Favorite books?

My top three books are The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Catcher in the Rye, and Don Quixote. The first two are about growing up, while the third is about the foolishness of knight errantry. Perks is about a boy named Charlie who has severe emotional problems and it's a genuinely depressing book. Catcher is about Holden, an angst-filled teen sick of the blatant conformism of the world. Don Quixote is about a man who ends up going insane after reading so many books about knights, so he goes off on adventures thinking he is one. It gets pretty funny at parts.

What about you guys?

American Psycho and 1984 all the way. If you don't know the books, I'll honestly be amazed.

The Perks of Being A Wallflower is a fantastic book! I didn't think it was depressing though, I kind of felt like I could relate to it.

My favourite books so far are:
Into the Wild-Jon Krakauer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books-Douglas Adams
Breaking Open the Head- Daniel Pinchbeck
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Vegan Freak-Bob and Jenna Torres
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
Hamlet- Shakespeare
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Society of Mind-Marvin Minsky
Introduction to Animal Rights, Your Child or the Dog? Gary L. Francione
Hemp Masters-Max Lunger
Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, Rant, Choke, Pygmy-Chuck Palahniuk
Breakfast of Champions-Kurt Vonnegut

A Clockwork Orange
Cobain: Unseen
Heavier Than Heaven
The Satanic Bible
Crowley: The Nature of the Beast
MAGICK.

I plan on reading The Satanic Bible and some of Crowley's stuff. Tell me more about MAGICK, it sounds interesting.

Prey - Micheal Crichton

Was a good book.

Don Quixote and Catcher are excellent novels, yes.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Carrie
Catch 22
A Clockwork Orange (I've read both the 21 and 20 chapter versions, and I like the 20 version better. Although I do understand the symbolism behind the 21 chapters)
Slaughterhouse Five
Animal Farm
The Red Badge of Courage
Brave New World
Nineteen Eighty Four
Green Eggs and Ham

Some other favorites I forgot to mention:
The Book Thief
I am the Messenger
The Zombie Survival Guide
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Zombie Survival Guide
The Harry Potter Series
The Sherlock Holmes Series
Johnny Got His Gun
This one book I read about the cultural differences between the West and the Arab World which name I forgot
A biography on Miyamoto Musashi
And this one biography on Hannibal Barca I've read about 3 times over.

I mainly read non-fiction...

Also, read the book called "She Said Yes" it's written by a mother, who's daughter was a victim in the Columbine Highschool Massacre on April, 20, 1999.

Basically, the title of the book is that because one of the school shooters, either Dylan Klebold, or Eric Harris, don't recall which one... Was going to shoot her, she said "God help me." or something, they then asked "Do you believe in God?" and she answered, "Yes.". Eric or Dylan, one of the two, then shot her.

The story is about what the mom went through, and all this other junk, really good read.

Maximus wrote:

Prey - Micheal Crichton

Was a good book.

Dude, yes. Any Michael Crichton book is a good book (well, for the most part), have you read any others? Also, MC died. I hope the publish his new book, he had one yet to be released but they postponed it when he died.

Anyways, Yeah, obviously most MC book; which means Jurassic park, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear. etc.

I also really loved I Am Legend. If you have seen the movie and not that book, you might as well Slap Richard Matheson in the Face, because that movie was an insult to a fantastic book.

I recently read Catcher in the Rye, it was really good, and of course, I could really relate. Good book.

I wish it took like two seconds to read a book. I'd be able to read sooo much more!

Sensationalism wrote:

I wish it took like two seconds to read a book. I'd be able to read sooo much more!

Well, then there's no sense of accomplishment if you can just read it so quickly. I mean, no body ever claims that they're proud of reading a pamphlet that's 2 pages. Unless they're a Mongoloid.

Yeah but I just have so many books I want to read and I know I'll never get to them all! :(

I'm gonna count some manga in this cause I'm such a dirty Jap.

My favorite is probably Rurouni Kenshin. I'm a big fan of historical things.

Other stuff I really like:
Yu Yu Hakusho
Shaman King
JoJo's Bizzare Adventure (My other favorite.)
Full Metal Alchemist

I don't really read that much these days though. I'm starting to lose my knowledge of the Japanese language and I absolutely hate translations.