Favorite Books?

[LilithRose]

This probably won't be a very popular thread as most people these days prefer movies instead....but does anyone have a list of books they really enjoyed? 

[1337]

The Genesis Secret- Tom Knox
Hades Factor- Robert Ludlum

[Melody⋆]

Harry Potter series (was my entire childhood)
Guardians of Time Trilogy - Marianne Curley
The sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind (don't mention the TV series to me)
On the Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta
Ransom - Julie Garwood
The sevenwaters trilogy - Juliet Marillier
saga of the Light Isles - Juliet Marillier
The Bridei Chronicles - Juliet Marillier
The sweep series - Cate Tiernan
Pride & Prejudice
Northanger Abbey

Books are much easier for me to list than movies.
I always read and have done since I could first pick up a book,
but I'm not a fan of watching movies.
I might add more. There are countless books I could list.

[ᴰᴱᴬᴰ†]

I do indeed prefer movies

but well ok


Interview with the vampire
The Master and Margarita
Lobo the King of Currumpaw (a very small novel, but must count it here)
Most of the Poe novels but Black cat is still my favourite, since my father often read it to me when I was a child (sick papa).
Faust
The man who laughs
Vernon God Little

mix of different genres. I have no favourite genre. I do love horror but I forget them easily. Most of the books I read, I forget very easily. These are the ones I'll never forget.

My kindle is new so I'm gonna get H.P. Lovecraft novels soon

My wish is to read Krabat but I can't find it anywhere

[Tonika]

Bookssss

-Jane Eyre
-Harry Potter
-Mortal Instruments
-Grapes of Wrath
-Secret Garden
-The Bell Jar
-Warm Bodies
-Game of Thrones


Lots more.

[Zedge]

The Belgariad series - David Eddings
The Malloreon series - David Eddings
The Elenium series - David Eddings
The Tamuli series - David Eddings
Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
Deception Point - Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Inferno - Dan Brown

And plenty more altho I just cant remember all what I've read...

[Σѕкιмo]

Oooooooooooo, here we go. I will visit this thread so often for more books to read. ANYWAYS, I am going to go down my bookshelf since I love every book I ever read.

David, a twenty-eight-year-old artist, is recovering from a bad breakup with the mysterious and beautiful Sienna when he discovers a woman's dead body half-buried on the beach near Lompoc, California. To his surprise, David is interviewed not just by the local sheriff but by FBI agent Krane, who declares that the woman was killed in a ritualistic manner. Soon the dead woman is identified as David's ex girlfriend, and he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. But Sienna can't be dead; she keeps leaving messages on his answering machine...

Heading off for a weekend in Las Vegas with her friends, Jessie Ralle has only one worry: how to make it through the road trip in the same car with her ex, Jimmy Kelter -- the guy who broke her heart five months ago when he dumped her for no reason. The guy who's finally ready to tell her why he did it, because he wants her back. But what Jessie doesn't realize is that Jimmy is the least of her problems. In Las Vegas she meets Russ, a mesmerizing stranger who shows her how to gamble and who never seems to lose. Curious, Jessie wants to know his secret, and in response, alone with her in his hotel room, he teachers her a game that opens a door to another reality. To Witch World....

P.S. Another was recently released on the second called "Black Knight."

It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man -- its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now in present-day Yorkshire, that time has come. And for young Fernanda Capel, life will never be the same...

P.S. This book is part of a trilogy. The other two are called "The Dragon Charmer" and "The Witch Queen"

We all know what that one is about. Other books in the series include "Eldest", "Brisingr", and "Inheritance".

Again, everyone knows what that's about. Other books in the series include "Catching Fire" and "The Mockingjay".

Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he summons the powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni out to steal Lovelace's greatest treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand, he finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion.

P.S. This book is part of a trilogy called The Bartimaeus Trilogy. The other books include "The Golem's Eye" and "Ptolemy's Gate".

For generations, the Palindrake family of Caradore have been cut off from their spiritual source, Foy the Sea Dragon Queen, since their ancestor Valraven I and his family were conquered and subjugated by the Emperor Cassilin of Magrast, follower of Madragore, the pitiless god of fire. The Palindrakes' connection to the powers of the sea was lost, remembered only in songs and legends, and the name of each male heir: Valraven. Now, most men of the Caradorean families are sent away to war, to fight for the current emperor, Leonid, who is known only as a family friend to the Palindrakes - their sorry history is mostly forgotten by those who now live in the pale castle beside the thrashing ocean. But the sea dragons live on in the hearts of the Caradorean people, especially the women, and when Pharinet Palindrake's twin brother Valraven is sent to Magrast to join the emperor's army, events are set in motion that will revive magics long forgotten, as well as enmities, passions and fears. The sea dragon Foy is not a gentle entity, and once roused, her terrifying daughters are unleashed upon the world.

P.S. This is part of a series, but I'm not sure what the other books are called as I have not read them.

