Who Loves to Read?!

on February 28, 2012
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A massive flight delay later, I am finally in Wisconsin.  As predicted, it is COLD and there’s snow on the ground.  And there are cheese hats everywhere.

 

Here’s something fun: a MASSIVE book giveaway!

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As you may know, my second book is coming out this May.  It’s entitled Healthy Tipping Point:  A Program Powerful for a Stronger, Happier You.  I’m very excited about the HTP book because it’s a truly holistic guide to health and happiness – the book is divided into three chapters that address mental wellness, healthy eating, and fitness.  It also includes real-life success stories, recipes, and training plans. 

NEW! Healthy Tipping Point: A Powerful Program for a Stronger, Happier You

The HTP book is currently available for pre-order (and pre-orders are so important, so thanks to everyone who’s purchased a copy so far).  You can find more information about the book and details on preordering on my Books page.

 

In honor of my new book, my publisher offered up the following five books as a prize pack for one lucky reader.   I haven’t read any of these books yet, but they definitely sound intriguing. 

 

The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, P.h.D

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The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters.

 

You Are Not Your Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Rebecca Gladding

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Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive thoughts and actions and change bad habits for good.

 

The New Rules of Lifting for Women by Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove

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A comprehensive strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan destined to revolutionize the way women work out. All the latest studies prove that strength training, not aerobics, provides the key to losing fat and building a fit, strong body.

 

Your Body Beautiful by Dr. Jen Ashton, M.D., OBGYN

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The popular medical correspondent challenges women to reinvent their health and wellness routines, and make midlife their most vibrant years yet. Today’s women can maximize this stage- and lay the foundation for optimal health and well-being. Here, Dr. Ashton outlines a powerful approach to health care that can help you unleash new energy, strength, and sexiness.

 

Girl Walks Into A Bar by Rachel Dratch

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In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Filled with great behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Dratch’s time on SNL, Girl Walks into a Bar is a refreshing version of the "happily ever after" story.

 

To enter to win this bookworm prize pack, simply leave a comment telling me YOUR favorite book of all time.  I’ll pick a winner tomorrow afternoon!

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  • Natalie February 28, 2012, 4:02 pm

    There are so many, but my all time favorite has to be The Thorn Birds. Classic!

    • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:43 pm

      LOVED IT. my favorite too 🙂

  • Cassie February 28, 2012, 4:05 pm

    My favorite book of all time has to be /Me Talk Pretty One Day/ by David Sedaris!

  • Melissa February 28, 2012, 4:05 pm

    Flowers for Algernon. Love re-reading that one from time to time.

    • Jen February 29, 2012, 12:01 am

      That is a GREAT book! Not sure if it’s my all-time fav, but definitely up there (and I have re-read it at least a couple of times).

  • Kristy February 28, 2012, 4:06 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Eat, Pray, Love. I read it right in the middle of a personal transformation towards a more wholesome, balanced life and Elizabeth Gilbert’s writing is fun and inspiring. The movie is great too 🙂 I would LOVE to add these books to my collection…pick me!!!

    • Amy Q February 29, 2012, 7:32 pm

      My fave, too– and yet I HATED the movie! (though I don’t like Julia Roberts, so that probably doesn’t help!)

  • Corrie Anne February 28, 2012, 4:06 pm

    And Oh Were They Ever Happy! by Peter Spier. Very colorful! 🙂

  • Pam Allen February 28, 2012, 4:06 pm

    Thank you for the giveaway, all of these books look great! One of my all-time favourite nonfiction books in this genre is “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage”. I wasn’t married when I read it, but I took away helpful information on how to change my behaviour to better deal with difficult social situations.

  • samantha February 28, 2012, 4:06 pm

    my favorite book of all time is cutting for stone, by abraham verghese. it’s slow in the beginning, but it’s amazing. i cried when it ended.

    • Jennifer February 28, 2012, 4:20 pm

      I was having trouble getting into this, but think I’ll give it another try because of your comment. 🙂

      • Amy Q February 29, 2012, 7:32 pm

        Me, too! I will bring it on vacation! I tried it before but want to try again.

  • Kim Grabert February 28, 2012, 4:08 pm

    My favorite book is Sense and Sensibility. What’s not to love about a classic love story! It transcends time and always make me happy when I’m reading it. There is something about a historical book that allows you to create incredible scenes in your mind, the pageantry and the costumes.. it’s whatever you can visualize. Finally, it has a happy ending, so you always walk about smiling. The type of book you can read over and over again!

  • Jamie February 28, 2012, 4:08 pm

    My favorite books are all so cliche! The Hunger Games, Harry Potter Series, Twilight Series, and anything by Dan Brown!

  • Jean February 28, 2012, 4:08 pm

    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. All the cool science stuff that makes our world go ’round presented in a really fun and interesting way. I would love to really know and retain every word in it!

  • Kim February 28, 2012, 4:10 pm

    The Anne of Greene Gables books! Love them! 🙂

    • Anne Weber-Falk February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

      Me too! Love those old stories.

  • Patricia February 28, 2012, 4:10 pm

    My favorite book is Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery ( of the Anne of Green Gables fame). A lovely, lovely book.

  • Alaina February 28, 2012, 4:11 pm

    How can I choose? I love to read! Um… how about Diana Gabaldons’ Outlander series?

  • Brooke February 28, 2012, 4:11 pm

    I belong to the gym that Alwyn Cosgrove and his wife Rachel own out in Southern California. They have completely changed the way I look at fitness. Rachel Cosgrove’s book called The Female Body Breakthrough is also a great resource. She talks about exercise but also nutrition and following her plan, I lost 2 pant sizes in 8 weeks. Amazing!

  • Bethany February 28, 2012, 4:11 pm

    Suddently a brain fart on books! I love the memories of reading the Polar Express with my mom each Christmas, but I’d have to say the book that had me pulled in wanting more was My Sister’s Keeper. So that’s probably my favorite!

  • Michelle February 28, 2012, 4:12 pm

    My favorite book used to be She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb until I read The Lovely Bones. TLB is the only book that has ever made me cry while reading it.

  • myra February 28, 2012, 4:12 pm

    Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott. Always get something from it each time I re-read it.

  • Carol @CookingForTwo February 28, 2012, 4:16 pm

    Of all time, huh…that’s a tough one…If I had to answer this today I would say…Elegant Choices, Healing Choices by Marsha Sinetar

  • Karen February 28, 2012, 4:16 pm

    I know that it’s written for kids, but Matilda, by Roald Dahl, is still my favorite book EVER! Such a great story about a little girl outsmarting her less-than-desirable family and being a total bookworm!

  • Erin February 28, 2012, 4:18 pm

    I loved The Book Thief — I think it’s young adult but it was soooo good!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 4:18 pm

    I’m cheating a little and going with favourite book series- cause the series is almost just one really long book- right? The series is calle “Sword of Truth” and I think they’re on 10 books now. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it! I haven’t met a single person who didn’t love reading it!

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 4:18 pm

    Harry Potter series!

  • Jennifer February 28, 2012, 4:18 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird.

    Nothing else has ever come close for me.

  • Shannon February 28, 2012, 4:19 pm

    How could I ever choose just one? Well, “The Accidental Tourist” by Anne Tyler is like an old friend, but “Waiting for Birdy” and “Sleep is for the Weak” tie for my favorite since becoming a mom–beautiful, poignant and HILARIOUS motherhood writing, both. And for memorable characters and a comforting message of optimism even during rough patches in life, “I Still Dream About You” by Fannie Flagg is a recent fave; just read it while I was sick and upset earlier this month and absolutely adored it. OK, so that’s three. Sorry!

  • Libby @ PracticallyPatientlyParenting February 28, 2012, 4:19 pm

    Gosh, I have a favorite book in each genre! I can go back to Louise DeSalvo’s memoirs (like “Crazy in the Kitchen”) again and again. I am in school to be a children’s librarian, so I really love children’s books too… I recently read “The Tale of Despereaux,” which is just wonderful!

  • Jenab February 28, 2012, 4:20 pm

    My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I fell in love with it in grade school and I still love reading it today. Gotta love Scout!

  • Honey February 28, 2012, 4:20 pm

    Favorite book is James and the Giant Peach!!

  • Elisabeth February 28, 2012, 4:20 pm

    I LOVE to read (always have) and I don’t think I could pick just one favorite book! When I was a kid it was Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverley Cleary. I just don’t think I can pick one book, but I dearly love Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Night by Elie Wiesel…and lots more! 🙂

  • Rachael @ Happy Healthy Runner February 28, 2012, 4:20 pm

    I have two favorite books that are VASTLY different from one another: The Thornbirds and Cat’s Cradle. Both are so good, just in completely opposite ways 🙂

  • Angie C. February 28, 2012, 4:22 pm

    I’m hooked in listening to my Kindle at work, I LOVE the Hunger Games trilogy, I think I’ve read/listened to the books 3 or 4 times now, can’t wait for the movie to come out.

  • Jen February 28, 2012, 4:22 pm

    My favorite book is either Mists of Avalon or Ender’s Game – I can’t pick just one!

  • Jillian Petracco February 28, 2012, 4:22 pm

    Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is my favorite book! I read it when I was younger and just about to graduate from college. I was feeling restless and uncertain about my future endeavors. The book offered some really sound advice that helped me through some rough patches. It is very moving and gave me a new perspective on life! It’s a must read for everyone! 🙂

  • Megan February 28, 2012, 4:23 pm

    My fave book has always been “Where the Red Fern Grows” Not that well known but worth a read!

    • Shari February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

      Oh my goodness, that book made me BAWL. My sixth grade Language Arts teacher read it aloud to us during our “Candlelight Hour” at the end of class every day, and even though I loved the book, the ending is so, so sad. To this day, I remember all the emotions it stirred up!

  • Jules February 28, 2012, 4:24 pm

    My favorite book to read of all time is A Separate Peace, and my favorite book to teach of all time is Scorpions. I’d love to win a book! 🙂

  • Bethany February 28, 2012, 4:24 pm

    My favorite book is A Tree Growns in Brooklyn. I read it the first time when I was in middle school, and it still captures my attention every time!

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. The first “real” book I read as a kid… and I must have read it 100 times!

    • Amy Q February 29, 2012, 7:34 pm

      Awwww, I read that book to my son 🙂

  • cassi February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    i love a tree grows in brooklyn.

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    to kill a mocking bird!! such a classic – I’ve read it twice in the past year 🙂

  • Erin February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    My favorite book is actually “Hideaway” by Dean Koontz. I know, I’m a weirdo. But if we’re going with non-fiction/self-help books, I really enjoyed The Happiness Project.

  • lindsey February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    newest favorite: the hunger games trilogy! so amazing.

  • Allison February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    My favorite book is definitely The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It’s super simple, but really makes you think about the way you’re living your life. If you haven’t read it, I HIGHLY suggest you go get it right now 🙂 It won’t take you very long to read at all, but you’ll get wonderful quotes and thoughts out of it that will definitely help you find happiness and calamity in this crazy life!

    • Janelle February 29, 2012, 9:32 am

      Ah I love The Alchemist too! My book club read it and only a few people liked it. TURDS! haha 🙂

  • J February 28, 2012, 4:25 pm

    Lolita. People sometimes look at me funny when I say that, but anyone I’ve ever known that’s read it has also loved it!

    • Bobbie February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

      Yes….another great read!

  • cathy February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Master of the Game by Sindey Sheldon.

  • Anne February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a long time favorite…always gets me!

  • Rachael February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    My favorite book of all time is A Prayer for Owen Meany – I had to read it in high school English class and have loved it ever since!

  • Jessica February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

  • briana February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    Anne of Green Gables–and please don’t make me choose just one in the series! 😉

  • Ali February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    I seriously can’t decide but Watership Down is a great book. As is Peyton Place.

    • Anne Weber-Falk February 28, 2012, 4:33 pm

      I first read this in 5th grade. I’ve read this at least once a year since then. I am 47 now.

  • Lyta February 28, 2012, 4:26 pm

    I’m really not sure I can choose. Hmm, I really liked “The Other Boleyn Girl” – that got me started on a whole new genre.

    And these books look fascinating!

  • Ella February 28, 2012, 4:27 pm

    My favorite book ever is “Love In the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – it’s SO.GOOD. I could read it over and over again (and have)!!

    I’ve had The New Rules of Lifting for Women on my wishlist for awhile.. I’d love to win it! 🙂

  • Kylie @ A Hungry Spoon February 28, 2012, 4:27 pm

    Picking just one favorite book is tricky; lately I’ve been on a Jodi Piccoult kick and have been going through her book since the holidays 🙂

  • clare @ fittingitallin February 28, 2012, 4:27 pm

    of ALL time?? maybe GO Dog Go!

  • Jessie February 28, 2012, 4:27 pm

    My favorite book of all time.. hmm that’s so hard! The Help would definitely be up there!

  • Blair February 28, 2012, 4:27 pm

    The Lorax! Such a classic. (I’m afraid to see the new movie though; not sure it’ll do Dr Seuss justice)

  • Courtney February 28, 2012, 4:27 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Viktor Frankl’s Man Search for Meaning–it’s really intense and thought-provoking, even though it’s very short. On a lighter note, I recommend the Hunger Games trilogy to EVERYONE. 🙂

  • Sarah C. February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    It’s hard t pick just one, but my lifetime favorite book is “Gone with the Wind”… my recent favorite book is probably embarrasingly) “Something Borrowed” by Emily Giffin… I think I’ve read it 6 times… 😉

  • kathleen @ the daily crumb February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    my sister’s keeper by jodi picoult.

    well, really anything by jodi picoult, but if i had to pick just one, that would be it!

  • Julie February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close or Eating Animals!!!

  • pam c February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    harry potter series

  • Stephanie February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    oh man, favorite of all time?! i really can’t pick…but if reading something the most times counts as “favorite” then i’d have to go with “my puppy”. a 10 page laminated book from when i was a kid. my parents can still recite it and i’m 24 now 😉

  • shelly February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    I love A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.

  • Haley February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    What an amazing giveaway?! My favorite book of all time is “The Wedding” by Nicholas Sparks. It is the ultimate gushy love story!

  • Indhu February 28, 2012, 4:28 pm

    My favourite book of ALL time – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 🙂

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    Probably the Nancy Drew books. I read them all growing up and loved her courage and willingness to take on anything/anybody. I still want to be Nancy Drew somedays 🙂

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    I loved “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls!

    • Bobbie February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

      I agree…great read!

  • Holly February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    My favorite changes all the time! Right now it’s the Hunger Games 🙂 The first one was the best

  • melanie February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    to the lighthouse!

  • Jacqueline February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    Persuasion by Jane Austen!

  • Lindsay February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    My favorite book of all time is the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s what inspired me to get a job that involved writing. I’m now a publicist. 🙂

  • Kim @ Wonderings February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    Definitely love “Bitter is the New Black” by Jen Lancaster!!

  • Bobbie February 28, 2012, 4:29 pm

    Why Jane Eyre of course! Love those Bronte sisters 🙂

  • Alyssa February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    The “my favorite book award” is a tie, I could never pick between Anne of Green Gables and The Giver! Both classics that when reread from an adult perspective, become even richer!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    Right now, my favorite book is The Rum Diary. When I was just wee, my favorite book was “Stand Back,” Said The Elephant, “I’m Going To Sneeze!”

  • Jess February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    I can’t piiiick one…but let’s go with “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!” It was just lovely.

    • Anne Weber-Falk February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

      This was the first book I recommended to my older daughter. She was in middle school at the time. It’s a moving story that I’ve read over and over.

  • Kristin February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    I really loved The Help 🙂 …. (and The Twilight series… swoon lol)

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    I love the original Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella.

  • Anne Weber-Falk February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    Ugh I know this might seem immature but I love Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I never tire of reading it.

  • Joey February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    Can I enter even if I’m in Canada? I have a degree in English Lit and read many of the “classics” but my favorite book, if I had to choose, is still the Outsiders which I read in grade 8!

    • Sonia the Mexigarian February 28, 2012, 5:56 pm

      The Outsiders was awesome!! Nothing gold lasts forever. . . .

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm

    My favorite books are the Harry Potter seriers..classics!

  • Andrea P February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

    Tough to pick, but I’ll go with Forever by Pete Hamill.

  • Kristin February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

    My current fav is The Hunger Games trilogy! Also loved The Help and, of course, Twilight series!

  • Kristin February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

    My Favorite book of all time is Water for Elephants! (The book is so much better than the movie they made…)

  • Lauren February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

    My favorite book of all time is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I love all of Irving’s books, but this was the first one of his that I read, so it holds a special place in my heart!

  • Michelle February 28, 2012, 4:31 pm

    My favorite book of all time…The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares.

  • Erin February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    It’s a tie between The Thorn Birds and The Cider House Rules (I’ve read both multiple times).

  • Rachel February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    “The Pastures of Heaven” or “Cannery Row”, or really any Steinbeck story. His short novels and stories are my favorite. But JD Salinger’s stories are up there, too.

    I definitely have a fondness for early to mid-1900s writing.

  • alex m February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    I’m a big fan of The Hunger Games

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    Favorite book of all time? That’s so hard. There are so many! Maybe Body&Soul. It’s this beautiful story of a boy piano prodigy.

  • Ashley @ My Food 'N' Fitness Diaries February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    i loved nicholas sparks’ book, “dear john”. pretty much any of his books i love. i’m all for some romantic fiction!

  • Blythe February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Last Tuesday would have been his 50th birthday, so sad.

  • Michelle M February 28, 2012, 4:32 pm

    I really love East of Eden. I read it 2 years ago and I know I’ll be reading it again and again.

  • Laura O. February 28, 2012, 4:33 pm

    My fav book of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird, w/out a doubt.

  • Beverly February 28, 2012, 4:33 pm

    It is a tie between The Sun Also Rises and Little Women.

  • Christie February 28, 2012, 4:34 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult!!

  • Johanna B February 28, 2012, 4:34 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Gone With the Wind. A close second is Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank.

  • jennifer February 28, 2012, 4:34 pm

    My all time favorite book is The Great Gatsby. I read it at least once a year!

  • Shari February 28, 2012, 4:34 pm

    Oh goodness, I don’t think I could ever choose just one. Some of my favorite include: The Help (Kathryn Stockett), Skipping a Beat (Sarah Pekkanen), Baby Proof (Emily Giffin), Snow in August (Pete Hamill), and the Bride Quarter series (Nora Roberts). Currently enthralled with The Hunger Games trilogy!!

  • Carolyn February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    Pride and Prejudice. Or In Cold Blood. Or The Imperfectionists. Or The Great Gatsby. Or so, so many others…

  • Julie February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    My favorite book of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. Whew, it was hard to pick just one but I feel confident in my decision 🙂

  • Sara February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    That’s a tough one because there aren’t many books I don’t like … Jane Eyre is probably an all time favorite along with Into the Wild and Eat, Pray, Love.

  • Courtney February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Great Gatsby! This giveaway looks awesome!

  • Angela @ Eat Spin Run Repeat February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    Wow, what an awesome giveaway!! I don’t know if I can pick a favourite, but right now, it’s is one I’m currently reading, called It Must Have Been Something I Ate by Peggy Katsopoulos. It’s all about how food affects the way we feel, energy levels, motivation, sex drive, looks, etc. I’m loving it so much that I’ve even been taking notes (yes, super nerd over here!!)

  • Melissa Rem February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    Wow, picking one is nearly impossible, but The Help is my favorite sort of new book.

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 4:35 pm

    My favorite book of all time would be a Jane Austen. Persuasion is great, or Emma, or Sense and Sensibility. I can’t choose! I hope this still counts as an entry 😉

  • Meghan February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    My favorite book: Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers- I love it!

  • Megan February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    This is a really hard question. I guess I’d have to go with East of Eden.

