1. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
3. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

My all time favorite book is still "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." I also love L.M. Montgomery's series (Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon).

As far as books/authors I've read more recently, I like Sue Grafton's alphabet series and have read a few of Irving Stone's books. I liked Da Vinci Code and read a few others by Dan Brown but am now a bit bored by his style.

(All by Nicholas Sparks):
"The Notebook"
"Message in A Bottle"
"A Walk to Remember"
"The Rescue"
"A Bend in the Road"
"Nights in Rodanthe
"The Guardian"
"The Wedding"
"True Believer"

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Originally posted by Brittney:
(All by Nicholas Sparks):
"The Notebook"
"Message in A Bottle"
"A Walk to Remember"
"The Rescue"
"A Bend in the Road"
"Nights in Rodanthe
"The Guardian"
"The Wedding"
"True Believer"

All your favorite books are by the same author? Maybe you should branch out a bit.

I'm sure she will. Check out what she said here.

Well I guess I'll stick to fiction. I guess I really should have a favorite book, but I don't. Here are a few that would be toward the top of the list(if one existed).

Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins
The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Chimera, Lost in the Funhouse, Floating Opera - John Barth
Pinocchio in Venice - Robert Coover
Omensetter's Luck - William H. Gass

Let me throw out some love for Steven Pinker. I'm re-reading his book How the Mind Works, and I really like his style. I even had the chance to hear him speak when I was in Vermont. Cool guy.

MarkF,

Funny you have instigated a discussion on 100 years of Solitude - I have just ordered it as part of my annual "folio Society" buy-up (obligation). I cant wait to receive it and get sucked into its world. I have spent a bit of time in SA, so it would be good to get back there, even if only through prose.

Otherwise, I am a creature of the usual comforts:

Huck Finn - Twain
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Heller
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
1984 - Orwell

funny how most of these books were all written around the WWII period....Almost like what Vietnam did for music.

but like a good Australian book -

Tomorrow when the War began - Marsden (a teenage phenomenon back in the 90's)
Dirt Music, Cloud Street and The riders - Winton
He Died with a Falafel in his hand - Birmingham

My favorites are:

Native Son - Richard Wright
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

My all time favorite book, (non-LITTLE PRINCE division) is UP IN THE OLD HOTEL by Joseph Mitchell. He was a profile write for the New Yorker from the 30s through the 60s, and did amazing portraits of dozens of New York characters through the years. The New Yorker respected him so much that they kept him on as a payed staff writer from when his last piece was published in 64 to when he died in 96 having suffered one of the worst cases of writer's block in history. UITOH collects all of his New Yorker writings, and is beyond fabulous.

My favorite author is, without a doubt, John Irving. Aside from his books, my favorite novel is Animal Farm.

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita - Paramahansa Yogananda

Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Sophie's Choice - William Styron

The Night of the Iguana – Tennessee Williams

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz – Geoff Dyer

A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor

The Complete Poems of Hart Crane

Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

The Autobiography of Henry VIII – Margaret George

Mariette In Ecstasy - Ron Hansen

Lives of the Poets - Michael Schmidt

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My favorite author is, without a doubt, John Irving. Aside from his books, my favorite novel is Animal Farm.

Good choices. I liked Animal Farm and A Prayer for Owen Meany.


I just finished a book called Atonement by Ian McEwan that I enjoyed very thoroughly. It's about a World War II-era English family and my favorite part was that it would use a ton of detail on a short period of time, then shoot forward several years and let the reader fill in the blanks.

If I get a chance, I might check out Saturday, another critically acclaimed book of his.

J.D. Salinger, Harper Lee and John Steinbeck are my favorite authors and my favorite book of all time is between Catcher in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird... Both amazing novels
Honorable Mentions:
Richard Wright (Native Son)
Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

My favorites -

Dune
The Lord of the Rings
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lolita
Herzog
1984
Lord of the Flies
Gone With the Wind
Great Expectations
The Man Who Loved Children
A Handful of Dust
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sound and the Fury
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
All the King's Men
The Catcher in the Rye
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Catch 22
A Clockwork Orange
Deliverance
Falconer



...As well as pretty much all of Kafka and Faulkner.

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Herzog
Falconer

You don't see those listed very often. Nice.

Top 5

Smiley's People and A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Honorable Mentions

The Little Drummer Girl, Our Game, The Mission Song and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, all by John le Carré
The Quiet American and The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Gorky Park, Havana Bay, and Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Burr by Gore Vidal
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Angels of Russia by Patricia le Roy

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a of authors just to get things going on this topic for me:

V.S. Naipul
Albert Camus
L. Tolstoy
Tolkien
Terry Brooks
Ed McBain
Larry McMurtry - The Thalia books, The four Lonesome Dove books
Lawrence Block
Edna Buchanan
James Lee Burke
Steven F. Havill
Thomas McGuane
Herman Hesse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Philip Jose Farmer
Andre Norton
John Steinbeck
Peter Bowen

that's good for starters...

I'm not near my book collection, but my favorite books are probably something like this:

1. Catch-22 - yes, an obvious choice but such a fantastic novel it's impossible to deny
2. A Season of Migration to The North
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Catcher in The Rye
5. High Fidelity

I have never posted to a forum before but I can't resist...
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
White Noise - Don Delillo
Atonement - Ian McKewan
Are you there God, it's me, Margaret - Judy Blume. (I can't help it - I loved it!)