Favourite Books/Novels/Pieces of Writing?

[CaroPhoenix]

The Plague by Camus

Any books that deal with the "Dark Jewels Trilogy" by Anne Bishop

The "Death of" series by M. C. Beaton

All of the J. D. Robb mysteries

Anything written by Kinky Friedman

Hercule Poirot mysteries by Agatha Christie

Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

These are my favorite Children's books:

Anything about "Charlie and Lola" by Lauren Childs

"I love you all day long" and "Daddy all day long" by Francesca R.

The Rollie Polie Olie stories by William Joyce

The Miss Spider stories by Kirk

All The Backyardigans stories

[saint]

Most anything by Vonnegut or T.S. Eliot will rock my world

[clod75]

Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord Of The Rings"- ALL of the volumes.

For the longest time I refused to see the movies because I was scared they would all suck but I was happy when I did. They don't ever replace the books though.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Who said The Sound and the Fury? I hated that book. The one book in college that I actually had to get Cliffs Notes for (not an easy feat from my little school in the middle of nowhere with no car). Oddly enough, I wrote my midterm paper on it, despite my hatred.

*raises hand* That was me. I have noticed that people either really like stream-of-consciousness writing or they really don't. I love it, which is why Ulysses is my favorite book, and why I also love Henry Miller. TSATF is also written that way. I am intrigued by the fact that you wrote your paper on it. It's an insidious story. it gets in your craw and doesn't let go. It really stuck with you, didn't it?

[BookstoreEscapee]

Forever by Pete Hamill

I couldn't get more than a few chapters into Wicked. Something about it bugged me... You know there's a sequel to it already? Son of a Witch, and there's soon to be a second about the cowardly lion.

Already? Wicked came out in 1996 (I had to buy it for a class my senior year in college; it was fairly new in hardcover then). Son of a Witch came out in 2005; A Lion Among Men is the 3rd, out this month. (I didn't realize there was a new book coming out, but that explains all the Wicked gifty stuff on special displays in B&N - pens, hats, tshirts, etc. It's also the 5th anniversary of the Broadway show.)

I liked Wicked, but I never read Son of a Witch. I couldn't get into Ugly Stepsister, either. He has a couple others: Mirror, Mirror and Lost. Haven't tried to read them.

Who said The Sound and the Fury? I hated that book. The one book in college that I actually had to get Cliffs Notes for (not an easy feat from my little school in the middle of nowhere with no car). Oddly enough, I wrote my midterm paper on it, despite my hatred.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

The Night Of The Hunter by Davis Grubb. I love this book. It is very sad and vulnerable, and frightening and wicked at the same time. Beautifully written, too.

I also love Ulysses by James Joyce. It's like chewing on taffy. You can't just zip through the book, you have to read it slowly, and think a lot about what you're reading. I've read it 3 times already and I still don't get it all. Hopefully by the time I die I will have read it enough to get most of it.

The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco. I had to read all of the classic writers the priest refers to in this book in college, so I love it because I can get all of the references. That, and it's a damn fine yarn.

The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. This book always takes my breath away, with its beauty and depiction of emotional corruption.

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Considered the first modern action-adventure novel. I love it for the depiction of knights and chivalry, and for Rebecca of York, one of the most fascinating female characters in the history of Western Literature.

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

Oh, did I mention I adore Dostoyevsky?

Yay.

[Imogene]

Wicked is an awesome. And the other book he wrote, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister.

I couldn't get more than a few chapters into Wicked. Something about it bugged me... You know there's a sequel to it already? Son of a Witch, and there's soon to be a second about the cowardly lion.

No one's mentioned Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels yet? I haven't read a single one that wasn't both: hilarious, and had a message. All of them have both qualities.
Or Simon R Green's two major series? Deathstalker, and the Blue Moon books/Hawk and Fisher?Both take the genre they occupy and twist them on their heads. Blue Moon's fantasy/mystery... Deathstalker's Space Opera. Mmm, tingly.

[AdminAssistant]

Well, I never get to read anything not related to school.

That said, the greatest play ever written in English is Hamlet. I can curl up on a rainy afternoon with it and a cup of cocoa and be perfectly content. Why, yes, I AM geek. My favorite play overall is Cyrano de Bergerac (I may be writing a paper on it soon *giggle*).

I do enjoy the Dan Brown novels, especially Angels and Demons. Alan Alda's memoirs are quite good, as well. I had to read Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov last semester for a Russian/Soviet theatre history class. My professor hailed it as the greatest novel of the 20th-century. I'm not sure I agree. I mean, naked witches flying on pigs .

[Severen13]

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (yes, that Hugh Laurie)

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

I really enjoyed The Cup of the World, and it's sequel...whatever it's called. It was good though. :P

Gotta mention Kushiel, of course. Whoo hoo!

Godslayer and Banewreaker.

[PhotoChick]

I'm with Parrothead, Wicked is an awesome. And the other book he wrote, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister.

I also like Ella Enchanted (the book, I hate, hate, hate the movie), Just Ella, and Beauty. All written for the 10year old demographic.

[Gawdzillers]

Fight Club.

"This must be an emergency.
Oh.
We just lost cabin pressure.
Oh."

[AnaKhouri]

My favorite books I read once every few years:

The Last Unicorn

The War of the Worlds

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The Persian Boy

The Remains of the Day

The other day my husband counted our books out of curiosity...1,171! I can only imagine how bad it will be after we finally get a house!

[Custard Chick]

Harry Potter series.

Twilight series.

His Dark Materials series.

Women's Murder Club series.

I like series.