I'm a couple months late to this thread, but oh well.
Death Note is probably my favourite manga. :D I'm only up to volume nine so far, but I've loved what I've read. My favourite part so far was
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the part where Light relinquished his Death Note and they were investigating the Yotsuba group.
L's death made me very sad... but at least we got Mello and Near, right?