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Topic: What are Your Favorite Books of all time?
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"In the Name of the Rose" Eco "Stranger In A Strange Land" Heinlein "Rainbow Six" Clancy
Alexander Hamilton" Chernow "Jane Eyre" Bronte Mythology Hamilton "The Power of Myth" The Bible "The Fall of Lucifer" Alec The Declaration of Independence/The Constitution "The Spiritual man" Nee "An Instance of the Fingerpost" Pears
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There are only two I can consider all-time favorites, just because they truly astounded me. I'm sure I'll be adding to this over time, though. Very rarely have I come across a book I didn't like.
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1. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3. The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Last Edited on: 12/31/08 6:36 PM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell Into Thin Air- Jon Krakauer Marathon Man - William Goldman The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy The Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier Thank You for Smoking - Christopher Buckley The Ugly American - Lederer & Burdick Last Edited on: 1/1/09 8:27 AM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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In no particular order:
I am sure I am forgetting some but these are the heart of my favourites. |
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I am certain there will be names of books added as I continue to read. |
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My favorites are: A Tale of Two Cities and Little Women (these are the only books I've ever been able to reread, and I've reread them several times) This is a funny question for me since I can count on one hand the books I've read that I've truly disliked....I thought there were more books that I truly treasured. I could probably come up with more, but that's what I get off the top of my head.
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This week I would have to say: Dalva and The Road Home by Jim Harrison Prodigal Summer and Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver The Temple of My Famililar by Alice Walker Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk Grass and Raising the Stones by Sherri Tepper
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I, obviously, am a great fan of Russian authors, even though I never thought of that until making this list: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Then there are the following: The Thorn Birds by Mccullough The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett |
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My favorite is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (time travel SF) Stranger in a Strange Land-Heinlein (SF) City of Diamond by Jane Emerson (SF) Classics Pride and Prejudice, Prisoner of Zenda, Gaudy Night Company series by Kage Baker (time travel SF) Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust (SF in the style of Dumas) Many others as well, I like Charles DeLint for urban fantasy, golden age of SF clasics, Amber series by Zelazny, etc
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All Creatures Great And Small. To Kill A Mockingbird The Outsiders The Old Man And The Sea
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Dune by Frank Herbert Have Space Suit - Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Tool of the Trade by Joe Haldeman Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card Neuromancer by William Gibson State of Fear by Michael Crichton Big Trouble by Dave Barry All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot |
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Of all time? Whew, that's tough. At the moment my favorite reads have been: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and don't anyone dare laugh... The White Mountains (of the Tripod Trilogy) by John Christopher (my 12 year old introduced me to it and I couldn't put it down) As a previous poster wrote, I don't desire to re-read many books, but the above I would relish the opportunity to neglect everything and just get lost in.
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I love The White Mountains trilogy. I first read it when I was 12 and then again recently at 46. And it was still great. |
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A Woman Named Damaris by Janette Oke The Princess by Lori Wick The Diving Bell by Todd Strasser Beauty by Robin Mckinley
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To Kill a Mockingbird Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding Memoirs of a Geisha The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Edwards The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
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Those that come to mind immediately are Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov. I also have a place in my heart for the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which my mother used to teach her children to read. |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Atonement by Ian McEwan Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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Probably the "Rama" series and the "Ringworld" series are my favorites.
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1. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 2. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith 5. The Pull of the Moon - Elizabeth Berg |
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1. David Copperfield 2. The Sun Also Rises 3. The Paradise Wars by Stephen Lawhead I would also like to give "The Vicar of Wakefield" an honorable mention.
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