Anyway, the topic of the favorite book is not that easy to answer, because as life progresses, interests change, experiences accumulate, and, along with all the changes, favorite books take a turn.

I realize, of course, that for some, the only correct answer would be “Torah”, or the Bible.

For most, however, the answer is not that simple. So, where to start. As I was growing up, some of the favorite authors were, in no particular order: Bradbury, Asimov, Harry Harrison, Lloyd Biggle Jr, Jules Verne, Vonnegut, H.G Wells, Mark Twain, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Alexander Pushkin, Omar Hayyam, Mayne Reid, Fenimore Cooper, Oscar Wilde, Sholom Aleychem, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Lev Kassil, .

A little later on came Tolkien and Naguib Mahfouz, Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Salinger and Updike, Poe and Lovecraft. Following that, James Carrol (Constantine’s Sword), Meir Shalev and Dina Rubina, Israel Finkelstein, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Hillel Halkin.

Many more, of course, but these are the ones that I recall off the top of my head.

Incidentally, my recently discovered means of dealing with old books without throwing them away, and not being completely buried by books is Kindle.