What are your favorite books?

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i typically do not like fiction, but Orson Scott Card's Enders Game is my favorite book!

Nonfiction books line my shelves, and my current reads include Einstein's writings/speeches, disaster preparedness, gardening, and theology.

i have a hard time picking a favourite anything

but interested to know what everyone elses is as i'm planning an Amazon-athon

I like any book that is both really engaging, and is about a topic I'm interested in.

Currently I'm enjoying China Mieville's books. Asking for a favourite is like asking to pick my favourite child

The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill
Unpublished Journals of John Muir (oh heaven to hike in nature all day!! !)
My Mother's House and Sido by Colette
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Macbeth
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
lots more...

the left hand of darkness by ursula le guin
poisonwood bible by barbara kingslover
lian hearns tales of the otori
in the past the works of isobel carmody, tamora pierce and david gemmel would have been on that list. the first 2 were teen fic so i grew out of them quickly.
if we are including comics then these:
watchmen by alan moore
sandman series by neil gaiman
ex machina and y the last man by BK Vaughan

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
The Bible
Anything by Jack Kerouac
The millenium series by Stieg Larsson
The brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky
Also books on litterature, art or whatever i'm obsessed with at the time

These I would probably read again and again

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Grief Observed - C. S. Lewis
Call of the Wild - Jack London
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
American Dreams Lost and Found - Studs Terkel

The Bible
Gone With the Wind
The Poisonwood Bible
The Sword of Truth series
Left Behind series

White Teeth by Zadie Smith!

If you're not in for a long-haul read, try The Autograph Man by her. Not as epic but gets you addicted to her style really quickly.

The Mortal Engines Quartet/Hungry City Chronicles by Philip K. Reeve

I can't pick one favorite, but here are some of my favorites:

Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
Descartes' Error - Antonio Damasio
The Family that Couldn't Sleep - D.T. Max (on Fatal Familial Insomnia)
Et Cetera, Et Cetera - Lewis Thomas
The Host - Stephenie Meyer
Acceptable Risk - Robin Cook
My Edgar Allan Poe anthology

~Kate

The Bit and the Pendulum - Tom Siegfried
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter

I like Fyodor Dostoevsky's work specially The Brothers Karamazov & Crime and Punishment
P.G Wodehouse's work
Loiusa Alcott's work
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen

Very nice lists. Not much into the soap opera girlie genre. I have read Bronte sisters in my younger years.

I have a fiction and a non fiction going most of the time.

Love Fantasy stuff. It gets a bit gory and i'm not much on that but i can read a book about bloody stuff where i can not watch the movie. They are making a favorite: Game of Thrones into a HBO movie i wonder how much gorier it will seem on the screen.

I think i should finish this another time as my bed is calling and has been for a while
Nora

Have you read the rest of the Ender saga? The immediate follow-up to Ender's Game is amazing. It's called Speaker for the Dead. I didn't think the rest of them were all that great though. It seemed to me like he just kept writing more and more of them to make more money, but he ran out of decent ideas after the first three books...