The Best book you OWN

[Tonythion]

All of my books...well maybe except Crank...I totally thought it was about an actual monster.

I think the MOST AWESOME of my AWESOME book collection would have to be

Vampire Hunter D....volume 1-15...yes I counted them all as one book. Oh and probably my Neil Gaiman stuff...and my Ned Vizzini stuff...never mind I take it back, my whole collection is the best...except Crank...

 

[Femaref]

Spoiler: This

Wish that was the cover of my copy of the latter though, damn that's good.

Oh damn, you beat me to it. But I can one up you:

Spoiler

 

[hopeneverdies]

Probably the Grapes of Wrath, it's a great read. Most of my other books don't even compare to it. My biggest gripe is basically the gripe of everyone else, and that's the ending. Not awful, but just underwhelming.

 

[Happy Sock Puppet]

I have an original 1st edition (beat up as hell) paperback of The Stand.

And The Name of the Wind is Incredible.

Honorable mention to the Song of Ice and Fire series.

 

[Stevo_s]

My favorite book. I highly recommend it to everyone.

 

[wolfapocalypse]

Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Such an amazing book.

 

[anian]

N Gaiman & T Pratchett - Good omens, as a fantasy/comedy best
C Palahniuk - Haunted, just talks about people but also takes you to dark places

 

[spacepope22]

I am America, and so can You, by Steven Colbert

 

[emeraldrafael]

This. May the Wheel of Ka roll on for many days and nights in your favor, and remember, the tower calls.

Though I like this one better, so I guess my answer should be this

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Any/all of the Sandman books with the Dark Tower coming in at a close second. If I owned those gorgeous HUGE editions of Sandman, it would be no contest at all.

 

[dibblywibbles]

I have no idea. but one piece of fiction that I love is the stand by stephen king. it's old, tattered and been passed around like currency. that book is more about the stories it has than the story itself now. they story was fucking awesome too. I have too many books to really pick anything else

 

[thylasos]

Orlando Figes' Natasha's Dance is fantastic. Otherwise, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

 

[sunburst]

I'm in a humorous mood at the moment so I'm going to have to go with A Confederacy of Dunces [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces] by John Kennedy Toole. It's quite simply the funniest book ever written and I'm rather disappointed no one else has mentioned it. Other books I might choose depending on my mood include The Two Towers, 1984, Through the Looking Glass, Breaking Dawn, Speaker for the Dead and The Count of Monte Cristo.

 

[Zachinahat]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky- I did read it the first time whilst in nicotine withdrawal and sleep deprivation though.
Dune by Frank Herbert - The 'prequels' by his son are absolutely terrible, unfortunately.

 

[mocruz1200]

definitely and without a doubt animal farm. possibly the greatest book ever written.

 

[TheSuperiorXemnas]

The entire collection of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

A single book?

I'd go with this

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/3/20/87/20087579_eisenhorn.jpg

Technically it's a collection, but it's bound together. I also have "The Lost", I haven't read it all yet.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Either the Penguin Classics edition of "The Count of Montecristo" or "The Brothers Karamazov", although "Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures" is also excellent.

 

[BENZOOKA]

The Silmarillion. The thing is my freaking bible.

Ninja'd, also The Lord Of The Rings.