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Because I just got to reread Catch-22, which is my favorite.

It's hard to pick one but Tolkien's Middle-earth books are my favorite. Nothing more perfectly captures everything I love (linguistics, big families, detailed history and geography, religious themes, medieval fantasy, elves, etc).

After that is probably The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis. I love Puddleglum and captured princes.

I just reread Misery, which I do all the time. It's probably kind of weird that I find it as inspiring as I do, but I just love reading about Paul's writing process.

I love If on a winter's night a traveler, too. I was just telling a friend about it the other night after I was talking about how much I love writing beginnings and she was joking that I should just write a book of them.

Some others I never get tired of: Harry Potter, Hygiene and the Assassin, The 101 Dalmatians, Bonfire of the Vanities, the Vlad Taltos series, The Thin Man, How's Moving Castle, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

I'll stop now

I wish they had made a 101 Dalmatians movie that was loyal to the book. I loved that book when I was a kid, and neither of the movies has much to do with it.

Dune by Frank Herbet

Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers.

WHOOOOO!

(Actually, it's lower on my list of Sayers favorites because I read it for a class and that can kind of suck the fun out of something, but still, Sayers!)

Re: Favorite novels

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I just got my mom reading that one. She's always asking me for book recs.

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Wuthering Heights

I love that almost everyone in it is despicable in one way or another. And yes, I sexualize the hell out of Heathcliff.

I have way too many to do a full list, but some of my favorites that don't get enough love

--The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West - aka the only Cold War spy novel that's actually set pre-WWI and features a 100 page conversation about Russian political theory. But it's also really funny in parts.

--The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks - I think this may have been a fluke because Banks' other work is meh, but it's so, so good and heartbreaking and she does a lot of interesting things with perspective.

--Interpreter of All Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, but "When Mr. Prizada Came to Dine" in particular.

--Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl - it can seem sort of precious and hipster-y on first glance, but it's got a lot more to it. I know people say that's it's a Secret History ripoff, but it's certainly got a lot more nuance to it (and I can accept a lot more "following along with dumb shit and bad ideas" from high school students than college, for some reason)

I've read the Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera three times, and I loved it more each time. The problem is I haven't read it in about five years, and my tastes and outlook on life have changed significantly since then. I like to think I would still enjoy it, but I don't know.

I still need to read that one. I picked up a Kundera book at a used book sale a while back (Ignorance) and liked it but haven't gotten around to any of his others yet.

He gets a lot of shit for being "Stephen King Lite" but I really like Dean Koontz's From The Corner of His Eye.

DA. I actually prefer Dean Koontz over Stephen King. I find his writing style more enjoyable and his endings to be more satisfying. I'm never content with the way Stephen King writes his endings.

Anything by Robert Cormier. If I had to choose one, I'd choose After The First Death because it was the first I read.

The Stand (revised edition) by Stephen King. This is one book that I can pretty much open anywhere and start reading. Love it.

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. I like the Anne books, too, but I like this one just a bit more.

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. Yeah, kinda soap opera-ish but I do enjoy reading it.

-Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

-The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

I don't know, I read a lot of books but it's hard for me to find books that I don't criticize at the end. Not that I don't enjoy them, but elevating them to "Favorite" category is tough..

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

probably others but for some reason I can not remember any others at the moment

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson are definitely in my top ten.

So many to choose from....

Dialogues with the Devil by Taylor Caldwell, an epistolary novel. I enjoy many of her other works as well.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. I read it annually.

The Sheik by E. M. Hull. It's ancient but I love it, agespots and all.

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. The book reads like one long free verse poem to me. Very evocative and tragic.

The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop, though only the original trilogy as I feel some of the later books start making the Blood a bit too animalistic.

I can say something similar about David Eddings - I love the Elenium/Tamuli series and the Begariad/Mallorean series, and Althalus is not bad, but ideas that cropped up in Althalus about altering history were taken too far for my liking at the end of the Elder Gods series.

The Last Unicorn.

Tolkien, particularly the Silmarillion.

Anne MacCaffery's Crystal Singer, Talents and Ship Who Sings books.

Discworld.

Choosing just one, or even a short list, is kind of impossible.

^This. Oh, so this.

Brideshead Revistied, Watership Down, Downbelow Station, Out of Africa, The Jungle Books (not really a novel, but....)

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