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Hi everybuggy!! This is a thread where everyone can post all of your favorite books! If you think no one has ever heard of the books you can explain about what they are about too! Ok here are my top favorites!
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
the Anne of green gable books by L.M Montgemery
The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Series of Unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket.
All of the Wizard of Oz books (there are like 14 of them!!) by L Frank Bom.
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingals Wilder
The Mysterious Bendict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Alice in Wonderland
And about a MILLION more!!! But then you would be reading the list for about an hour!!!!! Anyway those are some of my all time favorites. If anyone is curious about one of the books let me know and I will tell you what they are about! Oh by the way, Admins you can do this too if you want!
Oh, I have so many favorites and not enough time, but one of my lesser-known favorites is The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff.
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submitted by Becka B, age 15, USA
(December 16, 2010 - 12:22 pm)
(December 16, 2010 - 12:22 pm)
DISCWORLD! But you already knew that. =P
Harry Potter 1-7, by JKR.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels (Douglas Adams and now Eoin Colfer) are the funniest books you could ever hope to meet.
Lord of the Rings, by JRRT, which is THE epic fantasy novel. (One novel, six books, three volumes. Not a trilogy.)
Basically everything by DWJ.
Series of Unfortuneate Events, 1 - 13, and the Unauthorised Autobiography, all by Lemony Snicket. Hilarious, hilarious books.
Young Wizards 1 - 9 by Diane Duane. Not quite fantasy, not quite sci-fi.
Chronicles of Narnia 1 - 7 by C.S. Lewis; also Till We Have Faces and Out of the Silent Planet (I haven't yet read the other two in the Space Trilogy, but considering they're by CSL they'll probably be wonderful.)
The Time Quartet and the Austin books by Madeline L'Engle. <3
...I'm sure I'll think of more as soon as I hit submit, but that should be enough for now.
(December 16, 2010 - 9:30 pm)
Ooh, and The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is wonderful and exceedingly sad.
(December 17, 2010 - 8:23 pm)
I should probably know this, but DWJ?
Diana Wynn Jones
Admin
(December 18, 2010 - 4:57 pm)
My faves are, in order from my absolute favorites to my favorites:
The Kindom Keepers Series by Ridley Pearson
The Kane Chronicles Series by Rick Riordan
The Sisters Grimm Series by Michael Buckley (not sure on that author's name)
The Red Blazer Girl Series by Insert Author's Name Here (I forgot!!!)
The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan
The Shoes Quartet by Noel Streatfield
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan
The Mother Daughter Book Club Series by Heather Vogel Fredrick
The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 by (I forgot this one, too)
The Baby- Sitters Club Series by Ann M. Martin
And that's just my top ten. The one I've read the most (not like the most books in the series, like one single book, maybe in a series, that I have read and reread) is the Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008, in anticipation of the day I will finally visit that Disney lover's utopia. I probably just used the word utopia wrong.
@ANALESIA@
(December 18, 2010 - 5:09 pm)
I meant Beacon Street Girls Series by Annie Bryant, not the Baby- Sitters Club. The Baby- Sitters Club is my 12th favorite. Any Nancy Drew books, old series or new are my 11th favorite.
@ANALESIA@
(December 19, 2010 - 12:59 pm)
The Book Thief. most definitely. It is by Markus Zusak.
The Hunger Games trilogy :) by Suzanne Collins
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Many Waters (book four of the Time Quartet) by Madeline L'engle
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
The Bartimeaus trilogy! by Jonathan Stroud
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.
(December 19, 2010 - 3:17 pm)
Well, I think everybody knows my top book. Lord of the Rings- or anything by JRRT.
I also like:
The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
Ella Enchanetd
Rapunzel's Revenge
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (I've only read The Lighting Thief )
There are tons more- just can't remember them right now!!!!
Inya says fgpc. Frog Pack. :)
(December 19, 2010 - 4:14 pm)
Hello, everyone,
There's about ten thousand, two hundred and forty-six books I could name as my favorite. I really like classics, historical fiction, and mysteries. I think my first favorite book would have to be The Lightning Thief. If you've read it, you should also read the rest of the seires, all the books in it are equally good. What is Rapunzel's Revenge?
(December 19, 2010 - 7:13 pm)
Oh gosh. Okay, there's no order here, these are just books I enjoy.... more than usual!
The Book Thief- Mark Z....... something or another. I'm terrible with authors, I'll tell you now.
ALL THE BOOKS I'VE READ (Ella Enchanted, Fairest, The Two Princesses of Bamarre) BY GAIL CARSON LEVINE!!!!!! Love her, if you can't tell.
All of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books (including the newest one) but not the Red Pyramid. I was bored out of my mind with that one, for some reason.
The Shadow Children series By: "something" Haddix. :D Margaret Peterson Haddix, maybe. I loved all the books EXCEPT the last one. STUPID STUPID STUPID! Made me want to hate those books.... but I just couldn't. I mean, Matthias was my favorite character and he wasn't even in IT!!!!! Sorry. /ranting/
The Fairy Tale Retold Novels- Shadow of the Bear, Black as Night, and Waking Rose. Highly reccommended for the elder teen audience (because of mature themes).... They're Catholic books, but I would reccommend them for all, because the Catholic theme isn't a large part of the story at ALL.
And there're more. Plenty more.
