The fave book Meme...

[rabid1st]

snagged from ladyoneill

Some of these are not really my favorites...but this is just off the top of my head...

Comedy: Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett

Sci-fi: The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein also quite fond of The Sparrow by Mary Doro Russell and The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffery

Fantasy: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery

Political: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken also Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett

Horror: Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (more short story than book) I also like Lovecraft. Oh, and Red Nails by Robert E. Howard.

Most Inspiring: It's a tie between the next two books listed...

Most Enlightening: Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama

Most Practical: Slang and Euphemisms a dictionary of oaths, curses, insults...sexual slang and metaphor by Richard A. Spears.

Arts: Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau

Business: Type Talk at Work by Janet Thuessen

Training: I am hard to train...maybe Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns

Computer: Editing Digital Video by Robert Goodman

Cooking: The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins (Lara is right this is a great cookbook) also good is 5-a-day by Elizabeth Pivonka about how to get fruit and veggies into the diet

History: BLAH! Oh...okay...uhm...Brassy's book of Military Blunders

Career: Not a genre given to great books in my opinion...mostly standard advice...but we could return to the Personality typing...there's a good book called: Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You...

Mystery: Resurrection Row by Anne Perry

Finance: Not my thing

General Fiction: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (listed as a mystery but really...not...more of a trickster myth).

Romantic: Sheesh...there's a puzzler...read a few...favorite? "The Grand Sophy" by Georgette Heyer

Non-fiction: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Auto/Biography/Memoir: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zola Neale Hurston

Classic Lit: Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (though it is hard at times to overlook the casually negative stereotypes that are an essential part of making the gags in this book work, if you set it in context for time and place, it is one of the funniest things ever written)

Religious Text: Animal Magic

Short Story Collection: Don't read them generally...liked this victorian collection of erotic stories I have...but...nevermind...

Children's Lit: Toot and Puddle: You Are My Sunshine by Holly Hobbie

Poetry: Collected Work of Robert Frost

Foreign Author: P.G. Wodehouse (old and English) Of the modern bunch...let's see extremely fond of Robert J. Sawyer (is Canada foreign?) and also Alexander McCall Smith.

What I'm reading right now: Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith...and I highly recommend all of this series of books...read them in order.

And let's add one shall we...

Self Help: The Pleasure Prescription by Paul Pearsall...also Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription and Partners in Pleasure. Taking a South Pacific Perspective on life...quite refreshing...

Comments

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

I tried very hard to keep it to one book or one series only. I love all the Pern books by McCaffrey (have yet to read the latest, though it's in my stack).

And I love all the Silver Palate cookbooks, too. :)

So I should try harder to narrow it down?

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

It was difficult to be more precise...because really...Door Into Summer is the book I always say is my favorite SciFi book...but the Ship Who Sang is pretty close and not as dated...I would hate for people to rush out to read DIS and then go "WTF?" You see, DIS has 1974 as the year with time travel and androids. Robert Heinlein was REALLY optimistic about the scientific age...if they do a movie of it they should make it about 2300 for all his advances, though that might not work with all the OTHER plot points.

Hope you had a joyouse New Year, Rae

Re: So I should try harder to narrow it down?

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

That's the problem (not really) of the Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. She started writing the books in the 1960s for young adults. By the time of her death she had rewritten some of those for a more adult audience and a whole lot more, bringing in issues of homosexuality and female equality. If you read the earlier dated stuff after the say Free Amazon books you'll be 'huh?'.

I usually can list a dozen books under most categories but I forced myself to choose just one as a discipline thing. ;)

Unfortunately, when it comes to discipline...

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

...I have the same fierce focus as a neutered house cat. This is my cross to bear. ;-D

Rae