Catch-22 - Josef Heller

On the Road - Jack Keruoac

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

1) THE ODYSSEY by Homer

2) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

3) THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS by Thomas Harris

In no particular order:

The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein

Sacrifice by John Farris

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky--Before I read this, I thought that this type of novel could only be enjoyed by stick-up-the-ass types who wear turtleneck sweaters and hang out at coffee shops. Nothing could be further from the truth. This book is so unpretentious and easily readable, and it's a shame that people (well, me anyway) automatically assume that it's going to be boring and difficult to read. Other nineteenth century Russian novels read the same way, but this is my favorite. And(I hope) I'm just a normal guy, not some pompous ass who only reads "literature", so I think most people would like it.

1: The Hobbit
2: Lord of the Rings
3: Lord of the Flies.......

Those were kind of the best three off the top of my head.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

Honorable Mention: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain), The Great Gatsby

1. Dragonlance Saga (9 books and counting!)
2. Harry Potter series
3. Timeline by Crichton

This is too hard. Too many books.

1. The Amber series by Roger Zelazny
2. It by Stephen King (only book that actually scared me while reading at night)
3. The Spenser series by Robert Parker

Thanks to Deftones17 for mentioning "The Westing Game". Man, I haven't read that in years. Great book that I am gonna grab from the library this weekend.

Daryl

1. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
2. The Canterbury Tales (Geoffry Chaucer)
3. The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)

For fun The first three Song of Ice and Fire books by Martin

for literature

1.) The Stranger (Albert Camus)
2.) Heart of Darkness (Joesph Conrad)
3.) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)

2. THE BLIND SPOT, by Homer Eon Flint?
1. THE HOBBIT (just reading LotR now - even better), J.R.R. Tolkien
3. THE TIME MACHINE, by H.G. Wells

Unfortunately, I haven't read many "great books" like Dickens, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, War and Peace, etc... (usually just see the movie version if there is one). I enjoy mostly science fiction and war novels.

Well, my post was from April and the list of favourites is still the same. Perhaps Man Machine Interface may edge out Gunm, but who knows?

Soo many favorties.... I'm not stopping with 3!!

White Noise - Don Delillo
The Great Gatsby
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Haunting - James Herbert
Brave New World
1984

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings - Edgar Allan Poe
1984 - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Sorry, I can't pick just 3.

DAVID COPPERFIELD- Charles Dickens
DRACULA- Bram Stoker
LORD OF THE FLIES -William Golding

I'm probably just a dick, but anyone else get totally annoyed whenever someone mentions that "Catcher in the Rye" is one of their favorite books? It's such a trendy answer & the most overrated book ever written IMO.

Anyway my top 3. . . .

1. Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa : By far my favorite book of all-time. It's sad this is on nobody's list.

2. Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs: My favorite book ever as a kid.

3. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandra Dumas - My #3 changes. For now I'll go with this.

In no real order:

Canterbury Tales--Geoffrey Chaucer
Complete Poems of John Donne
Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen

Of newer stuff, my three favorites would be:

Maps in a Mirror--Orson Scott Card
As I Lay Dying--Faulkner
Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold

tasha

Trainspotting -- Irvine Welsh
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Different Seasons - Stephen King

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Ender's Game/Speaker For the Dead (Haven't read the others... yet) - Orson Scott Card

I can't really pick 3, so I'll cheat and list 4.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Replay - Ken Grimwood
Forever War - Joe Haldeman
or
The Chtorran Saga - David Gerrold

Great Gatsby
Friday Night Lights
Catcher in the Rye
Blackhawk Down
The Sum of All Fears

The Lord of the Rings
The Stand
Lord of the Flies

But the thing is, The Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book. So here's my list:

The Catcher in the Rye
High Fidelity
The Frog King

1. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
2. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King (my favorite book from my favorite series)
3. Shogun - James Clavell

1)The Seventh Scroll-Wilbur Smith

2)Sphere-Michael Crichton

3)Jurassic Park-Michael Crichton

These would probably be totally different if you asked me tomorrow, but here we go....

1.) A Clash of Kings - George Martin
2.) Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
3.) It - Stephen King