Favourite Books Of All Time?

Definitely Cold Sassy Tree. I adore that book So B. It is also a great book, both made me want to cry

1) As She Grows
2) The Fountainhead
3) The Giver
4) JPod
5) Snow by Orhan Pamuk

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Frankenstein - Shelley
A Room with a View - E M Forster
Before I Die - Jenny Downham
Sean Stewart stuff esp Firecracker (probably cos it was the first one of his I read)

I loved Frankenstein

All of you have given me a list to look for books, I do have, " To Kill A Mockingbird" and "I loved the Secret Life of Bees"!

Marie Antoinette, Alice in Wonderland, Toliken, Hemingway, are a few favorites

I like Mary Jane.. its a take on Spiderman from MAry Janes perspective.. a really good read

Wow, y'all all make me feel like such a slacker. I haven't read a 1/3 of the books mentioned so far, and haven't heard of most of them...But I was thrilled to see someone mention To Kill a Mockingbird and The Lovely Bones!! (I just read the latter this past summer...omg, I can't wait for the movie. I loved that book so much.) Little Women, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess.
I also feel like a major geek. Here's why. My other favorite books are: All 7 Harry Potter books, esp. Prisoner of Azkaban and Deathly Hallows. Redwall books, particularly Taggerung, Triss, Salamandastron, High Rhulain, Pearls of Lutra(there're like 15 books, so really my pics are a small group). Frank Perretti's books-This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, Prophet, Monster....I read a bunch of his books when I was pregnant, they're Christian fiction...actually really good. Tick Tock and the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. The Mercedes Thompson series, by Patricia Briggs.
I also absolutely love James Herriot's All Things series...those are pretty much non fiction, he just changed names and all that. About a country vet in Yorkshire, beginning in the '40s. Oh, I fell in love with his friends and family, and of course, the animals he cared for.

I've read The Bell Jar, Unbearable Lightness of Being, the picture of Dorian Gray, and some of the others mentioned, but I still like Edward Gorey's the Gashleycrumb Tinies, the best. Perhaps it speaks to the macabre child in me.

Amypanda, I'm about to start reading Dorian Gray, is it really good? Cause I was thinking of putting it off and start reading The God of Small Things

Okay, my favs are Pride and Prejudice!!! I also love The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Time Master... and Silk!

Oooh I loved The God of Small Things, though I did really like Dorian Gray too. Read em in any order, they are both good=)

thanks laurel! I think I'll start with Dorian Gray, I saw the movie one of these days, so I want to know how much they are alike

A White Merc With Fins, by James Hawes and, this is one of my favourite passages from it:

"I hate totally f***ed-up people because they are boring in bed and out, they are all fixated, and nothing is as boring as fixation, in bed or out: it is like watching some film about some MAF (Mad As F**k) person, once they are actually and definitely MAF they get boring very quickly, a Primal Scream, every Harvey Keitel doing his Primal Whimper, can only raise your hackles for thirty seconds, then it just gets boring, because it says nothing, it cannot say anything you can understand, except maybe goodbye goodbye goodbye.

On the other hand, totally unf***ed-up people are also boring. They do not know the meaning of danger, but everything that is exciting is somehow dangerous (not the other way around, by the way). They think the world is by and large and broadly arranged for their benefit, their ambitions are so modest that they are almost bound to be fulfilled, they can buy bungalows beside dioxin plants and snore the pelmeted sleep of the terminally content.

No, give me people who are slightly f***ed up any day, people who are just f***ed up enough to show they can see all the crap about, but not so f***ed up they are stuck in it, like rabbits in headlights. Give me real people."

Favorite book of all time? I'm gonna go with A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
I looove a lot of books, but this one book has meant more to me, read and re-read over many years. It is good stuff.
If you've seen the movie, forget it. If you haven't, DON'T!

The Dastard by Piers Anthony! It's the first book I ever read of my favorite author!

Tortilla Flats (Steinbeck) I was living in rural Argentina when I first read this; the culture is similar to the one portrayed in this book.

The Ancient One by T.A. Barron

Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. The writing isn't great, but they're always laugh-out-loud-funny-as-hell!

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Oliver Twist
The House Of Seven Gables
Tom Jones
Rip Van Winkle (short-story)

Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events

The Death-Gate Cycle (series) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan. Obviously targeting a youner audience than myself, but I was still quite pleased with this first book, so I'm looking for the next one.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a great book. Another favorite would be The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I've read that books so many times. And Looking for Alaska is another good one.