What are your favorite (non-tri) books?

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Tom Robbins

Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

Frank, I just finished The Perfect Mile, I agree with you, a great book.

• Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (excellent, funny, baseball)
• The Teammates by David Halberstam
• Mr. Cub by Ernie Banks and Jim Enright
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
• Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
• Ordinary Resurrections by Jonathan Kozol
• How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Blessed are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch (whimsical, Irish humor)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (mmm mmm good)
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Accidental Bride by Janice Harayda (in-law, wedding, and Ohio State humor)
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
• anything by Elizabeth Berg
• for true crime stories, books by Ann Rule and Jack Olsen
• Childhood favorites and favorites I share with my sons:  Dr. Zeuss, A.A. Milne (The House at Pooh Corner, etc.), Mark Twain; books:  Where the Red Fern Grows, North to Freedom, Harry Potter books

Edited by zagagirl 2005-06-10 7:55 PM

My recent favourites are:
The curious incident of the dog in the night
The life of Pi
Porno - Irving Welsh

Sorry I can't remember the authors of the first two but they are both must reads. Looking forward to some serious reading during the summer holidays.

We have very similar tastes in books.  I love Patterson and Ludlum!  I also love Clive Cussler, Dan Brown, Michael Creighton, Jack Higgins, and David Balducci. Great vacation reads.

Classics:

The Agony and the Ecstasy, Lord of the Flies, War and Peace (yes I actaully had to read for a collge English course and adored it!) Animal Farm, 1984.  There are others but my mind has gone blank. 

I have read too many books in my lifetime to be able to jot down a complete list but here are a few that come to mind:

The Prince by Machiavelli

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (no, it is not "just a child's book"!)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hess

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Anything by Wilbur Smith, Clive Cussler, or Dan Brown

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest & The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Ken Kessy

The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

Rainbow Six - Clancy

The Dark Tower Series (Book IV to be exact) - King

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (sp) - Sorry, can't spell it off the top of my head

Love in the Time of Cholera and anything else by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

anything by Kurt Vonnegut

Calvin & Hobbes ALL OF THEM by Bill Waterson

The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany and anything else by John Irving

Catch 22 and anything else by Joseph Heller

Candide by Voltaire

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and all the sequels by Douglas Adams

Harry Potter (all of them) by J.K. Rowling

Nonfiction:

anything by Pema Chodron, Thomas Moore (fav is The Soul of Sex), and Karen Armstrong

history books

This is reminding me of so many GREAT books I have read!  One gets mentioned and I go "OOH, yeah! That WAS a great book"! 

I'm compiling a list from this post of the most mentioned titles I have not read, so I can check them out. Thanks for taking the time to offer up some great books, guys!

Someone back on the post mentioned that a person was shocked that they were a "book geek" or something to that effect. That reminded me that I was talking recently to a fellow who is a regular in one of my 'haunts' and he knows all about my athletic endeavors, but when I mentioned something about a book I was reading, he acted all shocked and said "You read?  I never pictured you as a reader".  When I expressed my surprise at that statement, he said it's because I'm such a fitness nut, he thought that was all I did for fun.  I was like "No, I've been into all this crazy triathlon stuff for a year, I've been addicted to books since I was like 14 years old.  I am always reading a book.  There is no time when I'm not currently reading a book".  Just goes to show ya, can't judge a book by it's cover!