Favourite book?

I believe this should be in Culture and Media, but my favorite is The Catcher in the Rye. It embodies my way of thinking well and all. It really does.

I'm not all too interested in reading. I won't go out and just go get a book and start reading, unless I have to, but I usually enjoy most of the books that I have to read as long as they aren't history books. I had to read The Great Gatsby in English class junior year and I fell in love with it. I couldn't put it down and I finished the book the next day, so I knew what was going to happen while we were reading it in class. I remember enjoying most of the reading material we had to read in my English class all throughout high school...

I can't pick just one book. Just can't happen. Generally though my favorites fall into two categories:

1st category: books with amazingly beautiful writing:2nd category: fun, not-full-of-fantasy-cliches fantasy stories:That's probably enough for now. :)

I don't know of any favorite books at the top of my head, but I like the Artemis Fowl series because of how the mythical creatures were portrayed.

1984 by George Orwell
and
Feed by M.T. Anderson

I like the way the themes are represented and the society it takes place in.

I love Nancy Drew. I've read all of the main series, most of the Case Files, and many of the new series. They're awesome.
Big Harry Potter fan.
Waiting for the last Inheritance Cycle book to come out. Any day now. Maybe.
Just read Fahrenheit 451 for school and loved it.
Chronicles of Narnia, of course. I have them all in one HUGE book.
I love the Wrinkle in Time series.

There are many, many more (PS My floor-to-ceiling bookshelf is severely overflowing onto my floor), but I can't possibly name them all without boring you.

I can't really narrow it down to one book, but Tuesdays With Morrie and Ender's Game were terrific books, and my favourite series is hands down the Saga of Seven Suns books by Kevin J. Anderson (not usually a sci-fi kind of guy but these books were great).

It used to be The Road by Cormac MacCarthy, but now it might be a three-way tie between that, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. The first is just so perilously bleak, but incredibly well-written that I could still enjoy its tales of dystopian journeys and cannibalism. The second is apparently emblematic of the hipster crowd, but I still really like the prose and the delicate story. The third is just crazy, with footnotes everywhere, video game references, absurd humour and all sorts of other stuff; kinda wonderful but not to everyone's taste, I imagine!

I don't have a specific single title, Imma list my all-time reads.

1. House Rules. As always, my most favourite and read books out of Jodi's library. Really deep thoughts and insight into people with Aspergers and an uncanny scenario of court cases and detective mysteries from CrimeBusters. ;)

2. Moon and Sun: The Silver Door. I read the prequel but I chose this over the other as its content really has a fantasy feel to it and it's an exciting adventurous read of your boring late-night eyes. :)

3. Anne of Green Gables. I first took this book into my mind at 10 and since then, it's the only classic novel that stands out to me amongst the rest. It's not boring and it brings us into an innocent mind of a young orphan girl who is remarkably diligent and headstrong. :3

4. Ink Heart. It has the most creative plot and the writing is just fabulous. I loved the whole trilogy. <3

5. The Book Thief. First reading it for a school assignment, I grew in love with the characters in the book. It left me captivated about the force of books that it just made me stumped for words. I can't describe it, just read it for yourself. :')

Call me weird, but the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. It's oddly captivating, and you can imagine the world so vividly in how he describes it in the book. Also, it's quite interesting in some aspects, such as one of the villains in the 2nd and 3rd, and her storyline in her own book.

I don't really consider myself well read, it's hard to find both the motivation and books that really interest me. Out of what I have read though, these are my favourites:

Coraline by Neil Gaiman:
I read it when I was about 13 or 14, I can't remember. No other book has managed to draw me in as much as this before or since. I can't recall much about it, except that I found the protagonist likeable (rare for me) and that it remained on my thoughts often for months afterwards. Pretty much the definitive book of the closure of my childhood.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:
For me, it represents everything Nineteen Eighty-Four (which I really didn't like) should have been. The questioning stance on modern society and morals, the future we could be heading towards, and the various attitudes of people. I think that simply the time period in which it was written helped me appreciate it a whole lot more, just because it seemed to be still so relevant almost 80 years later. It was like one small summary of what I think is wrong with everything. I didn't love this book but I did feel that it reached out to me in a way most others don't.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess:
Really just for almost the exact same reasons as Brave New World. I see no reason to re-summarise it. Although I thought the setting and imagery was better in this book.

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami:
This is my most recent read, and the first in many years that I've read from start to finish in just a few days. The characters were well developed, and there was a really nice mix of reality and the supernatural and the difficulty of being able to tell the difference between the two. The book was left open to many different interpretations, which I really like. Although the beginning of the book seemed too similar to a generic (unrequited) romance novel, it soon turned into something interesting. I really enjoyed the writing style as well.

And I also feel compelled to mention H.P. Lovecraft just for his ability to write horror that I love. Horror is by far my favourite genre, but simultaneously my most hated; if it's done right then I will remember it forever, otherwise I can't stand it. I've only read a number of short story collections since I recently discovered him, but they were all very engaging and suited my taste perfectly.

NightOfRemorse said:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

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A nice choice. Agatha Christie is one of those authors I wish I really would read more of. This is one novel I'm sure I will remember for a long time.

Just one favourite book is impossible. It just can't work that way lol

1. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
This may seem like a cliche choice, but I honestly believe there is not, and will never be, another book series as wonderfully written, addictive, intricately plotted or magical as those books. I don't believe in God, but if I did I would say that J.K. Rowling is a divine gift to this world. And they have to be listed as a series because they are so intricately linked that to love one book is to love them all.

2. Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Quite simply the most hilarious works of fiction I have ever read.

Now, onto the biographies:

1. Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin
The most hilarious and fascinating autobiography I have ever read. It was at the top of the New York Times Bestseller List for a reason. That woman's journey through Hollywood, combined with her uniquely funny view on things, makes it a pleasure to read. That came out like a weird review/advertisement lol

2. Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
I truly believe that book will help so many women fighting with body-image issues and also so many gay people around the world. It's just a beautifully-written book, you honestly could not tell that it was her first outing as a writer, and her emotion and honesty just floored me and touched me on so many levels.

3. My Horizontal Life; Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler.
Hilarious, just hilarious. They're not really autobiographies as such but they're all collections of incredibly funny stories about her life. I can't wait to read her fourth book, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me, when it comes out in Australia.

My favourite book is Sphere by Michael Crichton. He's my favourite author and that's one book that always has me on the edge of my seat no matter how many times I read it. Though, my copy of Jurassic Park is literally falling apart (I think the front cover fell off), so if you go by number of times read and how often it went everywhere with me... it might take the prize.

I love this book called The Compound by S.A. Bodeen. It's different... but it's really interesting about halfway through...