BOOKS

[ToyStoryMiss]

My favorite things in the world, books. I love reading so much, since I read everyday.
I have multiple favorites, but in series favorites they're Harry Potter (of course), Hunger Games, Twilight (yeah..I went through the "I hate Twilight" phase last year and sold me twilight books )
and I have yet to read Lord of the Rings. My favorite book would probably be The Fault in Our Stars, which I am currently reading for the first time. IT'S SO GOOD. LIKE SERIOUSLY. GET IT AND LOVE IT.

Which book(s) is/are your favorite(s)? Let me knowwww

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I love the Hunger Games. Love love love them. Not a fan of the movie, but love the books. I like Nicholas Sparks and Meg Cabot. I've been reading more nonfiction lately, though thanks to the frequency of my migraines, I've been reading for recreation a lot less.

 

[Shere_Khan]

Life of Pi.
I read it years before there was talk of a movie. It is a life changing book.

The movie was great, but man, that book is amazing!

 

[lazyboy97o]

I'm more of a nonfiction person. Currently reading Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

 

[PUSH]

The Kite Runner is a very good book, but it's very graphic and disturbing at times.

 

[trr1]

I like the Little britches series by Ralph moody and also the Mushroom Planet series by Eleanor Cameron I always thought that they should be made into movies and i like the Harry potter books

 

[DDuckFan130]

Love Sue Grafton.

Love the Dan Brown Robert Langdon series. I just finished Inferno which was good.

Right now I'm reading Khaled Hosseini's latest and it's good so far. Just a bit all over the place.

I am also a fan of many Pride and Prejudice fan fiction, especially sequels and modernized versions.

I also went through a phase where I was reading nonfiction related to Hollywood, including a Judy Garland bio, a book about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's romance, and others.

Oh and in reference to the OP I also love the Hunger games trilogy and the HP series, and have no interest in Twilight lol

 

[joanna71985]

I'll read just about anything. My favorite series include Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Kingdom Keepers, and mysteries by Mary Higgins Clark

 

[acishere]

I loved American Gods and Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I have his new book waiting on my iPad for me to read and can't wait. Right now though I'm on The Girl Who Played With Fire since it was the 1st paperback I could find in my house to take to the beach that I didn't read.

I downloaded a collection of the Sherlock Homes stories for free on Amazon and they are really useful in waiting rooms when all you need is a short story. It might become my way to pass the time in line at Disney when I update to a phone with a decent Kindle app.

Listen to the Life of Pi suggestion above. If you didn't see the movie, read the book first. You need to picture the story in your own mind, not how you see it in the movie. My friend took my copy to India and I better get it back...

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, LOTR, Xanth series, Dragonlance series, The Belgariad series, Wheel of Time series, Shannara series, Mistwraith series, Brother Cadfael, anything fantasy. I started collecting fantasy novels when I was five. One of the conditions I had when we bought our home was I wanted to have a room for my personal library. I have quite nicely filled one bookshelved room, wall to wall, floor to ceiling, with about a thousand fantasy novels, all of which I have read. I understand your love of books. I can't go to sleep without reading but some nights I find myself saying one more chapter, well one more chapter, okay one more chapter..dang, the sun is coming up!

 

[ToyStoryMiss]

I'll read just about anything. My favorite series include Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Kingdom Keepers, and mysteries by Mary Higgins Clark

KINGDOM KEEPERSSSS

 

[The Mom]

If you like mysteries AND historical fiction, you might enjoy the Gordianus the Finder series by Steven Saylor. Saylor is a historian specializing in ancient Rome, so the background is factual, and the characters (except for the main one and his family) actually existed. A very informative look at day to day Roman life at the turn of the first millennium.

 

[Zman-ks]

Life of Pi.
I read it years before there was talk of a movie. It is a life changing book.

The movie was great, but man, that book is amazing!

Really didn't think I would like Life of Pi, but absolutely loved it.

 

[Shere_Khan]

Really didn't think I would like Life of Pi, but absolutely loved it.

If I remember correctly the beginning was a bit slow and I contemplated stopping but once he was shipwrecked it was so amazing I read for like 8 hours straight!

 

[Darth Tater]

With Malice Toward None: A Life Of Abraham Lincoln -by Stephen B. Oates.

 

[englanddg]

The Source - James A. Michener
Hawaii - James A. Michener
Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein

Oh, the list could go on for a while...

 

[dave&di]

I adore OWNING books ...... I mean well, I have books on nearly everything, all different parts of history, I have several book cabinets and occasionally I look and see books I never knew I had! It's like buying a book all over again! I love big shiny hardbacks! All my books are pristine. Once I watched a programme that mentioned Nazi occupied Jersey and said to my OH that I would love a book about it to which he said I had, there on a book shelf was a book all about it!

My problem is I start a book and then see another book and start that one instead! I have about 6 books at the moment that I keep dipping into! It's actually quite frustrating!

Regarding novels, I enjoy Patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta books, I also used to read Dean Koontz. I don't really read any other authors. I mainly go for factual books.

 

[luv]

I have so many books sitting around that I want to read. Like my grandmother and mother before me, I fear I will die with a big stack of books I hadn't "gotten to" yet, lol.

"The Good Earth" is always the book I recommend to people when they ask. It's a wonderful book.

 

[Nemo14]

I gave my husband 3 of Doris Kearns Goodwin's books for Christmas, and they're on my list to read when he finishes them. Other than that, the last thing I read was Ron Miles' book about Ben.

 

[Tiggerish]

Each of the last three years, my summer project has been reading the entire Harry Potter series from start to finish. I love those books; I'm not sure I even saw all the movies, because they had to leave out so much of the story.

I would like to read the Hunger Games books (won't see the movies until I have read them)

I read the Shannara books years and years ago--my husband (boyfriend at the time) had bought the first one for himself, and I borrowed it. To this day, I don't think he's ever read it, or any of the ones that followed.

Read and loved the Hobbit & LOTR back in high school, re-read them every few years. Those movies were so well done, I'm not sure I will ever need to go to the books again.

If I want to laugh out loud, I reach for the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

I will confess, though, that my addiction is to historical fiction, better known as "trashy books". Julia Quinn, Mary Jo Putney, Victoria Alexander, Amanda Quick (the early ones, not the more recent Arcane series). Also a fan of the "chick lit" of Sophie Kinsella, although oddly I don't care for her writings under her real name, Madeleine Wickham.

I took one of the spare bedrooms in the house and made a library out of it (thanks to IKEA for making tall narrow bookcases!) because both my husband and I are big readers. Since the price of books, both hardcover and paperback, have gotten crazy over the last few years, I find it's hard to take a chance on a new author. When I really enjoy a story, though, I can go back and re-read it over and over again (and I often do!)