In your opinion what are the best books of all time?
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All I can think of right now.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harry Potter
The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Beowulf
Frankenstineby Mary Shelley
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
The BFG by Roald Dahl
They cage the animals at night Jennings Michael
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harry Potter
The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Beowulf
Frankenstineby Mary Shelley
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
The BFG by Roald Dahl
They cage the animals at night Jennings Michael
you,you met her?gosh, i hate you!thats like my alltime dream!!!!you have not even read her books but you meet her?you are now my worst enemy!well not really but still!how did you meet her?
While I don't think she's quite one of the best of all time, I certainly enjoy Pierce's books (I bought the Song of the Lioness quartet because I'd read them so many times... I haven't yet decided if the other books are quite good enough to *buy* but I do go visit the library or bookstore occasionally and reread some of them...).
For children's fantasy... Patricia C Wrede's Dealing with Dragons, etc. (Enchanted Forest Chronicles) and Sorcery and Cecelia (co-authored with Caroline Stevemer, and luckily recently reprinted - I bought my copy off ebay a year before the reprint for $25 for a paperback - going rate was about $50-100!) Don't like the newer two as much though. Robin McKinley's Blue Sword. Also Beauty. I like Hero and the Crown (prequel to Blue Sword) but prefer Blue Sword.
Other books though... hmm. I tend to read fantasy (especially children's and young adult) - I call it brain candy. Enjoyable, but not best books of all time.
I really like Orson Scott Card, though once you've read one, you've read them all (he tends to reuse character types and plots, it's how he mixes them and the locations that he puts them that makes his books interesting). Ender's Game is probably one of his best.
Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner - enjoyable by both young and old. Ruined by modern Disney (the two or three older Pooh movies are fun)
Go Ask Alice - an anonymously published diary of a girl who falls into the world of drugs, runs away from home, gets into even worse trouble...
Earth Abides, by George Stewart - written in 1949, the first three or four times I read it, I seriously thought it was written in the 80s at the earliest, until I looked at the copyright. A plague kills off most of mankind, what happens with the few who are left?
I'll have to think about this though... the books that I think are among the best I've read also tend to be brain work, not candy, and thus, don't get reread often (and more rarely purchased)... I tend to buy escapist things that I can read and reread without thinking about them ;P
let's not forget the Sword of Truth Series by Richard Goodkind.. i think it's up to 7 books now and they are an OUTSTANDING (but mature) read.
call me *** but in college I read this mushy chick book called "rich in love" I thought it was really insightful for some reason. i guess sometimes you just relate to a book.