What's your favorite novel? [View All]

Or if you prefer, which have you read the most often? Or if it's different from one of the above, what's the best novel you've ever read? (For instance, in a different medium, folks are always asking about favorite movies. While I still think "A Clockwork Orange" is the finest film I've ever seen, it's not something I like to think of in connection with the word, "favorite"...)

Me, uhhhhhhh, I think my favorite is still "Island" by Aldous Huxley. I've read "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy something upwards of 20 times, the Hitchhiker's Guide, uh, series somewhere around 10, the Earthsea Trilogy about 10 and the subsequent books in the series once or twice each, all Dashiell Hammett novels upwards of 10 times, too, and Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series a good few times as well, not to mention every novel John Le Carre has ever published at least twice. As such, you'd think one of these would be my favorite, and on some level I guess "Lord of the Rings" is. Best? Ummmmmmmmmmmmm I think I have to go with "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which is way more fun than it sounds.

You?