are your favourite book(s) of all time?

Question: Adults: what is/are your favourite book(s) of all time!?

I say adults because I don't want kids saying "Twilight" or "Harry Potter" or mentioning child or teen books in general!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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If I had to pick one book it'd be Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - my favourite author!. But really I couldn't pick just one of his works!. I'd probably include his collections of short stories, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The ragged trousered philanthropist by Robert Tressel!. (The best book I've ever read)!.
Anything by George Orwell!.
Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance!. (A fantastic journey)
I also like history books, the ones that actually tell the truth; which are hard to find, in any country!.
J Clarkson makes me laugh!.
I'm also reading four books about the USA and how that country is rapidly turning into a dictatorship!.
I'm learning how to identify all the different birds, spiders, trees, dogs, cats and plants found in the UK!.

I have about 12 books on the go at any one time!. Seriously!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Though I love lots of books and different genres, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is my all time favorite novel!. It's the one novel I've read more than any other; it never bores me to reread it and I always see different things in it each time!. If you meant book and not specifically novel, the Bible would be the one above others because it's endlessly new, and I find things I never knew were there each time I read it!. As novels go, it has to be P&P!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Jings, I'm forty five and still make sure that I have a copy of Enid Blyton's , The Secret Island, when I go on holiday!. It's such a feel good book, reminds me of my childhood and being an innocent wee lassie!. If I were to go for something more grown up, I would choose The Catcher in the Rye, it had a profound effect on me and I would highly recommend it!.!. Boigraphies are also very interesting and compelling!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My favourite authors are (Past) Daniel Defoe for the breadth of his subject matter and prose style and (Modern) Annie Proulx for her depth of descriptive narrative!. But favourite book of all time!? Although I read Dickens' Christmas Carol religiously every year, and Bevis by Richard Jefferies is constant Summertime reading, my favourite book of all time is The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Here's a few of my fave books!

The Stand by Stephen King
Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follet
The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall
The Dark Tower series by S King
The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
Lady Chatterley's Lover, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, War And Peace

There are hundreds more I have read and loved!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I love books by Willa Cather, My Antonia, Song of the Lark, Lucy Gayheart, O Pioneers, and also her short stories, especially The Best Years and Neighbor Rosicky!.
She is my favorite fiction author!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

HARRY F#@KING POTTER! DEAL WITH IT!

Books 1-3 I can understand being mainly for yournger teens!. But books 4-7 cannot be labeled as a kids book!.

I guess a book has to be about some couple's forbidden love or some other cliched concept to be considered adult!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

YOU SPELLED FAVORITE WRONG!!!!!
lol jk but

uhh like!.!.!.

The Book Theif by marcus zusak

very serious book but sooooo good!.

and im 16 too! how do u like them apples! not all teens only like HP and Twilight! i havent even read Twilight!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Discriminatory! Just kidding, but I think it's unfair to assume that teenagers and children are incapable of reading good literature!.
My favorite books include murder mysteries by Agatha Christie and books by Jane Austen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I love The Lord of the Rings books!. They are my favorites!. also, one of my favorites is The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley!. I have yet to read her other books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sci Fi and Fantasy

Easier to mention authors than books

Peter F Hamilton, Stephen Donaldson, Tolkein, Pratchett!.

If I had to pick just one series, it's the Nightsdawn Trilogy by HamiltonWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sci Fi for me!.
Isaac Asimov-I robot!.
Harry Harrison-Home world trilogy!.
Larry Niven-Ringworld series!.
George Orwell-1984!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not everyone's favourite author but, Kane and Able by J Archer is a good read!.

If you want a laugh, anything by Spike MilliganWww@QuestionHome@Com

Anything and everything by James Patterson, John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, and Steven King!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

ANY of the William books by Richmal Crompton (my mother went to school with her)!.
And for adult reading, ANYTHING by Iris Murdoch!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

So many to chose from, i like books from lots of different genres so!.!.!.!.

