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I love that my favorite, The Time Traveler's Wife, has gotten mentions!
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@IRunForFun: @MamaMoose: ack! Can't believe I forgot about John Irving! I also love Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules. I'm due for a re-read of both!!
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@MediaNaranja: Have you read Last Night in Twisted River? That one was really good, too!
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Another Count of Monte Cristo fan. Soooo good!
As far as series I really liked the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony. I've always been really into Greek mythology and most other ones as well. -
Top 5: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Beloved, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Sun Also Rises, Middlemarch
Honorable mention goes to: The Great Gatsby, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Blindness, Things Fall Apart and The World According to Garp.
One mentioned already that is on my list is A Fine Balance.
I LOVE BOOKS!
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HP! It will always be my all time favorite.
I really loved Running with Scissors and everything by Augustine Burroughs.
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@Purpledaisy: I love all of his books!
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The Shadow of the Wind, one hundred years in solitude, she's come undone.
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Another vote for The Time Travelers Wife
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Ah, so many of my fave books were mentioned in this thread. I looove reading!
If I am being honest, HP books are my absolute favorite
If I am telling am trying to sound semi- adult, then Gone With The Wind. That was my favorite pre HP
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@nadsia: ooh, I want to know what else you read, because it looks like we have similar tastes!
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Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Still Alice
Book of Negros
Animal FarmAnything written by Sarah Addison Allen.
.....I better stop there or I'm liable to go on alllll day.
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@Elderberrygin: ooh I'm reading that now!
If I start thinking too much I will get bogged down with all the choices. The number one would have to be The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A close second is The New Life by Orhan Pamuk.
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@matador84: Confederacy of Dunces here too!
it's heartbreaking.
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@nadsia: love love love all Wally lamb books!
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@NurseMommy: I'll get back to you in about three weeks when I finish my thesis. I haven't been able to read anything except federal legal aid interventions in domestic violence for months! Boring. Right before baby I read the Magician/Magician's nephew by Lev Grossman. Those were great. I also love horror, so Gillian Flynn is a favorite. My other favorites I didn't mention in my original post are the Dublin Murder Squad books by Tana French (Into the Woods, The Likeness etc.). This whole thread made me update my Good Reads account. Procrastination!
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@sera_87: I'm waiting for Still Alice to be available at my library! It's been about a month and a half and no luck yet.
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Probably the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Or if we're only talking fiction, the play A Raisin in the Sun.
Then there are some that resonated so well with me at the moments I read them, but wouldn't if I were to read them now - Fear of Flying, Love in the Time of Cholera, and, when I was a kid, The Velveteen Rabbit.
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WOW! So many awesome books!! I just added 38 books to my list
@elderberrygin: 'The Secret History' has the highest demand at my library!! 53 holds on 13 copies
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@sera_87: Still Alice is going to be a movie in the fall with Julianne Moore as Alice. I think she is going to be fantastic in that role.
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#1 is Firefly Lane, I read it every year.
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Franny and Zooey
Dharma Bums
On the Road
The Great GatsbyAlso a huge fan of Russian literature.
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For single books, I'd probably say Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald- love this one, and his short stories, but hated Gatsby), Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood- I love reading her books because they fill me with righteous indignation when I'm in the mood to be pissed off at the world), God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy- I just love the language and word choice in that book so much), and The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle. I want to hug that book). I also have a great nostalgic fondness for Trinity by Leon Uris but I haven't read it in ten years so I'm not sure how well it would hold up now.
My favorite book that I read last year was Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.
I also read a TON of romance novels and love them (and go nuts at used bookstores for them) but would be hard pressed to pick a single favorite, and same goes for fantasy novels. I used to also read a lot of YA but now it just makes me feel old and unable to relate to their angst.
it's heartbreaking.
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