What are your all time 3 favorite books and why?

Answer 1

Stranger in a Strange Land - because it delves into what it takes to be human and urges us to explore our boundaries.
Atlas Shrugged - another book to explore the concept of humanity.
Draginriders of Pern - because it was FUN!

Answer 2

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Caroll ---> I love this because the Disney adaptation of the story is my favourite movie of all time. I loved the movie so I had to give the book a go. I literally finished it in about an hour. It was so amazing - the amount of depth each character has and the vivid scenery which Caroll paints with his words is breathtaking, in my opinion.
"The Virgin Suicides" by Geoffrey Eugenides ---> Another case of loving the movie and then feeling compelled to read the book. I couldn't put this book down and I have currently re-read it about 3 times. The story has SO many layers, and is intricate, it's hard to sort out the details of the sisters' lives so no matter how many times you re-read it, their lives are still ever so murky, but it still draws you in more and more because you want to understand them so badly.
"Go Ask Alice" ---> It's mesmerizing to see, from a fly-on-the-wall perspective, what is going on in this girl's life. And it is absolutely tragic to know that when you are reading this, you can't reach out and say "Alice, let me help you". But I think that's what makes this book so remarkable - its ability to connect with the audience so well, even though it once was someone's own private journal.

Answer 3

The first would have to be Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice, I like how it takes the idea of God and the Devil and tips it on it's ear.
I also like Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley because it is a new spin on the King Arthur concept.
And thirdly I like the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, it introduces interesting ideas and ties into some other books as well.

Answer 4

"A Book Dragon" by Donn Kushner; because it so well describes how dragons live, what they mean even in to the universe... and also in the very small things; and throughout it all, true historical events are seamlessly woven into the story.

"Grendel" by John Gardner; because it gives the Beowulf tale quite another spin, and reading it all from the monster's point of view is terrific. Grendel is made to be lonely, really.

I can't think of a third right now... unless I can say the entire Ripley series by Patricia Highsmith... crime at its best.

Answer 5

I'm going to go with 6

1) Elevator to the Moon - My mother got me this for Christmas before I could read that high a leven and read it to me betwen age six and seven and it inspired me to start writing.

2) Chalotte's Web - Our 4th grade teacher read this to us and it helped start me reading more and I liked the story

3) Scavenger's in Space - I read this about 15 times in Elementary and Middle School and probalby know ever word of the book, it helped get me hooked and Sci Fi adventure

4) The Fear Of Flying - I saw Erika Jong interviewed on TV and she was so up and perkey and talking about reading and write I went out and put a call in for it at the library and read it in two days

5) The Exorcist - Don't remember why I bought it but I read it in 3 hours and clung to every page

6) Valley of the Horses - Got this one from a book club when I didn't send in my card started reading it that morning and couldn't put it down, went out and ordered Clan of the Cave Bears and I am awaiting the last installment to finish this series

Answer 6

I agree with the twilight seiries! But I perfer to call my 3 favorite books the first in the siries all the way to the end, so Twilight, Harry Potter, and One for the Money (All of those are the WHOLE seiries! READ THEM ALL!!) I love the Twilight seiries because I fell in love with one of the main characters, (Edward) as well as in One for the money, (Ranger and Joe) And Harry potter was the cleverest seiries I've ever read. You can tell it was all planned out from the begging, and the author REALLY knew what she was doing. One for the Money was HILARIOUS, and but Janet Evanovich, my favorite author of all time.

Answer 7

1) Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, first published in 1961, which really opened my eyes to the reality of racial discrimination.

2) East of Eden by John Steinbeck because of the character study of the mother figure/bad seed, who changes from Cathy Ames to Catherine Amesbury and Madam Kate Albey as her character gradually becomes worse in the course of the book

3) Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor, 1944, a scandalous book for the times in which it was first published, but a great character study of a brave and ambitious young girl

Ooops! Must have four...my sweet little Ferdinand...

4) My childhood favourite, The Story of Ferdinand The Bull by Munro Leaf, 1936. Ferdinand was a young bull who refused to fight and preferred to sniff the flowers under an old cork tree. Somehow I see myself in Ferdinand *and* I believed wayyy into adulthood that corks actually grew on trees!

Answer 8

1) Red Bird Just Like This 2) Blue Bird Into The Black 3) Black Bird In The Form of a Question They are all by a writer called Earl Jesse Stevens.

Answer 9

1. Valley of the Dolls because I wish I lived in the 60s
2. Gerald's Game because it was something that could really happen
3. The Outsiders because it's a classic I'll never forget

Answer 10

complete different authors and they all are series books!

James Patterson-Maximum Ride Series: Schools Out Forever, it is just a very interestin sci-fi series
Tamora Pierce-Lioness Quartet:Alanna, i like the fantasy concept
Christopher Paolini-Inheritance Series: Eragon, again with the sci-fi fantasy