Category: book Nook
Hi, as many of you know, I'm a book junkie. I thought it would be
interesting to find out what books you enjoy, the ones that influenced you
or touched you in a special way. Take some time and give me your top 5 to
10 favorite books. Books you may have read as a child, during a rough time
in your life, any that really made an impact on you. I am always looking
for new books to read, by new I mean, ones I haven't read yet.
thanks,
Carla
Lord Of The Rings J.R.R Tolkien.Under The Skin Michel Faber.
Climbing Omnibus Kurt Dimberger. K2 The Svage Mountain Dr.Charles Houston.Tale of the Body Thief Anne Rice.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling. A Golden Age, The Autobiography of Sir Steve Redgrave and, Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby.
It's probably just me, but I do tend to like various sporting autobiographies, of people who have acomplished great things or overcome huge odds. I find them quite inspiring. I'm also addicted to the Harry Potter books, cos they are very well written, and act on a kids and more adult level. Which too is the case with Animal Farm. Fever Pitch is great, I'm an avid Arsenal supporter, so I can relate to that book on many levels. And if you like any sort of crime fiction, then you have to check out Karin Slaughter, as her crime novels are my latest addiction, and I'd recommend them to anyone :).
arry potter and the chamber of secrets, oliver twist, the railway children, james and the giant peach, and a series of unfortunate events book 4: the miserable mill
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck). The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway). The World According to Garp (John Irving). To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee).
The education of Little Tree by Forest Carter
Pride and Prejudice, (I know, my originality astounds even me)
The nightengale and the Rose, and, The happy prince, Oscar Wilde, (not a book in themselves, but I love them so.)
The Rubaiyat, Omar Kaiam.
Cloudstreet, Tim Winton.
Watership Doun, I don't even know who wrote it, but it's such an enchanting, wonderful thing.
Resonant. it was Richard Adams curiosity gives one a terrible itch.smile
Thanks. It's one of those things from childhood that hangs around in the back of the mind, like a comforting hum, so that you never think about it until someone asks, and then realise that you can't really define it and don't really know much about it.... but thanks for looking it up. *smiles*
the outsiders, to kill a mockingbird, the horse whisperer, Mankind! Have a nice Day! by mick Foley, Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, Foley is good: and the real world is faker than wrestling by the same author, Watership Down, little women, Word of honor by nelson Demille he is my latest fave if you like books that are similar to tom clancy, The Client by John Grisham, and les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
Enjoy and happy reading,
Xena
Hi again,
Okay now i knwo it only says five but i forgot two because i didnt remember the authors names.
Summer of my german soldier which is by Bette Greene, and the hatchet series by gary paulsen plus the narnia series to.
Well, 5 is just a number, I can't even keep it to 5. Here are a few of mine....
These aren't in any numerical order. I guess I'd do better listing my top
10 authors.
I just can't put a number on these, and it's hard to narrow it down to just
10.
The James herriot series, All creatures great and small, etc...
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber,
Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross and the latest I've yet to read, A
Breath of Snow and Ashes.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Kings Oak by Ann Rivers Siddons, actually anything by her
The Magician's assistant by Ann Patchett
Storyville by Lois Battle
An excess of love by Cathy Cash Spellman
anything by Sharon Kay Penman
Welcome to the world Baby girl and Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
anything by Wilbur Smith
These aren't in any numerical order. I guess I'd do better listing my top
10 authors.
I just can't put a number on these, and it's hard to narrow it down to just
10.
The James herriot series, All creatures great and small, etc...
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber,
Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross and the latest I've yet to read, A
Breath of Snow and Ashes.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Kings Oak by Ann Rivers Siddons, actually anything by her
The Magician's assistant by Ann Patchett
Storyville by Lois Battle
An excess of love by Cathy Cash Spellman
anything by Sharon Kay Penman
Welcome to the world Baby girl and Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
anything by Wilbur Smith
Okay, I'll have to stop here
Carla
These aren't in any numerical order. I guess I'd do better listing my top
10 authors.
I just can't put a number on these, and it's hard to narrow it down to just
10.
The James herriot series, All creatures great and small, etc...
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber,
Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross and the latest I've yet to read, A
Breath of Snow and Ashes.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Kings Oak by Ann Rivers Siddons, actually anything by her
The Magician's assistant by Ann Patchett
Storyville by Lois Battle
An excess of love by Cathy Cash Spellman
anything by Sharon Kay Penman
Welcome to the world Baby girl and Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
anything by Wilbur Smith
Okay, I'll have to stop here
Carla
Okay, I'll have to stop here
Carla
well I don't know how that happened to that post, so sorry. strange.
Carla
It was a pleasure as I was curious, good thing I'm not a cat..smile
oh my i have some reading to do thanks for the sugestions as for mine i am just going to do authors and a few titles cause I either cant remember the author or i cant remember titles.. june masters bacher, the outsiders, mary higgons clark, sandra brown's invy and send no flowers and whats the other one i read the crush i think, some of the star trek series
I've read quite a few good books... even lately.
