Your Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books

I read about 2 books a week but these are the ones i read over and over again.

Catcher in the rye - I know its very popular but have read it every year since grade 8 and I am 37 now.
Oblomov- Ivan Goncharev, i read this novel in 1st year university and it was great. if you can find it read it.
Native Son - Richard Wright. another one of those high school books that just stuck with me
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. it was the reason i got into russian lit.
death with interruptions - Jose saramago- great Portuguese writer. this is not his strongest book but has a very interested premise
main street - Sinclair Lewis
The Trial - Franz kafka - had so many twist and turns
the apology- Plato - I would love to think this is how i would act in a court house for my life but sadly i think i would just wimp out
A prayer for Owen Meany- John irving - just very uplifting in a way

there are so many books but these are some of my favorites.

1. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon -- nothing else comes close (except maybe V. and Mason & Dixon).
2. A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- this is basically my Bible; I read it every time I need inspiration, and if I don't see it on your bookshelf, chances are you'll receive a copy from me the next time I see you.
3. The Riverside Shakespeare -- for my money, the best annotated compilation out there of the Bard's complete works.
4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger -- say what you will, but if the carousel passage doesn't move you, I don't think you have a goddamn soul. (All of the Glass stories basically destroy me as well.)
5. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville -- basically the whole damn mess of the human condition (obsession, love, pain, madness) finds its way into this book, and it's got some pretty damn gory bits as well.
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley -- changed my life at age 16; this is the most important book I have ever read.
7. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy -- this book absolutely slayed me, and as soon as I finished reading the last page, I started over and immediately reread the book again.
8. Just Kids by Patti Smith -- I don't usually go in for memoirs, but this is perhaps the best book about NYC in the late-1960s/early-1970s; the very poetry of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe's life together in that time and place is both heartbreaking and uplifting.
9. Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- sometimes you just have to let out your inner asshole (and even draw a crude picture of it) in order to let your entire world know that it's fucking absurd; it's cathartic.
10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett -- this is the book that began my love affair with all other books, and it still has all of the magic and wonder, joy and sorrow, comfort and elation all these many years later.

The Bird Artist ~ Howard Norman The opening paragraph drew me in and I was hooked all the way through.
Of Mice and Men ~ John Steinbeck As sad as this book is, I loved Lenny and that's why it's one of my faves.
Death of a Salesman ~ Arthur Miller The salesman in this book reminded me a lot of my grandfather, that's why I loved it so much.
The Fat Girls Guide To Life ~ Wendy Shanker This book was hilarious and fun to read, and made me feel less self conscious about my weight...
Blue Like Jazz ~ Donald Miller This book helped me find my way back to my faith.
Bad as I Wanna Be ~ Dennis Rodman This book was funny and heartfelt and full of honesty that I did not expect.
Anne of Green Gables ~ L.M. Montgomery This book took me on such an adventure as a kid, I remember imagining myself as Anne.
Wicked ~ Gregory Maguire This book is full of magic and wonder and was so perfectly written, it was turned into a hit Broadway musical, I don't know what more I could say about it.
Catching Fire(2nd book of Hunger games series) ~ Suzanne Collins This was my favorite of the series, I devoured it in no time at all...it was so good.
Supernatural - John Winchester's Journal This book was so much fun to read while watching the series, and to follow along and learn more about John Winchester than you do just from the show. You can also go back and look things up in the journal when Sam and Dean do, and use it as a guide.

Wow, I thought that list would be a lot harder to compile than it was...lol I guess I do read more than I realize...

Oh Brian, there you go again, adding to my "To Read list"

Some of my favorites off the top of my head are:
The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
Lasher, Anne Rice
Taltos, Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Beyond Einstein, Michio Kaku
On Writing, Stephen King
Native Tongue, Carl Hiaasen
The number 10 slot is open still. I’m hoping to fill it soon!

The Great Brain - John D. Fitzgerald
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Complete Far Side - Gary Larson (hey, it's leather bound ...)
Tasteful Nudes: ...and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation - Dave Hill
An Army at Dawn / The Day of Battle / The Guns at Last Light (Liberation Trilogy) - Rick Atkinson

Yeah, 10 is tough.

In addition to my list above, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (edited by E.A. Burtt), and Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness have all had a hand in keeping me on this planet.

dankind said:

1. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon -- nothing else comes close (except maybe V. and Mason & Dixon).
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There's also a song called Gravity's Rainbow by the Klaxons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrctb2BzLg