What Are Your Favorite Books?

[SBJ220]

This one's pretty simple, folks. Do you read a lot or do you just flip through the pages ever now and then? Doesn't matter. What books have moved you in the past? What books move you now? We want to know. If you're synopsis is as vivid as your feelings for the book, you may even be able to get someone else to crack the binding. Think about that.

[Geta Boshi]

The Satan Bug by Alistair MacLean / Bourne Series by Ludlum / LOR Triology by Tolkein and Time to Kill by John Grisham

[Kojy]

my favourite book and probably the only one i readed until the end was the Adobe after effects 6.5 walkthrough. Even though the storyline wasn't big deal, i could manage to work with the software ^__^

Now seriously - Perfume was my favourite book and movie, i could even smell the fragrance that didn't exist O.O

[SBJ220]

Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card
LOTR trilogy by JRR Tolkien
La Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
Inferno by Dante

...will add more later.

[Geta Boshi]

I forgot Mario Puzo >.< The Scilian, Fortunate Pilgrim and The Godfather

[Gothic Lolita]

Samurai Girl
Da Vinci Code
A Child Called "It"


and some more which i forgot, but there ones i keep re-reading alot

[Frosted Heart]

Actually I liked "The Hobbit" more than the trilogy. >_> I actually had to force myself to finish the three books, and it wasn't until I saw the movies did the entire plot click together in my head.

Other books I like are "The Dark is Rising" series, the "Faded Sun" trilogy, and a series by Fiona Patton. I'm not sure what that series is called ... but it's about avatars of the flame, and it's set in a medieval, proto-European world. Oh and the "Archangel" series are also good. :)

[Slev]

Actually I liked "The Hobbit" more than the trilogy. >_> I actually had to force myself to finish the three books, and it wasn't until I saw the movies did the entire plot click together in my head.

*Tear* I thought I was the only one.

I still have a soft spot for To Kill a Mockingbird. I first read it so long ago, but it still remains a favorite of mine.

[Riekie]

The Shining-Stephen King
Catch me when I fall-Nicci French
Secret Window, Secret Garden-Stephen King
The Langoliers-Stephen King
Misery-Stephen King<----bought it yesterday but I KNOW it's gonna be good!
Lisey's Story-Stephen King<--still need to read it but it's gonna be a good one I think.
Don't say a word-sorry..I forgot the writer!:(

[Lady Orihime]

"Memoirs of a Geisha", "Gone with the Wind", "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix", "Scarlett", "Sybil"...

[StarryInoueSky]

All the Harry Potter books, all books by Lurlene McDaniel, Red Azalea, this lullaby and Faery Path. :)

[batz]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and most from Stephen King.

[Syn]

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin: best fantasy serie ever.

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien: because they were my first fantasy books and they'll hold a special place in my heart just for that.

Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Paradie) by Zola: Because uh, it's simply magnificent to walk in Paris at the end of the XIXth century. And it has a taste of hope, contrarily to a lot of books from Zola.

I love a lot of authors and their books, not only one. It'd be tedious to name them all, but Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Molière, J. B. Livingstone, Ellis Peter, Conan Doyle, Isaac Asimov and plenty others still bring fond memories.

[emoloz]

Harry potter series - J.K.Rowling
Da vinci code - Dan Brown

[Unicorn]

Almost anything by Mercedes Lackey, Terry Pratchett, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling.

[Shinrin]

12 kingdoms & likely Trinity Blood once i buy it

[slayer]

Anything by Stephen King or Orson Scott Card. Dracula by Bram Stoker is amazing.

[Adam]

A bunch of fantasy series (A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Sword of Truth, Wheel of Time), Battle Royale, Ender's Game. I'm sure there's a bunch of other books I've forgotten that I also really like.

[Byakuya]

Lord of The Rings
The Da Vinci Code
Cat Amongst The Pigeons

[Zelos]

my favorite author is Stephen Baxter and his books all just wow me. hes an author who improves with every publication. though i havent been reading many books since i started college, my last novel i read by him was Manifold:Time and that is his best novel of those ive read. it had a little bit of everything and was cleverly done. loved it.

i have tons of other favorite books... i wish i would get into the habit of reading again XP

[Lilium]

Timeline by Michael Chricton
Harry Potter by J.K Rowling, but I don't really like the latest books.

