#46 The Silmirillion by JRR Tolkein

I have read this book several times over too.  It is more a collection of short stories about the history of Middle Earth than one contiguous book.   That is nice because you can just pick it up and read about Beren and Luthien then put it back down again.   There are soooo many characters that it gets a little hard to keep track of them all.  It is so tragic and so epic.. I love it!  I am sure they are thinking about giving this one to Peter Jackson too, but I think it would be really hard to make this into a movie.  Which is just fine with me (but it would be neat;).