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¿Question #193?
Sexy Amy: What is your all-time-favorite novel?

ocdspectrum: Does the Illuminati Trilogy count?
Woelf: A couple years ago I probably would have listed something by Terry Brooks, but now I'm leaning toward "Nemesis Games" by James S. A. Corey.
Behir: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
oldhoss: For Whom The Bells Toll.
The Monstrous Jake: The one I haven't finished writing yet.
Narlgoth: I like several series; Cthulhu Mythos, Discworld, Grey Seer, etc.
Liberto: 1984
tram10014: Try your best not to laugh, but it's Bonfire of the Vanities. I realize this is sort of a nerd answer, but still, I think it's a great book.
bcooperok: Catch-22
Zedsdead: Six-way tie: Ender's Game, Lucifer's Hammer, Watchmen, A Game of Thrones, Heroes Die, and World War Z.
Solocutor: Dune
Azog: Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
CptRavage: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
cgund: Wow, way too many. "Franny and Zooey" makes the list, as does "The Sun Also Rises" and "Brave New World"
JimBragg: Genesis
gmcash: The Stand
ZiggyZambo: Of Human Bondage
blindspot: Probably Moby Dick.
ironsizide: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
snewobelac: enders game
DHEK: Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Leo-T: Stranger in a Strange Land or LotR trilogy
Johan: The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. Honorary mention goes to Something More by Paul Cornell.
sanbikinoraion: "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. It just reads so beautifully. Sod the plot!
duchamp: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Man without Qualities) by Robert Musil
Greedo: Ender's Game
W Eric Martin: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (Mirra Ginsburg, translator — I haven't tried the new Peaver and Volokhonsky yet)
crazyjack: To a God Unknown
troken: I don't read novels
Roja: Silmarillion
adonismayhem: There are many close, but the Ender's Game is pretty dang cool.
vampywife: Hannibal, I suppose, as novels go.
Helenoftroy: Bell Jar, but it changes so much.
Randp: the lord of the rings
Legomancer: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
AngusBull: David Copperfield
POvidiusNaso: Lolita was fabulous, but Catch-22 is my favorite.
Evil HummingBird: dunno. lots
skrebs: A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Wonder Boys, Duluth, Catch 22, or Last Call
oceanika: Ocean Sea
Datek: The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
kinetic: Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet & Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
Ice X: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina
Loquutus: booger chronicles
puffinslayer: Love in the Time of Cholera
Stephen Glenn: A Prayer for Owen Meany
davidgpeterson: 1984 without a doubt
Unitbuster: Nine Princes in Amber, by Roger Zelazny
scriptorum: Cyptonomicon, perhaps.
pronoblem: One Hundred Years of Solitude
otha62: The Killer Angels
chockle: "Kalki" by Gore Vidal
vetinari7878: There are too many. Limiting the range to recent years and one novel per language: "La Fée Carabine" by Daniel Pennac, "The Great Train Robbery" by Michael Crichton, "Das Parfum" by Patrick Süskind, "Se Una Notte D'Inverno Un Viaggiatore" by Italo Calvino
mrbeankc: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur Clarke
javelin98: Hobbit
ErisQuilty: Something Happened by Joseph Heller, although I also love Lolita, East of Eden, Heart of Darkness and I, Claudius with a passion that may be unnatural
DWTripp: Lonesome Dove
ssmooth: I don't have a single all-time favorite, but some of the best I've read are Daniel Martin by John Fowles, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, and Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun.
GrandpaDave: Still Life with Woodpecker
jim.brooks10: Cryptonomicon
Tushratta: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Numskull: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
shawn_low: Catch 22 comes close to the top...
wiley1za: Pride and Prejudice
tipigi: Strangers by Dean Koontz
gmcnish: Doris Lessing, Golden Notebook
lwheeler: Little, Big by John Crowley
Bearcat89: Wow. Tough choice. I'll say "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti.
rdmasters: Connie Willis: Bellwether.
bluebehir: It is "The Lost Prince" and "King Chondos' Ride" by Paul Edwin-Zimmer. Message bluebehir if you'd like to hear about it!
Musti: I would say Lord of the Rings but have to say that I just don't have an all-time favorite
apekrul: de wereld van Sofie
mandj2001: Day No Pigs Would Die
Windopaene: Illuminatus!
Lord_Prussian: Old man and the Sea
erli: East of Eden
skrutsch: I really love "The View from Saturday" by EL Konigsburg. I don't know that it's my favorite.
Jern: Can't chose, to many
steef: Neverwhere
heli: too difficult to answer
jimchris: Judging by how long I've been a fan of one, Lord of the Rings. It's not the best in all respects, though.
schenker: A Prayer for Owen Meany
thoia: Whew...lots from different styles. Necroscope series by Brian Lumley for the Horror/Vampire style, H2G2 for comedy, Big Fish for dramatic, Man in the High Tower for Sci-Fi. There...how's that?
