My favourite books are the ones which warped my mind. I read them, and I haven't been the same since. I walked away with a different point of view.

1. "Prabhupada", by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
2. "Ubik", by Philip K. Dick
3. "Breakfast of Champions", by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

i think i have to go with my previous answer:
to kill a mockingbird
swan song
the stand
a lesson before dying
green eggs and ham
although i think i could add about 20 more to the list!!!!
too much to read......

"Diet for a New America" by John Robbins

All of the Shannara books, but I guess I should narrow it down. The best Shannara books are, in "The Sword of Shannara", "The Druid...", "The Elfstones...", and "The Talismans...". Man, I can't wait to read Antrax!

Ohh, and also Dr. Suess Books (no, I didn't say Cat in the Hat, just Dr. Suess).
"One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish", and "I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words!" are two of the really good ones.

Harry Potter books.
That book by Nicolo Ammaniti, can't remember the name.

I have a lot of favorite books and favorite authors.
My favorite children's book is Anne Of Green Gables, and I still read it from time to time. I am reading the second book in the series, "Anne Of Avonlea" right now. I like a lot of books by Danielle Steel, especially "The Long Road Home". I also like John Grisham, Elizabeth Berg, and Jackie Collins. I like Stephen King novels, too. I also enjoy reading humorous reference books. This one guy wrote a bunch of books called "Why do clocks run clockwise?" and such. I like the "Straight Dope" books. I enjoy Richard Paul Evans and James Herriott books. I am reading a really good book called "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold, a new author. I like Dorothy Parker for poetry and satire. She really has a "poison pen". There are probably many others.

The Bhagavad-gita
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Oh, maybe The Traveller in Black, by John Brunner, or Lem's Cyberiad, or Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner. I don't know, I can think of a lot of books.

Oh yeah, and Dune, although more generally I liked the whole series and more specifically I liked the fourth book best.

All that comes to mind right now is;

London by Edward Rutherfurd
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Shogun, Noble House and King Rat by James Clavell
Chesepeake Bay by James A. Michener
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
The Reckoning by David Halberstam
Charlotte's Web by E.B White

Gawd! So many more...
These are all books that have really impressed me at one time or another of my life. Some mentioned are more recent, some are from my youth but all were very good reading at the time I read them!

I just read Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus - it was entertaining but not mind altering... Pretty funny though. One thing I noticed throughout the book was; where things like "one minute later" or "one and all" were written, it was with the numerical symbol - "1 minute later" and "1 and all". To me that, in itself, was strange!

you just reminded me of an author that I really enjoyed reading;
Erma Bombeck
She was funny and down to earth - do you know her?

There are 4 or 5 books written by Neale Donald Walsch that are EXCELLENT!! I highly reccommend these books to people who wonder about the deeper things in life or who want to understand daily life.Definately a great eye opener.READ these,it will totally change your perspective on religion and the way you will live your life.AMAZING!!

Vonnegut's a pretty wacky guy. In Breakfast Of Champions, he draws little doodley pictures all over the place...like butt-holes which look sort of like this: *

too many to list.

The Lord of The Ring's Trilogy
Heart of Darkness
Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wraith
and too many more to list

There are so many!

Off the top of my head:
The Stand, Stephen King
The Postman, David Brin
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
Somebody's Baby, Elaine Kagan
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, Richard Scarry
Whispers, Dean Koontz
Evening News, Marly Swick
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis

Pern series - Anne McCaffrey
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake

Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
Possession, by A.S. Byatt
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson

1)Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
2)Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

A lot more...

Yes! I loved the Erma Bombeck books and her column in the newspaper!

He is a very strange man... or *!

Every time I see some forgotten, moldy thing at the bottom of my fridge; I think of Erma Bombeck!

'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker
The Belgariad Saga by David Eddings. (book one: 'Pawn of Prophecy')

How frustrating is it to have a favourite book! You have favourite books and then you just get eager for someone to read the book. And you say to people, "You really should read this book!" - and they don't. Serious - they don't. I don't. But you just know that as luck would have it they will probably read it and then come back to you and say, "Well, it was nothing special." Grrrrr!

As it is I'm currently reading a book that the Receptionist of our company has been pestering me to read for ages. So, finally - because she was waving it in my face - decided to read it. Not bad really and quite thought provoking. Its about this guy who does past life regression. I'm reading it with a very cynical mind even though I'm a Buddhist. But it is certainly a wonderfully sweet and inspirational book. So, I'm glad really that she did that. I do believe it has changed my life in some small way.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Hersenschimmen by J. Bernlef
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Yep!

...but an interesting and entertaining writer.

I don't believe that I have a favorite book or books. At current count I have a little over 2000 books and like them all.

Now a certain genre thats my favorite would be a tie between sci-fi and math/physics. (I know most of you will think that that is kind of weird, but thats me weird).

The Devil's Mischief by Ed Marquand
Everything by The Marquis deSade but especially Justine and Juliette
The Story of O by anonymous
Lord of The Flies by Golding
The Satanic Bible by Anton Szander LaVey
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Divine Comedy of Dante by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
Everything by Oscar Wilde but especially The Picture of Dorian Grey
Dune(the series) by Frank Herbert
Lovecraft's short stories rock my world(wordsy!!!!!wow)
Everything by Edgar Allen Poe
Birdy by Wharton
I am a glutton for Victorian erotica

Thomas Harris - Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal
All of Bill Bryson's.
All of Jane Austen's.
Both of Mick Foley's.
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Stephen King - The Stand

All of the "Incarnations of Immortality" books by Piers Anthony. My favorite of those is "With A Tangled Skein", which chronicles a tale of the three Incarnations of Fate.

I really think that I have too many favourites to possibly begin listing them all!

Harry Potter, anything by Nicholas Sparks

I have a lot of favorites, but the Ramona Quimby books by Beverly Cleary are very near the top of the list.

Lolita and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man