And there are a bunch of others which I really liked but whose titles escaped me now.

[Zelos]

Timeline by Michael Chricton

i hope it was better than movie D: okay, maybe not just better, but A LOT better >.< the movie was very bad... i was disappointed...

[Lilium]

I didn't even watch the movie. Cause I knew it would suck from what I've seen from advertisements, etc =P I heard they changed a lot of things. Seems I made the right choice. The book is awesome imo, I actually re-read a couple of times ^_^.

[Kara]

Big Fantasy Book Fan over here! ;)

My all time favorite Series is The Sword of Truth Series by Terry goodkind. You get so involved with the Characters and the stories. When I'm reading them, I sometimes forget to put them down because I just want to keep reading and reading to find out what happens next. 8D

[Adam]

My all time favorite Series is The Sword of Truth Series by Terry goodkind. You get so involved with the Characters and the stories. When I'm reading them, I sometimes forget to put them down because I just want to keep reading and reading to find out what happens next. 8D

I also like that series quite a lot. My only major problem with it is that I believe Goodkind advocates the Ayn Rand Objectivism way too much after Faith of the Fallen.

[Jaimie]

The Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter
Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card
A Wrinkle in Time / Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

^ Hopefully will add the rest of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman once I read them. ^_^

[Axie]

Bridge to Terebithia
Spirit Bear
Tuck Everlasting

[ezxx]

i like a couple

Top 3 favorites

Shibumi by Travenian
1984 by George Orwell
Lord of the flies by William Golding

other favorites

Brave New World
Black Notice
Point Blank
Debt of Honor
Spiral
Spring Snow
The Outsiders
Cause of Death

Prince by Machiavelli - it's not novel but it's still a very interesting book)

[StrawberryLover]

Well my favorite book (at the moment, it changes alot) is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I wld never have read it but I have to do it for englih at school. It is a dig at government censorship in books.

Interesting fact :- Books burn at the temperature Fahrenheit 451 =D

[@lch3mizt]

-Eragon
-Mpen Xour
-Kbo Bantis Ntomine

[gab00n]

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Bourne series and pretty much all Robert Ludlum's books
The Harry Potter series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Richard P. Feynman

[Megumi_chan]

Almost all of John Grisham's books
The poetry of Robert Burns
The poetry of Robert Frost

:rolleyes:

[aznxenocide]

Catch-22
Sherlock Holmes
Ender's Game series
LOTR series
Dune series
Foundation
Atlas Shrugged
Count of Monte Cristo
Three Musketeers series

and probably alot more.

[Rain]

I've always liked the "everworld" series. I wasn't the greatest series but it was always interesting.

[aznxenocide]

ah, I was just going through my bookshelf, and found a couple more.

Pride and Pejudice
Candide
Les Miserables
The Art of War

[Pollux]

The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Dune series by Frank Herbert
The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau

[Surreal]

1984, by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien
Dune, by Frank Herbert
The face, by Dean Koontz

Every Dead Thing, by John Connolly
Dark Hollow, by John Connolly

And many, many more.

[Raiden]

Rain of Gold- by Victor Villasenor
Thirteen Senses- by Victor Villasenor

[Mikan]

Battle Royale, Koushun Takami
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

[Sapphire Star]

All the Twilight books by Stephanie Meyers. Edward and Bella rock! Love Alice too.

The Harry Potter books. xD

Pretty much anything by Meg Cabot....especially her Mediator series. I love ehr writing.

Also Elizabeth Haydon and her Rhapsody books are amazing too.

Mercedes Lackey is awesome too. Have tons of her books. :p

There are more but I don't feel like listing them right now. lol :p I'm a HUGE bookworm

Reading rules! :yell

[Megumi_chan]

There's one more.

