Favourite books?

Fiction:
Anything related to Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Non-Fiction:
I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara

Fiction:
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

Non-Fiction:
Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock

Fiction:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Non-Fiction:
Dictionary

Fiction:
Anything related to Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Non-Fiction:
Nothing

my best book of fiction is dune and non fiction is silent spring

The Three Musketeers --by Alexandre Dumas

fiction: The Kite Runner, Angels and Demons, The Alchemist

non fiction: The Diary of Anne Frank, Psychology in Your Life, The Secret

It is enourmously hard but:

Fiction:
Ask the Dusk - John Fante

Nonfiction:
Seneca - The Letters from Stoic

Fiction:
Witcher - Andjei Sapkovski

Non-Fiction:
The bell jar - Sylvia Platt

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is one of my favorites.

It's so true about the treasure and how dreams can be achieved.

I'm old enough, but my favorite book is Harry Potter. I read all the books and watched all the films. For me, it remains the most favorite book.

All time favorite is Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.


So far this year, The Great Alone was a favorite. I read 6+ books a week so a book has to be pretty good to be a favorite. For a series, the latest by Dean Koontz is fun -( lots of blood, mayhem and imagination) - the last book of the series is waiting for me on my Kindle. I'm waiting for a couple slow days to get into that one. His Odd Thomas series often made me laugh out loud - first 2-3 in that series were the best.



Prefer fiction - seldom read non-fiction. I get enough non-fiction in real life.

catch 22 by joseph heller and
complete beatles chronicles by mark lewisohn

I'm a huge Jack Reacher fan - so guess I better try the Mitch Rapp series...thanks for that one.


Also agree about the prey novels - sometimes the forumula is good enough to keep reading...


Forgot about Bryson - loved both "Walk in the Woods' and "In a Sunburned Country" plus some of his other work. I don't think there was any way to make a movie of his book that would do the book justice.

I am a fast reader - but I'm also retired. No longer have to exercise all the 'time discipline' I used to struggle with.


it's 11 pm here right now - so far today I rode 2 horses, walked the dog, worked in the yard and planted some herbs, cooked out on the fire pit and have spent about 3 hrs reading. Tough life, but someone's got to do it. This retirement stuff is exhausting.




Added one day later:


Some of the 'yard work' yesterday was clearing out brush and cutting back large shrubs - had a big pile of limbs after clearing the 'willow grove' (6-7 weeping willow trees planted together when small with intention to move them...good intentions are now large trees so we named it). Cut and dragged limbs...Tossed the limbs over the fence - put them in trailer and son hooked up jeep and we took them to the back of the property to dump them...yard and willow grove look great.

Every muscle I have hurts - it's raining and I'm glad - means no riding or carrying saddles or moving much today if I can help it! Started reading the last of the Koontz Jane Hawk series last night and plan to vegetate today and finish it.

Fiction:
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Author‎: ‎Zora Neale Hurston

Non-Fiction:
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

If you would like a Jack Reacher meets the supernatural you might want to try the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson

al

Fiction
Tale of two cities - Charles Dickens



Non-fiction
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

There, there Claude, l have sent you a box of tissues, via, Hideously Slow Air-Mail, you should get the box of super sized tissues anytime in the next century, via barely working drone, and the tissues are for your nose.

You should go and stay in Iron Mans log cabin, that will cheer you up, or consider camping outside of a Krispy Kreme store, and do a supersized video around eating there for a month, that would cheer me up.

Life is rough.... Even rougher for those who don't have anything to say unless they are pushing old jokes and trying hard to be funny...or relevant.

As for the hollow shell - while you are waiting for oblivion....have some ice cream. it's good for hollow shells - especially if they are chocolate.

oh my - did I just fall into the claude-joke trap....oh, yes, I believe I did....

I guess there is no cure for claudophobia....






Back at the ranch - Al, I just bought Term Limits by Flynn...might as well start at the beginning.

I'm not really into fiction, but funnily enough (considering the name of this forum) the last non-fiction book I really enjoyed was -

The Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler

Hello Kay

How to win friends and influence people,

The chimp paradox

The Jungle Book

Fiction

No comment.

Non Fiction

A Beginners or Dummies Guide to Scams.

Natch:!

Boku No Hero Academia

I like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding

Harry Potter #onelove
Duma-Key - by my favourite author S. King

How to win friends and influence people.

Fiction :
The Exorcist Willam Peter Blatty

Non Fiction:
Mien Kamp Adolf Hitler

My favourite book is Catherine the great Carolly Erickson.

The Color of Water by James McBride
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

I love memoirs

Tana French is currently my favorite fiction writer.

Rose

The Why Are You Here Cafe: A new way of finding meaning in your life and your work

John P. Strelecky

I've read far too many books to have a "favorite."

Shortlists:

Fiction:

The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Stand - Stephen King
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton (Finished when she was 16)
A Place To Come To - Robert Penn Warren
The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach

Nonfiction:

Danse Macabre - Stephen King
Way Of The Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
In The Belly Of The Beast - Jack Henry Abbott
Trespassers On The Roof Of The World - Peter Hopkirk
Tigers In The Rice: The Story of Vietnam from Ancient Past to Uncertain Future - Walter J. Sheldon