The best book you've ever read is?

[chrisms]

I'm halfway through On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and it could end up being the best. The first Kerouac novel I've read, plan on getting more.

I'm a big Hunter Thompson fan, but have never read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet.. so I have that to look forward to.

I plan on getting to War and Peace eventually, but is it worth it? I've seen it in bookstores, what a gigantic novel.

 

[zainali]

1984

 

[Ticks]

Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut

 

[sjetexas]

The unabridged version of The Stand.
Watchers
The Rainmaker

 

[Juno]

1984 by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris
Only the Strong Survive by Larry Platt (A biography about Allen Iverson, a great book)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

 

[DocBartend]

Confederacy of Dunces

 

[Brule]

Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Lord of the Rings
Walden
Candide

EDIT: A novel deals with concretes and creates an emotional response that non-fiction can't do. For example, 1984 is powerful in a way an essay against censorship never could. (it makes sense to read the non-fiction afterwards if you want a better understanding)

 

[kindest]

ive only truely read island of the blue dolphins..
and it rocked!