Books you love!

I think I'll check that one out, Squirt. I have seen her latest "Change Of Heart," is that right? Supposed to be good.

I'm member of a book club. You have to buy one book/cd/dvd every third month, but for that they are a lot of cheaper... I guess, I'll call them. But sometimes they have trouble finding this huge apartment building next to a hospital, where I live in, and I won't get any mails or packages...

I love the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell. And right now, I'm currently reading (and loving) Between the River and the Bridge (or vice versa since I don't have the book right in front of me) by Craig Ferguson. I absolutely adore anything by Nicholas Sparks too!

I am out of books to read! its a book emergency!

I am re-reading some of my favorite Koontz books now....

poor poor Riv...

I'm in the middle of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Spellbinding, that one.

I adore all Jane Austen novels...
Sense and Sensibility (my favorite)
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma

I also grew up loving Anne of Green Gables and the series there...

There are tons of books, short stories, and novels.

I love Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. It's a great book.

Why didn't I see this thread before??? (I just realized... because it was forgotten around midyear last year, lol)
oh, anywayz...

Nane wrote:I love the books from Gabriel Garcia Marques and Isabel Allende

I LOVE A Hundred Years of Solitude... And Isable Allende is interesting, though. She's chilean, just like me . Have you read Laura Esquivel?

PIMP wrote:Right now I'm re-reading The Clan Of The Cave Bear series, sometimes called The Earth's Children series, by Jean Auel. I love that series of books, for some reason.
The Stand is always a fav with me as well.
LOTR's right up there to.

love them both!! I can't wait to see if Auel is going to write another book in the series. I read the last one took 12 years to appear. I read them all last year and I was pretty obsessed with them...
and LOTR? read it many times as well! The 1st time I read them in English it took me like half the book to realize what Thy and Thee meant

For the last 4 years I read mostly for Uni (you wouldn't believe how much I have to read... then again, maybe you would but it IS a lot, OK?), so I just re-read my fav books when I want to relax and just get new books every once in a while.

One of those I love re-reading are the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It's a hitorical novel with a lovely romantic thing between the main characters. It's set in Scotland in 1745 (Clans times and revolution) AND 1945 (just after the WWII had been over), and then in -- not going to say in case someone decides to read them I fell in love with Scotland's history because of those books--they're funny, interesting, historically correct, sweet. They're some of the best books evah to me. I recommend them dearly to you!!!

Other books I can see from my desk are some Cam-like paperback novels, Roots by Alex Haley, A brave new world, some psychology-like books, a couple Deepak Chopra books, uhm... Little Prince, Ami: Child of the stars...

Tom Clancy is my favourite author of all time, closely followed by Clive Cussler and Bryce Courtney.

I have alot of other authors that I read as well as autobiographies.

Markus Zusak...awesome. Read I Am the Messenger and The Book Thief. Go. Now.
Right now, I'm reading the first required reading book in a long time that I would actually read again for pleasure. The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien.

The one and only required reading book I read was The Scarlet Pimpernel and I LOVED it!

squirtandmilo wrote:

Meegs82 wrote: Yeah, Jodi Piccoult has a lot of good books, but I haven't read any yet.

The Pact is really good, if not a bit depressing like My Sisters Keeper. That was the first one of her books I read.

I loved The Pact. I had emotions I didn't know existed. So angry and sad.
And My Sister's Keeper was amazing. I cried so hard in the end. Can't wait for the movie. Though I can't really see Cameron Diaz as Sara.
I also read Plain Truth which was good, but not as good as the former ones.

Did one of you read Evermore?

I read a lot of fiction stuff....

I like reading mystery novels... Harlan Coben is good... And of course Kathy Reichs...

I also like romance novels.... My favorite there is Nicolas Sparks

I haven't really loved books since Harry Potter. But I just finished a new favorite series of mine called The Mortal Instruments its by Cassandra Clare (got her start as a fanfiction writer) There are 3 and they are amazing

I love THe Luxe series. Its fiction. But its based around historic NYC. Real cool. Each chapter starts out with a quote or newspaper clip.

There are three books so far

everyone needs to read The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood... best book i have read in a while, and not massively depressing for the sake of 'drama'...

I just finished the book 'I'm the vampire, that's why'. That is a very good and really funny.

Also 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison is an amazing book... quite confusing at first but if you give it a chance it will blow you away...

I just finished 'Just like Heaven' by Barbara Bretton. it was a very good book, so romancey

Cathy Glass' books are amazing, but they're pretty heartbreaking.

Just finished re-reading the five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom..such a great read!

I'm kind of in a Jodi Picoult phase right now. It started with me having not read My Sister's Keeper and wanting to before I saw the movie. I'm reading Salem Falls right now, and so far it's pretty good.

I also read Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson, which in my opinion was good. The writing style is a bit different, but it provides a scary, even though it's fiction, picture into a young girl battling with the troubles of anorexia.

I'm planning on reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer as well, but after the first little bit I kind of stopped. I'm hoping it gets more interesting.

Aloemilk wrote:One of those I love re-reading are the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It's a hitorical novel with a lovely romantic thing between the main characters. It's set in Scotland in 1745 (Clans times and revolution) AND 1945 (just after the WWII had been over), and then in -- not going to say in case someone decides to read them I fell in love with Scotland's history because of those books--they're funny, interesting, historically correct, sweet. They're some of the best books evah to me. I recommend them dearly to you!!!

I love these books--the (good Lord!) 7th book, An Echo in the Bone, is due out this Sept in the US (dates vary on location). I wonder when I can put my name on the library list?
Jean Auel, well, I only care for a couple of hers. Whenever the 6th book comes out, I'll read it, but the last one was rather disappointing...

I read a lot of fantasy, myself:
Mercedes Lackey is tops. Her Valdemar, the elves, Diana Tregarde, 500 Kingdoms, Elemental Masters series...
Anne McCaffrey--Dragonriders of Pern mostly, but some of her sci-fi stuff is good.
Christopher Stasheff, who doesn't end up on many of these lists--his Warlock series.
David Eddings--Belgariad and Mallorean. Major epic with a light touch.
Katherine Kurtz--Deryni
Just to name a few.

I go a little old fashioned with my mystery--Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter is wonderful!

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown is a great read, but it's kinda against the Catholic Church. and also, The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown is great too. same warning for that book too.

the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is great also