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Jan 19, 2012 02:48am
What are your favourite books? Feel free to create as long a list as you'd like to!
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These are all of the books from my top-rated shelf (I've left out some of the more childish ones like 'Madeline' and 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas') and are in no particular order:- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams - Sylvia Plath
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
- Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
- Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
- The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Collected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
- The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
- The Winter Book - Tove Jansson
- Travelling Light - Tove Jansson
- Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
- My Friend Leonard - James Frey
- The War Poems - Wilfred Owen
- The War Poems - John McCrae
- The Liar - Stephen Fry
- The True Deceiver - Tove Jansson
- The Moomin books - Tove Jansson
- If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
- No and Me - Delphine de Vigan
- About a Boy - Nick Hornby
- Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
- The Giant's House - Elizabeth McCracken
- The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
- Naive. Super - Erlend Loe
- Restless - William Boyd
- QI books
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Making History - Stephen Fry
- The Collected Works - Oscar Wilde
- The Orange Girl - Jostein Gaarder
- Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
- Emotionally Weird/When Will There Be Good News?/Behind the Scenes at the Museum/One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
- The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
I have a special shelf for the books that just took my breath away and deserve a gold star. Now, there are only 4 books on that shelf:- The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
EDIT: I'm taking Mists of my list, it's not in the same category as the other 3.
I must read The City of Dreaming Books and Water for Elephants! I will certainly be buying them once I've read a few more of my to-read books. I think The Night Circus may be joining my top-rated shelf soon!
The City of Dreaming Books is just amazing! All of his books are great, but City has books in it. A lot of books! A whole city especially for books!
Long list, something like your Kirsty.I shold think a little about it. Just to start:
Pride and Prejudice
Middlemarch
Vanity Fair
The Woman in White
The Warden
And some more recent...
Invisible Man
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Agony and the Ecstasy
but so many more ...
Hurrah to see TKAM on your list, Laura! I have 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' upstairs and can't wait to read it!
I've made it read to my daughter as well and she liked it - or so she said!!!TKAM is a book I had read in my teens, and over and over again in different periods of my life
Watership Down by Richard AdamsThe Peppermint Pig by Nina Bawden
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Colour Purple by Alive Walker
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Laura, I Clare, I love Jane Eyre, The Bell Jar and I Capture the Castle, and I really liked The Magic Toyshop. Great list!
I like a bit of everything! There is a lot on your list that I really want to read but haven't quite got to yet, like Middlemarch, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Woman in White, Invisible Man (one of my husband's favourites). I Love To Kill A Mockingbird too.
Some of my most favourite books are:The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
The Secret Years by Judith Lennox
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron
My goal this year is to explore more of the classics.
a few of my favourites (now i have even more "to read" books thanks to reading the above lists!):)The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Possession - A.S Byatt
The Empty Family - Colm Toibin
How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall
Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
Andrea, I LOVE A Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius is one of my favourite literary characters. I have recommended it to many people.
*Groan* I can see my "to read" list exploding, being on this group :)Andi - I bought a copy of Possession from the Salvos the other day. Looking forward to reading it.
Andrea, how is the Children's book? I keep hearing that A.S. Byatt is pretty dense and maybe difficult to get into, what did you think of The Children's Book?
I liked it a lot Maryann, much better than Possession. It maybe a bit dense, but I have to admit that I like that historical period, and I come from a family that can, somehow, recall that described in the book: magmaticus, confusing, close, also castrating, if you see what I mean. Of course we didn't have the WW1
I haven't read The Children's book yet, I think Kirsty's review put me off haha...but maybe I will try it. Possession is hard going, but worth it in my opinion :) Sue good luck! ;)
Sorry Andrea! I just found that The Children's Book contained far too many characters and became very confusing as a result. I'm tempted to try another novel of Byatt's in the future, however.
I figure this will make for as good an introduction as any.Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Every Eye
The Stone Diaries
Housekeeping
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Tinkers
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Observatory Mansions
Mrs. Dalloway
Between the Acts
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
I Capture the Castle
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Dolls' House
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
Sarah, you're the first person I've met that has also read We Have Always Lived in the Castle! It's one of my very favourites too.And I loved The Dolls' House when I was a child, well actually I still do.