The Los Angeles police are investigating two strings of gruesome deaths. One killer has left several horribly mangled corpses; the other murderer kills his victims seemingly without touching them. The investigators have only a single set of fingerprints to link the two series of crimes. — Journalist Peter Jacobs is dragged into the investigation when he receives an anonymous call from someone who knows more than he should about the murders. They agree to meet at a specific place and time, but the caller never shows up -- …and the killings continue. When Julie Moore, a graduate student researching Near Death Experiences, falls in love with Peter, she has no way of knowing that she has placed herself in the deadly sights of the Cold One. The Cold One needs Peter to complete its mysterious designs -- but it does not hate Julie for interfering. It feels nothing -- no hate, no fear, no love -- and Its mere existence threatens all living things.

Dr. Lauren Wagner is the medical officer on the second manned mission to Mars. The expedition is a dream come true for her, the reward of many years of sacrifice. But this is not mankind's first visit to the red planet. The Russians went ten years earlier -- and didn't come back. Even more disturbing, the sole orbiting cosmonaugt, Carl Bensk -- who never even landed on the planet -- also never returned. Carl and his companions are presumed dead, but what killed them? Lauren is about to find out....

There are many books, all the plots too long to look up/type out. HOWEVER, when you get to the ones written by a ghost writer, skip them. Find the ones that L.J. Smith wrote herself online.... Or you'll regret it.

Alisa has been in control of her urges for the five thousand years she has been a vampire. She feeds but does not kill, and she lives her life on the fringe to maintain her secret. But when her creator returns to hunt her, she must break her own rules in order to survive...

P.S. This is part of a series, which is very good. By far my favorite series ever written and it should really be at the top of this list.

First there are nightmares.
Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.
Then come the memories.
When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.
Now she must hunt.
Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.

P.S. This is part of a trilogy. The other two books are called "Wings of the Wicked" and "Shadows In The Silence".

In Secret Vampire, Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World.
Fugitives from Night World, three vampire sisters leave their isolated home to live among humans in Daughters of Darkness. Their brother, Ash, is sent to bring the girls back, but he falls in love with their beautiful friend.
Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in Spellbinder.

P.S. This is actually three books in one and there's a total of 2 other books like this that all tie into one big finale. It's completely awesome.

Shari Cooper hadn't planned on dying, but four floors is a long way to fall. Her friends say she fell but Shari knew she had been murdered. Making a vow to herself to find her killer, Shari spies on her friends, and even enters their dreams. She also comes face-to-face with a nightmare from beyond the grave. The Shadow - a thing more horrible than death itself - is the key to Shari's death, and the only thing that can stop her murderer from murdering again.

Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. But Kait's not a witch: she's psychic. Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can study with other psychic teens and have a fresh start. As Kaitlyn learns to hone her abilities with four other gifted students, she starts to discover the intensity of her power - and the joy of having true friends. But those friendships quickly become complicated when Kait finds herself torn between two irresistible guys. Rob is a healer - kind and gentle, he's surrounded by good energy, while Gabriel is aggressive and mysterious - a telepath concealing his true nature. Together, Rob and Gabriel's opposing forces start to threaten the group's stability, and when an experiment traps the five teens in a psychic link - a link that threatens their sanity and their lives - Kaitlyn must decide who to trust and who to love... ]

One minute Sara's bored on vacation in Istanbul. The next, she's unearthed a flying carpet that cleverly drags her to the mysterious Island of the Djinn—or genies. By her side is Amesh, a cute guy she has a crush on but doesn't yet trust. When Amesh learns the secret of invoking djinn, he loses control. He swears he'll call upon only one djinn and make one wish. The plan sounds safe enough. But neither Sara nor Amesh are any match for the monster that that swells before them. It hypnotizes Amesh, compelling him to steal Sara’s flying carpet and leave her stranded on the island. Discovering the carpet has sparked a new path for Sara, one that will lead her to battle creatures even deadlier than djinn. In this fight, Sara can save mankind, herself, or the boy she cares for...

FBI agent David Conner is investigating the Listeners, a channeling group that seems to have access to highly classified information regarding government technology. Though he quickly falls in love with Lucy, one of the twins who are at the heart of the group, David remains skeptical about the Listeners' power - until an astonishing experience convinces him that they really can reach into humanity's past and carry ancient wisdom to the present. But wisdom is not all that waits in the past, awaiting innocent discovery. The Listeners have tapped into an ancient evil that intends to remake first David and the woman he loves, and then all of mankind, in its own horrifying image...

It is 200 years in the future. Paige Christian, 18, has been given the chance to join the crew of the Traveler--a special spaceship/time capsule designed to circle the solar system and study the changes on earth throughout two centuries. But an awful thing happens to the earth--and the Traveler.

Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.
But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.
For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen...

P.S. This is part of a cycle. Others in the series include "Crescendo", "Silence", and "Finale".

Almost everyone, at some time, dreams of being the hidden king or queen of a far-off land. Almost everyone dreams that someday that secret identity will be revealed, heralding a new life filled with magic and power and love. Teenager Ali Warner has good reason to believe in such a fantasy.
While hiking in the woods behind her house, Ali stumbles across a plot by the elementals--mysterious creatures who live in a neighboring dimension--to invade and destroy the Earth. Not only that, she discovers that she has been chosen to stop the attack.
Why Ali?
It is very possible that she is more than human . . .
Eager to earn her magical abilities and learn her true identity, Ali sets out on a great adventure. The journey will take her far from home and through a series of dangerous tests that require not only courage and strength, but an insight into life itself. Accompanied by a devious leprechaun, a loyal troll, and three close friends, Ali strives to reach the top of a forbidden mountain and lay claim to the Yanti, an ancient talisman of great power that even the elementals cannot control.

