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.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose
You have restored my faith in humanity 🙂
Yes, Angle of Repose is the best book ever written.
Yes!!! Fourth this one.
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Ooooo … forgot about that one! Love!
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
love this book!
Mysterious Jean – Trevor Cole
The Red Tent.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Second!
thirded
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Lamb
Michael moore
Yes! Lamb was AWESOME! (anything By Christopher Moore is good funny stuff..also see Tom Robbins)
Oh yes, HIGHLY recommend Lamb! I have bought and given away numerous copies!
Beauty by Bill Wallace ;]]
Silent in the Grave – Deanna Raybourn
Beach Music-Pat Conroy
My favorite too.
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christan Andersen
Great choice! I give it an honorable mention.
At Home In Mitford – Jan Karen
Jan Karon. Sorry!
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Outlander -Diana Gabaldon
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Oh yes, this is an excellent and ground breaking novel.
my whole family loves the novels by Dick Francis, and now his son, Felix Francis
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
This is my favourite novel from childhood.
Mine too!
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Jane Erye – Charlotte Bronte
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Dune- Frank Herbert
Trinity by Leon Uris
A second for Trinity!
Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
Thanks-this book is so good I keep running into it at used book stores and buying it again–accidentally. Her other books are ka as well!
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Gasp! Sometimes I think I have just dreamed this book because I haven’t seen it for so long. LOVED. Just loved her, all her books.
pillars of the earth, ken follett
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Stand by Stephen King
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
I agree!
My second favorite.
Loved, loved, loved The Red Tent!
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Gone With the Wind …Margaret Mitchell
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
Pillars of the Earth! My fave….always recommend to my fellow booklovers!
Lonesome Dove
Mark of the Lion: A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
First adult book I ever read, in jr high. I second that.
Dandelion Wine — best book EVER!
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mrs Mike, by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman.
Gone With The Wind
Gone With The Wind is my favorite, too!
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Harry Potter Series