Best Books of All Time

[pyonir]

Autobiography of Malcolm X
Black Like me - John Howard Griffin
Homer's Odyssey

 

[glen]

The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[DukeN]

Fav book of all time :

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway

Other favorites in no particular order :

Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
To Kill a Mocknigbird
Hamlet
The Fountainhead / We the People - Ayn Rand
LoTR
Any dilbert ones

 

[silverpig]

Shawshank was a very good book. (actually, story in a book)

 

[dolph]

glad i was able to mention these first:
the godfather (just read it, wow... incredible. for a while it was the best selling novel of all time, and with good reason, too)

oh, and the world according to garp by john irving. another great book.

i really liked crime & punishment, and atlas shrugged...
grapes of wrath, and east of eden. oh, and of mice and men... jesus, what a book.

it's very comforting to know that despite the increasingly depressing amount of crap put out by the rest of the entertainment industry, there will always be an infinite supply of good books available (for all practical purposes)

reading is cool!

 

[HiveMaster]

Starship Troopers was a great book (the movie sucked ass).
The Forever War was also great--a completely opposite viewpoint from ST...I would read ST then TFW back to back just for kicks.

Stranger in a Strange Land
The Number of the Beast
Fail Safe

The Foundation Trilogy...

But Best of All would have to be....
Tau Zero by Fred Pohl.

 

[geoff2k]

Original poster didn't specify fiction vs. non-fiction, so here's some non-fiction:

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
The Moral Animal (Robert Wright)
Code (Charles Petzold)

 

[CubicZirconia]

The Foundation Series by Asimov.

 

[CanOWorms]

Musashi

 

[MaxDSP]

Tom Clancy- Rainbow Six

 

[GasX]

Jack Kerouac - On The Road
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Henry Charriere - Papillon
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
William Golding - Lord of The Flies
Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly
and anything by Wodehouse or PJ O'Rourke

 

[LordUnum]

Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett

<tiny Elvis>that's huge!</tiny Elvis>

Sex, fighting, gore, fighting, intrigue, fighting, murder, fighting, corruption... did I mention fighting?