Favorite book/s?

[Jesus]

well, i didnt want to spam up the harry potter thread, so im gonna ask what everyones current and/or long term favorite books are?

my current favorite is called Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
i think my favorite genre is fantasy, but ive read many types.

i liked: Hunt for the red october,
Jurassic park (only the first one.... read that when i was 10)
Lord of the Rings
the Narnia series
the Redwall series (well, i enjoyed certain ones, and not so much some others.)
and i am a MASSIVE Discworld fan =O

 

[ZeroNightmare]

i like all the "hatchet" books, the river, brians winter, all of them.

But my favorite book, th eonly book i've ever actually read more than once for enjoyment, was some animorphs book, it was err... the shape shifting dudes brother, elfangor i think, it was about him, it was just so cool...

 

[Growler]

The Outsiders
Harry Potter Series
Tuesday's with Morrie (Well, any Mitch Albom book)
C++ for Dummies (does that count?)

Going to be reading...
LOTR
Chinese Language for Dummies
The Bourne Idenity Series

 

[Suh Dude]

The Witch, The Lion, and The Wardrobe ftw! ( Narnia )
Halo Series (Only read part 1)
BARNEY!!! Jk....
Jungle Book.... =o

 

[Grega]

Lord Of The Rings ^^

that is all

 

[Phatslugga]

Fahrenheit 451
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
All the King's Men

Mind you I'm not a very big reader, I was forced to read these in school one way or another. Allthough I don't do it on my free time, I love reading as long as I can get past the first few chapters and get into it. At that point, I can't stop reading the book.

 

[Vagabond]

Lord of the rings
Jurassic Park
the Sharpe series of books by Bernard Cornwell
Star wars Heir to the empire series
the red dwarf books
and the Hitch hickers guide to the Galaxy

 

[Majin_You]

The Dark Elf Trilogy (Forgotten Realms)
The Avatar Trilogy (also Forgotten Realms)
The Hobbit
LotR Trilogy
A number of Larry Niven's short stories and novels.
Orwell's 1984
To some extent, I rather liked Huxley's "Brave New World" (Orgy Porgy ftw)
Great Expectations (by ****ens...that's going to get filtered >_>)

I will add on as I remember a few more brilliant novels I have.

 

[TwisteR]

Night, by Elie Wiesel
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Whirligig, by Paul Fleischman
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Cap J]

and i am a MASSIVE Discworld fan =O

WOO! Go Discworld! Rincewind books are the best out the the series

Too hard to pick a favourite book.
I love Discworld books (Interesting Times and The Last Continent are great).
A close second favourite series is The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy series.
I think the Red Dwarf books are great.

 

[Arthos]

Narnia pwns
Dune pwns
The Space Odyssey's pwn
Theres alot of literature I love.

 

[DragonDude]

Any of the Jack Reacher books
The Da Vinci Code
The Ender's Game books (Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, etc.)
Engines of Creation (not exactly a book, but a very interested read nonetheless)
Mein Kampf (just kidding =o)

 

[TwisteR]

Yeah The Da Vinci Code is good to.

 

[*Gaara*]

Save Private Ryan
Troll-slayer
skaven-slayer
deamon-slayer
dragon-slayer
beast-slayer
vampire-slayer
giant-slayer
A David Eddins serie i cant remember the name on.
Stephen King - Plague
Lotr - Bilbo
Harry Potter 2
Harry Potter 3
Harry Potter 4
Harry Potter 5
Broken Sky series
C.S Lewis the Narnia series
and a lot more i cant come up with the names right now.

 

[TehMuffinMan]

in order of importance to me :0

Nineteen eighty-four - awesome prediction of the future and disturbing points on political totalitarian control

Of Mice and Men - books from america's great depression tend to be good anyway, but this one took the cake for its sad, yet justifying ending

the origional first printed LOTR and Hobbit boxed editions i have - simply because they own the movie and there worth about £500 a pop \o/

the Da Vinci Code - ive always critisised religion, this just takes it to a more logical view \o/

and finally im having a disturbing obsession with Edgar Allen Poe's novels at the moment, just finished the Rue Morgue Murders and now onto the Purloined letter. no clue why, but they make a good read for inspiration.

 

[Engar]

I'd select different people I know love for their choices but.. well.. I love you all! You are all better people!

Ahem.

The Dark Tower Collection, by Stephen King.
American Gods, by Neil Gaimen.

All others I /would/ say have already been said.

. . .

And Night-Watch by Terry Pratchett. That short, orangutan-obsessed man is my hero.

 

[Prozac]

These two are my personal favorite ( warning big image )

I've got the luxury version (2 different images ) of the da vinci code
which cost me quiet some money but it was worth it.. the paper alone feels so nice ^_^; it's a pleasure reading it

anyway
By now I've bought "the da vinci code" three times by now ( including once for myself ) as birthday presents and "the bernini mystery" ( don't know if I translated it right ) twice!
good books indeed!

 

[DiebytheSword]

My list of favorite books is quite titanic, so I'll limit it to my favorite authors and their poignant works.

R.A. Salvatore (Drizzt Du'Urden books, all 11ish of them.)

Anything by Steven King (but especially It and any of his short story compilations, specifically the Mist)

Anything by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (anything with Special Agent Aloysious Penderghast. Though the Ice Limit is one of my favorites from them.)

J.R.R. Tolkein. Nuff said.

Harry Potter series.

Any of the Narnia books.

Tess Gerritsen's Gravity

Richard Preston's The Cobra Effect

Dean Koontz's Phantoms

Rouge Squadron series.

Timothy Zahn's unforgettable Star Wars sequels.

Tom Clancy stuff is pretty cool too.

any kind of macabre horror

and last but not least:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

The old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be again.

 

[Kurt`]

Bruce Schneier - Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition

That is all.

 

[Codeman]

hrm....

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler (I have an electronic version translated to English)
1984 - George Orwell (edit: forgot this one)
most Tom Clancy books
The Minion Handbook - I'm particularly fond of the chapters on dealing with forums and anime mods.....
and last but not least,
The Minion Chronicles - sooo many memories~