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mattbarone · 4 months ago

Hi! I really glad you enjoyed the Rudy Wurlitzer. You know he penned the screenplay to Two Lane Blacktop and Walker. Great Films and some good reads. Anyway! Favorite Book is Underworld By Don Delillo. A Classic! Thanks Matt!

mverno · 4 months ago

debbie does dallas mverno@roadrunner.com

MaryS · 4 months ago

Hi! I'd love a chance to win a copy. :) One of my favorite novels is The Red Tent

Meliacaitlyn · 4 months ago

It would have to be The Great Gatsby for me!

Bret · 4 months ago

I don't know about an all-time favorite...maybe Ender's Game, based on total number of lifetime reads.

jmb0923 · 4 months ago

I'm always looking for new authors to read. Current faves are book 1 and 2 of the Millenium Series by Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl Who Played With Fire

erikt · 4 months ago

Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie

Cheers!

cmkedit · 4 months ago

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

christyleeK · 4 months ago

I am so excited about both of these novels!

I can't say I have just one favorite, I've always loved Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I think it's because it was given to me by my Mom.

Cheers,

christy lee

kataya1220 · 4 months ago

1984

zeran · 4 months ago

"When All the World Was Young" by Ferrol Sams.

RoscoeYo · 4 months ago

a confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
thanks for this!

semily · 4 months ago

I was really enthralled by Rudolfo Anaya's novel Bless Me Ultima. However, I'm currently reading (and thoroughly enjoying!) Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Jessica Rae · 4 months ago

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

kleptolovestory · 4 months ago

one of my favorites is pattern recognition by william gibson.

jnylynn · 4 months ago

Another Country by James Baldwin

uncute · 4 months ago

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

davidmclean · 4 months ago

Erasure - Percival Everett...
Wait! I mean The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer.
Umm... Can I say Mordecai Richler's... I mean Gore Vidal's... uhh- Vonnugut's....

Hell, I dunno.

SacredSpud · 4 months ago

Brightdark the B L A D E M A S T E R by Mike "Doctah Pussay" Talbot

inkstainedlife · 4 months ago

My favorite novel is Looking for Alaska by John Green.

And This Is Where I Leave You is on my Amazon wish list, so I'm especially interested.

Kenneth Coble · 4 months ago

My favorite book is Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

carollawrence · 4 months ago

The Way Home by George Pelecanos. jelly15301@gmail.com

James Martin · 4 months ago

You had me at "dysfunctional family tale", as that could be the story of my life. I'm always interested in family dynamics and it was a chance reading of "The World According to Garp" some 30-odd years ago (Damn... Has it been THAT long?) which steered me away from a hardcore sci-fi habit and into the world of adult fiction... and don't crucify me, Asimov fans. I still love science-fiction and highly recommend Orson Scott Card.
Anyway... John Irving is my favorite author, "Garp" my favorite novel and Tropper's book sounds like a wimmer to me.

Sarah · 4 months ago

Currently my favourite novel is The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter. Tho I also love the Book Thief.

Ron · 4 months ago

All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry

J.G. · 4 months ago

It's gotta be The Sun Also Rises.

Matthew Austin · 4 months ago

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Jason N · 4 months ago

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I've read The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper and enjoyed it a lot.

Bryan · 4 months ago

My favorite book was Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie. I was just delighted by it. Though, this is being quickly replaced [as I am currently reading it] by DFW's Broom of the System.

Both of these seem like really cool reads. Thanks for the chance to win them!

Justin · 4 months ago

Dune by Frank Herbert

Sci-fi lit.

Sara P. · 4 months ago

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Erika · 4 months ago

Go Ask Alice has been my favorite since I read it when I was 11. Most recent favorite would be Vanishing Points by Jodi Picoult.

MsRedPen · 4 months ago

A recent favorite is The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.

Kohinoor · 4 months ago

My favorite book is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It's like being transported to the slums of India every time I read it. Its heartbreaking.

ratatoskr · 4 months ago

Hyperion, Dan Simmons. Totally awesome talent.

Andrew Watson · 4 months ago

I'll go with David Lodge, and How Far Can You Go (given the silly title Souls and Bodies in some US editions).

