I really really loved to To Kill a Mockingbird.

Angela's Ashes also gets a vote from me because it made me look at my life differently.

This is why picking ONE book makes me crazy - I loved To Kill A Mockingbird, too - and The Diary of Anne Frank changed my life. I still read anything I can get my hands on about the Holocaust!

OMG, Sheila! I thought I was the only person in the world who read and loved this book! Edie was fascinating and gorgeous as well, but such a sad story.

Did you know that a movie is being made about her life? It's called "Factory Girl". Edie is being played by Katie Holmes; not sure if that'll work or not.

Maybe Tom Cruise can be Andy Warhol. Bleah! Bleah on Katie too, I'd rather see someone like Maggie Gyllenhall play Edie. Katie does not look in the least like she came from an old money family and I don't think she can.

There are way too many to choose from, honestly. I read so much, I can't keep track of all the books. I'll have to think about this.

My favorite book was the DG ritual book.

"The Great Gatsby" is my favorite, with "A Farewell to Arms" a close second.

Anything by Albert Camus.

or for those who can't read French: To Kill A Mockingbird.

ahhh that is a great book, sad but great... sooo many good books out there.

I am currently reading Les Miserables (in english because I nearly KILLED myself reading the 3 chapters in french I was assigned in HS.) It is good.

I'm havin ga problem concentrating though, because as I read certain parts, the song from the musical that corresponds pops into my head.

"The Samurai's Garden" by Gail Tsukiyama

A couple of mine:

"Little Women" (I know its corny a bit but I love it!)

"A Hero of Our Time" by Lermontov

"Papillon" (page turner!)

anything by Paulo Coelho (I really want to do the camino de Santiago now-maybe next year who knows...)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I read "The Plague" ("La Peste" in French, I think?) in 10th grade English class and I can recall grossing out the other kids at my lunch table with excerpts from the book describing the skin condition of people afflicted with the bubonic plague. Yeah, I've always been immature like that :D

The First Man, his last book, published after his death (I think as recently as the 1990s.) is also fabulous.

The Plague was the first I was able to read, because I had a slightly morbid streak when I was a teen.