[teapot]

OK, here's the deal. List up to 25 of your favorite reads, preferably without thinking too hard about it. Novels, histories, graphic novels, manga, automobile repair manuals... whatever makes you happy when you read or re-read it. No rules except one: it doesn't matter what it is, NO JUDGEMENTS about the contents of anyone's list.

The following are my guilty pleasures, ones I re-read on a recurrent basis just because I LIKE them.
1. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

2. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Betty Smith

3. Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell

4. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

5. Persuasion Jane Austen

6. A Girl of the Limberlost Gene Stratton Porter

7. The Talisman Stephen King

8. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

9. East of Eden John Steinbeck

10. Five Smooth Stones Ann Fairbairn

11. Lord of the Rings Tolkien

12. Kim Rudyard Kipling

13. Othello Shakespeare

14. Cyrano de Bergerac Edmund Rostand

15. The Sound and the Fury Faulkner

16. The Far Pavillions M.M. Kaye

17. The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy

18. The Awakening Land Conrad Richter

19. A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.

20. Jane Eyre Bronte

21. Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters

22. The Collected Works of Dorothy Parker

23. The Harry Potter novels Rowling

24. Any book by the late Kate Ross

25. Walter Mosley’s detective novels

OK...your turn!

[Matthew]

1 ) Hamlet
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[teapot]

I know I said no judgements, but there was a time when I felt exactly the same way about Hamlet. Good choice.

[Beagle On Stage]

I can't even come close to putting twenty-five together, but here are a few I have enjoyed.

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Carrie - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
New Catholic Picture Bible - Rev. Lawrence Lovasik

[Matthew]

[Gwen]

Alice In Wonderland
The Farsala Trilogy
Harry Potter Series
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Memoirs of a Geisha
Speak

I'll have to think up more later as it's 4 in the morning right now...

[wtfchuck]

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.

I never move without it near me.

[Felix Felicis]

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
The History Boys - Alan Bennett
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
The Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde
The Chrestomanci series - Diana Wynne Jones
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
Just William - Richmal Crompton
Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen - Garth Nix
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
The Bible - Authors various
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Belgariad - David Eddings
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Deep Secret - Diana Wynne Jones
Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
The Children's Stories of Roald Dahl
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Fairytales - Hans Christian Andersen and/or the Brothers Grimm

[curlyhairedsoprano91]

The first two are in true order, the rest are in not so much order.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
2. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
3. Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow)
4. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. Their Eyes were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
6. The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
7. A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
8. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
9. The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
10. Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
11. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
12. Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
13. Night (Elie Wiesel)
14. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
15. 1984 (George Orwell)
16. Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
17. Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
18. Nervous Conditions (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
19. Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
20. Inherit the Wind (Jerome Lawrence/Robert E. Lee)
21. The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
22. Peter and Wendy (J.M. Barrie)
23. Audition (Michael Shurtleff)
24. Short Stories of Mark Twain
25. Dreams from my Father (Barack Obama)

[fjays]

I'm a big fan of autobiographies!! Who's with me?

[nabla]

Can't list 25, but some that really stick with me

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
Looking for Alibrandi
The Importance of Being Earnest
Harry Potter series
Bombshells, amazing play we studied in school
The Book Theif
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
An Inspector Calls

[bare24601!]

The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox is my absolute favorite

some others:

Interview With the Vampire
Totally Joe
The Hobbit
The Vampire Lestat

[teapot]

[Beagle On Stage]

I have accepted the role of a very lusty, wanton, sexy young Hamlet next season, and yes, it's a lovely book. All it needs is a nice butt, so I will fulfill the material once and for all.

