POLL of the DAY: You're favorite Books?

[Hawkeye]

OK I'm on a reading kick.

So what are your favorite books?

Here are mine and quite frankly I think they should be required reading. Especially the Quest. I'm only 4 chapters into it and damn it I think everyone in the world should read this book!:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Grandfather-Tom Brown Jr.
The Quest-Tom Brown Jr.
The Way of the Scout-Tom Brown Jr.
They Think you're stupid-Herman Cain (I love this man)
The Fair Tax Book-Neil Boortz
The Wind is my Mother-Bear Heart
The Lakota Way-Joseph Marshall III
Walking with Grandfather-Joseph Marshall III
Gift of Power-Archie Fire Lame Deer


OK those are just a few books that I have just fallen in love with and I adore. Some others that I still love to this day and everyone should read I dont care who you are or what age but some I cant remember the author of:

"Please Don't Hurt Laurie"
" The Dollhouse murders"
"What if they knew"
"Red Badge of Courage"

and by far my favorite books of all time (and yes even with my age)

These books are written by Mildred D. Taylor:
The Long Road To Memphis (ADORE IT)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Let the Circle, Be Unbroken
The Gold Cadillac
The Friendship
Song of the Trees
The Land
Mississippi Bridge


More books that should be read but are being slowly pulled out of schools:
The Giver
Bridge to Terabithea
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Number the Stars
Silver days

Im an avid reader *hangs head in shame* So anyway what are your favorite books now and when you were a kid?

 

[queenofdisaster]

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston
animal farm
homers odyssey
where the red fern grows... woot 5th grade!
jeez i haven't read a good book since high school i can't think of any!
i'm going to the city library! lol!

 

[professionaltart]

Im a nerd my minor was English. I love The Great Gatsby, my favorite book ever.

2. The Picture of Dorian Grey & The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
3. THE LEFT BEHIND SERIES, must read! Tim LaHaye
4. 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell
5. Amy Tan books
6. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

 

[Eemaan]

Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry
Roots- Alex Haley

 

[ben]

too many to list, but the one that i have been recommending to people is 'the glass castle by jeannette walls'

this taken from amazon.com:

Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --

 

[Indigowaters]

Anything by Lori Wick; especially "The Princess" and "The Visitor"
I also just read "Passport Diaries" which was good but very graphic for me

 

[JJones]

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[Glitziegal]

I have a wide variety of books I enjoy.

My favourites to date are

The Left behind series -Tim Lahaye
River God, and the Seventh scroll- Wilbur Smith
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
A Man for all Seasons-Robert Bolt

Then for pure trashy vampire/faerie

The Anita Blake series and Meredith Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton

Also most of the James Patterson, and Jeffrey Deaver book and tons more. I read a lot

 

[User34]

Mine in the past two years have been:


Da vinci code
shes come undone
lovely bones
angels and demons

(I have read others but didn't seem to make an impression.)

 

[lightnlovly]

I love reading and find myself picking up all sorts of books!! My absolute favorite book is The Color of Water a black man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride. Best book I ever read

Each chapter goes back and forth between James's childhood with his 10 siblings and then his mother's childhood and life. When James and siblings would ask (as children) if thier mother is white--she would say "no, I'm just light skinned" and when asked what color God was she would say "He's the color of water." Very powerful book...if you get a chance pick it up!!!!

 

[Hawkeye]

Lightnlovely, you just added something to my amazon.com list! LOL

I gotta tell ya I used to not be a reader. I mean I read as a kid, internet came along perferred the internet then i was reintroduced to the books and wow. I still to this day am in awe of the power of the human mind.

 

[browneyedbaby]

The Green Mile - Stephen King

When I was a kid... The Faraway Tree Series

 

[Chic 2k6]

my recommendations are these books because they are the most frickin funniest books ive ever read all by Louise Rennison

Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
It's Ok, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers
Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas
Dancing In My Nuddy Pants
Then He Ate My Boy Entrances
...And That's When It Fell Off In My Hand
Startled By his Furry Shorts

Other books i like to read are Point Horror series, Goosebumps series by R L Stine, The Body by Stephen King, The Stand by Stephen King and Shawshank Redemption

 

[Lady_MAC]

The first one that comes to mind is Assata Shakur's autobiography.. wow. That is when I fell in love with the Black Panthers and started teaching myself about them. And no, she is not related to Tupac.

 

[eowyn797]

oh, god, Bridge to Terabithea...*sobs* that book made me cry so freaking hard. oh but y'know, bad things happen in it. can't risk scarring our nations children with that *rolls eyes*

also, crap, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was one of the first books that made me sure i wanted to be a writer when i was younger. such good stuff.

i'll add to the list:

Memoirs from Ant-Proof Case & A Winter's Tale - both by Mark Helprin
We Have Always Lived In This Castle - Shirley Jackson
Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonegut
The Human Comedy - William Saroyan