Thread: What's your personal book-toplist?

does nobody read books?

I think this is a good topic.

I sorta have strange taste in books...in that, my reading style is all over the place. Up until the last year I actually hardly ever read, and I didn't enjoy it...and anything that I did read was nonfiction. I guess I had this stupid idea that since I'm such a creative person and am often living in a fantasy world anyway, that I don't need to read fiction. PLUS...I think I've had a negative view of reading because of being forced to do book reports in school.

However...last September...on a flight to Sweden I picked up a really cheap book in the airport called Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. I thought it sounded interesting so I read it. I've never been able to finish a book...but I actually really liked it...and it got me into reading fiction again which is great.

Plus...I love the Harry Potter movies...but I hadn't read any of the books, and I kept asking my friend what was going on in the movie when we were watching it because somethings didn't make sense and he kept saying "you'd have to read the book" ...so I listened to Order of the Phoenix on audio tape. Loved it! Then listened to all the HP books on audio. =)

Sooo...here's my list...(keeping in mind that I've only been reading fiction for a year now) ...in no particular order

- Harry Potter books
- The Hobbit
- Wicked
- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
- Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting (awesome non-fiction self help type of book)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (I got this because I loved Wicked but am having ALOT of trouble getting into it, and I've had it for several months now)
- Septimus Heap Magyk - was ok
- Catcher in the Rye
- The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (esp. Alice in Wonderland)

All the other books I've read are about polymer clay, design, or software manuals heh.

In no particular order:

-Memnoch the Devil (Anne Rice)
-The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)
-Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)
-Brimstone (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)
-Dance of Death (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)
-The Holographic Universe (Michael Talbot)
-Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Movie Magazine)
-The Death and Life of Superman (Roger Stern)
-A Lawyer Presents a Case for the Afterlife (ebook by Victor Zammit)
-Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
-The Lost World (Michael Crichton)

-The Shannara Series, best books ive ever read.
-The Hobbit
-The Halo books


Thats about it ive read, 5 Shannara books 600 pages with small lettering. I read the first part of a tom clancy book but it was sorta hard to understand but i was in 5th grade.

ugh, this sucks, all the books titles are translated in finland.

so i just got to sum it up, I like most of King's books; Town of despair n such.

Then the book about the life of Frank McCourt, it MIGHT be named Angelas Ashes since the movie of the book is titled that.

umm, ill add more when I remember more, its a while since i read any books on my free time , school books take most of the time..

Nobody mentioned The Davinci Code yet!

The only four books i've read since I left school:

Harry Potter
Fight Club
The Hobbit
The Outsiders

Oh dear God. I have no idea of the order onf mine so I'll just name them in a randomly ordered list.

The Egde Chronicles (last one comes out soon )
The Dream Merchant
Raven's Gate (I think the series was called Poer Of Five)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit Books (or at least when i was a kid)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (again, when i was a bit younger)
The Magician's House Series(again, when i was a bit younger, lol)

All of the Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling of course....

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Time of the Doves - Merce Rodereda
In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

That's all that comes to mind for the minute, I've never been much of a reader until lately....

Harry Potter series
Lord of the Rings series
Any Dean Koontz novels

Water Margin / Outlaws of The Marsh - Luo Guanzhong
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
Tentatively (after twenty pages): Journey To The West - Wu Cheng'En
Wild Swans - Jung Chang

I'm not Chinese by the way.

most everything i start reading doesn't get finished. i have a short attention span, or maybe it's my shit reading comprehension skills.

-HP, duh.

the rest are in no particular order.
-Alice in Wonderland
-Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison (nothing really happens, but very funny.)
-Junie B. Jones, by Barbara Park i think, back when i was 7 or so.
-Anastasia/Sam Krupnik series, by Lois Lowry
-Tom Robbins, esp. Jitterbug Perfume (i've never finished his books, i don't have the patience. theyre good nonetheless)
-Dan Brown
-Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
-i forget
-Godless, by Pete Hautman
-Gail Carson Levine
-David Bowie biographies....

Remember when the Blue Meanie received money for his birthday to spend on all the books he wanted?
That post has a great list of good good books.
But I could not find it.

1.Harry potter

Originally Posted by Burns

Harry Potter series
Lord of the Rings series
Any Dean Koontz novels

Did you read Intensity? - awesome

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
1984 - Orwell
Othello - Shakespeare
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Phantastes - George MacDonald
Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis
His Dark Materials trilogy - Phillip Pullman
Pippi Longstocking

stories by Edgar Allen Poe
novels by Ted Dekker

There's more, I know it, but then again I couldn't be expected to remember all of my favorite books.

Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
True To The Game - Teri Woods
If You Come Softly & Miracles Boys - Jacqueline Woodson
Oedipus - Sophocles
Money Power Respect - Erick S. Gray
Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
Finding Home - ?
Cant Think Of Anything Else...

Hmm nobodys into any science fictionesque books?
Anyway:

I Am legend - Richard matheson
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
The Scar - China Mieville
Ubik - Philip K Dick
Coyote Series - Allen Steele
The City And The Stars - Arthur C. Clarke
Dune Series - Frank Herbert

Ah, Liquidnine, a fellow norn iron inhabitant! Where are you from?

Anyway, on with the books.

1984
His Dark Materials
The Dark Tower series
Lord of the Rings (including The Silmarillion etc.)
The Time Traveller's Wife
Anne Rice's Vampire series
Any Terry Pratchett novel
A Tale of Time City
Arthur C Clarke's short stories

Loads more I can't think of right now.

Well I've read a couple Harry Potter, but I'm into horror.

I read Stephen King books and Dean Koonts.
My favorite stories are:

Firestarter
Cujo
Thomas Odd
Christine
Salems Lot

Anything by Robin Hobb!
Dune series
Harry Potter series
Chronicles of Narnia
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevskii

I also used to like Robin McKinley until she wrote that traversty "Sunshine". She really let me down with that one I don't think she really wrote anything after that... not that I've been interested to find out. I loved "The Hero and the Crown" and "The Blue Sword," though. They're not "blow your mind" good, but they're enjoyable if you like fantasy.

Lots of Harry Potter fans, then? Rumor has it that JKR is writing another book now-- detective crime novel. We'll see how that turns out.

My favorites... in no particular order.

Anything by Trudi Canavan-- (Age of Five trilogy, Black Magician trilogy)
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Anything by Micheal Crichton (Timeline is my fav)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Memoirs of a Geisha (didn't like the movie, love the book)
Ender's Game / Shadow
Most books by John Grisham

No particular order...

-A Song of Ice and Fire series
-Lord of the Rings Trilogy
-Children of Hurin
-The Count of Monte Cristo
-Treasure Island
-Robinson Crusoe
-1984

Anything By Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell and Stephen king

1. The Wheels of Commerce - Fernand Braudel
2. Plough, Sword and Book - Earnest Gelner
3. Globalization and its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
4. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
5. Anything by Dostoyevsky

Very dry, I know, but it counterbalances my general shallowness

it takes me the same amount of time to read one book as it does to read 3. i don't have the attention span to focus on one storyline at a time.

currently reading:
-Jane Eyre
-Dracula
-A Farewell to Arms (school assignment)
-Oliver Twist