This is a tough question, huh! I'm going to have to think about it before I have my answer.
If you can't decide on just one, give your top three, or five, or whatever.
Just for fun. It's a drizzly morning here in Washington - and books are on my mind.
TIA
I have so many favorites, but I never get tired of "Watership Down" by Richard Adams. I used to have a copy that I read so many times, it fell apart.
Right now I'm reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo....we'll see.
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
Arrrrgh.....I'm a book nerd I can't even stop at 3! LOL
Favorite Children's Book: The Giving Tree
Favorite Book from the "Required Reading" lists: Pride & Prejudice (I still pick that one up occassionally and re-read it. Jane Austen IS the original Danielle Steele)
Favorite Book from College: Push
Favorite Book of Late: The Hunger Games series
The Brothers K by David James Duncan. A close second is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. MAGIC!
This question is hard for me, too, since I am an English major. But...
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible (and pretty much everything else she's written is good, too)
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row are my faves!
Alice Walker - Everyone celebrates her more popular, The Color Purple, but I loved The Temple of My Familiar.
L.M. Montgomery - Growing up I read the Ann of Green Gables series and the Emily of New Moon series. I liked Ann, but loved Emily!
Franz Kafkas short stories, they are so very twisted.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Dancing on my Grave the Gelsey Kirklands Story
Carnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan
The Power of Now
And the Hannibal Series..... Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
A good religious read is ''The God Factor''.....I am currently thumbing through this one myself and I am Loving it!
This might explain a lot.;-)
"Why smart people make big money mistakes-- and how to correct them : lessons from the life-changing science of behavioral economics" by Gary Belsky
I think it should be required reading for all high schoolers. It would probably cut down on bankruptcies and foreclosures.
I love The Pact by Jodi Picoult. And really, most of her books are great reads :)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. First read it in High School and have read it about 10 times since then. I enjoyed the BBC production of it a number of years ago, and I know it's been kinda trendy to be into Jane Austen, but her books really stand the test of time. It amazes me that a woman who lived such a sheltered life was able to decipher human nature so accurately.
The mists of Avalon, all time favorite, I have a copy and re-read every few years. Also very good the Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel about a homo sapiens girl that gets raised by neanderthals, although there is no proof that they overlapped in existence. The 5 or so books that followed it in the Earth's Children Series are so-so, I just scanned them and read the story parts but skipped the pages and pages of landscape descriptions or tools they used or how they huts were built, etc.
A great Sci-Fi one is the Crystal Singer by Anne Mccaffree.
Great question, I want to buy some new books on my Nook now.
OH MY GOODNESS I couldn't pick just 1!!
Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
The Phantom Tollbooth (yeah, it's a kids book)
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
There are so many more but those stick out the most, since I've loved them the longest :)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - clever, funny, smart, historical romance/thriller, exciting, adventurous - keeps you on your toes!
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein - CLASSIC
Wow! No one said anything by Karen Kingsbury! I love all her books so I can't stop at 3, she is AWESOME!! I love anything by Nicholas Sparks, and anything by Nora Roberts!
So, I listed my 3 favorite Authors!!!
Gone with the Wind - absolutely all time favorite!
After that come anything by JOhn Grisham!
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck.
The Help, I love that book so much! It's always a good read.
And anything by Mary Higgins Clark. I love a good suspense book.
No way can I pick just one. I wouldn't call it my "favorite," but the one that has been the most important in my life is Lord of the Rings.
I was slightly disappointed in Watership Down when I reread it a few years ago. It wasn't quite as magical as the first time around.
Eyes of the dragon - Stephen King
A Child Called It-
The Hiding Place - Corie Ten Boom
Those are my 3 all timers. :) Happy reading!
Match me if you can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
For the Roses by Julie Garwood
Knight in Shining Armour by Jude Deveraux
Puddin' Head Wilson by Mark Twain
The 5 People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
I just read "The Help" a few days ago and LOVED it. It's an exceptional book.
My number one favorite of all time is "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's an epic novel (over 1,000 pages) about the King Arthur story...from a woman's perspective. SO good! I've read it 5 times.
Maya Angelous book of Poems
I've read so many that I'll never decide. Here are a few I love. :)
Maia by Richard Adams
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Everything she writes is amazing!)
This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
I read The Hunger Games series recently and loved those books, too!
If we get just one... The Bible... Beyond that, I love commentaries about the word, and I enjoy Christian Historical Fiction of all kinds.
I love Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett. I just read the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins - excellent.
And, seriously, if you haven't yet, the Twilight series. Sorry - but love it. Perfect reading for a drizzly day... Just sayin'. Don't crucify me !