Transformers novel by Alan Dean Foster

[Shadoblak]

My favorite book would have to be Angels and Demons :p

[Cookie-chan]

Anything by Paolo Coelho and Roald Dahl.. :D

[Who]

In no particular order:

Angels and Demons
The Davincci Code
Harry Potter Series
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series
Lord of the rings/the hobbit
(others that are slipping my mind at the moment)

[ComeComeParadis]

I love the Gossip Girl series...it's pretty cool and funny. XP I even know a couple of guys that read it!

I also liked Girl with the Pearl Earing. It was originally for a book report, but I ended up liking the book. Too bad I never saw the movie. XP

[Flying Banana]

i like Stargirl the most :] it's a very cute/nice book :3
then there's Freak the Mighty...the ening is very sad.. :[
i dont read many books though >.>

[So-Dee-Lish-Us]

I barely read..>.>;;
But this book I read for a book report was awesome. =]]
It's called Ragweed, by Avi. c:

[ComeComeParadis]

I read a book called Milkweed once, and it was about the Holocaust...what's Ragweed about?

[tari101190]

im torn between dr suess' green eggs and ham and the bible.

i also love kelley armstrong books though.
-bitten
-stolen
-broken
-dime store magic
-industrial magic
-no humans involved

and the two darren shan series
-the saga of darren shan
-the demonata

the eragon books are quite good i think. and when i was little i used to like roald dahl too.

[ComeComeParadis]

im torn between dr suess' green eggs and ham and the bible.
and when i was little i used to like roald dahl too.

Green eggs and ham = best book written. EVER..:rotflmao


The Bible= I honestly havent been reading it enough nowadays *bangs head on table* But I love it.

Is Roald Dahl the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

[saki]

Harry Potter and Bleach Manga and Absolute Boyfriend Manga and Naruto Manga.

[tari101190]

Is Roald Dahl the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

yeah, i like that book and the witchesand other i forgot right now, but i used to like them.

btw i wouldn't really count comics/manga as books.

[Kuchisaki]

Dragonlance books, The Belgariad and Mallorean series, as well as the Shannara series.

[Agmaster]

Just read 'Going Postal' By Pratchett. Now I am sad he is dead.

[Kibou_chin]

Harry Potter, Bleach, and then there's this book that I read in 5th. Tis was really good. Too bad I can't remember the name.

[ComeComeParadis]

yeah, i like that book and the witchesand other i forgot right now, but i used to like them.

btw i wouldn't really count comics/manga as books.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an awesome book. I remember when I was in second grade, my teacher would read a couple of chapters to us every day during "story time". XP Ah, memories....:cry

Alot of my friends wouldnt stop talking about the book Witches when the musical came out...I never really found the time to buy a ticket, and I didnt really feel like spending so much money to watch a musical anyway...but the song "Popular" is quite catchy! XD

Right now I'm reading The Good Earth for summer reading...and it's pretty good! It's about a Chinese man during this historic period...yah...I tend to forget the important stuff. XP :headscratch

[♠ Saint ♠]

Hmm...

~ Bleach
~ BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei
~ MPD Psycho
~ Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka
~ Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matusoka
~ Shogun by James Clavell
~ The Harry Potter series
~ The Elvenbane series
~ Any works by Edgar Allan Poe

[rei_ai]

Most are manga, I'm a manga girl after all...

The non-Japanese books I read and liked are:

Les Miserables
The Joy Luck Club
The Little Prince

[IvoryOrchid]

Books that I've particularly enjoyed and love:

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

[reichiru]

my favorite novel is To Kill A Mockingbird
and my favorite manga is Hana Kimi (Hanazakari no Kimitachi)
:p

edit>> omg i just realized Kibou's signature is Hana Kimi!!! except thats the drama version, but still!! *gives rep*

[scooz]

Just about any Fantasy book by Sara Douglass, Juliet Marillier, Catherine Asaro (never read her Sci-Fi, only Fantasy), and Elizabeth Haydon is guaranteed to be an excellent read with beautiful and detailed descriptions, carefully considered plots with many unpredictable twists, and great emotional depths in the characters that make it easy to laugh or cry through out their stories. These are probably the greatest living female fantasy writters today (and you will never find J.K. Rowling on my list =P These are true Fantasy writers).

