Favourite books

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Most of the books by Stephen King
(To name some: The Dark Tower series, Duma Key, The Stand, Cell, some of the short stories from Everything's Eventual)
And Dean Koontz.
(Some: From the Corner of His Eye, By the Light of the Moon, The Face, Odd Thomas, Brother Odd, Forever Odd).
The Lionboy trilogy by "Zizou Corder".
The Harry Potter books.
Some of the Dark-Hunter books.

Some of my favourites (in no particular order):

*Blindness - Jose Saramago
*The Lord of the Rings (I count them even though I haven't fully finished them yet)
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts (six parts now if you count the new one, I haven't read it yet though)
*The Red Dwarf books
*1984 - George Orwell
*Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
*The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
*I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
*The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
*House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
*The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
*The Arrival - Shaun Tan
*One - Richard Bach

I also have a lot of favourite books that aren't fiction but I think this thread meant fiction. I'll only mention two because they're worth mentioning:

*The Book of General Ignorance
*The Book of Animal Ignorance

They're quite interesting

'Do Andriods Dream of Electronic Sheep' - this book is pretty huge philosophically, especially when taken from the perspective of Aspergers. What is the test used to determine if a being is android or human? - empathy!

Philip K. Dick, who wrote Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Basis for Blade Runner) is an interesting writer. I would recommend The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch for one. He wrote a lot about philosophical ideas.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Westing Game; forgot who the author was
Night by Elie Wiesel
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
The Crucible by Arthur Miller

These are all I can think of off the top of my head. I also recall reading The Scarlet Letter and it was okay, but not exactly one of my favorites.

Atlas Shrugged

Anna Karenina

War and Peace

A Tale of Two Cities

None of them require introduction, I hope.

I've been wanting to post something to this thread, but I couldn't really think of any books that I would consider "favorites." I gave it some thought, though, and there are a couple of books that I have read and re-read repeatedly, so I'll mention those.

On Love and Barley, Basho

It's a collection of Basho's poetry. He's a 17th century Japanese poet who wrote in haiku (I think he is also credited with developing, or at least popularizing, the form...please correct me if I'm wrong). It's a small book, and it often rode in a coat pocket when I was out and about. It's nearly worn out, and I'll probably have to buy another copy.

The Outsider, Colin Wilson

Wilson wrote an analysis of "The Outsider," a person who exists outside the mainstream of society and perceives, thinks, and feels things differently than those around him/her, using people like Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Kafka, Najinksy, and Dostoevsky as examples. For much of the book I felt like I was reading about myself, except the author was articulating how I felt much better than I ever could. I've been reading this book since well before I'd ever heard of Asperger's. I used to read this book every year or so.

I am, at present, working my way through David Copperfield.

My favorite books are house plan books. As far as fiction---I don't read it much at all. The last fiction novel I read for the pure pleasure of it was probably Flowers in the Attic back in the 1980's.

I'm in the middle of The Picture of Dorian Gray, it's good so far.
My favorite book is The Golden Compass. (And the rest of the trilogy, but especially the first.)

Anything by Tolkien.
Anything by Neil Gaiman (do graphic novels count?).
Anything by Storm Constantine, but especially Hermetech and Burying the Shadow.
The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis.
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Perfume by Patrick Susskind.
Waxwings and Surveillance by Jonathan Raban.
Anything in the Frank Corso series by G. M. Ford.
Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock.
The Book of Dave by Will Self.
Millennium by John Varley.
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. (Did someone mention Oryx and Crake? I liked that too, but I couldn't work out why it got such crap reviews.)

To be honest, most of what I read is non-fiction, depending on what I'm into at the time, but those are some consistent fiction favorites.