I just finished reading "The Kite Runner" which was a sad, excellent book. In the spirit of Katie's list of her favorite websites I was just wondering which books would be on people's list. My favorite books are:

1. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

Best book I have ever read.

2. "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway

Delightfully depressing romp about losers who waste their lives

3. "Beloved" Toni Morrison

I couldn't stop thinking about this book for months.

4. "Moby Dick" Herman Melville

Not for everyone but I was blown away by this book

5. "Catch 22" Joseph Heller

Funniest book ever written

6. "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte

7. "The Trial" Franz Kafka

This book literally makes you want to punch someone in the face out of frustration.

8. "The Ox-Bow Incident" Walter Van Tilburg Clark

A really good "western" with classical themes.

9. "Pride and Prejudice"

Mostly because Mr. Collins is one of the great charachters in all of literature. I would give my left leg to be as cool as that guy.

10. "The Count of Monte Cristo" Alexander Dumas

This is the book that made me fall in love with books when I was a kid.

11. "Othello" Shakespeare

Not a book, but this is my favorite Shakespeare play. I also like "Death of a Salesman" and "The Way of the World" a lot, which are not by Shakespeare but are amazing as well.

So if anyone else wants to share their favorite books I would really be interested.