We all can't JUST read manga, it's good to read other books too!
Here are some of my favorite books:
The Oddysey
Things Fall Apart
Captain Underpants (I LOVED that as a child)
The Old Man and the Sea
A Doll House
There are others, but I can't think of them right now… :rolleyes:
These are a few of the books that I would list in my favorites. As usual this is subject to change without notice. Also these are totally off the top of my head. There is bound to be a lot of stuff missing. And these are favorites, not what I think are the best books (that would be a very different list).
Fiction:
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Talisman - Stephen King and Peter Straub
IT - Stephen King
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne
Non-fiction:
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
Under the Whirlwind: Everything You Need to Know about Tornadoes but Didn't Know Who to Ask - Jerrine and Arjen Verkaik
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book - A. A. Milne
Justin Wilson's Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' - Justin Wilson
TWEE - Suzanne Heller
I'm a BIG mystery fan. So, here's a few of my favorites:
Arthur Conan Doyle:
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
Agatha Christie:
-Death on the Nile
-Murder on the Orient Express
-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
-Crooked House
-Towards Zero
-And Then There Were None
-A Murder is Announced
-Murder in the Vicarage
Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe):
-Some Buried Caesar
-The Doorbell Rang
-Over My Dead Body
-In the Best Families
Ross MacDonald
-The Far Side of the Dollar
Misc.:
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
Catch-22 and The Picture of Dorian Gray are two of my favorites.
Slaughterhouse Five
Bluebeard
Both by Kurt Vonnegut (my favorite author)
I'm also a big fan of Don Quixote.
And, of course, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Battle Royale
Series of unfortunate events series
Harry Potter series
It's been a while since I've read, though I used to read a lot before. Some of my favourites include:
"Fall of Reach" by Eric Nylund (1st Book of 3(+?) in the Halo series)
"Ravenheart" by David Gemmell
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
"Blood Jaguar" by Michael Payne
"The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum
I found all of them as good reads. "Fall of Reach" and "Ravenheart" stick out the most in my mind I suppose. "Fall of Reach" was a nice, fast-paced read. The story was nicely written too. The book is like a prelude to what happens in Halo (the game). "Ravenheart" on the other hand had great characters and an awesome ending.
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-"Big Trouble" by Dave Barry
-Harry Potter 4
-Mort, by Terry Pratchett
-"The colour of magic" + "the light fantastic", also by Terry Pratchett
-New Jedi Order Series (Star Wars)
-"Plancks for Draculas coffin" by Dennis Jürgensen (Danish writer)
I've only read Harry Potter, and a magician book (can't recall the name of the series, it was 8 books anyhow). Those two are my favorite books :).
The Original Dracula by Bram Stoker kicked ASS
good lord, this could take forever. :lol:
The entire Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice, particularly The Vampire Lestat
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Peter Pan by James Barrie
Sand, Wind and Stars and The Little Prince by Antoine-Saint de Exupery
So far, anything by Neil Gaiman
My copy of tragedies by William Shakespeare
Anthology of Poetry of the Romantic Period
My collection of poems by Arthur Rimbaud
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Joyful Science and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Sense and Non-Sense and In Praise of Philosophy, essays by Maurice-Merleau Ponty
Candide by Voltaire
Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade
My collection of short stories by Willa Cather
Dialogues with the Devil by Taylor Caldwell
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The TWISTED essay collectons by Jessica Zafra
gah, there's more – much more, but i'll leave it at this for now... :lol:
As far as my favorite suspense books go- YAY STEPHEN KING!!!!! (i love all Stephen King books)
As far as other books though I like:
The Merlin Series
Lord of the Rings (who doesn't?)
The Golden Compass series by Phillip Paulman
A Midsummer Night's Dream/Henry V by Shakespeare
And finally a book by the author Garth Nix (I can't remember the name of the book off the top of my head but I remember the first word in the title started with Shade)
Ill give you the short short version.
LOTR
Hobbit
Harry Potter
Peter Pan
Homers Two great Epics
I read plays as well, one of which is the Tradgedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Aw man, let's see:
The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery
Now, in no order:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man's Fate - Andre Malraux
…off the top of my head
I'll see what else comes to mind. I know I'm forgetting some...
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I forgot Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Jabberwocky always makes me grin like an idiot.
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
Harry Potter series
A Clockwork Orange
I bought the Inferno, but I haven't started reading that yet. I'll probably get to it soon.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Spring Snow
Artemis Fowl
Goodbye Tsugumi
Fight Club
Memoirs of a Geisha
Falling Leaves
Tales of the Otori trilogy
The Wind On Fire trilogy
The Joy Luck Club
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Illustrated Mum
Wild Swans
The Harry Potter series
The Lord of The Rings
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Battle Royale
To name a few ^^;
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Rum Diary
Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers
Better Than Life
Shogun
The Oddessy
Walden
Treasure Island
The Scary Stories Trilogy
Just to name a few.
Hoo, doggy! I'll do some judicious editing for the sake of bandwidth here. 
Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, but "Murder Mysteries" is one of my all-time faves.
