favorite books? (non-ED)

[jrose]

Hi :bowl--
I was just wondering what other :fishy favorite books are (besides ED books--personally, I used to read them all the time, but found them extremely triggering).

Some of mine are:
To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
Breaking Clean--Judy Blunt
Flags of Our Fathers--James Bradley
Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter--Carson McCullers
The Exorcist--William Peter Blatty
Get Happy (Judy Garland bio)--Gerald Clarke
Something Wicked This Way Comes--Ray Bradbury
Staggerford--Jon Hassler
Gone With the Wind--Margaret Mitchell
All Over But the Shoutin'--Rick Bragg

:love ya!

[Juliana]

Hello :hugon jrose :hugoff !!!
I love Jane Eyre too!
and I also love Harry Potter Books
I Never Promised you a Rose Garden
Ordinary People...(can't remember)
It Hapenned to Nancy (Annonymus)
Killing me Softly (Nicci French)

emmm, I can't remember but I have other fav books too...

:stars Jules

[Anonymous_Member002]

I love the Dave Peltzer books, anything by Shakespeare :sarcasm, Mary Gentle or Neil Gaiman. Some of my other favorite books are:

Sophies World - can't remember authors name.

First Person Plural - Cameron West PhD

The Art of Zen & Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig

Wild Swans - Jung Chang

The Rapture of Caanan - Sheri Reynolds

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Walden Two - BF Skinner

The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

The Venetians Wife - Nick Bantok


There are like a million others... but these will do for now :sarcasm

[floral]

Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books!!! Also,
:stars Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
:stars She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb
:stars Rebecca- Daphne DuMaurier

[Mully]

I :love She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb! I also like anything by John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell. Lately I've also been reading a lot of Margaret Atwood (she's a :canada author) as well as Shakespeare.

[Isabel_Knight]

:stars To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
:stars The Outside Child (Nina Bawden)
:stars Polo (Jilly Cooper)
:stars How To Survive Christmas (Jilly Cooper)
:stars Notes From A Big Country (Bill Bryson)
:stars Life And How To Survive It (John Cleese and Robin Skynner)
:stars Siblings Without Rivalry
:stars The Illustrated Mum (Jacqueline Wilson)
:stars The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
:stars The Millstone (Edna O'Brien)
:stars The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)
:stars Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
:stars A Brief History Of Tomorrow (Jonathan Margois)
:stars Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger)
:stars Are You There God, It's Me Margaret? (Judy Blume)
:stars Dear Shrink (Helen Cresswell)
:stars Somebody Else's Baby)
:stars Jenny and the Syndicate (Harriet Martyn)
:stars The Nanny Diaries
:stars Ramona The Pest (Beverly Cleary)
:stars Just William (Richmal Crompton)

Isabel :pinkfishy

[JenRebekah]

I love Stephen King (favorite is Insomnia) and Dean Koontz (favorite is False Memory) . . . some other favorites are :

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
White Oleander by Jane Fitch
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsovler
:slimy

[Juliana]

Oh, :hugon Floral :hugoff I also LOVED Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha, although I read it in spanish.
I remembered a few more books...
there's Robert Ludlum's The Icarus Agenda....I just think that book is soooooo cool!!!!

And, there's Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee
I gotta read She's Come Undone!!! It seems to be very popular around here...hehe!

Oh, and anything from Shapkespear, specially Hamlet!! I LOVE to play the characters all by myself with and English accent and all!! hahahaha...a whole play by myself!

I also LOVED The Poisonwood Bible...very dramatick and VERY well written...incredeably unique style....just an amazing book!

:stars Jules

[snoopynose]

:yay Great post!!!!

Let's see...favorite books. OK, here they are:

:gumby The Heart is a Lonley Hunter, by Carson McCullers

:gumby Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll :grin

:gumby ALL AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS!!!!

:gumby Great Expectations, by Charles Dickins

:gumby Hocus Pocus, by Kurt Vonnegut

:bounce I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of all of them! :bounce

:love Rena

[Seabiscuit]

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Animal Inn
Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther
Like Water Like Chocolate
Dave Peltzer books
Chicken Soup Books
Little Women

[adenab]

I don't even know where to begin, there are too many. I've had my nose buried in a book my whole life, and my favourites are always changing. Though, here are a few, which have always been favourites (You must read them if you haven't already..):

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Colour of Water by James McBride
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

[tornado]

Favorite Books...

