Go ahead, post your favorite books!

I really love the Redwall books by Brian Jacques, and his Castaways of the Flying Dutchman books too. I'm a big fan of any Tamora Peirce "quartet" as well. Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy is easily one of the best I have ever read, as is the Myst trilogy. Also wonderful are the Sara Douglass books in the Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy AND the sequil trilogy yet to be released in the US. Terry Brooks' Shanarra series is wonderful, along with his Landover quartet. Watership Down by Richard Adams is a wonderful peice of literature too. I am a big fan of Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, Card's Ender books, Rowling's Harry Potter, ad Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (and the Hobbit, and others). Michael Crichton is also a great author, with books like Sphere, Prey, Jurassic Park, Airframe (sooo underrated), and Timeline (the movie of which will soon be released yay!). Doyle's famous Holmes books are indeed as great as they are cracked up to be. Catch 22 is a great book, pity like NO ONE has ever read it. You've gotta love the late great Douglas Adams. My favorite nonfiction writer is "Peter Principle" author Lawrence J. Peter. OMG I think I forgot to mention Mercedes Lackey! She's great too.

Ok, while you are workin on getting through them, I'll think of some more...

*shifty* What? I KNOW I'm a geek...

I read alot, but I'll only list a few of my favorites:

Watership Down by Richard Adams- This is my favorite book ever. I first read it in 4th grade, and have been entranced by it ever since.

Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass- BEST SERIES EVER!!! Yea, I'm a bit obsessed with these books, but they are really good. They are known as the Wayfarer Redemption series in the US though. There is a sequel trilogy, not yet released in the US, that I'm starting now. (Heehee, I convinced my friend to buy the books for me when he went to England.)

The Valdemar Series by Mercedes Lackey- This is an amazing fantasy series, with twenty some books overall. Of all of them, the Last-Herald Mage trilogy is the best.

Well that's all I'll write about that for now, but more later.

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.

And also the series with Georgia, the series isn't really called anything but it's a little series, includes:

Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal snogging
On the bright side I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god
Knocked out by my nunga nungas
Dancing in my nuddy pants

It's great! ^^

hahahaha I saw Turquoise Taylor reading those in Bratspir's class last year! Guess what nunga nungas are! I will leave it to your imagination...

Lemony Snicket is Cool!!!

Not much of a reader actually. But, I am reading this book called "The Runner" Can't remember who the author is. But she is known for her girls books. And "the Runner" is one of her few, guy oriented books. Must say, she did a great job on it. I will have to get back to you on the name of the author.

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StaTiC

I love to read.

Some of my favorite books are any Tamora Pierce book, Lloyd Alexander books (including Time Cat, The Arkadians, the Black Cauldron, and other books by him), Lois Lowry books (The Giver and Gathering Blue), Bloomability and Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Cut (i dunno who its by), Speak (i forgot whothis one's by too!), and The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood.

I'll write more when i remember them, and ill try to find the authors of those books.

I don't read anything unless it's really interesting. Here are some favorites though:

Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (yes, I actually liked this one)
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The last one, I've only just begun reading yet it's become a favorite. :)

Those would be by Patricia McCormick and Laurie Halse Anderson (I own both and love both).

One of my other favorites is Warrior Woman (it's this woman's memoiars...really good stuff....can't remember the author's name and can't go check cuz I lost my copy :( ). I also like the afforementioned Tamora Pierce quartets (especially the Immortals series), The Handmaid's Tale, and the Redwall series. I also love C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series and (for some odd reason) I've always really liked the Swiss Family Robinson (I can't remember who that's by either...this sucks).

Yes, I enjoyed the Chronicals of Narnia, and I did like Catcher in the Rye. Since when did you like Redwall, SW? *bows to BJ's skill* Regarding Jesse:

AAAAAAAAAAARGHAAAACCCCKKKKK!!! *dies*

WHY do so many people like Sharon Creech! I Hate Shaon Creech with a Passion! For school, I have had to read Walk Two Moons 6 times and I hated it more each time. AND I had to read Chasing Redbird too, wich was better, but still TERRIBLE.

(had to get that out of my system)

I dunno, maybe its cause you had to read it for school, or maybe you just read it 5 too many times... And i love Bloomability! You really should read that book. Its nothing at all like walk two moons. Its sooo much less boring!

Ok, i have a couple new books to add to my list:
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Ella enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

ENDERS GAME!!!!!


seriously since ender and some other people were crazy bout this book i just said **** it ill just read it(pluse ill get my grade to a B in english :)..........im gonna miss my english teacher :()

but man i like this book more than hole(also a awsome book...herd it in 5th grade and loved it since then..untill a year ago)........and harry potter(which i look so much like -__...damn auther stealing my face



but its a very good book full of awsomeness


but the sequals to it arnt as good

speaker for the dead(sucked...really boring actuly)
zenocide(more interesting..the end is good)
children of the mind(im on ch. 3 but it seems good so far..but not as good as holes)
ender's chadow(gonna read that within the next year XD)
shadow of the hegegen(THATS THE WRONG SPELLING XD...gonna read that last)

I love Ender's Game too! ^_^ Never got around to reading all the sequels though, cause I heard they were bad. Ender's Shadow was also great, but the first was better. An awesome series that you must read if you haven't yet.

I thought Ender's Game was okay. I did not, however, find it noteworthy. Now, the Dune series by Frank Herbert is THE quintessence of sci-fi. B) I also like Tolkien, Alexander, and Lewis to a certain extent.

Dune is a very good book. I've read the first three books in that series, and I'm trying to get a copy of God Emperor of Dune. Very good books. ^_^

To say the least, I'm on book #6 of 6: Chapterhouse Dune. It gets confusing after awhile, as the series spans 5,000 years...:wacko:

And they've already made book one of a series prequels to Dune.

If any of you have read the first one (Butlerian Jihad?), I'd like to know how it is.

Also, I didn't mean to go that hard on Ender's Game. I enjoyed it up to the very end. That part was a little odd. I got lost... :blink:

Anne Rice is one of my favorite authors. I like her style in writing. Some of my favorite books are "Vittorio the Vampire", "Pandora", "Violin", and "Interview with the Vampire". I am hoping to pick up another one of her works sometime this week.

I also adore C.S. Lewis. I love his "Space Trilogy" and his "Chronicles of Narnia" works. I find them so interesting.

one word: Manga.