Marion Zimmer Bradley (deceased) also has a great collection of fantastic books she wrote, not just limited to her book about Avalon. I will vouch for Tolkien (also deceased, which a lot of ppl surprisingly don't know) any day of the week. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes makes good light reading for vampire and shapeshifter fans. Wicked by Gregory Maguire is an amazing story, BUT!!!...I would not recommend it to everyone. It is a hard read for inexperienced readers and it is very distinctive as far as taste goes, some will love it and some will hate it (mainly because it can be hard to understand and frustrating to keep up). I also like the Marvel adpation of Anita Blake. I don't mind the novels, but the sex has taken over and it's not as interesting...so when I go out to get a new X-men comic, I check to see if there is a new Anita Blake comic too ^^

[aznxenocide]

In addition to whatever I've mentioned already, Dave Barry is always good.

[Beloved_Whisper]

Love, Cajun Style [Very interesting and funny]
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton [Good characters, funny]
Number the Stars - Louis Lowry [Sad and a cute book]
Mary, Bloody Mary [This ones sad too Dx> ]
Megen Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys [Cute and funny :)]
Haunted - Meg Cabot [Romantic and Funny :D]
Bound - Donna Jo Napoli :love [I love this book. It's sad and somewhat heart breaking, but in the end its good.]
Nothing But the Truth (And a Few White Lies) [Funny and cute :D]
InkHeart :love [Sad and cute :D]




I've probably have more but I can't think of any :(

[Riekie]

Don't say a word- F-in movie!!! thanks mom I read the book first before seeing the disaster!!

Catch me When I Fall- Pretty good.

The Shining- Read and compare with the flick:D

Misery- Total Ownage!! LOL at the Lawnmower...some of you know what I'm talking about:D

Secret Window, Secret Garden- Awesomeness:D the flick is great too with Johnny..almost the same plot;)

The Langoliers- Strange but veeery exciting



One thing: Kings books will never fail to make ya laugh:D

[aznxenocide]

Woah..I didn't know the Shining was a book. Did it come out before the movie? Better or worse? And the Secret Window...movie was pretty good, I'm assuming the book is similarly good?

[Riekie]

@ Azn: The Shining book came out in 1970 or something like that..and know what? the only things that are correct are the names in the film and the hotel and location itself;)
The book is soo good and funny and well...scary:D I still need to read about 50 pages but I know it will be awesome:D

Yeah Secret Window book is very good! I had seen the film first and so wanted to read the book. I read it and it was great! the only thing which is not correct is that the dog is a cat in the book and the ending..yeah the ending, is MUCH better..and scarier.

[Evility]

Well, my favourite book of all time is Il Pendolo di Foucault [Foucalt's pendulum] by Umberto Eco. I can't describe how much I love this book @_@ I have read it more than 21 times by the time of now and I can't get enough every time I read it, although I could probably retell it word by word. When I bought it I expected quite another thing but I was totaly owned xD
However, Eco is my fav. writer anyway, his books are truly awesome :)

Other books I love are
- I, Claudius // Claudius the God by Robert Graves.
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- A journal of the plague year by Daniel Defoe
- Cemetery World by Clifford Simak

:D

[tari101190]

i 4got i really love the black magician trilogy by trudi canavan.
the novice
the magician's guild
the high priest

the trilogy was realy great. it' about a a girl who lives in th slums with the commones who hate magicians...the rich people. then she finds ouot she has latent magic powers so the guild snse it and go after her. she thinks they wana kill her but they just want to confirm her power and either seal it up or train her in their guild.

then the books just cover how she learns controll over her pwer while another dark conspiracy is going on which involves the leader guy of the guild.

[shake]

the time machine, catcher in the rye, lord of the rings/hobbit, harry poophead

[Megumi_chan]

A Wrinkle In Time

Secret Garden

[stark espada]

my fav's

sun tzu's: the art of war.
a song of fire and ice
books by poe.

