I was surprised this topic has not come up before, or maybe I just didn't go far enough down the necropost.
Many of us here are avid readers and intellectuals, so what's your favourite book (and why if you care to offer)?
I'm a Moby Dick man, I suspect because it was the first real book I learned to read and grew up by the sea. There is virtually no topic to which Melville does not apply, and it is far more respectable then my love of Wuthering Heights.
