What are your favorite books of all time? And why?

"Something Borrowed" by Emily Griffin. It's lighthearted yet meaningful. I read this book in a mere two days, yet I felt as if I'd read it thoroughly for years. It was an incredible read, and I would definitely recommend it if you like Women's Fiction or just a lighthearted yet meaningful novel.

I've also very much enjoyed "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd, "Message in a Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks, and, along a different genre, "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.

Girl With the Pearl Earring Tracey Chevalier; The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards; anythg by Jodi Picoult; The Scarlet Letter Nahtaniel Hawthorne; Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Gone With The Wind has been a favorite for years is just a beautiful book but don't bother with Scarlett is just dull. Also love anything by Alice Hoffman, The Outlander series by Diana Gabladon (time travel and Scottish highlanders) fabulous could not put them down and those are big heavy books. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy is excellent for something a bit lighter try The Lovely bones by Alice Sebold um what else can't think of anymore but if I do will email you love to read can you recommend some for me?

I've included a large list because I hope you'll read at least one:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

If you haven't read it yet, you have to. It is one of the great literary classics and an important study of human nature that no human being should pass up.

Amerika by Franz Kafka

It's a look at the USA from the point of view of a guy who never went there. It has a good storyline, and the discrepancies between what we know and what Kafka thinks he knows are interesting to trace.

Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

In my opinion, it's the greatest love story ever written. Don't get hung up on its length. If you read it, you'll never forget it.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A confusing, but short read. In a completely different style than you've ever seen. It's one that will keep you wondering what's actually happening with the stream of consciousness narration until the very end. I've read it a couple of times, and enjoyed myself both times.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

It's the best novel to deal with the development of black culture and black oppression in America. The metaphors are brilliant, and the storytelling is very impressive.

Look these up and see which one you'd like to start with. Try at least one of them.

Dragonwyck by Anya Seton

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Wuthering Heights by Bronte

Katherine Graham by Katherine Graham

Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty it leaves you laughing and keeps you thinking. I love the way its written and the way that through the story the characters get closer to each other and show it by the way the write. Everyone in the book has their own individual personality and is by no way sterotyped.

I read this in 7 hours straight. I couldnt put it down!

DRACULA- It's creepy, well written, original and the story is ALWAYS intense and exciting. It really is a classic of literature, and I love reading it over and over.

BEACH MUSIC- Reading this book was like listening to a Sonata being played for hours on end. It was so beautiful and poetic, and it was a very deep and moving study of parenthood, lonliness, death, happiness, and life. It was a very well crafted novel.

JADE GREEN- i LOVE this book. It's a very chilling ghost story about a girl who moves in with her uncle after her mother's death in the 1800's. She discovers that a girl her age lived and died there in the house. It's a great story. There's lots of twists and its a very intense and exciting read. I've read it at least five times.

Lightning by Dean Koontz. Fascinating, action packed, "science fictiony" story with great characters.

Watership Down by Richard Adams. A society of rabbits on a journey to a new home. Excellent read for animal lovers.

1.a boy called "IT"- this is the saddest book theres 3 in the series. Its a true life story of the 3rd most abused child in Amrecia, you wont believe what you read!

2. Dancing with the devil, i love this book because i came out of a abusive relationship when i bought this book, its kind of like it found me instead me finding it, it will keep you on the edge of your seat (another true story)

3. Dont let her see me cry, a brilliant novel about a Heroin addict mother who has her baby in prison and then has to clean herself up for her daughters sake and how string she needs to be to overcome it, a truely powerful book.

4. ten thousand sorrows, another true story, just read it its amazing what people endure in their lives and what they survive.

theres many many more but i will go on forever!

Then there is also the crime novels by Patricia Cornwell which are awesome!!

For me it is more a series of books, or 2 series. One is called the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. It is a fantasy adventure series of 7 books. the other is the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel, which is a historical fiction about a girl living in various tribes during the iceage.