Favorite books?

What are some books you recommend others to read?
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Since I'm more of a fantasy/science fiction person, I would recommend:
Merlin's Dragon (Author: T. A. Barron )
The Frog Princess (Author: E.D. Baker )
Eragon (Author: Christopher Paolini )
SwordBird (Author: NancyYiFan )

For Memoirs, I haven't read much, but I know one I can remember:
The October Sky (Author: Homer Hickham )

and The Omnivore's Dilemma (Author: Michael Pollan ) because it's informational and tells about our lifestyle and stuff.

I also have a bunch of books I can't recall. :P

I don't read books, I read comics and manga woot.
ive only read like 5 books before just cause.

I rarely read books the only ones i liked that Ive read are To kill a mockingbird, The outsiders, Great Expectations, uhm and i guess Series of Unfortunate Events. I read The Catcher in the Rye.... not that good in my opinion

the outsiders was pretty good, to kill a mockingbird had a decent story and such
just my opinion

My favorite genre (sub-genre really) is dystopian.

My favorite book and the one I would recommend the most is Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's just such an excellent book.

Other favorites are Oryx and Crake, The Year of The Flood, We, The Iron Heel. Another non-dystopian book that I found very interesting was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

But to be honest, I've liked almost every book I've read... so I just kinda mentioned the ones I've read lately.

Zeru just finished reading the Last Olympian, and completing the book series...
Yeah, I don't have any favourite books they are just okayish =p

Zeru wrote:

Zeru just finished reading the Last Olympian, and completing the book series...
Yeah, I don't have any favourite books they are just okayish =p

! that's a pretty popular book in my school. XD

Met: If you like Dystopian fiction, I also recommend:
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (when people don't value reading or education)
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (when genetics technology is available to enforce class-distinction)
Franz Kafka's The Trial (when the courts can charge, summon, and harass innocent people just to get them out of the way)
Robert Heinlein's The Door Into Summer (a corporation steals the creations of an inventor, and then blocks him from using his own works)
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (when women capable of bearing children become a scarce commodity - and are accordingly treated as property rather than people)

1984 definitely was one of the most awesome works of dystopian fiction, though.

On a more lighthearted note, I've enjoyed everything in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series; it pokes fun at every aspect of human society (religion, war, sexism, government, police, economics, witchcraft, philosophy, mythology, and just about anything else that people just take for granted), questioning and challenging everything in humourous ways, using allegory in nearly every case.

On my 'classics' shelf, I have:
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
several plays by William Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (I didn't care for the works that were published posthumously by his son Christopher - they lacked the polish that J.R.R. had, and were clearly not ready for publication at the time of his death)

Also in my collection:
Assorted titles by Richard Bach (most famous was Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but here were several others
Carl Sagan's Contact (there's a reason the movie wasn't made until after his death, completely inverting several key elements of the moral of the story - the book was a FAR better story)
Zecharia Sitchin's The Earth Chronicles series (I like how instead of drawing a 'wall' between the different disciplines of science, religion, mythology, and philosophy, he tries to reconcile them all together - even though some of his hypotheses seem a bit far-fetched, I admire him for the attempt, which no one else on either side of that 'wall' seems willing to do)
Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (While I don't fully agree with all of his points, it's definitely worth reading; he asks some important questions)
The C.S. Lewis Signature Classics collection (The strongest defence of Christian beliefs and philosophies of modern times)

I also recommend C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, which Hollywood still has not been able to do justice to, and probably never will - the books will always remain better. One caveat: I recommend reading them in the original order, rather than the new sequence that the publishers changed to in the 1990s. The Magician's Nephew, being the first book in the new sequence because it happens first in a chronological progression, contains a lot of massive spoilers that (imo) ruin the enjoyability of the other books. Originally it was the penultimate book - giving the 'secret' background just before The Last Battle. Further, The Horse and His Boy was a historical book found by the protagonists in The Silver Chair - and was originally placed in its proper sequence, following The Silver Chair where it was discovered, rather than sticking it between The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when it presumably happened.

Erin Hunter's Warriors series was a good read also, but it started to get a bit formulaic after awhile: face disaster, struggle through it, survive with massive suffering and loss, and before getting a chance to relax and enjoy their success, get tossed back to step one again. While the message may have been intended to be that one can overcome anything with perseverance and dedication, the continuous movement from one disaster and tragedy directly to the next is enough to make one wonder if it's even worth fighting in the first place - which is definitely NOT the intended message.

Anyway, that's my main bookshelves. I have others in storage that I probably haven't looked at in over a decade.

WHOAAA, slow down lol.
And Then There Were None was a good one too. (Agatha Christie) I had to do a report on it, lol.
Odd thing, Farenheit 451 is the movie my school is going to go to on Friday. Farenheit 451 is also a book my teacher is going to make us read, more like skim since we don't have alot of time.

I just remembered I liked that fantasy book with the talking rats and stuff
I dont remember the name though.

Well so far I am reading the Call of the Wild, and White Fang, both by the same authors.
Not bad so far...
Anyway what I am reading and liking a lot so far is Little Busters! (is not a book, is a VN)

myfantasy wrote:

I just remembered I liked that fantasy book with the talking rats and stuff
I dont remember the name though.

The Secret of NIMH?


...and Jack London was awesome, and seemed to have an obsession with the theme of freezing to death in the arctic. He wrote several short stories as well; most famous was probably "To Build a Fire".

nope it was something else.
@zeru : lol vn

Just read like pg 3 - 4 on farenheit 451. Confusing. A bit understandable. Lol.

I like the Percy Jackson series. All of them. Greek mythology with a modern/humorous twist.
Paolini's works are nice as well, though before my drastic vocabulary expansion, a lot of it left me with a confused expression.
My favorite books are the Ranger's Apprentice series.