My favourtite novel is Demian by Hermane Hesse , whats yours ?

[UndertheOcean]

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A close second is the Stranger by Camus

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Whew, that's hard to say!

Those are both excellent stories!

I love all the Harry Potter books...

And many by James Michener, esp. Tales from the South Pacific!

I've read a lot of books, and it's really hard to say which are my absolute favorites!

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[patrice]

2. Perfume by David Suskind nt

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

3. "Bonfire of the Vanities" Tom Wolfe

[peacebird]

4. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Tolkeins LOTR's and The Hitchikers Guide

(More than Complete version) by Douglas Adams....

Other favorite reads include A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, and Coming of Age in the Milky Way.

Anything by Emerson, Thoreau, Jim Hightower or Al Gore....

Most recently Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

[MasonJar]

5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen...for me no contest. I have read the

book at least 25 times and been to her museum in Bath. I have also seen Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy innumerable times. If you have not seen this BBC mini-series, do yourself an enormous favor and order it and watch it.

[peacebird]

6. LOL! I wore out the VHS tape set so my hubby got me the DVDs last year!

Sense and Sensibility with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson is also exquisite!

[Catshrink]

7. Have you read the annotated P&P?

I started it yesterday and I'm loving it. I too have read the book many times and thought I understood a lot of the language, setting, and customs. I've already learned so much. It kind of interrupts the story flow to read all of the notes, but then, I know the story pretty well by now!

What do you think of the Lawrence Olivier/Greer Garson/Maureen O'Sullivan version from 1940? I've always loved that one but I must say, I've enjoyed them all.

[Pyrzqxgl]

8. The innocence & hidden lessons found in the works of L Frank Baum

the works of John Steinbeck, particularly "The Grapes Of Wrath"

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. On the Beach - Nevil Shute

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Read it in the early 60's

Just after the Cuban Missile Crisis

Had(still has) an enormous effect on me

I wonder why - -

The Plot - -

"The story is set in what was then the near future (1963, in the months following World War III). The conflict has devastated the northern hemisphere, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout and killing all life. While the nuclear bombs were confined to the northern hemisphere, global air currents are slowly carrying the fallout to the southern hemisphere. The only part of the planet still habitable is the far south of the globe, specifically Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and the southern parts of South America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_%28novel%29

It is just SO possible

Scary

(interesting to note, it was written BEFORE the Cuban Missile Crisis -)

[laststeamtrain]

10. 19th c: Moby Dick & Wuthering Heights. 20th c: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone,

92 in the Shade by Tom McGuane.

I like B Traven too. Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Cotton Pickers.

I love to read.

Oh, yeah, Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry.

John Huston made movies from both Sierra Madre & Volcano. I guess he & I would have had some stuff to talk about.

[UndertheOcean]

11. I love Mobey Dick , Wuthering Heights ? when I was 13 I liked it

I don't get the attraction now.

The older get the less I enjoy Jane Austen too.

[superconnected]

17. I'm amazed someone would give Wuthering Heights to a 13 yo...

[UndertheOcean]

18. I just burrowed it , when I was 13 I was very independent and didn't

accept anybody bossing me around .

Anyway , looking back , I don't think would like it if I reread it now , too Romantic, and I've become too jaded and cynical for my own good.

[Rowdyboy]

12. "Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole....

Hands down my favorite

[Richardo]

13. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Second place is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll
Third place is any Mark Twain novel you care to name :)

[Jim__]

14. "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.

More recently I've read and enjoyed "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison and "The Emperor's Children" by Claire Messud. Really hard to pick a specific favorite. I've re-read "Lolita" more times than most others, that's what makes me pick it as a favorite.

[UndertheOcean]

19. Nabakov is Wonderful !

The prose is just beautiful.

[Forkboy]

15. The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.

After that Bluebeard by Vonnegut.

[superconnected]

16. Tough question

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (nothing like the movie even though they titled it Victor Hugos)

and a close second would be Wuthering Heights.

[UndertheOcean]

20. Just wanted to add "A Farewell to Arms" as number 3.

H will always have a place in my heart for that novel.

[RebelOne]

21. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

It's pure poetry.

[LWolf]

22. I don't have a favorite; there are way too many!

I don't have a favorite movie, color, food, or holiday, either.

Usually the novel I'm reading at the moment is my "favorite," if it's good.

Some of the novels that come to mind include:

Huckleberry Finn

The Grass Harp

Farenheit 451

Siddhartha

Catch 22

Always Coming Home

The Life of Pi

[UndertheOcean]

23. "Siddhartha" was very moving

Herman Hesse always touches me at a very deep level

[LWolf]

24. Yes.

While "Siddhartha" is the one I thought of, I have several on my shelves, including "Demian."

[bikebloke]

25. The Magus by John Fowles

Even after he put out a revised version.

[Mz Pip]

26. I need to read that one again.

I read it a couple of times maybe 30 years ago and thought it was very weird and strange. I wonder if I would feel the same way about it 30 years later.

Mz Pip
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