<p>My favorites are: Lonesome Dove, East of Eden and To Kill a Mocking Bird. How about you?</p>
<p>Winds of War and War and Rememberance.</p>
<p>The Moonstone by Wilke Collins
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle</p>
<p>Only three???</p>
<p>The Power of One by Bryce Courteney
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Year in Provence!</p>
<p>Count of Monte Cristo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pillars of the Earth</p>
<p>Can some of you add why you liked it? Im looking for some good summer reads after school is over. Thanks!</p>
<p>1.Memory, Lois McMasters Bujold (but it’s part of a series , which in my opinion should probably be read as one huge bildungsroman so don’t start with this one- it’s also sci fi if that’s a turn-on or turn-off)</p>
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<li><p>Celestial Navigation - Anne Tyler you wouldn’t think a story about a shy reclusive bachelor would haunt you, but this one does. </p></li>
<li><p>Atonement - Ian McEwan - I love the writing style and the story within the story and how it relates to the title. I don’t read a lot of literary fiction (I’m a sci fi/fantasy fan for the most part), but when I put this book down my first thought was - this is the best book I have read in the last ten years.</p></li>
<li><p>Lord of the Rings - It’s not really the best novel in the world, or even the fourth best, but I’ve read it so many times it’s like comfort food to me.</p></li>
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<p>I don’t really have fixed favorites, well maybe the first one below, but since you are looking for reading…</p>
<p>The Secret History - Donna Tartt (takes place at a College)
Pride and Prejudice - if you haven’t read Jane Austin a must
The Beach - Alex Garland - much better than the movie</p>
<p>I decided to replace my last one (The Corrections) with something that skews younger.</p>
<p>All these are well written but fun books.</p>
<p>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Up a Road Slowly
To Kill a Mockingbird</p>
<p>I realized after I made this list that all 3 are “coming of age” books in one form or another. All 3 are easy to read and I read them first when I was quite young. My favorite is probably Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (also wrote Across Five Aprils).</p>
<p>The History of Love
The Book Thief
Pride and Prejudice</p>
<p>The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder
Middlemarch - George Eliot
King Rat - James Clavell</p>
<p>I hate to leave out Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, but in a way I didn’t.</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - for all the obvious reasons and I see a trend from others, but I have read this a dozen times and could read it again. Can’t believe she didn’t write another book. It’s not just the story, it’s her style.</p>
<p>Evergreen by Belva Plain. Also have read it a dozen times and find something new every time. She has written many books, but this one is by far the best. Again, not just the story which is wonderful, but her style.</p>
<p>As for the third one, I’m still debating. Will get back to you.</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - because the story is so absorbing and it’s so comforting, in a messed-up world, to know that there are always some people who will do the right thing, no matter what.
Airport-Arthur Hailey- This is the first “grown-up” book I ever read and the storylines and adult problems absolutely fascinated me.
Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie - Although technically non-fiction, it reads like a novel and the author has such empathy with the Romanov family and their particular problem that you become empathatic, too.</p>
<p>Middlemarch, George Eliot.
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garc</p>
<p>Many favorites listed above, adding Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner.</p>
<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude-imaginative and thought-provoking with whimsy.
Mists of Avalon-probably not the best novel, but I read it annually. It is like an old friend.
Handmaid’s Tale-frightening dypstopian future that highlights the danger of a religious government</p>
<p>A Room With a View, Moby Dick, Great Gatsby</p>
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<li>Persuasion - Jane Austen. Even better than Pride and Prejudice. :)</li>
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<p>To Kill A Mockingbird - hands down favorite of all time, always and forever for reasons others have posted.</p>
<p>Phantom Tollbooth - so many layers of wordplays to be enjoyed at so many different points in educational life (read it in 4th grad and understand x, read it in 8th grade and understand y…)</p>
<p>3rd is a hard decision, but I think it has to go to The Bookthief. I would read and reread passages because the words just felt so poetic. Both kids enjoyed it, so it is something we all shared.</p>
<p>To Kill A Mockingbird
Little Women
P&P</p>