What are your favorite fiction books?

The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Dune by Frank Herbert
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

-BlkBks

 

Anything. By Richard Bach

 

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This quote hangs over my computer desk written in calligraphy by my artistic daughter and given to me as a gift several years ago. I think it comes from the book One. I also read Johnathon Livingston Seagull, perhaps more. Too long ago, I forget the titles.

 

Waiting to Exhale.

 

Several of my favorites are already listed above.

One that surprised me in recent years is "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. I am so not into competitive car racing but the book is written from the point of view of the dog looking back on his life. It is happy, sad but mostly hopeful. I loved it.

 

^^Oftentimes the best writing, in my opinion, gets you into something you've never had an interest in before. That's why I love Ian Frazier from the New Yorker - he can make any subject interesting.

 

In no particular order:

1. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
2. The Stand, Stephen King
3. Salem's Lot, Stephen King
4. The Man Who Folded Himself, David Gerrold
5. Lightning, Dean R. Koontz
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
7. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
8. Where Do We Go From Here?, Isaac Asimov (a collection of short stories, edited by Asimov)
9. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
10. Contact, Carl Sagan

Honorable mention goes to Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. It is the first book I can remember reading.

 

The only fiction I read is my girlfriend's Terry Pratchett.

My library is mostly nonfiction.

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An American Tradgedy

 

the angry clam (eric quisling)
my so called reality (francis dipietero)
star wars:I Jedi
star wars:specter of the past
star wars:vision of the future
star wars:vector prime
star wars:star by star
star warsutbound flight
star wars:allegiance
a wrinkle in time (Madeleine L' Engle)

 

lots to choose from. i will say i read quicksand by steve toltz recently and that was really good

albeit depressing

 

You might also ask "What are your favourite novels?' That's what we call 'fiction books' here in the G-7, although technically fiction books may also be compendia of short stories

Non-fiction books is a standard term, however.

 

read 2 of those

 

I never made it through that one. However, in the non-fiction sweepstakes, War of the World by Niall Ferguson fills in many of the blind spots in one's education

 

yeah - Brautigan - haven't heaard his name for years - Trout Fishing in America

 

As your attorney I must . . . . (the big Samoan guy)

 

Cormac McCarthy is a rara avis alright, and On the Road was one of THE books back in the university 60s. Catcher in the Rye I hardly remember though I better recall A Perfect Day for Bananafish - I have Animal Farm in my bedroom where there are about 38 books in the pile. Perhaps someone will invent a book dispenser so that when you finish one, the next one drops down

 

Catcher in the Rye

Most Kurt Vonnegut books

Most James Lee Burke novels

A Soldier of the Great War

The Great Santini

Losing Julia

Sometimes a Great Notion

A Confederacy of Dunces

The Naked and the Dead

Crime and Punishment

Lonesome Dove

Ball Four

Instant Replay

North Dallas Forty

The Things They Carried

Catch-22

 

The onion eaters By JPDonleavy is Probably my favorite or the Ginger man by the same author

 

Uhh....isn't there a dude on these forums name JP donleavy? Or something like dat?