JoeTyler said:

I can't...

too many books that give me pleasure, including fiction and non-fiction...

Which ones do you find yourself re-reading?

NinaB said:

Empress said:

This is really hard. I will name 2, but I wish you had've asked for top 5

Love in the Time of Cholera

Sophie's Choice

right behind are:

The Color Purple

The Sun Also Rises

Roots

If u like the color purple check out Possessing the secret of joy & The temple of my familiar as they are kind of a trilogy.

Thanks for the recommendation. I have already read all of Alice Walker's work. I love her early stuff such as you mentioned, but some of her newer work is hard to read. In Search of our Mother's Garden is one of my favs.

iloveannie said:

NDRU said:

I think maybe kids books really are the ones that have meant the most to me over the years.

The Hobbit

The Lion The Witch & the Wardrobe

I'm with you on that one. It's nice to be taken somewhere with happy endings. I thought Harry Potter was something else.

Yes, and also, they are magical and I've known them for most of my life.

At the moment.

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I love coffee table books

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I love melancholic books and horror too.

Some other favorites of mine are:

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Drowned World

The Shining

Beloved

American Psycho

As I Lay Dying

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The Night Runners Series By Flewelling, Lynn

Maybe--Tomorrow By Jay Little

For Spanish

Beso De La Mujer Arana By Manuel Puig

Bodas De Sangre-Federico Garcia Lorca

For Japanese

ムーライトーシャドウ/Moonlight Shadow By Banana Yoshimoto

銀河鉄道の夜- Night On The Galactic Road- By Kenji Miyazawa

The Fantastic Mr Fox and The Colour Purple

I wanna choose ONE. And it's quite hilarious, but touching.

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Of Mice and Men

The Dirt (Motley Crue auto-bio)

Neophyte said:

The Fantastic Mr Fox

I liked the book but the movie was horrible

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Art of War

This one by Michelle Paver was really good. Short but another one that takes you there. A great coffee break read.

Find it here.

uPtoWnNY said:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

And,,,

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First time reading the latter 12 years ago was a horror, I had to do an essay about it and it was a slow read. I fell in love with it years later though, after discovering Ralph Ellison's earlier short novel Flying Home.

It also didn't hurt that Mr.Ellison had a killer wry sense of humor.

damosuzuki said:

Mark Moffett - Adventures Among Ants

Weaver ants constructing a nest of bound leaves.

“the reddish worker cylindricus ant has detonated — rupturing her body to release a toxic yellow glue that kills her and the enemy instantly

Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World.

hell yes!!!

im buying that ant book!!

ooh and the latter one looks good!

aardvark15 said:

Neophyte said:

The Fantastic Mr Fox

I liked the book but the movie was horrible

hollywood should be banned from touching anything british and beloved a fucking travesty

"yeah this roald isnt bad but what its missing is pathetic snide "adult"humour"

i fucking hated that movie.with a passion

rroald dahl DOES NOT NEED REWRITING

The Great Controversy - Ellen G. White

The Bible - King James Version

I love books. Even 20 would be hard.

To Kill A Mockingbird

Roots

when i was a tortured teen it would probably have been 1984 and Nausea... love all of Orwell's books - coming up for air, keep the aspidistra flying....

don't get chance to read much these days... must start reading again!

Today my all time favourites are

Brave new world

The wave

also really liked Caleb Carr's alchemist. And Marilyn French' My summer with George. And ofcourse Embers by Sandor Marai. Actually all books by Sandor Marai.

aardvark15 said:

Neophyte said:

The Fantastic Mr Fox

I liked the book but the movie was horrible

Totally agree, I was enormously pissed at how shit the movie was.

I wanted to name Catcher in the Rye since I couldn't wait to see what happens next when reading, but it seems like the popular choice in this topic. I enjoyed some of the books I read in high school, but want to re-read them to appreciate them. Can't think of a favourite book right now, I get through self-help ones right now.

alphastreet said:

I wanted to name Catcher in the Rye since I couldn't wait to see what happens next when reading, but it seems like the popular choice in this topic. I enjoyed some of the books I read in high school, but want to re-read them to appreciate them. Can't think of a favourite book right now, I get through self-help ones right now.

All time favorite:

Coach yourself to succes by Talane Miedaner.

jonylawson said:

damosuzuki said:

Mark Moffett - Adventures Among Ants

Weaver ants constructing a nest of bound leaves.

“the reddish worker cylindricus ant has detonated — rupturing her body to release a toxic yellow glue that kills her and the enemy instantly

hell yes!!!

im buying that ant book!!

ooh and the latter one looks good!

I love that Ant book - the writing's great and the pictures are stunning, I think.

'Weaver ant grasping a larva that is dispensing a silk thread to bind leaves for a nest'

iloveannie said:

The Magic Faraway Tree

The only thing I remember about those books is that they go into Moonfaces CIRCULAR room and find the fairy girl sitting in the CORNER

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte I just love this story!

Go Ask Alice - anonymous. Struck me deeply as a 12 year old reader.

many of the books we read in HS english (like Jane Eyre) were awesome, sadly I was the ONLY kid in class who bothered to read them.

Flowers for algernon was a good one too.

I LOVED Anne Rice's vampire chronicles too.

Nemisis by Isaac Asimove sticks with me also

I go through phases where I read a lot then...I don't. I've been in a "don't" phase for a while now. I'd like to get back into a reading phase.

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my two most favorites:

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