Andrew, who was at the Newport Folk Fest yesterday:
http://changingway.org/2009/08/02/newport-folk-...

kathyran · 4 months ago

o man, my favorite novel is usually whatever I am currently reading. So, right now I'll go with 'the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay' by michael chabon.(which I am re-reading for like...the billionth time)
he is such a master.

tmerritt · 4 months ago

There are a lot of books out there that I really like, but my favorite will always be John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany.

agordon10 · 4 months ago

just read The Tourist by Olen Stephenhauer, was awesome.

Laura_R · 4 months ago

It's difficult to choose just one favorite novel! In a pinch, I'd say The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. The scene where Mick reacts to music while crouched outside, listening to her neighbor's radio is one of the most emotionally honest and memorable scenes from anything I've ever read.

joe_d · 4 months ago

the land of laughs by jonathan carroll

ZigIsAwesome · 4 months ago

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

aliciapie · 4 months ago

Probably LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Brittopia · 4 months ago

My favorite book this year is You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr. The Tropper book looks great.

K.C. · 4 months ago

The Catcher in the Rye

Jing · 4 months ago

Lolita

magpiers · 4 months ago

Til We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez

magpiers · 4 months ago

one hundred years of solitude (marquez), or til we have faces (c.s. lewis)

Margie Bunting · 4 months ago

Favorite novel--you must be kidding! I read 100+ books a year, most of them novels, and it's like choosing a favorite child. But I will say that ONE of my favorites is Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife," and I'm scared to death to see what the money has done to it.

Adam · 4 months ago

The Children's Hospital -Chris Adrian

longarc · 4 months ago

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Shooflypie · 4 months ago

I love The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

K · 4 months ago

Mine's definitely The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

K · 4 months ago

Oops, forgot to include my email: intuition62@yahoo.com

Jordan · 4 months ago

Dr Zhivago

Daniel M · 4 months ago

my current fav is eregon

angelaj · 4 months ago

Most recently, the Potter books

Hilarie · 4 months ago

house of leaves.

kelly · 4 months ago

Herzog by Saul Bellow
"big money, big money!"

Jon · 4 months ago

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

frank · 4 months ago

Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff.

Megan B. · 4 months ago

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Corey V. · 4 months ago

Favorite Novel: East of Eden.

sgorey · 4 months ago

jonathan safran foer - everything is illuminated

darren woodlief · 4 months ago

confederacy of dunces

joe · 4 months ago

Lolita

Eden · 4 months ago

Grapes of Wrath

Justin · 4 months ago

Fav novel: 1984 - George Orwell

asketcher2 · 4 months ago

The Curious Case of the Dog at Midnight (forget author) was one of my faves. It's about an autistic boy that solves a mystery. What exactly the is the mystery changes during the course of the book.

AGC · 4 months ago

The Great Gatsby

Janet · 4 months ago

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer.

biffpow · 4 months ago

Um...favorite? Maybe Generation X by Doug Coupland.

andieeast · 4 months ago

Favorite Novel is Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. Just hands down, one of the only books I've read twice and can quote from.

Mark Neigh · 4 months ago

Nice! Infinite Jest is probably my favorite novel.

Rebecca Sandee · 4 months ago

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov!

Molly · 4 months ago

Mos def: Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation

gracey12 · 4 months ago

My favorite novel is Child of the Owl, by Laurence Yep. It was the first novel by a Chinese American author that I had ever read, and remains one of the seminal influences on my life and own writing. Thanks.

demko · 4 months ago

Jernigan

Stephen · 4 months ago

The Brothers Karamazov

Thanks!

Emily · 4 months ago

Gotta go with Joyce's Ulysses (if it even counts as a novel).

vjb77 · 4 months ago

the sportswriter, richard ford

jwb · 4 months ago

I was turned on to Jonathan Tropper two years ago when he published "How to Talk to a Widower." Like you, I read his entire back catalog and am now one of his biggest fans.

jwb
mp1061@gmail.com

stroke · 4 months ago

Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden

meaghan · 4 months ago

my favorite novel of all time is probably ender's game by orson scott card.

tjknight · 4 months ago

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

jeremyAZ · 4 months ago

Motherless Brooklyn

christopher h · 4 months ago

the moon is a harsh mistress by robert heinlein

Matt · 4 months ago

Remains Of The DAy

alsek · 4 months ago

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien

otterpop429 · 4 months ago

Too hard to pick an all-time fav, so I'll go with the best I've read so far this summer: Continental Drift, by Russel Banks.

Gaelen · 4 months ago

It's a boring favourite, but I have to go with "Dune".

laura · 4 months ago

It's not quite a novel, but David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives.

