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What is the best book you've ever read?

Some awesome books listed here!

I’ve added a few to my list of holds at the library.

A few of my favorites, I’ll add to the list as I remember others:

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
 
Norman Mailer is a prick but The Fight is probably my favorite sports book
 
birdman said:
Our Band Could be Your Life - Michael Azerrad

Skinny legs and all - Tom Robbins
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Is Jitterbug Perfume any good? I bought it on a recommendation from a friend, but only got through like 20 pages before putting it down. Should I try it again?

Also, I really enjoy Pat Conroy, as well. Haven't read My Losing Season. Will pick that up.
 
I read Dune this past summer and loved it. Currently reading Dune Messiah and plan on reading the whole series. Was a big fan of the Ender's Game series growing up.
 
WRS said:
A bit of a different take on the question but when I was a kid the novel that really inspired my love of reading was Watership Down. Just one of those stories that you can get lost in.
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Read this to my kids and we all loved it.
 
DeacsATS said:
Is Jitterbug Perfume any good? I bought it on a recommendation from a friend, but only got through like 20 pages before putting it down. Should I try it again?

Also, I really enjoy Pat Conroy, as well. Haven't read My Losing Season. Will pick that up.
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I don’t think I’ve read that one of his. I’ve read Even Cowboys get the Blues, Still life with woodpecker, Another roadside attraction, and villa incognito. Skinny legs is the best.
 
The Sound and the Fury was my first favorite book -- because I read it at Wake with an amazing professor (whose name I currently cant remember), so I will stick with that Since then, outside of some McCarty and Handmaid's Tale type stuff, I mostly just read/listen to Stephen King and fantasy stuff. I do love me some King and would put the Dark Tower series way up there. Edited to add Count of Monte Cristo -- that book is awesome.
 
Shooshmoo said:
The Sound and the Fury was my first favorite book -- because I read it at Wake with an amazing professor (whose name I currently cant remember), so I will stick with that Since then, outside of some McCarty and Handmaid's Tale type stuff, I mostly just read/listen to Stephen King and fantasy stuff. I do love me some King and would put the Dark Tower series way up there. Edited to add Count of Monte Cristo -- that book is awesome.
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I've been reading and re-reading a lot of Stephen King books lately. Currently on Needful Things. I read it when it came out but haven't re-read it in 30 years.

I believe that 11/22/63 and IT are my favorite SK books. I've never gotten into the Dark Tower series though.
 
LilburnDeac said:
I've been reading and re-reading a lot of Stephen King books lately. Currently on Needful Things. I read it when it came out but haven't re-read it in 30 years.

I believe that 11/22/63 and IT are my favorite SK books. I've never gotten into the Dark Tower series though.
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You should talk to me and Townie, man.
 
Y'all that dig Faulkner really need to read The Hamlet and Sanctuary. They're my fave Faulkners.
 
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Vision Quest by Terry Davis
The Beach by Alex Garland
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn (but man does this book fall apart at the end, its tragic)
 
Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
Crusade In Europe - Eisenhower's personal war memoir. Kindled my fascination with WW2 history.
As a child, Lord of the Rings was the first epic that truly captured my imagination. I read all 3 books multiple times over before I finished high school.
 
Sirens of Titan is my favorite Vonnegut

KV and Jeff Teague maybe the only good thing to come out of Indianapolis
 
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