Ditto for Terry Pratchett, particularly "Good Omens" (I love that book so much I've given three of my own copies to other people)
And again for Christopher Moore, but I have to say that "Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story" will always hold a special place in my heart, but "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal", and "The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Story of Christmas Horror" are probably my favorites. …Erm, they're really not as blasphemous as they sound, in case anyone was looking at me all slanty-eyed. I just happen to think that Christmas stories could use more zombies once in a while.
"Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones is another favorite. One of those rare books that a person of any age can truly enjoy.
The entire Vampire Files series by P. N. Elrod has been a consistant favorite of mine since I was about ten years old; I just never outgrew it and in fact go into happy conniptions every time she puts out a new book. I just love the idea of a smartass everyman vampire gumshoe who's admittedly squeamish about his eating habits.
The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling.
Pretty much anything by William Shakespeare, but favorites include "Twelfth Night", "MacBeth", "Hamlet", "Two Gentlemen of Verona", and "Much Ado About Nothing".
Anything by e. e. cummings, particularly the poem that starts "somewhere I have never travelled gladly beyond". My favorite poem of all-time.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll have always been among my favorite stories and remain so to this day.
"The Boyfriend School" by Sarah Bird is delightfully witty and fun and I'm so glad I gave it a chance.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is another one that's been one of my favorites since I read it in high school.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams is another on my always-has-been favorites list, still makes me giggle like a lunatic when I read it. Gosh I love dry British humor.
The Myth-Adventures series by Robert Asprin is another one that's been with the faves since junior high when I discovered them. Still funny, still fun, still lots of adventure. I'm so glad he's started writing them again, I missed them.
Oh I could go on and on but I'll restrain myself.
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Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers
Better Than Life
Yes! The Red Dwarf books! I got ahold of those years ago and loved them and I really, really want to get ahold of the next two but I don't think they're available in the States for some reason.
–Bevin
JRR Tolkein: The Lord of the Rings
Dan Brown: Angels & Demons, Deception Point
5 People you will meet in heaven by a guy whose name I have forgotten.
More!
Coriolanus - Billy Shakes (Shakespeare )
Angels in America - Tony Kushner
Pirates! In an Adventure with the Scientists - Gideon Defoe
Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly
Eurydice - Jean Anouilh
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Elephant Vanished (short stories) - Haruki Murakami
40 Stories - Donald Barthelme
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
A Sideways Look at Time - Jay Griffiths
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
just about everything by Oscar Wilde
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
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-Robinson Crusoe
-Soul Music
-A wizard of EarthSea
-Barry Trotter and the shameless parody (no joke-actual book)
-"Erik the human son" -A Truly great Danish Book.
I love to read more or less everything by David Eddings (The Belgariad, the Malloreon and so on …)
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien.
These are the best. I read them at least once a year.^^
My most recent favourite is Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
Originally posted by Shanks1Piece@Mar 21 2005, 07:57 PM
Lord of the Rings (who doesn't?)
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I'm not that big a fan of it (it's okay though).
Nice to see that so many people here are well-read.
My faves:
Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkein
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Belgariad (series) by David Eddings
The Malloreon (series) by David Eddings
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
And for the classics I love:
Inherit the Wind (play) - forgot the author
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Changelings (Torikaeba no Monogatari) - author unknown
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
The Tale of Genji (Genji no Monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu
Five Women Who Loved Love (Koshoku Gonin Onna) by Ihara Saikaku
Can you tell my Premodern Japanese Literature class had a big effect on me?
some more i forgot to mention!
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Immortality by Milan Kundera
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think I'll list a few more to.
Amano (not a story but a compileation of art work from one of my favorite artists, Yoshitaka Amano)
Dune
Robin Hood
The Tell Tale Heart
Moby Dick
1001 Arabian Nights
Alice in Wonderland
Through The Looking Glass
The Legend of Saiyuki
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
…and anything and everything writien by William Shakespeare (personal faves Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night)
Hmm…
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Hobbit (Not LotR) - J.R.R. Tolkien
1984 - George Orwell
Spellsinger series - Alan Dean Foster
Myth series - Robert Asprin
To be honest, Watership Down is probably my all time favourite, with the Hobbit at a close second. I've read these two books over and over more than any other book I've ever owned... and I once owned a lot of books. These two remain my favourites to date.
And Watership Down still makes me teary... even if they are "just rabbits".
Books I love:
I LOVE books and I read a lot!! Especially classical literature. There re lots of books that I still love
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Electre
Sophocles
Richard II
William Shakespeare
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Antigone
Sophocles
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
And any thing written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe. There re also lots of author that I am fan of but I ll stop now ^^;
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes Moby Dick!
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DOH! I forgot Brian Jacques!
My favorite Brian Jacques books:
Redwall
Mossflower
Mattimeo
Salamandastron
The Long Patrol
I think The Long Patrol is my #1 fave because I LOVE the hares in the Redwall series.
Ooh! You reminded me:
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
(Well, that whole trilogy, really)
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Originally posted by VildaHawk@Mar 25 2005, 12:57 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes Moby Dick!
