What's your favourite book of all time?

Mine is The Lord of the Rings. I read it every single year, and every single year, it still speaks to me. Especially in recent years when the world and life has seemed so incredibly broken, hopeless, this book is one that has continued to be a light in the darkness.

It's not one of trite, easy endings. The victory is bitterly won and leaves the main character so broken, he literally has to leave the world he saved to find a modicum of peace. I mean, just stab my heart out with a spoon, would you?

Oh, and the descriptive nature writing makes me feel all sorts of things.

I'll always turn to this book for some sanity.