The Grasshopper Trap by Patrick McManus

The bible. Gotta love the life wisdom in it

My favorite book other than the lord of the rings or Green eggs and ham...
I was forced to read a book in college called "No Great Mischeif" by Alistair Mcleod. I put it off until regrettably, i had to do a term paper on it the next day. So i brewed some coffee and dug in within four hours the book was read and already had my opening statement on paper.

To truly love this novel i believe one must have been born into a big family, also a hard working family. But was just a great read for me in my situation so it sticks out.

'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams

Well, let's see. I read the Hobbit and the Ring trilogy almost every year. I periodically return to the Sherlock Holmes stories: Moby Dick by Melville, The Sea Wolf by London and Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. And I read the Bible through every year.

I don't think I've re-read a book. I like to move from book to book, but I don't read many books. My favorites that I have read are Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The latter is great if you're interested in how life in old west had to have been. Extremely graphic, unforgiving, and profound.

I really enjoy Of Mice & Men and Cannery Row by Steinbeck, I have reread them both many times so would have to say they are tied as my favorites. I think I'll pull them out again as it has been a couple of years.

Shelby Footes Trilogy of the American Civil War is the best narrative history
I've ever read and it's perfect for smoking your pipe or a cigar.

Winslow

Hmmm.....I can name several favourites, but even that will leave many out. So, off the top of my head:
Novels:
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo- Just brilliant in every possible sense. It's something like 1600 pages in the paperback version, and I was still sad to have it end.

To Kill a Mockingbird- People talk about wanting to write the great American novel. Harper Lee already did. Anyone who wants how much I admire that novel can ask my daughter, Scout.

The Fountainhead-Yes, it's overdone. But it's still a brilliant defense of the individual mind.

The last two are novels I come back to every couple of years.

Edit: I agree with the observation that Travels with Charlie is brilliant and worth many re-reads.

Dostoyevsky's prophetic The Possessed (also translated as The Devils) and also his The Brothers Karamazov are the two best novels I've read. Followed by the same author's Crime and Punishment. I would add Kafka's The Trial (not an easy read!) and, for sheer perfection, his novella, The Metamorphosis. Many of K's short stories are among my favorite short fiction. Heck, even his collection of epigrams is great. Just read A Report to an Academy.

Hello all
W.E.B. Griffin is a great author I have all but a couple of his books and love every one. men at war books are great the hardest thing is to put it down so if you dont have time to realy read then wait till you have time. I will give myself two hours on a Sunday with a pot of coffee and a large Nording freehand and I belioeve this is the best time one can have with their colthes on

Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
I see much of myself in Binx Bolling.