what is your favorite books of all time

[johndoe1112]

my favorites are a clockwork orange/steal this book/the anarchist cookbook/and last but not least go the fuck to sleep

[Gumleaf]

I mostly like biographies. I enjoyed mostly former Hawthorn Football Club captain, Shane Crawford's bio and also former Australian Prime Minister John Howard's bio.

[Shannon.]

I can't really settle for just one book. So, I'd say it's a toss-up between American Gods, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, and The Stand.

[Zenos]

Conan: The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E.Howard, Almuric By Robert E.Howard, Three bladed Doom by Robert E.Howard ,Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Call of Cthulhu by H.P.Lovecraft

[johndoe1112]

I can't really settle for just one book. So, I'd say it's a toss-up between American Gods, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, and The Stand.

i do like the girl with the dragon tatoo and the stand but i never read the stand i watched the movie

[Plasma]

The Name of the Wind.

[Danny Phantom]

Go the Fuck to Sleep is def one of them funniest books of all time, especially if you listen to the narration.

I adore Fast Food Nation, The Chocolate War, the Harry Potter series :P

[Hypers]

Probably the city of ember or animal farm.

[Emerald Dream]

The White Padded Room :arrow: The Open Book

[Shannon.]

i do like the girl with the dragon tatoo and the stand but i never read the stand i watched the movie

I didn't even know The Stand was adapted into a movie. I'll totally check it out.

Here's the thing, though: adaptations rarely do justice do the source material, so I'm pretty skeptical about the movie version of The Stand. It's one of the longest books I've ever read, and I doubt a movie could capture the grandiosity of King's writing. The Under the Dome TV show sure as hell didn't.

Point is, if you don't mind reading a book that's around 1.200 pages, you should definitely give a try. Same goes for the Millennium trilogy. I loved the movie adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but reading the book is a completely different experience.

[martogogo]

The Lord Of the Rings

I love it.

[Shannon.]

The Stand is a miniseries. Around ten hours. I still find the complete and uncut version of the book is the best. 1300 pages. A good chunk of the story is cut out in the original book.

Ten hours, wow. If they actually stuck to the book and didn't change stuff just cause, it might actually be good. I'll definitely check it out.

I guess the page count depends on the publisher. My hardcover is 1.150 pages, which is about 400 pages more than the paperback, I think.

[McAK101]

Sergeant Rex.

[Tarannosaurus]

Oh god hmm... His Dark Materials, the Harry Potter books, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest[/I] (completely agree!), the rest of the Millennium Trilogy and Annie On My Mind.

Also The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Da Vinci Code and the Skulduggery Pleasant books, but I don't know if I'd class them as all time favourites. They'd be close seconds though.
Edit: Oh and the Gone series.

[jcs5943]

Animal Farm by George Orwell

[Cygnus]

The Heart of Darkness (Best book of all time for me)
Metro 2033
Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada

[Bellissimo]

Maybe it`s bad to name it because I`m a guy but I really loved Looking for Alaska and The Fault in our Stars by John Green. Besides that offcourse the Harry Potter-books :)

[Saint of Sinners]

Hmm...Gone series and Ashfall trilogy.

[Dark Unicorn]

I can't decide on just one but the Harry Potter series,Ella Enchanted(yes, Ella Enchanted.Funny as hell),The Vanished Man and any book on astrology,astronomy,psychology and Greek Mythology.

[SubCulture]

I say either 1984 or the Giver. I can't decide.

[Henry VIII]

I love to read, so this question is quite tough. I absoluely love Michael Scott's The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series.

The Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series (in chronological order): The Alchemyst, The Magician, The Sorceress, The Warlock, The Necromancer & The Enchantress.

Michael is such a talented author, he has this uncanny ability to write so it feels like you are in the book with the characters. He has a very specific & detailed style of writing that I am very fond of. In this series Michael has a great talent of weaving historical characters & events into a fictional plot & he still manges to make the novels engaging & realistic!!