  • Becci L. February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    I’m not sure I can pick….It’s either “The Help” or any of the of the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich.

  • Ali February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

  • Kim February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    That’s an easy one…Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett! I never wanted it to end (so it’s a good thing it was about 1000 pages long I guess…). Hope I win! These books sound awesome!

  • Fabiana Seco February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    My favorite book it’s definitely Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I’m rereading it right now!

  • Sarah LeBlanc February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    Polyanna! Oh, I so hope I win this book pack. Need these books right now!!

  • Jen February 28, 2012, 4:36 pm

    Exodus by Leon Uris, although, I am reading the Hunger Games right now and that is pretty much all I can think about at work.

  • Karen February 28, 2012, 4:37 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Little Women!! I’ve read it too many times to count and hoping to read it again this year!

  • Leslie February 28, 2012, 4:37 pm

    I am going to have to say one of my favorites is Breakfast at Tiffanys. It is such a classic. But I know I have a million others, I just can’t think of them right now! That always happens 🙂

  • Bethany February 28, 2012, 4:37 pm

    I absolutely love Pride & Prejudice. I read it the first time in 6th grade and have gone back to reread the book every few years!

  • Tricia February 28, 2012, 4:37 pm

    The Poisonwood Bible! Love it!

  • DebHershberger February 28, 2012, 4:38 pm

    Its a kids book But… Corduroy the Bear, by Don Freeman, I remember my dad reading this to me every night after we got in from the barn chores.

  • Julia February 28, 2012, 4:38 pm

    the Phantom Tollbooth! its so creative and enjoyable, reminding me why i love to read in the very first place 🙂

  • Grace Weaver February 28, 2012, 4:38 pm

    There are so many wonderful books, but right now my favorite is The Help.
    Thanks for the great giveaway!

  • Mary February 28, 2012, 4:38 pm

    Sweeet! Going to pre-order your new book now 🙂

    My all-time favourite book is definitely “Neither Here Nor There” by Bill Bryson. I read it every summer and it brings me back to my awesome Euro-backpacking days!

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 4:38 pm

    Easily Pride and Prejudice

  • Caitlin February 28, 2012, 4:38 pm

    The Alchemist!

  • Diana February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    Definitely “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch! Every time I read it, it inspires me to live each day to the max and to be the very best that I can be.

  • Jordan K February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I know it’s not the most uplifiting story, but the way Toni Morrison writes is absolutely captivating for me. I read this particular book in high school and while I’m not sure if it was simply the right time of my adolescence, but I learned so much about literature simply by reading this. Toni Morrison’s use of underlying themes and motifs in her books are just amazing and made for some of the best classroom discussions!

  • Christina February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    I loved The Help!

  • Joy February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    There is no way to pinpoint to one single favorite book because I am always finding a new favorite. A recent favorite is Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler.

  • Catalina @ Cake with Love February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    I love your book cover very much! My favorite book of all time will be The Master and Margarita (the russian version)!

  • katie February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    my all time favorite book is catcher in the rye

  • Courtney February 28, 2012, 4:39 pm

    My current fave is the Alchemist!

  • Jesse February 28, 2012, 4:40 pm

    What an amazing giveaway! I love to read 🙂

    My favorite book of all time? It’s a tie between To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Shack by William P. Young.

    I also love The Twilight Series, The Hunger Games Series, anything by Dan Brown or Og Mandino. Pretty much I just love to read. Anything. 🙂

  • Andrea @ Onion in My Hair February 28, 2012, 4:40 pm

    So tough!

    But, I will go with a classic – The Great Gatsby!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:40 pm

    My two favorite books – the thorn birds and the other boleyn girl.

  • Krissy February 28, 2012, 4:41 pm

    My favorite book of all time is My Side of the Mountain. I read it over and over when I was a little girl and attempted to hollow out the tree in our backyard to live in like Sam. That did not work out. 🙂

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:41 pm

    My favorite book of all time is My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. Mildly depressing but inspirational in its own way.

  • Jennifer February 28, 2012, 4:41 pm

    My favorites are the Hunger Games series! I also love anything by John Grisham

  • Kelley February 28, 2012, 4:42 pm

    I love many books, but I have read Gone With the Wind at least 10 times, so that is probably my fav. I pre-ordered your book, can’t wait for it to come out!!

  • Ryane February 28, 2012, 4:42 pm

    Hmm… hard to pick one… but I loovvvee Cold Mountain and reread every year or so.

  • Sarena (The Non Dairy Queen) February 28, 2012, 4:42 pm

    Great giveaway! My all time favorite book is probably Pride and Prejudice. Really for many reasons…I felt so accomplished that I made it through it, I absolutely LOVE the story and it made me feel like a better reader. I’m not the best at comprehension, so it really felt special to me to complete it like I did.

  • Kristin February 28, 2012, 4:42 pm

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It’s happy/sad/inspirational and most importantly-thought provoking.

  • RunEatRepeat February 28, 2012, 4:42 pm

    Ben bought me that Willpower book!

  • Michelle D February 28, 2012, 4:43 pm

    I don’t know if I have a favorite book of ALL time, but I do love a good book! My favorite “beach read” is Something Borrowed and then also Something Blue. Just so fun and easy to read.

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 4:43 pm

    Oh gosh I have way too many to pick one favorite! I really love everything I’ve read by Jennifer Weiner though

  • Holly February 28, 2012, 4:43 pm

    Steven Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Hands down the most relevant book from my teenage years. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it.

  • Cyndi February 28, 2012, 4:43 pm

    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. So inspiring! A year without eating anything that wasn’t local. Fabulous!

  • Erin @ GoBananasBlog February 28, 2012, 4:44 pm

    This is so hard! I remember loving Black Beauty as a kid but I’m not sure I have an adult favorite!

  • Lela February 28, 2012, 4:44 pm

    Favorite Book of ALL Time? I would have to Mrs. Dalloway. Its just fabulous.

  • Cait February 28, 2012, 4:44 pm

    I don’t know about my favorite book of all time, but the best thing I’ve read in the past few years was Everything is Illuminated. Reading it truly felt like experiencing a piece of art.

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 4:46 pm

    all time favorite My Sisters Keeper
    but right now im obsessed with the hunger games!

  • Freya February 28, 2012, 4:46 pm

    Oh boy, I would kill for all of those books!!
    I don’t think I could pick one book…. Black Beauty was the first book I ever really read (& fell in love with), My Sister’s Keeper was the first ‘proper’ book I ever read, and Vegan Freak / Eating Animals / a whole load of other vegan lit. completely changed my life. So they’re all favourites in their own ways!

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 4:47 pm

    Oh my goodness, favorite book of all time?! I guess I have to go with Brave New World 🙂

  • katie k February 28, 2012, 4:47 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird. And The Secret Life. It’s a tie! But I LOVE LOVE LOVE to read almost anything!

  • Leatitia @ The Sweetest Year February 28, 2012, 4:47 pm

    My favorite book is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card! 🙂

  • Lauren February 28, 2012, 4:47 pm

    to kill a mockingbird!!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    My favorite book of all time? Wow, that’s tough. How ’bout this year? I just got done reading The Hunger Games and it was incredible so we’ll go with that, until the next one takes it’s place.

  • Tiffany February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    There is NO WAY I can choose one favorite book, but I read To Kill a Mockingbird each and every year…so that’s in my top 5 for sure!

  • Sandra February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    I dont think I could narrow it down to one…but if I HAD to…probably The World According to Garp.

  • Ashley February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    What a fun giveaway! My favorite book is The Great Gatsby!

  • Nancy February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    I loved to read your comments for some ideas for great reads. Lately I am into the Hunger Games series.

  • Mina February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    My favorite book of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird.

    Mina

  • Jenn February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    The sound and the fury- Faulkner- and command of the English language at its best

  • Rachel @ I'm Loving Today February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    Girl, I live in Milwaukee and this is the mildest winter we’ve had in YEARS. And where are you seeing these cheesehats “everywhere?!” We are trying to SHAKE that stereotype! I live three miles from the facility where they make those foam cheesehats and I’ve only seen someone wear one of those during a Packers game!

    Anyway, enjoy your time in Wisconsin. Hope you’re able to warm up!

    • Ashley February 28, 2012, 5:12 pm

      I totally agree! I am from one of the larger cities in WI and never saw someone wearing one unless it was some sort of costume in my whole 18 years there! I was even in Green Bay a couple weeks ago and spotted not one hat! There is so much more to WI than tacky hats and winter weather. 🙂

      Still love the blog – hello from Minneapolis!

  • Emily February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    My favorite book is Paradise War of the Song of Albion trilogy!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 4:48 pm

    Wow! So many to choose from but if I have to pick my all-time favorite it would have to be One Flew Over the Cockoo’s Nest. Happy Reading!

  • Alicia February 28, 2012, 4:49 pm

    I’d love to win those books! I read a lot. It is hard to narrow down my favourite, but I can tell you that right now I am reading “The China Study”.

  • Ali February 28, 2012, 4:49 pm

    On The Road by Jack Kerouac

  • Laurie February 28, 2012, 4:49 pm

    I loved Outlander from Diana Gabaldon!!! 🙂

  • Lisa February 28, 2012, 4:49 pm

    My very favorite book is “Gone With the Wind” but if I keep reading at my current rate, I’ll read 174 books this year….so maybe I’ll find a new one!

  • Lauren G February 28, 2012, 4:49 pm

    Congrats on your book! My favorite book of all time is Charolette’s Web!

  • Aimee February 28, 2012, 4:50 pm

    My favorite book of all time is My Antonia by Willa Cather.

  • Stefanie K. February 28, 2012, 4:50 pm

    I got to say my favorite books are the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy!

  • Rachel @ I'm Loving Today February 28, 2012, 4:50 pm

    Oh, also: My favorite book of all time is The Slaughterhouse Five, by my hero Kurt Vonnegut.

  • MaryBeth February 28, 2012, 4:51 pm

    Great giveaway! My favorite book is ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. I could not put it down!

  • Denise February 28, 2012, 4:51 pm

    My go to read is Jen Lancaster Bitter is the New Black. HILARIOUS!!

  • Kelly February 28, 2012, 4:52 pm

    Awesome give-a-way! My favorite book of all time is probably To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

  • Melissa February 28, 2012, 4:52 pm

    My favorite book of all time – its hard to pick just one! I think I’d have to say it’s The Giving Tree. I received it when I was a pre-teen and have read it countless times since then. It never fails to bring a tear to my eye.

  • Kellie February 28, 2012, 4:52 pm

    What a cool giveaway, Caitlin! I’ve always been a lover of reading, and so many books are excellent reads for so many reasons that it is hard for me to pick one as a favorite!

    So because I am subject to recency bias, a book that I have read recently and TOTALLY enjoyed is “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel.

  • Emily February 28, 2012, 4:52 pm

    So hard to choose just one! My favorite is probably Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. It just got under my skin and stays with me still.

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 4:52 pm

    Something Borrowed. I re-read books often, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read this one! The movie wasn’t bad either, but they never compare to the book!

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 4:52 pm

    What a fabulous giveaway! My favorite book is Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I read it at just the right point in my life and found myself highlighting passages left and right!

  • Nicole February 28, 2012, 4:53 pm

    Favorite book of ALL time would have to go to Judy Blume’s “Just As Long As We’re Together”…however, a new recent favorite is hands-down the Hunger Games Trilogy!!!

    • Erin February 28, 2012, 4:56 pm

      I love “Just as Long as We’re Together!”

      I have so many favorite books…”The Virgin Suicides” is the first thing that comes to mind.

  • Faith Plvan February 28, 2012, 4:54 pm

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! The classics never grow old.

  • Trudy February 28, 2012, 4:54 pm

    I know it is silly but I still love to read A Wrinkle In Time! I can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to read it with me!

  • Amy February 28, 2012, 4:54 pm

    Soooo hard to choose just one book as a favorite… but I never get tired of reading Owen & Mzee!

  • Laurel February 28, 2012, 4:54 pm

    Picking a favorite book is like picking your favorite child! I’d have to go with either Orwell’s 1984 or Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake. One makes you feel like the world’s going downhill; the other makes you feel okay about that descent.

  • Glenneth February 28, 2012, 4:54 pm

    Current favorite is the Hunger Game trilogy!

  • Alanna February 28, 2012, 4:55 pm

    I have two favorite books. I can’t pick just one! I love dear John by Nicholas Sparks and Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. I pretty much love everything by those two authors though!

  • Cali February 28, 2012, 4:55 pm

    My favourite book is Jewels by Danielle Steel. I’ve read it at least 10 times. So good 🙂

  • Libby February 28, 2012, 4:56 pm

    I think my favorite book of all time is My Sister’s Keeper.

    I love that you are in Wisconsin right now, although still far from Green Bay where I am. So as a proud Wisconsinite, I feel the need to correct one little thing. They are called cheese heads not cheese hats 😉 Pretty much the whole state has them everywhere but Green Bay is that times 10, if you can believe that!

  • Jane February 28, 2012, 4:57 pm

    Love is a Mix Tape. Excellent. 🙂

  • Lynne February 28, 2012, 4:57 pm

    A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving!

  • Christy February 28, 2012, 4:58 pm

    It’s like asking to pick a favorite child! But two that came to mind were Memoirs of a Geisha and The Help. I am in dire need of some new books to read. What a great giveaway!

  • chelsea February 28, 2012, 4:58 pm

    i love anything from sarah dessen <3

  • Amy February 28, 2012, 4:58 pm

    My very favorite book is Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott. It’s beautiful and honest and so full of wisdom!

  • Anne February 28, 2012, 4:58 pm

    The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. One of the few books I’ve read a million times and never get sick of!

  • Brianna February 28, 2012, 4:59 pm

    Awesome that you’re in Wisconsin! That’s where I’m originally from. I don’t know what city you’re in but if there are truly people wearing cheese heads all over…..RUN! lol! In all the years I lived there I never saw one outside of a Packer game!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 4:59 pm

    This is an awesome giveaway – I absolutely LOVE reading! My favorite book of all time is probably “We Were Soldiers, Once and Young” by Harold G. Moore, but recently “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand has taken a top spot.

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

    Hi Caitlin,
    I LOVE ‘The Age of Innocence’ by Edith Wharton. Best book I’ve ever read, ever.

  • Jen T February 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

    I’m always reading something and I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that a lot of times they are books where I don’t have to think while reading (such as Danielle Steele and Jennifer Weiner). The last book I absolutely loved and couldn’t put down was was Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay!

  • Emma February 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

    My favorite book of ALL TIME? Gosh, it’s so hard to pick! If I had to choose, I would probably say The Nine Rooms of Happiness. I fell into a rut before I read this book, but it immediately reminded me of how beautiful life is and now I make the most of every moment!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

    This is so hard to narrow down – some of my favorites were in the comments above (Cutting for Stone, anything by Jane Austen, the Hunger Games, The Thorn Birds, Gone with the Wind, Mrs. Dalloway). A recent favorite was “Tender is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – a must read for any Gatsby lovers!

  • Ari @ Ari's Menu February 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

    I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. That thing is like 1,000 pages and I didn’t want it to end!

  • Anne February 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

    The Lorax!

    • tamicka February 28, 2012, 7:11 pm

      Totally my second favorite. I read it and cry everytime

  • Kt February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    Life of Pi!

  • Jill February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    My favorite book of all time has to be The Pact by Jodi Picoult. I read it in 1 day!!! I love how she writes the same situation through each of the characters points of view.

  • Lisa B. February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    My favorite book is The Great Gatsby.

  • Nicole M. February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    I’m so excited for the HTP book! It’s hard for me to pick a favorite book of all time though… I love so many! But in honor of Dr. Seuss Week, I’ll say Horton Hears a Who!

  • Lizz @ Leading the Good Life February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    i hate to tell you this, but i think you wrote the title of your own book incorrectly (“program powerful” as opposed to “powerful program”) 🙂

    my favorite book is probably To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Maria February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    What a great giveaway! Tough to pick, but my favorite book lately was “American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld. My favorite book of all time is “To Kill a Mockingbird” — such a classic!

  • Karen February 28, 2012, 5:01 pm

    Favorite book of all time is probably Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan– classic!

  • Allison February 28, 2012, 5:02 pm

    LOVE the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Can’t compare to anything else.

  • Chrissy (The New Me) February 28, 2012, 5:02 pm

    Hard to pick just one, but I love The Alice Stories, by Jesse Lee Kercheval. You’ll never look at love the same way again.

  • Christina February 28, 2012, 5:02 pm

    To be honest I don’t have a favorite book, mainly because I inhale them. Like last night, I read a book…. I read so many.

  • Julie February 28, 2012, 5:03 pm

    “A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither” by Nina Wise. A long title for an extremely fun and thought-provoking book!

  • Lacey February 28, 2012, 5:03 pm

    What a hard question! One of my most favorite and memorable books read is In the Heart of the Sea. A great tale of survival and tragedy.

  • nicole February 28, 2012, 5:03 pm

    I love Let the Right One In. So creepy and enthralling!

  • Kelli February 28, 2012, 5:03 pm

    It is hard to pick one book, but I think East of Eden by John Steinbeck would have to be it.

  • Karen February 28, 2012, 5:04 pm

    Little Bee By Chris Cleave

  • Lisa S February 28, 2012, 5:05 pm

    I have to pick only one book?! I love history & historical books, so I’ll say Seabiscuit. But I love reading, in general, & would love to read these books!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 5:05 pm

    My favorite book of all time is A Million Little Pieces, despite all the controversy over it!

  • Jennifer February 28, 2012, 5:06 pm

    My favorite book of all time is “Scream Free Parenting” – I know it sounds ridiculous, but I reference it weekly to help me keep my cool with my kiddos (especially the 4 year old smart-as-a-whip one that keeps me on my toes)!

  • Jennifer February 28, 2012, 5:06 pm

    This is a brilliant giveaway. I love reading – it’s so hard to choose just one. But I think I’d have to say Jane Eyre or PS I Love You.

  • Allison February 28, 2012, 5:06 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Kite Runner. It was one of those books that I couldn’t stop thinking about for weeks after I finished reading it.

  • Lindsey February 28, 2012, 5:07 pm

    My favorite book is Praying For Your Future Husband. Such a good read!!

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 5:08 pm

    Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. It’s beautiful, and I’ve read it many, many times over.

  • Stevi February 28, 2012, 5:08 pm

    I’ve recently become a fan of the Hunger Games, so good!

  • Cryssy February 28, 2012, 5:08 pm

    I think I would pick Like Water For Chocolate. So romantic!

  • Annie February 28, 2012, 5:08 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Time Traveler’s Wife. I read the book before the movie, and I am glad I did. I didn’t enjoy the movie, but the book’s detail is what makes it my favorite book of all time.

  • Trina February 28, 2012, 5:08 pm

    I love the Cider House Rules!

  • Jill February 28, 2012, 5:09 pm

    Oh my goodness, it’s so hard to choose. Maybe the Harry Potter series? They’re one of the few books I’ve read more than once!

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 5:10 pm

    such a tough question! i would have to go with a cliche answer- the harry potter books and the dragon tattoo books (ok so that’s actually like 9 books?)

  • jennie February 28, 2012, 5:10 pm

    the present

  • Cassandra February 28, 2012, 5:11 pm

    Sci-fi Geek here: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  • sara February 28, 2012, 5:11 pm

    Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love it so much, I named my first child Bennet!

  • Liz @ circletwentytwo February 28, 2012, 5:12 pm

    This is such a hard question!! My favorite has honestly got to be To Kill a Mockingbird. Every time I read it I love it more!

  • Angela February 28, 2012, 5:13 pm

    Great giveaway!! Hard to pick, but we’ll go with a classic: Pride & Prejudice!

