*~Can't Stop Reading~* discussion

Hey all I thought it would be nice to get to know what all of our favorite books are!!

Where the Red Fern Grows
P.S. I Love You
Go Ask Alice
Charlotte's Web
The Count of Monte Cristo

Those are just a few...I will add more later!!!

Some of my favourites include:

Preludes and Nocturnes
The Princess Bride
The Mists of Avalon
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Happiness

ooo the The Princess Bride...I am almost ashamed to admit this.....but I didn't even know it was a book....tee hee!!
I absolutely LOVE the Movie!! And the ROUS's are pretty cool!!! If you haven't read it yet you will soon discover what ROUS's are!!!!

A small collection of my favourites...
Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Little Women, The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, City of Bones, Vampire Academy, Undead and Unwed, An Inspector Calls, The Book Thief, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Salt Road, Cassie Draws the Universe, Dracula........

SOOO have to add
One Day
The Book of Lost Things
Rebecca

Agree with One Day and Rebecca! Still have TBoLT on my bookshelf upstairs (I got last christmas as gift! :O)

I am fully agreed with Pride and Prejudice, Time Traveller's Wife, and Shopaholic series!!

My all time favorite book by far is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It is the one book I read every year.

I read P.S. I Love You and Where Rainbows end by the same author....Cecelia Ahern...I also readMessage in a Bottle every year

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

Gone with the Wind

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne

The Kite Runner

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

If I had to name a few

The Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Hunger Games
Rangers Apprentice
Revenge of the Witch and continuing series

My shelf has a strong mix of classics, YA and fantasy/sci-fi novels on it but I'm always reading books to find new inspiration and favourites.

atlas shrugged
earth children series by jean auel

My all time favorite books are:

1. Are you there god it's me margaret by Judy Blume
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The Harry Potter Series
5. The Time Traveler's Wife
6. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
7. Nora Roberts quite a few
8. The Deep End of the Ocean
9. Oh the Places We'll Go by Dr. Seuss
10. I Love you forever (it's a children's book forgot the author.)

The Power of One- Bryce Courtney
The Forgotten Garden-
The Kite Runner
The Book of Negros-Lawrence Hill

Some of my favourites include :') ;
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larrson
Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L James
Snowman - Jo Nesbo
ALL of the Harry Potter Books - J.K Rowling
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
P.S I Love You - Ceclia Ahern
The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston

Just some of the few I like ;D

Lucy wrote: "[bookcover:The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set: City of Bones City of Ashes City of Glass][bookcover:The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ri..."

Lucy, I love love love the Sevenwaters series! Such good books! Daughter of the Forest and Son of the Shadows are probably my favorites, but I love them all.

My other favorites are
Harry Potter
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Pride & Prejudice
The Princess Bride

The Giving Tree
East of Eden
The Color Purple
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Handmaid's Tale
The Exorcist
Twilight series
Lord of the Rings series
Georgia Nicolson series
...and so many others.

The Day of the Triffids is one of those books that I can read and re-read. Simply brilliant. Feels almost timeless, and a lot of what Wyndham wrote about in the book resonates today. Chilling.

Simon Clark did a sequel a few years ago which was, I'm glad to say, very good. The Night of the Triffids. Very much in the spirit of the original book.

I could make a very long list. I won't do that. I'm choosing those books that have never left my psyche and always come to mind as satisfying reads.
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
The Accident by Linwood Barclay
The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
Winter Solstice
The Law of SimilarsThe AccidentThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Thief of Always
Blessings
House of Sand and Fogby Andre Dubus III
and The Rug Merchant by Meg MullinsThe Rug Merchant

Miz wrote: "Some of my fiction favourites are :
Pride & Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Romeo & Juliet
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Notebook by N..."

oooh!you love classics! i admire people who love classics!! ^^

In Cold Blood
To Kill a Mockingbird
It
Pride and Prejudice

Here's some recent additions to my favorites:

1984
Fahrenheit 451

the gap series - Stephen donaldson
acid row - minette walters
unwind - Neil shusterman
the witches - roald dahl

My favorites are:

Memoirs of a Geisha
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
The Memoirs Of Cleopatra
To Kill a Mockingbird
Almost all of her books: Amy Tan

I have more favorites but these I try to read at least once a year. It's like visiting old friends.

