Best book you

[tink20]

I love threads like this, taking notes.

If you liked The Hunger Games, you may like Divergent by Veronica Roth. I am half way through and I like it so far. The second book in the series is Insurgent.

 

[JVL1018]

Molokai by Alan Brennert
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I used to say Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik, but I haven't read it in years, so I'll have to pick it up again and see how it held up.


I also love romance novels and my favorite in that genre is Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas and Blue Eyed Devil by the same author.

Oh, also, the funniest book I have ever read: Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster.

 

[Lorix2]

The Bridges Of Madison County

 

[mrsdon]

A Dog's Purpose
If you are a pet lover you will laugh yourself silly and cry buckets of tears

 

[rabyoga]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Stand
The Passage
Child 44
The Giving Tree
The Little Prince
Are You My Mother? has a very special place in my heart. It's the first book I remember reading all by myself

 

[low-key]

This is probably the hardest question I will ever be asked.

 

[monkeybug]

I can't pick just one favorite, I have many many favorites and they are each so different!
If I really, really had to choose just one. Like if some horrible book hating Ninja had me cornered on some back ally and told me I had to choose just one or horrible book hating Ninjas everywhere would come out of their hiding places and destroy every. book. in. the. world! I would choose Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne.
Such a sweet, lovely book and just overflowing with wonderful wisdom and words beautifully strung together.
My love for that book has nothing to do with Disney I assure you. Maybe my love for Disney has something (a very tiny something) to do with that book though.

 

[monkeybug]

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". I love the first four in the series.
And "Lamb" by Christopher Moore.

Lamb is at the TOP of my humor list. Oh my! I could read that over and over. But never in public. Unless of course I wanted people to hear me laugh so hard I start snorting and crying like a depressed pig on prozac. It's not attractive I can assure you.

 

[RhondaL]

The Outsiders

 

[BlovesC]

The Secret Garden (eternal favorite since I was 6!)

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Atonement

Let the Right One In

Twelfth Night

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Come to Me

I know I'm forgetting some! This is way too hard.

 

[threeboysmom]

My favorite book from 25 years ago is Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. I rarely read a book twice, but I've read this one 4-5 times now.

Last year I read Pillars of the Earth.... and now I'm not so sure which is my favorite anymore. I guess I have two favorites!

I should also say that neither of these books are the "genre" that I normally like to read. Go figure.

 

[threeboysmom]

Just finished The Hunger Games & thought it was ok but wondering if the sequels are worth reading??????

If you're a romantic and want to know who Katniss ends up with, then YES! lol lol

 

[DISshopkeeper]

Best ever is The Stand.

I wholeheartedly agree!!!!

 

[newt2]

Can't pick just one. A few favorites:

A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Shogun - James Clavell

The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

The Stand - Steven King

The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

Crytonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Citizen Soldiers (nonfiction) - Stephone Ambrose

Guns, Germs and Steel (nonfiction) - Jared Diamond

 

[keenercam]

I have read voraciously since I was about 7 years old and sometimes wish I'd kept a list of the books I've read since they'd surely number in the thousands. I love so many different genres that to pick one all-time favorite seems impossible. EEK! Having said that, here is my "short list" of the books I recommend to friends these days as my "all time favorites":

The Book Thief
The Charm School
Hunger Games
Ender’s Game
The Ugly Duckling (Iris Johansen)
Pillars of the Earth
Game of Thrones (book 1)
Outlander
Water for Elephants

I'm sure if I stopped to think about it, I'd have 5 or 10 more "all-time favorites". LOL!

Fun question! I am really enjoying reading the responses. Thanks to the OP!

 

[Flight]

Interesting that most of the books listed are in the fiction category.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Interesting that most of the books listed are in the fiction category.

Vast majority of my favorites (including my #1) are non-fiction, followed by fictionalized versions of real events/people (for example, I enjoyed a book that was a fictionalized tale of Bloody Bill Anderson, but with a lot of historical accuracy in it). I do have a handful of full-on fiction titles I like, but for the most part am more fascinated with non-fiction.

 

[Flight]

My own collection is overwhelmingly non-fiction althought I enjoy reading fiction.

Some are historical fiction such as:

Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Rise to Rebellion - Jeff Shaara
The Glorious Cause - Jeff Shaara

A few others in the fiction category in my collection:

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Alaska - James Michener

Books by Tom Clancy and James Clavell

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

so many, for so many different reasons:

Mists of Avalon, Marion zimmer Bradley
Incarnations of Immortality series, Piers Anthony
Clive Barker: Imajica, just about all by him
Water for Elephants
Alice Hoffman, just about everything
Rama series, Arthur C Clarke
The Help, Stocket
The Last Lecture, Pausch
The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff



own but have not got to, but thinking will be added:
The Book thief, Outlander series, Game of Thrones series

 

[Praying Colonel]

Favorite fiction book: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Favorite non-fiction: Truman, by David McCullough