What's Your Favorite Book?

[Itspuppyluv]

Originally Posted by JCarlson2004

I'm a BIG reader and I probably could never pick out a favorite book.

Me too. I could never pick a favorite but you all have listed so many that I like - Catcher in the Rye, I used to read Patricia Cornwell until she scared the blank out of me (I'm a wuss), Of Mice and Men, Anita Blake series, Stephen King, Harry Potter. Okay, you get the picture.

Jennifer, I love the Outlander series. It's sad but I'll admit it - I became obsessed with Jamie.

Sherry Lynn, I'm reading Ten Big Ones right now. Janet Evanovich cracks me up.

[iheartyorkies]

Great thread Kristy! Ooooohhh, don't even get me started! I have enjoyed reading all my life. I've read hundreds of books, fiction and non-fiction. Here's some of my favorites off the top of my head, and there's no way I could come up with a complete list:

The Bible - It's a real page-turner!!
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles - About QE 1.
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks - not my usual cup o' tea, but I loved this book! I cried and cried!! Musta been hormones, lol!
Devoted by Alice Borchardt (Ann Rice's sister, not a fan of Ann Rice *shiver* Her books are too gory!)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Anything by Anne Rivers Siddons or Dororthea Benton Frank on the LowCountry of South Carolina
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

Anything by John Grisham, Lawrence Sanders, or Michael Crichton!!!

DianaB, if you like Christian fiction have you read the trilogy by Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind, An Echo in the Darkness and As Sure as the Dawn about the slave girl Hadassah? Also, The Church Ladies by Lisa Samson.

I went on a non-fiction jag for about 5 years where that was all I read. I love and own A Chance to Die, The Life of Amy Charmichael by Elizabeth Elliot and Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (this was made into a movie but of course didn't compare to the book) and Cry of the Khalahari by Mark and Delia Owens.

Those are just the tip of the iceberg. I know I'm forgetting a lot!!

[crystalsmom]

pixiepooh, did you ever read Mary Higgens Clark's "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" ??
I've read almost all her books and last week I had Moonlight becomes you and didn't
get to it. I don't think her daughter is near as good, do you? I read, read, read but
I must say that "Let Me Call You Sweetheart is the only book I started on a Sat.
morn and didn't put down til I finished.....I make lunch and dinner with the book
leaning on something so I could continue reading. I'm not much for fiction but that
lady can really write.

[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by rrosenberry

I have alot of favorites... The Pilots Wife for one.

but, I just read, A Million Little Pieces, it was very good,,( the author is on Oprah TODAY)

I've been meaning to get that book.

[jennifermcb]

I will second the Francine Rivers "Mark of the Lion" trilogy. They are fantastic books!

Also, her book Redeeming Love is a must, must, must read!!


I enjoy Karen Kingsbury's Christian fiction as well.

[sarahr]

Woohoo I am soo excited, I posted that i was a fan of Patricia Cornwell, and i was at walmart on Monday and she has a new book out. It made my day. but i have to finish the one i am reading now by dean koontz "velocity". This is a good thread. I LIVE to read. Love thrillers!

[rengaw]

EASy, Catcher in the Rye

[Kelz]

is it sad that i've never read an entire book??

[Itspuppyluv]

Originally Posted by Kelz

is it sad that i've never read an entire book??

YES! lol j/k I enjoy reading so much I can never understand how others don't. I have a niece who hates to read and I'm always trying to get her to see what she is missing. I think it's partly because she has so much energy, she never wants to sit still.

[Francie]

Originally Posted by StewiesMom

Mine are the Catcher in the Rye, Franny & Zooey & Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpetenters all by J.D. Salinger

and On the Road by Jack Kerouac

To Kill a Mockingbird...anything by Jane Austen...and Memoirs of a Geisha


Francie

[Francie]

Originally Posted by Itspuppyluv

Me too. I could never pick a favorite but you all have listed so many that I like - Catcher in the Rye, I used to read Patricia Cornwell until she scared the blank out of me (I'm a wuss), Of Mice and Men, Anita Blake series, Stephen King, Harry Potter. Okay, you get the picture.

Jennifer, I love the Outlander series. It's sad but I'll admit it - I became obsessed with Jamie.

Sherry Lynn, I'm reading Ten Big Ones right now. Janet Evanovich cracks me up.

Lol at Patricia Cornwell...I love her forensic stuff....


Francie

[kara]

I love Nicholas Sparks- The Notebook, The Wedding (After reading one you HAVE to read the other they are AMAZING!!) Vanity Fair, Emma, Complete works of Edgar Allen Poe. I love great literature classics.
I also liked The Nanny Diaries, and The Devil Wears Prada, Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber and I LOVED all three Shopaholic books- Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic and Sister.

[toninm]

HUMM...whenI was younger it was Number The Stars and now it is any Mary Higgins Clark book.

[milliecorrales]

are my passions. in fact last time I moved, i had to hire movers cause I have almost 7,000 books, yep 7,000, Favorites, anything by Ann Rule, Patricia Cornwell, Stephen King and if you really like mysteries, try Richard NORTH Patterson, Eyes of the Tiger, yum, kept me guessing til the last moment. I find anything by Danielle Steele follows a predictable pattern, she has a formula in her computer that by the time you have read two of hers, just change names and places and it is the same drivel. I have been reading since age 3 and until yorkies, books were my passion. In 3rd grade I won an award for reading 140 Library books during the school year, this was not counting my outside reading, such as Trixie Belden, Donna Parker, etc. I read an average book 5-6 times and have been known to actally wear out a book and purchase it again. My ultimate possession is Stephen King's autograph on my copy of It, just happened to run inot him, his wife Tabitha (another author) and their son, Owen at a toy shop in San Francisco in 1994. If you read well, you can do almost anything reasonably well. Gifts to grandkids are almost always books, and all excel in school.

[teri88]

I love to read, I always have a book, or two, going. My all time favorite is The Outsiders by SE Hinton. I still remember reading it for the first time when I was 11 years old. I've read it many times since then. I can't believe it's now considered a "classic" and my kids have to read it in school.