Well, I only discovered The Dolls' House, recently! It's children's lit, but I like to think it's highbrow children's lit. Tottie being a sort of miniature Dorothea Brooke. =bEdited to add: Oh, sorry. You just said above that you haven't read Middlemarch! Never mind.
Sarah wrote: "Well, I only discovered The Dolls' House, recently! It's children's lit, but I like to think it's highbrow children's lit. Tottie being a sort of miniature Dorothea Brooke. =bEdited to add: Oh, s..."
Haha! No but now I'm looking forward to it even more.
Girl interrupted, to kill a mockingbird, one flew over the cuckoo's nest,confederacy of dunces, war and peace, the lovely bones, alice in wonderland, wizard of Oz. I could go on for a bit
Jamesdean wrote: "Girl interrupted, to kill a mockingbird, one flew over the cuckoo's nest,confederacy of dunces, war and peace, the lovely bones, alice in wonderland, wizard of Oz. I could go on for a bit"Great list, Jamesdean! To Kill a Mockingbird is my absolute favourite and I love Alice in Wonderland.
I love reading lists of people's favorite books. :)This is a list of 100 books I've loved from childhood through the end of last year. It is, obviously, a very condensed list! And though I might not still love these books if I were to read them again today, I loved them at the time and, I think, provide somewhat of a glimpse of my life as a reader.
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Art of Disappearing by Ivy Pochoda
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Cloven Hooves by Megan Lindholm
Collages by Anaïs Nin
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot
Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Diary of Trilby Frost by Dianne Glaser
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
God’s Snake by Irini Spanidou
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gypsy from Nowhere by Sharon Wagner
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
House of Incest by Anaïs Nin
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley
In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn
Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner
Indigo series by Louise Cooper
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
It by Stephen King
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Mayra by Joyce Carol Oats
Moonheart by Charles de Lint
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Spirit Walk by Charles de Lint
The Stand by Stephen King
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
The Stone Garden by Mary Rosenblum
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Strands series by Gael Baudino
A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
The Sunflower Forest by Torey Hayden
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Trixie Belden books by Julie Campbell
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L’Engle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Ulysses by James Joyce
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
What an absolutely wonderful list! I'm so glad to see To Kill a Mockingbird on your list too. I can tell there are a lot of books from your list that I'll be adding to my to-read list.
Her Royal Orangeness wrote: "I love reading lists of people's favorite books. :)This is a list of 100 books I've loved from childhood through the end of last year. It is, obviously, a very condensed list! And though I might ..."
What a great list, I'll have to print this out as a reference guide to some of these books I have not read.
Did you really LIKED Ulysses Her Royal Orangeness? I can't belive it!!! Some other books are also my favourite, but I have to admit that I've never thought of writing down my favourite 100. I'll have to think about it ...
Wow, what a list, I, too, will add some of those to my very long " to read " list :)). Nice to see How To Paint A Dead Man in your top 100, Sarah Hall is a great writer.
LauraT wrote: "Did you really LIKED Ulysses Her Royal Orangeness? I can't belive it!!!"You have to understand my appreciation of Ulysses in context. It was my topic for my senior thesis, in high school, so that involved about 6 months of very intense research and analysis...so I got a lot out of it. Plus my reading of it is all tied up with awesome senior year memories, so that gives it a special charm. :)
Andrea wrote: "Nice to see How To Paint A Dead Man in your top 100, Sarah Hall is a great writer."
Indeed she is. I'm surprised she's not more recognized, since she's been nominated for some of the big literary prizes - the Booker and the Orange.
Sasha Elle wrote: The City of Dreaming Books is just amazing! All of his books are great, but City has books in it. A lot of books! A whole city especially for books!
This one I must add to my TBR list!
