Best book you ever read

Yes, That's right, what was the best book(s) you've ever read

Tell me

I personally liked "Jubilee" by margaret walker and "Black Boy" by Richard Right, there are others but those are ones that pop in my mind when I think of good books.


---Jon---

Oh my goodness, that's like pointing at a pile of snow and telling me to pick out my favorite snowflake.

Hrm. I suppose some of my favorites are The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, Brave New World by Alduous Huxley, The Bone People by Keri Hulme.... Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk...

Ah, it's too hard!

Oh, God. In no particular order, these are my top five. I can't narrow it any better than that!

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Watership Down by Richard Adams
1984 by George Orwell
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Oops, that was six. XD

EDIT: Let's just make it an even ten.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

I could go on for a while.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I'm serious. I am so completely in love with that book. I reference it in most conversations.

Everything is Illuminated, by Johnathan Safran Foer
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I've pretty much got all my bases covered, monotheistically speaking. ^_~

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
[The] Stonedial by Gyorgy Konrad
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The Beauty of Gesture by Catherine David
A Wave Without a Shore by C.J. Cherryh

... Anthologies allowed? Books of novellas, essays, short stories and the like? If so, I'd like to add Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illych, Chekhov's Ward No. 6 and some of Chesterton's more brilliant ramblings into the mix.

In no particular order (Title (Genre) by Author)...

Black Like Me (Non-Fiction) by John Howard Griffin
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Difference (Current Affairs) by Malcom Gladwell
Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking (Current Affairs) by Malcom Gladwell
Velocity (Fiction) by Dean Koontz
Life Expectancy (Fiction) by Dean Koontz
Christine (Fiction) by Stephen King

And one that kind of grows on you (I finished it yesterday, and as I reflect on it, it's starting to look like a better and better book):

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Non-Fiction) by Anne Fadiman

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Stand: Complete & Uncut by Stephen King
The Long Walk by Stephen King/Richard Bachman
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Dream Deep, All The Kings Men, that was a great book. Anyone interested in politics should check that out.

Glad to have found another fan. It is truly matchless. ^_^

I would have to say... The DragonLance books by Wies and Hickman.

Those are some good books. ^.^

No particular order:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Johnathan Stroud
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Named and The Dark by Marianne Curley
The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Named and The Dark by Marianne Curley

Whoa, Maybe! FLASHBACK! You read these? Somebody else in the world read these? XD

Me and my friends were so into her books four (or was it five?) years ago. Did you read The Key? The final book? Or Old Magic? Personally, I thought Marianne Curley's Old Magic was better than her Guardians of Time trilogy!

Even though it's been years, I gotta say that if Curley wrote new stuff I would go to the Young Adult section and read it.

House of Leaves by MZD. Wow. You can't get a more terrifying book.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory... erm... Gregory someone. I can't remember his name at this moment.

I read There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom a long time ago, by Louis Sachar, and it's truely a touching story. Very, very great story. For littler kids.

Omg totally Twilight I mean well actually Twilight and [2nd book] and [3rd book] and [New Moon, is it?] all kind of tie cause omg their so awesome!

...Well, in all seriousness, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and stuff. And I have read very few of the other books people mentioned, so don't kill me if there's this one book that is so totally better than that crap and I need to read it.