What's your favorite book?

[Mettis]

My favorite book is all the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind.

[Andreasanno]

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=3822819565&cm_sp=mbc-_-3822819565-_-all
This is an amazing one!! My favorite!

[8pointhunter]

My favorite book is the bible

[debovince]

50 nuances de gris.... 50 shades of grey...

[jeep]

So many books are favourites of mine but if I HAD to name one I guess I would have to say Ivanho by Sir Walter Scott due to the detail he goes into to describe the charactors and the way the book just drew me in as a young guy reading it and I couldn't put it down. Also the copy I was reading I inherited from my great grand father and was printed in 1898 so had all that old world charm too.

[mfalconr]

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

[nitram]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.

[paloseco]

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

[Womberling Wurzel]

Down and Out in Paris and London - George  Orwell

[Mark]

I can't pin down one absolute favourite, but I suppose if push comes to shove, it boils down to the Harry Potter series (Prisoner of Azkaban being a favourite) and the Discworld series (especially Mort, Soul Music and Pyramids).

[NudieDaniel]

Have to be the Inheritance series I liked Brisingr

[blu333y3s]

Such a difficult question to answer each time I think about it it changes. Probably because there are so many good creations out there and different generes not to mention I think many books change depending on yourself when you read them.

A different approach to the question icould be what books would you like to keep in your bookshelf?  Or another, what books would you recommend to start someone's reading life.

Among my favourites in different genres and some that overlap;

- the Magus (John Fowels)
- catcher in the rye (J.D. Sallinger)
- tomorrow when the war began (John Marsden seriess)
- hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- the celestien prophecy (James Redfield)
- a short history of nearly everything (Bill Bryson)
- 50 shades of grey (I know, I know bit it is the only romantic fiction I have read and I enjoyed it)
- river god series (Wilbur Smith)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- the trial (Kafka - I'm still wondering)
- a collection of Poe short stories. 
- the odyssey (homer)

I have to stop myself somewhere or I www ill loose feelng in my hands - typing on smartphones is horrible! 

Im sure my list woulf be different the next time I wrote it, but that is the very point. 

[StephenL2001]

Definitely some great stuff already mentioned here as favorites.
Usually if I am asked for a favorite I say there are too many to pick just one, I love so many books in different ways.
But if I have to choose just one, it would be Les Miserables. I read it when I was 18, so I'm sure that made a difference in how it affected me. Its a beautiful story, beautifully told. What more could you ask for?
A couple of others are Walden, War and Peace, Catch 22 and one I want to mention that is not so famous is a book called the River Why by David James Duncan.  Its very philosophical and also hilarious in a very original way.
This thread has made me think I should go back and re-read Catcher in the Rye too.
Anyone interested in talking books, feel free to write me : )

[D289]

When I was a teenager I'd have said 1984. Not too sure now.

[Wombling Wurzel]

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Soul Music - Sir Terry Pratchett
Anything by Michael Palin
Same again with Bill Bryson
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Time Machine - HG Wells
PG Wodehouse is also in here somewhere.

So many.  I cannot put them all in.