One of my all-time favorites is The Count of Monte Cristo. I first read it in high school, and I recently upgraded my high school paperback for a hardcover. I read it about once every 18 months or so.

i have to many favorite titles to list but here is a short verision
Ficciones- Jorge Luis Borges
Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut (great author from Indy)
American Gods- Neil Gaiman
Race- Studs Terkel (great chicago author)
Perdido Street Station- China Mievelle
Passions and Impression- Pablo Naruda
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov
Anarchism and Other Essays- Emma Goldman
Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino
City of Saints and Madmen- Jeff Vandermeer
You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers

well thats the short list

My favorites change from week to week..lol...here goes
- The Master and Magerita (Bulgakov)
- The Fall (Camus)
- Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
- Satanic Verses (Rush.)
- Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
- 100 years of solitude (Marquaiz)
- Divina Comedia (Dante)
- Tinker Creek (?)
- Geneology or Morals (Nietzche)
- On the Road (Carouac)
- L'etranger (Camus)

- wow, that was hard, but got me to thinkin about re-reading a few again...hmm...

Enders Game
all quiet on the western front- was pretty good
Fast Food nation

Posted by Kbasa Enders Game all quiet on the western front- was pretty good Fast Food nation

Loved Fast Food Nation.

Les Miserables. I read it in 10th grade and for the six weeks it took me to read, I lived it.

hrmm i dont read often but im a big anne rice fan ... id have to say my favs would be interview with the vampire and blood canticle

Posted by Jono! My favorites change from week to week..lol...here goes - The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)

Am I the only one who found that book murder to get through? It was like hiking uphill with concrete boots on! But i do own it.....lol, the irony. Maybe my translation is just bad.

My list of faves: (it changes with the wind, lol)
-Ender's Game (loved it since i was in grade 4)
-Wuthering Heights
-Animal Farm
-Neverwhere
-Hottentot Venus
-Poisonwood Bible
-Outlander and the others from that series (I can't help it!!! *is ashamed*)
-Household Gods
-Everything Is Illuminated
-Oryx and Crake
-The Blind Assassin (good old atwood)
-Brave New World (Love speculative dystopias)

Man, so many more, I can't even remember I'll modify this list as they come to mind.

- L'etranger (Camus)

The Stranger...
good choice! i second it.
i read that one a while ago, and had forgotten all about it.

Posted by scarlett -Animal Farm

That book was probably the worst book I have ever read. But then it was written to look like a government so I can't really argue my case.

Posted by I Poke Badgers With Spoons That book was probably the worst book I have ever read. But then it was written to look like a government so I can't really argue my case.

thats called satire.

Although I have lots and lots of favourite books I'm lucky enough that my all time favourite is easy to figure out.

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow

A long, sometimes confusing, often funny, surprisingly profound read. Pynchon is a little known genius who has influenced scores of writers, including...

Matt Ruff - Sewer, Gas and Electric

UE, humour, philosophy and all sorts of other stuff all rolled into one hell of a sci-fi.

Those two pretty much crown my fiction list, but boy is that a long list. As for non fiction that's harder to quanify. The one that's made the biggest difference in my understanding and outlook on the world and life recently is...

Robert Moore - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

A Jungian psychology book about the mature masculine archetypes and how to access them.

And I'll stop now. Don't get the guy who spent 6 years studying literature and philosophy started...

Posted by Kay O. Sweaver Matt Ruff - Sewer, Gas and Electric UE, humour, philosophy and all sorts of other stuff all rolled into one hell of a sci-fi.

One of my all-time favorite books. I think it's out-of-print though.

Isn't it a G.A.S.? ;)

Every time I read it I notice new things.

wow, I wonder if there is still such a literate crowd hanging out here?

Anyway,

Don Quixote-- Cervantes
Ulysses-- James Joyce ( dont pretend to understand all of it)
V-----Thomas Pynchon ( same deal as above)
Slapstick--Kurt Vonegut (Hi Ho)
Waterland--Graham Swift
Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy --Douglas Adams(read the set at least 3 times)

I have many best-seller non-fiction favourites, but as for classics, here's two:

Catch-22
The Great Gatsby

There's far too many 'contemporary' titles to list, but as far as classics:
The Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World
The Great Gatsby
MacBeth

Posted by Kay O. Sweaver Robert Moore - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover A Jungian psychology book about the mature masculine archetypes and how to access them.

Hey, awesome book, had a huge influence on me too ! You're the first person I've EVER come across who knows this book.

PS: you left out Douglas Gillette as co-author.

Nice, a lot of mine have been mentioned here.

Oryx & Crake (Thus my username)
The Fountainhead
Anthem
Animal Farm
Catcher in the Rye
World War Z
The Road
The Somnambulist
Day by Day Armageddon
Plague of the Dead
Thunder and Ashes

...Oh so many.

My all-time favorite is The Once and Future King by T. H. White. It's the classic King Arthur legend with a lot of interesting twists. it follows Arthur from a very young age to the end of his life. It's one of the very few books I've read that has made me laugh out loud and choke up in the same story. I recommend it to everyone.