Favorite Book? Or author?

There's a thread on here about most-hated books.  In an attempt to be more optimistic, here's a thread about favorite books.

I'll start!  My favorite book is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.  At the moment, he is my favorite author.

(But as far as escapist pleasure goes, I love Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.  And I've read all of the Lord of the Rings books about six times.)

There are too many for me to pick just one as a favorite, but lately I'm loving Stephanie Kallos - her most recent book is Sing Them Home, but I fell in love with her writing with Broken for You. I love her word craft and stories. She creates these really quirky charcters that I just can't help but love.

i'm a big fan of stephen king from 20-30 years ago. the stand, in particular.

My favorite writer is Canadian author Robertson Davies.

• The Salterton Trilogy
• The Deptford Trilogy
• The Cornish Trilogy

In my opinion, he's Canada's best.

He has lived to see Sex replaced by Fat as the Ultimate Sin, and at the annual shows of the Ontario Society of Water-colourists pictures of Christ Forgiving the Woman Taken in Adultery have given way to a new theme -- Christ Forgiving the Woman Surprised in Laura Secord's.

from The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks

by Robertson Davies

Anything by Dean Koontz, especially Odd Thomas.

It's like asking a mother to pick her favorite child, but if I had to pick one right now, it would be Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov.

I am an uber-fan of Flannery O'Connor, so I'd have to say her collection of short stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find. So amazing.

Oh, and The Jungle.

Tough question....At the moment my favourite authour is Chuck Palahniuk (author of fight club).

It's my Mum's birthday coming up and i was planning on buying her a couple of books, however we have completly different tatstes...she likes life stories and feel good coming of age type stuff so any suggestions would be welcome!

I haven't been the biggest reader but what started my need to read was ...The Da'Vinici Code and Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, I read one after the other had a hard time putting them down... 

That opened my eyes to a whole new world of books and now I love to read!

My all-time favourite book has to be 'Pride & Prejudice' by Jane Austen...  bit clicheed, I know, but you can't knock pure quality.

A more recent favourite has been 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' by Oliver Sacks.

My latest read was 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Schriver.  A grim but thoroughly compelling story that kept me up until 4am so I could finish it!

"Dune" by Frank Herbert.

favourite author: Timothy Findley.  when he died, i couldn't read for three weeks.

favourite Findley books:

• not wanted on the voyage
• famous last words
• the butterfly plague
• pilgrim

other favourites: too many to list.  my undergrad is in english lit.  i was also in a book group for six years; best thing ever (until our eclectic group of twelve women in four different decades of life morphed into a group of nine new mommies/best friends + the rest of us).

edit: i just want to add that the best thing about finishing grad school--other than having an income again--is going to be reading novels again without guilt. 

Sharon Kay Penman for Sunne in Splendour, Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow, The Reckoning, When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time And Chance, and Devil's Brood.

Excuse me for butting in I'm still a little new !!

My fav books anything by Shaun Huston (almost read them all) I get a lot of reading time in as I work alone and I love his books - maybe not the right choice as I work in a funeral directors and I do sometimes get alittle jumpy lol but still love em 

Favorite Book: Catcher in The Rye

Favorite Author: Stephen King

Nuff said

My favourite author is Douglas Coupland. He's brilliant.

Other faves:

Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser

A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Middlesex by Jeffry Eugenides

Original Post by gi-jane:

A more recent favourite has been 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' by Oliver Sacks.

I love Oliver Sacks. I've read several of his books and they're always fascinating.

As a personal favorite, I love Sheri. S. Tepper, but I'll never pass up a Discworld book by Terry Pratchett.

There's also Neil Gaiman. I'm a sucker for mixing mythical figures in a modern story and he does that wonderfully.

Sooo hard to choose! I think, if I really had to pick just one, it would be Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'. Really, though, I have loads of favourites. I have a weird habit of re-reading past favourites on a yearly basis, and the most thumbed-through would be:

• 'The Hobbit' and the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy
• All six of Jane Austen's novels ('Sense & Sensibility' in particular has a seriously cracked spine)
  
• 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
• 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte (and of course the reminiscent 'Rebecca' by Daphne Du Maurier)
• 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D.Salinger
• 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath
  

The fact that I'm hopelessly addicted to Tudor history means that I read a lot of factual stuff, biographies and such, but it also means that I snatch up any new Phillippa Gregory book as soon as it hits the shelves.

I also loved the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman and the entire C.S. Lewis 'Chronicles of Narnia' series.

I could keep going, but I should probably wind it up now before this post gets as long as a novel!

I love Dean Koontz!!!! Well, most of Dean Koontz, Door to December and Mr. Murder are my favorite. I also love Jame Patterson.

Starship Troopers by Heinlein.

Favorite Book:  tie between The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) and Demian (Hesse)

Favorite Author:  Hermann Hesse