Ok, I realize this is hard (that's why I allowed 3):

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl

to name a few...

Even with 3, it's still tough, but...
 

1. The Stand - Stephen King. I must have read the original 3 times and The Director's Cut probably 4-5 times. I would probably read it more, but it's sooo long.

2. It - Stephen King. Another great one.

3. (Tie) The Alienist - Caleb Carr
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card(?)

Boy, I could go on and on and on. There are so many books I could go too, but those 4 are definately at the top of the list.

-Steve

What?! No Bible? ;)

A couple of all time favorites of mine,

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Dune Series


I have way to many favorites in a lot of different genres. It's really to hard to name just 3.

I'm gonna have to go with series of books on this one. Sorry, but I can't pick any one book :)

The Shannara Series Terry Brooks
The Incarnations of Immortality Series Piers Anthony
and
The Ender Series(Including the new ones) Orson Scott Card

-CM-

Any particular group? I find I liked the Heritage series better than the first ones. That may be because it's been a long, long, time since I read the first group of books though.

Holy cow I was just about to mention some of those books. Great selection. I will try to pick three of my other favorites

1984 - My alltime favorite book
Murder on the Orient Express - Favorite Mystery book
Misery - Favorite Horror book

Also have to give an honorable mention to the Bible my favorite science fiction book.

( I am just kidding guys. :D )

Catch-22
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Chronicles of Narnia (the books that made the pagan I am today)

Watership Down would be next on that list.

1. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins

2. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis

3. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

Honorable mention to The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood), Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera).

1)Moby Dick
2)Oliver Twist
3)It

1 Nine Stories--J.D. Salinger
2 In The Beauty of The Lilies--John Updike
3 Underworld---Don Delillo

LOCOS: A Comedy of Gestures, by Felipe Alfau
Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with The Sea, by Yukio Mishima

but I couldnt forgive myself if I didnt mention Sailor's Holiday, Moby Dick, Good Omens, The Elephant Vanishes and Other Stories, and Naked Lunch.

[Edited by coffin_booth on 04-26-01 at 10:55 AM]

1) The entire Travis Mcgee series by John D. MacDonald
2) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by HST
3) The Adventurers Guide by Jack Wheeler

The Count of Monte Cristo
Watership Down
The Catcher in the Rye

Wow! Some people have good taste here. Here's my list:

1) 1984 - my all-time favorite too

2) Count of Monte Cristo - excellent

3) Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caufield is my hero

I added a lot of the others mentioned to my reading list. Thanks guys!

Honorable Mention = The Princess Bride

-Matt

1.) <b>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</b>
All time favorite.

2.) <b>Brave New World</b>
Pure genius.

3.) <b>The Great Gatsby</b>
Work of art.

Honorable Mention:
<b>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</b>
Great.

The last three I read in high school. I like them much more now, odd ;)

[Edited by conscience on 04-26-01 at 05:18 PM]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Killer Angels
The Great Gatsby
(no order, but probably my favorites)

Crime and Punishment
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Dune

Andromeda Strain
Red Dragon
Sphere

1. breakfast of champions - kurt vonnegut
2. the world according to garp - john irving
3. catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger

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Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy

LOTR - Tolkein

Jurassic Park - M. Crichton

I find it hard to choose a particular part of this series. I realize that it is actually a trilogy followed by a series of 4, and then there is the single First King Of Shannara and now The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series has started with Isle Witch. So far I actually am liking the new series best, even though there is only the 1st book. I hate waiting for new books. The new book in the series Antrax is due out on Sept. 1st, so it is only 5 more months of waiting.

-CM-

Most of you are listing fiction novels. I'm taking a different tack and picking three collections of short stories.

Burning Chrome by William Gibson
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny
The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author by Ernest Hemingway

I can't believe I had to leave D.H. Lawrence off this list, among others...

The Brothers Karamazov
Atlas Shrugged
Lolita
Sometimes a Great Notion
The French Lieutenant's Woman

Had to do at least these. Many more... I haven't even gotten to the best sci-fi, horror and thrillers.