in your opinion, what's the best book you've ever read?

[the2ndcominofjebus]

I'm looking for some new reading material. What is the greatest book you've ever read? If you say the bible, i'll hire mormons to stalk you. lol i stole the picture from someone here.

[Moralnihilist]

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
Iliad by Homer
Harry Potter books
Percy Jackson series
Dragonlance series
Absolutely Small by Michael D. Fayer, PhD

[Poison Tree]

The Iliad is very good, but I didn't care for the Odyssey. I like War and Peace, more for the writing style then the plot, but the bits on Tolstoy's theory of history was also quite interesting, at least I thought so. Foul Matter is good if you like literary irony (knowing what the people in the book don't).

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Not the best,  but one of my favorite was Wish you well by David Baldacci.  Great book I enjoyed.  I bought a copy for my granddaughter. She loved it too.

[stromboli]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller

[darsenfeld]

Lord of the Flies.  We're as savage as any other species at heart (bad to say, but it's true...)

[Youssuf Ramadan]

Hey Jebus, are we talking fiction, non-fiction or both here?

Anyway... I guess I'll go for both.

Fiction:

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres is great, as is his South American trilogy:  The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman.

Ole Louis can really take you to another place.

Non Fiction:

Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Phantoms in the Brain by V.S.Ramachandran
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

[the_antithesis]

Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction.

[aitm]

hmmmm,

I loved Lord of the Rings
HandMaids Tale is excellant story of religious fundamentalism in a somewhat futuristic US.
Daniel Boorstin's The Discoverers, is F-in awesome as well.

[stromboli]

+1 on The Handmaid's Tale. I was surprised by how good that book was.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Sun Also Rises, The Stand, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Guns Germs and Steel ....

[AllPurposeAtheist]

**runs immediately to library to check out every book mentioned here.. :-$

[Solomon Zorn]

Dune by Frank Herbert.

[Mermaid]

To Kill a Mockingbird has to be at the top of my list. Uncle Tom's Cabin is also way up there. I am currently reading what may work out to be in the top ten or so, The Goldfinch. I am only about a quarter of the way through it, but it's shaping up to be a classic

[stromboli]

Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Anything by Philip K. Dick, from "Ubik" (which people are still guessing about) to Bladerunner to We Can Build You.

Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, including my all time favorite short story, "the Sound of Summer Running"