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.
Kathy W
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Sharon
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
joanne
Pillars of the Earth! My fave....always recommend to my fellow booklovers!
Cindy
Lonesome Dove
Kari
Mark of the Lion: A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
Natalie
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Kim from Milwaukee
First adult book I ever read, in jr high. I second that.
Jennifer
Dandelion Wine -- best book EVER!
Annie
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Susan
Mrs Mike, by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman.
Susan
Gone With The Wind
Missy
Gone With The Wind is my favorite, too!
Jody
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Susan
The Harry Potter Series
Beth
A Game of Thrones
Reynok
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Meg
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving.
CheekyMomma
Insomnia by Stephen King
monica
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Myrna
Pride and prejudice - Austen.
michele cislo
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Leena
Harry Potters :)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
toekneetoni
i second Leena - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Molly Ellis
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
edie
The Stand by Stephen King
Annye
Two big thumbs-up for The Stand!