Which is your favourite Novel?

Am now reading Doris Lessing's 'The Golden Note Book', winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Lessing captures the heady mix of the early Sixties.

I wrote a post about my favourite books, all of which--except one--are non-fiction. The exception is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

after i read fountainhead, i wanted to read atlas shrugged. though i have just started it and finished first two chapters ; a lot of anti-ayn rand stuff online like that play the emotionalists still keeps me from continuing it. 

The first novel I ever read was Anand Math, it remains my favorite till date. 

Other than that, Mother, Exodus, River of Smoke, Sea of Poppies, Jai Somnath and many short novels of Shivani Pant

Here goes my list of all time favs -

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

2. Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck

3. Sherlock Holmes Series - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4. The Diary of a Young Girl - Ann Frank

5. Gently Falls The Bakula - Sudha Murthy

6. Charitraheen - SaratChandra Chattopadhyay

7.  Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

8. The Citadel - Dr. A. J. Cronin

9. The Godfather - Mario Puzo

10. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Long List this!

Well my list of favs is as follows

1. The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
2. To Kill A Mocking Bird-Harper Lee
3. Harry Potter Series-J.K.Rowling
4. The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseni
5. The Zahir-Paulo Coehlo
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseni
7. The Zoya Factor-Anuja Chauhan
8. Battle for Bittora-Anuja Chauhan
9. Dongri to Dubai- Zaidi
10. A Prisoner of Birth-Jeffery Archer

The Godfather. Its something every boy should read, it'll teach him something about being a man.

the only thing it told me was, that they can make a good movie out of it but not one equal to it !!

My all time favorite is Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, it's an amazingly simple read that inspires us to spread our wings and fly... up, above, beyond and within. Here's a quote -

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.

Loved the quote. But would like to know your interpretation of "All they show is limitation "  and " Find out what you already know" 

Thats a really great quote Arti..

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is good.. From the classics i kinda liked Wuthering Heights... Isaac Asimov is good in all his books.. and lotsa others

but my fav would be Hitchhikers' series.. insanely funny.. 

@abhi.. Remember that sprite ad - Dikhawe pe mat jao, apni akal lagao.. Can say it's somewhat on those lines. It's all about breaking the barriers and shackles that we tend to keep our minds in and instead try to think free. :)

I can never remember the names of all my favorite books, so I'm going to give the authors that usually pen them. 

I love Stephen King, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Roald Dahl, Amitav Gosh, Agatha Chrisie, Doriss Lessing, John Wydham & Margaret Atwood, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte

Books worth mentioning have to be July- Karen Roberts,  My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson, Midnight's Children- Rushdie. 

Guess even I can give my favorites genre wise. But my fav genre is science fiction. And the favorites in that genre are

Frank Herbert's Dune series

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.

In crime, Sherlock Holmes is my favorite.

In children's genre, I like Enid Blyton - everything she has written, Harry Potter and Willard Price.

I have read very few novels till date and of them If I could tell you is my favourite. It is a novel focussing on father-daughter relationship.

I will read that!

Go ahead and start crying after you finish reading the novel.  The book was shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010. (link)

Well Mine is Gabriel Garicia Marquez. He is someone I have been religiously following since I was young. His literature work are awesome. Love in the time of Cholera is my fav

HARRY POTTER.

Digital Fortress.

Harry Potter - Oh noo!

Digital Fortress  by Mr Dan ?

Yes by DAN. And HARRY POTTER oh YESSSSSSS!

1. Shiva trilogy

2. da vinci code

are my only two favorite novels!

Da Vinci Code is seriously good ..

Da vinci is one of my favorites too :)

I love Dan Brown and Stephen King. Love Sherlock Holmes.

But true to my heart I'm a batman fanboy and comic book fan so I upvote that more :D

I stopped reading much but now I'm trying to get back, into A Song of Ice and Fire now and its mind blowing as everyone knows by now

What genres do you like? I know it's a late response, but I just saw this post now :) and one is always on the lookout of finding more good books to read :)

So here's my list of my favs. 

1. Da vinci code - thriller,
2. Angels and demons - thriller
3. Walk to remember - Romantic
4. The Sixth Man - Crime,thriller
5. Brief History of Time - Science
6. The Chosen One - (Sam Bourne) - Thriller
7. Autobiography of Lee Iacocca
8. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki ( About how to make money, and how rich ppl think differently)
9. Men are from Marks Women are from Venus ( Fun,light reading about psycological diff between men and women)
10. To kill a Mocking Bird
11. Blink

I have read Rich Dad Poor Dad and  John Gray's Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus!

Thats a long list Ashima!

i must say, the latest one that I read, confessions of a taoist on wallstreet

Yes ,thats good one.