Books, books, books!

Recently there was a show on TV about the most popular book of all time. The whole country was asked to vote and the top three answers in order were...

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Bible
3. Pride and Prejudice.

What is your favourite book of all time, ever??

Don't get me started on that one! A few pop into mind:

1 and 3 on that list.
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Written around 1000 AD)
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo

A guess I must explain the last one a bit, since it's a Finnish book:

‘A wily thriller-fantasyâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] — New York Times

‘A punk version of The Hobbitâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] — USA Today

‘Imaginative and engaging . . . ingeniously constructed and brightly accomplishedâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji] — Washington Post

The story tells about an angelically good looking gay photographer called Mikael, who one evening finds a troll child and takes him in, but who captures who? In the world of the book trolls are a normal, though endangered, part of Scandinavian fauna, besides that the world is just like ours.The themes are forbidden dark feelings (not meaning the gay part), human exploitation of nature, and how nature might just strike back some day. The language is very easily accessible, though the book is deep.

The book won the 2005 James Tiptree Jr. Award in the USA.

Wow that sounds really interesting I'd like to read that!

The classics "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Little Women" but have read anything by the great Stephen King I can lay my hands on.

Oh gosh you don't ask the easy ones do you?

I don't have a favourite book but a set/series:

The entire Dragonlance series by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
The Belgariad/Mallorean by David Eddings and
The Last Rune by Mark Anthony

And all fantasy with a bit of modern mixed in on the last set.

I sure would have hoped The Bible would have been #1 on that list!

Ummmm ... I've read Lord of the Rings many times, but these days it's too "heavy" to be my favorite book. Fifteen years ago I would've had it at the top.

I don't really have a favorite single book anymore, but definitely a favorite author in Terry Pratchett whose books I read, and re-read. I've about worn them out! I'm reading Moving Pictures at the moment, and I'm sure that when I finish that one I'll go grab another Pratchett. My favorites of his is probably a tossup between Hogfather and Soul Music. He's got a new book coming out next month, I think I need to pre-order it ...

King's Dark Tower series...

Hard to call favorites.

Jane Eyre

And then about anything by Robin McKinley

There are times when I am a voracious reader. Some of my favorites are:

8.4
Deadly Exposure
We Almost Lost Detroit
Three Mile Island
The Demolished Man
Megalodon
Meg
On Shaky Ground
The Cobra Effect - scary as hell

I don't have a favorite book either even though I do have every one but the 1st two of stephen Kings' books.
Another author is Edward Rutherfurd. He wrote Sarum, Russka, london and others. They basically follow one family for hundreds of years and involve alot of history. I've read Sarum and London twice.
I just loaded up on books at Goodwill yesterday waiting for the BIG AAUW booksale the last weekend of October. First & second day of sale $1.00. Third day 50cents and last day I think a paperbag full is like $1.00 but at that time they only have Harlequin Romanances!! I usually buy at least 20-25 books at this sale as I look forward to it each year.

Originally Posted by dawnofsierra

I sure would have hoped The Bible would have been #1 on that list!

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Oh love Terry Pratchett books

He is a very funny and bizarre writer and am slowly working my way to a complete set of his books

I think it's neat to see Pride and Prejudice on that list It's the only one of those books that I have actually read all the way through.

As for my favorite, I read a lot of romance novels, and my favorite of those is These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer, my favorite "good" novel is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

WOOOOPS! How could I have forgotten ALL of the Harry Potters??? My inner child cant get enough of em!

I too love to read - always have - and cannot imagine choosing just one book. None of those are among my favs tho. I had to study Pride and Prejudice twice (in high school and again in univ) so that took some of the wonder out of Jane Austen's writing and I had a prof who was very into that whole Janites versus Austenistes debate. I still have the book tho, lol

I love Hope for the Flowers (Paulist Press), like mystery novels and The Da Vinci Code. I love books about animals and especially The Incredible Journey which is quite inspiring. For fun, I read Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Joe Grey mysteries (have to love cats who solve mysteries!). In high school, my heroine was Marie Curie and her biography is wonderful. I am currently reading a book about a Candian politician (Tommy Douglas) that is very good!

The Clan of the Cave Bear series
She Who Remembers series
Anne of Green Gables series
Little Women
Dragonlance Chronicles
Almost anything by Stephen King, V.C. Andrews, Danielle Steel, Barbara Delinski, Barbara Taylor Bradford, oh the list goes on!
Remember whe we were younger and Judy Bloom wrote kids books? Have you read her new stuff?? Kinda makes me laugh that she used to write about Beezus and Ramona and now she writes about sexy affairs and the like!