What is the best book you've ever read?

[TownieDeac]

Or if you'd prefer to list some favorites, that's ok too!

 

[dartsndeacs]

Jurassic Park!

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

“A Sense of The World: How a Blind Man Became The Worlds Greatest Traveler” by Jason Roberts

“My Losing Season” by Pat Conroy

“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers

“The Starlight Crystal” by Christopher Pike

 

[birdman]

Our Band Could be Your Life - Michael Azerrad

Skinny legs and all - Tom Robbins

 

[birdman]

Eta: Sibley’s Guide to the Birds of North America

 

[Kory]

GR

 

[Kory]

Addiction by Design remains probs my fav non-fiction overall

Attali's Noise is probably my fav foundational text

Galapagos is my fav Vonnegut

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

my favorite novel is 100 Years of Solitude

 

[DeaconCav06]

My favorite is The Great Gatsby. I used to re-read it every year or so but it’s probably been 15 years.

These days I want easy beach reads.

 

[WakeBored]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

 

[Donkey Deac Doug]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

+1

 

[mako1331]

my favorite novel is 100 Years of Solitude

Marquez is definitely up there.

 

[mako1331]

“A Sense of The World: How a Blind Man Became The Worlds Greatest Traveler” by Jason Roberts

“My Losing Season” by Pat Conroy

“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers

“The Starlight Crystal” by Christopher Pike

I absolutely love pat conroy.

 

[mako1331]

I definitely know my favorite short story and my favorite writer but I’m pretty hard pressed to pick a favorite novel.

 

[Kent]

This is a hard one...

Best known book: Blood Meridian*
Best obscure book: South of the Big Four**
Book that made me realize reading was fun: Star Man's Son (a/k/a 2250 A.D)


* "oh my god, said the sergeant."
** mainly because of the way the dialog seemed to mirror so many conversations I overheard as a kid, and then later had as an adult.

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

I read the Book of Laughter and Forgetting recently

Kundera can write

 

[rawarr]

my current favorite is Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi, although it's probably her least accessible novel (that I've read) due to the stream of consciousness style. but if you're into that kinda weird stuff, it's incredible.

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

I absolutely love pat conroy.

I chose My Losing Season over 5 other Conroy novels that are also my favorite books ever.

 

[WakeBored]

I read the Book of Laughter and Forgetting recently

Kundera can write

I read that book over 25 years ago and the notion of the infinitude of variation is something that sticks with me today.

 

[mako1331]

I loved Blood Meridian but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to myself I like Lonesone Dove better.