Your Favourite Book

Priya
from Pune
13 years ago

The HP series, Interview with a Vampire, Silence of the Lambs, Atlas Shrugged, Life of Pi, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the Fountainhead, Godfather,Train to Pakistan, Angels and Demons, The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time, most of John Grisham's and Stephen King's - and I'm currently reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, which will probably end up as my most favourite book! 

Vanathi
from Chennai
13 years ago

hey The Fountainhead is good too :) ! If you like Ayn Rand's work, you will love 'We the Living'.

Priya
from Pune
13 years ago

Actually, I have read we The Living, it's good too!!

Sakhi Shah
from Vadodara
13 years ago

Priya, have you read Twilight? How did you feel it compared to Interview with a Vampire? 

Priya
from Pune
13 years ago

Yea, I read Twilight before I read Interview With a Vampire, and I thought it was okay! But I hadn't read much vampire-related fantasy fiction till then. 

After reading books like Interview with a Vampire and the other Vampire Chronicles and Dracula and Salem's Lot, I have to say, Twilight is very, very amateur! It's okay only as long as you don't compare it to any of these books, and God forbid, Harry Potter!!!

Shinjini Mehrotra
from Gurgaon
13 years ago

Here are a few of my favories, in no particular order of preference:

Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling

What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt

Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

All of Paulo Coleho's books (except The Winner Stands Alone)

You can check out other books on my blog too - http://peddlerofdreams.wordpress.com/reading-list/ - that's a list of the books I've read/am reading with links to ones I've reviewed (very few!)

Anik Ghosh
from Bhubaneswar
13 years ago

Why "except The Winner Stands Alone"? Didn't you like it?

Shinjini Mehrotra
from Gurgaon
13 years ago

No Anik, I didn't. I found the dialogues used by the charectors too artificial; I couldn't connect to them at all.

Ashish Tickoo
from Mumbai
13 years ago

Sicilian-Mario Puzo

Timeline,Sphere-Michael Crichton(even Congo!Fantastic reads,though his last two novels Next and Pirate Latitudes didn't match upto his earlier work)

Love In the Times of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Shantaram-Gregory David Roberts

Last Mughal-William Dalrymple

Salems' Lot-Stephen King

Tipping Point-Malcolm Gladwell

Priya
from Pune
13 years ago

If you liked Tipping Point, you should read Blink  Both are really good

Ashish Tickoo
from Mumbai
13 years ago

And I am surprised no one mentioned the 'Lord of the Rings' series!

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

I did mention LOTR series as my fav

Sakhi Shah
from Vadodara
13 years ago

I'm a fantasy lover but LOTR just doesn't appeal to me much somehow... :) 

Mag[m]
from Delhi
13 years ago

mine was Love Life and a Beer can

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

seriously you could not get any other book to write about? You really like it that much?

Mag[m]
from Delhi
13 years ago

at least it is better than the philosophical craps..... truth in its own way and i can feel maself in that

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

cant really argue with that! but did u really like no other book better than that... so much so that u wrote only one book and that too that one... please understand that I am not commenting here... just trying to understand why? because I myself did not hate it but didnt particularly like it either... found it to be too hindi film types

Mag[m]
from Delhi
13 years ago

i liked others too but are already mentioned by others..... and ya its a bit filmy.... and as u him , i know him personally too..... he has a drean so he wrote , not professionally but very much better.... well leave that.... cant say anything

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

u know him? how?

Deepak
from India
13 years ago

by default he knws all!!!!

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
13 years ago

I am not really a Book-ie!! But here is what I have read...Started off reading the "The Jian by Eric Van Lustbader" based on a chinese village, left it half read in 2002. Still unfinished.Then came the HP series that got me hoooked!! Really, started reading books after the Harry Potter.Aft that, classics like Robin Hood, Around the world in 80 days, DaVinci Code,

The Digital Fortress,

Angels and demons,

Deception Point

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Addy same pinch.. didnt understand it well)

Zahir

The Alchemist

2 States

P.S. I love you,

Chicken Soup - Series

Fish! - series

The Firm,

... there is a list more, alas i could recollect all this till now..

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

ahh... finally someone else mentions The Firm as well... I really liked that one a lot... probbly cuz it was my first one in that genre... but enjoyable nonetheless, even when i read it now!

