Favorite books of all time?

[Anonymous]

Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

[Anonymous]

Two classics that still blew me away with how good they were: Moby Dick and Frankenstein

[Anonymous]

The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien.

[Anonymous]

The House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites! The obvious suggestion here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and also possibly Haruki Murakami. I would also recommend:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor (this is YA/fantasy)
Shogun by James Clavell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites! The obvious suggestion here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and also possibly Haruki Murakami. I would also recommend:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor (this is YA/fantasy)
Shogun by James Clavell

Op here - thanks! I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Most people love One Hundred Years of Solitude but I loved Love in the Time of Cholera.

[Anonymous]

Some of my most favorites (it's hard to pick)

1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
2. Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn (childhood favorite since I was 10)
3. This Tender Land By William Kent Krueger
4. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
5. The Giver by Louis Lowry
6. Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
7. I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
8. Hunger Games Trilogy (don't judge!)
9. The Fourth Monkey Trilogy by J.D. Barker
10. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites! The obvious suggestion here is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and also possibly Haruki Murakami. I would also recommend:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor (this is YA/fantasy)
Shogun by James Clavell

Op here - thanks! I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Most people love One Hundred Years of Solitude but I loved Love in the Time of Cholera.

I loved both, but One Hundred Years of Solitude took me three tries to read because I found the beginning slow (Shogun also has this issue FWIW). I had a long layover in Honolulu once and finally cracked the first 100 pages.

[Anonymous]

House of the Spirits is also one of my favorites, OP. I'll add:

1) Persuasion, Jane Austen
2) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

[Anonymous]

The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
The Brothers K - David James Duncan
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I actually love everything by Kingsolver EXCEPT Poisonwood Bible, but that is her most popular novel.

Also love A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I actually love everything by Kingsolver EXCEPT Poisonwood Bible, but that is her most popular novel.

Also love A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(?)

Op here - interesting about Barbara Kingsolver. Poisonwood Bible took me a while to get into but then I absolutely loved it. I also loved Animal Dreams by her.

[Anonymous]

Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Light in August, William Faulkner

[Anonymous]

Here’s to you, Jesusa
A Passage to India
Into Thin Air
The Sleepwalkers
Dune
Hyperion

[Anonymous]

Pp: and Anne of GG and Avonlea and all of the rest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Need some ideas of good books! Here is my list:

1) House of Spirits - Isabella Allende
2) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Housseini
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - also by Housseini
4) In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
5) Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Yes to A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I actually love everything by Kingsolver EXCEPT Poisonwood Bible, but that is her most popular novel.

Also love A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(?)

Op here - interesting about Barbara Kingsolver. Poisonwood Bible took me a while to get into but then I absolutely loved it. I also loved Animal Dreams by her.

DP: I did not like Poisonwood Bible at all, but Prodigal Summer is one of my favorite books.