If there IS still anyone who needs a good book, I would recommend Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling.  It is TERRIFIC!!!!!

-Oaklynn

I LOVE fantasy books. These are some of my favourites (not necessarily in order):

1. Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger - my absolute favourite!! (OK, not absolute, but definitely top 5 or so.)

2. DragonKeeper Chronicles series by Donita K. Paul  - also top 5.

3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill - not a series, but AMAZING

4. Endling series by Katherine Applegate

5. Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey

6. Half Upon A Time series by James Riley

7. Warriors series by Erin Hunter

8. Frog Princess series by E.D Baker

9. anything by Gail Carson Levine  

10. anything by Robin McKinley

11. Wizards of Once series by Cressida Cowell (and How to Train Your Dragon series)

Here are some book suggestions if anyone needs them:

-The Mysterious Benedict Society (series) by Trenton Lee Stewert

-The Greenglass House (series) by Kate Milford

The books in this series are 1: Greenglass house 2: Ghosts of Greenglass house 3: The theve knot, and the prequel: Bluecrown

-The Giver (series) by Lois Lowry

The books are: 1: The Giver 2: Gathering Blue 3: Messenger 4: Son

-Wonderstruck and The invention of Hugo Caberet by Brian Selznick

This is not a series. Both books are half pictures half words, but they most certainly are not picture books.  

No matter what you're looking for, I DEFINITELY recommend The Candymakers Books by Wendy Mass! These two books are set up from four different perspectives, eventually merging in the end. The first one, simply called The Candymakers, is more realistic fiction, with some mystery and lots of twists. The second, The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase, is my favorite. It is a perfect blend of adventure, fantasy, mystery, and even sci-fi! Wendy Mass includes references and cameos of many of her characters from her other books and series in this book (The Willow Falls Series, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, A Mango-Shaped Space, Every Soul a Star...) which shows that these take place in the same universe! While I'm talking about Wendy Mass, I might as well reccomend ALL of her other books. Truely an amazing author.

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(I'll put more later, I need to go for now)

I mostly read fantasy and realistic fiction but here's my booklist for anyone who needs it:

Wings of Fire by Tui T Sutherland

The Hunger Games by Susan Collins

The Penderwicks by Jean Birdsall

Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty

A Wolf called Wander and A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry

The Unadoptables by Hana Took

Key to the Extraordinary by Natalie Loyd 

The Wolf Wilder by  Katherine Rundell 

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis

Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House by Michael Poore 

A series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

The Incorrigible children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood

The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu 

Snow and Rose by Emily Winfield Martin 

Wildwood by Colin Meloy 

The Narroway Trilogy by Rhiannon Willams 

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

The War that saved my Life and the War I finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Sunborn Rising by Aaron Safronoff

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

The house in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

The thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin 

The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell

The Inkheart Series by Cornelia Funke

Heres some graphic novels i enjoyed as well:

The Lumberjanes by lots of different authors

Cici's Journal Joris Chamblain 

The Babysitters Club by Raina Telgemeier

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

The Cottons Series by Jim Pascoe

Wolfwalkers by Samuel Sattin 

Chi's Sweet Home by Konami Kanata 

Amulet by Kazu Kibushi

Lightfall by Tim Probert 

The fantastic tale of Nothing  by Alejandra Green 

Enjoy your reading!!  

If any of you guys want manga recommendations, I have so many because it's practically all I read. Besides the occasional comic book that isn't manga.

@25 Dragons, maybe you'd like Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet. I seem to remember it being pretty eccentric, with a somewhat humorous tone.

These are some of my favorite books.

• Harry Potter
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Guiness Book of World Records
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• Mr. Terrupt series
• Morrigan Crow series
• The Hero Two Doors Down
• The "Wonder" series
• The "Fourth Stall" series
• Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster
• The Winterhouse series
• The Train to Impossible Places
• The Front Desk
• The Three Keys
• The Wishmakers and The Wishbreaker
• The Aru Shah series
• Tales of a Sixth Grade Muppet series
• The Land of Stories series
• The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
• Dog Man
• The Mighty Odds series
• We Are Power
• Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome
• Zita the Spacegirl series
• Timmy Failure series
• The Bad Guys series
• The Great Treehouse War
• The Los Angeles Dodgers Encyclopedia
• Indescribable
• The Unofficial Harry Potter Spell Book
• A Tale of Magic
• The Bible

Hi! If you like funny books and books that have an interesting plot/topic, I think you might like the Front Desk series by Kelly Yang. It has some seriousness but it also has some really heartfelt and funny scenes. I think another book that's pretty funny and interesting is the Vanderbeekers of 141st Street. It's also a series. 

Oh, and also From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is interesting and the conversations between characters is funny. 

I hope this helps! 

Some suggestions of mine, w/ rough age ratings:

The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry - 12+, this is a very profound and beautiful series of books, I highly recommend.

The Endling series by Katherine Applegate - 8-13, a well-written, original epic fantasy with lots of unique fantastical creatures.

The Song of Albion trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead - 12+. I read this when I was 11 or 12, and I remember it being a bit wordy/arcane, like LOTR, but I loved it.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - 13+, another classic sci-fi with lots of fundamental moral dilemmas, like the Giver, but with more aliens and spaceships.

The Coming Storm by Regina Hansen - 13-18, a historical fantasy set in 1950-ish Prince Edward Island, although it switches around time periods/POVs a lot. It has a strong first-person narrator and it's sufficiently engaging to count as YA, but there's nothing inappropriate in it.

Varjak Paw by S.F. Said - 10-12. Like Warriors, this anthropomorphizes cats, but it's set in a city rather than the wild. I love the illustrations in this - they're haunting and dramatic and fit the book's aesthetic perfectly.

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - 8-12, another animal fantasy, this one from the perspective of a gorilla. I also recommend the sequel, The One and Only Bob. Really, anything by Katherine Applegate (she tends to write for a middle-grade audience).

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany - 12 or 13+, a beautifully written, almost poetic fairy-tale style fantasy.

Anything by Roald Dahl is bound to be pretty good, usually along the lines of 7-13 in terms of audience. 

I'm looking for a book! Most of what I read (as demonstrated above) is sc-fi or fantasy, but I'll read realistic fiction as long as it's well-written. I read a lot of YA and a smattering of middle grade, as I'm kind of in between the two age-wise, but I much prefer books with nothing explicit in them. Also, length/density is usually not a problem.