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Tough question. Lately it is the Master and Commander series of 20 books by Patrick O'Brian.

This is very difficult for me to answer. I read a great deal (mostly non-fiction) and would have a hard time singling out a favorite. If I did, it would probably change each time that I was asked.

(It will be interesting to see how many responses name the "obligatory favorite".)

This, and yes, it is newer, I didn't always need large print.

Last of the Breed by Louis Lamour

I could never narrow it to just one, but a couple of my favorites are Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forrester and The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.

"TEXAS" by James A. Michener.

Agree with Morewood. I'm just starting my fifth or sixth run-through of the O'Brian series.

Currently on my second circumnavigation, Rock.

cheers!

War Through the Ages by Montross

Old Yeller

[quote=Morewood]Tough question. Lately it is the Master and Commander series of 20 books by Patrick O'Brian.[/quot
Several leading critics have said the series are a true classic of English fiction. I agree, but who am I?

New American Standard Bible

Title: My Health Is Better In November

Author: Havilah Babcock

old time <1947> stories of hunting and fishing in the south

Ian Toll trilogy about WW II

My first choice .. "To Tame a Land" - Louis L'Amour. Caught me at an impressionable time, I guess. Last time I checked I'd read it 42 times. I like his Kilkenny novels .. in fact, I don't think he wrote anything that I didn't enjoy.

Other contenders:

The Postman - David Brin - this was the basis for the movie with Kevin Costner. They took a lot of poetic license with the adaptation. The book was set on my home turf. The rock quarry was at the top of the ridge behind our house. Where he swam the river .. 2 miles downstream. I drove Hwy 42 along the South Fork of the Coquille nearly 100 times. The computing center on the Oregon State University campus .. I spent countless hours in there doing programming for both CS and math classes. Etc. The dam, Tom Petty's character .. I couldn't find those in the book at all.

Most any Sci Fi by CJ Cherryh .. started with the Morgaine trilogy. The Chanur saga. She is hard to read .. very complex character development.

Most anything by Poul Anderson. It's "pulp sci-fi" with Bond-like characters in space.

Rogue River Feud - Zane Gray. The book starts like this: “It was a river at its birth and it glided away through the Oregon forest, with hurrying momentum, as if eager to begin the long leap down through the Siskiyous. The giant firs shaded it; the deer drank from it; the little black-backed trout rose greedily to floating flies. And in sunlit glades, where the woods lightened, the wild lilac bloomed in its marvelous profusion of color, white and purple and pink, scenting the warm drowsy air with sweet fragrance.” That exact section of river is where I go to fly fish in the summer. It is .. correct.

Which version do you read Richard?

The KIng James or the NIV?

To Kill a Mockingbird, One of my favorites.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn another.

Some I read many years ago Flowers in the attic, Petals on the Wind, If there be Thorns. V.C Andrews
I believe maybe some followed but I didn't read them if there were.

Animal Farm

NO way to emotional a story!

I read this instead

I saw the movie when it first came out. When it was over and they turned on the lights -
I was so MAD - because of the tears flowing from my eyes. But I wasn't alone. (1959)