What is your favorite book?

That one book you recommend to all your friends... what's the best book you've ever read? I have quite a few... off hand, A Time to Kill by John Grisham and Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner.

The Eight by Katherine Neville!

Time to Kill is #2 on my list. :)

Sadly I dont read too much I never seem to have enough time for me! always interrupted but someone or something :( I should really find the time! Sooo this is a good thread tell me! ! ! What books yall recommend :)
I seem to like Lovey mushy....
and Horror!

The Eight by Katherine Neville!

Time to Kill is #2 on my list. :)

Shannon, I see you posting The Eight alot... and you've piqued my interest... I may have to get that one! :)

ETA: Just ordered it on my paperbackswap.com account! Woohoo!

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers - It is LIVE changing!!! And a fiction novel...which I wouldn't think about it changing a life, but seriously it CHANGED my life.

As for self-help or non-fiction...probably Purpose Driven Life ;). Again...life changing.

Shannon, I see you posting The Eight alot... and you've piqued my interest... I may have to get that one! :)

I am a firm believer that everyone needs to read it once. ;) I read it several times a year.

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers - It is LIVE changing!!! And a fiction novel...which I wouldn't think about it changing a life, but seriously it CHANGED my life.

As for self-help or non-fiction...probably Purpose Driven Life ;). Again...life changing.

Ooh... I am loving PDL... reading it now! And Redeeming Love is next on my list! :D

i love siddhartha by hermann hesse

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall !!!

wonderful true story that takes place here in Dallas


I'm off to amazon to check out A Time to Kill, Good in Bed, The Eight, and PDL. Good thread. ;)

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OK, I am stuck in high school because that is where I read my all time favorite books. #1-To Kill a Mockingbird #2-Alas Babylon and #3 The Hound of the Baskervilles (the only Sherlock Holmes book I like).

A Woman of independent Means, Bergdorf Blondes, and Summer Sisters are what immediately come to mind.

For non-fiction Why Men Love B****es :rofl (but seriously, its genius)

I always have a hard time thinking of one book that is my favorite, but the book I've gone back and read over and over is actually The Giver by Lois Lowry. I first read it in the 7th grade, and I don't even know how many times I've read it since then.

That one book you recommend to all your friends... what's the best book you've ever read? I have quite a few... off hand, A Time to Kill by John Grisham and Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner.

I LOVED Good in Bed! Here are my favorites...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Where is Joe Merchant - Jimmy Buffett
the Little House series
my ancient copy of An Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems

But for some reason, I don't recommend these to my friends. I think I have wierd taste when it comes to books.

PSA: If you don't know about it already.. check out www.paperbackswap.com (http://www.paperbackswap.com) I love it! It's free and you get to trade out books you don't want for ones you do. I've used it almost a year now and it's awesome!!

I joined this too a few months too. I love it!

A few of my all time favorites: (It's too hard to narrow it down to just one or two!)


Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

A few of my all time favorites: (It's too hard to narrow it down to just one or two!)


Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb


GASP! Twilight didnt make your list?? :giggle

The Eight by Katherine Neville!



I just bought this..havent started it yet.

I have so many favorites. I can narrow it down by saying that anything by Nicholas Sparks is amazing. He is my favorite author. I also love all of Jane Austen's books. The thread about Twilight got my curious so I think that is the next book I'm going to read.

GASP! Twilight didnt make your list?? :giggle

How could I forget Twilight?!?! :lol

Either White Noise, by Don DeLillo or Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. I should reread both of them. (and I never read much any more. Such is life with a toddler)

#2-Alas Babylon

:yeah I have a hard time choosing just one book, but that's one of my all time favorites, and what I probably most often recommend!

I read about 5 books a week (no lie) so I would have to say I have many. But I think I would have to go with three from childhood. Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott, and 2 by Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Joy in the Morning.

My #1 fav of all time is A Confederacy of Dunces...genius work....truly a must read. I actually wish I hadn't read it already so I could read it again for the first time.

#2 would be Poisonwood Bible

I love Phillipa Gregory.

My all time favorite fiction is:
Pride and Prejuiduce by Jane Austen

non-fiction is :
Pushed by Jennifer Block

But I love so many other books out there!

The first two that pop into my head are
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

They're both books I re-read on a regular basis and always good for a laugh.

I enjoy thrillers, James Patterson is one of my favorite authors. But one of my favorite books that had a bit of everything in the mix was, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik.

Either White Noise, by Don DeLillo or Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. I should reread both of them. (and I never read much any more. Such is life with a toddler)

you have GREAT taste in lit!!!

My #1 fav of all time is A Confederacy of Dunces...genius work....truly a must read. I actually wish I hadn't read it already so I could read it again for the first time.

#2 would be Poisonwood Bible

I love Phillipa Gregory.

you do too. confederacy of dunces was hysterical. i thought i had heard they were making a movie out of it...

poisonwood bible is ALWAYS on my "have to read this next" list, and for some reason or another it always gets skipped!


The first two that pop into my head are
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

They're both books I re-read on a regular basis and always good for a laugh.

i love both these guys!!
chad just bought me the new sedaris for my birthday but i haven't read it yet.

hrmm....as for me. i can't nail it down to just a couple.
but books that i have very much appreciated, loved, changed me, etc...
all of kirsty gunn's works - rain, the keepsake, this place you return to is home,
all of alan lightman's works - einstein's dreams, the diagnosis, good benito...
too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal.

i will probably come back to this when i remember more that i have loved. i always forget them.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (actually, anything by David Mitchell)
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (and again, actually anything by Haruki Murakami, except the latest one--After Dark--which I didn't really like that much)
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

I like old hardboiled mysteries too, Raymond Chandler and the like.

Oh, and I really liked The Eight too...I need to re-read that one of these days.

My favorites:

The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
and anything by Jane Austen

The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov


Loved all three of those!!! :)

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris



LOVE David Sedaris!! Me Talk Pretty is one of my favorites too.

I also love Jane Austen.

Also anything by Graham Greene. The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, The Power and the Glory...

I used to LOVE to read but have very little time so I appreciate these recommendations. My FAVORITE book that I have read thus far is Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir. It was in my book club a few years ago and on Oprah's list. It literally sucked me in and I could not put it down. It's a true story as well. I really recommend it! ;)

Eat Pray Love

One that I read over and over as a child is Watership Down. I really loved Memoirs of a Geisha as well. I signed up for that book swap, it looks neat!

I cant pick just one
American Gods-Neil Gaiman
Good Omens-Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey
Alice In Wonderland-Lewis Carroll

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers - It is LIVE changing!!! .

this is sitting on my mantel, next in line after i finish book 4 of the twilight series

How could I forget Twilight?!?! :lol

OMG...you FORGOT twilight, and you CALL yourself a fan! :giggle just kidding. i think everyone on here already knows my favorite....TWILIGHT all the way!!

Eat Pray Love
a friend just told me about this book. it's on my list to pick up from HPB!! :)

I really like Good in Bed. I also like Belly Laughs also by Jennifer Weiner.

I like anything Milan Kundera - Jacques and His Master was great.
Victor Hugo - The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
Emile Zola - Germinal

Of the books I read in school my favorite ones were Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird and F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby. I almost forgot, I loved Steinbeck's - Of Mice and Men.

One that I read over and over as a child is Watership Down.

Awesome book!

I was just cleaning and came across a well loved copy of "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore and it's one of the funniest books of all time. Certainly not a read for everyone but certainly something a George Carlin fan could appreciate.