Recommend the Best Book

[Alyssa88]

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

 

[EeyoreFan1]

The Other Boleyn Girl-Philipa Greggory
True Believer- Nicholas sparks
Atonement- Ian Mcewan
The Mermaid Chair-Sue Monk Kidd

Sorry, I couldn't pick just one!

 

[mjkacmom]

hmmm, this is hard. Can't do just one:

Perfect by Judith McNaught
Keeping the Faith by Jodi Picoult
TimeTraveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

but I 4 the Outlander series--Jamie Fraser is the perfect man, if only he were real...

I just finished The Pact, Jodi Picoult, today (started it on Friday) - I LOVE her books!

 

[C.Ann]

The Pull Of The Moon - by Elizabeth Berg

Any of Beverly Lewis' Amish series..

V.C. Andrews "Flowers In The Attic" series..

All of John Saul's books..

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Piccoult

Gone With The Wind and Scarlett

Another one who is sorry to say I can't pick "just one" - LOL..

 

[WDWBarb]

The best book I've ever read (and my favorite) is To Kill a Mockingbird. I re-read it just about every year. Scout and Jem and Atticus seem like family to me and I like to visit them.

Although I do agree with so many others that Diana Gabaldon's books are right up there on my list, too, along with Jane Eyre and so many other books.

This was exactly what I was going to post!

But somewhere WAY up on the top of my list I absolutely HAVE to mention "The Stand."

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I've got a bunch, but I'll go with the first ones that spring to mind:

The Magician by Lisa Goldstein.

The 4 Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

ETA: Hamlet by W. Shakespeare

 

[ireland_nicole]

In recent books, I really, really loved The Shack; life changing book.

Also, C.S. Lewis- esp. a grief observed

Tuesdays with Morrie

Little Women- Louisa May Alcott

And it may sound trite, but truly the best book I have ever read and will ever read is the Bible.

 

[bicker]

Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
The Stand - Stephen King
The Host - Stephanie Meyer
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

 

[themilesfamily]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

 

[Louise-Montreal]

I loved A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Another vote for Owen Meany- I read somewhere that there are some people who base their friendships on whether someone liked Owen Meany- now those are FANatics!!

I loved that book!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tiffanova]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

 

[Jaclynfett]

Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Pride and Prejudice.

 

[NMAmy]

This was exactly what I was going to post!

But somewhere WAY up on the top of my list I absolutely HAVE to mention "The Stand."

Barb, you have excellent taste.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

This is a really great book, too. I recently re-read it--I'd forgotten how good it was.

 

[Avalon_toon]

The Fionavar Tapestry (three books) by Guy Gavriel Kay
(The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, The Darkest Road)

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Lots of great books mentioned here already, but here are more:

Gone With the Wind
A Tale of Two Cities
The Kite Runner
Midwives
A Map of the World
Hamlet (not technically a book, but great!)


I also loved Owen Meany, Pillars of the Earth. These are all books that were really hard to put down. Like, "get up at 4:30 in the morning so you can read uninterrupted books."

 

[paintnolish]

To Kill a Mockingbird! There's a reason almost everyone has to read it in HS. When it was assigned to me, I brought it home, intending to read the first few chapters for class but ended up finishing it. Now, almost 17 years and many books later, it is still one of my all time favorites.

 

[MsLeFever]

The Time Traveler's Wife

 

[suzannen]

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Centennial - James A. Michener

 

[Jynohn]

Yet another vote for A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's my favorite book of all time. I enjoyed most of Irving's other novels, but none of them came close to Owen!

 

[Angelhalo]

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

This book looks at the history of humankind on this planet and all we have done to it. It will challenge the prevailing belief that more and bigger is better. The book begins with an ad in the paper "TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have earnest desire to save the world. Apply in Person." In the book, the gorilla Ishmael has learned to communicate through thought with humans. He also has a message that we cannot afford not to hear. The book focuses around a series of conversations between Ishmael and his student. It presents a different interpretation of how we went from being a hunter-gather society to an agrarian one. Also how that system is bound to fail. For me the most haunting thing in the book is two quotes. Early on we see a poster that states: "WITH MAN GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR GORILLA?" p.9 and much later, on the back of the first poster, "WITH GORILLA GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR MAN?" p.263. This is a great read especially for a sunny summer afternoon, or two. This is also the first in a trilogy.