend books outside of best sellers. People don't read very widely any more, and that's sad. I mean, what's with the Harry Potter thing. Are they the only books in the known universe? You'd think so to hear people talk.
2007-06-29 07:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre
Gone With the Wind
Rebecca
The Doomsday Book (my favorite of all time) by Connie Willis
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Time Traveler's Wife
Portnoy's Complaint (it's dirty but very funny) by Philip Roth
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Kabul Beauty School
2007-06-29 09:19:57 · answer #3 · answered by siamesedharma 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Other than the Book of Mormon, I've been referencing two books on Geronimo, the Chiricahua leader of the 1880s. They are "Once They Moved Like the Wind -- Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars," by David Roberts, and "On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo" by Lt. John Bigelow, Jr.
I'm in the process of writing a novelette about Geronimo and other Apache leaders having died and gone into the spirit world. The background is heavy on Mormon doctrine, but also touches historical truth during the mortal lives of the Indians.
2007-06-29 07:36:50 · answer #4 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have about four copies of To Kill a Mockingbird so that I can have one at any given time. All four are in tatters because I reread it so often.
I also reread the Stephanie Plum series a lot.
Actually I reread everything, so maybe it's not a good idea for me to keep going on...
2007-06-29 10:02:29 · answer #5 · answered by Ewe 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will reread the Harry Potter books as many times as I can. I pick up on new things every time I read them. I also can read any of the Series of Unfortunate Events books multiple times. Great writing, I must say.
2007-06-29 07:36:17 · answer #6 · answered by TheBestAnonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best book I ever read was The Brother's Karamazov. I started to reread it once, but it's over 1000 pages so you have to have a month to do so. Awesome though, it's like reading a movie it's so good.
Lord of the rings were good too.
2007-06-29 08:33:52 · answer #7 · answered by smilam 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
any book by Meg Cabot
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Julie of the Wolves trilogy by Jean Craighead George
Mark of the Lion trilogy by Francine Rivers
2007-06-29 08:10:11 · answer #8 · answered by bananniepie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Holographic Universe
To Kill A Mockingbird
Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman
three very different books but I somehow find myself returning to them pretty often
2007-06-29 07:37:08 · answer #9 · answered by jj raider 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine are the Lara and the gray mare series, I have read each book ( 4books ) 8 times ( so that means i have read that series 32 times) I got those books when i was 10 and i am 13 now, no matter how old you are, at least get one of them at the library and read them, they are so good. They are by Kathleen Duey.
2007-06-29 07:58:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