Favourite Books/Recommendations

I love John Green's books, especially Looking For Alaska, which is pretty much the only book that always makes me cry. Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines, & Will Grayson, Will Grayson are all wonderful as well.

I love David Levithan's The Realm of Possibility, It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, and Boneshaker by Cherie Priest...

Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky was probably one of the first books I read that made me want to write. Though I think my favorite book has to be Looking For Alaska by John Green.

I also love Chuck Palahniuk's 'Snuff' which is completely messed up but really interesting- worth a read.

Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling.
Airhead trilogy by Meg Cabot.
Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard.
Private series by Kate Brian and its spin-off, Privilege series.
Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman.
A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket.
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead.
Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott, any other book by her is good.

I also love the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton. Despite it being old fashioned and kind of little kiddish, they were written beautifully. I love all of her mystery series, including the Five Finder-Outers and the Secret Seven.

The Giver, Lois Lowry.

'Nuff said.

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R Martin

Especially the second volume of the third book, A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

I have never ever read better books. They go above and beyond the fantasy genre in so many ways. And guh, the plot. So much political intrigue and such horrible betrayals. And dragons! And REALLY FANTASTIC characters. Especially really strong female characters.

They are so sad though.
Like, don’t get attached to anyone nobody is safe sad

So worth the money though

My favourite books are Melina Marchetta's On the Jellicoe Road, and Ellen Hopkins' Burned. Both really deep, realistic fiction. Burned is written in verse, kind of. It's amazing!
I really recommend both of them!

I recommend everyone to check out the work of Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto. His books have been translated to English and a lot of other language. You should read something by him, his stories are a little bit dark, but you'd enjoy it. :)

jesus-was-a-zombie:

Oh, I have many favorites...
My top ten are:

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Glass, Crank, Impulse, and Burn by Ellen Hopkins
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

these are definitely my cup of tea :)

Also, there's this relatively new book series by Lian Hearn about conflicts in feudal Japan, during Edo era if I'm not mistaken, it has some fantasy to it, tribes of natural-born assassins and nobility fighting for power, epic descriptions of battles and all in fairly simple language, yet the woman has the most amazing writing style. I'm absolutely in love.

Also, try Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel, that is, try it if you generally like some gore and pretty convoluted thought processes of the main character. The book has so many twists and turns your head will start spinning. I ate it up in a couple of days, it's awesome.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven & For One More Day by: Mitch Albom

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden.

If you've watched the film and didn't like it... read the book. It will completely change your mind.
Its fantastic, you experience so many different emotions throughout reading it.
READ!!!

Room by Emma Donoghue.

Best. Book. Ever!
Well... maybe

My favorite books in no particular order:

Mary Higgins Clark: Moonlight Becomes You;

Dan Brown: Deception Point; Of course I read the other ones as well, but Deception Point was the first I read of Dan Brown's books and to this day it is still my favorite thriller stories simply because of the political issues addressed in this book and because not every character is bad-ass;

Guenter Wallraff: Das BILD-Handbuch bis zum Bildausfall (r.t.: The BILD-Manual until Bild- (r.t.: i.e.: picture; here: of a TV)blackout)and also Zeugen der Anklage: Die 'Bild'-beschreibung wird fortgesetzt (r.t.: Witnesses of the crown: The 'Bild'-(r.t.: i.e. picture)description's continuation ); Guenter Wallraff speaks about the inner workings of the German tabloid BILD (comparable to the British SUN) as he witnessed them while working there undercover. I highly recommend it because some stuff journalists did - though probably do not do to such an extent anymore - is really frightening. It will change your view of tabloid-press dramatically. I don't know if there's an English edition as mine is from some-when in the early 80s

N.H. Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society; Read it in English-class; one of the few assigned books I liked;

Bernhard Hennen: Die Elfen (r.t.: The Elves), Elfenwinter (r.t.: Elvenwinter), Elfenlicht (r.t.: Elvenlight); A German fantasy-trilogy about - as you might have guessed - elves, but also mixed with humans; highly recommended to anyone enjoying descriptive and long-lasting good-versus-evil-epos

Trudi Canavan: Black Magician Trilogy (The Magicians' Guild, The Novice, The High Lord); One of my absolute favorite wizard fantasy books with cheese romance elements and the first and only I read so far where an institution oversees the use of magic in an medieval setting;

Robert Harris: Enigma

Kyle Mills: Sphere of Influence; The best polit-thriller I have ever read; no run-of-the-mill ending;

Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle (r.t.: Fire tongs punch); another assigned book but funny and I'd say there's a one of a kind idea

Carl Zuckmayer: Des Teufels General (r.t.: The General of the Devil); I had to do a talk about that one a year ago but saw the movie first; it's a play about WWII, the main character based off of the German fighter pilot The Red Baron; Shows quite nicely how many different mindsets there were during WWII, especially showing the not-all-Germans-were-Nazis-side

Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl Series; Still read them even though I read the first one when I was 13 I think, though recently introduced Minerva grants on my nerves and the first book is still the best as Artemis has grown too soft for my liking. I liked him as the evil mastermind. Fit him somehow.

