Chicks On Lit discussion

What is your favorite book of all time? Or, you could list more than one if you can't just name one.

I usually read Chick Lit and am trying to branch out. I have found that CoL has members that enjoy a wide variety of genres so I'm interested in getting some book suggestions as well!!

Favorite book of all time........ To Kill a Mockingbird hands down.

As for others.... most anything by James Patterson... he is my guilty pleasure.....

Time Travelers Wife is pretty high up the list too.

I have 2 - Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk (which I totally recommend to every woman, by the way!) and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith.

My all time favorites are Anna Karenina, The Time Traveler's Wife, and White Oleander.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,

oh it is hard to list I tend to think of authours..

I love Ian McKewan!

I believe my all time favorites are Gone With The Wind (which is a million times better than the movie, which is my favorite movie), To Kill a Mockingbird, and Catch-22 (which people either love or hate depending on whether they can follow it).

My all time favorite is Gone With The Wind. I love that book.

Also love The Mirror, The Great Gatsby, and Romeo and Juliet.

My two favorites are To Kill A Mockingbird and War and Peace, I'm bizare I know!

teri wrote: "The Good Earth (Pearl Buck); East of Eden (Steinbeck); The Glass Castle; The Time Traveler's Wife; Beneath a Marble Sky; The Great Gatsby."

haha really random..but Pearl S. Buck at one point lived in my town in Bucks County. there is a Pearl S. Buck house not to far away..haha it is actually where i want to have my wedding. it's so amazing there.

East of Eden Steinbeck (masterfully done)
Gone with the Wind Margret Mitchell (Best Chick Lit EVER)
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (Timeless)
Mere Christianity cs lewis (Inspiring)
Emma Jane Austen (fun)
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte (dark)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

Fav. of all time? That is a hard one. I guess for me it was Lonesome Dove. I could read it over and over. Tuck Everlasting had a big effect on me too. My fav. from childhood. I recently got it for my daughter and she says it's the best book ever.

Pride and prejudice (jane austen)
is one I can read over and over and so are most of hers. Jane Eyre I can and will read over and over :)
To Kill a Mockingbird too..oh so many I can't just pick 1 or 10!

I forgot about Gatsby! Gatsby is also on my all-time favorites list.

Great Question.

The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
An American Tragedy
Native Son
The Stand
The Poisonwood Bible
My Name is Asher Lev
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations

To name a few.....

Hmm... Well, definitely To Kill a Mockingbird, no question about that. That is always going to be number 1. But I also love love love A Wrinkle in Time, and this very obscure books called A Voice in the Wind by Kathryn Lasky. That kind of shaped who I am today, just a little bit. At least with my desire to go to the American Southwest.

Catcher in the Rye
Time Traveler's Wife
Pride and Prejudice

The Great Gatsby
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Brave New World
Vanity Fair
The Chronicles of Narnia

I have so many favorites, it's sooo hard to choose. If I absolutely must...I would have to say The Glass Castle, Playing With The Grown-ups and The Other Boleyn Girl.

I really like seeing what other people's favorites are. I was talking with a pastor once about books and she said that our favorite books say a lot about us, you know--what we want in life, our (secret?) goals and ambitions, etc.

Redeeming Love
Pride and Prejudice
Memoirs of a Geisha

those are probably my top 3 of all i have read so far.

The Sun Also Rises
The Awakening
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Little House on the Prairie series

Top Five Favorite Books of all Time:
East of Eden (because it's really about America)
Gone with the Wind (Funny how everyone loves that one??)
White Oleander (because I related way too much)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Every woman who has ever been misunderstood should read it)
Autobiography of Henry XIII (Because I love me some Henry.)

Samantha, Everyone loves Gone With the Wind because it's an awesome book. Like, the best ever. (I'm being facetious for everyone who doesn't know)

Hmmm...that is a hard one.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Romeo & Juliet (though not technically a book)
Cell and Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Napalm & Sillyputty by George Carlin

Harriet the Spy.

My recent fave has to be The History of Love


And I thank this group for introducing me to it!!

My favorite of all time would be Winnie the Pooh. I love all the Pooh stories and even now I still read them from time to time.

For a recent fav I have to add
The Gargoyleby Andrew Davidson a goodreads author.

Okay that is like one of life's harder questions because that is like asking which is your favorite child or parent...

But if I had to chose only one (& I am my Mom's favorite child too)...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Paper Dresses by Shelby Heron. don't know why I love this book so much, it's a patchwork of likes. I have forever since searched for Capidomonte Roses and looked for pairs of elderly sisters with slightly crochety and eccentric ways with poser crease wrinkles.

I have forever longed for a monopoly set from Neiman Marcus made totally of pastel chocolates to set out and see if anyone notices.

I want a butterfly tatoo on my breast.

I love this book.

Leslie wrote: "Okay that is like one of life's harder questions because that is like asking which is your favorite child or parent...

But if I had to chose only one (& I am my Mom's favorite child too)...
Pri..."

I love the very first Pooh Poem ever written (I think it si in When you are six, but it can be found online just to read aloud, just type in the title of the Poem and google it)

I read it to my kids most night alternated with Jabberwocky.

"Wherever I go, there's always pooh, there's always pooh and me, wherever I go, he wants to go,
Where are you going today says pooh,
Well that's very odd, cause I was too!

Let's go together says Pooh says he,
Let's go together says Pooh

Favorite of all time? Impossible to name the favorite of all time. I rather come up with a list.