Kimberly · 4 months ago

I just finished reading Wicked and really enjoyed it. These both sound like good books as well.

Mary Ward · 4 months ago

My favorite novel of all-time is Little Women. One of the more recent novels that I might consider a favorite is The Help.

vanillablue · 4 months ago

Favorite novel...that's a tough one. I'd go with Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. (Though truthfully, my favorite work of all time is his short story collection The Elephant Vanishes).

sweetktastr0phe8 · 4 months ago

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

sarajeanne6 · 4 months ago

I love reading and looking forward to starting these two!

carsonm · 4 months ago

currently Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

jasonnickolay · 4 months ago

Moby Dick all the way

jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com

Angela T. · 4 months ago

Ender's Game is one of my favorite novels.

docj1025 · 4 months ago

current favorite novel: A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews

autie · 4 months ago

Girl, Interrupted

Sue · 4 months ago

My favorite novel is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Gorgeous story!

mindy · 4 months ago

i really do not have a favorite as i am an avid reader and can read just about anything and assimilate myself into it making them all favorites!!!

Sarah · 4 months ago

foucalt's pendulum

Ryan · 4 months ago

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

miawallace6 · 4 months ago

Hi, if I'm being honest, its Bronte's Wuthering Heights. If I'm trying to be cool and intellectual it's The Idiot by Dostoevsky. Either way, they are both amazing novels!

Amy · 4 months ago

My favorite novel so far, well, my two favorites, "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo and "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner. Jeez it's hard to choose!

Amy
Aimala127@gmail.com

martha1104 · 4 months ago

One of my favorites in recent years is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

Ed Nemmers · 4 months ago

Voltaire's "Candide"!

cabinderada · 4 months ago

I just read "The Goneaway World" by Nick Harkaway and found it to be pleasing combination of Hitchhikers Guide, World According to Garp and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Absolutely recommended.

johnrasmussen · 4 months ago

The watch series by sergei lukyanenko. Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch, Last Watch

carazoe · 4 months ago

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon & The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Neffengger

hardapathy29 · 4 months ago

I read over 100 books a year and reread many but iv'e probably read Walter Jon William's Angel Station more than any other. Hope I win so i'll have something new to read.

edwardtcas · 4 months ago

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

Angie321 · 4 months ago

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, a memoir about a dysfunctional family. (Jeannette used to work for MSNBC before leaving a couple years ago to write full time.)

I have to agree with Margie Bunting. Being an avid reader myself, I could name 20+ novels that I consider favorites. Also check out Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres, another good book about a dysfunctional family.

admccrae [at] gmail [dot] com

bridgetcombs · 4 months ago

The Kite Runner is my last favorite read

wwe11 · 4 months ago

I loved the Twilight series.
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Nikki · 4 months ago

LaValle's Slapboxing with Jesus is a new favorite of mine. I had no idea he had a novel coming out. Good stuff.

Dustin · 4 months ago

I'd go with Baldwin's Govanni's Room.

dorothy l · 4 months ago

boy it is sure hard to pick a favorite novel my favorite that I am reading now is Dracula con5459(at)gmail(dot)com

sweetsue · 4 months ago

One of my favorite novels is Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry, but I love many books!

bridgetcombs · 4 months ago

8/07 entry The Kite Runner

gtpgirl19 · 4 months ago

looks like a great read

jeffwarrington · 4 months ago

Fight Club

diane1942 · 4 months ago

Read a book every 2 days and always lookig for new books and new authors.

Maria · 4 months ago

1984

misusedinnocence · 4 months ago

Ragtime by EL Doctorow.

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Kelly F · 4 months ago

I am a big fan of David Sedaris, so I like any of his books. My current favorite book is When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

Marcia H. · 4 months ago

My favorite would be "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.

garrettsambo · 4 months ago

A Tale of Two cities is my favorite novel. garrettsambo@aol.com

becca · 4 months ago

The Picture of Dorian Gray

becca · 4 months ago

This time w/ correct url.
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Jilli1 Lund · 4 months ago

Dysfuctional families are increasing with the downturned economy. This is Where I Leave You may cover the loss of income.

lilyk · 4 months ago

My favorite novel is Catcher in the Rye.

Carolyn Ellis · 4 months ago

I would love to read these books, as I am not walking right now.

largehearted boy · 4 months ago

J.G. is the winner, look for another contest to be posted this afternoon.

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