What's your favorite book?

nb-dfed

Ozziepost's post about what we are all reading now made me wonder what everyone's favorite book is. My all time favorite is To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee. I also love Shogun by James Clavell and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. How about all of you?

TrailBlazer04

My favorites are:

Anything by Clive Cussler or Tom Clancy,

Failure is not an Option by Gene Krantz

Flight by Christopher Kraft

Skunk Works by Ben Rich and Leo Yanos

Also, the Bible.

TB

Mulan

I really like Diana Gabaldon and I've read almost all of Daphne Du Maurier.

Hard to choose one book, but those authors are some of my favorites.

Wild_Thing

My all time favorite book is also To Kill A Mockingbird! You have great taste, nb-dfed! It is an all time classic that everyone should read!

DIM

WE by Zamyatin - the first dystopia book, years b4 Brave New World or 1984 and in my opinion, the best.

jwsons

"The Heart of A Boy" by Edmondo De Amici (boyhood)

"The Arch of Triumph" by Eric Maria Remarque + "Power" by Bert Russell (fr. 30yrs old onward)

jwsons

GentlyFeral

Oh man, don't get me started.

Whoops, too late.

My all-time favorites-from-childhood to be read at least every five years:

The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Anderson
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
Sentimental Tommy, James Barrie
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein

More recent favorites to read more than once:

Sarah, J. T. Leroy
Complete Works, Arthur Rimbaud
Almost anything of Terry Pratchett's
Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban (yes! the author of Bread and Jam for Frances!
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen, also by Russell Hoban
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
The Crawford of Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett
and the queer historical fiction of Sarah Waters.

gently feral

Mac

I hate that question.....

it's cruel!!

mac

gaiagirl

Hmmm, too many to narrow down to one:

Several by Carl Sagan- "The Dragons of Eden", "Cosmos", "Contact"

"1984" by George Orwell

"D'Aulaires Book Of Greek Myths"

"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav

"Drawing Down the Moon" by Margot Adler

"The Spiral Dance" by Starhawk

"The Womans Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" by Barbara Walker

Panda

I love books and love to read. I moniter our local library reading group so I read all the time. I usually read non-fiction so what I read isn't popular stuff. I've just finished

"Skeletons on the Zahara" by Dean King and I have started rereading that with maps in hand. It's the true story about a Yankee merchant shipwrecked on the west African coast. I highly recommend this book.

For fiction anything by Isabel Allende

AND a fantastic writer and favorite of mine is a Canadian ---Margaret Atwood I really liked the "The Blind Assassin" and "The Handmaids Tale"

Another Canadian who knows how the English language should be used is Anne Marie MacDonald. She wrote the fantastic "The Way the Crow Flies" I highly recommend reading any of her work.

The best American writer who I re-read often is John Steinbeck. One of my favorites of his is "The Moon Is Down" you should read it.

What's your favorite book?

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