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Moby Dick is an awesome book!! People don t like it cos they have just seen it as a crazy captain hunting a whale -_- They missed everything…
I wish I could someday write a book as hard to study as Moby Dick so that I d see lots of poor students struggling...they will sure hate me =p
Favorite English book: The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien
Favorite Japanese book: Ryoma ga Yuku by Shiba Ryoutarou (It's really good, try it sometime ^_^)
But somehow my favorite author is : Jostein Gaarder
I've read a lot of other good books too, but these are my favorites.
Things Fall Apart
A Doll House
Antigone
Sophocles
…Have you been through the 9th grade reading list at my school? o_O (Other memorable entries include Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, Oedipus (loved the song--he really loved his mother!) and All Quiet on the Western Front, which we haven't read yet, but I know that everybody dies.)
I'm currently having a love-hate relationship with TFA. It's a good story, but not when you have to write a huge essay connecting it with imperialism on it. Damn imperialists.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Trilogy" by the Douglas Adams
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell (I remember writing an essay on Animal Farm in 8th grade. Got a particularly good score on it.)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Argh, this book made me cry so HARD)
…a bunch more I can't remember right now. But da-yumn, I still need to read a lot more. Good thing my library card iz pasteded on YEY!!1
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Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Argh, this book made me cry so HARD)
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Oooh, great book. Loved it so much and couldn't help but cry over it. It's been years since I've read it (freshman year of highschool?). I might have to go back and re-read it at some point. I barely remember it now it's been so long.
IT-Stephen King
Shogun-James Clavell
The World According To Garp-John Irving
A Seperate Peace-John Knowles
WeaveWorld-Clive Barker
The Great And Secret Show-Clive Barker
Jonathan Livingston Seagull-Richard Bach
Originally posted by Satsuki@Mar 24 2005, 03:06 PM
**DOH! I forgot Brian Jacques!My favorite Brian Jacques books:
Redwall
Mossflower
Mattimeo
Salamandastron
The Long PatrolI think The Long Patrol is my #1 fave because I LOVE the hares in the Redwall series.
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I never really read much of the Redwall series, but I do remember reading Pearls of Lutra and thought it was awesome. If you haven't read that, you should. :lol:
My favorite books…
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead - "
Xenocide - "
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Carrie - Stephen King
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
American Gods - "
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
I Am the Cheese - " (don't mind that title; this is a REALLY sad book)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Harry Potter (series) - JK Rowling
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Red Pony - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - "
The Godfather - Mario Puza (no one's mentioned this one ?!)
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
I'll probably think of more sooner or later. shrug
I've read all of his books, but I Pearls of Lutra wasn't one of my faves. And I've noticed that the new Redwall books are getting a little stale. Still like them, but not as great as when they first started coming out.
Originally posted by normyk+Mar 26 2005, 12:27 AM–>QUOTE(normyk @ Mar 26 2005, 12:27 AM)
Originally posted by Satsuki@Mar 23 2005, 07:43 PM
**The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
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Oh my, I forgot Anne McCaffrey and C.S. Lewis on my list. Tsk tsk tsk. :blink:
The Hobbit, The Witches of Eileanan (all of them), Watership Down, IT, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The House on Hackmans Hill. I might think of more later.
(Thanks Jeece)
Everyone loves Magical Trevor
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The long awaited sequel
All Harry Potter books
Rudyard Kipling's books
My NARNIA collection
LOTR Trilogy
Roald Dahl's books :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell (I remember writing an essay on Animal Farm in 8th grade. Got a particularly good score on it.)
I did enjoy those two as well.
I also have liked all the Ray Bradbury books I've read - including THe Illustrated Man, Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine.
Another rather good book I read recently was The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. It has nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie (lol) but is more closely related (well in a way) to Kurosawa Akira's movie, the Seven Samurai.
One last book I wouldn't recommend to the general public but definitely would to someone interested in Bakumatsu Japan or Sakamoto Ryoma is Ryoma: The Renaissance Samurai by Romulus Hillsborough. I plan to read the couple other books he's written about the Bakumatsu era.
Black House by Stephen King
The Hitchiker's Trilogy
I don't read many books, but as a J R R Tolkien otaku, I've read his books several times 
my fav books ever are the deavid eddings' belgariad and maloree. it's just excellent.
i also like the weel of time by robert jordan, but it's a bit too long…
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchett, and Michael Crichton. Tolkein gets a special nod too as I've read that trilogy like 10 times. I generally like my Sci-fi/Fantasy with a twist of Satire.
Originally posted by igalsfy@Apr 8 2005, 05:26 AM
**my fav books ever are the deavid eddings' belgariad and maloree. it's just excellent.i also like the weel of time by robert jordan, but it's a bit too long…
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Haven't read the Belgariad since college (11 years ago :ph34r: ) but I did enjoy it. I think that I preferred it to the Malloreon but both series were enjoyable.
As for Robert Jordan, well, I love the series but every time a new book comes out it seems as if the end is still no closer, maybe even farther away. I love the series but I just want it to either pick up the pace or wrap things up (and if he did wrap it up then I would be all sad that it was over so its just as well he doesn't).
i used to read Goosebumps likeyears ago but now i read the books the assign me to read
If you spoiler me, I will eat you with tater tots.
