<p>Enjoy the thread on favorite book you have read in the last 6 months, but have also enjoyed asking people about their all time favorites. I try to read some of these (usually older books) every now and then. My favorites, both from over 20 years ago, are</p>
<p>The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follet
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck</p>
<p>The entire Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold (which has won 4 Hugos for various components). Start with Young Miles, then go back to Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Then forward after Young Miles in chronological order. I am just rereading them all now after a few years away, and wish I could quit my job and stay home to read. Tragedy, comedy, coming of age, adventure, politics, science, romance… you name it, it is there. Don’t be put off by the covers (the cover art is kind of awful). All published by Baen Books.</p>
<p>intparent you beat me to it! I love, love, love the Miles books. Wonderful dialog, great adventure and underneath all the fun a lot to think about in terms of morals and ethics.</p>
<p>Other favorites:
Anne Tyler’s Celestial Navigation about a man who cannot be saved even by love.
Arthur Ransome’s Swallow and Amazon books. To me these are the perfect kid’s books. I re-read them still.
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I admit the last time I read them, they weren’t the best book in the world any more, but they are still awfully good.</p>
<p>Charlotte Bronte…Jane Eyre</p>
<p>Little Women- I have read it numerous times and it was one of the first hardbound books I bought for my daughter.</p>
<p>All of Jane Austen’s novels</p>
<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</p>
<h1>1 To Kill a Mockingbird</h1>
<p>I also have a few in Spanish that I also love and reread.</p>
<p>Gone With the Wind.</p>
<p>I love Margaret Mitchell’s sense of humor, and Scarlett is the ultimate anti-heroine.</p>
<p>Each time I re-read it (about once every five years) I glean something new.</p>
<p>And OP, I really enjoyed The Eye of the Needle.</p>
<p>These two are my top favorites:</p>
<p>“And Then There Were None” - a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, </p>
<p>“Kane and Abel” - a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer.</p>
<p>i remember reading kane and abel…agree it was excellent!</p>
<p>Trinity by Leon Uris (a little over-the-top, but I loved it)</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird</p>
<p>Gone With the Wind - I stayed up all night to finish it. I was a mess the next day.</p>
<p>Pillars of the Earth and it’s sequel World Without End by Ken Follett</p>
<p>The Outlander series </p>
<p>Read Gone with the Wind for the first time as a h.s. freshman and loved it. First saw the GWTW in the movie theater when I was six (my sis was sixteen so I got dragged along)</p>
<p>Middlemarch – George Eliot
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion–Austen
Handling Sin–Michael Malone
The Secret Garden–Frances Hodgson Burnett
Our Mutual Friend–Dickens
Grapes of Wrath–Steinbeck
Catch 22-- Heller
Moby Dick–Melville</p>
<p>And there are novelists I love from whom I can’t pick one book (Anne Tyler, Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Russo, Isabel Allende et al)</p>
<p>I know I’m forgetting some obvious ones.</p>
<p>I obviously suck at this!</p>
<p>Books that I can re-read over and over again:</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice by Jan Austen
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis</p>
<p>Packmom, I also read GWTW as a freshman…in a weekend, and LOVED it.
Also, “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry. The night I finished it, I cried for an hour :(</p>
<p>The Power of One</p>
<p>The Pearl by John Steinbeck</p>
<p>Books I’ve worn out:
Gone with the Wind
Pride & Prejudice
Lord of the Rings
The Count of Monte Cristo & Notre Dame de Paris (in French)</p>
<p>Others that are on my favorites list:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Jane Eyre
Germinal & The Plague (in French)</p>
<p>GWTW </p>
<p>…And Ladies of the Club</p>
<p>At Home in Mitford and the rest of the series. On Sept. 11th, I happened to be reading a Tom Clancy book, and it was so similar to what was happening IRL that I couldn’t go on with it. I read through the entire Mitford series that fall. Its sweetness and simplicity were a perfect antidote.</p>
<p>Emma</p>
<p>The Pickwick Papers</p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged. I loathe her philosophy, but what a terrific story. I just skip the speeches.</p>
<p>The Source</p>
<p>When I was a little girl… Pippi Longstocking was the book I read over and over until it fell apart. I even braided my hair to look like Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking :)</p>
<p>The abosute favorite book from my teen years - *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea *by Jules Verne.</p>
<p>“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garc</p>