So what IS your favourite book?

[Shwenn]

Surprised nobody mentioned Phillip K Dick(androids), Dashiell Hammett(red harvest), Jim Thompson(too numerous to mention)(Grifters). John Irving(Hotel New Hampshire)
What about "Dune"
"The Floating Opera" (Barth)
"The thought Gang" by Tibor Fischer is the funniest book I've ever read

I will have to get The Thought Gang immediately because this is the first time I've born witness to a fellow Barth fan. I read "Lost in the Funhouse" in a creative writing class and it changed everything I'd thought about writing. As for "Hotel New Hampshire", when that movie 'Hope Floats' came out, I actually got angry. I could only think, "It's SORROW floats. Not hope. Sorrow."

My all time favorite book ever is:

Les Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

I don't care how many movie treatments of this book you've seen, it's worth reading and reading carefully.

Other favorites authors/books:

Literature:
William T. Vollmann - You Bright and Risen Angels
Arudhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Margret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Cormac McCarthy - Border Trilogy (Though The Crossing made me briefly suicidal)
Raymond Carver - Anything. Just pick anything. It'll rock your inner world.

Sci-Fi:
Neil Stephenson

Horror:
Stephen King - but only his short stories. His books do nothing for me. His short stories put me in quite a state.