  • Renee C. February 28, 2012, 5:13 pm

    My fave book ever?? Definitely “She’s Come Undone” by Wally Lamb:)

  • Elizabeth Brown February 28, 2012, 5:14 pm

    I have so many that I truly love but the first book that made me a life long reader was “Bridge to Teribethia”. It’s one of the few books I read more than once and one that I look forward to sharing with my children.

  • Kelly February 28, 2012, 5:14 pm

    I’m soooo far behind but right now I’m reading the Twilight series and am totally hooked. Moving onto the Hunger Games next, which I’ve heard WILL be my favorite 🙂

  • Amy February 28, 2012, 5:14 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. So, so, sooo good. Read it now if you haven’t already!

  • Lesley February 28, 2012, 5:14 pm

    What a great giveaway – pick me, pick me!

    A favorite book of mine is The Art of Racing in the Rain.

  • Rebecca February 28, 2012, 5:14 pm

    My favorite book is Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares.

  • CheezyK February 28, 2012, 5:14 pm

    If I had to pick one it would be The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien always said it was one book in three volumes so I say that counts as one :)). That said, I love books and love reading so picking just one will vary depending on what time of the day you ask me!

    (P.S. pre-ordered your book last time you mentioned it, looking forward to it arriving)

  • cathy@1970kikiproject February 28, 2012, 5:15 pm

    That is a tough question!!
    I will go with “a prayer for owen meanie” by john irving.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  • Lainie February 28, 2012, 5:15 pm

    Favorite book of all time…that’s a hard one!!!…”The Help” is the first thing that comes to mind right now. What a fun giveaway!!

  • Courtney@Translating Nutrition February 28, 2012, 5:15 pm

    Oh, what a hard question! Two come to mind. I adore Pride and Prejudice, or any Jane Austen for that matter. And when I was a kid, I loved The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. It made such an impression on me when I was younger, and even though I haven’t read it in years, I still think fondly of it.

  • anne February 28, 2012, 5:16 pm

    Hands down, it’s The Giving Tree!

  • Jen @ The Well Read Fish February 28, 2012, 5:16 pm

    A post about two of my loves: Wisconsin and reading!!! Yay.

    Great cover on the HTP book.

  • Keri February 28, 2012, 5:16 pm

    Awesome giveaway – New Rules of Lifting for Women would be just in time for my gym’s “40 day challenge”!

    My favorite book is “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. I took an entire course on it in college, and now that I know everything behind it, I don’t think I could have another favorite book, ever!

  • Jen @ our delicious life February 28, 2012, 5:16 pm

    My recent favorite book is the Glass Castle and The art of racing in the Rain..

  • Alison February 28, 2012, 5:17 pm

    Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood. I read it when I was 15 and found it emotionally powerful with insight into female clique behavior.

  • Kelsea February 28, 2012, 5:17 pm

    Love to read and re-read Little Women. Marme has such good life advice.

  • Michelle Z February 28, 2012, 5:17 pm

    I do love The Alchemist and The Notebook (the book is so much better than the movie!! :))

  • Carrie February 28, 2012, 5:17 pm

    Most recently, I would say Empire Falls or The Shipping News.

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 5:18 pm

    Totally dorky, but my favourite is Harry Potter and the prisoner of azakaban.

  • Jenn Russell February 28, 2012, 5:18 pm

    Ooh good question! The Seven Roads to Happiness was a book my mom read to me when I was a kid and I still love reading it. But the Harry Potter books are right up there. I put off getting a kindle for a year because they weren’t available as e-books!

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 5:18 pm

    can’t wait for your new book to come out!

    I have about 100 fav books of all time but one is will grayson, will grayson

  • Lauren February 28, 2012, 5:19 pm

    Wow, how can I even pick? A recent favorite is Middlesex. So well written.

    • Elise February 28, 2012, 5:19 pm

      such a great read!

  • Elise February 28, 2012, 5:19 pm

    my favorite book of all time? how to choose?! to name a few…. pride & prejudice, the glass castle, the what is the what, three cups of tea, everything is illuminated, kite runner, etc…i could go on forever — i was the child who had 6 flashlights stashed in her room for reading during the wee hours of the morning, and to continue reading once my mother took them away one by one…

  • Candice February 28, 2012, 5:20 pm

    My favorite book ever is Anna Karenina. So amazing!

  • Melissa February 28, 2012, 5:20 pm

    The know it all by AJ Jacobs 🙂

  • Coco February 28, 2012, 5:21 pm

    Oh goodness, I love to read so much, and I have read thousands of books, so it’s impossible to choose. Recent favorite was the entire Hunger Games series…it surprised me that I loved it so much. Now I am anxiously anticipating the movie.

    Thanks for a fantastic giveaway!

  • Angela February 28, 2012, 5:21 pm

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 5:21 pm

    I think if I HAD to pick it would be a Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I <3 too many books!

  • Sandy February 28, 2012, 5:22 pm

    Without a doubt…the Hunger Games Trilogy…yes…all 3.

  • jessica February 28, 2012, 5:22 pm

    i LOVE sarah vowell. it’s hard to choose just which book of hers is my favorite. i love hearing her voice in my head as i read. she is one of a kind and i wait very impatiently for new books to come out. assassination vacation is at the lead of the pack.

  • sarah February 28, 2012, 5:22 pm

    Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and the harry potter series!

  • m February 28, 2012, 5:23 pm

    Gah, Its so hard to pick! I’ve read “Ordinary People” three times and always loved it (wow, its also been about 10 years since I last picked it up) and also love “Sometimes a Great Notion”… however, if I could only choose one I’d have to go w/ the classic Anna Karina. I brought it w/ me amongst other books while traveling after college and it astounded me how a book written in a completely different time period can capture human nature so perfectly. I remember thinking how all the characters could easily be in 21st century america despite it being set over a hundred years prior in Russia. Such a classic and for a great reason.

  • Margaret February 28, 2012, 5:23 pm

    love books, wish i had a book club to go to, fiction, non fiction, always an adventure… my favorite is definitely catcher in the rye. read it at least 3 times. so good. need to read it again

  • Leah February 28, 2012, 5:23 pm

    The Poisonwood Bible. There can be no argument. Best.Book.Ever.

  • Marissa February 28, 2012, 5:24 pm

    It is soo hard to pick just one! I’m getting lots of good ideas of new books to read from comments too. My current favorite is the Hunger Games Series.

  • Kristine February 28, 2012, 5:24 pm

    My favorite has to be Bel Canto by Ann Patchett! It is an incredible story!

  • Rebecca February 28, 2012, 5:24 pm

    So hard to pick one favorite! Right now I’m loving The Hunger Games.

  • Allie February 28, 2012, 5:25 pm

    I absolutely love to read and have many favorites but my number one would have to be Gone With the Wind. So much better than the movie (Yes that is possible).

  • MB February 28, 2012, 5:25 pm

    Memoirs of a Geisha is one that I always reread when I’m looking for something comforting and familiar! (Also…welcome to Wisconsin! It’s raining here in Madison…hope the weather is slightly more pleasant in Whitewater!)

  • Rachel February 28, 2012, 5:25 pm

    A tie between Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger and The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

  • Annie February 28, 2012, 5:26 pm

    Fun giveaway!

    I find myself reading Anne Frank’s diary at least once a year. It has been a long time favorite. She had so much courage and I always find more to learn from her each time I read.

  • Tami February 28, 2012, 5:27 pm

    my favorite book, one that i would give you if i was invited to your baby shower…the little red hen. it’s a timeless story that i have loved all my life!

  • Stephanie February 28, 2012, 5:27 pm

    A favorite book is difficult to choose! However, top prize has to go to Sarah Vowell’s books for making American history so, so funny.

  • Annie P. February 28, 2012, 5:28 pm

    She’s come undone. By far my favorite!

  • Rose February 28, 2012, 5:29 pm

    definitely A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I remember the first time I read it in high school… and now I own 3 copies of it and have read it at least once a year since!

  • Army Amy* February 28, 2012, 5:30 pm

    There are so many, but my favorite book of all time has to be The Giver. I read it in middle school, and I felt like a different person afterwards. The book really opened my eyes. Eek! I hope I win, but even if I don’t, I want to wish you lots of luck with your book sales!*

  • Elizabeth @ reads recipes runs February 28, 2012, 5:31 pm

    Pride and Prejudice!

  • Meredith February 28, 2012, 5:32 pm

    Cien años de soledad (100 Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez. It’s what made me go to grad school for Hispanic lit.

  • Brittnie (A Joy Renewed) February 28, 2012, 5:32 pm

    The Same Kind Of Different As Me – by Ron Hall and Denver Moore.

  • Kaitlyn February 28, 2012, 5:33 pm

    The Thornbirds. Such a timeless classic.

  • Elyse February 28, 2012, 5:34 pm

    “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult was such an awesome book! It got me hooked on reading. I read it my freshman year of high school, I think?

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 5:34 pm

    The Outsiders 🙂 Nothing gold can stay…

  • keren February 28, 2012, 5:35 pm

    my favorite book ( if i had to pick one) is less than zero by brett easton ellis!

  • Rachel February 28, 2012, 5:35 pm

    I go to UW Madison and cannot believe you’re at UW Whitewater! I’m guessing you saw cheese heads at the airport or you were at a packer game. Anyways my favorite book of all time is “The Secret” because its helped me get so many things out of life and it has made me such a positive person.

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 5:36 pm

    I have so many favourite books. The Giver, which has been mentioned, Bridge to Terabithia, I also am into the Hunger games trilogy. I hope your books sales go well!

  • Lauren @ Sweet and Twisted February 28, 2012, 5:36 pm

    One of my favorite books is A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius!

  • Ashley @ Ashley's Adventures in Alaska February 28, 2012, 5:37 pm

    My all time favorite book is The Thornbirds. Followed closely by Roses. I just love sweeping, dramatic, crazy long love stories!

  • Hillary February 28, 2012, 5:37 pm

    What an awesome giveaway—I desperately want to start the NRLFW after my half marathon!

    My favorite book of all time is probably The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I read it junior year of high school, and it was the book that made me decide to become an English teacher. Pretty influential, if you ask me!

  • sal February 28, 2012, 5:38 pm

    Too many favorites, but if I had to pick one I would say Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer – its the reason I went veg and a good read for anyone.

  • Katelyn February 28, 2012, 5:38 pm

    Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequiest. ah-maz-ing.

  • Meghan February 28, 2012, 5:39 pm

    My favorite book of all time is pretty heavy, but I loved reading Crime & Punishment. It’s so hard to pick just one though!

  • Sandy February 28, 2012, 5:39 pm

    My favorite book of ALL time is The Giving Tree (because my mom and I used to read it together when I was little).

    I am going to a baby shower this weekend where everyone was asked to bring a book to grow the new baby’s library…I am bringing The Giving Tree and Charlotte’s Web – both classics!

  • Whitney February 28, 2012, 5:40 pm

    So hard to choose! Rebecca is one of my faves.

  • Jamie @ Don't Forget the Cinnamon February 28, 2012, 5:40 pm

    My favorite book is Running With Scissors! I laughed, cried, and closed my eyes in horror throughout it.

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 5:41 pm

    Ohhhh! This is so fun! I love books 🙂 Am finally done school in April and can’t wait to put the text books aside and sink my teeth into non textbooks! This package would get me started for sure 🙂

    My favorite book of all time? wow. I think I would pick The Red Tent by by Anita Diamant. I love this book because it is so beautifully written and I found the feminist twist on a biblical story very uplifting. I also love it because I read it ten years ago while staying in a small, run down beach bungalow in Thailand. White sand. Turquoise ocean. Two backpacks. And the love of my life. The memory of where I read it makes the book even better!

  • fallon February 28, 2012, 5:41 pm

    This is kind of embarrasing but I really like the whole Harry Potter series. They are fun and entertaining! These books look like a good chance from the usual fiction book!

  • Merrin February 28, 2012, 5:41 pm

    My favorite novel is the Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michaelangelo – if you like historical fiction, you will love this book!

  • Danielle February 28, 2012, 5:41 pm

    Dry by Augusten Burroughs-It’s hard to strike a balance between humor and heartbreaking sadness…even harder when it’s a memoir about your recovery from alcoholism, but this book does it with flying colors! I’ve read this book at least a dozen times and always laugh and cry my way through it. Definitely recommend it!

  • Jenny February 28, 2012, 5:42 pm

    My favorite book is ‘Oryx and Crake’ by Margaret Atwood.

  • Jen@FoodFamilyFitness February 28, 2012, 5:42 pm

    Favorite book of all time: The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand. I read it this summer and loved it!

  • Tiffany February 28, 2012, 5:42 pm

    I think my favorite might be The Time Traveler’s Wife. One of the few books I’ve wanted to read again immediately after finishing it!

  • Allie February 28, 2012, 5:43 pm

    My favorite book is The Old Man and the Sea

  • Christie February 28, 2012, 5:43 pm

    Great giveaway! I <3 reading! My favorite book of all time is The Great Gatsby.

  • Miranda February 28, 2012, 5:44 pm

    My favorite book is A Million Little Pieces by James Frye. And I read it before the whole “Oprah scandal”!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 5:44 pm

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- best book ever!

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 5:45 pm

    So many good books! To Kill A Mockingbird has to be my favorite — I reread it every couple of years.

  • Kristyn February 28, 2012, 5:45 pm

    The Giver… Before it was banned in schools. It was te hunger games kinda sorta, back in my middle school days. Very futuristic!

    Very excited for both books 🙂 HTP I want to download for my kindle. The other in print for use at GOTR.

    Loved the naked face interview on the NBC Charlotte station!

  • Mariel February 28, 2012, 5:46 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Mandy by Julie Andrews. My original copy is completely tattered, I’ve probably read it a dozen times.

  • Erica February 28, 2012, 5:47 pm

    I don’t know about “all-time” fave book, but certainly most recently, it’s The Help. Loved the book so much that I’m almost afraid to see the movie for fear it won’t live up to the book!

  • Erin D February 28, 2012, 5:48 pm

    Tuesdays with Morries never gets old, and always leaves me feeling inspired to live a better life!

  • Katherine M. February 28, 2012, 5:48 pm

    Favorite book of all time? I’d have to say Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. However these days I’m way more into nonfiction

  • Jen February 28, 2012, 5:48 pm

    Atlas Shrugged, hands down.

  • Cecily February 28, 2012, 5:48 pm

    My favorite book is Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand. Great book in my favorite setting- the beach!

  • Katie @ Peace Love & Oats February 28, 2012, 5:49 pm

    I don’t know if I could pick a favorite book! Ella Enchanted was my favorite growing up, I read it a million times. I also love Pride and Prejudice!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 5:49 pm

    Its so hard to pick one! But I’m going to go with the Harry Potter series 🙂

  • Kim February 28, 2012, 5:49 pm

    “Into Thin Air” Jon Krakauer

  • Hannah February 28, 2012, 5:51 pm

    Jane Eyre

  • Jessica February 28, 2012, 5:51 pm

    Hmmmm, most recently I really enjoyed Eating Animals, gave me great perspective and made me re-evaluate my eating choices.

  • Regina February 28, 2012, 5:51 pm

    The Gift of Valor. It’s a very humbling account of a U.S. Marine Corps Sgt who truly embodied what a hero really is.

  • L February 28, 2012, 5:52 pm

    It is so hard to pick my favorite book of all time, but I really loved the Harry Potter Books. I am a big dork. 🙂

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 5:52 pm

    The Omnivores Dilemna,Michael Pollan

  • Melissa February 28, 2012, 5:53 pm

    the last lecture by randy pausch. great outlook and reminder of what is truly important in life.

  • Sonia the Mexigarian February 28, 2012, 5:54 pm

    Favorite book of all time? Wow. that’s a tough one. I love to read. ever since I was a small child I would read like crazy. Remember those color coded reading thingy’s in grade school, where you advance into the the next color after each read and questions answered? Yeah, I made it my goal to finish those. 🙂

    I love a lot of books, but I think the one that stands out the me right now, immediately popping up is Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell. 4th grade reading but I LOVED it.

  • Lauren Salak February 28, 2012, 5:54 pm

    what a fun giveaway!!! my favorite book of all time is “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein 🙂

  • Brandy February 28, 2012, 5:54 pm

    I love The Secret Life of Bees!

  • Caitlin P. February 28, 2012, 5:55 pm

    I have so many favorites! One of my all time favs is still Memoirs of a Geisha!

  • K Brady February 28, 2012, 5:55 pm

    ONE of my favorite books is To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved it when we had to read it in school, and I’ve picked it up and read it several times since then for pleasure 🙂

  • MaryzMjzilhaver February 28, 2012, 5:55 pm

    Too many good books out there to choose one..recent favorite is The Help.

  • deva at deva by definition February 28, 2012, 5:55 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Mists of Avalon. So much pretty imagery and such good story-telling!

  • Jess // Curating Style February 28, 2012, 5:56 pm

    My favorite book of all time is John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. I try to reread it at least once a year!

    Thanks for a great giveaway, and have fun in Wisconsin! One of my favorite states.

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 5:57 pm

    As an English major and creative writing minor, this is a tough one to answer! But I would have to say either The House on Mango Street, The Awakening, or The Time Traveler’s Wife.

  • Leslee February 28, 2012, 5:57 pm

    I love Jodi Picoult books!

  • Vanessa February 28, 2012, 5:57 pm

    The Diary of Anne Frank. It’s the only book I’ve ever read several times over again.

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 5:58 pm

    While I absolutely love to read ‘grown up books’ now, I would have to say my favorite book of all time is a book from my childhood called “Love You Forever.” I recommend it to read to babyHTP – my mom used to read it to me most nights, and it has given me lots of special memories. If you haven’t ever heard of this book, you must get it!!!

    http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

  • Julie February 28, 2012, 5:58 pm

    The hunger games!!!!

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 5:58 pm

    All the Harry Potter (although I think picking 7 favorite books might be cheating)!

  • Tabitha February 28, 2012, 6:00 pm

    Pride and Prejudice! My all time fav!

  • Grace February 28, 2012, 6:00 pm

    Everything is Illuminated. I was sucked in by the beautiful prose and engaging stories. I started reading it on a plane and I had to practically yell at the woman next to me to stop talking and let me read dammit!

  • Emma @ All The Pieces Of Me February 28, 2012, 6:00 pm

    Wow great giveaway!
    My favorite book of all time is Twilight.. All four of em! 😛
    But I’ll try to be original and tell you about one of my other favorite books! I LOVED the time travelers wife by Audrey Niffenegger… Amazing book.. So incredibly well written and of course an amazing story…

  • ellen February 28, 2012, 6:01 pm

    i LOVE a tree grows in brooklyn. i reread it every few years. it’s fantastic.

  • Emily February 28, 2012, 6:02 pm

    Toss up between The Grapes of Wrath and The Waves.

  • Julie February 28, 2012, 6:02 pm

    Marley and Me <33

    Read the book before the movie!

  • Allison February 28, 2012, 6:04 pm

    My favorite is Me Talk Pretty One Day.

  • Janet February 28, 2012, 6:05 pm

    My favorite book is The Help! I love the messages that the characters leave you with and will always stay with me.

  • Donna February 28, 2012, 6:07 pm

    I can’t pick just one favorite, but my favorite recent read is “Prep” by Curtis Sittenfeld.

  • Ann February 28, 2012, 6:08 pm

    I have many favorite books, but Charlotte’s Web has been my favorite for the longest – since I was 8. It still makes me cry!

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 6:10 pm

    My favorite book of all-time is Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume…it’s such a classic! I first read it in elementary school and every few years, I pick it up to read it through again…and enjoy it every time!

  • Justine February 28, 2012, 6:10 pm

    all of those books look so interesting!

    I have to have a book with me at allll times… it’s hard to pick! I have a special place in my heart for the Fountainhead. And The Little Prince. And the Phantom Tollbooth. And Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. And then there’s Harry Potter… nope, definitely can’t pick.

