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If you are going by the single volume I have purchased, read, and given as a gift more than any other tome in my collection, it would have to be Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein. There have been times when I felt like Mel Gibson's character in the film Conspiracy Theory, checking out of a used bookstore with multiple copies of Stranger, in various formats.
Now, if your definition of "favorite book" could be expanded to include "favorite series of anthologies," the honor would have to go to Isaac Asimov's three-volume Before the Golden Age (spanning 1931-1938) and continuing with all twenty-five volumes of Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories (1939-1963). What a colossal literary education, in paperback form!
- M.
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