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.
Eve-Marie
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Bonnie
Oh yes, this is an excellent and ground breaking novel.
Kathie
my whole family loves the novels by Dick Francis, and now his son, Felix Francis
Alison
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Naomi
This is my favourite novel from childhood.
Patti
Mine too!
ev
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
jenny
Jane Erye - Charlotte Bronte
Jane
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Maria
Dune- Frank Herbert
Norma Jo
Trinity by Leon Uris
Paula
A second for Trinity!
Courtney
Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
caryl
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!
Mary Kay
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Thera
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Njd
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Laura
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Maggie O'C
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.
tina seashore
pillars of the earth, ken follett
karol
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Deb J
A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole
Sabrina@LouLou Sucre
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Tisha
The Stand by Stephen King
Dana Kee
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Debbie from Illinois
I agree!
Pam'a
My second favorite.
Tess
Loved, loved, loved The Red Tent!
judy
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Beckie
Gone With the Wind ...Margaret Mitchell