2amp: Her Majesty's Wizard
ginn5j: LotR
puffinge: Time and Again by Jack Finney
Cavedog_pdx: A Game of Thrones
stephensj23: Dune
Lemur: wow...this is tough...probably "Disclosure" by Crichton - it's the one I most 'couldn't wait to finish'
darquil: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
AlorielLelyn: I don't play favorites
gashlycrumb: '100 Years of Solitude' or 'Catch 22' or 'A House for Mr Biswas'... mmmm, tough call.
[Deleted user]: A Game of Thrones
jpact: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
GuyHill: already answered that one
UhhhClem: It's either Tolstoy's ANNA KARENINA or Wolfe's THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.
sos1: Depends on my mood. The ones I've reread the most include The Hobbit, Huck Finn, and most of Jack Vance's works. And probably a dozen others I'm not thinking of at the moment, like Captain Blood, Three Musketeers, Watership Down, Witches of Karres, Demon Breed, Breed to Come ... you get the point.
Ryno8: Ender's Game
Blackwind: War Day
threlicus: Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay
TiNYTimIDFluffYBunnY: I ,claudius By robert graves (excellent)
klarkinhistrep: A Dance to the Music of Time (a series)
isolated: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
darthcliff: The Count of Monte Cristo
DangerMouse: Armor by John Steakley
P.O.G.G.: either Lanark or Strange Meetings, but Such a Long Journey is good too
geberus: Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
madmattuk: As I Lay Dying
BobDodgerBlue: Lord of the Rings
Belash: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The DaVinci Code, Slaughterhouse 5, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...
fsumarc: anything by Stephen King.
phantomvortex: The Lord of the Rings.
rickkeuler: So far, Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, but I'm still reading it. :)
haraggan: Phew. "Flanders" by Patricia Anthony, or "The Unlimited Dream Company" by J.G. Ballard, or "Dhalgren," by Samuel Delany
Dave: Weaveworld by Clive Barker, but that was a totally different time and place for me...
Shakar: Candide.
louiseh: Foucault's Pendulum
Ludocrazy: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
dakarp: George Eliot's Middlemarch all the way. But if The Changing Light at Sandover were a novel rather than a poem, it might be a tougher choice.
Mike A: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
yossarians: Catch-22
snoozefest: don't know
queequeg: Moby Dick
jens_hoppe: Lord of the Rings
jttm: LotR
manowarplayer: Lord of the Rings, Dune series.
Draugnar: Dune
scribidinus: The Killer Angels
pernishus: Dark Tower Series
statonv: Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
kzman13: The whole Belgariad Series
MisterCranky: The one I imagine every time I see your username: Sexy Amy & Mr. Cranky Build Their Dream House
tragicpoet: Jurassic Park
Con Man: catch-22
seppo21: The SFBC omnibus edition of 10 Points for Style is way up there.
janiera: Anything by Anne McCaffrey... can't pick an absolute favorite
ValJor: Dune
berserkley: "LAST CALL" BY TIM POWERS
Lardarse: Friday by Robert A. Heinlein
dietevil: Pride and Prejudice, tied with Ivanhoe
HBGlover: Still probably the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
shotokanguy: Lord of the Rings, but Tigana is a close second
viogression: It's impossible for me to pick just one.
CDRodeffer: The Turning Place by Jean E. Karl
pedrolisboa: Focault's Pendulum
EvilTimmy: "My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist" by Mark Leyner
Donkey Thong: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Linnaeus: Tough one. Probably Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, although a Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut is really good in an almost entirely different way, and The Great Gatsby in yet another direction again.
mvonahnen: Homeland, R.A. Salvator
Xlyce: Ender's game
ynnen: The Misenchanted Sword by Lawrence Watt Evans
Geniesse: Crime and Punishment
TD2008YDS: Walden, by HT
NickB: Foundation and Empire
rochs77: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
DamageR: The Hobbit
hibikir: Brave New World, by Huxley
CortexBomb: Probably Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham. Crime and Punishment is close though
skelebone: Helter Skelter was good and informative.
Friendless: The Hobbit
chaddyboy_2000: Whoa, Sexy Amy again!!
nix342: Farenheit 451
sdownin: Not one novel, but a single story: The "His Dark Materials" trilogy, by Philip Pullman
Geosphere: To choose one is like telling my son I love him less than my daughter.
azegzao: For Whom the Bell Tolls
gnomehome: 1984
sumo: LotR
Jon_1066: Lord of the Rings
LudesFactor: The Poisonwood Bible
Debate: Iain M Banks: The Culture Series