What are your 3 Favorite Books - Fiction & Non-Fiction

Since it's so difficult to pick just one book as your favorite, what are your top 3 books in both fiction and non-fiction? Mine:

FICTION:

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Dark Tower Vol. 1-7 - Stephen King

NON-FICTION:

The New Rulers of the World - John Pilger
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
The Essential Ken Wilber

FICTION: (This is the hardest...I have so many)
Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
The World According To Garp - John Irving
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

NON-FICTION: (I don't read non-fiction much)
Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
Freakonomics - Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

FICTION:
Coming Home - Rosamunde Pilcher
The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

NON-FICTION (like Cheesybanana, I don't read a whole lot of non-fiction):
Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
One Child - Torey Hayden
Having trouble coming up with a third...

Fiction:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell

Non-Fiction:
Psychological Types - C.G. Jung
The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
TiHKAL - Alexander Shulgin

I can't really chose but my FAVORITE is

A Million Little Pieces-James Frey

Not sure if it's considered fiction or nonfiction as it was originally nonfiction then there was some scandal on Oprah about how some of it was lies, but I don't care it was still a great book.

cheesybanana said:

FICTION: (This is the hardest...I have so many)
Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
The World According To Garp - John Irving
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

NON-FICTION: (I don't read non-fiction much)
Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
Freakonomics - Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

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I really like Murakami too...I've only read "A Wild Sheep Chase" and "Norwegian Wood" though. I will check out "Wind-Up Bird Chronicles."

Short History of Nearly Everything was pretty good. Freakonomics was really interesting but I only got one or two chapters in before I got distracted...people keep recommending it so I have to finish it one of these days!

Fiction:
1.) 1984 - George Orwell
2.) Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
3.) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Non-Fiction
1.) The Mind of The Market - Michael Shermer (I'm still in the midst of reading this book, but it has already reached #1 in my mind.)
2.) The Age of Turbulence - Alan Greenspan
3.) Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman

Fiction:
1. Swan Song - Robert McGammon
2. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(I also would put Brave New World and Grapes of Wrath as ties in my top 3 too)

NF:
1. Gotham - Edward Burrows
2. How the Other Half Lives - Jacob Riis
3. Five Points - Tyler Anbinder

Fiction:
Scarecrow - Matthew Riley
The Redemption of Althalus - David and Leigh Eddings
Beasts of Iron - Paul C. Goosen (mate of mine... probably one of the best books I've ever read too)

Non-Fiction:
Long Hard Road Out of Hell - Marilyn Manson + Neil Strauss
Case for a Creator - Lee Strobel
If I Were God, I'd End All The Pain - John Dickson

Non fiction
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World
Anthem - Ayn Rynd

Also handmaids tale is up there, but the ending was well you know.

Not much non fiction since i have been busy reading dystopia style novels for school.

k3s said:

Anthem - Ayn Rynd

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Atlas Shrugged for people who don't want to read 1500 pages.