I was just thinking about this today (Yea, at random) so I decided to ask. For me, I know my favorite book would have to be the Great Gatsby: great tale and a very interesting look at the Roarin' Twenties.

I don't read many books, but I'd say probably Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Only the first book though 😮

Another favourite was this book which was a twist on Alice In Wonderland, but the main character was Alyce and she lived in a world where people could create things by just imagining them. But I can't remember the name of it =(

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett, by very very far.

Perfect book for the time of my life it was introduced and it's inspirational effects still ripple through my roleplay, writing and even dreams to this very day.

Also, Lu-Tze makes Chuck Norris look like a sissy.

Very, very tough choice, but I think, at the moment I'm writing this, Only You Can Save Mankind holds a place dear to my heart. Terry Pratchett, natch.

And yes@ Craig. Lu-Tze is the man.

Let's see... I love A Wrinkle in Time. Lemony Snicket's ASOUE Book 12 is awesome. Can of Worms is fun. I recently read Of Mice and Men.

I don't have a single favorite book. I'll just list 5 of my favorites:

Snow Crash - Read this after someone here recommended it. One of the few books I've read post high school.
The Giver - read this back when I was 12 or 13. Very, very interesting book.
To Kill A Mockingbird- A true classic novel. Mrs Dubose, along with Mr Finch, are probably two of my favorite characters.
Fahrenheit 451 - lol, I seem to like books about scary futures =)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - ah, good old Huck Finn. Funeral Orgies for the win =).

I don't have a particular favourite, but my favourite series of books are:

*Harry Potter
*The wardstone chronicles
*A series of unfortunate events

Oh, and You Don't Know Me by David Klass

I don't have a particular favourite, but if you ask me right now, I'd say, in no particular order
-Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor and especially the immediate sequel Executive Orders
-Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
-Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth
and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down.

Book reviews are always fun.

For me, it is easily "Homeland" the first book in the Legend of Drizzt by R.A Salvatore. I picked it up randomly in forbidden planet in London and after reading the first few pages was immediately enthralled.
A story full of twists, turns, deviousness and treachery and a story that made me love the city of Mezoberranzan and it's Matriarchial society.

It also introduced me to one of my faveourite characters, and that isn't Drizzt Do'Urden.

No, that honour belongs to Zaknafein Do'Urden. =3

OH! And The Bourne Identity. That is such a fascinating book.

Well as far as Books go, anything by chris wooding, ( espessly The haunting of Azibel Crey)
But i like manga better (lol not really, but i seem to read alot of it!)
a few manga titles are:
Negima! (i have books 1-17 now)
Hyper police. ( i cant find Vol.5 in any book store!)
SunDome
Gunsmith Cats (both burst and the other one)
My Hime
Gantz
and Many Many More!

Probably I Am Legend.
Amazing.

I haven't taken the time to read books much for the last few years; I've been well-supplied with tale and story from other sources not to feel the direct need to. If I actually used books for reference it'd probably be one of those as ones you can look back to are really handy, but I generally use the internet for that instead.

If any book of any sort goes, I'd probably list "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, his first and core book on the concept of the Monomyth. While I can't say I agree with him completely, it made me see stories (and by extension, roleplaying) in a different way and I'm intending to make time to re-read it at some point in the near future.

As for pure story books, I don't re-read those much, so I don't really have any favourite as such. There's books I liked, there's books I didn't like. Either count a few too many (and a little too long ago) for me to count them up.

Can't really pick a single favorite, but if I was forced I'd probably pick 1984. Orwell really was ahead of his time.

To continue the love set forth in this topic, virtually ANYTHING written by the dear Mr. Pratchett is certain to be a favourite of mine.

Feet Of Clay for being my first, Thief Of Time for being a stunning book, Reaper Man for being about Death rather than containing him, the amazing Science Of Discworld series, and all the rest as well. And of course, who can forget the absolutely AMAZING collab with Neil Gaiman, that was Good Omens? I could read that book every day, and it would never get old.

Moving away from the Pratchett love, the Halo series of novels sit well with me. Maybe it's the fanboy within, but I have found all the books to be well written (Even parts of The Flood).

As cliche as this answer is, I loved The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, along with The Hobbit.

Apart from those (Some of which I have read countless times over), I don't tend to do much reading, unless it's in the form of a video game art book, or on screen text.

Night School, the only storybook I've read outside of compulsory schooling.

The Instructor watches over you with a crescent smile as you sleep, yes.

My favorite book was Probably Noman, (noble warriors trilogy) the twists and turns at the end of the book were amazingly well done. and the final fight was just something i would've never expected.

Fiction: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card -ha-doy!

Non-fiction: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - One of the books that I always keep a copy of with me, it helps me so much with writer's block

Runners up:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - Reading this book is like a rite of passage for the discerning fantasy fan
Any Of Orson Scott Card's Other Books by Orson Scott Card - HA-DOY!
Fortress Draconis by Michael A. Stackpole - Hey, didn't he used to be Michael J. Stackpole
The Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher - Funny enough to devour
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon - the non-fiction chronicle of Baltimore's murders that would inspire the HBO series The Wire.
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov - Even if he did lose focus toward the end, it's classic science fiction of a type that's often imitated but never duplicated
Long for This World by Michael Byers - Can't explain it, but this book made me cry

I'm sure I'll wake up in the middle of the night and think of about 50 books that should be added to this list. It's interesting, 5 years ago there'd be more science fiction on here than fantasy...I think I'm aging in reverse.

The Ender saga by Orson Scott Card is amazing.

Someone already mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird?

Hm...

Well, one book I found to be stimulating was The Andromeda Strain. 'Course, I was twelve at the time.

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I should probably read more books. I've got a small stack of The Slayers novels just sitting there, collecting dust.

As far as stories go, my favorite will always be Homer's "The Odyssey".