Xenophobe's Guides; I have the Guide to the Germans and the Guide to the French and I have to say they are both very entertaining. Not a must though if you're traveling to the said country. Rather something you read after you return and say 'Oh that's why!' or 'That's so true!'

Joe Abercrombie: The First Law Series; I must admit I'm still somewhere in the middle of the third book of this series and it doesn't have the addict-factor, but it is incredibly realistic written fantasy, all men, no elves. Cruel characters aren't simply cruel because they like it, but in these books every character comes with a load of back-story which makes you understand exactly why the are the way they are. There are simply no stereotypes in these books.

Vince Flynn: Mitch Rapp Series Books 1-4; Another polit-thriller, about the Anti-Terror Agent Mitch Rapp - a bit of heroic soldier Joe type (for torture,doing no wrong, etc.) - working for the CIA. Besides political power games mostly he's running around in the wild, which becomes boring after time. So while I possess books five to eight of this series as well, I did not buy the - I think two - recent releases, as I'm no longer hooked. The first four books though hold some individuality.

r.t.: means roughly translated and was translated by me because there are no or I do not know the official English titles

All the Harry Potter's - J.K. Rowling
All The Morganville Vampire's - Rachel Caine (Don't knock em' till you've read them, there awesome)
Fallen, Torment & Passion - Lauren Kate
Kissed By An Angel - Elizabeth Chandler (Such a beautiful story)

That's all for now :) Hope I helped xx Emma

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My favourite books so far are:

All of the Harry Potter books- they are honestly so amazing and the best books i've read by far

Thirteen Reasons why by Jay Asher- Only book that i've still not managed to get out of my head after so long. Such an emotional and sad story.

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins- One word 'beautiful'. Soon to be a movie so excited :]

I've just started to read more often, so I don't have many recommendations, other than

The Harry Potter series, obviously, purely because it's amazing and rules my life.
The Lovely Bones, it is such a great book and some of the characters are so brilliant.
And The Hunger Games series. I'm onto Catching Fire at the moment but it's already becoming one of my favourite books I've read yet.

I also read the first Pretty Little Liars book because I love the show, but I didn't really enjoy the book as much. I have a load of required reading to do this summer for my English Lit A Level so I'm hoping to read 1984, The Scarlet Letter and possibly Wuthering Heights too.

Has anyone read 'Angel Burn' by L.A Weatherly?? It's amazing. It shows how Angels can be as sinister as vampires.

And how about the Wake trilogy??

Lady Phantasm:

My favourite books so far are:

All of the Harry Potter books- they are honestly so amazing and the best books i've read by far

Thirteen Reasons why by Jay Asher- Only book that i've still not managed to get out of my head after so long. Such an emotional and sad story.

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins- One word 'beautiful'. Soon to be a movie so excited :]

I have to say...The Hunger Games and Harry Potter is AMAZING! Also excited for the movie..!! (And they're also making a fan-book on the Hunger Games. Shows Panem and how each District lives and stuff. Coming out somewhere in February. I reccommend that to crazy fanatics. :)

Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evancoich(sp?)
This series currently has 17 books and the 18th comes out this upcoming November. Basically, she's a bounty hunter who works for her cousin. The characters just make you laugh out loud, no joke, and it's amazing the stuff she gets into. If looking for a funny and amazing read, pick one of these up!! You don't have to read all of them, but you will understand some of the between the lines if you do!!

The Dark Tower series, Stephen King I'm reading the last book right now and they're so great. They are the reason I listened to Hey Jude for the first time.

Harry Potter, JK Rowling, although I think everyone here has either read them oor decided they will never ever ever read them.

Millenium trilogy, Stieg Larsson, known as "The girl who..." In English. They are really something extra, cool girl, tazers revenge and conspiracy what more can you ask for?

Dan Brown stuff, fast and exciting.

J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. These books are really slow but are probably s´the foundation for all modern fantasy.

Call of the Wild, Jack London.