Lonesome Dove. If I was forced to pick my absolute favourite book, that's what it would be. There are others I thought were great and loved, but ... I always come back to Lonesome Dove.
Which is funny because I picked it up and started it around 5 times before I could get past the first few pages. I'd pick it up, start to read it and think ... Uch. I can't read this book. I did that 5 times.
I either just wasn't in the mood for that particular book, or maybe the first few pages confused me. I don't know. But I kept trying and one day I picked that book up and it hit me like a donkey kick to the face. THIS was the greatest book ever written.
Last week I wrote a little post explaining a bit about what the Pulitzer Prize is exactly and how it started. Some, but not all of my favourite books are on the list.
Wanna know some more of my favourite books? Too bad.
Because today isn't about some of your favourite books. It's about the ONE book. The single, all time favourite.
No cheating and no doubling up. You are forced to pick one and only one.
In the comment section, write the name of your favourite book. I don't want stories to go along with it, why you liked it ... nothin' like that.
Just the name of the book (and author if you want).
That way you can come back here and easily scroll down the comments to find a good book. There won't be any talking or blabbing interfering with the list. Books. Just books.
I'll start us off.
Kelly
The Sun Also Rises -- Earnest Hemingway
Patti
The Glass Castle - by Jeanette Walls
Robbie B.
What a story, and told so beautifully.
Janelle Chapman
The Selected Works of T.S Spivet by Reif Larsen
Just read it!!!
DanT
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel - another Pulitzer prize winner
Linda J Howes
Welcome To The Monkeyhouse by Kurt Vonnegut
Marlene
Don Quixote (El Quijote)by Cervantes Saavedra
Betsy McKenzie
this is a wonderful and amazing book. Cervantes also wrote some novellas that are just as great a tale with wonderful characters.
Lisa
Loved Lonesome Dove.
Nancy
Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
Anna
The Jewel in the Crown.
Deb Fry
JITTERBUG PERFUME-Tom Robbins
Lonesome Dove is my #2
Betsy McKenzie
I love Tom Robbins as an author. I used to read and re-read his Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Rowdy and funny and great characters. Plus I think that's where his description of walnut ketchup shows up.
Christa
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Mandi
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Betsy McKenzie
Love Kingsolver. I am not sure the Bean Trees is my favorite Kingsolver book, but I like most everything I've read by her.
Brook
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Betsy McKenzie
Love Ray Bradbury. Somebody more recently nominated his Dandelion Wine, which is just a lovely book. This one is fierce.
zoe
Persuasion - Jane Austen - great love story, great author.....I think her best novel.
Naomi
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
kelliblue
C.S. Lewis; 'Until We Have Faces' and the Narnia books were absolutely magical.
Kage Baker: 'In the Garden of Iden.'
Betsy McKenzie
I also love C.S. Lewis, his Narnia books especially, but also his books on theology for adults.
Janet
Are you there God, It's Me Margaret
caryl
Jitterbug perfume-and by the way there is no such thing as a favorite book-if you love one you love many!!
Karen
I think there absolutely is such a thing as a favourite book. If there wasn't I wouldn't be able to say, Yup ... it's Lonesome Dove, LOL. There are other ones I love, but that is the favourite. ~ karen!
Betsy McKenzie
I have many that I love, but it's easy for me to pick out my favorite because there is only one that I have re-read again and again across decades of my life. Every time I read 100 Years of Solitude, I see new things in it.
Lisa
After Lonesome Dove (which I thought they were going to ruin as a mini-series, but they didn't, love them both), The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Emma
Woman On The Edge Of Time - Marge Piercy