What is your favorite book?

[rossatdi]

Good Omens, Pratchett and Gaiman working together!
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

 

[Dudemeister]

His dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
The Dark Tower - Stephen King

 

[ike_luv]

The Kite Runner by Kaled Hosseini

This was a brilliant book! I would recommend it to anyone!

However, the gamer in me wants to give a HUGE shout out to David Gunn for Death's Head... PLEASE if you got £10 blowing about, buy it!! I absolutely love it!

 

[ultra_v_89]

I hope they serve beer in hell by Tucker Max. Find it, read it, its hilarious.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman. Finest children's books ever written, period. Apart from...
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
1984 - George Orwell Why? Because it's 1984. 'Nuff said.
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett. First satirical Discorld book I read, and the one that let me finally 'get' what Discworld was all about.
The Sacred Art Of Stealing - Christopher Brookmyre. Because there's more to books than Sci-Fi and fantasy

And last but certainly not least...

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams.

 

[rayman 101]

Maybe the inherretance thrillogy (even though the third one hasn't come out yet)

 

[Integra]

Call of the Wild - Jack London
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahnuik
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett

All very different, but all wonderful books, I'd happily recommend any of them to anyone, though as a word of warning, Invisible Monsters is... weird.

 

[Jamash]

I think my all time favourite is the Necroscope [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroscope] series by Brian Lumley. It's hard to say which is my single favourite book as there's 13+ books in the series, but if I was pressed, I'd have to say the first book, because once I read that I didn't want to read anything else until I finished the complete series.

I've also really enjoyed Max Brook's "Zombie Survival Guide/World War Z", and "Fiends Of The Eastern Front" by David Bishop.

The most recent book I read which quickly became a favourite is "I, Zombie" by Al Ewing.

 

[Xhumed]

Oh hell, I can never pick just one...
Neuromancer by William Gibson
1984 by George Orwell
The first 9 or 10 Anita Blake books by Laurell K. Hamilton (before they turned into lycanthrope porn books with no plot.)
Interview With A Vamipire/ Vampire Lestat/ Queen of the Damned by Ann Rice
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Watchmen- Alan Moore
Hitchikers guide to the galaxy- a trilogy of five parts
The Discworld series- Terry Pratchett
Thats just off the top of my head.
Also like a lot of Stephen King- would probably say The Stand is my favourite by him, or possibly 'Salem's Lot.
EDIT: Remembered more-
Almost anything by Philip K Dick (A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids... stand out, as does Ubik)
Dune - Frank Herbert (shame on me for forgetting even momentarily)

 

[Riding on Thermals]

I know it's been said a few times over but The Dark Tower! I just started the Gunslinger again actually

"He still had the guns-his father's guns-and surely they were more important than horns... or even friends.
Weren't they?"

Fantastic.

 

[ianuam]

Well i have several.
Herodotus - The histories
Ovid - Metamorphoses

Watching trees grow - Peter Hamilton
And the Manifold trilogy by Stephen Baxter..
Oh, not forgetting the obligatory LOTR.

 

[Geamo]

Anything by Terry Pratchett
Watchmen

 

[Adnaan]

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series. Please don't go by that god awful movie the books are fantastic and Douglas Adams was a genius.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Dune - Frank Herbert
The Culture - Iain M. Banks
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
Wizard of the Earth Sea - Ursula K. Leguin

 

[Flynn11]

"Magician" by Raymond E. Feist absolutely amazing best book of all time in my opinion. Also all the books that follow this "Silverthorn" and "A darkness at senthanon" are also unmissable.

 

[TheBadass]

The Odyssey, as pretentious as that sounds, and Thud!. I loved reading about massive, hard things going against tiny people viciously, it got so intense at points, seriously.

...oh shi-- I was talking about the trolls and dwarves there.

 

[H0ncho]

The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera and the hitchhikers series.

Oh, and I just wanted to say that I'm very positively surprised that Enders game is mentioned so few times in this thread compared to on other gamer forums. That fact reveals that the board is more intelligent than most.

 

[The_Deleted]

Shadows of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Beautifully written and heartbreaking.

 

[Auron555]

Strafe, I have to disagree with you on His Dark Materials. Yes, they're great, but not really children's books. The Hobbit is a great book to have read to you, because both of those would be hard for an average kid to get through.

And I have to add Stardust to my list.

EDIT: Oh and The Ruins.

 

[Mirika_the_warrior]

The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers

Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ender's Game/Shadow by Orson Scott Card

The zombie survival guide by Max Brooks

Ect. ect. ect.