  • Jen G February 28, 2012, 6:11 pm

    Can’t pick just one! A few of my favorites are Cutting for Stone, The Help, Pillars of the Earth – anything historical fiction related and I am hooked!

  • Allison February 28, 2012, 6:11 pm

    It sounds corny, but my favourite book of all time is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first of the series! I read it before they gained popularity and loved the world it transports readers to 🙂

  • Ali February 28, 2012, 6:11 pm

    Why do I never see cheeseheads? I live in Wisconsin! Perhaps I’ve become used to them and thus they become part of the background (like when you live in the mountains for so long that you don’t really see them anymore). 🙂

    As far as books: Crossing to Safety & All the Little Live Things (both by Wallace Stegner), To Kill a Mockingbird, and judging by how much I really want to reread the series, Hunger Games Trilogy! I also love Believe It, Be It by Ali Vincent. 🙂

  • Julie February 28, 2012, 6:13 pm

    My all time favorite book is The Kite Runner. A close second is Water for Elephants!

  • Nikki M February 28, 2012, 6:14 pm

    I must say that Twlight is up pretty high on the list 🙂

  • Kari February 28, 2012, 6:14 pm

    The selected journals of LM Montgomery

  • Jane February 28, 2012, 6:14 pm

    My favorite book is Room. I also love The Glass Castle. And essentially all Jodi Picoult books.

  • SJ February 28, 2012, 6:15 pm

    I’d feel like a liar saying anything other than Harry Potter.

  • Jaime February 28, 2012, 6:16 pm

    I adore Pillars of the Earth and Katherine. Love a good historical fiction, for sure.

  • Julie @ Wearing Mascara February 28, 2012, 6:17 pm

    Great giveaway! I love to read and my favorite book is The Giving Tree from when I was a child. Such great memories 🙂

  • Dari Marie February 28, 2012, 6:17 pm

    No matter what I read, the Harry Potter series will ALWAYS be my favorite. Can’t pick a single book, really.

  • Clare Russell February 28, 2012, 6:17 pm

    It’s a toss up between the host by Stephenie Meyer or pride and prejudice by Jane Austen.

  • Shannon February 28, 2012, 6:18 pm

    I would say my favorite is probably The Great Gatsby.

  • Amy February 28, 2012, 6:19 pm

    yay how awesome your book is coming out!! so excited!! anyway, my favorite book has to be a tie between She’s Come Undone and Time Traveler’s Wife. 2 very different books..but i loved them both. great giveaway!

  • Annette @ EnjoyYourHealthyLife February 28, 2012, 6:21 pm

    I am SUCH A book nerd, and I looooovveee to read! My favorite book to read is The Count Of Monte Cristo (unabridged) by Alexander Dumas. SO good

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 6:22 pm

    Favourite book definitely has to be Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I’m a huge fan of dystopic novels, and this one takes the cake for me 🙂

  • Natalie February 28, 2012, 6:22 pm

    My all time favorite book is The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway. Can’t wait to read your new books!

  • Lindsay C February 28, 2012, 6:22 pm

    House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski!

  • Elle February 28, 2012, 6:22 pm

    Ah, I have so many favorite books! The first two that come to mind, though, are The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery) and Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh).

  • Jill Kirkwood February 28, 2012, 6:24 pm

    A Separate Peace

    Read it in High School and although it is short and sweet it definitely sticks with me over 10 years later!

  • Michaela February 28, 2012, 6:25 pm

    I wasn’t sure I was going to be truthful about my favorite book because it’s a little embarrassing. But I see that I’m not alone in saying that Are you there, God, it’s me Margaret is my favorite book. I must have read that book once a year from age 10 to 15.

  • Kellie February 28, 2012, 6:25 pm

    My favorites are the Laura Ingall books. I know they are children’s books but just remembering laying in bed and reading them brings back great memories.

  • Rebecca February 28, 2012, 6:26 pm

    Ahhh this is so exciting! Congrats on your book 🙂 The favorite book I’ve ever read HAS to be the Hunger Games. Perfection.

  • Rachel February 28, 2012, 6:27 pm

    I like too many to have a favorite — but when I was a kid I read the very first Boxcar Children about 100 times!

  • Ashley Y February 28, 2012, 6:27 pm

    I love reading and read across most genres. My favorite genre though is fantasy so my favorite books are the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss.

  • Bonnie N. February 28, 2012, 6:27 pm

    I love Mountains Beyond Mountains. Also, I really want to read that weightlifting book in the pack!

  • Merry February 28, 2012, 6:28 pm

    I absolutely love The Little Price, by Antoine de St Exupery. Good for kids and adults alike 🙂

  • Amy February 28, 2012, 6:29 pm

    It’s hard to choose but one of my favorite books of all time is Matilda by Roald Dahl.

  • Ingunn February 28, 2012, 6:29 pm

    Awesome giveaway!

    My favorite book of all time is A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel (and the second book, She Got Up Off the Couch), I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read them: http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Named-Zippy-Growing-Mooreland/dp/0767915054

  • kristina February 28, 2012, 6:31 pm

    Oooh I was actually looking at buying the New Rules of Weight Lifting for Women this morning!

    My favourite book I’ve ever read was called Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, based on a girl who lived in Vancouver and felt immense pressure from her Asian parents to be successful, and instead went the exact opposite way. Read it in 2 days – could NOT put it down.

  • Cate February 28, 2012, 6:31 pm

    Since I have too many favorites to name here, I’ll just name one of my childhood favorites, which you should definitely get for yourself and for Baby HTP: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I love Alexander.

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 6:32 pm

    My favorite book is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • Stephanie February 28, 2012, 6:32 pm

    My favorite book is “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith. It’s my absolute favorite; my paperback version is held together with packing tape!

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 6:32 pm

    My favorite book of all time is the BFG by Roald Dahl. I read it as a kid and loved the magical story! However, I also love Harry Potter and the Hunger Games!

  • Jess February 28, 2012, 6:32 pm

    Oh that is a tough question, I have read too many books in my life time to pick a favorite. I really enjoyed oryx and crake,so it is up there. Favorite author is easier, Terry Brooks.

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 6:35 pm

    Congratulations on your book! I’m looking forward to reading it! This post comes at a good time for me because I am recovering from ankle surgery and will read the other comments for reading recommendations. As for my own favorites, I literally cannot pick just one…but the shortest list I could make would include Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers, as well as the entire Harry Potter series. Also a great book I read recently for anyone looking for some fitness inspiration is The Long Run by Matt Long.

    • Rachel February 28, 2012, 7:05 pm

      I forgot to name You Shall Know Our Velocity! on my list. Definitely a great book.

  • Amy Q February 28, 2012, 6:36 pm

    Oh,this a hard one…..but I would have to say “Eat, Pray, Love”— recent fave, tho? “Expecting Adam” or “The Night Circus”!

    The books in the giveaway look great, though!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 6:36 pm

    Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Dr. Suess.

  • jen February 28, 2012, 6:37 pm

    what a cool post! i love looking through all these comments to get some new ideas. i carry a book with me at all times, and my very favorite book is the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas. this book has everything! romance, deceit, and the most unbelievable plot of revenge EVER ( i feel like one of the kids on reading rainbow.. sidenote: what a great show that was!)

  • Caroline February 28, 2012, 6:38 pm

    “A Fine Balance”

  • Maria February 28, 2012, 6:38 pm

    This is so difficult,because I love to read. I would have to say,this will sound crazy, the series of Flowers in the Attic (V.C. Andrews) I loved the whole series. This is great giveaway.

    • jen February 29, 2012, 6:45 am

      i read that series every start to my summer… they are so creepy/gross/awesome!!

  • Alison Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 6:39 pm

    This is incredible! A couple of those are already on my list…
    Of all time, my favorite is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Of recent reading, it’s State of Wonder by Ann Patchett.

  • Lauren February 28, 2012, 6:39 pm

    That’s super easy…Island of the Blue Dolphin!

  • Lisa February 28, 2012, 6:40 pm

    I have too many favorites to name one, but Divergent by Veronica Roth is my current favorite.

  • Cathy February 28, 2012, 6:40 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird. Favorite book, favorite movie, and even my iPhone case.

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 6:42 pm

    Right now, I am all over The Flavor Bible. Every chef, cook, person in the world should have this book!

  • Katie @ Soulshine and Sassafras February 28, 2012, 6:42 pm

    Hotel World. I’m getting a tattoo of my favorite line from it: “Remember you must live. Remember you must leave.” Also, Harry Potter. Duh.

  • Katheryn February 28, 2012, 6:45 pm

    The Happiness Project, Born to Run, and there’s loads of children’s books that I love.

  • car February 28, 2012, 6:45 pm

    my favorite book ever is probably a tree grows in brooklyn. i just read unbroken though, and it was seriously so great.

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 6:45 pm

    My favorite book is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Great giveaway! I’ve been wanting to get my hands on The New Rules of Lifting for Women 🙂

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 6:46 pm

    Favorite book of all time?! It’s so hard to choose just one book!! I love book series like Harry Potter and the Hunger Games. Authors I would like to be like are David Sedaris or John Green.

    This is a great giveaway 🙂

  • stacey February 28, 2012, 6:46 pm

    I don’t have a favorite, but I do love to read.

  • Laurence February 28, 2012, 6:46 pm

    Pilgrim by Timothy Findley

  • Eileen February 28, 2012, 6:47 pm

    Hard to pick one, but of my most recent reads my favourite is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. A must read!

  • Brandi @ The Vitamin Bee February 28, 2012, 6:49 pm

    I love so many books. How can you choose just one? I love all the Harry Potter books, the Lord of the Rings books, and the Historian. And Winters Sea. And about 20 more!

  • Ash February 28, 2012, 6:50 pm

    My favorite book is The Handmaid’s Tale.

  • Duffy February 28, 2012, 6:50 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Anna Karenina. But I recently read Origins, which you recommended, and really appreciated it, too.

    Looking forward to reading your book, Caitlin!!!

  • Bethany February 28, 2012, 6:52 pm

    I loved Eat, Pray, Love. The Hunger Games Series is a close second 🙂

  • Caroline H. February 28, 2012, 6:53 pm

    Hmm…it’s a toss up between Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez or Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott. So good!

  • Alli February 28, 2012, 6:53 pm

    Love Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal. It can be hard to find, but once you do it is totally worth the read!

  • jen February 28, 2012, 6:56 pm

    catcher in the rye, forever and ever, amen. one of the reasons i’m an english teacher.

  • Kyra February 28, 2012, 6:56 pm

    East of Eden! I re-read it almost every year and discover something new 🙂

  • tamicka February 28, 2012, 6:58 pm

    The Giver without a doubt is my favorite book.of all time. If you ask anyone from my middle school days they will say the same thing. That book was life changing.

    • Allison B February 28, 2012, 7:00 pm

      This is also one of my favorites! A great read.

  • Ashlee February 28, 2012, 6:58 pm

    My favorite books are Pride & Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen. Ps I love You by Cecelia Ahern (the one the movies based on!) and The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen! Any books by those 3 ladies are fantastic! But these cut the cake for me, I’ll read them over and over again until I’m old and wrinkled! Lol

  • Allison B February 28, 2012, 7:00 pm

    I love The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 🙂

    • Marysa February 28, 2012, 7:20 pm

      Good one 🙂 (Depressing but worth it)

      • Gwen February 28, 2012, 7:24 pm

        Agreed, great choice 🙂

  • Jenn February 28, 2012, 7:00 pm

    I think “Pride and Prejudice” is my all time favorite book. I can read it over and over again.

  • Christina February 28, 2012, 7:01 pm

    So hard to pick a favorite! Poisonwood Bible and Time Traveler’s Wife are 2 that come to mind 🙂

  • Rachel February 28, 2012, 7:02 pm

    The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It changed the course of my life. I was a history major in college, and this books look at Imperialism, missionaries, post-colonialism, etc. directed my studies, and I went on to extensively research and learn about this part of history. PS. even if someone doesn’t care about the history of the book, it is still an AMAZING story.

    My other top books because I can’t just name one:
    Les Miserables
    Diary of Anne Frank
    Harry Potter
    A Prayer of Owen Meany
    To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Alissa February 28, 2012, 7:04 pm

    I love all books by Nicholas Sparks!

  • Jama February 28, 2012, 7:04 pm

    C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia have always been my favorite, if I have to pick just one I’d say “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”

  • Jamie February 28, 2012, 7:05 pm

    I love The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons. It’s definitely a mushy book, but is so well written that I fall in love with the characters every time I read it.

  • Danielle February 28, 2012, 7:08 pm

    Of all time? Has to be World Without End by Ken Follet. Its looooonnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggg but so worth it!

  • Emily February 28, 2012, 7:08 pm

    You Shall Know Our Velocity

  • Madeline February 28, 2012, 7:10 pm

    It’s too difficult to pick just one book as an all time favourite, but The God of Small Things is one of my most favourites ever.

  • Soi February 28, 2012, 7:10 pm

    my new favorite book is the Hunger Games! Never thought I’d say that…!!!

  • Angie February 28, 2012, 7:10 pm

    I really loved the book “Just like Heaven” which is, of course, now a movie with Reese Witherspoon…. I read it a while ago but I loved how it made me feel!! 🙂

  • Liz February 28, 2012, 7:11 pm

    I don’t know if I have an absolute, all time favorite book but “A Walk In The Woods” by Bill Bryson is definitely in my top 3

  • Michele February 28, 2012, 7:13 pm

    My favorite book of all time is “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret”. I remember reading this so much when I was in elementary school. I borrowed it so much from my fifth grade teacher’s classroom library that she actually gave it to me at the end of the year as a “graduation gift”. I still have it all these years later!!!!

  • Carrie February 28, 2012, 7:14 pm

    Wuthering Heights has been my favorite since I read it in my college English Comp class.

  • mego @watchmegorun February 28, 2012, 7:15 pm

    Ahh I don’t know I can pick just one! The great gatsby, brave new world, the help, the glass castle.

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 7:15 pm

    Where The Red Fern Grows is my favorite book of all time! Such a sweet dog story

  • Presley (run pretty) February 28, 2012, 7:16 pm

    The Road, Are You My Mother?, and The Awakening are three books that popped into my head haha what a random selection. And yes I included a baby book 🙂

  • Jen February 28, 2012, 7:16 pm

    I have always loved Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. It was my fave as a kid and still resonates now!

    • Marysa February 28, 2012, 7:18 pm

      I LOVED THAT ONE!!!

  • Marysa February 28, 2012, 7:17 pm

    The Cricket in Time Square!

  • Alison February 28, 2012, 7:18 pm

    Love this giveaway!! So fun!! It’s so hard to choose, but my favorite book I’ve read recently is probably “orange is the new black” about a woman in a federal prison. So interesting

  • Andrea Daniel February 28, 2012, 7:19 pm

    I find it so hard to pick a favorite book…but the book I find myself reading over and over again is Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger.

  • Lisa February 28, 2012, 7:20 pm

    I love The Great Gatsby. It never gets old. Great giveaway!

  • Gwen February 28, 2012, 7:20 pm

    What a hard decision. The book that always comes to mind first, when I think of my favorite books, is Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Such a wonderful book 🙂

  • Socal Rachel February 28, 2012, 7:20 pm

    I can’t think of my all time… But the first one that comes to mind is Eat Pray Love. It was helpful for me during a difficult time in my life.

  • Christine February 28, 2012, 7:21 pm

    It’s hard to pick just one! However, most recently, The Help.

  • Krista February 28, 2012, 7:21 pm

    What a great prize package! I’m loving “American Wife” which I’m reading now.

  • Isabel Cueva February 28, 2012, 7:22 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Where the Red Fern Grows- makes me cry every time!

  • Danielle Mills February 28, 2012, 7:23 pm

    My favorite book is “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer” by Mireya Mayor. It’s a great story of how Mireya went from who she was to this amazing National Geographic Explorer! I love her stories from childhood to her explorations in the jungles and near death experiences! You laugh, cry and gasp all in one chapter! It’s definitely a book that you’ll want to read!

  • Flannery February 28, 2012, 7:23 pm

    I love “Animal Dreams” by Barbara Kingsolver! I’ve read it over and over.

  • Rachael February 28, 2012, 7:24 pm

    In terms of my favorite book to read, I think it’s a tie between The Alchemist and Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. But my favorite book of all time is the children’s book ‘Love You Forever’. My mom read it to me every day as a child and it’s so special to me!

  • Jennier Padilla February 28, 2012, 7:24 pm

    Congrats on the book! I think my favorite has been The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo. Also a huge Harry Potter fan… what can I say, variety is the spice of life.

  • Christine @ BookishlyB February 28, 2012, 7:25 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dosteyvsky.

  • jennyv February 28, 2012, 7:25 pm

    The Purpose Driven Life … It really did change me.

  • Ceren February 28, 2012, 7:25 pm

    My favorite author is Ayn Rand, books are The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; can’t decide;))

  • Kaylee February 28, 2012, 7:26 pm

    My favorite book of all time would have to be To Kill a Mockingbird. Love it.

  • Durka February 28, 2012, 7:27 pm

    My favourite book is the Kite Runner

  • Kaci February 28, 2012, 7:29 pm

    So hard to pick just one! Cold Mountain is one of my faves.

  • Kasey February 28, 2012, 7:29 pm

    The Hunger Games!

  • Constance Blizzard February 28, 2012, 7:29 pm

    The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch. A life-changer and the best self-help/pop-sci book imaginable, disguised as a novel.

  • Erin February 28, 2012, 7:29 pm

    My favorite book is All the King’s Men. It’s amazing – I’ve re-read it every year since high school.

  • sarah @ sarah learns February 28, 2012, 7:31 pm

    welcome to wisconsin! 🙂 i wish our weather was better for your visit. it’s been beautiful for the past couple weeks until today.

    my favorite book of all time is so so so hard to choose! i have always loved little women & still think it’s an awesome story. but i think my favorites are some jane austen books: pride & prejudice, sense & sensibility, and mansfield park.

  • Emily W February 28, 2012, 7:32 pm

    The Little Prince has been my favorite book for many, many years. I read it to my campers when I was a counselor; I read it when I’m sad, or stressed; to me, it’s the perfect book. 🙂

  • Meg February 28, 2012, 7:33 pm

    My favorite is One Hundred Years of Solitude — which reminds me that I need to go read it again.

  • Courtney February 28, 2012, 7:33 pm

    I can’t say my favorite book of all time because I’m far too picky. Best I’ve read so far this year? The Help.

  • Carolyn February 28, 2012, 7:35 pm

    My favorite book of all time?!! I truly cannot choose just one…but I just read “If I Am Missing or Dead” by Janine Latus and I loved it!

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 7:35 pm

    My favorite book ever is Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts!

    • Carolyn February 28, 2012, 7:36 pm

      That is one of my favorites as well!!!

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 7:35 pm

    My favorite book? Ever?! Tough question! I think it would have to be a tie between Eat Pray Love and Pride and Prejudice.

  • Anna February 28, 2012, 7:36 pm

    My all time favorite is a tie between Barbara Kingsolver’s “Poisonwood Bible” and Rick Bragg’s “All Over But the Shouting” by Rick Bragg. “Blue Like Jazz” comes in right behind those.

    I really love, love, love books and would work in a publishing house or at a bookstore if I could do anything in the world.

  • Nicole G February 28, 2012, 7:38 pm

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Such an amazing book!

  • marissa February 28, 2012, 7:39 pm

    Lord of the Rings- all three

  • Vickie February 28, 2012, 7:39 pm

    I have a few favorites but the book I always turn to read over and over again is “Can you keep a secret?” by Sophie Kinsella. I always enjoy reading a good book and always looking for suggestions!

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 7:41 pm

    That’s a really tough question, but Something Borrowed is one of my favorites! 🙂

  • Beth February 28, 2012, 7:41 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Frankenstein! So creepy… so good!

