The question is very simple, what is your favourite book? And why? I have also added a small pool about how many books do you read each year.Anyway my favourite is L.A. Confidential written by James Ellroy.It's a very good police story with a intriguing plot, but it's also a masterpiece of politic and social analize. The power games of institutions, the corruption that have attacked police and government and the general underground atmosphere are the pillars to this beautiful book. It isn't a simply police book, but a fresco of a society and of a period of the US history.