(December 19, 2010 - 9:56 pm)
Rapunzel's Revenge is a graphic novel by Shannon Hale. It's a version of Rapunzel, made into a sort of Western. Rapunzel uses her braids as whips and lassos and is totally awesome.
(December 30, 2010 - 11:38 am)
I remember when I tried to make a list of the books that I loved so much I couldn't choose between them for a favorite. I ended up with over 100. I think it's in BaB somewhere, actually, on some old and long-forgotten thread. One or two. I won't repost it, because it's way too long, and besides, I'm not having quite as much difficulty choosing now, which is lucky. If I had to choose one now, in fact, I'd almost be able to--it's between The Simarillion, which I've looked at but not read all the way through, and The Book Thief. The book series I'm most obsessed with is HP by far, though, without a doubt. If you thought I was obsessed the last time I talked about it, or any other time you've heard me, it's nothing compared to right now. It's actually tied with tardigrades as my Main Obsession, if it doesn't surpass it right now. I haven't been so obsessed with it in years, literally... And The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett is wonderful, though it's the only Discworld book I've yet read. And The Chronicles of Narnia have to be here somewhere. I could go on forever, but I don't think I should, so I'll stop listing here...
(December 19, 2010 - 10:01 pm)
GAAAH! How could I forget?????? The Redwall Series!!!! Except I don't get why he's always making foxes the villians. I LOVE FOXIES!
Inya says inye. INYA! SHE'S SAYING HER OWN NAME!!
(December 21, 2010 - 8:59 am)
Key: I Love This Book/Series, I Don't Think You've Heard Of This Book/Series
Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
Percy Jackson, Rick Riorden
May Bird, Jodi Lynn Anderson
Gardians of Ga'Hoole, Kathryn Lasky
Horns and Wrinkles, Joseph Helgerson
The Land of Elyon, Patrick Carman
Starcross, Philip Reeve
Warriors, Erin Hunter
Fablehaven, Brandon Mull
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Unauthorized Autobiography, and The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
Catwings, Ursula K. Le Guin
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brian
The Spiderwick Cronicles, Tony DiTerlizzy & Holly Black
The Cronicles of Narnia, C.S Lewis
The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Fairest, Ella Enchanted, etc., Gail Carson Levine
most of The Royal Diaries series, various authors
(especialy Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553, Kathryn Lasky and Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769, Kathryn Lasky)
Garfield, Jim Davis (yes, I know it's not a book)
The Way Things Work, David Macaulay
I Would Like To Know What These Are:
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
The Shadow Children, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Mysterious Bendict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
The Bartimeaus trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
Maximum Ride, James Patterson
The Sisters Grimm Series, Michael Buckley
Diskworld, ?
?, Terry Pratchet
Great list, Kat! I'd forgotten about Catwings. I love it, too.
Admin
(December 22, 2010 - 2:48 pm)
I Would Like To Know What These Are:
Why certainly, since you asked so nicely.
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Inkheart is about people who have the power to read things out of books. That is to say, by reading a book aloud they can make things come out of it and into the real world.
The Shadow Children, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Can't help you here, I'm afraid.
The Mysterious Bendict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
The Mysterious Benedict Society is about some children you pass a series of special tests and are allowed to go on a special mission to defeat the evil Ledroptha Curtain. Extremely good.
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Book Thief is about a German girl during the Holocaust. She steals books and her parents hide a Jew in their basement. The story is really about the power of words. The whole thing is narrated by Death, and it's very strange and poetic and sad and lovely.
The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games books are set in the future. In the future, the US has been replaced by a country called Panem, which is divided into twelve districts ruled by the Capital. Every year, each district sends two teenagers, a girl and a boy, to the Capital to fight to the death in an arena. Very good, and much less gory than it sounds.
The Bartimeaus trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
The Bartimeaus Trilogy is about magicians who summon djinn. It's narrated by a djinn named Bartimaeus, and it's deliciously snarky.
Maximum Ride, James Patterson
Can't help you here, sorry.
The Sisters Grimm Series, Michael Buckley
The Sisters Grimm are two girls, Sabrina and Daphne, who are descended from the Brothers Grimm. Except that all the things that the Brothers Grimm wrote about are actually real, and it's their job to help keep peace among the fairy-tale characters. I only read the first few, but they are very enjoyable.
Diskworld, ?
It's Discworld with a C. And I'm glad you asked, Kat. The Discworld books (30 something of them, if you count the YA books) are satiric fantasy set on the Discworld, a flat, circular planet that goes through space on the backs of four huge elephants, who are themselves standing on the shell of the space turtle, the Great A'Tuin. They are, appropriately enough, about things from Discworld. There's wizards and witches and zombies and vampires and dwarves and trolls and just about everything else. Plot? There's absolutely everything: Murder mysteries, more traditional fantasy, books about newspapers and banks and the postal service and war and movies and rock and roll. And all of them are absolutely wonderful. They are the funniest books you could ever hope to meet.
?, Terry Pratchet
Terry Pratchett is the author of the Discworld books. :D
(December 24, 2010 - 4:28 pm)
I haven't read any of the ones ZNZ didn't know, but I somewhat know the plot.
The Shadow Children
From what I know, it's set in the near future. You can only have two children, and the narrator is an illegal third child. One day he looks out and sees other third children, or shadow children. That's the extent of my knowledge in this subject.
Maximum Ride
Is about a kid with wings named Maximum Ride. Sorry, I'm not really interested in this series, so...
@ANALESIA@
(December 29, 2010 - 12:27 pm)