best books

**Cricketlegs** · 08-24-2007, 12:27 AM

My favorite books are Genius By Patrick Dennis and also his A Joyous Season and Auntie Mame. My all time favorite author but you have to have the right sense of humor to enjoy them.

Today I read (of all things lol) Dean Kootz The Husband.

It was not his usual freaky stuff but a modern non fantasy THRILL OF A RIDE!

Look for it!

**bibliomane** · 08-24-2007, 02:37 AM

My Mom just read "The Husband" and after my dad reads it, I will finally get ahold of it! I've heard great things about it and I am a big Koontz fan!

I love so many books I wouldn't know where to start! lol

My favorite genre at the moment is historical fiction.

My fav books from last year were the Josephine B trilogy and Katherine by Anya Seton.

**nuisance26** · 08-24-2007, 08:24 AM

~I'll be super predictable and dull and admit that "Jane Eyre" is my favorite book, followed closely by any and all books written by Jane Austen. I have them all and re-read them every year.~

**miss_thrifty** · 08-24-2007, 12:17 PM

I love Catherine Cookson and all L.M. Montgomery's.
all historical non fiction or fiction i will sit for hours and read.

Right now Im reading "where the heart is" and Imcrossing off as I go the historical classic list and the roandom house list.

i got in yesterday from the libary:
The wings of a dove --henry james
The kings pleasure -shannon drake-romance
Highland hearts-hanna howell-romance
Ghost stories of the maratimes-vernon oickle

To kill a mockingbird-harper lee

the classics r the random house ones Ill read the book then order the video from the libary after to see the difference.

**jinx** · 08-24-2007, 01:22 PM

For fiction my favorite books are
Not in any particular order
Gone with The Wind
It-by Stephen King, One of the
scariest books I have read.
The Buccaneers- Edith Wharton
The Divinci Code
Time Line-Michael Chrichton

For non Fiction
1776- McCullough
John Adams- McCullough
The Boston Italians- Steve Pulio
The Civil War series- Shelby Foote
Witchcraft in Salem
Of Plimouth Plantation.

As it appears I like to read historical non Fiction. Currently I am reading
A History of Sicily.
And just finished a book about the Europe during the plague.

**Katybird** · 08-24-2007, 02:10 PM

Wow, there are so many great books that I have read it is hard to narrow them down. I guess some of my favorites would be....

The Stand by Stephen King
Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Angels and Demons By Dan Brown
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Giant by Edna Ferber
Lost Horizon by James Hilton

**ewokgirl** · 08-24-2007, 05:05 PM

My absolute favorite book in the whole world is The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

Running a close second is Potok's My Name is Asher Lev.

**marty_hollis** · 08-28-2007, 08:03 PM

My favorites: [I]Dog of the South[I] by Charles Portis. Great humour.

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 09-15-2007, 02:08 AM

"The Grapes of Wrath" is my favorite novel. However, I just read "The Birth of Venus" and looooved it!

**crr38095** · 09-15-2007, 09:14 AM

Wow I have soooo soooo many favorite books I am going to have to fight to keep this short. For fiction books I think my all time favorite would have to be The Secret garden. Or The Harry Potter Books. Or the Wild Swan series by Celeste DeBlais (or any of her books really). Or North and South by John Jakes. Or anything by Julia Quinn or Stephanie Laurens. Lol my favorite fiction book really totally depends on my mood of the moment. As for non-fiction that ones really tough because there are sooo soooo many too! But if I HAD to narrow it down I would say The Diary of Anne Frank, anything written or pulished by Reminisce magazine . I also love to read anything written by Holocaust Survivors When it comes to non-fiction I have favorite periods more so than favorite titles. But those are definately 2 I read alot about, The Holocaust, and The great Depression. And womens studies, appalachian life, victorian era....heck I could go on and on about books and reading. I could live my life without many things, but books are NOT one of them.