Kappi wrote: "My favorites are:

Memoirs of a Geisha
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
The Memoirs Of Cleopatra
To Kill a Mockingbird
Almost all of her books: Amy Tan

I have more favorites but these I try t..."

I loved both book and movie of Memoirs of a Geisha. and ofcourse TKAM a must read for all!

I once tried to make a list of my top ten books but couldn't do it. Then I tried for 50 and again had problems so these days I just select a few each time I'm asked this question.

A word before the list. Because I read all types of books including childrens and young adults but seldom fantasy and science fiction my list may include some titles which may be surprising.

That said - my favorites are:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Temple of Gold by William Goldman
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Exodus by Leon Uris
The Source by James Michener
The Drifters by James Michener
Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Tuck Everlasting
Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Giver by Lois Lowery
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
Washington Square by Henry James
and my top fave

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The Diary of a Young Girl, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird are definitely up there for me too. I have Herman Wouk on my TBR LIST.

Oh my How couls I ever forget the following titles.

I Know this Much is True and The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
and Between Friends by Debbie Macomber

84, Charing Cross Road
Selected Writings by Truman Capote
Tales of the City

LOTR, ASOIAF, ancient classics etc :P

P.S.: Malazan book of the fallen is climbing ever higher :P

What is ASOIAF?

Nicolle, I think that ASOIAF refers to A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. But I could be wrong.

Now The Hobbit, then I will read something from John Grisham.

Tara Hamdi (Denmark)

Lauren wrote: "Nicolle, I think that ASOIAF refers to A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. But I could be wrong."

you're right, this time... :D

Oh right, I've always wanted to read that buit heard mixed reviews.

Nancy wrote: "I once tried to make a list of my top ten books but couldn't do it. Then I tried for 50 and again had problems so these days I just select a few each time I'm asked this question.

A word before..."


Series of unfortunate events is an amazing series of books! I loved them growing up i remember getting my parents to buy me the whole series cause i was totally in love with them! :D

Nicolle wrote: "Oh right, I've always wanted to read that buit heard mixed reviews."

on ASOIAF? well, it is not for everyone, also cos it is pretty tough read, very thorough and detailed... the characterization goes very deep, sometimes too deep for ppl's liking... you follow near every step of the chars... but I like all those books even AFFC and ADWD that are slower in pace

I'm not put off by other people, I like books which go into detail.

The Bible
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Scarlett Pimpernel
The Count of Monte Cristo
Discovery of Witches
Naked in Death
Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy
and many many more.

my all time favourite is the Harry Potter novels

Novellas
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
OF MICE AND MEN
HEART OF DARKNESS

they are just strong, intense, stories, creative wonders.

R.J. wrote: "Novellas
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

sounds brilliant...added it to my TBR

The Notebook
a thing beyond forever
the thing between you and me

All Dostoevsky,C. Bronte, Turgenev titles.
Portrait of a Lady, The way of all flesh, Moll Flanders, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Confessions of Rousseau, Steppenwolf.

And ofcourse Love in the time of Cholera!

My fav books TOTALLY depend on my mood :) But here's a few of them (and use these as recommendations too!)

The Tea Rose trilogy
The Bronze Horseman
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Still Missing
Before I Go To Sleep
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Nineteen Minutes
The Last Lecture

There are so many I have loved over the years.

Jane Eyre
Watership Down
The Stand by Stephen King
Harry Potter
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Night Circus is a new favourite

Miranda wrote: "My fav books TOTALLY depend on my mood :) But here's a few of them (and use these as recommendations too!)

The Tea Rose trilogy
The Bronze Horseman
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societ..."

I agree in a way. My favourites depend on when I read them. I have different books that are personally important to me for different reasons.

The Book Thief
PS I Love You
The Time Traveler's Wife
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Little Women
The Great Gatsby
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Snow Child
Forever Amber