:stars I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

:stars Insomnia by Stephen King

:stars The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

:stars Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright

:stars Go Ask Alice ~anonymous~

:stars The Stand by Stephen King

:love,
Jenni

[ARTgrrlOne]

:hugon :fishy 's :hugoff

way :cool post! I :love reading and I've been doing a ton of it lately (as an alternative to behaviors). I'm plowing through books!!!!

Some of my fav's include:
:bug White Oleander (can't wait for the movie this fall!!)
:bug Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
:bug Pat Conroy books...Beach Music (gotta try and find that, I remember :love ing it)
:bug At Risk by Alice Hoffman
:bug Books by John Saul (horror)...
:bug Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
:bug Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
:bug Ordinary People

I know I have a ton more, but this is all i can think of off the top of my head!!! :grin

Who's next???
:love
Ally :sun

[cottagegirl]

i love love love books!!! My hat is off to the woman who started this post!

all-time favourites (includes plays too--wheee)

Fall On Your Knees (Ann Marie McDonald-- brilliant Canadian author, also wrote
the play 'Goodnight Desdemona,
Goodmorning Juliet'...)-- I want to
name my daughters after the women
in this book.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ( Tom Robbins)

Drylips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing (Tomson
Highway)

Oleanna (David Mamet)

The Diviners (Margaret Lawrence)


Crackwalker (Judith Thompson)---I am
obsessed with the characters in
this play. Completely.

The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx sp?) --
read the BOOK, never mind
the movie. Actually, do see
the movie, then when you
read the book, you'll see
how wonderfully more
brilliant it is! (on its own,
and comparatively)

and I gotta go with To Kill A Mockingbird as well....

I love thinking about this!!

oc
cottagegirl
:canada

[Kornie]

hmmm... let's see.

some of my favorites...

The Catcher in the Rye I love for some reason.
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Go Ask Alice - anonymous [love this book... seriously a lot]
Rebecca - by... someone... Daphne something [french name]
Smack - Melvin Burgess
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume

anything by agatha christie i love.

books are marvelous. :supergrin

:love

[fairy]

I love this post too :bounce - gonna have to write down some of these books you've recommended and go back to the bookstore again tomorrow (been there both today and yesterday already, it's becoming a compulsion :sarcasm)

Sure I'll miss out some I love but here's one's that instantly spring to mind....

:peep The Secret History - Donna Tartt
:peep White Oleander - Janet Fitch
:peep The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
:peep The Art Of Happiness - Dalai Lama
:peep Still Waters - Jennifer Lauck
:peep The Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood - ??
:peep The Impossibility Of Sex - Susie Orbach
:peep A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapers - Julian Barnes
:peep The Journals Of Sylvia Plath
:peep The Bell Jar - Sylva Plath
:peep Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
:peep Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
:peep More, Now, Again - Elizabeth Wurtzel
:peep Touched With Fire - Kay Redfield
:peep Welcome To My Country - Lauren Slater
:peep Mouthing The Words - Camilla Gibb
:peep Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
:peep Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
:peep Group - Paul Solotaroff
:peep She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
:peep Harry Potter (all four) - J.K Rowling
:peep Are You There God, It's Me Margaret - Judy Blume
:peep Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

[meaghan]

ooh! I share a lot of fav books with other :fishy s, such as:

:bug Go Ask Alice - (anonymous)
:bug Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
:bug Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
:bug all four Harry Potter books!!!!!
:bug Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
:bug Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

plus these as well...

:bug The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
:bug Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
:bug Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
:bug The Stranger - Albert Camus (well, I read it in French, and it was just so beautifully written....I have this thing for novels written like poetry)
:bug The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
:bug The Book of Daniel - ??? (I totally forget the author)
:bug One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marques
:bug In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
:bug Peace Breaks Out - John Knowles
:bug The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
:bug anything by Roald Dahl, I :love that guy!!!

man, I am such a dork....I :love to read....My list could go on forever....

ooh, side note! I was in Hopkins for a long time, so I know Kay Redfield, the author of Touched With Fire....She's way cool

[cottagegirl]

I have agreed with lots of books you all have posted too (Miss Atwood's 'Cat's Eye' !!)