[Megumi_chan]

The Bourne Legacy by: Eric Van Lustbader

The Bourne Supremacy by: Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Ultimatum by: Robert Ludlum

[HELLA PINOY]

"If I did it" by OJ Simpson :D

I dont read books often, but I just had to check this one out XD

[stark espada]

new favs just about any book by Washington evring.

[laurie b.]

I have a lot of favorite books but I will try to limit myself...

Eduardo Galeano's "The Book of Embraces" -- my absolute favorite
the complete novels of Jane Austen (I count them as one) :)
E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View"
Dorothy L. Sayer's "Busman's Honeymoon"
Laurie R. King's "The Beekeeper's Apprentice"
Neil Gaiman's "Seasons of Mist"
Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams"
Arturo Rotor's "The Wound and the Scar"
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy
Umberto Eco's "How to Travel with a Salmon and other Essays"

[wicked_liz]

I'm a book nerd, I'll keep it simple :D I tried to pick an absolute fav and I think my brain cells started to commit seppuku These are what resulted, skipping the classics. :headscratch

"Disgrace" - J.M. Coetzee
"White Teeth" - Zadie Smith
"Middlesex" - Jeffrey Eugenides
"Life of Pi" - Yann Martel
"The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams
"A Density of Souls" - Christopher Rice
"Longing" - J.D. Landis
"The Silmarillion" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"A Deepness in The Sky" - Vernor Vinge
"A Ring of Endless Light" - Madeleine L'Engle
"Priestess of Avalon" - Marion Zimmer Bradley
"The Word For World Is Forest" - Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Riddle-Master Trilogy" - Patricia A. McKillip
"The Dark Tower" - Stephen King (7 novels)
"Speak" - Laurie Halse Anderson
"The Bonesetter's Daughter" - Amy Tan
"Feed" - M.T. Anderson
"Fahrenheit 451" - Ray Bradbury
"Five Quarters of the Orange" - Joanne Harris
"City of Your Final Destination" - Peter Cameron
"Wicked" - Gregory Maguire :D

Okay, that's off the top of my head, but also anything Poe, anything by a Bronte sister, Charles Dickens, Austen, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells. *must stop typing*

[tari101190]

"The Dark Tower" - Stephen King (7 novels)

im reading them...thy were reccomened t me by a friend(-ish)...

im on book 3 but it got a little boring...is it good enough to continue in your opinion?

[Hyriea]

Any Fear Street book by RL Stine

[kitty868theonly]

Harry Potter series, Eragon series, Charlie Bone series, Chronicles of Narnia series, Artemis Fowl series, and so many more....

[Naota]

My favorite books are:

The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.
When The Wind Blows by James Patterson.
The Seventh Tower series by James Patterson.
Cell by Stephen King.
And a book called Kissing Kate, whose author I can't remember.

[Ametatsu]

wicked_liz, I sympathize completely. I'm not even going to try and pick one favourite :p

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. Martin
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Thud - Terry Pratchett
The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula LeGuin
Blood and Gold - Anne Rice
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (I also like An Artist of the Floating World)
Northern Lights/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Sirius - Olaf Stapledon
Cities In Flight (I can't remember who this is by, James something, it used to be in our school library, then the librarian threw it out and I was devasted - normally she lets me take the disintegrating stuff - and I've not seen another copy (this tends to be the case with cheap old sf novels...))
Dune - Frank Herbert
Pretty much anything by HP Lovecraft, Brian Lumley or Anne McCaffrey

[GIN_ofTheFunk]

Mario Puzo- 'The Godfather'
Mario Puzo- 'The Sicilian'
Mario Puzo- 'La Famiglia'
Douglas Adams- 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Galaxy'
J. K. Rowling- 'Harry Potter' (all of them)
Aleko Konstantinov- `Bai Ganyo` (Ganyo Kun)
Ivan Vazov- `Under the Rule`
P.G. Wodehouse- ' Blandings Castle' (and every book of his)

[Skorpz]

the giver has to be my most favorite book. very interesting concept.

