Inspired by all the book threads...What's your all-time fav book?

[jimmiej]

Lonesome Dove-Larry McMurtry

 

[ADisneygirl]

I love to read! My favorites tend to be classics. My all time favorite would have to be Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

 

[Missy1961]

To Kill A Mockingbird. Read it the first time when I was about 12 when my older brother had to read it for 11th grade English class. He left it out, I was interested in the title, and sat and read it in about 4 hours. Then when I got to 11th grade, I couldn't wait to read it and discuss it in class. I was the only one who understood the ending. Aced every test on that book.

And I also love Gone With the Wind. The first time I read it, it took me a week. I haven't read it in a while...........have to find my copy and read it again.

 

[jrydberg]

Hrmm... tough to pick one, but I'll go with The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

rcyannacci, I loved Pillars of the Earth! Great book. I really like historical fiction.

As for fantasy, nothing compares to Lord of the Rings, in my opinion.

 

[caitycaity]

gosh, i would be really pressed to come up witha favorite book! i have so many.

if i had to pick, i guess i would say james michener's centennial. i am a *huge* michener fan, and centennial is a very good book, though my reasons for picking it as my favorite are sentimental, i think.

 

[tandrjohn]

The Stand by Steven King.

 

[hucifer]

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

An amazing book by an amazing woman.

 

[SpecialK]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

[JetMom]

It depends on my mood

I could never pick just one favorite!

Some books that I love and read over and over include...Gone with The Wind, Little Women, A Time to Kill, The Godfather, Our Town, anything by John Jakes and Shane.

I named my youngest DS after the last one!

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Too many to pick one...

Anna Karenin-Tolstoy
The Pearl- Steinbeck
Harrison Bergeron-Kurt Vonnegut, JR.
Everything That Rises Must Converge- Flannery O'Connor
Light in the Forest- Conrad Richter

 

[FreshTressa]

Originally posted by KingsFanInRI
my favorite book (besides the Bible, that is) is Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca. Great book, better movie (1940 Best Picture Oscar, the only one that Alfred Hitchcock ever won).

I was going to say the same thing! I have looked and looked and never found a gothic novel as enjoyable as that one.

 

[SunshineSis]

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

 

[Crankyshank]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
Little Women
Pillars of the Earth

 

[Desiree]

Hands down, "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls (I think!)

Loved that book as a child and still do for that matter!

 

[Magix]

All 5 books of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy by Douglas Adams.

Joseph Heller's "Catch-22".

 

[DisKim]

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[Miniefan]

I love to read, although, mostly I find myself going back to the same favorite books. and here is my list....

When I was a kid..... The Boxcar Children(not the series, just the first one)

A prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving(didn't they make a movie about this one? I liked this in High School

The next few books I will list are also movies,but I would like to add, that for most of them, much different than the movies were

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Forest Gump not sure the author's name

Angela's Ashes really love this one true story

But my alltime fave book, is not on a movie and I have to read it every year at least once or more sometimes, It is called
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

Kim

 

[Figment22]

Fiction:
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling

Non-Fiction
Summer of '98 - Mike Lupica

 

[GlennandAnn]

I have a few favorites. I love The Chronicles of Narnia (all of them), Paula by Isabel Allende, also by Isabel Allende The Infinite Plan, Eva Luna, well, really, all of her books. Also, I love all of Maeve Binchy's books.


Ann

 

[DanceBabe16]

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is definitely at the top of my list, as is "The Grapes of Wrath." I read them both for my high school English classes and loved them.

However, the Harry Potter series ranks pretty high too!