I have to pick only ONE?! Impossible.

Favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe, favorite book is portrait of Dorian gray

God is Not Great: how religion poisons everything - Christopher HItchens.

There are way too many, and it changes all the time.

If I had to choose just one, probably "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault

Other Faviorites
Shogun by James Clavell
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The People of the Wolf by W. Michael Gear

As a great lighthearted fantasy series, I'd recommend Terry Pratchett's Disc world series. I took pains to read them in order, but I am told that is not needed. I think it does help to keep characters straight though and for thos eof us who are detail oriented, to read them in order (timeline order, not order written) improves the readign experience.

Beach Music by Pat Conroy

Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal. How Arabs, Jews and Christians coexixted for over 5 centuries in Spain.

Paulo Coelho.

Anything written by Robert A. Heinlein, and most of the John Scalzi books.

Also, indie author Misha Burnett's Catskinner novel series.

Belgariad by David Eddings (Technically a volume... Loopholes!)

I read a lot. About 4 years ago I read a book I cannot forget. The imagery. The story. DONT SLEEP THERE ARE SNAKES! it is a memoir written by a linguist. His wife's church paid him and his wife &2 children to go live deep in the Amazon Jungle. The linguist was hired to figure out the language of an indigenous Amazonian tribe, never before translated into any other language. Why would a church do that? So the (heathens) could get a Bible they could read. So their poor souls could be saved. (Those are my words, not the author's. He was scientific.) Well, the memoir about the isolated tribe, their culture, I found fascinating, and has stuck with me like few books have. Can you imagine a language with no words that compare? No such thing as bigger, smaller. Faster, slower, etc. No number bigger than 3. They rarely caught more than 3 fish at a time so it stopped there. The writer's wife and daughter narrowly escaped dying from malaria. The people lived in thatched huts. They would cut open a whole in their roof to look at the stars. Or close it back up again. Adults took turns at night being on the lookout for critters, especially poisonous snakes. The people knew nothing about any divinity. They were not interested, couldn't conceptualize one. They had their mores. If anyone broke any of their norms, that person was sent out of the village into the jungle, ostracized to fend for himself. Children saw everything adults did. See what I mean about vivid images?

My favorite book is one of the paperback reprints of "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine.

I am a Tom Robbins fan, but my favorite book is On The Road

I'm trying to get into reading again.

Classics: Thomas Hardy "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "the Mayor of Casterbridge" , "Howard's End" E.M. Forster, Jane Austin "Pride & Prejudice", - Also, "the Time Traveller's Wife" , "The Girl on the Train", "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norel", "Gone Girl", "The Golem and the Jinni", "Clan of the Cave Bear" and "The Mammoth Hunters" Jean Aul, "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah.

Terry Pratchett -everyhting he wrote.
Jim Butcher - everything he wrote
There is a goo six dozen books for you to try.

Favorite book: The Shining. Favorite author: Stephen King.

This is an impossible question to answer. I have so many 'favorite' books. And authors. But if I had to choose only ONE author, it would be Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. I've been reading her books longer than anyone else. Nearly 30 years.

I read every night in bed - I love crime novels a the moment reading Kathy Reichs breaking in Bones.

My brain is like on vacation or something right now. I do go on reading marathons will read a book in 2 or 3 days seem I have too many distractions these days.