What are your all time favorite books?

[babytrees]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Cheaper by the Dozen
Little Women
Jo's Boys
Black Beauty

I love reading fluff books (those that don't take to many brain cells) but I read so many I can't tell you which my favorites are.

as a former preschool teacher I have some kids favorites also:

anything by Munsch
The Snowy Day

 

[HomeSweetDisney]

There are some children's books I read as a child and still read as an adult. Like "Where The Wild Things Are" and "Jumanji."

I forgot to mention I love the Harry Potter series and The Chronicles of Narnia. I don't consider either of those children's books, just really great pieces of literature

 

[miss missy]

Mine is "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" !!

 

[Squem]

the Harry Potter series
The Icewind Dale Trilogy
The Legacy of the Drow
The DaVinci Code
Angels and Demons
To Kill A Mockingbird

 

[tkd lisa]

I read a LOT, and in a lot of different genres.

Some of my favorites are:

Dragonriders of Pern Series by Anne McCaffery
Executive Orders by Tom Clancy (I like almost all the Jack Ryan books)
Watchers by Dean Koontz (some of his stuff is repetitive, but this was the first one I read by him, and still my favorite).
The Stand by Stephen King
Any of the family series by Nora Robert for fluff reading. I liked the ones set on the Eastern Shore of MD.
The early Left Behind books. I thought the later ones dragged the story out.
The early Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. Again, the later ones drag the story out.

I'm not much on the classics. But I've re-read several of them with DD and DS. I have to agree that "Where the Red Fern Grows" is a tear jerker. And DD learned a lot from "To Kill a Mockingbird".

 

[Disney Deb]

The Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jane Auel

 

[frndofpooh]

The Sound and the Fury
Little Women
Kite Runner
Crime and Punishment
Harry Potter series

 

[NMAmy]

I'm a big reader but I tend to go back to the books of my childhood for my favorites. To Kill a Mockingbird is my very favorite book ever--I usually read it once a year and I've done that since I was 12. (That's a LOT of readings!) And I cry at the end every time. I also love Jane Eyre and Little Women.

My favorite authors are Jasper Fforde, Christopher Moore, Elizabeth Berg, Charlaine Harris, Nevada Barr, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs, and many, many more--it's a huge list.

 

[PrincessDeb]

My all time classical favorites are Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. I've loved alot of books I've read lately like My Sister's Keeper and the Time Traveller's Wife so it's hard to pick favorites.
Don't really read romance novels anymore but two I keep around for repeated reading when I'm in the mood are A Knight in Shining Armour by Jude Deveraux and one by Judith McNaught that's name is escaping me right now-it has "Heaven" in the name-it's part of the whole series that had Whitney and Alexandra in them-the main character's name is Elizabeth in this one.

Oh and I read "These Happy Golden Years" by Laura Ingalls Wilder about a hundred times! Kudos to whoever brought that one up!


Oh I love the Diana Gabaldon books about Claire and Jamie, too!

 

[mickeysgal]

I'm going to have to try Wicked. Its been mentioned enough on this list to warrant a read. I'm sure I'm leaving out a ton of books, but here's my list off the top of my head.

As a kid, I loved:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Black Beauty
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
Nancy Drew - still have all the original books
Alice in Wonderland
Pinocchio
Swiss Family Robinson
Gulliver's Travels

More modern:
Harry Potter series
Seabiscuit
Robert Ludlum books
Tom Clancy novels

and most recently,
Christopher Whitcomb's novels:
Black
White

 

[phisigprincess]

Gone With the Wind
The Thornbirds
To Kill A Mockingbird
Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice

 

[Stitchfans]

Little Women
Gone With The Wind

 

[NeverlandClub23]

Anything by Bill Bryson. I loved A Walk in the Woods and I'm a Stranger Here Myself. I own all of his books.

 

[Crankyshank]

Pride and Prejudice
Pillars of the Earth
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Pretty much anything by Bernard Cornwell

Classics I loved growing up:
Little House series
Little Women Series (actually all of Louisa May Alcott's books)
Emily of New Moon series
Anne of Green Gables series
Wrinkle in Time trilogy

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Heaven by V.C. Andrews

 

[daannzzz]

"Pilgrimage" by Zenna Henderson

"The People" also by Zenna Henderson

"Bambi" Felix Salten

 

[arminnie]

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Emma - Jane Austen

Tom Jones - Henry Fielding

Dorothy Sayers Mysteries

Agatha Christie Mysteries

Emily Dickinson poetry

 

[LadyyRedd]

I love reading Elizabeth Berg. I think her style of writing is easy to read and somehow calming to me.

I really like her writing style too. I went to her book signing about a month ago in Rockville, MD. She was very very nice!

Kimya

 

[LadyyRedd]

Any of the family series by Nora Robert for fluff reading. I liked the ones set on the Eastern Shore of MD.

I live about 20 minutes from her bookstore in Boonsboro, MD.
www.ttpbooks.com

Kimya