  • Meg February 28, 2012, 7:43 pm

    My favorite book (at least, my favorite book today) is Blue Like Jazz. I’m so excited for the movie to come out this spring!!

  • Caroline February 28, 2012, 7:43 pm

    Favorite book of all time? That’s SUCH a tough one, because I’m not sure I have an absolute favorite. I have favorites in many different categories. One of my favorite books that I’ve read over and over again is Pride & Prejudice. I loved it in high school!

  • Jessica February 28, 2012, 7:44 pm

    East Of Eden. I could read it over and over.

  • Rebecca February 28, 2012, 7:44 pm

    My favorite book these days is Glass Castle!

  • Madison February 28, 2012, 7:45 pm

    My favorite book is Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult. It is a book full of surprises and I loveee it! I just recently read it on vacation and it was full of so many broken stereotypes etc and it really had me thinking! 🙂

  • Lynn February 28, 2012, 7:45 pm

    The Catcher in the Rye. A timeless classic!!!!

  • Cait @ Beyond Bananas February 28, 2012, 7:46 pm

    My all time favorite book is Night by Elie Wiesel. Read it for the first time in 8th grade. I also love all Jodi Picoult books!

  • Emily H. February 28, 2012, 7:46 pm

    It’s been a long time since I read a novel type book, as I really like how to books and cookbooks! And children’s books!

  • Avery @ YoungAspirations February 28, 2012, 7:47 pm

    Wow! What an awesome giveaway!! Ok.. favorite book of all time.. I’m gonna have to go with Redeeming Love! I’m such a romantic and this was a really great biblical love story!

  • Erin February 28, 2012, 7:47 pm

    I love the The Giver by: Lois Lowry. I read it in middle school for the first time and have re read it a few other times!

  • Jill February 28, 2012, 7:48 pm

    Cannot say because there are far too many.

    (Re your previous post…I think you are actually eating and stuff REALLY WELL…I can’t believe you are so hard on yourself…give yourself some credit. You exercise far more than I (i only walk) and you eat amazing (better than I). You’re doing well. Relax and eat some chocolate (with some ice cream and cake 🙂

  • Jen W. February 28, 2012, 7:49 pm

    Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – my all time favorite!

  • linz February 28, 2012, 7:49 pm

    I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb is an amazing book. I love all of his work and have bawled my eyes out through them.

  • Emily @ Comfortable Home Life February 28, 2012, 7:51 pm

    Favorite book of all time? I have to pick one!? It’s a toss up between The Giver, Brave New World, or Night. All so fantastic! This set of books looks super interesting.. I definitely need the willpower one. I so much prefer being horizontal like you!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 7:52 pm

    I love the hunger games series!!

  • Allison February 28, 2012, 7:53 pm

    My favorite book is Rebecca. I actually used the New Rules of Weightlifting and LOVED it.

  • Cindy February 28, 2012, 7:55 pm

    My favorite book is The Stranger by Camus

  • Kadye February 28, 2012, 7:56 pm

    So far I think it’s a tie between Soul Pancake and All the President’s Men. (guilty pleasure series: Pretty Little Liars)

  • Devin February 28, 2012, 7:58 pm

    My favorite would probably be the Harry Potter Books. They are some of the only ones I go back a re read over and over again. I have read many of the great classics and have learned a lot from them but for a fun read it is Harry Potter all the way.

  • Megan February 28, 2012, 7:58 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Swarm – I hope they make it into a movie!

  • Emily S February 28, 2012, 8:01 pm

    My favorite book of all time is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

    What a fun giveaway!!

  • Jamie February 28, 2012, 8:03 pm

    Pride & Prejudice is my all-time fave!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 8:04 pm

    I am a major “To Kill a Mockingbird” fan. I thought about naming my daughter Scout! 🙂

  • Darbi February 28, 2012, 8:05 pm

    Where the Red Fern Grows!

  • Grace February 28, 2012, 8:06 pm

    Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

  • Emily February 28, 2012, 8:07 pm

    Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, followed closely by all the Harry Potter books!

  • Alyssa February 28, 2012, 8:09 pm

    Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy– has been my favorite since high school!

  • Lindsay February 28, 2012, 8:11 pm

    The Life of Pi by Yann Martel is one of my favorite books ever – so good!

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 8:13 pm

    Favorite book is Tales of the Unexpected by Rahl Dahl. It’s a collection of short stories, my favorite of which is Royal Jelly

  • Carly February 28, 2012, 8:13 pm

    Fave book of all time is the book of negroes!

  • Amy February 28, 2012, 8:13 pm

    My favorite is probably The Giver. I haven’t read it in ages (probably since junior high) but it’s the ONLY book I’ve ever read more than once.

  • Kara February 28, 2012, 8:13 pm

    My favorite book is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Never has a book made me cry until this one. A close second is The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Thank you for hosting! Can’t wait to get my hands on the New Rules of Lifting – I’ve heard great things. And I didn’t know Rachel Dratch wrote a book!

  • Abby February 28, 2012, 8:13 pm

    anything Dan Brown, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Fahrenheit 451, or The Rule of Four, they are all so good, I read so much so its a little hard to choose haha

  • AndreaClaire February 28, 2012, 8:13 pm

    1. You didn’t say, so I just wanted to check if there’s any geographical restrictions on this giveaway.

    2. Choosing just one favourite book is next to impossible for me, so…
    Fiction: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
    Non-fiction: Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis
    Honorable mentions: Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland
    Death from the Skies! by Phil Plait PhD (which is the only book that has made me laugh while thinking about how the world could end)

  • Laura @ May Your Bobbin Always Be Full February 28, 2012, 8:14 pm

    I think my favorite is Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling. I lost post-apocalyptic books, and this is the first in a long series.

  • Courtney February 28, 2012, 8:14 pm

    Homer’s Odyssey! By Gwen Cooper; a wonderful tale about a blind cat and so much more!

  • Whitney February 28, 2012, 8:16 pm

    The giver!

  • Dawn February 28, 2012, 8:17 pm

    So hard to pick one…Housekeeping, by Maryanne Robinson!

  • Margaret February 28, 2012, 8:17 pm

    It has to be “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. It’s a heavy subject but beautiful in it’s descriptions.

  • hillary February 28, 2012, 8:19 pm

    Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins!

  • Jess February 28, 2012, 8:21 pm

    Sammy’s Hill by Kristin Gore

  • Claire N. February 28, 2012, 8:21 pm

    Hard to choose, but I would say East of Eden is my favorite book ever. These all look great, though!

  • mary February 28, 2012, 8:22 pm

    The Great Gatsby read it in high school and has been a favorite ever since. Can’t wait for them to make a movie of it too!

  • Becca February 28, 2012, 8:24 pm

    Little Bee by Chris Cleave or Kite Runner!

  • Kim L February 28, 2012, 8:24 pm

    I have a hard time picking just one favorite book!!! One I really enjoyed was ‘The Tender Bar’ by J.R. Moehringer.

  • Jenny February 28, 2012, 8:26 pm

    A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle. From my childhood, but re-read and re-enjoyed many times over.

  • Christy Jen February 28, 2012, 8:27 pm

    Actually right now my fave book is The new ME diet!

  • Sandee Kadluboski February 28, 2012, 8:27 pm

    Favorite of all time was Gone With the Wind. I read it in high school and loved it. Recently read Born To Run and boy was it motivating. Makes you believe you can do anything!

  • Veronica February 28, 2012, 8:27 pm

    Catcher in the Rye!

  • Corey L February 28, 2012, 8:28 pm

    My favorite book is Of Mice and Men. So, so good. Steinbeck in general is great.

    I’ve heard a lot about the New Rules of Weight Lifting for Women, so I’d love to read that!

  • Jenny February 28, 2012, 8:28 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. It never fails to crack me up, despite reading it dozens of times.

  • Trish February 28, 2012, 8:30 pm

    Eat, Pray, Love is one of my faves.

  • Jackie February 28, 2012, 8:30 pm

    I couldn’t possibly choose one book as a favorite. There are so many that have touched my soul. That is my favorite type of book, one that reaches deep and plucks your heart strings.

  • Tracey D February 28, 2012, 8:30 pm

    Love in the Time of Cholera. I was doing a work exchange program in London and this is one of the books I read during my stay. Often times my location and life circumstance greatly influence my interpretation of a novel. I need to read it again – it’s been 22 years!

  • Brenda February 28, 2012, 8:31 pm

    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is one of my favorites!

  • Alison February 28, 2012, 8:31 pm

    The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I finally got it after I read this book. I always believed in fate and if you really believed you could you would, but this book made it all come together for me. It’s a beautiful story. I’m new to your blog, in fact new to blogs all together (where have I been?). I wrote down your blog address after seeing an article in Marie Claire. Although the article was actually pretty negative, I kept the list of blogs anyway. I found it in a pile of torn out pages on my nightstand last night and logged on. Love it!

  • Lindsay @ The Reluctant Runner February 28, 2012, 8:32 pm

    I love to read! How could I ever pick one favorite book?? Impossible! Joyce Carole Oates and Haruki Murakami never fail to disappoint, they are two of my favorites.

  • sarah r. February 28, 2012, 8:33 pm

    my favorite book is “authentic happiness” by martin seligman. READ IT!!!

  • JenRD February 28, 2012, 8:33 pm

    I love Greek mythology, so my favorite is Homer’s Oddyssey. Dorky, I know! 🙂

  • Megan February 28, 2012, 8:33 pm

    Favorite book ever? That’s tough. But the Harry Potter books are the ones that I find I read over and over (and over).

  • Taya February 28, 2012, 8:33 pm

    This is one of the best giveaways ever! I’m an English major and I have a major book-buying addiction which is unfortunately coupled with a complete lack of spending money. My favorite book of all time is (impossible to choose!) probably Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Doriab Gray. Nerd alert: It’s always enchanted me, and now I collect copies in every language and edition I can find! I have 12 so far!

  • Anna February 28, 2012, 8:34 pm

    I love Pride and Prejudice. I also love to read Esperanza Rising to my students every year.

  • Lauren February 28, 2012, 8:35 pm

    I’d have to say Tale of Two Cities in high school was really good! But now I’m in the middle of the Hunger Games series & loving it. 🙂

  • Carolina February 28, 2012, 8:35 pm

    Definitely Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

  • Emily February 28, 2012, 8:36 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird. It means something new to me every time I read it.

  • Jessie February 28, 2012, 8:38 pm

    My favorite book is Jane Erye; I’ve read it so many times the spine is broken and the corners of the pages are permanently bent. It’s well-loved!

  • jess February 28, 2012, 8:38 pm

    So hard to choose one book! I’ll go with Bel Canto by Ann patchett or Jane Eyre…but there are so many more!

  • laura smith February 28, 2012, 8:38 pm

    I grew up with a librarian for a mom, so my favorite book changes all the time! right now its Hunger Games and Born to Run.

  • WendyF February 28, 2012, 8:38 pm

    This is a tough decision, but I love Pride and Prejudice

  • Hayley February 28, 2012, 8:39 pm

    It’s so hard to chose just one but I can’t stop thinking of The Help.

  • jessica g February 28, 2012, 8:39 pm

    my favorite book of all time is “a tree grows in brooklyn”

  • Ali February 28, 2012, 8:41 pm

    I love “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath. Quite dark, but moving.

  • Lily Rose February 28, 2012, 8:41 pm

    My favorite book ever is Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, and I’m very much looking forward to the release of yours :).

  • Catherine February 28, 2012, 8:46 pm

    I do love reading non-fiction, but my favorite book has got to be A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Or more recently, Firefly Lane was an incredible read as well.

  • Allison G February 28, 2012, 8:47 pm

    I love The Scarlet Letter.

  • Monica February 28, 2012, 8:47 pm

    My favorite book is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Loved the movie too!

  • Jessica February 28, 2012, 8:47 pm

    You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. Fantastic! I’m so low on reading material at the moment. This would be perfect!

  • Alex @ Working Housewife February 28, 2012, 8:49 pm

    Favorite book of all time: Anne of Green Gables series!

  • Anne February 28, 2012, 8:49 pm

    One of my favorites has to be “A Life at Work” by Thomas Moore. It totally changed my attitude towards my job and the job searching process when I needed it most!

  • Nadia February 28, 2012, 8:51 pm

    These books all look so good!

    My favourite book of all time is “To Kill a Mockingbird” – I’ve read it ~50x since the 6th grade!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 8:52 pm

    I don’t have a favorite book. I am a HUGE bookworm and have a weird emotional connection to my huge library of books. I couldn’t possibly choose just one. I would love to win the prize pack though…..I’ve been wanting to read NROWLFW for a while now. I would be so excited to win!!

  • Monica February 28, 2012, 8:54 pm

    My favorite book is A Clockwork Orange!

  • siobhan February 28, 2012, 8:54 pm

    i am a huge bookworm and it was very difficult to name my favorite book (the shortlist includes The Great Gatsby, The Glass Castle, Girl With a Dragon Tattoo…) but I think I’ll have to go with Wuthering Heights. It moved me SO much when I first read it as a teenager, and I’ve read it at least 8 times since. Timeless.

  • Heidi February 28, 2012, 8:55 pm

    Tough question….I love to read! I’ll go with extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • Megan February 28, 2012, 8:55 pm

    Definitely “Of Mice and Men”!

  • Jacqui February 28, 2012, 8:55 pm

    What an awesome giveaway! My favorites are
    White Oleander, Awake & Dreaming, and The Hunger Games series. <3

  • Kris February 28, 2012, 8:56 pm

    Funny, my mom and I just got off the phone and we were discussing our book clubs and the types of books we enjoy. I was telling her how much I enjoyed memoirs from women who lived in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, so my favorite book of all time is definitely Out of Africa.

  • Julia Steele February 28, 2012, 8:56 pm

    All time favorite has to be The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wells.

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 8:57 pm

    Probably “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but “The Grapes of Wrath,” is a close second!

  • Leila @ Spinach and Skittles February 28, 2012, 8:57 pm

    Oh gosh, favorite of all time? Hmmm, I have to break that into two categories, sorry! Childhood = Goodnight Moon and Adulthood = Hunger Games. So what if it is aimed at young adults, I’m young! 🙂

  • Adrienne February 28, 2012, 8:58 pm

    I’m proud to say the Harry Potter series. 🙂 I know it’s a series but I can’t pick just one!

  • Lydia February 28, 2012, 8:58 pm

    Enchanted by Orson Scott Card!

  • Erin February 28, 2012, 9:01 pm

    Wow, what a tough choice.
    I’m going with Anne of Green Gables.

  • Shanna February 28, 2012, 9:01 pm

    I love to read every book ever, but my favorites are The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The World According to Garp, Before Night Falls, and The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks!

  • Dee February 28, 2012, 9:02 pm

    Catch-22

  • Nicole W. February 28, 2012, 9:03 pm

    I read all the time so I really can’t say I have just one favorite book. I must admit I love Dr. Seuss books. Yes, some are confusing but deep down they all have a wonderful message.

  • Shauna February 28, 2012, 9:03 pm

    Being a fourth-year English major I’ve read a lot of books throughout college, but despite that I’ve still had the same favorite book since I was sixteen: The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (<— also my favorite author!).

  • Jennifer S February 28, 2012, 9:04 pm

    The Great Gatsby… followed closely by The Bell Jar.

  • Karen February 28, 2012, 9:04 pm

    That is such a tough question! I have a deep love of books and could pick one in every genre. But… most recently I’d say the favorite is The Hunger Games series. So much to discuss with my book group and think about.

  • Stephanie @ Legally Blinde February 28, 2012, 9:05 pm

    Fun giveaway! I absolutely love reading 🙂 My all-time favorite book is “And Both Were Young” by Madeleine L’Engle (I love all of her books).

  • Tracy February 28, 2012, 9:05 pm

    A tree grows in brooklyn! Such a tearjerker but so, so good!!

  • Sabrina February 28, 2012, 9:06 pm

    My high school diary. It reminds me how things that you think are important in the here and now probably aren’t going to be in 10 years. It reminds me of what’s really important

  • adrienne February 28, 2012, 9:06 pm

    I love to read and I can’t seem to get enough. One of my favorite books of all time is The Red Tent by Anita Diamont. It’s been a while since I read this book but it was so fascinating when I first read it and it has stuck with me a long time.

  • Emilee February 28, 2012, 9:07 pm

    Eat Pray Love

  • Amanda February 28, 2012, 9:08 pm

    I really enjoyed reading Harry Potter! Also, Skinny Bitch was on of my faves!

  • Ashley @ Cooking for John February 28, 2012, 9:11 pm

    This is an awesome prize pack- thank you publisher!

    My favorite books will always be the Harry Potter series! Those books took me to another world, and every time I read them I am transported to my teenage years.

  • Jen February 28, 2012, 9:13 pm

    I’m not sure that I can pick just one!

    For kids’ books, especially to teach with, I love The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DicCamillo.

    For me, Hunger Games series, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, My Sister’s Keeper, Twilight series…I could keep going…

  • Lindsay February 28, 2012, 9:14 pm

    Favorite book of all time?! That’s a tough one but I have to say that The World According to Garp by John Irving was the first book I fell in love with.

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 9:14 pm

    I have to say Pride and Prejudice.

  • Lindsay @ Running the Windy City February 28, 2012, 9:15 pm

    I love The Power Of One!

  • Jennie (in Wonderland) February 28, 2012, 9:15 pm

    My favourite book of all time… wow, that is difficult.

    Either – The Harry Potter series, simply because they are a beam to another world, living alongside ours, and it’s delicious to wonder whether wizards and witches exist, so close and yet so far.

    or

    The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood. Perfectly encapsulates my struggles with food and the body. Elegantly written.

  • JessicaE February 28, 2012, 9:16 pm

    My favorite book of all time is “She’s Come Undone” by Wally Lamb.

    I LOVE reading so thanks for this giveaway. <3

  • Regina February 28, 2012, 9:16 pm

    Flowers for Algernon. <– It's amazing!

  • Nikki February 28, 2012, 9:17 pm

    My favorite book is Eat, Pray, Love. All of these books look great!

  • Alex @ Raw Recovery February 28, 2012, 9:18 pm

    Arabesques by Nikolai Gogol. Most beautiful writing ever.

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 9:18 pm

    The Client and The Odyssey are my favorite books!

  • crystal February 28, 2012, 9:18 pm

    Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan

  • Ley February 28, 2012, 9:19 pm

    Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I’ve lost so many copies due to giving them to friends who haven’t yet read it. Beyond amazing.

  • Raak February 28, 2012, 9:19 pm

    Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert….it reminded me I need to take time to self-reflect and slow down!

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 9:20 pm

    My favourite book is Fall on Your Knees by Anne Marie Macdonald. Such a good read, I would totally recommend it. I live in Nova Coria and she is a local author. Her second book, The Way the Crow Flies, is also reveal great.

    Good luck with the new book!

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 9:21 pm

    Stupid auto correct…..I live in Nova Scotia….whoops!

  • Rebecca February 28, 2012, 9:22 pm

    I loved American Wife!

  • Shela February 28, 2012, 9:23 pm

    My favorite book is Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Simultaneously leaves me in awe and despair (how can I ever write something as good)!!

  • Jennifer February 28, 2012, 9:23 pm

    The Reef – I cant think of the author right now, Im going to blame it on pregnancy brain!!

  • Becky Clark February 28, 2012, 9:23 pm

    Crazy Love by Francis Chan. So impactful!!

  • liz February 28, 2012, 9:24 pm

    I loved Lost Girls. Quit work to travel the world? Yes please!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 9:25 pm

    Pride and Prejudice! 🙂

  • Stacy February 28, 2012, 9:25 pm

    I love the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.

