Favourite Books!

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Do you guys have any favourite books or series? Or even authors you really like?

My favourite books are Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton. They are so much better than the movies (which is saying someting because the movies are awesome)! Some of his other books are great too, like Sphere and Prey. And my favourite series are Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Lord of the Rings, Tomorrow When the War Began and The Hunger Games.

[Zoned]

Most likely Perks of Being a Wallflower, at this moment. The book has so many good parts that you missed out on in the movie!!! I also really enjoyed the Maximum Ride series of books as well as the City of Ember series. One of my favourite non-fiction book has to be The Meaning of Matthew, about the murder and the aftermath of Matthew Shepard.


I will always suggest John Green as an amazing author, I love his works!

[Bulbasaur]

I don't really read TOO much, but I like the Harry Potter series. I'm also finishing up the Hunger Games now.

[TheProtobabe]

The Shannara series by Terry Brooks, the Mercy Thompson series (forgot the author), Harry Potter, the Dresden Files, White Fang by Jack London, Chinese Cinderella (forgot the author), and quite a few others. I love books :P

[MuddyMudkip]

I thoroughly enjoyed going through these series: Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Divergent, Leviathan, Legend, Warriors, The Healing Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and Heroes of Olympus. The Fault In Our Stars is definitely one of my favorite books yet (but man, it hurt reading that one!)

[Fizz]

Divergent, Insurgent, Skulduggery Pleasant (all), The Fault in Our Stars, Catching Fire, A Game of Thrones and The Maleficent Seven are my favourite books. They're all so unique and wonderful in their own ways.

[3m0d0ll]

I can't remember what most of the books are callec, but I do remember middle school being the prime year for my reading. I read Paint the Wind (an amazingly written horse fiction novel), A Little Princess (also absolutely amazing), and another book about a girl with pale skin, bright red lips who could project her voice and make it sound like it was coming from far away. I remember this one part of it where she was in some sort of underground village trying to escape her pursuers. I wish I remembered it's name cos I'd LOVE to read it again. cx

[Elbub]

The Wasp Factory (R.I.P. Iain Banks), Lord of the Flies (William Golding), The Dinner (Herman Koch), The Woman in Black (Susan Hill)...

There's no depressingly Gothic (I'm talking about actual Gothic fiction; if you thought I meant anything else I SWEAR TO GOD-) theme here, what are you talking about?

Look, I can like nice books too.

Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)!

Um... Wait... No...

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)... The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)... The Shining (Stephen King)...

My bookcase isn't really helping me out here...

Oh look, the Harry Potter series! Yay!

And if I can be serious for a moment (which, I admit, is hard for me), I'd fully recommend every book I've just said. All fantastic, and all better than any film counterpart for them.

[FedoraChar]

I can't remember what most of the books are callec, but I do remember middle school being the prime year for my reading. I read Paint the Wind (an amazingly written horse fiction novel), A Little Princess (also absolutely amazing), and another book about a girl with pale skin, bright red lips who could project her voice and make it sound like it was coming from far away. I remember this one part of it where she was in some sort of underground village trying to escape her pursuers. I wish I remembered it's name cos I'd LOVE to read it again. cx

Oh! I think I know that book! Isn't it Fairest by Gail Carson Levine?



I absolutely love reading, and I've read so much that I'm not sure I could point out all the ones I've enjoyed xD However, I would definitely recommend Brandon Mull books to anyone looking for good fantasy reads :D His newest series--The Beyonders--is awesome x3

Currently I'm reading Tales of the Dragonbard: Eventide, and it's freakin' hilarious xD

[3m0d0ll]

Oh! I think I know that book! Isn't it Fairest by Gail Carson Levine?

YES! Omfg I love you so much right now like you can't even know.

Have you ever read Stephen King's Dark Tower books? They're perfect.

[[Desolate Divine]]

I gotta say my favourite is Hideaway from Dean Koontz. A psychopathic, satan worshipping serial killer returning from hell? I like it.

My other favourites are the Inheritence Cycle, Harry Potter, Tomorrow series and deltora quest.