[Orestes Fasting]

1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (sue me for being predictable)
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
3. Consuelo by George Sand
4. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
5. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
7. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
8. The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
9. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
11. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
13. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
14. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb (sue me for being a flaming nerd)
15. Vive la Révolution by Mark Steel
16. The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
17. The Alanna series by Tamora Pierce
18. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
19. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
20. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
21. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
22. Georges by Alexandre Dumas
23. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
24. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
25. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Patch]

Good Omens-Terry Pratchit and Neil Gaiman
American Gods-Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere-Neil Gaiman
Soul Music-Terry Pratchit
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
Watchmen-Alan Moore
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Thursday Next Series-Jasper Fforde
The Odd Thomas Series-Dean Koontz
The Word/Void Series-Terry Brooks
Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination -Neal Gabler
Mankind:A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks-Mick Foley
Dracula-Brahm Stoker
Book of Lies-Brad Meltzer
Angels and Demons-Dan Brown
The Last Lecture-Radny Pausch
THe Dragon Lance Chronicles-Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman

[Micaela?]

My 25, in no praticular order:

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Betty Smith...My favorite book EVER. I've read it 14 times.
2. Joy in the Morning-Betty Smith
3. The Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger
4. To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
5. The House on Mango Street-Sandra Ciscneros
6. Hamlet-Shakespeare
7. Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare
8. Much Ado About Nothing-Shakespeare
9. How To Breathe Underwater-Julie Orringer
10. Mendicino-Ann Packard
11. Super America-Anne Panning
12. The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Virgin Suicides-Jeffrey Eugenides
14. Animal Farm-George Orwell
15. Speak-Laurie Halse Anderson
16. The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
17. Oh The Places You'll Go-Dr. Seuss
18. The Diary of Anne Frank-Anne Frank
19. The Giver-Lois Lowry
20. Dog Sees God-Burt V. Royal
21. The Distance From Here-Neil LaBute
22. Plainsong-Kent Haurf
23. The Natural-Bernard Malamund
24. The Westing Game-Ellen Raskin
25. Huck Finn-Mark Twain

[wtfchuck]

[fjays]

[What you own]

When I saw this thread I started singing. "These are a few of my favortie reads" To the tune of "These are a few of my favorite things." Lol. But Teapot I agree. My top two are the same. Only in a differnt order. 1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and 2. To Kill a Mockingbird.

I can't stop humming it. And replacing the words. Like whiskers on kittens and so on with book titles.

[Moci]

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
L’Étranger by Albert Camus
The Writer's Tale by Russell T. Davies
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Marcellus]

Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (absorbing most of Lyrics on Several Occasions)
Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter
Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart
LOTR (does not stand for Laughing on the Rug)
The Hobbit
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Bible
Godel, Escher and Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Hofstadler
Opening Nights on Broadway by Steven Suskin
Not Since Carrie
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
The Persian Letters by Montesquieu
Hammond Historical Atlas
The Powers of Ten by Kees Boch (sp?)
The M.A.S.H. Book
Railroad Avenue (train stories)
Shakespeare Anthology
Twisted Tales from Shakespeare by Richard Armour
American Lit Re-Lit by Richard Armour
It All Started with Columbus by Richard Armour
The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberley
The Centurion by Leonard Wibberley
Chronicles, Vol 1 by Bob Dylan
Cathedral by David Macauley

[Damask and Dark]

These aren't all the best books in the world necessarily, but they've all made me think. What comes to mind (listed in no particular order):

01. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I know, original, right? )
02. J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series and related books, including The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and others
03. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
04. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
05. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
06. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
07. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
08. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
09. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
10. Elizabeth George's "Inspector Lynley" mystery series
11. Ray Bradbury, especially short stories
12. The Bible
13. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
15. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
16."A Family Supper" by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Probably everything else written by Kazuo Ishiguro that I haven't yet read. He's quite possibly my favorite author. His prose is so elegant and understated, and for me, things are much more sorrowful and poignant expressed that way than through the use of only raw emotion. At any rate, his work is somewhat haunting, and I find myself thinking about it more than I do with a lot of other writing I've read.
18. Shakespeare, especially Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar. (and probably more, but those are the ones I'm most familiar with)
19. other interesting historical fiction, often in foreign locations (e.g. Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf)
20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
21. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
22. several short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Good books I've read recently:

23. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
24. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

25. I'm also a bit of a foreign language nerd, so I own a lot of grammar/dictionary/vocab materials, and I actually will read them for fun.

