Whats the best fiction book you've ever read and why?

Answer 1

Harry Potter..............which one?? ALL OF EMMMMMM!!! woo-hoo!!!!

Answer 2

My daughter brought home a book called Ingo, by Helen Dunmore. There are 3 of the series and they are fantastic - I also love the Northern Lights trilogy both sets are fantasy and harmless, yet exciting, a little bit dangerous and good enough for teenagers and grown ups.
I love the Gormenghast Trilogy simply because it is odd and challenging.
And all of the Harry Potters.
And quite probably whichever book I read tomorrow. There are just too many to choose one favourite.

Answer 3

I loved A Fine Balance by Rohan Mistry. It is fiction based on fact and is a totally powerful book for those of us that have feelings of empathy and compassion for our fellows.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is also great. Talk about delusional Evengelicals - funny but not.

Hawaii by James Mitchener - everything by James is good.

Shogun, Tai Pan, Noble House - James Clavell

When you're a reader it is really hard to pick.

Answer 4

The Northern Lights series by Phillip Pullman. They are deep and really make you think. They're almost philosophical and such a great read. They are amazing books and stay with you long after you've read them.

The da Vinchi Code was also brilliant. Such a great storyline!

I have too many favourties to choose from.

Answer 5

I have a few faves..

The 5 people you meet in heaven - excellent, really well written and its very original too written by mitch alborn.....

"Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years -- from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge -- so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.

Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his -- and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.

One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, will treasure."

My other fave is the Curious incident of the dog in the night time by mark haddon. Again highly original and you cant help but feel real empathy for the main character ....

"The story is written in the first-person narrative of Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy living in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1998, who is described as having Asperger syndrome, although the behaviour he displays throughout the novel suggests a more severe condition on the autistic spectrum."

Finally i love anything by Ian Rankin, especially his inspector Rebus novels because they are set predominantly in Edinburgh in Scotland and i lived there, so the places in his stories have certain meanings for me.

Answer 6

My favorite fiction are the Socrates Fortlow books. Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned and Walking the Dog.

Answer 7

Pride and Prejudice for an easy read.
I love the way Jane Austin writes. She is witty and funny, and has good use of the English language.

Bleak House was also extremely well written, but just a little bit more difficult to get into.

Lord of the Rings was fantastic

I could go on!

Answer 8

The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst. A real insight into life for gay men in the early days of Aids.

Answer 9

I have 2 favourite books, one is Private Peaceful about world war 2 by micheal morpurgo. It was soo sad made me cry.

The other is Alex Rider - Scorpia. I loved it beacause it had a twist in the end that i could neva guess

Answer 10

I Am Charlotte Simmons.

This book is such a page burner. I enjoyed it so much b/c I made many of the same mistakes as the main character did her freshman year in college.

Answer 11

Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. I was 15 and recovery at home after an operation. I read it cover to cover in a matter of days.