    Caitlin, I would love to review your book for my blog. Please consider sending me a copy! I do book reviews pretty frequently, and though my blog is a “small operation” in comparison to yours, I do get about 1,300 pageviews/month. My blog has been online for over a year. I hold an M.F.A. in creative writing, and love to review books.

    Thanks,
    Stacy

  • Hillary February 28, 2012, 9:27 pm

    The Hiding Place

  • Lindsey @ Sound Eats February 28, 2012, 9:30 pm

    I would LOVE these books, and spring break is coming up, which means it’s my chance to read something besides my advanced nutrition textbook! lol dorky enough, I’d actually recommend it – it’s intriguing and the authors write in SUCH a great way. It’s a much easier read, especially compared to other nutrition texts I’ve had in the past!

    Other books – love Eat, Pray, Love. Also am looking forward to reading the last 2 books of the Hunger Games!

  • Alice February 28, 2012, 9:30 pm

    Harry Potter!

  • Sarah S February 28, 2012, 9:32 pm

    Into Thin Air!

  • Katie R February 28, 2012, 9:32 pm

    I love the book “A Little Princess”. I must have read it dozens of times growing up, and I enjoyed the movie versions (both the Shirley Temple and the newer one) greatly.

  • J February 28, 2012, 9:33 pm

    I love The Little Prince and have reread it countless times.

  • Leslie N. February 28, 2012, 9:34 pm

    My favorite is The Bridget to Terabithia. It was one of the first books I read that moved me to tears.

  • Tarah @ NuttybyNature February 28, 2012, 9:34 pm

    This is an awesome giveaway! Ahhh, but so hard to choose one book. I have loved every book that I have read by Nicolas Sparks so really anything by him!

  • Amy B. February 28, 2012, 9:36 pm

    I love this giveaway for 2 reasons! 1) I have more books to add to my ‘must read’ list and 2) I currently have 2 of those books in my Amazon cart waiting for me to check-out! I can’t pick just one favorite, but some of my recent favorites are The Hunger Games, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy, She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, most Kristin Hannah book. My guilty pleasure books…any Chelsea Handler book — I read them when I need a good laugh!

    PS: I’m a Wisconsin girl and we don’t walk around wearing cheeseheads everyday…just Packer Sundays! You must be seeing the cheeseheads in the stores at the airport?

  • Anna February 28, 2012, 9:36 pm

    What an awesome prize pack! My favorite books are any from the Harry Potter series!

  • Gina February 28, 2012, 9:36 pm

    Master of the Game by Sydney Sheldon is my all time fave book.

    All of these books look awesome and would be a great addition to my health and nutrition library I am working on building…

  • Caitlin @ Chasing a Mile February 28, 2012, 9:36 pm

    Wow, I have lots of favorites, but for tonight I will go with Gone With the Wind!

  • Laura @ She Eats Well February 28, 2012, 9:37 pm

    That’s such a tough question. I think I have got to go with “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” Good, good book. Love the main character.

  • Lily February 28, 2012, 9:40 pm

    The most recent book to be declared my “all time favorite” is definitely “Born to Run”. I keep it in my nightstand, and I frequently pick it up, open to a random page, and read a few chapters.

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 9:41 pm

    pride and prejudice. easy!

    • Sara February 28, 2012, 9:45 pm

      That is my second favorite. I read it when I was pregnant with my son. I almost picked this one. Lol.

  • Sara February 28, 2012, 9:43 pm

    I am an avid reader and it is really difficult to pick a favorite book of all time. I fell in love with the written word long, long ago at the age of four and I never looked back. This is almost as challenging as picking a favorite song of all time. With that said…

    The AA Big Book is my favorite book of all time. In this book I found myself, my God and hope which gave me a life I never even allowed myself to dream. It has given me tools that I use in all areas of my life, and I love that the same things I use for not drinking I can also use for training for my first half-marathon.

    How can I not love a book that brought me to life?

  • Wendy February 28, 2012, 9:44 pm

    Anne of Green Gables!

  • dep February 28, 2012, 9:47 pm

    The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

  • Rachel Starr February 28, 2012, 9:48 pm

    Favorite fiction book: it’s got to be a tie between The Great Santini & The Prince of Tides, both by Pat Conroy. Conroy’s writing is simply beautiful. Favorite nonfiction book: The 10 Commandments of Common Sense. I think the author is Hal Urban. Great easy read. I wish every person would read this!

  • Rebe February 28, 2012, 9:49 pm

    My favorite book of all time is “Rebecca” by Daphne du’Maurier

    • Cindy February 28, 2012, 10:42 pm

      Ohhhh, how I LOVE “Rebecca.” Her other books are amazing too!

  • Marissa February 28, 2012, 9:50 pm

    My favorite book of all time would have to be mans search for meaning by viktor frankl. I’ve read this book multiple times in college. even though it was a book that I was assigned to read, it is such a profound and interesting first hand account about life, death and existential thinking,

  • Rebecca February 28, 2012, 9:50 pm

    What a fun giveaway! I love reading, it’s really hard to pick an all-time favorite book. I’d have to go with To Kill a Mockingbird.

  • Sabra February 28, 2012, 9:51 pm

    It’s so hard to choose a favorite, but I absolutely love Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.

  • Lisa @ Fit in the Midwest February 28, 2012, 9:53 pm

    Anna Karenina! I’m from Wisconsin, so I hope my home state treated you well while you were here. Wish I could have seen you speak in person.

  • Maggie @ Running on Fro-Yo February 28, 2012, 9:55 pm

    My favorite book is anything by Nicholas Sparks!

  • Wendy B. February 28, 2012, 9:55 pm

    A series of books from my childhood called The Boxcar Children.

  • Danielle February 28, 2012, 9:56 pm

    The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell. I can read it over and over and still find new insights.

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 10:00 pm

    I love love LOVE The Hunger Games trilogy!

  • Christine February 28, 2012, 10:00 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird or the Da Vinci Code =)

  • cait February 28, 2012, 10:01 pm

    I love the Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

  • Laura @ Backstage Balance February 28, 2012, 10:02 pm

    My favorite books are any of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s – my namesake, and an incredible storyteller!

  • kirsten February 28, 2012, 10:02 pm

    It’s kind of cliche but I think my favorite book is the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After I finished about it I thought it over for days.

  • Amy S. February 28, 2012, 10:03 pm

    I love the Sloppy Firsts series!

  • Claire M. February 28, 2012, 10:04 pm

    I would have to say The Kite Runner, and also the Harry Potter series 🙂

  • Nikki February 28, 2012, 10:05 pm

    This is nearly impossible! Hunger Games is probably my favorite of the last year though.

  • Natalie February 28, 2012, 10:06 pm

    I love too many books! But I have to say that The Witches remains one of my faves!

  • Allie February 28, 2012, 10:06 pm

    I don’t really have an “all time favorite” but I really enjoyed Born to Run when I read it recently.

  • Kathryn February 28, 2012, 10:07 pm

    My favorite book of all time is Pride and Prejudice! These books look amazing!

  • Claire M. February 28, 2012, 10:08 pm

    I would have to say The Kite Runner….followed closely by the Harry Potter series! 🙂

  • Dee February 28, 2012, 10:09 pm

    Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!

  • Lsandoe February 28, 2012, 10:10 pm

    Love in the Time of Cholera and The Princess Bride

  • Shelley February 28, 2012, 10:10 pm

    My favorite book that I’ve read lately is “The Art of Mending” by Elizabeth Berg. Lots of great, thought-provoking messages wrapped up in an easy to read fiction book.

  • Alex February 28, 2012, 10:11 pm

    Either “A Wrinkle in Time” or “Anne of Green Gables” – they’re childhood classics I go back to again and again!

  • Sara February 28, 2012, 10:11 pm

    This is too hard! Think I’ll have to pick The Princess Bride and The Time Traveler’s Wife.

  • Katie February 28, 2012, 10:12 pm

    My fav book is Anne of Green Gables.

  • Molly February 28, 2012, 10:13 pm

    My favorite book is probably Pride and Prejudice. I love it so much.

  • Linz @ Itz Linz February 28, 2012, 10:14 pm

    The Help is my new favorite book!

  • Laura February 28, 2012, 10:19 pm

    Only one book? Hard question…the Anne of Green Gables series most likely, I’ve read and re-read them so often

  • Erika February 28, 2012, 10:19 pm

    My favorite book of all time is LIttle Women, it is a classic love story and shows the strength of women. Of course I looove me some good ol’ winnie the pooh classic childrens story – alwasy good to remember to keep the imagination going and to have fun…..I love to read and would love it if you would pick me. A couple of the books have been on my wish list for a while now 🙂 Congrats as well to you on your second book! YAY

  • Kerry February 28, 2012, 10:19 pm

    My favorite book of all time is the BFG by Roald Dahl! It is such a sweet story and I think children’s books still teach us important lessons as adults. Congrats on the book!!!

  • Leah February 28, 2012, 10:19 pm

    My favorite book of all time’s gotta be “Les lettres à Mademoiselle Brochu” from a Quebec’s author.

  • Stellina @ My Yogurt Addiction February 28, 2012, 10:19 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Help. I loved the meaning and the history behind it. I finished it in 2 days and watched the movie the day it came out! Thank you for this opportunity! I would especially LOVE to read The Willpower Instinct!

  • Jenna February 28, 2012, 10:21 pm

    My favorite book of all time is the Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón! It is amazing every time!

  • Jackie W. February 28, 2012, 10:22 pm

    I love the book Mama Day!

  • Tricia February 28, 2012, 10:22 pm

    I don’t know if I could ever pick a favorite book!!!! But I just finished reading “What Happened to Goodbye?” by Sarah Dessen, and it was pretty spectacular. While I love a good dream world, I love one that relates to me.

    • Tricia February 28, 2012, 10:25 pm

      Oooo!!!! If we are going with classics, I loved reading “The Great Gatsby”

  • Natalie February 28, 2012, 10:22 pm

    I love To Kill a Mockingbird. Always have, always will.

  • Valerie February 28, 2012, 10:23 pm

    My favorite book since middle school has been Flowers for Algernon. It’s so moving, and extremely addictive to read! I’ve read it four or five times now, and I still fly through it. The best books are always the ones you can’t put down!

  • Heather February 28, 2012, 10:23 pm

    Cider house rules!

  • Elizabeth February 28, 2012, 10:23 pm

    And the Band Played On by Randy shilts – an incredible account about the AIDS epidemic… a long read but worth it

  • Jamie February 28, 2012, 10:25 pm

    The Phantom Tollbooth. I read it over, and over, and over again in elementary and middle school. I still love it today!

  • Janet Webb February 28, 2012, 10:26 pm

    Gone With The Wind

  • Brenda February 28, 2012, 10:28 pm

    Really anything by Jane Austen but if I had to choose Sense and sensibility.

  • Stephanie S. February 28, 2012, 10:29 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Jo Anna February 28, 2012, 10:30 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Natalie February 28, 2012, 10:31 pm

    Definitely Harry Potter!

  • Leesah Em February 28, 2012, 10:31 pm

    Lafcadio the Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein. I read it in every elementary classroom I volunteer in and give it to all of my friends kids. It’s not sophisticated, but it is great.

  • Kelsie February 28, 2012, 10:32 pm

    I could read Pride and Prejudice over and over… Such a wonderful story of love and humility. 🙂

  • caronae February 28, 2012, 10:33 pm

    My favorite book is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston – it’s so hard to pick just one book though!

  • susan February 28, 2012, 10:35 pm

    Argh what an impossible question. I love reading- have read probably well over 1000+ books, and that’s probably a low-ball #. I simply cannot choose a favorite adult books- there are dozens. But as a 5th grader I was obsessed with the idea of summer camp and I’m guessing I read my paperback copy of Bummer Summer at least 10x. I also read the complete Agatha Christie collection in 6th grade. Did I mention I was a rather quiet,studious, shy child!

  • Mark February 28, 2012, 10:35 pm

    I love Wisconsin! (Went to college there.) My favorite book of all time is A Tale of Two Cities if I’m feeling intellectual–Harry Potter 6 when I’m not!

  • amy February 28, 2012, 10:36 pm

    redeeming love by francine rivers

  • sandra February 28, 2012, 10:36 pm

    Sarah’s Key

  • Robyn February 28, 2012, 10:37 pm

    The Giver is my favorite 🙂

  • Cindy February 28, 2012, 10:39 pm

    The Power of One by Bryce Courtany!

  • Camels & Chocolate February 28, 2012, 10:41 pm

    Ooooh AWESOME GIVEAWAY. I think if we’re talking all-time, as in read the most, I’d have to say one of Roald Dahl’s classics–a tie between Matilda and the BFG.

  • Amber @ Busy, Bold, Blessed February 28, 2012, 10:42 pm

    Well I’m not gonna lie, I looooved the Twilight series! I also love The Notebook. I mostly do some easy pleasure reading… on the beach 🙂

  • Chattynatty February 28, 2012, 10:42 pm

    Beach Music by Pat Conroy
    I’ve read it twice- great story! Hope I win. I love reading.

  • laura February 28, 2012, 10:42 pm

    LOVING the hunger games series right now!

  • Jenny February 28, 2012, 10:43 pm

    Soo many to choose from, but old school style would have to be shel Silverstein or the giving tree. I would love to try the new rules of lifting for women, heard lots of great things! And can’t wait to read your new ones as well 🙂

  • TanyaS February 28, 2012, 10:45 pm

    Love Catcher in the Rye, also love all of Wally Lamb’s I couldn’t pick just one of his.

  • Cate February 28, 2012, 10:45 pm

    of all time…. that’s hard to decide….
    I absolutely love the Harry Potter series though, The Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite!

  • Elizabeth S. February 28, 2012, 10:45 pm

    I am in need of a new book! One of my favorite non-fictions is Food Rules.

  • Brittney @ Brittney Breathing February 28, 2012, 10:47 pm

    Can I say the Harry Potter series and not be judged?! Ha. Also, I live in Milwaukee…and you are lucky it’s not colder! It’s usually about 20 degrees cooler up here… 🙂

  • Lauren C. February 28, 2012, 10:49 pm

    I think my favorite has got to be A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. So creepy, so good.

  • Sarah February 28, 2012, 10:50 pm

    My all time favorite book has to be ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ but there are others that I love its about a 20 way tie for second place!

  • April February 28, 2012, 10:50 pm

    Gosh, it is hard to pick one favorite book. The one that I recommend to almost everyone is “The Devil Wears Prada”. I think it shows humor in how intense work can be at times.

  • Alison February 28, 2012, 10:52 pm

    Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It’s a huge book, but once you’re into it, such a fast read. Be careful if you have the travel bug though – it made me want to pack everything up and move to India!

  • Crystal February 28, 2012, 10:53 pm

    Hmmm hard to pick a favorite. How about Same Kind of Different as Me. Great great book!

  • Beth Bray February 28, 2012, 10:57 pm

    I have no idea what my favorite book of all time is – it’s too hard of a decision to make. I love so many! But the book that has made the biggest impact on my life recently is The Happiness Project. It helped me quit smoking! Two months down and a lifetime to go as a non-smoker – yea!

  • Tia @ Veggies and Pearls February 28, 2012, 10:58 pm

    My favorite book of all time is The Poisonwood Bible by Barabara Kingsolver. It is so eloquently written, lyrical, and thought-provoking. I just cannot over the genius of it.

  • Jessica February 28, 2012, 10:59 pm

    My favorite book is The World According to Garp. And the Harry Potter series 🙂

  • Annette February 28, 2012, 11:00 pm

    Sunshine, by Robin McKinley. Actually, anything by Robin McKinley. Or anything by Diana Wynne Jones!

  • mi-an d. February 28, 2012, 11:01 pm

    My favorite book of all time is… Mountains Beyond Mountains:The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world.

    Great giveaway btw!!!

  • alexandra fitzmorris February 28, 2012, 11:03 pm

    winter’s tale by mark helprin! and it is always so wonderful to re-read passages and be transported back to the book from time to time.

  • Jamie February 28, 2012, 11:06 pm

    My favorite book of all time is A Wrinkle in Time. I read this book every year from age 7 to age 18 and Ive been itching to read it again.

  • Rachel February 28, 2012, 11:06 pm

    My favorite book of all time is “The Giving Tree”. It will always be dear to my heart, no matter how old I get!

  • Megan @ MegGoesNomNom February 28, 2012, 11:06 pm

    I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb is my favorite book. I would love to check out these books!

  • Ashley February 28, 2012, 11:07 pm

    Favorite book of ALL time? What a toubh one! I’d probably have to say “The Evolution of Desire” or “The Blind Watchmaker”….both academically-oriented books (I’m such a nerd!). Other goodies: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (true story), and A Million Little Pieces (true-ish story).

  • Candra February 28, 2012, 11:09 pm

    Same Kind of Different As Me

  • Kelsey February 28, 2012, 11:09 pm

    I can’t even pick a favorite book! When I was little I always said my favorite was Things Not Seen. Now I think I’d have to say either Harry Potter or Twilight as those always get rereads when a new movie comes out and they’re good each time!

  • Macy February 28, 2012, 11:11 pm

    A tree grows in Brooklyn. A family/time in history captured so beautifully. Amazing writing, too.

  • Tricia February 28, 2012, 11:11 pm

    Harry Potter, of course!

  • Michelle February 28, 2012, 11:13 pm

    I have 2 favorites. The romantic dreamer in me fell in love with “Anne of Green Gables” when I was 13. I just started rereading it the other day, for about the 30th time. “The Last Lecture” also made an impression on me and is becoming dog eared as well.

  • Emily @ The Swallow Flies February 28, 2012, 11:13 pm

    I’m an English major and an English teacher, so I’ve read A LOT of books. I’d have to say that my all-time favorite, however, is To Kill a Mockingbird – and I start teaching it tomorrow!

  • Megan February 28, 2012, 11:15 pm

    I have so many favorite books, but if I had to pick one I would say The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. I love all of her books!

  • Jordan February 28, 2012, 11:16 pm

    I probably entered way too late to win, which is unfortunate because i LOVE reading. My favorite book is White Noise by Don DeLillo. Life changing.

  • Stephanie February 28, 2012, 11:16 pm

    “The Testament” by John Grisham was probably the first book that really got me hooked on reading. I love to read anything now, it’s such a wonderful escape!

  • Alexandra February 28, 2012, 11:18 pm

    Probably the Harry Potter series (I can’t just pick one favourite…)
    Also these books look fab 🙂

  • Maija February 28, 2012, 11:28 pm

    How can you pick?! Impossible! My go-to faves are Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and the Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck– but I feel like I’m cheating on so many other good books when I say that!

    Thanks for the fun giveaway!

  • Mac February 28, 2012, 11:32 pm

    Favorite book of all time is tough, but as of late I’d have to say the Hunger Games! Safe travels home!

  • Natalie February 28, 2012, 11:32 pm

    My favorite read (at least of this past year) would have to be Sarah’s Key 🙂

  • Kate February 28, 2012, 11:35 pm

    My favorite book that I revisit often is by Melissa Bank, The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing! No matter where I am in my life or relationship, I find that I can relate to some aspect of these emotional, funny and touching short stories which are intertwined within each other.Love it, loved it!

  • Debra February 28, 2012, 11:36 pm

    I can’t pick just one favorite book! I definitely love the Harry Potter series, and I like a lot of Ann Rice’s books.

  • Aly February 28, 2012, 11:41 pm

    My favorite book is Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner. It may seem like chick lit but it has a lot of depth to it!

  • val February 28, 2012, 11:43 pm

    Favorite book of all time!? That is such a hard question. I think I have to say it’s Bridget Jones’s Diary. Not a literary masterpiece, but I could read it over and over.

  • Amanda (modernation) February 28, 2012, 11:45 pm

    What an awesome giveaway! My favorite book is Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I still have my copy from when I was a kid.

  • cal February 28, 2012, 11:47 pm

    howard’s end!

