Or, if you have more than one, feel free to list it. Textbooks don't really count, unless you REALLY love them!
I actually don't have a single favorite, nor even a list of favorites, but I do love classics, poetry, and have recently gotten into history. Still, most of my reading is scientific, and I do really enjoy that, but no real science book will ever make the best-seller's list (and no, books such as "A Brief History of Time" are not science books, and often they're not even accurate

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I don't really read that much... I know that's terrible but some of my favorite books are:

The Call of the Wild
A Farewell to Arms
The Yearling
Winesburg, Ohio
The Great Gatsby
A Tale of Two Cities

Of course, the big thing here is I had to read these in High School but I really enjoyed them a lot, enough to go buy my own copies. "The Yearling" and the "The Great Gatsby" really had me turning pages feverishly the first time I read them. "Winesburg, Ohio" is really easy to pick up and read as the chapters are pretty short but the cumulative effect of the individal stories caught me off gaurd. "A Tale of Two Cities" simply has some great characters to disect.

The one book I didn't like at all though was "Huckleberry Finn."

I don't read much, but my absolute favorite book is "The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel". I've been a fan of Hempel for a few years now, but this is the End All, Be All version of her stuff. Three hard to find short story collections plus new stuff? Yep. Sign me up. $15 is a steal; $10 is highway robbery.

http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories … 617&sr=8-1

Salamandaster by Brian Jacques was quite good, as are the rest of his "Redwall" series.  Of course, you can't talk about favourite books without mentioning "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien.

I devour anything and everything in the Discworld series, but I don't have a particular favorite.

Funny that you mention textbooks, as I remember really enjoying my biology textbook in high school as well as my astronomy textbook (space has always fascinated me) from college which I still have.  I think I enjoy non-fiction more than fiction, as I'd rather watch a movie or play a videogame when experiencing a fantasy.  Otherwise the quest for knowledge tends to be what drives whatever reading I happen to do.

That means I've only ever read a handful of books and that they were all required reading in school, but the one I enjoyed the most was Animal Farm.  I still have a fondness for it and it's the story I remember best, unless you count the many short stories and plays that are fairly easy to recall.

However, if they count as books (any kind of reading?), my all time favorite thing to read is Calvin and Hobbes.  I've got every treasury and over the years I've read them over and over.  The various insights on human nature and sincere sense of child-like wonder never grow old for me.

I tend to lean towards history/non-fiction, so I enjoy biographies and history books a lot (in general and on various subjects). National Geographic's "Visual History of the World" gets a lot of flip-time. "Death of WCW" is a great detailed outline on the subject matter (much of which isn't available online). John Kruk's autobiography ("I Ain't An Athlete Lady") always makes a good read and I love the detailed accounts on the '93 Phillies. And I can't pass up a good WW2 read, no matter how burned out I am on the subject.

I like anime, but I was never a huge manga fan. Only series' I have are Love Hina (which is legitimately side-splitting and beautifully paced...unlike the anime) and Full Metal Panic (again, beautifully done and much better than the adapted TV series)

And nothing beats curling up with a book full of Peanuts strips.

I just read Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element. It was an incredible read, as my knowledge of chemistry is substandard. Also, there is a lot of information in the book that was at one time classified. Of course, the author could not describe certain aspects of how atomic weapons work, but he did reveal that Oak Ridge Laboratories sells uranium and plutonium. To buy enough uranium to make a weapon costs $2.4 million; enough plutonium costs $150 million. Plutonium is a very strange metal (probably the strangest). You'll have to read the book if you want to know more.

That was a non-fiction book and it's by no means my favorite. But it was very cool. By now, I've read very close to 300 science fiction novels. I can tell you that my favorite authors are Philip K. Dick, Philip Jose Farmer, and Robert Heinlein. Of those 3, only Farmer is still alive (he's almost 90). Farmer wrote a lot of 'world' books, where he designed a fully functioning universe. They were primarily in series form. But one of them was a lone novel and introduced the idea that our universe is one cell in the body of God. I'm still trying to understand what I read. I may never understand it. I can certainly never visualize it.

Dp graphic novels count at all? If so, anything by Craig Thompson is really nice (Goodbye Chunky Rice, Blankets), and I'm really loving Boneyard by Richard Moore right now.

Other than that, I just don't read a lot anymore. People tell me to check out Orson Scott Cards' books, but I just can't get into novels like I used to be able to.