What's the title of your favourite book?

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I have a few.

The Wheel of Life, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nothing Better Than Death, by Kevin Williams and others
Love Wins, by Rob Bell

Stampy's Lovely World Book

Mine is A Light In The Attic by the late Shel Silverstein.

of the more recent favorites
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Mine is probably "Somebody else's kids" by Torey Hayden. "Just another kid" by the same author is rather interesting, too.

one of the recent favs; The Prague Cemetery by Eco
or
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, or Demon Box by Ken Kesey,
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, or Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux

Republic l by Plato.

It's a tie between 'No One Belongs Here More Than You' (Miranda July) and 'The Illumination' (Kevin Brockmeier).

A Clockwaork Orange by Anthony burgess

"wasted"



hornbacher.

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.

My two favourite books are the same as the two movies I chose for the favourite movie thread. "The Shining" by Stephen King and "The Haunting Of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. I can't give reasons why though. Some things just give me an enjoyable feeling when I watch/read/play/look at/listen to them and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.

I also love "Junk" by Melvin Burgess and "The Hahnemann Sequela" by Harold King.

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

I really enjoyed The Giver. It's a book for children that deals with serious themes of futuristic utopia, population management, and euthanasia. The Giver is the individual assigned to be permitted to understand pain and suffering, but also great excitement and pleasure. The Giver is in a way responsible to keep the lessons of the past alive, bearing the burden of knowledge so that society may exist in its supposed perfection where no one experiences negativity or even sees color. The color thing is obviously playing on the blandness of this utopia.

Going on what others have said, I also really enjoyed Ender's Game/Speaker and read that entire series. He also wrote a very interesting series called the Homecoming saga which I would definitely recommend.

My favorite books are The Secret History , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Parrot in the Oven, and The Outsiders. I read a lot. Most people don't know that though.