But i must throw some support to ROBERT MUNSCH books!!! Just in case he's only known here in Canada, i thought i'd underline how wicked his books are!!!

For all of you who this name is new to, they are the greatest kids books of all time, in my humble opinion!!! Go find some to read, give them to kids you know who deserve great books ( and don't all the kids we know?).

loves and hugs
cottagegirl

[Seabiscuit]

The Horse Whisperer
Lucky Man
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

[rowgirl]

I like Jeffrey Deaver books, and anything about the Civil war.

[Rayneonthemoon]

My favorite book is "Rachel's Holiday" by Marian Keyes. Ever read it? It's a great book. I am also looking forward to reading "White Oleander" and "The Lovely Bones"
Anyone read either of these two books and have any comments on them?

[Seabiscuit]

:stars Ten Things I Learned From Bill Porter, Shelly Brady

[pooh bear fan]

SARK books :yay

[Cressie]

Groovy post folks...
This is a hard one though
Here goes nothing

King Lear - Shakespeare
Troilus and Criseyde - Chaucer
Ulysses - James Joyce
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Harmonium - Wallace Stevens
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Froer

[Seabiscuit]

Harry Potter books by J.D. Rowling
A Marriage Made In Heaven or Too Tired For An Affair by Erma Bombeck

[gpatkd]

my three favorite books of all time (in no particular order):

A Prayer for Owen Meany --> John Irving
Siddartha --> Herman Hesse
The Power of One --> Bruce C...

some other good books

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series
--> Douglas Adams

invisible man --> ralph ellison

gpatkd

[Entropy]

Good post!!

favourite books:

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garica Marquez

The Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (but it is so long!! she really could have written it in half the number of words)

Right now I am reading something from V.S. Naipaul. Very good as well.

[Sydnee]

The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton
Sophie's World - Jostien Gaarder
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong (bio)
Lionheart - Jesse Martin (bio)
American Psycho - Brett Easton Hills
The Runner - Christopher Reich
The Simpsons & Philosophy
Alone By Myself -Melanie Woss
Chocolat

All books by:
Jostien Gaarder
Alain de Botton - on philosophy
Bruce Chatwin
Peter Moore travel writer.
Harriet Lerner PhD on relationships
Dave Pelzer
JK Rowling
Nick Hornby
Photographer Dean Freeman
and... Shakespeare ain't bad! ;)

[sunray]

A Boy called IT ... Dave Peltzer
Bridge Across My Sorrows ...
The Dark Room ... Minette Walters
Girl, Interrupted ... Suzanna Kaysen

loads more, but i dont wanna sit and write them all out!!

[ediblewoman]

Hmm...

Without a doubt, my favorite is The Bell by Iris Murdoch. And anything my Margaret Atwood, but her best book of poetry is Morning in the Burned House. I also love Adrienne Rich. And Shakespeare (whoever he REALLY was), of course. I have an English degree, but I have to admit that I HATE Charles Dickens. But I love E.M. Forster. Oh and Michael Cunningham--Flesh and Blood is amazing. I can't remember the last time I cried so hard over a book. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen was pretty great, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers, I think, was way funny. I won't go on, but I could! All night! Great thread!

[kb]

Ediblewoman,

I think we have similar taste in books! I absolutely adored "The Corrections". I've read a bit of Murdoch.
Other favorites:
"Quijote" by Cervantes
"Madame Bovary" - Flaubert
"The Good Soldier" - Ford Maddox Ford
The "Rabbit" Series by Updike
"The Remains of the Day" by Ishiguro
Almost anything by Borges and Garcia Marquez
"The Debt to Pleasure" by John Lancaster
"Possession" by AS Byatt

Favorite books I read this past year:
"The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay" - Michael Chabon
"Atonement" - Ian McEwan (sp?) - Such an amazing book!
"Sophie's Choice" - William Styron
"Bel Canto" - Anne Patchett
"Charming Billy" - Mary McDermott

Just to name a few...

[Mimi]

Oooh, I :love to read!

Some favorites~
:bullet The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
:bullet Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
:bullet Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
:bullet The Red Tent by Anita Shreve
:bullet Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
:bullet The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan