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[Laurenx]

This section of the forum has very few topics and posts at the moment - surely people still read?!  I'm constantly reading something, I'm an avid reader and always have a book on the go.  Anyone else the same?!  

So what are everyone's favourite books?

I have so many favourites, but off the top of my head (and this is literally only a very rough list, compared to how many books I read!):

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin
The Earthsea Quartet - Ursula LeGuin
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
The Ninth Circle & Jasmyn - Alex Bell
Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate events - perhaps for kids but I still love them all

And basically a whole bunch of sci-fi and fantasy, and a whole lot of YA (guilty pleasure...)

Anyone else care to post some of their favourite books?  (And get this section of the forum going a little bit?!)

Edited by Laurenx, 29 June 2012 - 05:23 PM.

[Laurenx]

Nobody?!  

[WILLOW99]

Hey
I kinda stick with favouite authors:

Laurell K Hamilton
Kelley Armstrong
Charlaine Harris
Mary Janice Davidson
Carl Hiaasen
Sue Grafton
Sara Paretsky
Terry Pratchett
Kim Harrison
etc.

[Laurenx]

Oh cool   I try to read a variety of authors and genres, but if I like a particular book by one specific author I'll read all their other stuff straight after    I'm a fan of Charlaine Harris too, love the Sookie Stackhouse series.  Is Kelley Armstrong any good?  I have one book (The Summoning) which I was bought for xmas but I haven't had time to read it yet.

[WILLOW99]

The Summoning is one of her younger reader books but it's really good. you should get bitten and stolen. she likes to use a narrator in a book or two and then change to another character that you've met in previous books.

Did you know Charlaine is doing some signings in the uk shortly?

[Laurenx]

Oh right, cool    Teen fiction has suddenly become a guilty pleasure lol, but my friend bought it (she is 27 and she's only just read it ) and she wanted me to read it, she also bough me a book called Shiver which I haven't read, but I'm assuming it's the same genre...

I didn't know!  I'll have to look up where and when!  Thanks for the heads up  

Edited by Laurenx, 26 February 2010 - 12:33 PM.

[titch]

I love Anne Rice!!
Read the vampire chronicles loads of times!!!  
just re- reading The Queen of the Damned.

[touchthesky]

Twilight Saga.
Stephen King.
Jodi Picoult
breakfast at tiffany's

:)

[Laurenx]

I've read a couple of Jodi Picoult, and although they are well written, the ones I have read are just too sad for me!

[Becks]

I read all the time - I have so many books I sometimes can't remember which I've read and which I haven't

A few of my favourite authors are Harlan Coben, Mark Billingham, Nicholas Evans, Ruth Rendell and Bill Bryson.

[donna_a54]

I'm always reading aswell my favourites are:

Jodi Picoult - read most but my favourites are Nineteen minutes & The Pact
Garth Nix - sabriel series
James Patterson - these books are just easy reads but i would recommend When the wind blows and The lake house.
Stephenie Meyer - twilight series & The Host
Audrey Niffenger - Time travellers wife and Her fearful symmetry
Nicholas Evans

I'm looking at buying the True Blood series books but not 100% are they any good?  I haven't seen any of the series on tv i always like to read the books before i see the films / tv programmes.

[theblackrose]

Some of my favourites;

Handmaids tale - Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders - S.E Hinton
Watchers - Dean Koontz
Twilight saga
Anything by Charlaine Harris
Charlie Parker books - John Connolly

[titch]

theblackrose, on Mar 1 2010, 08:06 PM, said:

Some of my favourites;

Handmaids tale - Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders - S.E Hinton
Watchers - Dean Koontz
Twilight saga
Anything by Charlaine Harris
Charlie Parker books - John Connolly

I love The Outsiders!!  
Loved the film too!!!

[WILLOW99]

Laurenx, on Feb 26 2010, 12:32 PM, said:

Oh right, cool    Teen fiction has suddenly become a guilty pleasure lol, but my friend bought it (she is 27 and she's only just read it ) and she wanted me to read it, she also bough me a book called Shiver which I haven't read, but I'm assuming it's the same genre...

I didn't know!  I'll have to look up where and when!  Thanks for the heads up  

i love teen fiction and i'm 26 :)

donna_a54, on Mar 1 2010, 07:27 AM, said:

I'm always reading aswell my favourites are:

Jodi Picoult - read most but my favourites are Nineteen minutes & The Pact
Garth Nix - sabriel series
James Patterson - these books are just easy reads but i would recommend When the wind blows and The lake house.
Stephenie Meyer - twilight series & The Host
Audrey Niffenger - Time travellers wife and Her fearful symmetry
Nicholas Evans

I'm looking at buying the True Blood series books but not 100% are they any good?  I haven't seen any of the series on tv i always like to read the books before i see the films / tv programmes.

i prefer the true blood books to the series. think it has more humour in book form whereas the series is trying to play with the horror/adult aspect a lot more

[Laurenx]

From what I have read of the True Blood book series (which is the first two and half of the third) I do prefer the books.  The show is really good, but it takes on a different angle.  Although, I personally think that a plus with the show is that is embraces the other characters a bit more and you see their side and their story more than in the books.

[hermycullen]

My favourites are (in no paticular order):

Stephenie Meyer-Twilight Saga and The Host
Louise Rennison-Confessions of Georgia Nicholson
Charlaine Harris-True Blood
Richelle Mead-Vampire Acedemy
JK Rowling-Harry Potter series

[Im-A-Future-Wombat]

My Favourite authors have to be
Terry Prachett
Patrick Ness
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë for Wuthering Heights and her poetry
and finally Harper Lee because To Kill A Mocking Bird was amazing

[Malle Oz]

Love these:

Stephenie Meyer - The Twilight Saga and The Host
James Ellroy - L.A. Confidential
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons
Anne Tyler - A Slipping Down Life

[shortstuff]

Tend to stick to the same authors, although I do read one offs.  I generally tend to have more than one book on the go at a time.

Terry Pratchett (not just Discworld)
Brian Lumley (Just finished Necroscope, currently reading the House of Doors)
Laurell K Hamilton (currently re-reading The Harlequin)
Tanya Huff
Jim Butcher
... to name but a few.
Plus general genre stuff, like the Dragonlance series, various horror authors (King, Herbert, Stoker, Lovecraft, Poe, etc.), The Belgariad by David Eddings, Roald Dahl is still always good, CS Lewis ...

But my all time favourite book has got to be The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

I think I own more books than DVDs and CDs combined...

[symphony]

Twilight Saga & The Host - Stephanie Meyer

The Rescue, The Last Song, Dear John - Nicholas Sparks

they're the ones that spring to mind :)

Also love Melissa Hill, Patricia Scanlan, Sheila O'Flanagan, Cecilia Aherne, Nicholas Evans :)