Favorite Books?

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What are your favorite books?

PLEASE include author name and the genre of the book. A description of the book would be even better or a link, but isn't necessary.

I love finding out about new books.

My favorite author is Robert McCammon. As far as his books.... I'd start with Blue World, it's short stories and will give you a pretty good idea whether or not you like him.

Wild Roses by Deb Caletti. It's sort of romantic but not in the annoying shallow teenage way.

my favourite books, are Doctor Who, Doctor Who, and DOCTOR WHO!.

That and i read the odd, Supernatural Magazine....

I really like the book I'm currently reading, 'Good to Be God' by Tibor Fischer.
As the title most likely implies, it's about a man who tries to be God.
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The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer is a very well-written love story with some action and some paranormal. Well, lots of paranormal.

The Warriors series by Erin Hunter has cats and anthropisms. (I might have spelt that wrong.)

Eoin Colfer's books are all very cool. Mostly in the fantasy genre.

And I second peppicatred - I'm a massive Doctor Who fan.

The outsiders
to cacth a pirate
Twilight saga- stephanie meyer
Ways to live forever
Down river and river thunder

I'm currently reading the Warriors cat series by Erin Hunter. They are good books and well written. They show how hard life is for feral cats.

mockingbird by walter tevis
1984 if orwell had a heart. i really like the idea of rewriting a thing that's not that good and making it into something good. i don't mean to say that 1984 is a bad book, it's just too into its politics. tevis is so invested in his characters, it would be embarrassing were it not so beautifully written.

the bad place by dean koontz
koontz is a terrible writer no kidding, but i just think the way this book is constructed is so perfect in a way that only someone who has written like 80 books could manage. it's a total fluke, i guess is what i'm saying, and a totally engaging one.

american psycho and glamorama by bret easton ellis
i don't know how he does it, but bret ellis really has a way of writing where every sentence is like another up or down on the rollercoaster ride. in the five hours or whatever that it takes to read one of his book i really feel like i've been taken to a million and one different places.

americana by don delillo (or any of his books, for that matter)
delillo does what so little art does but is the very thing art should do - he expands our conciousness, and broadens our view of the world. reading delillo makes me aware of all these things in the world that i just couldn't see before because of my peripheral vision.

A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes

anything by Albert Camus

Les Particules Élémentaires (sorry not sure about the English title) by Michel Houellebecq

Underworld by Don DeLillo

The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth

The Beach by Alex Garland

anything by Haruki Murakami

and if anyone likes crime I seriously recommend Stieg Larssons trilogy (I think it recently came out in English), very, very good stuff!

I liked the Captain Underpants books by Dav Pikley, Blue Bottle Mystery, Of Mice and Aliens and Lice and the Lacemaker by Kathy Hoopmann, Adam's Alternative Sports Day and The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night time, both of which I can't remember the authors' names.

Mark Haddon wrote Curious Incident.

I want to read All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome.

thief of time

Eragon,Eldest,Brisingr(aka the Inheritance trilogy) by Christopher Paolini

I enjoy reading my mum's self help books that she buys. I'll never buy them though.
I just read 'Who Moved My Cheese', which is about dealing with change. There are two characters called Sniff and Scurry who realise when change is coming and move on, then there is Hem and Haw; these two don't realise change is coming and are upset by it. It's set in a maze and it about those characters looking for cheese. When the cheese runs out Hem and Haw think 'who moved my cheese', whereas Sniff and Scurry have already begun to look for more cheese when they saw that the cheese supply was running low.

There was also another book of hers called 'Who Switched Off My Brain' that helped me deal with anxiety, even if it was from a Christian perspective.

I enjoy books by J.R.R Tolkien, especially The Simarillion and of course Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I love The Harry Potter series and everything else J.K Rowling writes, especially The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I think I'd enjoy a shopping list written by J.K, lol. I also read the Alex Rider books. I enjoy reading Eoin Colfer's book too. I have Airman but would like to read Artemis Fowl.

Then there's my collection of political books such as Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, Fences and Windows by Naomi Klien, and books by John Pilger and Noam Chomsky. I have a lot of books about the Zapatistas and Paris May 1968, which at one time I was really obsessed about.

I don't have A favorite book, but I have a small collection of favorites (yes I even include comic books in there)

The Da Vinci Code
The Last Guardian
Watchmen
Batman: The Killing Joke
Rendezvous with Rama