Your favorite novels

[nonameo]

Heh, I was going to say books but then I realized I should probably cull the herd before then.

Anyway, what are some of your favorite novels/books? Biographies, novels, other entertainment type materials included. Textbooks, magazines, religious texts, etc. excluded.

What spurred this thread: I've been reading a game of thrones, but I just find myself uninterested. So, I've stopped reading it.

 

[LordMorpheus]

My favorite recently published novel is "The Gone Away World" by Nick Harkaway. Really good story.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Starship Troopers
Farnham's Freehold
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Talisman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984
War of the Worlds
Foundation series
Hyperion
The Shining

 

[ConwayJim]

any of the Goosebumps series, holy geeze that stuff is scary!

 

[busydude]

Nineteen.. Nineteen.. Nineteen Eight Four.

 

[mnewsham]

just finished the entire currently released game of thrones series. It gets dry if you aren't interested in details and small plots that aren't central to the main plot (yet anyway)

 

[KeithTalent]

My three favourite novels of all time are:

The Information by Martin Amis

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

I've read them all multiple times and they never get old to me.

KT

 

[davmat787]

Any of Ken Follett's historical fiction is must read material. His latest "Fall of Giants" is the first in a trilogy that will track the major, minor, and unknowns starting with WWI to the present. One chapter might follow a poor miner family in England while the next has you in Russia and Germany among the highest circles.

And knowing Follett, they will all tie in together in some way.

 

[coaster831]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray

 

[Via]

So many, but I think The Razor's Edge wins out for me.

I've read it at least four times, but not recently. I need to read it again.

 

[WelshBloke]

Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell
All of Pratchetts discworld stuff

 

[davmat787]

Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell
All of Pratchetts discworld stuff

You ever read any of Ken Follett's work? He is from England and quite the historian on cathedrals, which only adds to his great historial fiction. I always mention Follett in these book threads but it seems like I am the only fan of his around here.

 

[Oyeve]

All Arthur C. Clarke
Most of Neal Stephenson (especially Snowcrash)
Early Stephen King
And all of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. Really great stuff.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse Five
Demian
Snow Crash
Steppenwolf
Siddhartha
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch 22
Brave New World
All the Pretty Horses
Neuromancer
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Fight Club

 

[gorcorps]

Brave New World is the fave

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Brave New World is the fave

That's because it is quite awesome, Mr. savage.

 

[KidNiki1]

i have lots:

by Neil Gaiman:
Stardust
American Gods
Good Omens
(and all the Sandman books, but those are graphic novels so they probably don't count)

by Douglas Adams:
Hitchhiker's Guide
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul

by Jack McDevitt:
The Engines of God
Ancient Shores

by Isaac Asimov:
anything

by Frank Herbert
Dune
Dune Messiah

by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

also, my Collected Works of Shakespeare by Shakespeare
and the Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

[darkewaffle]

House of God - Samuel Shem

Basically blew me away, its kind of like Catch 22 meets Scrubs. Currently a little ways into Mount Misery, a 'sequel' of sorts. Really brilliant man and writing, even for readers who aren't into medicine.

Also Catch 22 is way up there for me.

 

[jhansman]

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Rendezvous with Rama -Arthur C. Clarke

 

[Raduque]

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Also, the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind, though the 6th and 7th books are a little weak due to the political nonsense thrown in.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Lots of good stuff mentioned before (Everything on SlitheryDee's list is awesome for example) ...
Here's my 2 bits ...

By David Howarth: We Die Alone .... This book is in a class all by itself. Really awesome read.

By Max Brooks: World War Z .... This book rocks. I like it even better than the Zombie Survival Guide.


Other favorites... (related to WW2)
By Antony Beevor... Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
By Cornelius Ryan: The Longest day
By Stephen Ambrose: D-Day, Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers, The Victors
By Richard Overy: The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
By John Eisenhower: The Bitter Woods
By Richard Winters: Beyond band of Brothers