What are your favorite books of all time?

[GlassBallerina]

Literature that I love that I consider to be more 'junk food' good literature:

-Susan Kay's "Phantom: The Story of his Life"
-Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers (don't kill me)
-Peter Pan

My other literary favorites:

-Wuthering Heights
-Rebecca
-Candide
-The Mists of Avalon
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
-Pride and Prejudice
-The Stranger/L'Etranger
-Slaughterhouse 5

And i love The Message, a contemporary version of the Bible.

[trombonekatie]

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Candide by Voltaire
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[ArtificialAmore]

Authors: Aphra Behn. Anne Rice. Eliza Haywood. Terry Pratchett. Rainier Maria Rilke. Douglas Adams. Cormac McCarthy. Jim Butcher. Barry Lopez. Sena Jeter Naslund. Jostein Gaarder. Lois Lowry. Kurt Vonnegut. Garth Nix. Sherillyn Kenyon. William Shakespeare. Lynsay Sands. J.K. Rowling.

Genres: 18th century british literature, literature from the "long 18th century", epistolary fiction, paranormal fiction, hyper-realism, fantasy, and pretty much anything with a good story.

I sincerly just love to read. All of the authors listed above were from looking over my "important" bookcase which mainly has books I re-read because I love them so much and/or they mean a lot to me, I'm sure there are a million I left off. English majors can never choose!

[SirLirin]

-Anything by Tamora Pierce
-Chronicles of Narnia
-Harry Potter
-Jane Eyre
-Shakespeare's stuff (mainly the comedies and tragedies and sonnets)
-Holly Black's books
-Beowulf
-Bridge to Terabithia
-Sold by Patricia McCormick
-Violet and Claire by Francesca Lia Block
-Tam Lin
-a LOT of other stuff that's escaping my mind right now

[Nic]

No 'all-time favourites', as they change according to the seasons. At the moment though, quite a few...

-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-The Little Prince (Saint-Antoine Exupery)
-Tales from Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan, an Australian illustrator/author)
-The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
-Romans (The thing that Paul dude wrote)
-Fantastic Mr Fox (Roald Dahl)

[Nic]

The Little Prince (Antoine St-Exupery)
Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Matilda (Roald Dahl)
The Curly Verse (Michael Leunig)
Point Counter Point (Aldous Huxley)
The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell)
Anything written by John in the Bible.

[TheArtistK]

I love books. I also love reading. (If you are a book nerd, you should know why I would separate the two)

bell hooks - Anything and Everything.

Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
It Doesn't Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent... - Edgardo Vega Yunque
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Colors Insulting to Nature - Cintra Wilson
Frangipani - Celestine Vaite
Anything by Sherman Alexie
Anything by Tom Robbins

Some Non-fiction Authors I dig reading as well are: Paulo Freire, Vine Deloria Jr., Eve Ensler, Noam Chomsky, and Joel Salatin

...of course I have a feeling I am forgetting a lot, but those are the first that come to mind.

[lovernotafighter]

I just found this post because I am new. But among many authors I truly like, I would have to say I very much love almost anything by Ray Bradbury, esp. The Martian Chronicles, and The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Thanks. LNF