  • Melody Durham February 28, 2012, 11:47 pm

    The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jane M. Auel

  • Steph February 28, 2012, 11:48 pm

    Tomorrow: Adventures in an certain world. It is the perfect pick-me-up!

  • Allie February 28, 2012, 11:49 pm

    What an awesome give-away! It’s hard for me to pick just one book – I love too many! One of my favorite books of all time is Peyton Place. Such a good read and look at small town life in the 1950s!

  • Colette February 29, 2012, 12:00 am

    I would say Ender’s Game or Catch 22….both excellent choices

  • Katie Southard February 29, 2012, 12:06 am

    Eat, Pray, Love!

  • AJ February 29, 2012, 12:08 am

    I LOVE The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak- and it is sold as both a YA and adult novel so I can pretend that there is one adult book in the world that holds my interest. I about a book a day and love so many but this is the one that comes to mind when I think of a book that is both beautifully written and a great story.

    I love many books in the YA genre but the old classics my mom read to me before bed will always have a place in my heart- Anne of Green Gables, The Wizard of OZ books and the Five Little Peppers books.

  • Allie February 29, 2012, 12:09 am

    My favorite book hasn’t changed since I read it in 8th grade — The Catcher In the Rye. Soooo good!

  • Jen in TX February 29, 2012, 12:10 am

    Well, I’d have to say the Bible, since I turn to it daily.

  • Misty February 29, 2012, 12:11 am

    Pick just one? An impossible task!! I will say that To Kill A Mockingbird was one of my first “favorites” 🙂

  • Julia February 29, 2012, 12:11 am

    The Help is one of my favorites! But the Harry Potter series was the first thing that popped into my head

  • Megan February 29, 2012, 12:15 am

    Great giveaway! My favorite book of all time is “The Fountainhead”, but would love to dig into these 🙂

  • lindsey February 29, 2012, 12:20 am

    One Hundred Years of Solitude is my favorite. I’ve read it several times and always pick up on something new each time.

  • Sarahf February 29, 2012, 12:21 am

    These books look great!
    My fave books are the Millenium Trilogy, especially The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. They are amazing, and I couldn’t put them down!

  • Jenny February 29, 2012, 12:30 am

    “Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven”…sounds dirty, but it’s a great book about two girls traveling the world after college.

  • Megan Gale February 29, 2012, 12:32 am

    The Great Gatsby 🙂

  • Anna February 29, 2012, 12:40 am

    I love so many books but one of my top 5 is Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. It’s an incredible story about the relationship between party-goers and the people that hijack the party. Fabulous!

  • Katie M February 29, 2012, 12:45 am

    I gotta go with The Counte of Monte Cristo or Harry Potter as my faves

  • Tally February 29, 2012, 12:54 am

    Favorite book: Henry Roth’s _Call it Sleep_. It’s wonderful stream of consciousness writing.

  • Arlene @ Adventures in Weight Loss February 29, 2012, 1:04 am

    My favorite book of all time is a toss-up between “Gone with the Wind” and “The Vampire Lestat.” Or “Wuthering Heights” and “Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince.” It’s too hard to choose just one.

  • Anna February 29, 2012, 1:05 am

    My favorite book is The Last Lecture 🙂

  • Caroline February 29, 2012, 1:10 am

    Such a hard choice, but I have to go with Pride and Prejudice as my all time favorite!

  • Alison February 29, 2012, 1:12 am

    ohh i dont think i could name an all time favorite, but most recent favorite is sarah’s key!

  • Sammi February 29, 2012, 1:24 am

    Haha, my favorite books are definitely the Harry Potter series. So Good. I have been meaning to buy New Rules of Lifting, so it would be awesome if I won it! 🙂

  • Maja February 29, 2012, 1:29 am

    My favorite book is Half of a Yellow Sun by a young female writer from Nigeria called Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi. She is an amazingly talented writer.

  • Courtney February 29, 2012, 1:37 am

    Favorite book? Im going to be a HUGE nerd and say my DSM-IV (standard for diagnosing psychological illnesses)! worth every penny!

  • Gillian February 29, 2012, 1:38 am

    Fingers crossed I win this! I love any book by Malcolm Gladwell and the Freakonomics books.

  • Joanne February 29, 2012, 1:51 am

    My favorite book is Before I go to sleep by SJ Watson.

  • Becky February 29, 2012, 1:59 am

    This is so nerdy, but my favorite book of all time is “A Tale of Two Cities” It has romance and adventure and history…what more could you want? NERD ALERT!

  • Melanie February 29, 2012, 2:02 am

    My favorite book of all time is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

  • Lorin February 29, 2012, 2:39 am

    I really love the Hunger Games series.

  • Elise February 29, 2012, 2:39 am

    My favorite book of all time is probably The Great Gatsby. But I have to say, I’m pretty in love with the series A Song of Ice and Fire (better known by the title of it’s first book, A Game of Thrones) which I’m reading now!

  • Laura February 29, 2012, 3:00 am

    Bridget Jones’s Diary!!! 🙂

  • Marika February 29, 2012, 3:19 am

    Impossible to choose, so I’ll name two: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and The Great Gatsby.

  • Raya February 29, 2012, 3:34 am

    I don’t think I could pick a favorite book of all time….because I love so many! But the first book I ever remember really falling in love with (sweet valley high and nancy drew books aside) is Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. I read it in my early 20’s and loved it!

  • Katrina February 29, 2012, 3:47 am

    It’s hard to pick a favorite, but one of them would definitely be Life of Pi 🙂

  • helen @ change comes from within February 29, 2012, 4:46 am

    My favourite book of all time….hmmm….this is tricky as I LOVE to read and LIVE to read.

    My favourite light-hearted, go-to book for an instant pick me up is The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn, closely followed by Cecelia Ahern’s Where Rainbow’s End.

    I am an English Literature grad though so there are many more “serious” books I love, but I won’t go into that and clog up your blog!

  • ~Jessica~ February 29, 2012, 5:07 am

    My favourite would most definitely be ‘The Shining.’

    Recently I found out that there’s a scene in Friends where Joey locks it in the fridge…I’m not a fan of friends but I do adore that scene!

    xxx

  • Heather February 29, 2012, 5:24 am

    I love reading self help books. I just finished reading the mind body connection. Such a good book that has really helped me be more mindful. Would love to win the books…fingers crossed.

  • Angela February 29, 2012, 5:39 am

    I would have to go with Memoirs of a Geisha.

  • Tess February 29, 2012, 5:46 am

    I loved “The Devil wears Prada”, “Born to Run” and “The Help”. The movies of the two books were ok but I always perfer the book and in the case of these books I would highly recommend reading the actual book. There is so much to your own imagination……. it is fabulous!

  • Brittney February 29, 2012, 6:05 am

    I have to go with The Time Traveler’s Wife. So good!

  • Heather February 29, 2012, 6:10 am

    My favorite book of all time is Pillars of the Earth by Ken Folliett.

  • Lucy February 29, 2012, 6:12 am

    Postcards by E. Annie Proulx

  • Shelly February 29, 2012, 6:25 am

    my favorite book of all time is Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck.

  • Cathy February 29, 2012, 6:28 am

    I had to bookmark this page so I can come back when I need a good book. I am totally cliche but I am a lawyer and love any book that is lawyer or crime related. Anything by John Grisham, Harlan Coban, Michael Connelly, etc. I also love any book where it doesn’t require you to think too much…Chelsea Handler books, Twilight series, Hunger Games, and the list goes on 🙂

  • Lee Crabb February 29, 2012, 6:28 am

    I always remember “The Giver” as my favorite book from my younger years but now it might be the Hunger Games trilogy!

  • sherry February 29, 2012, 6:32 am

    My favorite book is The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. I grew up in a fairly strict Pentecostal household. This book made me take a step back and open my mind to other ideas about higher power and purpose. Since then, I’ve been a sponge, reading as much as I can about all different ideas and opinions.

  • Lea February 29, 2012, 6:35 am

    Picking a single favorite book is so hard! However, I like one called “Summers with Juliet” by Bill Roorbach very much…enough to put it in the top 5.

  • Stacey February 29, 2012, 6:55 am

    My favorite book of all time is definitely Harry Potter. Yes, you would think it would be something perhaps more prestigious, but nope. Just good ol’ Harry Potter!

  • Jill February 29, 2012, 7:12 am

    I don’t read nearly enough! My new year’s resolution was to start reading a book a month & these 5 books would be perfect. Growing up I always loved the Bernstain Bears – nothing beats a good picture book!

  • Danielle February 29, 2012, 7:15 am

    Pride & Prejudice and Soul Cravings are my two favorite books…can’t pick just one 😉

  • Jenj February 29, 2012, 7:20 am

    I love anything Salinger, especially Franny and Zooey!

  • Sarah K. February 29, 2012, 7:30 am

    My favorite book would have to be Tuesdays with Morrie.

  • Lauren February 29, 2012, 7:34 am

    My favorite book of all time is a toss-up between “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “The Last Lecture.”

  • Lauren February 29, 2012, 7:37 am

    Loved The Help

  • Taylor February 29, 2012, 7:38 am

    My favorite book of all time would have to be the Hunger Games Trilogy. I read all three books in 24hours!

  • Michele Albert February 29, 2012, 7:47 am

    My favorite book is “A Room With A View”

    Good luck with your new book! I work at a college and we this week is Eating Disorder Awareness Week for us, I have seen a lot of Operation Beautiful signs around campus!

  • Paige February 29, 2012, 7:48 am

    I LOVE to read and actually work in adult literacy (helping adults who didn’t get it the first time learn it the 2nd time). In terms of fiction, I loved Shantaram. Non-fiction–Celebration of Discipline was life changing.

  • Jenni February 29, 2012, 7:51 am

    My favorite book changes every time I read. I have been devouring The Hunger Games trilogy lately!

  • Jessica February 29, 2012, 7:55 am

    My favorite book goes back to my childhood, Matilda by Roald Dahl!

  • Rose February 29, 2012, 7:57 am

    It’s hard to pick just one! I would have to say Pride and Predjudice is my favorite though!

  • Megan February 29, 2012, 8:06 am

    My all time favorite book is Catcher and the Rye. Truly amazing read.

  • Sarah D. February 29, 2012, 8:07 am

    The Great Gatsby

  • ALEXSON February 29, 2012, 8:07 am

    What a great prize pack! I’ve been wanting to read New Rules of Lifting for a while. My all time favorite book is Gone With the Wind – I’m a sap!

  • Chelsea @ One Healthy Munchkin February 29, 2012, 8:07 am

    Mine is Fried Green Tomatoes!

  • Jackie February 29, 2012, 8:08 am

    Very cool giveaway! Thanks for offering. I’m definitely a nerdy book person, so my favorite book of all time would have to be the book that started it all for me: A Wrinkle in Time. I read it in 5th grade and it changed my life! I was hooked on books ever since 🙂

  • Maura February 29, 2012, 8:15 am

    my favorite book is Enders Game by Orson Scott Card!

  • Sarah R February 29, 2012, 8:16 am

    I don’t know about all time, but one of my favs for quite awhile now has been (don’t laugh!) Training Plans for multisport athletes by Gale Bernhardt. This is the book that helped take me through my first triathlon, and the book that is now taking me through my first olympic distance and half ironman distance triathlon this season!

  • Amanda February 29, 2012, 8:18 am

    I don’t know that I can really pick one favorite, but Catcher in the Rye is up towards the top of my list. I also love the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

  • Lindsay February 29, 2012, 8:25 am

    Ohhh…that’s a tough one! I can’t narrow it down to an all-time favorite, but The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Kite Runner are both up there! 🙂

    Awesome giveaway– thanks for the chance to win!

  • Jenn February 29, 2012, 8:27 am

    My favorite book of all time is THE GIVING TREE.

  • Kate February 29, 2012, 8:28 am

    Watership Down. It was one of the first books that I read as a child that inspired a love of reading.

  • Martha February 29, 2012, 8:32 am

    The Great Gatsby, hands down.

  • Anne @strawberryjampackedlife February 29, 2012, 8:32 am

    I could read Bridget Jones (1 & 2) over and over again. When I first read #2, I re-read #1, just read #2 again. It’s so much better than the movie.

  • Ali February 29, 2012, 8:34 am

    I’m totally digging the Hunger Games series right now, but my favorite book of all time would have to be “Life of Pi” by Yan Martel.

  • Lindsey February 29, 2012, 8:37 am

    This is a tough one! I’ll have to go for a Children’s book because that would have been my first favorite book. A Weekend with Wendell.

  • Heather February 29, 2012, 8:37 am

    WI is an interesting place, and they have a lot more healthy options now. I grew up in WI and my parents still have more cheese than veggies in their fridge.

    This is a really tough question, but my favorite book of all time would have to be “the last lecture” so inspiring.

  • Kaitlin @4loveofcarrots February 29, 2012, 8:38 am

    The Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book. Holden has a special place in my heart!

  • Sarah R February 29, 2012, 8:40 am

    Recently I really love training plans for multisport athletes by gale bernhardt. It took me through my first sprint tri, and now this season will take me through my first olympic and half ironman distance triathlon!! 🙂 I hope I win, I’ve been eyeing the new ruls for lifting book.

    Non training related, I really love any Patricia Cornwell book!

  • Amber February 29, 2012, 8:40 am

    Born to Run. Inspires me every day to just get out the door and go. Especially lately as I have gotten into trail running and upped my mileage.

  • Alison February 29, 2012, 8:41 am

    I find it really hard to pick my favourite book. But if I had to pick I would say Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vicent Lam… I love reading!

  • Cassidy February 29, 2012, 8:44 am

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

  • Donna February 29, 2012, 8:44 am

    I really loved the classic literature we had to read in school like A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies, etc. I didn’t like analyzing them to death but reading these kinds of books makes me feel like I’ve crossed just a few things off of my bucket list.

  • Christina February 29, 2012, 8:48 am

    My favorite book of all time – what a tough question! It’s so hard to choose, but I’m a big HP nerd. So I’d say the Harry Potter series is my favorite 🙂

  • Vicki February 29, 2012, 8:49 am

    “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”…..Silly, I know. But a childhood favorite, and I give it to all my friends as a gift when they have their own children. 🙂

  • Kara Mitchell February 29, 2012, 8:49 am

    I’m definitely going with The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. It’s one of those life lessons that is always applicable. It’s a staple in our family to give the book as a gift when a new baby is born 🙂

  • robin February 29, 2012, 8:51 am

    I have a lot of favorites! But I will go with “The Great Gatsby.”

  • Julia February 29, 2012, 8:53 am

    My fave book right now is Wild Swans by Jung Chang. Whenever I feel sad for the discrimination and subjugation of women in America, I think of the women in China, past and present.

  • Michelle M February 29, 2012, 8:53 am

    My favorite book of all time is “East of Eden.” I have read it once or twice a year since I was 18. Love, love, love it!

  • Ruby Leigh February 29, 2012, 8:55 am

    I’m currently enjoying “The Hunger Games” but would have to say “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood is my favorite.

  • Katie Penas February 29, 2012, 8:55 am

    I am a HUGE fan of the Harry Potter series. For Christmas a few years ago my in-laws got me the hardback collectors edition of all the books in a decorative trunk! Best gift ever…I felt like I was 10 years old again! 🙂

  • Katrina February 29, 2012, 9:02 am

    I love Confessions of a Shopaholic. It’s hilarious.

  • Alexandria February 29, 2012, 9:04 am

    Haruki Murakami’s Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World!

  • Kristine February 29, 2012, 9:06 am

    I am a total chick lit girl:) My most recent favorite is Taking Shots by Toni Aleo. But I love anything by Jill Shalvis, Marie Force, Jill Mansell and Kristan Higgins…..love chick lit totally takes your mind off everything!

  • Elissa February 29, 2012, 9:10 am

    Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • Erin February 29, 2012, 9:19 am

    My favorite book is “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” While I’ve read many books with strong female leads, I’ve NEVER encountered a character like Salaandar. She’s not only fierce and extremely intelligent, but she’s unforgiving about being who she is. I love that she’s not hyper-feminine and doesn’t focus on finding love to make her whole. She’s a breath of fresh air. Also, I like that the book tackles unpleasant topics, such as violence against women in Sweden, because it opens the conversation to a global audience. The second and third books are also among my all-time favorites.

  • Laura February 29, 2012, 9:20 am

    I loved both the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series. My favourite books when I was younger were Charlotte’s Web and My Girl… I still have a soft spot for them. 🙂

  • Melissa February 29, 2012, 9:21 am

    The Time Traveler’s Wife. I came across it after having taken a hiatus from reading for fun (I was in grad school at the time) and it made me love reading again!

  • Tabitha February 29, 2012, 9:21 am

    How about a favorite writer – anything by Patricia Cornwell, but especially the series of Scarpetta novels. Love a good murder mystery.

  • Tara February 29, 2012, 9:21 am

    My favorite book is Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster!

  • Jo @ Jo In the Kitchen February 29, 2012, 9:23 am

    My favorite book is The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver. I read it back in high school for a class, and I still pull it out at least once a year to re-read!

  • Marybeth February 29, 2012, 9:24 am

    My favorite book of all time is The Giver. I’ve reread it a ton. When I need a laugh I grab one of Chelsea Handler’s books, they are hilarious!

  • Mariza Hardin February 29, 2012, 9:24 am

    Who doesn’t love “Eat, Love, Pray”??! I can read that books dozens of times and always come away with something different. Or maybe I just want to take a year vacation…that could be it…!

  • Verna February 29, 2012, 9:26 am

    I’m reading the Little House on the Prarie series to my daughter while I nurse her. ; ) I loved them when I was little and they are still great!

  • Jill February 29, 2012, 9:27 am

    Impossible but my sentimental favorite is Little Women.

  • Jen February 29, 2012, 9:27 am

    Time Travelers Wife is one of my favorites!

  • Lauren B February 29, 2012, 9:28 am

    There are way too many books I love to pick just one! I love reading Jane Eyre every year when I need inspiration for a strong woman character. Also, I would have to say that “Into the Wild” changed me in a way I never thought possible.

  • Stephanie H. February 29, 2012, 9:29 am

    My favorite book (and movie) of all time is Something Borrowed. I love a good, juicy, chick lit / chick flick.

  • Kristin February 29, 2012, 9:29 am

    I’m not sure I can choose just one book. I love The Great Gatsby though.

  • Katy @ HaveYouHurd February 29, 2012, 9:31 am

    Favorite Book(s) of all Time: The Harry Potter Series…heck. yes.

  • Kelly February 29, 2012, 9:31 am

    I have 2 favorite books, The fall of Freddy the leave and The Giving Tree 🙂

  • Janelle February 29, 2012, 9:35 am

    Hands down, it’s got to be: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

    I just searched and learned that it’s been made into a movie and will be released this year. Definitely read the book before seeing the movie!

  • Heather February 29, 2012, 9:36 am

    I can’t pick a favorite, but both of these book stand out… Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and The Stand by Stephen King.

  • Calee February 29, 2012, 9:38 am

    I have a few favorite books, but one that I have read over and over again is Catcher in the Rye.

  • MaryBe February 29, 2012, 9:40 am

    I LOVE to read! I’ve read almost all of the books mentioned in the comments – crazy right?
    I think my favorite is The Cheerleader. It’s about high school girls growing up in the ’50’s in New Hampshire

  • Clarissa February 29, 2012, 9:42 am

    My absolute favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird…I read it at least once a year!

  • Jillian February 29, 2012, 9:42 am

    I *have to* win this contest – I live in Wisconsin and I’m a librarian! Come on! 😉 Glad you had a good trip; wish I could have made it down to Whitewater to hear you speak!

    Anyway. Favorite book. Who can pick just one? I guess I’ll go with the book that I’ve re-read the most times which is “The English Patient” by Michael Ondaatje. The man can turn a pharse. And who doesn’t love a tragic love story?