[Wookie Mistake]

Gahhh too many to name for me, but the ones that I've been trying to keep current with are The Dresden Files, The Event Group, and Chess Team,

One of my favorite series was Jim Buther's Codex Alera, which he made on a bet:



"The inspiration for the series came from a bet Jim was challenged to by a member of the Delray Online Writer’s Workshop. The challenger bet that Jim could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and Jim countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger’s choosing. The “lame” ideas given were “Lost Roman Legion", and “Pokémon”."


While I don't think the ideas are lame, I'm glad the bet was made, one of the best fantasy series I've ever read

[Death's Spook]

Gahhh too many to name for me, but the ones that I've been trying to keep current with are The Dresden Files, The Event Group, and Chess Team,

One of my favorite series was Jim Buther's Codex Alera, which he made on a bet:




While I don't think the ideas are lame, I'm glad the bet was made, one of the best fantasy series I've ever read

YOU READ JIM TOO! FINALLY! *does ecstatic happy dance making everyone of him as bonkers*

I read Codex after getting hooked to the Dresden Files. Have you read all the way through Codex?

[Wookie Mistake]

YOU READ JIM TOO! FINALLY! *does ecstatic happy dance making everyone of him as bonkers*

I read Codex after getting hooked to the Dresden Files. Have you read all the way through Codex?


Yeah twice I think, loved the pacing of the book, and I thought the concept of Furies was pretty cool. I had caught up on the Dresden Files, and decided to read Furies of Calderon, and proceeded to finish the series in less than a month

[Death's Spook]

Yeah twice I think, loved the pacing of the book, and I thought the concept of Furies was pretty cool. I had caught up on the Dresden Files, and decided to read Furies of Calderon, and proceeded to finish the series in less than a month

Less than a month. Pfft. Week and a half (I'm a /fast/ reader).

Have you seem the videos of Jim reading the first few chapters of Skin Game yet?

[Wookie Mistake]

Less than a month. Pfft. Week and a half (I'm a /fast/ reader).

Have you seem the videos of Jim reading the first few chapters of Skin Game yet?

I might've been able to read them in that time frame, if I wasn't working, I went through the Dresden Files as fast as I could spend the money for the books, the same thing with some of the Event Group novels, I'd finish them in a day or two and move like a zombie through work. Have you read the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks? A pretty good read as well, it's a pretty dark story, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. The protagonist reminded me of Tavi a little bit.

Not yet, is that a new series he's writing?

[Death's Spook]

I might've been able to read them in that time frame, if I wasn't working, I went through the Dresden Files as fast as I could spend the money for the books, the same thing with some of the Event Group novels, I'd finish them in a day or two and move like a zombie through work. Have you read the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks? A pretty good read as well, it's a pretty dark story, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. The protagonist reminded me of Tavi a little bit.

Not yet, is that a new series he's writing?

Can't say I read it.

Nope. It's Book 15. He's also writing the Cinder Spires, which /is/ a new series.

[Poring]

I don't really have a favorite book of all-time, but one of my favorites I've read recently is Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

[Q for Quick]

Not to seem too fanboy or cliche, but I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I'd have to say my favorites are the short stories. I recently read Full Dark, No Stars and it's so good I'm about to read it again. It's not to read if you're not of age, and does contain foul language, but nothing too barbaric. I'm starting to pick up more short story books from him to read whenever the internet is down over here.

[Sanctus]

I don't read a lot of fiction. If anyone knows of any medieval knight like fiction that emphasizes politics, please make a recommendation.

I mostly read theology. I am about 60% done with "The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrim's on the Way" by Michael Horton and I'd say it's been my favorite book besides Scripture so far.

I want to start reading more philosophy, science, and history. I feel like I've wasted most of my life not reading good books. :/

[Zenith Avalon]

I have a lot of books I love, so here goes.....

- The Wayfarer Redemption series
- The Inheritance Cycle
- The Harry Potter Series
- All of the Warcraft/World of Warcraft novels (there's too many to list individually here, lol. too see a list of the books, go to this list on Wowpedia (http://wowpedia.org/Novel_guide))
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- The Castle in the Attic
- The Battle for the Castle
- The Cay
- The Giver (A very powerful story giving an example of what a government can do once it completely takes over every aspect of the citizens' lives)
- The White Fox