[phantomfork]

Anything by Michael Swanwick. Although most of his stuff is out of print now.
C.S. Lewis - Anything he's written
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (most entertaining read)
The Sherlock Holmes Series - Arthur Conan Doyle
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa

[binding-rain]

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles Of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

[zero_squad]

Harry Potter (all of them) - JK Rowling
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

and many others...

[tari101190]

trudi canavan

black mgician trilogy
the magicians guild
the novice
the high lord

come to think of it...it's ALOT like bleach...

[BluRry]

my fav. book has gotta be
twilight (all the series) by Stephenie Meyer

[ilayapawn]

I'd have to say:

Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Harry Potter
All books by Shannon Hale
Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (Mia makes me laugh.:))
Most books by Cornelia Funke
Most books by Gregory Maguire
Most books by Eva Ibbotson

There's this one book whose title I forgot..something like Marquis de Sade? Or something like that? All I know that it was about kings and their mistresses.

[Elentari]

most favourite:
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dune - Frank Herbert
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K Rowling

other books that I like:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
Cemetery World - Clifford D. Simak
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
Zone Null - Herbert W. Franke
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin - Aleksey N. Tolstoy
Reliquary - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

[Byakuya Kuchiki]

my fav book is The Eragon series they're awesome:D

[Miss Lolita]

The Twilight series, Dan Brown's books, The Other Boleyn Girl (haha that one's long.), and the Uglies series. (you can probably guess my age now without looking at my profile)

[DragonInstall]

Da Vinci Code/Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)
The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

[Aoi Innocence]

The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. It gives a great picture on what may happen to the world in the future.

[Tsuru]

Probably the "His Dark Materials" series by Phil Pullman e.g. the series they started making really really cut down movies of recently; The Golden Compass.

[ChukoLiang]

My favorite was Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Such an awesome book filled with action, history, strategy.

[Keylimepie]

Danielle Steele is my fave author, and my fave book by her is "message from nam" which is a really beautiful, and deep novel...and i've read it a million times XD

[rvngu]

just finished the count of monte cristo. my new fav. book although the first 400 pages or so are kinda boring but necessary hehe

[Nova]

I've just finished Helen of Troy by Margaret George and I suppose it could classify as one of my favourites because of the short time it took me to read:D though the ending was disappointing. But from what I've read, I guess my favourites would be "Night" by Elie Wiesel, "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli, and "This Lullaby" & "Someone Like You" both by Sarah Dessen (My God, one of the best writers in history) Ehe, quite a selection xD;

[woohooitsbrenda]

:fangirl The Twilight Series...and The Host.

[beautiful_death]

A Clockwork Orange has got to be one of top 3 books ever for me. Seriously, the movie does NO justice to the book, not at all!

[Thumblord]

The Dark Tower series, by Steven King. I love those books

Also the Adrian Mole series. And the Inheritance Cycles. Although only two are realesed so far

[Shunsui Kyoraku]

My favorite books are The Godfather, Eragon, and Lord of the Rings.

[Thumblord]

Ahh the Lord of the Rigns,

An amazing series. And a beautiful universe.

[tsuki-chan]

Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer-Bradley
Yukiguni by Yasunari Kawabata
Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Waterson

[Loose Canon]

Oh God, there's no way to list them ALL, you should see my personal library...... Um, okay, these are just some of my favorites:

A Wrinkle In Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind In the Door -- Madeleine L'Engle
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince -- J.K. Rowling
The Stand -- Stephen King
Angels and Demons -- Dan Brown
The Rowan -- by Anne McCaffrey
A Spell for Chameleon -- by Piers Anthony (all Xanthe novels, actually)
The Shining -- Stephen King
Command Performance -- Nora Roberts (actually, ANYTHING by Nora Roberts :) )
The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -- J.K. Rowling
No Blade of Grass -- John Christopher
Rick Riordan's Percy and the Olympians ongoing series ("Battle of the Labyrinth" just came out:love)
Working For The Devil -- Lilith Saintcrow

[Sapphire Star]

Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling
Sex Lies and Vampires - Katie MacAlister
Say You Love Me - Johanna Lindsay
Tithe - Holly Black
Storm Warning - Dinah McCall
19 Minutes - Jodi Picoult
Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder
Magic Study - Maria V. Snyder
Second Sight - Amanda Quick
No More Dead Dogs - Gordon Korman
The Sight - David Clement-Davies
Running Out Of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Wizard's Ward - Deborah Hale

and some others that I can;t think of off the top of my head but I no dobut will later :p

Oh and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine is a classic to me. <3

[halfnhalf]

The Juggler, a very underground book only found in a small hand of places. I happaned to come across it and it was like throwing me into another world exept it wasnt but it was a great book....hard to find thoug, you can get it on amazon for like 1 penny plus 3 dollars shipping. great book indeed.

[Drizzt]

Lolita would be my favorite book of all time. The love affair between a twelve year old and a thirty year old is both sick and beautifull.

[Nibbles]

Without a doubt, Horus Rising, Fulgrim, and Galaxy in Flames from the Horus Heresy Series.

[ninhoic]

Perks of Being a Wallflower. cant seem to remember the author
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
To Kill a Mockingbird.

I was introduced to these books while I was high school. I didnt expect to like them as much as I did. Most of them I found during my yearly month of doing pretty much nothing but reading.

[Revan1990]

I almost finished reading "Wizard's first Rule", the first book of Terry Goodkind's "The Sword of Truth" saga, and I guess it is already one of my fav. Books^^

[Ichigo123]

The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Perfume: The Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind.

[tifa]

I like to read, I don't really have a favorite book. I do have many favorite authors like Simone van der Vlugt, J.K Rowling, Carry Slee and Sophie Kinsella. I also like the Lemony Snicket and the Gossip Girl series..

I'm currently busy with a book of Stephen King, Salem's Lot.

[Zaraki Kenpachi]

Perks of Being a Wallflower. cant seem to remember the author


Chbotsky was his last name. His first name escaped me. Excellent book, though.

Some other books I have read and loved in the past include: Water for Elephants, Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs, most of the Stephen King novels, The Kiterunner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Enders Game, and there's more but I can't think of any.

More to come?

[trapdoor]

I loved Like The Red Panda & I used to really love A Wrinkle In Time.

[Fyrefox]

Ummmm....

Eldest. (Paolini) Much better than the first, I think. I'm waiting with baited breath for the next.

Animorphs. (Applegate) I first discovered this series in like 2000, which is about when it ended. I'm still collecting though, and I get all geeky when I see one I don't have.

City of Ember. (Forgot author) This almost bored me, but it turned out kind of interesting. The setting is a relatively new concept, as far as books of the same sort of time setting go.

Sleeper Agent & Sleeper Code (Forgot this one too) Pretty cool, and an original idea as far as the main character goes.

[Dopesmoker]

harry potter books (probably more out of the emotional attachment i have to them though)

the time machine by h.g wells
the book of lost things by john conolly
cosmos by carl sagan
choke by chuck palanhuick (can't spell his last name)
fight club by the above author
lord of the rings by tolkien
catcher in the rye by j.d salinger
sirens of titan by kurt vonnegut

[directX07]

all of sidney sheldon's books plus harry potter

[Hollow_Cero]

I love the book Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Case:D

[BleachAddict]

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Thick Face Black Heart (Chin Ning Chu) :thumbs
All books by Paolo Coelho,
All 12 books of The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy (Anne Rice)
LOTR sequel and prequel and Tales of Hurin (JRRTolkien)
Harry Potter (JKRowling)
Genghis Khan and the Makings of the Modern World (JWeatherford)
His Dark Materials (PPullman)
Spiderwick Chronicles (TTerlizzi and HBlack)

.................... arrrgggghhhh there are just too many. :eek:

[Black Dahlia]

To name a few:

