Reading is one of my favorite things to do (when I'm not too busy being addicted to these boards! :rotfl: )
Just wondering what are some of your favorites?

Mine are:

The Holy Bible (fav books from there are Romans and Psalms)
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Harry Potter books
The Heritage of Shannara series by Terry Brooks
Inside Out by Larry Crabb
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights

Skinny Women Are Evil Mo'nique
Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown

I'm reading The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd for school.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick
Careless Love by Peter Guralnick
Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
and The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

I just finished Marley and Me, and if you are an animal lover, you will love it! It is so funny. :D

I read ALOT (my degrees are in literature) so here are just a few of my faves:

the Bible (the book of Luke in particular)
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
anything written by David Sedaris
Go Ask Alice
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
and Persuasion by Jane Austen

I love to read...and now that it is summer I will have more time!!!

I love:

any book by Lurlene McDaniels
The Notebook and A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
lots more...

I can never choose! I love books too much in general. :wub:

The Lord of the Rings is my all time favorite...

I really like the Harry Potter books too..

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl has a special place in my heart, since this is the book that made me LOVE reading.
Since then..
1. Barrel fever, Naked, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim...all by David Sedaris
2. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
3. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
4. Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
5. Jurassic Park and Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
6. My Uncle Oswald, Switch Bitch, and all short story compilations of Roald Dahl
7. Bridget Jones 1 and 2

Lord of the Rings
Hobbitt
Harry Potter
Davici Code
Angels and Demons
A Short History of Nearly Everything
OK....this will take way to long so I'm stopping now.

The Scarlett Letter By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Lesson Before Dying By: Ernest J. Gaines
1984 By: George Orwell
Brave New World By: Aldous Huxley
The Bell Jar By: Sylvia Plath
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By: Mark Twain
Just Checking: Scenes From the Life of an Obsessive Compulsive By: Emily C.
Anything written by William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe lol

Aside from the Harry Potter books, I also like:

- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I haven't finished reading it yet, though)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- I also love books by Paulo Coelho, Lawrence Sanders, Sidney Sheldon and James Patterson

And even though I'm already 41 y.o. I still enjoy reading my daughter's "Dear Dumb Diary" books by Jim Benton (so funny, IMO) :P

Oh yeah, I really liked the Scarlet Letter, also!

Roger Fouts' Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees (This is the most beautiful book I've ever read!)
Robert Wright's The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (It's about how morality developed through natural selection, with a biography of Charles Darwin mixed in... very fascinating!)
Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene (Classic)
Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Frans de Waal's The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist
Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes (Not into the movie so much, but loved the book!)
And of course, all the Harry Potter books. :D

Of Mice and Men ~ John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
The Color Purple ~ Alice Walker
Pay it Forward ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
DiVinci Code ~ Dan Brown

Oh, there are so many! Those are just a few.

:cheerleader: Yeah! Another Color Purple fan! (It's also one of my favorite movies...)

We learned about Alice Walker in English class. We read an essay of hers called "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens." It was very good.

I'm hoping to read "The Color Purple" this summer!! :yes:

How could I forget this one?

Excellent book!

The Beantrees by Barbra Kingsolver

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I am a romance suspense reader, some of my favorites are, Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Linda Howard, Karen Robards, Janyne Ann Krentz, Julie Garwood, Catherine Coulter, the list goes on and on ......LOL

To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Those are my top 3 but I also like:

the Golden Compass series by Philip Pullman
Jane Eyre
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Othello
Cyrano
The Lake at the End of the World (australian book, I'm part australian)
The Last Book in the Universe
Eragon
The Mists of Avalon
The Blue Sword

1. My B-I-B-L-E
2. It's Not About The Bike: Lance Armstrong's autobiography
3. Rocket Boys: Homer Hickham Jr.
4. Velvet Elvis: Rob Bell

The Bible
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Busman's Honeymoon - Dorothy L. Sayers
Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie
A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy L. Sayers
Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie

Are you sensing a pattern here?

Indeed, mine too! But then again, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead are right up there with it.

Too many to list, so here are a few. :P

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
The Bride by Julie Garwood
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Men in Kilts by Katie MacAlister
Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

Gee, my list includes Atlas Shrugged, The Foutainhead, Islandia and (by Austin Tappan Wright.) A family friend gave me Islandia and Atlas Shurgged for my fourteenth birthday and I knew someone finally felt about life the way I did and still do. Are you still interested in libertarian ideas?

I have such a long list of "favorite books" I would be afraid to start because I am sure I would be here until Christmas. I love books in all sorts of genres. Books are gates into unknown worlds of imagination and knowledge; a plethora of points-of-view differing from my own. A book is not an object to me, rather it is a three dimensional (sometimes four dimensional) space where I interact with the English language in all its splendor.

Learning to read and to read well was the best single thing that ever happened for me!

Some of my favorite writers are:
Barbara Kingsolver (Loved Prodigal Summer, Poisonwood Bible, the Bean Trees)
Annie Lamott (Loved Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)
Alice Walker (Of course, The Color Purple)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Loved Mistress of Spices and Queen of Dreams)
Tom Robbins
Aldous Huxley (Classic - Brave New World and Island)

Also enjoyed:
Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd
Beloved by Toni Morrison

Catcher in the Rye
She's Come Undone
To Kill a Mockingbird

It Doesn't Take A Hero--General H. Norman Schwarzkoff
This is a very long book, but extremely interesting

Oh, I forgot one - Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara.

I'm just gonna name three...

Harry Potter series
Series of Unfortunate Events
The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Harry Potter series
Dan Brown books (can't name just one)
and Paulo Coelho books (can't name just one too.) :D

"The Bean Trees" is awesome! "Poisonwood Bible" is another awesome Kingsolver book.

I love to read. I guess that's why I'm a librarian. Love Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Jackie Collins (trashy novels), Sydney Sheldon.

If I have to put one title down I will say:

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen---GREAT BOOK! GREAT AUTHOR!

I am a book junkie so its hard to choose my favorites!

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Anything by Ann Rice but probably Interview with a Vampire and Feast of All Saints
Harry Potter Series
Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula
The Color Purple was amazzzzzzzinnng
Anything by Steven King but I really love Firestarter, Cujo (first time I read it I was 9 and I got so scared that I put the book down for a year... lol), Carrie, Needful Things, and the Dead Zone
I also like Philip K. Dick... Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is my fav...
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse #5 (which I need to re-read!)
George Orwell - 1984
Oh and I loved the Chronicles of Narnia and a Wrinkle in Time series when I was younger

When I'm bored, I usually go through "classic" books... I'm currently reading Capote's work... any suggestions for classic book reading (for example, one summer I read all of George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut's books.. another Summer I read all of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison's fiction/non-fiction)... so yeah, suggestions for classics??

The Boyfriend List, E.Lockhart

The Harry Potter series
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Sophia Kinsella's books
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. That is a great read. :)

Most of those i read when i was young and they are still my favorites.

"Les Misserables" - Victor Hugo.
"The Toilers of the Sea" - Victor Hugo
"The keys of the kingdom" - A.J Cronin
"Lord of the Rings" - JRR Tolkien
"Nano" - John Robert Marlow
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - Richard Bach

Excellent Choices :yes:

I'll add the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

and

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

"Experiencing God" - Claude King and Henry Blackaby

Any thing by - Max Lucado

"Visions of His Glory - Anne Graham Lotz (the best book I read on Revelation)