P.S. The theme is more childish, but I still found it an amazing series. I love it so much.

House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy series. The books follow 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is "Marked" by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her.
It’s tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends. It gets even harder for Zoey to fit in when she finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. As Zoey tries to make new friends and maybe find a hot boyfriend (or two), she comes up against all kinds of evil. Things at the House of Night are not always what they seem. Can Zoey find the courage deep within herself to find the truth and embrace her destiny?

P.S. I love this series so much and it just finished so you don't even have to wait for more books to come out. The only thing that irritates me about the heroine is that she substitutes curse words for words that are really stupid. ANYWAYS, it's an awesome series and so completely worth the read.

Okay, okay. I swear that's it for now. That is by no means all that is on my bookshelf, but it is 4 AM and I just nerded this thread so hard. *-* Jfc. ANYWAYS, enjoy your readings, good folks.

[Angelala]

My all time favourite - Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle (starts with The Painted Man), anything Graham Masterton writes, this guy is a master of horror, The Hunger Games (movies suck, books are great) by Suzanne Collins, world of  J.R.R. Tolkien ohh fantasy master, Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare, Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Street Lawyer - John Grisham, The Art of War - Sun Tzu, some of R. A. Salvatore's books (started quite recently but I already like them)

[Pascaline]

snipped

This wife of mine.....

Blues Clues
Curious George
I think those are books..

[Three]

I cannot choose ( I loved most of the books i've read... But let's say

The LOTR trilogy
The Sword of Truth books - Terry Goodkind
The song of ice and fire series
Memoirs of a geisha - Arthur Golden
The book thief - Markus Zusak

Can't think of any other right now :3

[Zilara]

I used to read a lot when I was 12-15 or so, then I discovered PW. Some of the books that I loved are:

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

Animal Farm, 1986 - George Orwell

The Collector - John Fowles

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Red and the Black - Stendhal

The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, Robin Hood, Queen Margot, Vicomte de Bragelonne, The Borgias - Alexandre Dumas

The Plague - Albert Camus

Faust - Goethe

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Oddysey - Homer

The Aeneid - Virgil

The Legends of Olympus - A. Mitru

Adam and Eve - L. Rebreanu

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Miss Christina - M. Eliade

Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, - Karl May

The Last of the Mohicans - J. F. Cooper

Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque

Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The House of the Dead - F. Dostoyevsky

War and Peace, Anna Karenina - L. Tolstoy

Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet  - Honoré de Balzac

Frankenstein, The Last Man - Mary Shelley

Gulliver's Travels - J. Swift

Beowulf

The Canterbury Tales - G. Chaucer

W. Shakespeare's plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It

Great Expectations - C. Dickens

Wuthering Heights - E. Brontë

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

El Cid

Tristan et Iseut

Uncle Tom's Cabin - H. B. Stowe

The Woman in Red - M. Nedelciu

Dracula - Bram Stoker

[Angelica]

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden - Jessica Sorensen
Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
Rules of Attraction - Simone Elkeles
Chain Reaction - Simone Elkeles
Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
Crescendo - Becca Fitzpatrick
Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick
Finale - Becca Fitzpatrick
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Obsidian - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Onyx - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Opal - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Origin - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern
PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern (to be honest, maybe this wasn't that good. A little overrated)
Wild Cards - Simone Elkeles
Poison Study - Maria v. Synder
The Archived - Victoria Schwab
The Unbound - Victoria Schwab
The Dark Divine - Bree Despain
The Lost Saint - Bree Despain
The Savage Grace - Bree Despain
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (great movie as well)
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
Alex - Sawyer Bennett

[Σѕкιмo]

anything Graham Masterton writes, this guy is a master of horror

I am so going to look into this guy. My favorite writer of horror at the moment is Christopher Pike. *-*

[Insanity]

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden - Jessica Sorensen
Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
Rules of Attraction - Simone Elkeles
Chain Reaction - Simone Elkeles
Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
Crescendo - Becca Fitzpatrick
Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick
Finale - Becca Fitzpatrick
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Obsidian - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Onyx - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Opal - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Origin - Jennifer L. Armentrout
Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern
PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern (to be honest, maybe this wasn't that good. A little overrated)
Wild Cards - Simone Elkeles
Poison Study - Maria v. Synder
The Archived - Victoria Schwab
The Unbound - Victoria Schwab
The Dark Divine - Bree Despain
The Lost Saint - Bree Despain
The Savage Grace - Bree Despain
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (great movie as well)
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
Alex - Sawyer Bennett

what the fk..

[Zilara]

Most of the Poe novels but Black cat is still my favourite, since my father often read it to me when I was a child (sick papa).

That one is really creepy  I liked his article on how to write a poem (The Raven), although that one had...deep, special meanings as well