Candide by Voltaire

Books are one of my biggest passions. Still can't go past The Stand by Stephen King though that is a very old favourite.

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. A spectacular fictional book. Awesome character development and appealing story.

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. The Mote in Gods Eye by Niven and Pournelle. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.

You want me to pick a favourite book? Why not something easy, like favourite nephew or favourite kidney.

So many great books. However, if I had to give you a shortlist of favourite books, I would say:

Hitchhikers Guide
Ready Player One
Reamde
The Handmaid's Tale (followed closely by anything else by Atwood)
Anything (seriously, anything at all) by Janette Turner Hospital
Great Gatsby
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
The Little Company

I'm stopping here, or I might go on all night.

Ooohhh. So many to chose from. Ringworld, The Mote in Gods Eye, Sagan’s Demon Haunted World, among others.

One that really sticks out is from a long time ago. Marathon Man, William Goldman.

Kokos Kitten ! I Did notice that it’s a kids book, but I’ve read it 50 times at least!

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes are my all time favorites also Charles Dickens and any kind of who dunnit.

Essays - Montaigne

I am reading 'Happy' by Derren Brown at the moment [amazon.co.uk] Have you heard of it or come across it so far?

I love so many. Many of John Irving's novels. Vonnegut. Steinbeck. "To Kill a Mockingbird." "I'll Love you Forever."

I go for a while without reading anything, novel wise, then find something I like and obsess about it! Previous obsessions include; John Wyndham, Agatha Christie, Frank Herbert and Dennis Wheatley

Nor any drop to drink by Marcus Mainwaring loved it, or maybe favourite was "the sheep look up"

I'm an avid reader. I can't choose. But I've got the fondest memories of William Horwood's Duncton Wood books.

My favorite book is the next good one I've not read yet!

But if you're looking for ideas, Winterdance, about a man determined to train his dog sled team to run the Iditarod, is so funny you'll probably cause a scene laughing, so be warned

I only want to read books on Kindle; I don't do paper any more. No more shelf storage problems, dust puffing into my eyes when I turn the pages. I just read my tablet contentedly wherever I am.

Julian by Gore Vidal / Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Peripheral.
By William Gibson.
[play.google.com]

Hollow chocolate bunnys of the apocalypse
The entire discworld series
Most of James Herbert's work
Can pick favorite authors and genres but a favorite book can't do it

I love the Urban Fantasy genre. My favorite series is The Hallows by Kim Harrison.

The Surgeon of Crowthorne - retitled for US market - best book for me of all decades of reading, based on fact

@Librophile13 -- By "bookseller", what exactly do you mean?

My favorite novel is probably A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson, though Pop. 1280 and The Killer Inside Me aren't far behind.

I'm also a big fan of comic books.

Impossible to pick a favourite but one that probably tops the front runners is Vonnegut's Galapagos. Credible, funny, humane, insightful and it includes a great poem!
For non-fiction it'd have to be Jill Homer's books about her long distance cycling. Honest and relatable with some profound insights. @birdingnut, Jill's cycled the Iditarod in winter

The Culture of Make Believe, Derrick Jensen