Your favorite books

My all time favorite. People who want to become nurses love this one! A perfect gift for a wannabe nurse:
Intensive Care, the Story of a Nurse by Echo Herron
I love, absolutely love to read this book! I have lived the same things she writes about in this book even though it was written in the mid 1980s.

Others:
Moll Flanders (Defoe) First English Novel..way cool! (He uses the term distemper that has nothing to do with dogs!)
Three Musketeers (Dumas) unedited virgin please. (notice the silly play on words!)

And
Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) read this in eighth grade, loved it!
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradberry)
Letters From Carthage (James) contemporary witty and funny as heck!

At_your_cervix, you made my day! I love the Pokey Little Puppy - it's one of my all time favorites!

Here are some others I like:
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger
The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Gary Shteyngart
I am America, and so can you!, Stephen Colbert & co.

I read so much from so many areas it's hard for me to pick "favorite" books.

One that had me riveted was The Poisonwood Bible. It was an interesting read along the lines of Mosquito Coast but it really resonated with me because my dad was raised in Congo as the son of an evangelist and his story mirrors that one in many ways. As a kid, my parents took us (via Peace Corps) to live in Zaire (Congo) for two years. Although our family didn't go quite as crazy as theirs did, it was a crazy-making place and time. A lot of the imagery that she described brought back strong sensory recollections.

I've enjoyed everything by Nelson DeMille

I like most of Robin Cook's stuff (just loved "Coma" which I read during a 2-week hospital stay) and the early Stephen King ("The Stand" continues to be a book I can read over and over and over).

I read a great book on the Six Day War entitled "Six Days of War."

Another "Oprah" book I read and liked was "Midwives".

My wife and I read "The Notebook" together and really enjoyed it.

I second "Tuesdays with Morrie."

"Battlfield Earth" was a wonderful story if you're into sci fi.

"Battle Circle" by Piers Anthony was very original and very entertaining.

"Of Mice and Men" has stayed with me.

"The World According to Garp" was a wonderful read.

Rayrae
I thought that I was the only person on earth who loved A Lantern in Her Hand. I read that for the first time when I was about 10yo and have reread it many times over the past 40 years. They made a really bad tv movie knock off which is not worth looking at. Thanks for reminding me of the book. I think the author was Bess Aldrich.

Oh my - rereading this thread -

LOVED the Blue Castle!

Loved Caddie Woodlawn.

Anne of Green Gables - wonderful......

Goodness, I feel like going to the used bookstore now!!!

She's Come Undone....by Wally Lamb

Tipping the Velvet & Affinity by Sarah Waters

Many many many books... so many books, so little time....

Authors:
Dr. Seuss (Yes, I'm a dork... still love him all these years)
James Patterson (except for those bird people books. Ugh)
Janet Evanovich
Sue Grafton
John Grisham
Robert B. Parker
Raymond Chandler

My favorite childhood books/series:
Dr. Seuss
Cherry Ames
The Bobbsey Twins
Uncle Wiggly
Goodnight Moon
Where the Wild Things Are
I'll Fix Anthony

I'm sure there are about a million more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Back to add some more that I have read recently.....

The Time Traveler's Wife... by Audrey Niffenegger......read this in about 2 days..... you really have to pay attention to it because of the "traveling" that he does...

The Kite Runner...... Khaled Hosseini.......... excellent book.... the movie was just released on DVD this past week.... cant wait to see it...

Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Soldier Boy..... Ishmael Beah..... this book brought tears to my eyes in so many places......

And I started and finished Double Cross by James Patterson last night..... cant wait til his next one comes out.

A nowhere complete list (and in no particular order):

1. All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Remark
2. Three Comrades - Erich Remark
3. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
4. Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
5. Forever War - Joe Haldeman
6. Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
7. Forever Free - Joe Haldeman
8. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
9. Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
10. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
11. Journey To The Center Of The Earth - Jules Verne
12. Around The World In Eighty Days - Jules Verne
13. War Of The Worlds - H G Wells
14. The Time Machine - H G Wells
15. Something Fresh - P G Wodehouse
16. Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
17. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling

I'm sure I'll think of some more!

cheers,

PS: Is the list limited to fiction or can it include non-fiction/philosophy?