favorite books

[dragonfly411]

In lieu of the do you keep the books you''ve read thread, and because I''m a total book junkie

What are your favorite books that you''ve read? I figure others can get ideas from this too....

mine are
Watership Down
100 years of Solitude
Memoirs of a Geisha
Dance of the Dissident Daughter
Under the Tuscan Sun
Anything written by Terry Goodkind
The Quantum Mind (physics applied to psychiatry)
Little Women
The Black Stallion
Great Expectations
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Anything by Dickens

 

[cbs102]

Beach Music-Pat Conroy
anything by Jodi Picault
The time Travelers Wife
A tree Grows in Brooklyn
Catcher in the Rye
The great gatspy


i could go on and on... i will have to add more later

 

[iluvcarats]

The Odyssey
Lady Oracle
My Sister''s Keeper
Fall to Your Knees
Beloved
Don''t Sweat the Small Stuff
A Fine Balance
Catcher in the Rye
Hiroshima
The Poisenwood Bible
We Were the Mulvaneys
Letter to a Christian Nation
anything be Alice Hoffman

 

[iluvcarats]

also:
The Road
The Diary of Anne Frank

 

[aliciagirl]

eek, double post.

 

[aliciagirl]

Interpreter of Maladies
Burning Marguerite
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Dirty Job (absolutely hilarious)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Hungry Ghosts
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Gone With the Wind
The Great Gatsby
A Tale of Two Cities
Wicked
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Patchwork Planet
Irish Girls About Town
The Lovely Bones
Little Women
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
To Kill a Mockingbird

I am a total book nerd.. can you tell??

 

[aliciagirl]

Date: 9/17/2008 11:56:00 AM
Author: OUpeargirl
Gone With the Wind

The Great Gatsby

A Tale of Two Cities

Wicked

Memoirs of a Geisha

A Patchwork Planet

Irish Girls About Town

The Lovely Bones

Little Women

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

To Kill a Mockingbird


I am a total book nerd.. can you tell??

I love David Sedaris! How did I forget him! I think all his books are fabulously funny.

 

[AmberWaves]

Also agree with anything by David Sedaris!

I'm a book fiend, so here goes:

It (Stephen King)
Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor)
Bag of Bones (Stephen King as well)
Time Traveler's Wife
Harry Potter series
Autobiography of a Fat Bride (Laurie Notaro)
Odd Thomas (Dean Koontz)
Marley and Me
The Notebook (Sparks?)

I'm sure there are sooo many more, but these are the ones I read again and again!

 

[radiantquest]

if you like david sedaris try augusten burrows. i own all his books and am thinking of reading some again!

memoirs of a geisha
roots
davinci code
possible side effects
ice
go ask alice
an unquiet grave

 

[Harriet]

Walter the Dog!

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Oh I LOVE the Best Christmas Pageant Ever..

 

[wishful]

some of my faves are

All the Harry Potter Books
The Cat Who Went To Paris
Scar Tissue (Anthony Keidis biography)
The Power of Now
The Glass Castle
Running with Scissors (way better than the movie)

there''s more but I can''t think of them.

 

[Dee*Jay]

Outside the Dog Museum (Jonathan Carroll)
The Actual (Saul Bellow)
A Rver Runs Through It (Norman Mclean)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

So many more... will have to go browse my shelves and get back to you!

ETA:
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

[Haven]

For those of you who love Gatsby, I would LOVE IT if you''d share your reasons for loving the book. I teach it to my juniors every year, and I think it would be so cool to share anecdotes from real people who love the book.

I have so many favorite books, but the most recent great book I''ve read is:
The Road, Cormac McCarthy

I''m ashamed to say I never read any of David Foster Wallace''s work before his very untimely suicide last week, so I''ll be reading his stuff next.

 

[KimberlyH]

A very short list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Things They Carried
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Play It As It Lays
Housekeeping
Larry's Party
The Book Thief

 

[Linda W]

Love...... My Dog Skip

 

[Elmorton]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Bergdorf Blondes...I can''t remember the author
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
A Room with a View by E.M Forester

A new favorite:
(Not that you asked) by Steve Almond

 

[cbs102]

Date: 9/17/2008 10:16:32 PM
Author: Haven
For those of you who love Gatsby, I would LOVE IT if you''d share your reasons for loving the book. I teach it to my juniors every year, and I think it would be so cool to share anecdotes from real people who love the book.

I have so many favorite books, but the most recent great book I''ve read is:
The Road, Cormac McCarthy

I''m ashamed to say I never read any of David Foster Wallace''s work before his very untimely suicide last week, so I''ll be reading his stuff next.

Haven, i had a really amazing english teacher in highschool who taught the symbolism in Gatsby and it really intrigued me... i was an English Major and have my BA in english so iam a big nerd when it comes to this stuff anyway...

 

[Cleopatra]

I love fantasy and books dealing with magic - therefore I ADORE the harry Potter series - i find them a fun break from my more "serious" books...

But I think my faorite book of all time is "The Mists of Avalon" - I simply adore Authurian legends - and this book is so magical to me!

 

[Clio]

Pride and Prejudice
Middlemarch
Absalom, Absalom
The Unvanquished
A Midwife''s Tale
Changes in the Land
Fools Crow
The Killer Angels

 

[Erin]

The only DFW I read was Infinite Jest. It took me forever to read it - couldn''t get into it at first.
Just recently read the Kite Runner. Certain images are still stuck in my brain weeks later.

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Haven- I also loved the symbolism in the Great Gatsby as well as the tone in which it was written. It is one of those books that has stuck with me for a long while. I adore the images of the parties in the 20''s and all of the glamor. The shock at the end is still somewhat chilling, and the storyline itself has always somewhat reminded me of Sunset Boulevard. (Haha maybe because two men end up being shot in a pool..) After we finished reading it (9th grade, I think) we watched the movie with Robert Redford. Those that hadn''t quite followed the story in the book, or were too lazy to care, really liked the movie.