What's your favorite book or books?

I also enjoy murder mysteries. But my favorite book is "To Kill a Mockingbird." It's a terrific story, and so well told.

I also like Truman Capote, Dash Hammitt, Sherlock Holmes, those horrible Shadow 'novels' from the old Pulps, Charles Dickens, and I've really been enjoying the 'Connor Grey' series and the new 'Gabriel Hunt' series.

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In my teens it was CS Lewis (Narnia before it was popular and made into movies) and Tolkein (cuz really, what American teenager isn't totally convinced he was a creative genius even if he did just retell Bavarian Fairy Tales)
In my 20s it was Terry Pratchet (Colour of Magic etc)
In my 30s it was WEB Griffin (The Lieutenants, The Corps, Badge of Honor)
In my 40s it appears to be Ben Bova (pretty much everything) and a lot of non fiction history/current affairs (WTF? did I just say that? but it's true)
But I have always been diverse in my reading. I developed a special fondness for Poe that has stayed with me ever since a family friend gave me a volume of his complete works when I was about 14, and there is nothing like the occasional total brain candy read like Eric Flynt or Raymond Feist as well as the whole Xanth series by Piers Anthony (also the Adept Series and the Incarnations of Immortality series).

As kids we fried ants with magnifying glasses. Now that we are adults we fry characters in far more interesting ways with plot twists

I couldn't tell you what my favorite books are. I can never decide! I can say what I'm reading now, though. I've started reading David Weber's Honerverse series: I'm on the second one, Honer of the Queen. I'm also sporadically reading The Favorite Uncle Remus. Non-fiction-wise, I just finished the Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Genre-wise, I like sci fi and fantasy, and some mystery and adventure.

I'm a big fan of Cozy Mysteries, you know ... the kind where there's not a lot of blood and gore. I've finished the entire 33 book "Cat Who" series by Lilian Jackson Braun and was depressed after I read the last one because there were no more.
I never did think I liked SyFi, but The Harry Potter Series was pure genius. I was sorry to reach the end of those, too.
Because I'm such a lover of the cozy mystery, that's my chosen genre.

Hmm, I'll have to try those two series you mentioned. I'm also enjoying the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire mysteries by Charlaine Harris.

Daish

I agree I was very unhappy when I read the last one. Hopefully she continues it someday. She's kind of left us hanging. I don't know if you've read anything by Fluke. She writes a series of mysteries that involve a woman who owns a cookie shop and tries to solve crimes on the side. It also includes recipes. If you haven't read it you should.Joanna

Daish

Favourite series: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, best books EVER!
Favourite book not in a series: Phantom by Susan Kay, amazing book, I die a little inside every time I read it.

GET THE EFF OFF THE FORUMS AND WRITE!
Novel inspired mostly Cassidy Haley and partly by P!ATD? This is gonna be scary.
Anybody else have nightmares about that little blinking cursor thing on your screen?

If you can ignore the Mary Sue of a main character, the Symphony Through the Ages books by Elizabeth Haydon are fantastic. :>

Snuzzie

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