recently i have read an autobiography of Ipshita Ray Chakraverty and it was called 'Beloved Witch'. It was an amazing and mind blowing experience to read through her experience of being a high priestess of Wicca and it also unveiled the deepest secrets and the powers of the five elements of nature. A must read for all women!

Some of my favorite books (of course, not all of them can be listed here)

1. Sidney Sheldon (i like all the books  by him)

2. Watchmen by Alan Moore

3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

4. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.

5. Omerta by Mario Puzo

6. The Godfather by Mario Puzo

7. The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

8. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

9. All the books of Chetan Bhagat

10. The Firm by John Grisham

11. The Twilight Saga By Stephenie Meyer

12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

13. all the books of Jules Verne

I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't narrow down their favourite book to just one title. Here's my short list of books I cannot live without. Literally. I take them with me wherever I go in the world (I tend to move around a lot) and read them again and again:

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring (hence my name in these forums) by Henry Miller

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

If on a Winter's Night, a Traveler; Imagined Cities; The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Aleph and Other Stories, Ficciones by Jorges Luis Borges (actually anything and everything by Borges - he is a true master of the short story, and was a huge influence on the magic realist writers of Latin America)

Lolita, Ada, Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Anna Karenina, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My currnet favourite author Conn Iggulden - if you like historical novels try him.