PoA is by far the best Harry Potter book. DaVinci code was awful, though.

One of my favourite books is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Niel Gaiman, fantastic read if you get your hands on it. I also recommend the Assassin's books by Robin Hobb

1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - by Junot Diaz

2. The Liar - by Stephen Fry

3. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - by Douglas Adams

Ok just because I love this thread and want to keep the book discussion going hers another topic to consider.

Which book have you read all the way through that you absolutely hated?

For me it would be The Color of Water by James Mcbride ugh it was atrocious!

the road bu cormic mccarthy
pride & prejudice by Jane Austen
white noise by Don DeLillo
inherit the wind by Jerome Lawrence
the things they carried by tim o'brien

i have others but these are my top favorite

The ones I read for school, if I hate a book that I don't have to read I don't keep reading. I hated most:

-The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin (every time I see it in a bookstore I want to burn it)

-The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury (even though I love science-fiction, I hate this book deeply)

-Boquitas Pintadas, by Manuel Puig

-El Entenado, by Juan José Saer

Worth a read. ^_^

The Lost World by Michael Crichton is incredible...oh yes!

All time:
Guards Guards by Pratchett or Brightonomicon by Rankin

Runners up places go to the Death Trilogy by Pratchett or Witches of Chiswick by Rankin

Worthy mentions:
Angel & Demons + Davinci Code, LOTR, Hobbit, Rats/Lair/Domain, The Stand, Fox in Socks + countless others I don't have time to mention.

All time would have to be Catch-22. I adore that book.

Most hated? Hannibal. I actually tore the book to pieces after I finished it. Terible ending. Absolutely horrid. The movie was better. That's how bad it was.

I'd have to say the Dark Tower series. Somehow it sucks me back into re-reading what's essentially one big 5,000 page novel about once a year.