What is the best book you've ever read?

Question

I love to read, usually fiction, but also some non fiction. A few of my favorites are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Catcher in the Rye, The Secret Life of Bees, Water for Elephants...well lots of them. But I want to compile a list of books I should read. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

The best books I have ever read were:

-Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer) - I know a lot of people will say these books, but they are truly amazing.

-Harry Potter 1-7 (J.K. Rowling) - all I can say is this: Instant Classic.

-Birdwing (Rafe Martin) - I loved this one. It was great. It brought me   back to my favourite times...

-Guardians of Ga'hoole series (Kathryn Lasky) - Amazing. It is about a wonderful world about Owls and the troubles they go through from the evil ones. It is so good, you should definitely read it. Here's a link to Kathryn Lasky, the author's, website: http://www.kathrynlasky.com/ She has also written other books that are great.

-My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George) - I loved this book.  I read it in school.

There are so many that I love. Especially and Dickens and Austen novels. I love reading books about that time period...

Answer 2

you should so read the book " nancy's diary" so sad and sooo good!!!! u will love it, its about a teenage girl who gets raped and gets AIDS..real sad

Answer 3

you will love these i stayed up all night trying to finish them =):

cirqu du freak by darren shan

ink heart ink spell any cornelia funk books

bone

series of unfortunent events by lemony snicket

run aways they are a comic but realy interesting

harry potter books

neil shusterman books

these are realy good ones to try tell me if you like them =)

Answer 4

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series.

Twilight

New Moon

Eclipse

Breaking Dawn

Answer 5

sorry...but i have to say harry potter books.  I can actually visualize the scenes and had fun doing it.  I really couldnt stop reading once I started unless I passed out from exhaustion.  Also Great Expectations is a WONDERFUL novel. Charles Dickens is genious

Answer 6

1) Bible

2) The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

3) All Harry Potter books

4) Lord of the Rings

Answer 7

I'm a big reader, but I'm not sure I have the same tastes

Here are some great authors:

Don Delillo - American, kinda strange, very smart.  My favorite was Ratner's Star

Tom Robbins - MUST READ, hit and miss on some books, also very strange, very insightful - I loved Still Life with Woodpecker

Kurt Vonnegut - Just read everything he ever wrote, you won't regret it.

Chuck Pahlinuik - Very very twisted and dark, he's the guy that wrote Fight Club.  My favorite was Lullaby

Here are some single books that I really liked:

Catch-22

Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy (just plain fun)

The Great Gatsby

Ender's Game

I could go on forever, but you should definitely check out the above.

Answer 8

His Dark Material =) Best trilogy ever.

Answer 9

Well, I absolutely LOVED The Princess Bride(The movie is good, but the book is amazing!). If you haven't read it, you have to. Even if you've already seen the movie, you have to read the book

-Livvy

Answer 10

1 The Rising Tide A Novel of World War 2- Jeff Shaara.

2 The Iliad and the Odyssey- Homer (the ancient Greek epic poet).

3 Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened)  (First published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in the United Kingdom in 1858,)

Answer 11

I can't choose between these four:

Twilight

New Moon

Eclipse

Breaking Dawn -

coincedentally, all in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.

Answer 12

ULYSSES by James Joyce

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

CATCH-22

DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

1984 by George Orwell

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara

U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

KIM by Rudyard Kipling

A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen

LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad

RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

LOVING by Henry Green

MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

IRONWEED by William Kennedy

THE MAGUS by John Fowles

WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron

THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

these are the top 100. hope they help!

Answer 13

basically every book i read i love it but i'll tell u the ones who had a great impact on me, they might not be related or of same type but they r MY favorite books not the the best books of all kind...well they are in random order:

Harry Potter  -by- J.K Rowling

Twilight Saga -by- Stephenie Meyer

Little Women -by- Louisa May Alcott

David Copperfield -by- Charles Dickens

a lot from Shakespeare like: Macbeth, Hamlet....

Answer 14

my favorite was eclipse, from the series "twilight"

Answer 15

best book - The Bible

my favourite novel - Poppy Shakespeare by Claire Alan

Answer 16

my fav books are twilight, new moon, eclipse, breaking dawn, the host, and all the jane austen books

Answer 17

THE BIBLE

Answer 18

TWILIGHT By: Stephene Meyer

Soooooo Freaking AWESOME!!!!!!

Answer 19

I absolutely love My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult, and The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is also a very good book, and My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.

Answer 20

uglies series by scott westerfield

Answer 21

Flowers in the attic, if you like that you will like anything in that series. The key to midnight, Dean Koontz. If Tomorrow Comes or Master of the game by Sidney Sheldon.

These books would be for entertainment.  

Answer 22

First off would be my Bible, then I would choes The Broken Mirror by Kirk  Douglas.  I also love to read.  Try Narnia, and Artemis Fowl.

Answer 23

It hasn't come along yet, but I really liked the old murder mystery And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

Answer 24

The Hobbit

Angels and Demons

Harry Potter 1-7

The Killer Angels

The Bible

Answer 25

i read many books i really like so it is so hard to choose but generally i like real life stories of horror or of people's hardships and how they get through it, or don't... something like Go Ask Alice typed stuff  oh and i also love manga ^_^