I would definitely put JACOBS LEITER by Steffen Mensching and THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett on the list as well as THE SECRET OF LOST THINGS by Sheridan Hay. And THE THIRTEENTH TALE by Diane Setterfield of course. And then there are the books by Matthew Reilly, Philipp Vandenberg and Wilbur Smith. I also have to mention Sarah Blake, Gemma O'Connor and Brenda Joyce.

Fav's from back in the day:
The Great Gatsby
Night
Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece Mythology's Great Tales of Valor and Romance
Where the Heart Is
She's Come Undone
A Southern Exposure

More recent fav's
Loving Frank A Novel
Little Women
Sufficient Grace A Novel
Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
The Secret Life of Bees

Courtney, feel free to take a look at my "All Time Fav's" Shelf on Goodreads.

For me, favorite of all time has to be a book I actually will keep (most times I like to give my books away). Another thing the book is usually something I'll go out and buy and not get from a book sale or the library.

Hands down - favorite seris is Harry Potter. Have re-read them several times. Usually in anticipation of the latest book that was coming out but I will re-read these again.

Another favorite is Phantom by Susan Kay (?). I think that is her name. She wrote a wonderful backstory to Phantom of the Opera. It did include the story already known but it gave sooooo much more vivid detail.

I can't name just one favorite, so here goes... (in no order)

To Kill A Mockingbird
Ragtime
Gone To Soldiers
The Great Gatsby
Gone With The Wind
The Hundred Secret Senses

Of course, I have so many more books that I really, really, really like!

I loved the book Pride and Prejudice. I've read it in French and in English, watched the movie (the one with Keira Knightley in it) and I can read the book over and over again.

I also love the Harry Potter books. I can read them over and over again. I must have read the 7 of them at least 6-7 times each both in french and in english.

Haha, I have two actually: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (for its epicness and memorable characters and themes) and Jane Austen's Persuasion (for its memorable quotes, intriguing characters and themes) =)

Good to see this thread's making a 'comeback'!

I'd like to add a few I've read this year which are now on my all time faves list: Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling, Saving CeeCee Honeycut by Beth Hoffman and The Lacemakers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri.

Angle of Repose

No other book makes a close second, though I have several books in my 5-star reads folder.

I think the two books that I have re-read over and over in my life would have to be my favorites. I have read Gone With the Wind at least 13 times. When I was in college I didn't read much for pleasure so when I took Interpretation of Fiction just so I could read GWTW again I wrote a paper comparing Scarlett O'Hara with Emma Bovery. The other book that I dearly love and revisit every few years is Little Women. I love all things Louisa May Alcott but Little Women is my all time favorite. Of course every time I read it I hope that Jo will marry Laurie but so far it hasn't happened. Maybe next time...

My all-time fave is "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. I love the book and nearly all of its film/TV incarnations. I have three different copies of it and will likely buy more in the future. I also really loved "War For the Oaks" by Emma Bull.

I have to pick 1?!? Nope cant do it here are a couple

The Little House Collection LOVE this series pretty sure I reread it every Christmas, something about the wholesomeness of these books are so nice to read

Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans by Jane Green I think this has to be my favorite Chicklit book, she's such a strong character and hilarious!Plus I think she is a character that every women can relate to.

Im just gonna go ahead and say it I loved The Twilight Collection! There its out there, ya'll can judge me now =-) I just like the way Meyers write and even though some of the characters are annoying they still seemed to come to life for me. Plus, I cant resits a good forbidden love story!!

And that being said of course Romeo and Juliet Even if it is a play I've read this book at least a 100 times and own it in 4 different copies.

I think the most recent for me and will go into a top favorite is The Hunger Games, I don't know if I can wait for the third one! If you've read these message me I'm dying to chat about them with someone =-)

Lori wrote: "I have to pick 1?!? Nope cant do it here are a couple

The Little House Collection LOVE this series pretty sure I reread it every Christmas, something about the wholesomeness of these..."

Lori, I have to agree with you on Jemima J. It is by far one of my favorites. I read it for a book club that was a large and diverse group of women and every single one of his related to the character and the story.

I can't choose just one favorite but I do love the Great Gatsby and Anne of the Island.

My favorites of all time:

Cat's Cradle
A Confederacy of Dunces
Beyond the Great Indoors
Good Morning, Midnight
Interpreter of Maladies
The House on Mango Street

Yoby wrote: "Paper Dresses by Shelby Heron. don't know why I love this book so much, it's a patchwork of likes. I have forever since searched for Capidomonte Roses and looked for pairs of elderly sisters with..."

I loved your comment so much I tried to find it to add to my reading list and was not successful. Is it out of print?

Julia wrote: "Yoby wrote: "Paper Dresses by Shelby Heron. don't know why I love this book so much, it's a patchwork of likes. I have forever since searched for Capidomonte Roses and looked for pairs of elderly...I loved your comment so much I tried to find it to add to my reading list and was not successful. Is it out of print?"

My library doesn't have it either, I will have to try interlibrary loan.

I couldn't find "Paper Dresses" by Shelby Heron either!! Julia and Denise, let me know if you find it! Now I'm really interested in reading it!!

There are so many, but here are a few...To Kill a Mockingbird, the Diary of Anne Frank, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Sarah's Key, Firefly Lane, Winter Garden, My Sister's Keeper, The Book Thief, Good in Bed, Certain Girls....the list goes on and on...

My favorites so far:


Persuasion- mostly because of the letter near the end.
Nineteen Eighty-Four-freakiest and coolest book I've read.
The Thirteenth Tale
Diablo Guardian- I don't know if this book has an english version, but you HAVE TO READ IT.
The Angel's Game