[jfmillet]

The Bible
Sondheim: A Life - Meryl Secrest
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Friendship, Theft and Musical Theatre - Mark Acito
Star Wars: Traitor - Matthew Stover
Mainly on Directing - Arthur Laurents
Roots - Alex Haley
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X with Alex Haley
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr - Edited by Clayborne Carson
Auditioning: An Actor Friendly Guide - Joanna Merlin
The actor's art & craft : William Esper teaches the Meisner Technique - William Esper
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part - Michael Shurtleff
The Intent to Live - Larry Moss
Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
Speed the Plow - David Mamet
Rabbit Hole - David Lindsay-Abaire
Our Musicals, Ourselves: a social history of the American musical theater - John Bush Jones
Sondheim and Lloyd Webber: The New Musical - Stephen Citron
The happiest corpse I've ever seen : the last twenty-five years of the Broadway musical - Ethan Mordden
Rogue Planet - Greg Bear
The Watchmen - Alan Moore
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators - Edited by Jackson R Bryer and Richard A Davison

[Yakko]

So far....

The Catcher in the Rye

Ethan Frome

The Bro Code

Hamlet

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde

The Odd Couple

Equus

A Street Car Named Desire

The Vampire Lestat

The Phantom of the Opera

[Micaela?]

[Ulkis]

Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Harry Potter series
Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle
Anne of Green Gables/Anne of the Island - L. M. Montgomery
The Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

Two history books I've really enjoyed reading are

Joan of Arc: herself and her witnesses by Regine Pernoud
Catherine de Medicis: Renaissance Queen of France

[wtfchuck]

Just finished "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

I am so in love with Wilde right now.

[jfmillet]

[Xxmcfly85xX]

No order:

1. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
2. Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch Albom)
3. Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling)
4. Jessica (Bryce Courtenay)
5. April Fools Day (Bryce Courtenay)
6. The Power of One (Bryca Courtenay)
7. Looking For Alibrandi (Melinda Marchetta)
8. Savng Francesca (Melina Marchetta)
9. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
10. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
11. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
13. Twilight Series (Stephanie Meyer)
14. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseni)
15. The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
16. Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
17. Tartuffe (Moliere)
18. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
19. Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
20. The Diary of Anne Frank (Anne Frank)

[emmy05]

[SmallTownIngenue]

Not 25, but still my favorite reads:

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Candide by Voltaire
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot (guilty pleasure)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Our Town by Thorton Wilder
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet by Shakespeare

[SianZena]

Not necessarily in this order;

1) The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
2) Girl 15, Charming but Insane series - Sue Limb
3) Hard Cash series - Kate Cann
4) Every Boy's Got One - Meg Cabot
5) Boy Meets Girl - Meg Cabot
6) Pumpkin Pie - Jean Ure
7) Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella
Diving In series - Kate Cann
9) Festival - David Belbin
10) Leader of the Pack - Kate Cann
11) Can You Keep A Secret? - Sophie Kinsella
12) Charm School - Anne Fine
13) Shopoholic series - Sophie Kinsella
14) Harry Potter series
15) Damage - Sue Mayfield
16) Reckless - Sue Mayfield
17) Blue - Sue Mayfield
1 Voices and Poisoned - Sue Mayfield
19) Darren Shan Vampire series - Darren Shan
20) Tracy Beaker series - Jacqueline Wilson
21) Girls in Love series - - Jacqueline Wilson
22) The Suitcase Kid - - Jacqueline Wilson
23) The Bed and Breakfast Star - Jacqueline Wilson
24) The Lottie Project - Jacqueline Wilson
25) The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
26) Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
27) Secrets - Jacqueline Wilson
2 Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson
29) Midnight - Jacqueline Wilson
30) The Diamond Girls - Jacqueline Wilson
31) Clean Break - Jacqueline Wilson
32) Love Lessons - Jacqueline Wilson
33) Candyfloss - Jacqueline Wilson
34) Kiss - Jacqueline Wilson

I couldn't limit myself to 25 once I got going haha!

[SomeoneLikeYou]