Mine are the sword and sorcery genre.

To be exact, The Simarillon is my favorite.

What is yours and the genre? Hopefully this will give us bookworms a good reading list to go down!

Fantasy(sword and sorcery), scifi and horror.

My all time favorite book is Boy's Life by Robert McCammon.

I'd say it's mystery, fantasy, and coming of age.

The book is the tale of eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson who grows up in the town of Zephyr, Alabama, where magic and surprise are commonplace. The plot of the story starts out as Cory's father Tom, on his ordinary milkman route, watches a car drive straight into a deep lake and plunge down to the bottom with a passenger inside. He jumps into the lake in an attempt to save the driver of the car, and that is when the tale turns for the worst. The driver of this car has been the victim of murder. He is stripped naked, strangled with a copper wire, and handcuffed to the steering wheel. This vision and the realization that there is evil in the small town of Zephyr is enough to haunt Cory's father. An old woman called the Lady might be able to help Cory's father, but he won't go to her. Cory also has several adventures with his friends ( Johnny, Davy Ray, and Ben) such as flying after school is out the last day of school. Cory has a dog named Rebel and a bike named Rocket. Cory also has an eccentric grandfather, whose name is Jaybird.

The story is set in the early 1960s and makes observations about changes that were happening in America at that time with particular emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement - several of the characters are connected to the Ku Klux Klan, and the segregation of the black community is referred to in some detail.

Cory's story with its pervading sense of childhood innocence tempered and compromised by experience is reminiscent of the stories of Ray Bradbury, and more recently some of Stephen King's novels; as such it transcends the horror genre despite the understated supernatural elements. At the heart of the story is Cory's relationship with his father which tinges the narrative with a subtle melancholy.

I know Stephan King is supposed to write horrors. I've read two of his books and I don't consider them horrors as much as adventure/action instead.

They are Firestarter and The Dead Zone. They made a movie of firestarter but the book was so much better (of course) and The Dead Zone was very intrigueing. The Dead Zone was about a man who could see the future except for a pivotal moment in time where he could not "see."

Well written and makes you wonder what is happening next!

I don't read very much but the last book I read was The Alchemist. I really enjoyed it......

Those are both great books.

Not all of King's books are horror, he also wrote Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption which was adapted as The Shawshank Redemption. Also The Body which became Stand By Me. And a couple of science fiction books- The Long Walk, and The Running Man(which was very very very loosely adapted with Ahnold.) And The Green Mile.

His newest book 11/22/63 is about a man from the present who finds a doorway to the past, so he goes back to try and stop Kennedy's assassination, but because he is only able to go back to a specific time in the late 50's, he has to live back in time and wait for 1963.

Was it fantasy or what???

I have always loved 'The Count of Monte Cristo'
because it deals with all the 7 deadly sins,
so it is complete, in and of itself.

Sorta. It is about a young mans journey. I found it inspirational....

That sounds like an action book, or was it a mystery?

'Night Watch', by Terry Pratchett.

Humor (lots of it), time travel, magic, a civil war (or, more like a 'civil ruckus') assassins, and murderous psycopats. Everything you'd ever want in a good book!

Anyone here read it?

Oh, and 'Good Omens' are one of my all time favourites as well. Describing the events of the apocalypse in a way that will have you writhing on the floor with laughter! by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

(and since I mentioned Gaiman I might as well mention that 'American Gods' should be a mandatory read for EVERYONE!)

The Jungle Upton Sinclair

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

Into the wild! film is good too. so inspirational!

Have you read "The Shack" or "The Search for Significance" ?

To Kill a Mockingbird is a favorite of mine as well.

Everyone should it read it. Teached me a valuable lesson.

The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Little Prince by St-Exupery
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
Rabbit Boss by Thomas Sanchez
Collected Works of Mark Twain
Poetry by Robert Frost
Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The Iliad
All of Shakespeare

I could go on . . . I am constantly reading.

Edited to add more

The 48 laws of power... Greatest book I've read in a long time

This is a tough one, I love so many different books. Now I have 2 series though that have to be at the top of my list. The Kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, and The Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Both are excellent series and both are fantasy novels. Hope you can enjoy them as much as i have =)

All the books of the Sword of Truth Fantasy series by Terry Goodkind are definitely my favorite. >:D But my favorite of the series would probably have to be "The Faith of the Fallen". As well as some other books by him that are sort of tied to the series. But the Hunger Games series is also pretty high up there. :P

My favorite is a tie between two, both by Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, and Time Enough for Love. Both were excellent, and I have probably read them at least 5 times each. Anne Rices' Vampire Chronicles come close, particularly: The Vampire Lastat, and Memnoch The Devil.