Your Favorite Book(s) of all time

My wife, while reading this, was under the impression that it was an autobiography, and was pissed off to find out it was written by a man.  This always makes me laugh.  
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At the beginning, I totally thought that it was an autobiography, or a biography,after seeing that the author was a man. I thought it was amazing, one of the books that inspires me and gets me thru the rough times. I even brought the dvd with me as well! Still waiting on my book to be sent to me in the post. Have a sinking feeling that may never happen, though.  

The Out Lander Series is by far my favorite of all time. I have read all six of them at least 3 + times, and I am half way through the 7Th. When I first read outlander it was the British Edition "Cross Stitch"

I also love the Great Gatsby, I thought that it was a wonderful story. Just recently I have started on the Charles Dickens Books, so far I have read Tale of Two Cities, (Loved It) and getting ready to read Great Expectations.

I am also a HUGE Jane Austen fan and have read all of her books several times. I love British Literature.

I am a book junkie.     I think I would have some sort of attack if I tried to narrow it down to one book! 

That said, I really enjoyed the Dorsai books growing up, as well as Lois McMaster Bujold, Anne McCaffrey, Spider Robinson, and um, others. 

I'm crap with names. 

I'll try to be more specific at a later date.

I totally agree with you! I have read or listened to over a thousand books in the last 6 years and can't give you a name of one favorite. My all time favorite author is Anne Rice I love her and all of her works. O.K I think that one of my favorite books is "The Witching Hour" Beautiful Book!

Right now I am finishing the Third book in the Mortal Instrument Series, The City of Glass they are GOOD books!

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho will always be my favorite.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is amazing. I read that one a few weeks ago and would have to add that to my list of all-time favourites.

The Count of Monte Cristo is my all time fave.  I've read it once a year since the first time I read it. Love love love it!

Second in command is The Master and Margarita.  Just such a fantastic read.

Books that I could re-read a thousand times are anything by Tolkien as well as the Harry Potter books.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is amazing. I read that one a few weeks ago and would have to add that to my list of all-time favourites.

Just a few of mine:

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Larry's Party by Carol Shields.
In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton.
Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient.
Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
Anything of Joe Orton's.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
Mercy by Andrea Dworkin.

L'Amant - Marguerite Duras

Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti.  I picked it up as a total fluke from a book exchange at a hostel in Perth.  It's one of those books that's a little hard to describe plot-wise, basically it's the story of the relationship between a Swedish bachelor farmer and a widowed librarian.  They are exactly what the other needs, and at the same time wrong because of the demands of their very separate lives.  It reads really easily and has a real sweetness, without being saccharine, and a nice Swedish wintry atmosphere.  I always get really happy while reading this book (in fact, I reread it while waiting for my visa).  I think the original Swedish title is The Boy from the Grave Next Door.

I always seem to find the already "dead" posts interesting...

My favorite books are-

Kafka by the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (although, I love all of his books that I've read thus far).

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, but of course, I adore anything by him. How can you not?

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller! It's one of the funniest I've ever read!

Chronicles by Bob Dylan

 

It's probably a toss-up between "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" and "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe"

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I can seriously read this book over and over and never get tired of it. 

The Little Prince. 

Glad to see a couple of other people mentioned it as well.  I first read it when I was 14ish and have reread it probably at least a couple dozen times.  Maybe oddly, a reading I did of it when I was 22 was maybe the one that had the biggest impact on me.  "I was too young to know how to love her"-- yup.

Wuthering Heights

Most seem to either hate the book or love it.

For myself, it just has a sort of draw that I cannot quite put my finger on...