What are your favorite books?

[Enviroman]

I tend to be a fantasy nerd, so I like books like Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series...

i started to read the Golden Compass but i got bored with it about 100 pages in.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. You need to keep reading it...the beginning is a bit slow. Once Lyra gets on her journey, the book picks up at a fantastic rate!

[BJJ is 1]

I like alot of true crimes genre books also 1984 was a book I realy liked.

Oh... I almost forgot the Harry Potter series

[gold dragon]

outlaws of the marsh is a awesome book. An old chinese novel worth reading.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Sheesh, I've certainly read a lot of books. It really would be hard to even narrow down some.

Instead, I'll just list a few in no particular order. I'll cheat and throw in some manga (Japanese comics...)

Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan

Men in Black (a book about the Supreme Court, not that silly movie) by Mark Levin

Azumanga Daioh

Tenshi na Konamaiki

Rurouni Kenshin

Ranma 1/2

Aishiteruze Baby

John Sells' Unante: The Secrets of Karate (what else did you expect from me?)

The Stand by Stephen King

The Sword of Shannara series by Terry Brooks

Dune series by Frank Herbert

The Death Gate Cycle by Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Robotech Novels by Jack McKinney (they were actually pretty good)

And loads more...I'm going to stop now because I realize I'm not narrowing it down at all...

[Skeptic 2004]

My favorite books so far:

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (Kodansha International)

Eiji Yoshikawa was a journalist, and he had a running story about Miyamoto Musashi in a Japanese publication for about 10 years. He consolidated and condensed the whole thing and created what I think by far is his masterpiece.

The Zentraedi Rebellion by Jack McKinney (Del Ray)

If you're familiar with McKinney's Robotech novels, this one by far was the best.

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard (Del Ray)

The first of two anthologies on Howard's Conan. This volume has Howard's Conan short stories in the order that he wrote them as opposed to the chronological order in Conan's universe.

Unante by John Sells (Hawley)

The most comprehensive and well researched book on karate...ever.

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The plot in four sentences:

Fight. Get drunk. Hook-up. Repeat.

Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines (Ballantine)

If you're looking for an inspirational TRUE story of a black man going from extreme poverty to glorious wealth in the deep South using nothing but his ingenuity and wit (decades before Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement), this is mandatory reading.

[Enviroman]

Sheesh, I've certainly read a lot of books. It really would be hard to even narrow down some.

Instead, I'll just list a few in no particular order. I'll cheat and throw in some manga (Japanese comics...)

Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan

Men in Black (a book about the Supreme Court, not that silly movie) by Mark Levin

Azumanga Daioh

Tenshi na Konamaiki

Rurouni Kenshin

Ranma 1/2

Aishiteruze Baby

John Sells' Unante: The Secrets of Karate (what else did you expect from me?)

The Stand by Stephen King

The Sword of Shannara series by Terry Brooks

Dune series by Frank Herbert

The Death Gate Cycle by Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Robotech Novels by Jack McKinney (they were actually pretty good)

And loads more...I'm going to stop now because I realize I'm not narrowing it down at all...

excellent list

[fallen_milkman]

Ah! If we stray into the realm of comics, I must add Lone Wolf and Cub, Samurai Executioner, and The Walking Dead to my list!

[Nick_sam]

i really enjoyed phillip pullmans's his dark materials. absolutely fantastic!

im partial to fantasy myself (although not really into the whole wizards, dragons, goblins, etc). i quite enjoyed david gemmell's books at one point, but Roald Dahl's more mature books are stunningly good!

check out Kiss Kiss and My Uncle Oswald by roald dahl. satire and dark humour to the extreme! great stuff

[battousai16]

i'm a big kurt vonnegut geek, i could read his stuff forever. george orwell and ha jin are other personal favorites. if we're going into comics too, i like GTO and Sin City.

[Enviroman]

To add another book: I'm presently reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman (the comic author of Sandman). It's fantastic so far...excellent read, highly recommended.