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Do you have an all time favorite book?

fleeflee Posted: Feb 18, 2003 06:33 PM+

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Posted: Feb 18, 2003 06:33 PM

Do you have an all time favorite book?

One that you've read more than once or whose charaters stick with you?
I guess I have a few --
Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons
Gold Coast - Nelson Demille
Lily White - Susan Isaacs

michele31 Posted: Feb 18, 2003 06:55 PM+

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Posted: Feb 18, 2003 06:55 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Gulliver's Travels
Diary of Ann Frank
Anne of Green Gables
Are you my mother?

new additions:
Red Tent
Poisonwood Bible

JennRenee Posted: Feb 18, 2003 07:05 PM+

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Posted: Feb 18, 2003 07:05 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Great question!

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
One Child by Torey Hayden
Alex: The Life of a Child by Frank DeFord
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
and my guilty pleasure book...
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

My favorite children's books are
Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney
Chewey Louie by Howie Schneider
and
I'll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm

Teri Posted: Feb 18, 2003 07:42 PM+

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Posted: Feb 18, 2003 07:42 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

hmmm - so many! I guess my faves are: Gold Coast & Plum Island -both by Nelson DeMille

Diane Posted: Feb 18, 2003 09:14 PM+

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Posted: Feb 18, 2003 09:14 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Jenn...Guess How Much i Love You is My Fav. childresn's book too

Helene718 Posted: Feb 18, 2003 10:50 PM+

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Posted: Feb 18, 2003 10:50 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

The Bible
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Children's books:
All of the Harry Potter books
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Anything Dr. Seuss

jenny11.9 Posted: Feb 20, 2003 08:28 AM+

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Posted: Feb 20, 2003 08:28 AM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jitterbug Perfume

starhead Posted: Feb 20, 2003 09:01 AM+

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Posted: Feb 20, 2003 09:01 AM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Naked by David Sedaris and Me Talk Pretty One Day, also by Sedaris.
Watership Down
Backroads (can't remember author, but it was an Oprah Book)
A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson

Helene718 Posted: Apr 06, 2003 04:44 PM+

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Posted: Apr 06, 2003 04:44 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

bump for Shamma

dandj Posted: Apr 06, 2003 08:29 PM+

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Posted: Apr 06, 2003 08:29 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille. I love that book!!!
Also, the Great Gatsby - made we want to live in that time period!

natasha Posted: Apr 06, 2003 10:31 PM+

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Posted: Apr 06, 2003 10:31 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

I love this topic. I have quite a few. I will BRB with my list.

Jordan Posted: Apr 10, 2003 10:25 AM+

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Posted: Apr 10, 2003 10:25 AM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Great thread...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Most anything by Anais Nin
The Red Tent, Anita Diamont
Memoirs of a Geisha, S Golden
Any Shel Silverstein book
The 3rd & 4th Harry Potter books

xjulietx Posted: Apr 11, 2003 02:15 PM+

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Posted: Apr 11, 2003 02:15 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Another vote for Gold Coast (and DeMille in general)

Are You My Mother?
The Grannyman by Judy Schachner
Horse Whisperer.

I work in children's publishing, so children's favorites change every day

natasha Posted: Apr 11, 2003 06:16 PM+

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Posted: Apr 11, 2003 06:16 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Color Purple
Memoir of a geisha
20 years in a desert jail
Roots
macolm x
The pearl - I want to read this one again
The bluest eyes - this one too
Finding fish
A lesson before dying
Their eyes were watching god
The coldest winter ever

verdila Posted: May 05, 2003 02:56 PM+

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Posted: May 05, 2003 02:56 PM

Re: Do you have an all time favorite book?

Some of my faves that I read in HS/ then college as an English major:

Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Fortunate Pilgrim (Mario Puzo)
A Tree Grows in Brookyln (Betty Smith)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (DH Lawrence)

Some recents:
Memoirs of a Geisha (arthur Golden?)
A Cook's Tour (Anthony Bourdain)
The Corrections (Jonathon Franzen)
The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan)

Children's/Young Adult:
Good Night Moon
Peter Rabbit
Amelia Bedelia
any Judy Blume
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler