List your favorite
Chatterbox: Blab About Books
List your favorite books. No list is too long! My favorites:
Insignificant Events in the Life of A Cactus and Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
New Kid
Mr. Mehan's Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals
Out of My Mind and Out of My Heart
Wonder
Merci Suarez Changes Gears and Merci Suarez Can't Dance
Everything Sad is Untrue
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
A Place to Hang the Moon
Okay For Now
The Wednesday Wars
The Martian Chronicles
The Hunger Games Series (Particularly Catching Fire)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Matilda
The Red Pyramid
Cheaper By the Dozen
David Copperfield
The Vanderbeekers Series
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
The War That Saved My Life
(July 7, 2022 - 1:11 pm)
These aren't in any particular order; I've pledged my entire book nerd heart to all of them equally.
The Mistborn Saga (legitimately perfect)
Dune (timeless)
The Pandava Quintet, a.k.a the Aru Shah series (the best Rick Riordan Presents in existence)
The Nevermoor series (my comfort series)
Wings of Fire (even better than it seems)
The Six of Crows duology (so freaking good)
Hamlet (Hamratio forever! also we do not talk about the ending)
(July 16, 2022 - 6:42 pm)
Oh no. This CAN'T be good! I have forgotten to put:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster!!!!!!!!!!
It's so good! :D
*quietly* (maybe I overdid it there...)
(July 17, 2022 - 3:58 pm)
I also like The War That Saved My Life and the Vanderbeekers books, Lexi!
Inkheart
The Pear Affair
The Keeper of the Lost Cities Series
Dead End In Norvelt
Up A Road Slowly
Fighting Words
Bridge to Terabithia
(July 21, 2022 - 4:21 pm)
39 Clues series
Lord of the Rings series
The Hobbit
Percy Jackson series
Heroes of Olympus series
Kane Chronicles series
Keeper of the Lost Cities series
(July 21, 2022 - 4:46 pm)
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson/Heros of Olympus/Trials of Apollo
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
The Simon Snow Trilogy
Keeper of the Lost Cities
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Aru Shah
The Wendsday Wars
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (and the Hunger Games trilogy)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Goose Girl
The Giver quartet
The Phantom Tollbooth
Anything by Roald Dahl
The Bookwanderers
There's probably more, but my mind is blanking on them right now!
(July 23, 2022 - 8:19 pm)
Keeper of the lost cities
All of the Rick Riordan books
Warriors
Seekers
Wings of Fire
Story theives
Harry Potter
The Casey Grimes sieres
Sisters Grimm
Explorer Academy
and many more
(September 16, 2022 - 4:00 pm)
Wings of Fire
Warriors
Wolf-Woman
American Girl
Dear America
Dairy of a Wimpy Kid
Dork Dairies
Animal Ark
Magic Tree House
The Egypt Game
The girl who saved Christmas
How to train your Dragon
Spirit animals
Dragonology
(That all I can think of on the spot, if you never read any of those I think you should! Especially Wolf-Woman! It is my favorite book ever!(besides Wings of Fire))
(October 12, 2022 - 5:40 pm)
*excited voice* Read these. Read these, I beg of you. They are all so good! They're also really helpful for writers, because *virtuous voice* writers always ought to read the Very Best.
1. Momo, by Michael Ende. A fascinating story of an Italian girl who saves the world from sinister time-thieves. It's so beautiful. It's one of those books that makes you cry. The characters are wonderful people, and the author's message is so relevant to our times, it's breathtaking. Has anyone on here read it?
2. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis. I shall direct you to the Chronicles of Narnia thread by Amethyst if you want to find out more about these.
3. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. This just has fascinating characters, and so many! It's a whole world of its own, and it gets really interesting even though the plot is simple.
I may post some more later :)
(October 13, 2022 - 8:30 pm)
Well, I tend to like older books... here are a few:
The Twilight of Magic, by Hugh Lofting, a fantasy book. If you've ever read Doctor Dolittle, don't think of them when you hear Hugh Lofting - it's very different from his other books, and very, very good, set in medieval England.
The Melendy Quartet and the two Gone-Away books, by Elizabeth Enright. These are absolutely wonderful!!!! Although they're set years and years ago, most of the things in them are things still entirely relevant today. The Melendy Quartet is about four children and their adventures; Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away are about Portia and her cousin Julian, who discover an old town on the edge of a marsh and two people who live in it.
Cherry Ames, by Helen Wells: A series. I think they're extremely hard to find, but they, too, are wonderful. They're about a nurse who lives during the Second World War. When I heard about them, I thought, "Those can't be interesting. What's interesting about a nurse's life?" but they're very interesting, and the characters in them are charismatic, nice... The later books, from Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse onward, aren't so good, though.
(October 15, 2022 - 5:27 pm)
Actually - I've thought of several more books I love.
The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare. This book is wonderful! I'll try not to go on too much, but it's vivid, inspiring, exciting, satisfying... Please read it!
The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff. This is about an ancient Roman (I don't mean he's old, I mean he's from Ancient Rome, not modern Rome) who looks for the lost Eagle of the Ninth Legion.
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis. I know these have been mentioned before, but they really are among my favorite books. Several CBers have complained that many fantasy books aren't good, and I agree... these are really beautiful, exquisite, magical stories.
The Search for Delicious, by Natalie Babbit. Also fantasy, with a clever theme and lovely imagery and characters.
I suppose I really must stop there, or I'll go on forever - but I hope you'll read some of these books!
(October 21, 2022 - 3:05 pm)
time to update my list:
Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland
the Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson
the Reckoners series by Brandon Sanderson
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Endling by Katherine Applegate
Warriors by Erin Hunter
(October 24, 2022 - 12:35 pm)