<p>Just Curious - Can apply to anything!</p>
<p>Mine would definitely be The Ruins by Scott Smith.</p>
<p>It's the only book that I almost cried because it ended (other than harry potter, of course)</p>
<p>Barbie's Adventure in Wonderland, by Kenam Sterdam</p>
<p>Contact, by Carl Sagan.</p>
<p>It's definitely a flawed book, but it sparked my interest in science and set me down on the path I'm on now.</p>
<p>Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.</p>
<p>It gets funnier and more brilliant each time I read it!!</p>
<p>The Autobiography of Malcom X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm ;)</p>
<p>it's a toss up between Oryx and Crake and The Kiterunner</p>
<p>I really don't know my absolutely favorite since I've read soo many throughout my life.</p>
<p>However, I can say that the best novels/fiction I've read was probably "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman (of which a pretty inaccurate film was also produced recently...)</p>
<p>Non-fiction... there's really a lot. Too much.</p>
<p>I like a lot of books. I couldn't possibly choose a favourite. </p>
<p>I like Saturday by Ian McEwan, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam, most books by Ernest Hemingway, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, absolutely anything by George Orwell, and A Spot of Bother and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. I also like Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, despite the fact that it's completely ridiculous. But only because I count on it to keep me from failing my philosophy class.</p>
<p>For non-fiction, I liked A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.</p>
<p>I like *Les Mis</p>
<p>^ I'm so glad you like Fahrenheit 451 more than 1984 (:.</p>
<p>How do you know that I do?</p>
<p>I like how politically-charged all of Orwell's books are. Well, not all of them, but a bunch.</p>
<p>I read "anything" as "nothing." Whoops?</p>
<p>Shoot, I take back my statement. You didn't impress me.</p>
<p>Why don't you write your favourite books?;)</p>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p>Well, first off, The Catcher In The Rye because I read it as a tween. And it was fabulous. I also have 13 Stories or something, by J.D. Salinger, its good too. Something about a banana is surfacing to my memory, I'll have to check later. Night by Elie Weisel, because I think it is the most well put-together short, honest experience of the Holocaust. I also love love LOVE East Of Eden, it was insane. But I'm not usually crazy about Steinbeck.</p>
<p>1984 is okay. I read it in eighth grade and it didn't drive me wild or anything, I much prefer Fahrenheit 451. I hate anything by the Bronte sisters. Hate. I really didn't like Anthem, but I loved The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.</p>
<p>I like cute little Robert Cormier books, too. Like The Chocolate War. It's such a great Bildungsroman novel. I also oddly enjoyed Sula by Toni Morrison. Even though it was really graphic.</p>
<p>Another book that I love of which always shocks people is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I love this book. It makes me cry. And last but not least (but not my favorite) is The Valley Of The Dolls. It's so girlie and sad and toxic. </p>
<p>That's it for now.</p>
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<p>A Perfect Day for Bananafish.</p>
<p>I really hate the Bronte sisters too. They're so painful. </p>
<p>I haven't read Frankenstein.</p>
<p>Thank you! I'm going to read that today. I loved it.</p>
<p>I think I'm the only girl in the world who hates Jane Eyre. But it sucks. And I think it was a feminist novel, not a Victorian novel. Contrary to my teacher's "extensive research."</p>
<p>Frankenstein is really good. It's so grotesque and sad.</p>
<p>Grotesque and sad = Good?</p>
<p>You learn something new every day.</p>
<p>It's good for what it is. It's like, a tragedy. You connect with the monster because he's just an outcast, the underdog.</p>
<p>But he is grotesque, in a charming way.</p>
<p>I make no sense.</p>
<p>Other books that kept me fascinating/dreaming for a long time:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Man on the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (semi-non-fiction)</p>
<p>Admitting it is the first step.</p>
<p>I didn't know grotesque could be charming.</p>
<p>I recently read "the Great Gatsby" didn't quite find it "one of the greatest work..it's definitely good. but not greatest. </p>
<p>Kite Runner is a pretty good book.
Also, "A Brief History of Time" aah..love it!</p>