Your favorite book?

God Don't Like Ugly By Mary Monroe

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Ah-maz-ing series.

So, I have a Creative Writing B.A. and took many literature classes, but besides a serious literary ones like Jane Eyre and short stories like The Story of an Hour and The Lottery, my favorite books are adventure and fantasy! Whoo! XD Haha, but as for the ones that made it to my heart first...

Sweet Valley High, Boxcar Kids, Animorphs, and Goosebumps. (And there are more.)

I will never be ashamed of my mystery/fantasy obsession. X3

Why would you be ashamed? LOL

Haha, so many people consider genre books not as smart as classical literature. But it's so much more fun.

I can see what you are saying. Actually, books like Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice bore me to tears. I have always been more into Sci-Fi or Fantasy.

I spent years telling people you wouldn't be interested in what I was reading. Now its popular. In High School though it was hard explaining to the male teacher that I as a girl would rather read A Tale of Two Cities or Catcher in the Rye than Jane Eyre, Great Expections or the Scarlet Letter.

FYI, to the person who started this thread thank you, I got so many ideas for more books.

I have so many favourites Jane Eyre being one of them but the first book that blew me away was Christine by Stephen King when i was 14 before that it was all Enid Blyton and Raold Dahl

The Bible

Catch 22!!

Holy smokes! Going through these books has reminded me of soooo many that are good. Ugh. Well, here goes...from the top of my head.

The Last Lion - Biography of Winston Churchill
Ender's Game (forgot about that...awesome book)
Dresden Files.
Of Mice and Men.
The Stand - Probably the best single SK book
The THree Investigoators series. Started my love of reading.

Ugh. Way too many to think of. Love this thread.

Sandman - Neil Gaiman

I so need to read this. I am reading Anansi Boys now, only 100 pages in and just love his style.

How did I forget Gaiman? Neverwhere! Amazing book.
And someone else mentioned Gabaldon's Outlander series. LOVE it, or at least the first few books. I petered out mid Drums of Autumn. Eventually I'll finish, but I could definitely just read the first book over and over. Aye, Sassenach.

The Mirror (1978) by Marlys Millhiser. A close second would be The Threshold (1984) by the same author.

Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.

I'm a big horror fan so Clive is on my list as well. I also like guys like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene...ect.

Brian Keene is so under rated!! Love him.

You have to love Dark Hollow! Strange, weird, creepy but awesome.

Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice


And Taltos by Anne Rice
And all of the Vampire Cronicles by Anne Rice

I like Anne Rice!!

The Shadow of the Wind was great.

My all time favorite book is the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Love it!!

I love reading and have a very wide range of tastes, anything from biographies to true crimes, murder mystery to chick lit, depending on my mood, but I suppose the first book to ever make a real impression on me was Wuthering Heights which I studied in school. Have read that so many times and even have a leather bound copy of the book and the original film on DVD

Mood definitely plays into my choice at the time.

I left out:

Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes
Janet Evanovich's books
Kathy Reich's Bones series

All mysteries, why did I forget them, because right now I am in the Scifi mood. I had been in a mystery mood these would have been first (well with Asimov and Anne Rice)

My first "grownup" book that I fell in love with (sometime in 6th or 7th grade) was Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Yes! Summer after 7th grade I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull and A Raisin in the Sun. both good

Then after 8th grade I read Their Eyes Were Watching God. Still love that book, not so much the movie.

Of course I also loved To Kill a Mocking Bird. Godfather. Great Gatsby...and I did fall in love with this little group of wizards and witches that went to Hogwarts. It's true.

There are a ton of "classics" that suck though. Anything Charles ****ens. I would rather poke my own eyeballs out than be forced to Read Great Expectations again.


eta: You have got to be kidding. It edited Charles last name.

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