[xyloto]

I love To Kill A Mockingbird (my all time favorite), The Harry Potter Series, The Hunger Game Series (besides Mockingjay), The Clockwork Three, The Complete Worst Case Scenario Handbook, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and The House on Hackman Hill.

[Jess]

Harry Potter series
Inheritance series
Percy Jackson series (including Heroes of Olympus series)

[Pseudogeek]

Deadline, Divergent, House Rules

[satarra3180]

For One More Day

[Verminicious Knid]

Ooh boy

The Vampire's Assistant by Darren Shan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (Duh, XD)
A Series of Unfortunate Events- The Austrete Academy by Lemony Snicket

[Loca]

my favorites are a clockwork orange/steal this book/the anarchist cookbook/and last but not least go the fuck to sleep

Clockwork orange was amazing! Never heard of the others. Try 1984

[HUSTLEMAN]

My favorites of all time are:

The Harry Potter Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Percy Jackson Series/ HoO
Ready Player One

Notable Mention:
Soft Apocalypse

[Seemyheart]

I loved The Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent trilogy, the Breathing Trilogy, and I loved Gone With the Wind
(These are just the ones that popped in my mind first, I have a lot of favorites...)

[ImAurora]

World War Z. And I mean the original book, not Hollywood's bastardization of it.

[AlexOnToast]

Let The Right One In by John Ajvede Lindqvist

[NeuroTiger]

The Quran

[Sanctum]

The thorn birds

[Melodic]

The Fault in our stars by John Green

[PythonProject]

SS-GB by Len Deighton. In case you're all wondering what this book is about due to its strange name, here it is.

http://www.sffanz.org.nz/reviews/covers/ssgb.jpg

In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall. For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.

But when SS Standartenfuher Huth arrives from Berlin with order from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.

This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.

[thelonelyassassin]

The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D Salinger.

[Body odah Man]

Wheel fo Time and Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged, the abridged version is crap)

[Atempinfer]

Well.

[chieko]

The Sibling by Adam Hall

[Reghan]

Hemlock, I can't remember who it's by.

[Cjk_20]

I like mythology and historical fiction.

[DorkimusPrime]

Hunger Games ( all)
Anything that was written by Brandon Mull
Tunnels ( all)
Skullduggery Pleasant

Those are the main ones that I can remember.

[Fonda]

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green :wub:

[grossgod11]

Nikki Sixx's Heroine Diaries

[Snowfall]

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer, or the Foundation series by Asimov.

[CassnovA]

the kite runner or im not scared

[Croconaw]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

[lifelies]

Perks of being a wallflower <3

[Lovecraft]

The Anarchist Cookbook, eh? We must frequent the same circles of the internet if you found the full version of that one.

My favourites are The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami,) Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace,) Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) and Carrion Comfort (Dan Simmons.)

If you include short stories I'd also have to mention The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy and everything ever written by Lovecraft.

[Gamma Male]

Anything by George Orwell, The Drizzt Do'Urden series, Eragon Series, Max Ride Series, and Brave New World.

[Stepney]

Stephen King 'Christine', and really any old newspaper I can find... You know, the second world war just ended? Oh, and I love biography's. A great one about Hank Snow was recently done... I used to read much more often.

[MechaSniper]

Stephen King 'Christine', and really any old newspaper I can find... You know, the second world war just ended? Oh, and I love biography's. A great one about Hank Snow was recently done... I used to read much more often.

Ah christine. if you like Steven king books CHeckout in the eye of the dragon.

[Stepney]

Well, "The Shining" too... but that is where I drop off. I don't really like the others... then normally make me too skittish when I read them

[bbwolf26]

Devil in the White City

[DisneyPrincess27]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters

[Hunter_46]

The Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, by Matthew Quick (Just because it's the last one i've read)

[ksdnfkfr]

Most anything by Stephen King
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

[Verto]

Either 1984 or Catch-22.

[bobbi]

The house of hades.

[trustn01]

Water Margin (I think it's called that)

[Rocketsnail]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. Best book by far, to the moon and back