What I'm reading now:

• City of Joy

My all-time favorites:

• The Robe  by Lloyd Douglas  «««««  A Roman Centurion casts lots for the robe of Christ  and wins.  The despair of his life following that sends him on a search for truth and redemption.
• Les Miserables  by Victor Hugo    ««««« Read the unabridged version.  For me, a life changing book.  I'll admit... I skipped several pages of the battle of Waterloo, but read all the other 1000 pages. 
• The Lord of the Rings  by J.R.R. Tolkien  «««««
• Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead  by Ayn Rand «««««  Don't know how to explain these books other than to say Ayn Rand has her own philosophy about life, and while I don't entirely subscribe to it, there is a lot to say for personal responsiblity.  I LOVE both of these books.
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  «««««  What can I say?  A fantastic love story
• Crime and Punishment  by Fyodor Dotstoevsky   ««««« Loved it when I had to read it in High School, re-read it last winter.  Hard to read, but fascinating.  I love the psychology of it all - being mentally unstable myself.  J

5 Favoritist Books from My Friends and Family (added 27 August 2008)

     Amber McIllece

5. The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara. I never really understood the art of war (nor had I really wanted to) until I read this book about the battle of Gettysburg. It certainly opened my eyes to the very real people that sacrificed and continue to sacrifice so that we may live in freedom. Oh, I also learned from this book how LITTLE the Civil War was about actually about slavery.
4. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. Although this book is about a very bizarre topic, (a person raised as a girl discovers at puberty that she is genetically a boy) it is written so fantastically and without a pinch of self-pity that I absolutely couldn't put it down. NOT one for the kiddos.
3. The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini. I think you've read this one. Simply put, it is an unflinching story about sin, regret and redemption.
2. Peace Like A River, by Leif Enger. Another incredible story about faith, choices, and the love of family. This book is so remarkable that I found myself laughing and crying on the same page...more than once.
1. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Hands down. My favorite book of all time. I actually own two copies. I'm not sure how to explain what I feel about this book...it just makes me want to be a little kinder. To everyone.

And the +1...

My bonus choice is also a winner...Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner. It's about a woman who travels with her engineering husband across the wilderness of the western US before and at the turn of the 20th century. It details their moves, their trials and their sacrifices, all told through letters being researched by her grandson in the 70's. A-mazing.

   Merinda Cutler

• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

    Julie Brown

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

• Peacegiver & The Holy Secret by James Ferrell

• The Promised Land Series by Woolley

• Hearts of the Children and Children of the Promise Series by Dean Hughes

• Fire of the Covenant by Gerald Lund

• Prelude to Glory Series by Ron Carter

Wendy Condie -   "I love, love, love the following..." (in rank order)

1. Follow the River (The cover of this looked like a trashy love story but a raw account of a real woman's ordeal in colonial times-this has to be at the top of my list!) by James Alexander Thom

2. Christy ('old school' book that I got for .25 on the library donation table and fell in love with!) by Catherine Marshall

3. A Lantern in Her Hand ('old school' too-but this book touched my soul) by Bess Streeter Aldrich

4. In the Heart of the Sea (Precurser to Moby Dick-True story-amazing) by Nathaniel Philbrick

5. Little Women ( I know you've probably read it but still one of my all time favorites) by Louisa May Alcott

6. The Good Earth (should have read it in high school but Cliff and his amazing notes got me through the test. Didn't actually read it until I was all grown up. Classic.) by Pearl S. Buck

7. Children of the Promise series (Good Mormon fiction set in time when G & G Nome/John would have been growing up in Sugarhouse, Utah) by Dean Hughes

    Peggy Kling

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

• Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd Douglas

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

    Sara Little

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

    Trina VanAusdal

• Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency Series by Alexander McCall Smith. It based in Botswana. They are clean

• I also like Sue Grafton (the alphabet mysteries),

• I do like Mary Higgins Clark because they are easy reads.

• Sarah, Rebekah, Rachael and Leah by Orson Scott Card. They are based on the women in the Old Testament. I enjoy thinking about what life might have been like for them. I read them a few years ago, but decided to read them again. I'm enjoying them again. He also wrote one called "Stone Tablets" (or something like that) based on Moses' life.