How to Talk Dirty and Influence People - Lenny Bruce

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

The World is Flat - A Brief History of the 20th Century - Thomas Friedman

The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman

Watership Down - Richard Adams

I own thousands of books...

Quit bragging and name three, dammit! ;)

Ron

Three? Really? Three?

My last inventory of my books numbered well into the five digits!

Let's see. Three.

I would have to include an entire series as "Book 1".

#1) The Witch World series by Andre Norton

#2) Arcana Mundi by Georg Luck

#3) The Iliad by Homer, Robert Fagles translation

Thomas Paine's "The Age Of Reason"

Thomas Paine's "The Age Of Reason"

I've actually read it four times, but you only asked for three.

Timothy

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

3. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

However, I might exchange #3 for a book on how to build a radio to get myself rescued off the island.

Read it to each class I taught - over 30 times. Found something new and delightful each time. So much wisdom in that book!

#2. The Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

#3. The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Monkey Wrench Gang

Atlas Shrugged

Ninteen Eighty Four

Three right-now-favorites:

John R. Stilgoe - Lifeboat "A History of Courage, Cravenness, and Survival at Sea"
...fantastic book! Easy to read, hair-raising in parts, outrageous in parts, and riveting throughout.

Gray Brechin - Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
...So you think Northern California is a pretty nice hippy-dippy nature-loving peacenik liberal place to live? Think again!

S. J. Perelman (edited by Steve Martin) - Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman
...OMG beyond hilarious. One of the funniest, wittiest writers I've ever ever ever read.

1. The Book of Mormon (this is another testament of Jesus Christ)

2. The Doctrine & Covenants (God speaking to a modern prophet, amazing)

3. The Pearl of Great Price (a modern prophet translates ancient documents for our modern day salvation - awesome)


Yeah, those would be my three most favorite books. Oh ye of little faith.

;-)

4. The Ensign

5. Seminary Manuals

6. Truth Restored

7. Jesus the Christ

8. A Marvelous Workout and a Wonder

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267. The Bible

268. Pathways to Perfection - Thomas S. Monson

269. Teach Ye Diligently - Boyd K. Packer

270. Charlie's Monument - Blaine Yorgasen

MINARET (Leila Aboulela, 2005). The story of a filthy rich, utterly westernized girl from Sudan who becomes a dirt-poor, fundamentalist housemaid in London. It looks like chick-lit, but JM Coetzee loved it.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Mark Haddon, 2003). The story of a fifteen-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who finds out the truth the only human being he can somewhat relate to: his dedicated single father.

LE PERIPLE DE BALDASSARE (Amin Maalouf, 1999). A pan-European road trip set in 1665, when millions of Christians thought the end of the world would come to pass in 1666. Recommended for anyone who believes the end is nigh. Maalouf, A Lebanese christian who moved to France in the 1970s, is my favorite writer. I also recommend Samarcande, Le rocher de Tanios, Les échelles du Levant, etc.



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Ha ha... you considered mentioning Remains of the Day and I almost listed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.



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#1. The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan (This book rewired my brain!)

#2. Dune - Frank Herbert

#3. The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy (Yeah, its old and dated now, but its one of the few books I could not put down.)



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My three favorites:

A History of Western Philosophy -- Bertrand Russell

Ontogeny and Phylogeny -- Stephen Jay Gould

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man -- John Perkins

flyfish Wrote:
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> Confessions of an Economic Hit Man -- John
> Perkins

Hmmm, I stopped reading that about halfway though. I mean, the guy's a cook, isn't he?

Schindler's List

All of Tony Hillerman's mysteries - I couldn't decide among them!

Hunt for Red October

His Dark Materials Trilogy
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and I'm still sick and can't think of a third. When I do, I'll post.

I can't begin to count how many books I have and 97% are non-fiction, so this'll be difficult.

In no particular order:

The Big Year - Mark Obmascik (soon to be a major motion picture)

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Tiny Houses - Lester Walker

I really don't have favorites, though.

Watership Down - Richard Adams

The Dark is Rising sequence - Susan Cooper

Little Britches [or, 'Father and I Were Ranchers'] - Ralph Moody

What can I say, I spent 32 years teaching 9-10 year olds. Besides loving them, I learned to love their literature as well!

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Wow, apikoros. I, too, absolutely love Susan Cooper's books AND the Ralph Moody books! Great stuff. Can't wait till my son is old enough to read and enjoy those series too. I have extremely fond memories of childhood and reading both of those.

Erin (who loves loves loves juvie lit. :) )

Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose

Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and an Epilogue

All of which are published by the Library of America

http://www.loa.org/

The end of faith -- Sam Harris
The God Delusion -- Richard Dawkins
God is not Great -- Christopher Hitchens

Fiction:
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Native Son by Richard Wright

Non-Fiction:
No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie
A Gathering of Saints by Robert Lindsey
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Lenny Bruce??? LOL, that's a name I haven't herd for a long time. I read him in high school and thought I was going to hell cause I liked him. :)

Me, I like Uranium Daughter, Historical Geology, and Desert Solitaire.

errr. heard, not herd...

"Catch 22- Joseph Heller" I've read this about 6 times or more.

"A Helmet for my Pillow" Robert Leckie

"The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle" Jane Leavy Best researched material I've ever read examining the man I wanted to be as a kid.

"And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways," Yossarian continued. … "There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?"



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Good Call, this is my favorite:

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
Catch-22

Gone With the Wind
Winds of War
War and Remembrance

I finally read Gone With the Wind nine years ago. I was surprised I loved it so much. In my excitement, I talked to my mom about it and she told me she had to sneak that book into her TBM home and read it under the covers because it was sooooo taboo.

Pappion
Mig Pilot
A Torch To The Enemy

Hannibal--Thomas Harris

The Road--Cormac McCarthy

Watchmen--Alan Moore

The Green Hat-Michael Arlen
The Wind in the Willows-Kenneth Graham
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Although I can name many others, my own library overflows my house, and I work at the public library mainly for the access to any book that strikes my fancy. God help me if I ever get a kindle.

I named my Kindle "Mr. Toad."

I do like some *heavyweight* books and own quite a lot of non-fiction.... but most of mine have been mentioned (Incidentally @ Janebond the book is called 'schindler's Ark' by Thomas Keneally)

anyway, I will just mention the three, that I got for Christmas.
The Graveyard book - Neil Gaiman
I Shall wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - Andrew Shaffer

all excellent entertainment.

Ulysses - James Joyce
How to Read the Bible (James Kugel - it started me on my path to doubt)
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo Events in America - Daniel Boorstin

Keeping it on point, books kept me from losing my mind to Mormonism:

As a kid?

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

That I've read in the last five years?

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (so sue me)
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende

Also, like Anne Tyler & David Sedaris, etc.

I could go on and on. These are the ones that came to mind.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver


The End of Faith by Sam Harris

My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter


PS I have King Leopold's Ghost and a couple of novels by Coetzee, so since they have been mentioned here, I shall get them into my active stack.