The name of the rose and Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Count of Monte Cristo and Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
Justine and 120 Days of Sodom - The Marquis de Sade
Hellbound Heart, Books of Blood, Weaveworld, Cabal - Clive Barker
Fight Club and Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
American Psycho and Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Almost Heaven - Judith Mcnaught
Dreaming of you - Lisa Kleypas
The Lion's Lady - Julie Garwood
Various short stories by HP Lovecraft
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Get Shorty and Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard

[spacecat]

My new favourite books are the Song of Ice and Fire series, I really can't put them down D:

[TB-taichou]

My favorite books [so far, at least] would have to be:

Mordred, Bastard Son by Douglas Clegg
The Winter Prince by Elizabeth E. Wein
I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley [Yeah, I love Arthurian legend. Mordred especially.]
The Darkangel trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
The Modern Faery Tale "trilogy" by Holly Black
The First North Americans series by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
The Great God Pan by Donna Jo Napoli
Breath by Donna Jo Napoli
Lord of Snow and Shadows by Sarah Ash
The Mortal Instruments trilogy by Cassandra Clare [Well, the first two - the last has yet to come out.]

Erm... I'm sure there'll be more to come. >.> I read a lot, so this probably won't be the last you see of me in this thread.

[m1stral]

I love sifi/adventure books and i know a few of the books that are listed here, quite an assorted list i'd have to say, I prefer new literature to older ones; i've read my share of Shakespeare's play, Alexander Dumas and such but new age books are more to my taste, here are 2 of my new favs:

Bartimaeustrilogy by Jonathon Stroud

http://www.bartimaeustrilogy.com/



Courtney Crumrin Series by Ted Naifeh (Actually Comic Book)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Crumrin

[wallflowerxiii]

Harry Potter by: JK Rowling
I Am the Messenger by: Markus Zusak
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by:Stephen Chbosky
The Catcher and The Rye by: J.D. Salinger
The Princess Bride by: S.Morgenstern (William Goldman's Abridged version)
Looking for Alaska by: John Green
Maximum Ride Series by: James Patterson
Bartimaeus Trilogy by: Jonathan Stroud

Hm, that's all that I can think of---WAIT!

Oh! The Places You'll Go by: Dr. Seuss

Okay, I'm good. :D

[Ayu-chan]

All books by Dan Brown :wha I dunno why I like them :XD

[Abigail]

Tell me your dreams by Sidney Sheldon..
It is about multiple personality illness.

[CaptainYoruichi]

Harry Potter series
The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
The Black Stallion series (Walter Farley)
His Dark Materials trilogy (Phillip Pullman)
The Last Vampire series (Christopher Pike)
All the Halo books

I used to also be a big fan of Nancy Drew, but they went to a first-person perspective, so I don't follow it anymore.

As far as individual books, I'd have to look them up. ^_^

[Joyling]

All of the Drizzt books by R. A. Salvatore
All of Elaine Cunningham's Forgotten Realms books
The Last Mythal series by Richard Baker OMG LOVE, SO MUCH LOVE
ElfQuest. Any and all of it. Wendy Pini is my hero.

Sweet god, I am such a nerd. All my favorite books are about elves. ><

In the non-fantasy section ... (or is it??) I will read ANYTHING that Dean Koontz has written.

[PrincessSprink]

My fav books:Of Mice and Men, To kill a Mocking Bird:o
Now im sure there's more:headscratch.......o well
Former Fav: Twilight:cry

[femaleshiro_16]

Harry Potter Books
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Twilight Series
Chronicles of Narnia Series


~again these are in no particular order~

[tatygirl90]

My favorite series would have to be Harry Potter. But my favorite book is probably White Oleander by Janet Fitch. I loved the way she presented the relationships between mothers and daughters and a daughter struggling to find her own identity outside of her mother's shadow.

[Mitsukiu]

My favorite books are:
I'm Leyend By Richard Matheson
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
And the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
:rotflmao

[GIN_ofTheFunk]

The Hitch-hiker's guide to Galaxy
The Godfather
The Sicilian
# 22

[Eiji Eats Keki]

I'm a die hard fan of the Larklight trilogy by Philpi Reeve.

Larklight, Starcross and finally Mothstorm.. ^^ real good!