  • Sharon February 29, 2012, 9:47 am

    My favorite book of all time is “If I Stay” by Gayle Forman. The sequel called “Where She Went” is spectacular also!

  • Lydia February 29, 2012, 9:48 am

    Favorite book of all time.. that is impossible. Either Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, or Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Mm mm reading.

  • julia February 29, 2012, 9:49 am

    my favorite book of all time would have to be the giving tree (shel silverstein). i know it’s no novel, or even more than 20 pages, but it taught me that caring and love are the most beautiful and important things in life; no other book has done it so well since.

  • Leslie February 29, 2012, 9:51 am

    My favorite book is East of Eden.

  • Julia February 29, 2012, 9:51 am

    SO this may be considered kinda old school but the Anne Of Green Gables series is still my ultimate favorite. My memories of learning to read and going through that whole series with my mom on Sunday nights as well as that was the first book series that would make me hole up for an entire weekend just reading. I have obviously read many other fantastic books since but I think the memories and where your imagination goes when you read a good book is what makes it so GREAT!!

  • Emily February 29, 2012, 9:51 am

    Jane Eyre, is my all time favorite. It never gets old! 🙂

  • Emily February 29, 2012, 9:53 am

    Favorite book ever: The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy. If you have not read it, do so. Immediately.

  • Jessica February 29, 2012, 9:56 am

    My favorite book of all time is Jane Eyre- so romantic, and so many plot twists!

  • Lauren February 29, 2012, 9:56 am

    My all-time favorite book has to by Summer Sisters by Judy Bloom – the story and the relationships in the book make it both a great beach read and an awesome insight on female friendships. I’ve probably read it a dozen times.

  • Yin February 29, 2012, 9:58 am

    Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

  • Brittney February 29, 2012, 10:00 am

    Absolute favorite- the Time Traveler’s Wife. I read it right before it got really popular and was so excited when everyone started to read it and I could talk about it with people.

  • Adriana February 29, 2012, 10:02 am

    Catcher in the Rye! Such a wonderful book, I could read it over and over. And how could I forget my beloved Harry Potter series..I’ve read those books more times than I can count, and they make me both smile and cry every single time.

  • Sara February 29, 2012, 10:05 am

    I didn’t read much until lately…I’m tearing through the Twilight series (guilty pleasure.) I really loved Watership Down as a kid 🙂

  • Cathy February 29, 2012, 10:07 am

    My favorite book of all time is A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World.

    Listen, why don’t you put Amazon affiliate links to all these books? You could get money and I could be saved the effort of having to copy the titles and paste them into Google. Everyone wins!

  • Sarah February 29, 2012, 10:10 am

    my favorite of all time? that’s tough! okay. jandy nelson’s “the sky is everywhere” – it’s about a girl whose sister dies and it’s just kind of awesome.

  • Melanie February 29, 2012, 10:16 am

    My favorite book is Eat, Pray, Love. I read it as I was traveling through China, and it was just the most perfect read for that experience. Loved it!

  • Becky at Flybynyght February 29, 2012, 10:17 am

    I looooove to read! By far my favourite book of all time is “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett. It is what the word Epic was created for 🙂

  • Jen February 29, 2012, 10:23 am

    Loved The Help and The Hunger Game Series!

  • Danielle February 29, 2012, 10:30 am

    My favorite book is The Black Tulip by Lauren Willig. It is the second book in her Pink Carnation series. Espionage and adventure in the 18th and 19th century count me in! I am obsessed with this time era at the moment..well realistically I have been obsessed for the past 5 years.

  • Stephanie February 29, 2012, 10:33 am

    I have a million favorite books, but today I’m going to go with “The English Patient” by Michael Ondaatje

  • Wendy February 29, 2012, 10:34 am

    Oh so hard to choose one favorite. I would say maybe “My Sisters Keeper” by Jodi Picoult.

  • Jenn February 29, 2012, 10:35 am

    Favorite book? How about a series? The Hunger Games and The Millennium Series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. LOVED them and couldn’t put them down!

  • ellie February 29, 2012, 10:36 am

    If I had to pick a favorite all-time, it’s “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch.Far from my normal style of reading but it’s a book I read a couple of years ago and still keep to hand and look back on, quote…even have the podcast on my iPod (as well as a few other speeches by Randy Pausch). Great book 🙂

  • nicole February 29, 2012, 10:37 am

    My favorite book is The Pact by Jodi Picoult. I could not put it down! A must read if you haven’t yet!

  • Meshell February 29, 2012, 10:38 am

    The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle 🙂

  • Stefanie D. February 29, 2012, 10:40 am

    the thorn birds

  • Sarah February 29, 2012, 10:44 am

    Probably Lord of the Rings!

  • Amy Tolbert February 29, 2012, 10:46 am

    Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.

  • Bronwyn February 29, 2012, 10:48 am

    Favourite book of all time? I can’t choose! Favourite right now: Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin. (a cheat I know, but can a series count as a book?)

  • Julia February 29, 2012, 10:51 am

    I love Catch 22. I’m currently reading “A good Indian Wife” and it is a wonderful read!

  • Mila @ loftyappetite February 29, 2012, 11:03 am

    What a great giveaway! I just finished reading Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” and Mindy Kaling’s “is everyone hanging out without me” so this Rachel Dratch book sounds like a fun follow up! It’s hard to pick a favorite book, but my favorite I’ve read in 2012 is probably Sarah Jio’s “Violet’s of March”

  • Erin February 29, 2012, 11:03 am

    My favorite book of all time is “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury. It is a beautifully written book about a boy coming to age in Illinois in the ’50s. There are just so many wonderful parts of that book, it’s hard to describe- there’s magic, suspense, and lessons about growing up.

  • Stephanie February 29, 2012, 11:04 am

    Anne of Green Gables!

  • Kate F February 29, 2012, 11:06 am

    My favorite book of all times would have to be Charlotte’s Web. There’s something about that cute little pig and spider relationship that just gets to me.

  • Carrie February 29, 2012, 11:16 am

    I love Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I am an 8th grade teacher and we are currently reading it as a class. I love the inspiring messages of hope, faith and forgiveness! It’s beautiful-a must read!

  • jen February 29, 2012, 11:19 am

    Finding Your Way in a Wild New World by Martha Beck is my favorite book!

  • Rachel February 29, 2012, 11:26 am

    It’s hard to narrow it down to just one… but let’s go with the classic “Goodnight Moon” it just doesn’t get any better. 🙂

  • Colleen February 29, 2012, 11:26 am

    I hope I can win this give away! My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. Have a great day!

  • kathleen February 29, 2012, 11:26 am

    the one book I’ve ready multiple times… The Diary of Anne Frank.

  • Rachel February 29, 2012, 11:30 am

    The Wizard of Oz 🙂

  • Mallory February 29, 2012, 11:31 am

    The Help!

  • Nikita February 29, 2012, 11:32 am

    Ooh so hard to choose! One of my favorite books is Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. What a great giveaway!

  • Amanda P. February 29, 2012, 11:37 am

    My favorite book is Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

  • Joyce February 29, 2012, 11:38 am

    Currently, my favorite is The Shack.

  • Alyse February 29, 2012, 11:39 am

    She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

  • Megan E. February 29, 2012, 11:39 am

    My favorite book of all time is Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger, but right now I’m reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and it’s climbing the list FAST!

  • Maureen February 29, 2012, 11:43 am

    My favorite book is The Great Gatsby 🙂

  • Dana Schulman February 29, 2012, 11:44 am

    I definitely cant pick a favorite book of all time, but I love all James Patterson and mystery books. I read too much to pick just one!

  • Bridget February 29, 2012, 11:46 am

    charlotte’s web!!!

  • Mel February 29, 2012, 11:55 am

    What a great prize pack!! My fav books are the Help and the Hunger Game series….oh and anything by James Patterson. I love a wide variety of books!

  • Jodi February 29, 2012, 11:56 am

    My favourite book of all time is Animal Farm. It’s such a wonderful satirical piece!!!! I love George Orwell’s books.

  • Alex February 29, 2012, 12:08 pm

    Such a fantastic giveaway, and in line with my NYR to read more books! My all-time favorite is To Kill A Mockingbird, a classic coming of age that I have read over-and-over again!

  • Laura P February 29, 2012, 12:13 pm

    my new favorite book(s) of all time would have to be the harry potter series. if i had to narrow it down to just one, it would be book 3 (prizoner of azkaban). I recently just read the books for the first time….and read all 7 in two weeks! they were that amazing!!!

  • Stacie February 29, 2012, 12:14 pm

    Food Rules and Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, but also anything medical or non-fiction that I can learn something from. These books would definitely fit that category!

  • Lizzy February 29, 2012, 12:17 pm

    My favorite book is the Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold

    • Sarah T. February 29, 2012, 12:22 pm

      Ooh yeah that was a great one!

  • Sarah T. February 29, 2012, 12:21 pm

    Too many books, so little time! I like anything by Alex Kava. Great thriller writer and she’s from my hometown – Omaha, NE!

  • Jamie February 29, 2012, 12:22 pm

    I love books so much, I don’t know how I could pick one favorite! I sometimes read two books a week.

  • Amy February 29, 2012, 12:24 pm

    My favorite book would probably be the Time Traveler’s Wife…such an amazing book!!

  • Abby February 29, 2012, 12:24 pm

    I love reading! Instilled by mom and grandmother. My favorite books these days are children’s books. Kevin henkes is my favorite author. A book titled Yummy Yucky is another favorite. I love the way my daughter at such an early age connects with books. For adult reading Nuture shock is great.

  • kristin February 29, 2012, 12:29 pm

    i could never pick a favorite book – although i just finished the hunger games series and im slightly obsessed!!!! hope all is well 🙂

  • Becky February 29, 2012, 12:31 pm

    My favorite book would have to be “Ivanhoe” by Sir Walter Scott. Something about the time period, and books loosely based on history just get me.

    I also like “Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air” by David Mackay which gives a realistic view of how much is needed to truly be energy reliant from sustainable sources.

  • Lindsey February 29, 2012, 12:42 pm

    Reedeming Love By: Francine Rivers!

  • meghan February 29, 2012, 12:44 pm

    perks of being a wallflower 🙂

  • Rachel February 29, 2012, 12:47 pm

    My favourite book is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 🙂

  • Ellen February 29, 2012, 12:48 pm

    I have to go old school. Favorite book of my life: Little House on the Prairie. Actually, the entire series. Got me way into reading and I’ve loved similar books ever since (Gap Creek!).

    New Rules of Lifting for Women is a really awesome book. I’m just finishing the program (took me 11 months). It got me comfortable in the weight room and I feel like its just the beginning for me!

  • Shelley@MileHighHealthy February 29, 2012, 12:51 pm

    My favorite book is Where the Red Ferns Grow. I read it every Christmas and it never ceases to spark my imagination and fall in love with the story of a boy and his dogs. It never gets old and always has me reaching for the tissues!

  • Mandy February 29, 2012, 12:54 pm

    I’d say Annie’s Song. I also loved The Hunger Games.

  • Megan (Braise The Roof) February 29, 2012, 12:56 pm

    Shantaram. A little obscure, yes, but I read it last year and I still think about the story, the characters and the writing all the time.

  • Chase @ The Chase Project February 29, 2012, 12:59 pm

    I loved The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin! It totaly resonated with me!

  • Allie Q February 29, 2012, 1:01 pm

    My favorite book of all time is the Unbearable Lightness of Being. No matter what stage of life I’m in, there always seems to be parallels to that book. ULB also has me wanting to visit Prague very, very badly! I’ve read it twice, considering reading it a third time soon.

  • Abbey February 29, 2012, 1:04 pm

    I love all of the Nicholas Sparks books but my all time favorite would have to be The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The book is sooo much better than the movie! I am currently reading The Hunger Games and I have to say that it is up near the top as well!

  • Neel February 29, 2012, 1:06 pm

    Microserfs by Douglas Coupland!

  • Christy F. February 29, 2012, 1:14 pm

    I don’t think I have a favorite of all time…my favorite seems to change and revolve over time. Recently I read “Water for Elephants” and just loved it. I can’t get it out of my mind, it just randomly pops into my mind.

  • Veronica February 29, 2012, 1:18 pm

    The Kitchen God’s Wife, by Amy Tan

  • Erin February 29, 2012, 1:44 pm

    Have to say Harry Potter haha 🙂

  • Ange February 29, 2012, 1:57 pm

    The Alchemist, followed VERY closely by The Hunger Games 🙂

  • Leah February 29, 2012, 1:59 pm

    My favorite book is Ken Follet Pillers of the Earth!

  • Nicole February 29, 2012, 2:10 pm

    A Handmaids Tale by M. Atwood, amazing and thought provoking. Dystopia at its best!

  • Liz February 29, 2012, 2:11 pm

    The Stand by Stephen King. Love….this book.

  • Mary @ food and fun on the run February 29, 2012, 2:18 pm

    I just finished the Hunger Games, and I loved it! Not so sure it is my all time favorite, but I am definitely loving it right now!

  • Maren February 29, 2012, 2:22 pm

    oh my gosh I could never pick a favorite! I really liked 1984..and the lovely bones. Those two are really sticking out right now!

  • Amy February 29, 2012, 2:25 pm

    I loved The Giver even if it’s for younger readers!

  • Lucy February 29, 2012, 2:37 pm

    Redeeming Love- Francine Rivers

  • Katie February 29, 2012, 2:40 pm

    ANY Harry Potter book! There’s a reason why they’re so popular 😉

  • shira February 29, 2012, 2:42 pm

    brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh has long been my favorite novel.

  • Jen C. February 29, 2012, 2:50 pm

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I had just rad this book when my parents decided to take us to Hannibal, MO for a quick weekend trip. My imagination was ripe and running wild!

  • Rebecca February 29, 2012, 3:01 pm

    So hard to just pick one… so I’m going to cheat and go with all the Harry Potter books. 🙂

  • Ali February 29, 2012, 3:09 pm

    Ooh! Definitely The Great Gatsby!

  • Jen F February 29, 2012, 3:16 pm

    I love Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

  • Alison February 29, 2012, 3:21 pm

    Tina Fey’s Bossypants! Her advice for life? Just say Yes, and…!

  • Jen February 29, 2012, 3:22 pm

    Oh man, so sad that I missed this 🙁 I love books and this made me leap out of my seat. Favorite book ever though? That’s tough! It totally changes based on time/age/place, etc. (i.e: I LOVED The Hunger Games, but probably wouldn’t be best ever haha). The Lord of the Rings was great. And The Help! I laughed and cried 🙂

    Great question! (even if I am too late)

    • Jen February 29, 2012, 3:24 pm

      Oh and I’m reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series now (on the 3rd one). Seriously disturbing – but seriously so good. You should check it out.

  • Rebecca P. February 29, 2012, 3:22 pm

    My favorite book would have to be Flashback by: Dan Simmons. 🙂

  • Samantha February 29, 2012, 3:34 pm

    I’m going to pick one series that I read all the time while I was younger, the Boxcar Children books. I think I read them all over a dozen times they were my favorite what I was little.

  • Rachel February 29, 2012, 4:05 pm

    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. It’s an amazing read.

  • Katie February 29, 2012, 4:10 pm

    I have to say my favorite book on its own is The Princess Bride. Series: the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich!! Love her!! 🙂

  • jaime February 29, 2012, 5:46 pm

    “are you there vodka… it’s me chelsea” has got to be my favorite book i can re-read it over and over. it’s hilarious, and never fails to make me smile- perfect pick me up after a rough day 🙂

  • sarah February 29, 2012, 5:51 pm

    I LOVE the 5 People you Meet in Heaven! Such a great story!

  • Morgan February 29, 2012, 6:02 pm

    Best book ever… Oh my, guess I’ve got to go with The Poisonwood Bible.

  • erin February 29, 2012, 6:24 pm

    The Time Traveler’s Wife is my favorite…read it about 10 times 🙂

  • Lindsey February 29, 2012, 7:02 pm

    It changes constantly but right now The Fault In Our Stars by John Green.

  • Cindy February 29, 2012, 7:02 pm

    Too many favorite books to list one…the first three that came to mind are Still Alice, Water for Elephants, and I Know This Much is True.

  • Laura in Pgh February 29, 2012, 7:04 pm

    Bridget Jones Diary

    • Jen February 29, 2012, 10:56 pm

      I love that one too! That just might be my favorite “LOL” book! 🙂

  • Kendra February 29, 2012, 7:20 pm

    My favorite book of all time has to be either The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas or A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. They’re absolute classics.

  • Jen February 29, 2012, 8:18 pm

    My favorite book is definitely To Kill a Mockingbird. I’ve read it a million times and the spine is so broken that I can’t believe the pages stay in… well, most of them do.

  • Pristine February 29, 2012, 8:18 pm

    Gone with the Wind!

  • Christin February 29, 2012, 8:39 pm

    Oh, my. There are just too many… I guess I would have to say Pride and Prejudice because that is the one I’ve read the most (6 times).

  • Megan February 29, 2012, 10:47 pm

    Right now I’m enjoying the hunger games trilogy! Just started book 2!

  • Danielle February 29, 2012, 10:48 pm

    My favorite book is Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner!

  • TiffanyS February 29, 2012, 11:22 pm

    Oh my, of all time huh? I don’t know if I could pick just one. I loved Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilberts. I have flags everywhere in that book! In recent loves my list would include Born to Run, The Long Run, The Twilight Series, and The Kitchen House. Oh, and how could I forget The Help. On my current pile is the Hunger Games, Lone Wolf (! by Jodi Picoult), and The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

  • Kim M. February 29, 2012, 11:30 pm

    I have two favorite books: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
    But I got super excited for every one of the books in the giveaway!

  • Heather March 1, 2012, 12:40 am

    what a great giveaway! all of these books sound amazing. i don’t know that i have an all-time favorite book, but i loved The Help. I also recently re-read To Kill a Mockingbird which was great…and i loved Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!

  • katie March 1, 2012, 8:35 am

    my favorite book of all time is the other boleyn girl!

  • Kristin March 1, 2012, 9:34 am

    My favorite book for years and years has been To Kill a Mockingbird. Everyone should read it!

  • adie (adiecakes) March 1, 2012, 10:50 am

    What if I said my favorite book was a cookbook? I have one in my collection (it’s the book from a British restaurant called Ottolenghi) that I’ll open at random times when I need inspiration, or when I just want to zone out for a bit. The recipes are all intriguing, and the photos are beautiful!

    Otherwise recent favorites have been The Help, and The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry.

  • Cortney March 1, 2012, 12:41 pm

    Thank you for this! I now have a (very) long list of “favorite” books to read!
    I know the contest is over, but I will still contribute that my favorite fiction is Jane Eyre and my favorite non-fiction is The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey because it helped me turned my financial life around 180 degrees and I recommend it to EVERYONE. I’m now winning at money instead of always losing it!

  • Jess March 2, 2012, 7:54 am

    My favorite book of all time is probably To Kill a Mockingbird. I’ve read it a million times.

  • Katie March 2, 2012, 8:43 am

    It’s definitely not a cool or educated-sounding answer, but my favorite book, honestly, is High Fidelity. I’m on my third copy of it, because I read it so much I literally destroy the book!

    (These books all look awesome, by the way!)

  • Whitney @ The Adventures of Now March 12, 2012, 10:20 pm

    A little late to this but had to share my favorite book; a simple story that I was introduced to in college: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid which reflects on the tourist industry of Antigua showing perspectives of both the tourist and local. A quick read, it’s a reminder that things are not always how they seem.

    Look forward to checking out some of the other books mentioned – thanks for the discussion!

  • Shelly March 23, 2012, 12:20 pm

    I love all James Patterson books. They hold my attention!

  • Jenn May 1, 2012, 7:11 pm

    I think the Dragon Tattoo series was my favorite series. Did I have to pick one?

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