Favourite Books of All Time

[Silenia]

The Witcher
Written by Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author. If you still don't know the book and you want to get to know more about it, follow the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher)
I bet many of you know the game though . There was a Polish TV series made as well, based on The Witcher.

The Star Diaries
Another great Polish writer, Stanisław Lem and one of my favourites of his books . I have even made an analysis of part of it for my school project . If you like sci-fi, I bet you'll love Ijon Tichy and his cosmic adventures .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzienniki_gwiazdowe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzienniki_gwiazdowe)

 I love reading Agatha Christhie, Raymond Chandler, Harry Harrison, Andrzej Pilipiuk, Rudyard Kipling and many, many others... The books listed above are just an examples of my main interests .
Sil.

[willng3]

I don't read books very often, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the Inheritance Cycle.  Although Inheritance left me a bit crushed there in the end (if you've read the book you likely understand why), the amount of sheer thought and imagination that must have been put into the 4 novels was extraordinary and made for a series that I could easily spend days incessantly reading if I wanted to.

[NikaZaslavsky]

I don't read books very often, but I've thoroughly enjoyed the Inheritance Cycle.  Although Inheritance left me a bit crushed there in the end (if you've read the book you likely understand why), the amount of sheer thought and imagination that must have been put into the 4 novels was extraordinary and made for a series that I could easily spend days incessantly reading if I wanted to.

I need to read that 4th book.

[mega plini]

The death gate cycle (seven books) is just awesome.

[Corri]

"Narren sterben" by Mario Puzo
i read it in german

[Cheesy111]

I realize that some of these have already been put out here, but I'd like to reinforce their image as great books.

Ender's Game - Possibly my favorite book of all time. It has all the great elements of a sci-fi book, and has that human relationships feel to it you find in Firefly or Serenity.
Dune/God Emperor of Dune - A great series, but it's really heavy sci-fi.  If you don't like sci-fi, this probably isn't the book for you.  On the other hand, it's very philosophical and has a metric ton of amazing quotes.
Those are my favorites, but anything by Orson Scott Card, Sara Douglass, John Grisham or Terry Goodkind/Pratchett is amazing. 

[Silenia]

I realize that some of these have already been put out here, but I'd like to reinforce their image as great books.

Ender's Game - Possibly my favorite book of all time. It has all the great elements of a sci-fi book, and has that human relationships feel to it you find in Firefly or Serenity.

Oh, Ender's game! This book has a kind of personal meaning for me . [I have not listed it above, 'cause I have read the book just few months ago, so it doesn't match for me the sentence 'all time' ]. But here is the story: my 'in-the-future-to-be-boyfriend' used to say I reminded him Ender very much, when it comes to my philosophy of life. When we first met, it was my birthday. He pulled out Ender's game and said that I had mentioned I would love to read it, but he thought it would be better to buy me one as a gift instead of lending me his one. And this day he asked me if I would like to be his girlfriend. [Said 'yes', but not only thanks to the book, lol.]. So I can say Ender's game has changed my life .

Sil.

[artimies7]

I realize that some of these have already been put out here, but I'd like to reinforce their image as great books.

Ender's Game - Possibly my favorite book of all time. It has all the great elements of a sci-fi book, and has that human relationships feel to it you find in Firefly or Serenity.

Oh, Ender's game! This book has a kind of personal meaning for me . [I have not listed it above, 'cause I have read the book just few months ago, so it doesn't match for me the sentence 'all time' ]. But here is the story: my 'in-the-future-to-be-boyfriend' used to say I reminded him Ender very much, when it comes to my philosophy of life. When we first met, it was my birthday. He pulled out Ender's game and said that I had mentioned I would love to read it, but he thought it would be better to buy me one as a gift instead of lending me his one. And this day he asked me if I would like to be his girlfriend. [Said 'yes', but not only thanks to the book, lol.]. So I can say Ender's game has changed my life .

Sil.

Romance much? 

And yes, Ender's Game is a good book. I support it.

[Shrink]

I'm reading both A Song of Fire and Ice and The Night Angel Trilogy. I am one book into the first, and I'm about 30 pages into the third of the latter. Both are easily some of my favorite reads.

I also enjoy Palo Alto by James Franco. Hard to read at times, but fun and quick; Finished the 150 pages or so in about a day

[UnderneathTheLens]

I'm going to have to say Catch 22. It's an amazing book; I reread it all the time.

[McSod]

The Black Company series by Glen Cook.
S'about 9 books. Some of the grittiest dark fantasy stuff I've dealt with, but with a sort of military twist. The sorta thing you inhale, instead of read though. 

War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. Standard reading for the native house-geeks here.

The Dark Tower series by King. Another one of those long series, that I assume most people oughtt'a be familiar with. Not his standard horror. Huge world. Post apocalyptic/fantasy/western... somehow.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Though this is my favourite of 'is, anythin' by Vonnegut ends up falling into that 'brilliant-must read' group.

Also, I don't know that I can place a 'favourite' or 'best', but HP Lovecraft. Man was genius.

[Foraker]

The Honor Harrington series by David Weber. But I've to wait always for the translation into german.
And often they split one of the original books into two german books.