What are some of your favorite novels and story collections?

[RedKing]

How could I forget Poe and Conan Doyle?! two more of my favorite authors.

[seed_murda]

Pretty much any of H.P. Lovecrafts works.

[Flower]

The Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva
The V.I. Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky
The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke
The Inspecter Wexford series by Ruth Rendell
The Skip Langdon series by Julie Smith

[BaronLatos35]

I've gone through phases of genres since I was a kid.

In Elementary school, it was Sherlock Holmes, Hardy Boys and folk tales/ghost stories like "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Ghostly Gallery" and "Haunted Houseful" among others.

Junior High started my interest in military history. Spent hours at the library. Bram Stoker's Dracula and Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot" and "Night Shift" were my favorites.

High School and College was Partytime. (Mostly reading for school, personal reading slipped)

My 20's was race and gender issues. Collections of essays. "Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood" is a favorite of mine. So was Cornel West's "Race Matters"and Robert Dean Pharr's "S.R.O.". Highly influential. Poetry became important to me as well during this time. "Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe'" and Pablo Neruda's "The Captain's Verses" are some favorites.

My 30's sent me back to military history, especially WW II, the Eastern Front and North African campaigns. "Panzer Leader" by Heinz Guderian and "Stalingrad" by Micheal Jones are some favorites. Recently at the end of my 30's I've thrown in some Philosophy, Hemingway and about to start "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

[MDG]

I often find myself going back to some favorite authors:

Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Robertson Davies
Philip Jose Farmer
William Kennedy
Eric Kraft
HPL

Also,
The Fletch and Flynn series' by Gregory McDonald
Perry Mason by Erle Stanley Gardner
Carl Hiaasen

[Bonomo]

I read a lot of non fiction, biographies and histories of subjects that interest me, and true crime. My all time favorite book ever is of course The Strongman by Joe Bonomo. As far as fiction goes I tend to lean towards horor and the macabre. King, Lovecraft, pretty much all classic horror literature like Dracula, Frankenstien, etc.

[The Creeper]

Another good one for this time of year is Dicken's A Christmas Carol.  I read it first in the seventh grade for a book report and loved it.

[BigShadow]

I really like the Forgotten Realms series as well as any Star Wars books.  Gonna try some old Star Trek books here real soon.

[Zackuth]

My favorite authors in the field of horror are HP Lovecraft and Stephen King.  In science fiction my favorites are HG Wells and Isaac Asimov.  My favorite book is Dracula and read it once a year starting in October (I have been doing this since 1980).  I also enjoy the Hitchhiker "trilogy" by Douglas Adams and the Time Wars series by Simon Hawke.  Cripes, trying to remember all the stuff I've read over the years.  I also enjoy reading books of history, I have a book I bought at a library sale titled Modern and Contemporary European History published in 1925. 

[CreepysFan]

  my favorite reading material is of course H.P.Lovecraft and August Derleth, also Edgar Rice Burroughs, Poe, and Rober E. Howard.

[tv horror]

I love Victorian and Edwardian horror especially M.R.James.