What is your favorite book? You don't have to say what the book is about, but you can if you want.
My favorite books would be:
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
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This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey transforms him overnight from a child enthralled by American hip-hop music and dance to an internal refugee bereft of family, wandering from village to village in a country grown deeply divided by the indiscriminate atrocities of unruly, sociopathic rebel and army forces. Beah then finds himself in the army—in a drug-filled life of casual mass slaughter that lasts until he is 15, when he's brought to a rehabilitation center sponsored by UNICEF and partnering NGOs. The process marks out Beah as a gifted spokesman for the center's work after his "repatriation" to civilian life in the capital, where he lives with his family and a distant uncle. When the war finally engulfs the capital, it sends 17-year-old Beah fleeing again, this time to the U.S., where he now lives. (Beah graduated from Oberlin College in 2004.) Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war and the ongoing plight of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide. - Publishers Weekly
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It by Stephen King
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A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry's sewers once more. - StephenKing.com
Edit: Btw,
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a true story.
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A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.
It was the funniest time I have ever had reading a book. I was laughing the whole way through.
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Hmmm... Thats hard for me. The Dresden Files books were good. But you said book. So I would have to say
Where the Red Fern Grows. Sad at the end, but pretty good cover to end.
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Sharpe's Tiger, I just finished it monday. I really burned the midnight oil with this one. It's about a private in the British army attacking Mysore during the Napoleonic wars (it's fiction though).
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Relatively ancient and inactive
Steven King's
The Stand. A bit chaotic, but damn it's good. A rather unrealistic (with magic) but awesome apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novel.
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I really liked The Hobbit, even though I haven't read it since I was 8, and it's the only Tolkein book I like. (I've only read it, The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, and the Children of Hurin, and I hated the others.)
Also, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Also this.
And Survivor, Choke, Strange than Fiction, and all of Palanhuik's other books.
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Relatively ancient and inactive
Also, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It's not THAT good.
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Auto-win.
Though aimed at yung 'uns, I agree
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I would definatly have to say
Dean Karnases: Ultramarathon man, confessions of an all night runnerI read that book last cross country season and it really inspired me to go out on much longer runs and stuff and not worry about my pr's or anything. I would recomend it to anyone who is into running.
Basicly its a life story about this man Dean Karnases who started running very long distances when he was about 30. He does a number of very daunting runs, such as the Badwater Relay, which is a 135 mile run accross death valley
its inspiring stuff
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Zombie survival guide. Teachers should include it into their lesson plans along with the other crap they force you to read.
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In no particular order
Of mice and Men
Old man and the Sea
Harry Potter series
Catcher in the Rye
The Holy Bible
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Apologetic books by C.S. Lewis and others
To kill a Mockingbird
Calvin and Hobbes (not sure if these count but... yea lol)
Fahrenheit 451
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Its been awhile since I thought about this but my favorite book would have to be
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
(Its from last year, I'm sure I've read better so far but this is all I can remember)
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Into The Wilid by Jon Krakauer
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Bloom County
lovin'
maybe not my favorite book tho
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