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
13 years ago

Yeah @Aashish, thanks to the lib at my hostel i could grab my hands on this one...

Deepak
from India
13 years ago

@Hemal: lots of yaar.....  i havnt read a single one in them !!!

Jayanthy G
from Chennai
13 years ago

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini is the best so far..

Funny Side up by Ruskin bond!! :D Coolest!! :D

2 states.

Any Sidney Sheldon book

Famous Five and Nancy Drew, best of best books!!! :)

HP series

The Twilight Saga

Amanda Quick's books.

Nora Roberts books.

Iris Johansen's books..

Currently reading Wuthering Heights...

 

Deepak
from India
13 years ago

OMG.... hell a lot yaar!!!!

 

Jayanthy G
from Chennai
13 years ago

OMG! I forgot to mention P.S. I Love you! I dint like the movie much! The book was awesome!! :D

Mayank Sharma
from New Delhi
13 years ago

Anthem , The virtues of selfishness , The Fountainhead and Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand. 

The 'gamechangers' by "fake IPL Player"

Dan Brown novels

Dork - Sidin Vadukut

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RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

my list is endless. A book maniac ,used to cross busy road in kolkata engrossed in reading book in one hand, 198o's. and still alive.

number one on my list is the Ashtavakra's Mahageeta.

then comes " Tao,teh ,king". by Lao tzu.

I love R.K.Lakshman kartoons too.

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

A very unique taste in books you have. I have not seen anyone else post these books... but have you read anything from the recent times? I would also be interested in that!

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

I am crossing the age of 47 now, and have seen my taste changing from enid blyton, when I was 13yrs,hardy boys, ,alfred hitchckok,etc. later, munshi premchand, harold robbins,irving wallace, sydney sheldon, p.g.wodehouse, arthur hailey,were all savoured.

'pappillon' by Henri charrier moved me. kane and able, gone with the wind,also. 

Then I got married  

"confusions of taoist on wallstreet' recently read and immensely liked it.

Anik Ghosh
from Bhubaneswar
13 years ago

I love Hardy boys, and The Three Investigators...  

I first started reading with these books (and Feluda too, anyone read them?)

Priya
from Pune
13 years ago

Even I loved the Three Investigators, and Enid Blyton of course! Papillon is such a good book, specially because it is a true story! :)

R Saraswathan
from Bangalore
13 years ago

My Favourite Author is GK Chesterton and Peter F Drucker

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

I ve read feluda's case. superb.

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

correction: it's" confessions of a taoist on wall street."

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

the god father by mariopuzo,

dracula,

Deepak
from India
13 years ago

dracula??? scary Sirji....

Karthik P
from Bangalore
13 years ago

I have read nearly 500 novels till now... Books which I liked the most are

1)Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling

2)Bourne series by Robert Ludlum

3)The Alchemist and 11 minutes by Paulo Coelho

4)The Digital Fortress,Da Vinci Code and Angel&Demons by Dan Brown

5)Some titles by James Hadley Chase 

6)Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

7)Gor series by John Norman

 

Vaishali Adwant
from Hyderabad
13 years ago

i like

ukranian folk tales

Many lives Many masters-Brian Weiss

Autobiographies

Business,management books

Fairy tales-swan princess is my favoutite

books by scott peck

books on graphology and esoteric world history/science

Classic literature-leo tolsoy,emile bronte

The moonstone-wilke collins

Fountainhead-ayn rand

Bram stoker's Dracula

Books on fashion,astrology,metaphysical and transcadental science

Shitmydadsays.com-justin \m/

Along came a spider-James patterson

Angels and Demons-Dan Brown

Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy-Douglas Adams

etc etc...

 

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

man! Thats some list of books :D

Vaishali Adwant
from Hyderabad
13 years ago

@Karthik i like caspak series of Edgar Rice burroughs

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

@ Deepak , those were my prime days of 1980's.

Aashish Sood
from Delhi
13 years ago

Dont keep on making yourself sound archaic!!!

Karthik P
from Bangalore
13 years ago

@Vaishali Oh I see.. I didn't read that!!

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World
13 years ago

the last place god made by jack higgins