Favorite novel?

First thread of this new forum... what other topic could it be?

I guess I would be referring to non-fantasy, non-sci-fi novels... because for most of us here, we'd choose LOTR, right? :b

For me... there's a lot. Oliver Twist comes to mind... And Then There Were None... many others... more coming.

Well, I guess you might not be banned if you mention LotR in here

My favorite books ARE sci fi and fantasy, probably, but I guess that'll have to do for now. Besides LotR, I also like the Riftwar Saga, the Heir to the Empire trilogy, and other stuff that I can't recall at the moment.

Yeah, that's true... anyways, here's some more from me, including non-LOTR fantasy and sci-fi.

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Duncton Wood - William Horwood

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

Aie... so many... so many more to come...

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

too difficult topic!!

only a few that come now to my mind:

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Crime and punishment, Fedor Dostoievski

Il Gattopardo, G.T. di Lampedusa

and D. Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes

The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone

If I can´t mention LOTR then my favorite novel is Treasure Island or Crime and Punishment. But if you would ask me tomorrow I´d probably pick another one .

Okay I am going to try this. Now remember I've read a ton of books and I know I will leave out some of my favorites: This is not including LOTR or any plays, or a non-fictious book like The Prince or books on Mythology.


*Gone with the Wind
*The Diary of Anne Frank
* The Good Earth
* Odessa Files
* All but My Life
* The second half of a Tale of Two Cities
* The Good Earth
* Joy Luck Club and the Kitchen's Gods wife (both by Amy Tan)
* To Kill a Mocking Bird
* And Then There Were None/aka Ten Little Indians
* Dracula
* Pride and Prejudice

also Children's Books:


* The Cricket in Times Squares
* Island of the Blue Dolphins
* Tom Sawyer
* The Wrinkle in Time Series

and I am still reading


Luv Always,
Gat

For me... how could I possibly omit...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (and what Alice found there)!

Oh, and gatito... Joy Luck Club is certainly very good, I must agree with you.

Besides LOTR, etc., Germinal by Emile Zola and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. (Can you tell I studied French lit. at University?)

I forgot about Gone With the Wind in my other favorites post. I like that one too, though I think by the last half of the book that Scarlet badly needed to have some person slap the **** out of her.
I love those Madeleine L'Engle books.

I just finished Animal Farm, which was a great book.

Yeah, Animal Farm was very good.
I was terribly disappointed in the movie that was made from it. It was a good idea, and well filmed, but as usual with book-inspired movies, they had to go and make changes that absolutely did not fit and messed it all up.

The Legend of sleepy hollow is great.

args this is definitely too hard!!

the autobiography of malcom x
pride and prejudice
the handmaid's tale
like water for chocolate
tear this heart out
the source
a tree grows in brooklyn
the eight
the making of the atomic bomb
speaker for the dead
the ordinary princess

there's more....but...brain...is blowing...up....

You mean aside from my TRUE fave Silmarillion?
Ok....hmmm....I think Moby Dick.

The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
Collected Works of Kahil Gibran

I've got a lot of Gibran on my shelves, too.

Other than LotR, I guess STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heinlein is my next favorite, followed by some others of his works.

i like

the clan of the cave bears
the valley of the horses
the mammoth hunters
the plains of passage
and the indian in the cuboard series