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Do you have an all time favorite book?

fleeflee Posted:

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:

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

new additions:
Red Tent
Poisonwood Bible
JennRenee Posted:

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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:

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


Diane Posted:

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Jenn...Guess How Much i Love You is My Fav. childresn's book too
Helene718 Posted:

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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:

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jitterbug Perfume
starhead Posted:

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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:

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bump for Shamma

dandj Posted:

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

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

Jordan Posted:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

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