What's your favourite book

[hppd]

So yeah what is your favourite book?

[Phage]

Damn, very good question. I have a lot of books I enjoy and have read multiple times. If I had to divide them up:


nonfiction:
- Books about special forces.
- Biographies (Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs etc.).


Fiction:
- Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter.
- Brown, Dan - The whole series about Robert Langdon.


And I have a few books I'm in the middle of reading now, I can't really comment on them before I'm done. These books includes programming and security related topics. But why don't you tell us about your favorite books?

[Matriplex]

I'll do as Phage did

nonFiction:

• Books on WW2 and Holocaust. I dunno they just interest me.

fiction:

• HP series
• LOTR and Hobbit
• Hatchet

[Heisenburg]

   wow, it is hard to choice, since I have so much book I loved.


Mostly fiction type:

• Smiley Trilogy
• Hercule Poirot series
  

Ps. I don't like sherlock holmes series, for no reason.

[bluechill]

Ender's Game

[Uriah]

The Count of Monte Cristo/Pillars of the Earth

[rasenove]

Out of the hundreds,

1 . Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
2. Shongita
3. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop
4. A Brief History of Time
5. The art of perspective
6. Picture this: how pictures work
7. Imaginative realism
8. A Walk to Remember
9. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
10. Sherlock Holmes

[Stackprotector]

Ehh

- Nineteen eighty-four
- Looking for alaska
- The catcher in the rye
- The perks of being a wallflower
- Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy books
- To kill a mockingbird.

[Ch1m4zz]

Enders game for me

[Darkvision]

havent read enders game yet, its on my list of to do's....


anyway..
Nonfiction:
biographys of very smart people ie asimov and feynman
books on science. cuz its science bitches
books on puters.


fiction:
would probably just be easier to go by author instead of by book...ive read most/all of by these authors..repeatedly
Issac Asimov(foundation series w007)
Robert Ludlum(good for spy thrillers)
Arthur C Clark(like ludlum more)
Robert A Heinlen(stranger from a strange land or starship troopers probably being my favs)
Shibumi(by Treveniam - spy thriller, possibly best ever written)
Roger Zelazny(seriously this guy mixes sci-fi/fantasy like no other, read his shit! 9 princes in amber, lord of light, creatures of light and darkness all being amazing reads, though all of his other books are good too)
Elizabeth moon-got started on her in middle school with "the deed of paksenarrion" which is a great trilogy, ive since read everything else she does, which is mainly sci-fi, that trilogy being the only "fantasy" set. writes strong female characters, read everything she has written at least 5 times, love her.
Joel Sheppard-only read his cassandra kresnov novels so far, but have re-read them a number of times, really enjoy them.
Neil Stephenson-Cryptonomicon, just a really really amazing book. this guy did TONS of research for this book, and it shows. best "tech" related book out their period(for a fiction book i mean). His other books are damn good too and very well researched
Piers Anthony- a pure fantasy writer, still writes some great stuff that i really enjoy.


i guess thats a start for my favorites...lol

[theellimist]

Some great books/series:

Nonfiction: (you might like these two Phage)
-Lone Survivor (inspired me to get on the career path I am on now)
-American Sniper (Chris Kyle unfortunately was shot on a gun range by a mentally unstable guy a while back, very tragic)

Fiction:
-The Transall Saga
-The Lord of the Rings
-A Song of Ice and Fire novels (Game of Thrones if you watch the show)
-The Conqueror's Trilogy
-The Lost Fleet Series (fucking awesome portrayal of space warfare)

[pl0tuS]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Dialogues of Plato

[lucid]

No particular order

- Prey by Michael Crichton (R.I.P)
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Into the Wild by I forgot
- Any Orwellian fiction like 1984 and Farenheit 451
- Endgame Series by Derrick Jensen
- Deep Green Resistance (hate the title) by Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith
- Oh also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

EDIT: Actually anything by Michael Crichton is awesome.

[Nerotic7]

My top 3..




1. The Toothpaste Millionaire
- This book is about a kid and a girl who decide to make toothpaste, and eventually make millions. I can't explain why I love this book, but I do.
2. Ready Player One
- This book is about a future world where earth has nearly declined to ruin, and the population plays in a simulator called OASIS to escape the troubles of real life. The creator of the game dies, and in his will he says everything he owns is to be decided in a contest. The contest takes place in the game, and the contestants have to find a key somewhere in the millions of simulated worlds off one hint that he gave before he died.  After a period of 5 years, the main character in the story(forgot name ;p) finally finds the first key(he was first person to find it) and it just gets really crazy from there in the hunt to find the next two keys. Truthfully, this book is amazing, and I feel like you all should read it.
3. Towers of The Sunset
- Can't really explain this one. You'd have to read it.

[hppd]

My favourite non Fiction book was How to quit smoking by Allen Car. I just lately started going to the library again, when I was little I really used to enjoy reading then I stopped for a while now I'm back. I really enjoyed the Artemis Fowl series and HP series too. Some books I liked reading too recently were The Postman and Brave New World. I just went to the library to pick up the first book of Hitchikers guide to the universe thanks to this thread.