What are your most favorite novels?

I used to be into the Anita Blake vampire hunter series of books by Laurel K. Hamilton, until it turned entirely into lycanthrope bdsm porn. That chick needs to get laid or something. I still have a lot of love for the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and any discworld novel. Terry Pratchett is fun.

Not really a novel, but one of my favorite books:

The Book of Lies, by Aleiter Crowley

Just last week, I finished reading...

[4.2/5] Slaughter-House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
[4.7/5] Lord of the Flies - William Golding

I guess I'll only mention books I liked that I've read in the last three years or so. My current favorites are...



Liked reading but don't remember what the hell went on...


Not novels but still great...


Currently reading...


In Queue...


I love reading. Recommend me books that you love!

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.

Never gets old. Holden always cracks me up. That book kills me.

Suzumiya Haruhi by Nagaru Tanigawa
I think it's fun to read ^^

Sherlock Holmes stories
Andre Norton Witch World Trilogy
Marion Zimmer Bradley Darkover novels

Viriconium by M. John Harris

A masterful work. Truly wonderful.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

The novelization of the BBC T.V. show in 1996.

Prefer the novel over the series haha.

I'll just list a handful of my favourites and be done with it, lest I spend all day typing out novel titles:

Saltykov's Family Golovlev.
Goncharov's Oblomov.
Gorky's Icebreaker.
Handke's Year in No-Man's-Bay.
Keller's Salander.
Giraudoux' Bella.
Barbusse's Under Fire.
Zola's Germinal.
Saramago's All the Names.
Antunes' Orders to the Crocodiles.
Barreto's Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma.
Bernhard's Old Masters.
Meri's Manila Rope
Sillanpää's Pious Misery.

I have never read or heard of any of these stories. I think that's why I am so turned on by this list, lmao. I'll start with Gorky. I was going to get to him next, since he was Chekhov's pen pal.

The Icebreaker is available as an etext here, whereas my other favourites of his, An Autumn Night, and Her Lover may be found here and here, respectively.

p.s.: after these two, you will have found out why Peshkov got the nickname Gorky, i.e.: bitter.

Thanks to film orange and gibbous' lists, i'm set for the next year or so. and a few other people reminded me of books i been meaning to go back and reread.

also, i recommend The Art of War by Sun Tzu to everyone. i've found you can apply it(certain parts anyway) to many aspects of everyday life, such as buisness and social situations.

The "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
-The Golden Compass
-The Subtle Knife
-Behind the Amber Spyglass
Paul Palahniuk
-Fight Club
-Choke
-Snuff



Any recommendations for novels that makes you really think, or has a deep meaning?

Any of those on my list ;p

I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura) by Niccolo Ammaniti.