Today I was reading people's top 10 novels of all time. This list is supposed to be your favorite books, not the ones you necessarily consider great literature.

I re-read so many of my favorite books from childhood, I think I'm going to have to have two lists.

Favorite adult books, in no particular order:
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Grass, Sherri Tepper
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Grendel, John Gardner
The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M Auel (shut up)
Shogun, James Clavell

Favorite children's books:
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The White Mountains, John Christopher
The Great Brain, John D. Fitzgerald
M C Higgins the Great, Virginia Hamilton
The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C O'Brien
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Although I've read a lot of "classic" novels I guess none of them made it into my (off the top of my head) list. I guess I like contemporary novels. I'm not too big on most black and white movies, either.

I'm sure as soon as I post this I'll think of books I've forgotten.