But if i had to choose i would say anything by James herbertWww@QuestionHome@Com

Oliver Twist and Treasure Island!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I like all of Augusten Burroughs's books!.
Of Mice & Men!.
To Kill A Mockingbird!.
and most of Karin Slaughter's books too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

omg!.!.anything by Harlan Coben, or umm!.!. Robert CormeirWww@QuestionHome@Com

Moby DickWww@QuestionHome@Com

I prefer non-fiction books so I will start there!. I enjoyed "Bad Blood: Crisis in the American Red Cross"!. My second favorite was "Ghost Plane: Inside the CIAs Secret Torture Program"!.
I frequently start a novel and get disappointed half way through!. Greg Isle's "Fear" could have been the greatest crime book ever written but he ruined the ending!. Ditto for "The Odessa File"!.
Cover to cover not many novels kept my attention!. I really enjoyed Alan Dean Foster's "Outland" but it was based on the movie so its not in the same league with brand new material!.
Last but not least, I love short fiction!. Issac Asimov wrote some cool robot stories!.
My favorite up and coming short fiction writer is Edward Saint-Ivan author of "The Black Knight's God"!. This guy's stories are so scary I couldn't sleep at night for a week!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm 15, but I assure you I am definitely NOT one of those Twilight fans!. I'm one of those people that gives every book a chance, but some books get there chance one time around!. Some of my favorite books are as follows:

The Book Thief
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Atonement
The Catcher and the Rye
Animal Farm
Goose Girl
Enna Burning
A Certain Slant of Light
The Historian
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Tuesday's with Morrie
The Host
Sold
To Kill a Mockingbird
When the Wind Blows
Pride and Prejudice
Three Cups of Tea

Hope I helped widen your vision to a variety of books! Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

MY WEBSITE BELOW HAS LOTS OF DIFFERENT LISTS!.

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968; American):
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Cannery Row (1945)
East of Eden (1952)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Pearl (1947)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961; American):
The Old Man and The Sea (1952)
The Sun also Rises (1926)
A Farewell To Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949; American):
Gone With the Wind (1936)

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892; American):
Leaves of Grass - A Collection of Poetry

George Eliot (1819 - 1880; English):
Silas Marner (1861)
The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951; American):
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
Elmer Gantry (1927)

F!. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940; American):
The Great Gatsby (1925)

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962; American):
Light in August (1932)
Absalom, Absalom (1936)
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
As I Lay Dying (1930)

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968; American):
The Jungle (1906)

John Updike (1932 - ; American):
Rabbit, Run (1960)
Rabbit Redux (1971)
Rabbit is Rich (1981)
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Rabbit Remembered (2001)

Virginia Woolf:
To the Lighthouse
Mrs!. Dalloway
The Voyage Out
Jacob's Room
The Waves
Orlando
A Room of One's Own
Three Guineas

Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832; Scot):
Ivanhoe (1819)
Rob Roy (1818)

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891; American):
Moby Dick (1851)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832; German):
Faust (2 Parts; 1808 and 1832)

Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906; Norwegian):
A Doll's House (1879)

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960; French-Algerian):
The Stranger (1942)
The Plague (1947)

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885; French):
Les Miserables (1862)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)

Moliere (1622 - 1673; French):
Tartuffe or The Imposter (1664)
The Misanthrope (1666)
The Miser (1668)
The Imaginary Invalid (1673)
The Bourgeois Gentlemen (1670)

Leon Uris (1924 - 2003; Jewish-American):
Exodus (1958)

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960; Russian):
Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904; Russian):
The Seagull (1896)
Uncle Vanya (1899-1900)
The Three Sisters (1901)
The Cherry Tree (1904)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ; Russian):
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
The First Circle (1968)
The Cancer Ward (1968)
The Gulag Archipelago (3 Volumes; 1973 - 1978)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881; Russian):
The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Crime and Punishment (1866)
The Idiot (1869)

Homer:
The Iliad
The Odyssey

Virgil:
The Aeneid

Geoffrey Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales

Dante:
The Divine Comedy - Paradisio, Purgatoria, InfernoWww@QuestionHome@Com