What Are Your Favorite Books?

[Dragline]

Oldest favorite book (from childhood, still appreciated as a parable of irrationality and status anxiety):

"The Sneetches and Other Stories" by Dr. Suess

Just call me "Zanzibar Buck-buck McFate!"

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Books/series that I've read more than 5 times:

Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
The Belgariad/The Mallorean - David Eddings
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Hobbit/Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Recent reads I'd highly recommend:
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Stand - Stephen King

[steveo73]

The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan

I love fantasy but it has to be done well and consistently well. I read this and it just went to crap at some point.

I don't know what are my favorite books but I read all the time. If you are into ERE I think the Reacher books are great. If you are into fantasy I really like Brandon Sanderson. If you are into self-help the stoic book that MMM reviewed is fantastic. Jack London books are great but I read them when I was about 10. I loved "The Fountainhead" and definitely some of the other books that Rand wrote.

John Connelly writes great books. Michael Connelly does as well. Jane Austen writes really well as well but I can't see myself reading them again.

[jennypenny]

Has anyone read The Pines? I was on the fence, but then I saw the mini-series was coming out and wanted to read the book first. Someone who read the series told me to at least read the first book before the movie comes out.

I'm also intrigued by the fan fiction component.
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