Fight Club - Chuck PalahniukCrash - J.G. Ballard
Marvellous Hairy - Mark A Rayner
Pirate Therapy and Other Cures - Mark A Rayner
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
All the Harry Potter books.. of course. :)
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Trainspotting - Irving Welsh
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
My favorites are:1984
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Frankenstein
The Glass Castle
The Awakening
These books are all fairly mainstream so I didn't see the point in including the authors' names (:
Kirsty wrote: "What are your favourite books? Feel free to create as long a list as you'd like to!"these are my top fav book for now:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Dark Prince
Dark Desire
Dark Guardian
Dark Challenge
Dark Demon
Dark Celebration
Dark Curse
Dark Slayer
The Magicians' Guild
The Magician's Apprentice
The Ambassador's Mission
The Rogue
The Traitor Queen
Pride and Prejudice
Dracula
Wuthering Heights
The Jungle
The Fountainhead
The Pillars of the Earth
World Without End
Fall of Giants
The Key to Rebecca
Eye of the Needle
Anna Karenina
Oliver Twist
A Hunger Like No Other
No Rest for the Wicked
Wicked Deeds on a Winter's NightDark Desires After Dusk
Dark Needs at Night's Edge
Demon from the Dark
Pleasure of a Dark Prince
Kiss of a Demon King
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
The Awakening
The Giver
Marked
Personal Demons
Original Sin
Evernight
Strange Angels
Betrayals
Jealousy
Defiance
Reckoning
Interview With the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The Darkest PassionIntertwined
The Iron King
The Iron Daughter
The Iron Queen
Wicked Lovely
Fragile Eternity
The Riddles of Epsilon
Thirst No. 1
Remember Me
Night World, No. 2
My Soul to Take
Night Embrace
Yuki wrote: "Kirsty wrote: "What are your favourite books? Feel free to create as long a list as you'd like to!"these are my top fav book for now:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Dark Prince
Dark Desire
Dark Guar..."
You must really enjoy reading about magic/the supernatural (:
These are a few of my favourite books: ;]- Jane Eyre
- Gone with the Wind
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Pride and Prejudice
- Secret Garden
- Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
- Heidi
- Black beauty
- Audrey Hepburn Enchanted tales
I absolutely love Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and The Secret Garden. What a wonderful list of books! I might finally get around to reading The Count of Monte Cristo now.
A few of my favorite books :) -The Lost Art of Keeping secret - Eva Rice
If You Could See Me Now - Cecelia Ahern
Hush Hush - Becca Fitzgerald
Finding Monsieur Right - Muriel Zagha
Beastly - Alex Flinn
Obviously Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Twilight but I'm sure everybody's heard of those..
Currently reading I am number four by Pittacus Lore and it's pretty good! Just isn't as descriptive as other books I've read..
I always find it hard when thinking about my favourite books. Harry Potter is probably there due to it's sheer re-readability and the fact I grew up with it reading the first book aged 11!Other than that my list includes (in no particular order)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird As many have said. Read for school, re-read since. Need to re-read again
2. The Lord of the Rings Just finished it. Wish I'd read it before. AMAZING
3. Half of a Yellow Sun Words cannot describe how beautiful this book is. I read it whilst travelling in West Africa and the imagery was incredible
4.Ship of Magic This and the rest of the series were such an enjoyable read I had to include it
5. Dracula Awesome story and fascinating to see the history of the now widely abused vampire genre
As I'm writing I can think of loads more I could add but these books have introduced me to genres or stuck in my mind at and all warrant future re-reads
Kirsty wrote: "I absolutely love Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and The Secret Garden. What a wonderful list of books! I might finally get around to reading The Count of Monte Cristo now."Thanks Kirsty! ^^ The Count of Monte Cristo is an remarkable book! I was really amazed by its twists and turns. Ejoy reading! ;]
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten BoomThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church by Philip Yancey
Nicole, Ive been thinking about reading The Good Earth for a while now, glad to see it on your favourite books list :) I also really enjoyed The Kite Runner & The Shadow of the Wind
Heather, I'm so pleased to see To Kill a Mockingbird on your list! I really enjoyed Dracula and I can't wait to read Half of a Yellow Sun after really enjoying Purple Hibiscus.Thanks May!
Nicole, I absolutely love The Kite Runner, and quite a few of your favourites are on my to-read list.
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