"Wish you Well" by David Baldacci (It's kind of an inspirational story); "The Innocent" by Harlan Coben (terrific suspense novel); "The Blue Bottle Club" by Penelope J. Stokes (I'm scanning it so if anyone wants this inspirational novel, let me know); "The Center of Everything" by Laura Moriarty (It's a chick book, but not overly so); The Left Behind Series by Tim lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins; I'm also REALLY getting into this series by Stephen White (He writes psychological suspense).
I hope these recomendations help.
Eek. I don't know if I can keep it to 10.
1. The Dragonlance Series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
2. the Harry Potter series
3. The Narnia series
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (I just finished this book and I'm absolutely addicted to it.)
5. The Deathgate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Can you tell I'm an eentsy bit into Weis and Hickman?)
6. Catcher In the Rye by J. D. Salinger
7. The Belljar (and all her poems) by Sylvia Plath
8. Girl Interrupted by Susan Chasen (As a therapist in training, I always like to get alternative views of mental health, especially first hand.)
9. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
10 Mrs. Frizby and the Rats of Nimh
Since I'm super compliant, the list stays at ten.
first to die james patterson, project girl janet mcdonald, to kill a mockingbird mya angelo, jane air don't know the author, and that was then this is now don't know the author of that one either.
hmmmmm, The Sirens Of tytan by Kirt vonnigutt jr
Small Gods by terry pratchett
The inviseble man by H.G Wells
1984 by george orwell
The hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy trillagy by douglas adams.
kissing doorknobs, speak, Of Mice and men, forever, Time to let go, beachhouse, thinner
1 Atlas Shrugged
2 The Voice Of Reason
3 fountainhead
4 How To Win Friends and influence people
5 Sherlock Holmes
1984 by George Orwell
The "Little House" series by Laura Ingles Wilder
All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
My sister's Keeper, Keeping Faith, The Pact, Nineteen MInutes, change of heart, Perfect Match (all by Jodie Picoult)
The chamber by John Grisham
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
All he ever wanted by Anita Shreve
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Infidel by Ayen Hersey Ali
The God Delusion by Richard dawkins
I know this Much is True by wally Lam
She's come undone by wally Lam
The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Husseini
A confederacy of Dunces by John Kenedy Toole
One Child by Torey Hayden
---and seriously, I could go on forever.
1. A wrinkle in time: time quartet, book one
2. Heir to the shadows: book two of the dark jewels trilogy
3. Queen of the Darkness: book three of the dark Jewls trilogy
4. Daughter of the blood: book one of the dark jewels trilogy
5. Dreams made flesh, companion piece to the dark jewels trilogy
6. A wind in the door: time quartet book 2
Twilight series, Vampire chronicles series, Alex cross series, womens murder club series, HP series, Sylvia Browne, Pendergast series, Jonathan Kellerman mainly his Alex Delaware books, and HP series!
I enjoy reading just about anything. I like classical books with complex characters. I like reading documentaries, autobiographies, philosophical books, facts and fiction, poetry, and short stories.
My top ten would be:
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
3. Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things that Matter by Hal Urban
4. Girl with a Pearl Earing by Tracy Chevalier
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. Why We Teach by Sonia Nieto
7. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
10. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
I'll do more then five here
1 Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand
2 The Voice Of Reason Ayn Rand Lenoard Peikoff
3 fountainhead Ayn Rand
4 How To Win Friends and influence people Dale Carnegie
5 Sherlock Holmes (ACD) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6 The Glory And The Dream (william Manchester
7 A World Lit Only By fire William Manchester
8 Molly series Barbara Cohen
9 Fairtax book congressman John Linder and Neil
Boortz
hmm, okay
the harry potter series
all the lemony snicket series
oliver twist
charlee and the chocolate factory
and...
the darran shan saga
1. Anything from the Misses Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown.
2. Anything involving Coco & YumYum Jim Quilern's cats by Lilian Braun.
3. All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque.
4. The Garfield books that have been done by Jim Davis.
5. Whinney The Pooh.
6. Honorable mention: Other such children's books!
What can I say? I'm a kid at heart. Lol.
Hi, hmm, I think my top five are 1.
hlen keller
2. jane Eyre.
3. it by Steven King that isn't my favorite book but it still is with me to this day.
4. i can't remember the name of the book but the author is Jim Lovell and its about Apolo 13.
and right now I can only think of 4 grin
Lelia
Honestly, I'd have to say anything by Tim Winton, Bryce Courtney, or Dianne Morrisey.
If you enjoy historical fiction, you'll also like the People of the Earth Series by Kathleen O'Neal and Michael W Gear. Geoffery is also another of my favourite authors.