<p>Aside from Harry Potter (i get goosebumps just thinking about it), my favorite is:</p>
<p>Dune</p>
<p>A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz (don't be thrown off by the first few pages :)</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>anything by Tom Wolfe. What a freaking genius.</p>
<p>A few:</p>
<p>White Noise--Don Delillo
Skinny Legs and All--Tom Robbins
The Corrections--Jonathan Franzen
1984--George Orwell
The Crying of Lot 49--Thomas Pynchon
A Man in Full--Tom Wolfe</p>
<p>As you can see, I'm a big fan of American writers ;).</p>
<p>The "Dune" series, or at least what I have finished so far. I stopped to go back and read one of the prequels..."The Butlerian Jihad." </p>
<p>Also I like the "Autobiography of Malcolm X."</p>
<p>I second Sophie's World - Justein Gardner
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande</p>
<p>athlonmj- Running Out of Time is an awesome book! That was such a cool idea for a plot. </p>
<p>My favorites:
To Kill a Mockingbird (yeah, cliche i know, but this book just gets me every time!)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (anyone read this?)
The Poisonwood Bible (yay to everyone who already said this! this book is incredible)</p>
<p>Runners up:
White Oleander (if you've seen the movie, well the book is a lot better, very poetic)
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck</p>
<p>You all are right that there are a ton of great books for children out there. I always loved and still adore:
The Giver
Number the Stars
Jacob Have I Loved
Bridge to Terabithia (sp?)</p>
<p>wow, I liked a lot of depressing children's books. hah. never noticed that before... I also went through a stage where I read nothing but the Boxcar Children series. haha, those books are TERRIBLE, but I must have read 50 or 60 of them!</p>
<p>My favorite book of poetry is probably "The Panther and the Lash" by Langston Hughes, and anything by Seamus Haney (love love love him)</p>
<p>just finished the poisonwood bible for english...great book, even when it's required! :)</p>
<p>Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT</p>
<p>vegangirl! nice choices for childrens books!</p>
<p>did you ever read The View from Saturday??? i loved that book when i was younger</p>
<p>also I really enjoyed the Encyclopedia Brown series and The Boxcar Children! haha</p>
<p>btw: i hadn't thought about running out of time so long but when i saw The Village in theatres, it was like exactly the same concept!!</p>
<p>just read it: Candide by Voltaire, great book, very funny, even my modern standards</p>
<p>sports illustrated</p>
<p>roflmao, the people that posted SAT dict. and novels are hilarious. </p>
<p>white fang/harry potters/</p>
<p>dum dum</p>
<p>are you ready? i can't beleive you smart geniuses forget this!</p>
<p>THE GOLDEN COMPASS SERIES</p>
<p>omg. pullman is the man.</p>
<p>(men's fitness is good too :P)</p>
<p>DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish version y'all)
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Edmond Rostand
ROOTS-Alex Haley
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X-Alex Haley
SIDDHARTHA-Herman Hesse</p>
<p>The Giver
Cyrano de Bergerac</p>
<p>For those who said Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, care to explain why their your favorites? I'm thinking of reading one of them, but don't know if i should choose to read them and don't know which one of her books is the best</p>
<p>Tuck Everlasting
<< Very Best Book in the World!</p>
<p>ahhh! i read tuck everlasting so long ago and i forgot about how sad it made me. lol, the movie didnt do it justice. i always associate that book with being in 4th grade.</p>
<p>The Odyssey
runners-up: A Separate Peace, Catullus' poems, Keats' poems, Iliad, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Bell Jar
children's books: Wheel On The School, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Phantom Tollbooth, Frog and Toad, Tuck Everlasting, Frindle, Harry Potter, The Giver, Julie Of The Wolves, the Little House series :o</p>
<p>Vegangirl, mine is worse, Goosebumps and Animorphs!</p>
<p>Vegan, I've read 'The Chosen'.</p>
<p>I like everything by Louis Sachar, Roald Dahl, and JK Rowling. I like Jerry Spinelli's 'Maniac Magee' and 'Stargirl'. </p>
<p>Some books I like now:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy <--- haven't read the entire series yet...
Great Expectations
To Kill a Mockingbird<br>
....</p>
<p>JRR Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings</p>
<p>Brave New World
LOTR Trilogy
Bread Givers
<em>drums</em>
<em>fanfare</em>
any books by Clive Cussler (namely Atlantis Found)</p>