Young Writers Society

The Edge Cornicles Series
Series of Unfornate Events
Harry potter Series
Deltora Series
and the William Series

I have a new favourite. Zel, by Donna Jo Napoli When I first heard about it, I didn't think anyone would be able to do it, but she managed to write a novel version of Rapunzel.

I love anything by Donna Jo Napoli, Diana Wynne Jones, N.M. Browne, Garth Nix, and Mariane Curley. And a bunch of others too, but I can't really recall any of them at the moment. I may have found a new favorite in Greg Bear. I used to read and love the T*Witches series but towards the end, they just got really boring and crappy.

Oh yeah, that happened to me with an author I used to read all the time. I regret to say that I bought many of her books at the time. Lurlene McDaniel. Her books are overtly preachy and an insult to teenagers.

My favourite books-of-the-moment are;

"The Waterhorse" by Julia Gregson
"The Thief" and "The Queen of Attolia" by Megan Whalen Turner
"The Furies of Calderon" (Codex Alera #1) by Jim Butcher
"The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault
"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton
"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
The "Alex Rider" series by Anthony Horowitz
The "Harry Potter" series by J. K. Rowling
The "Oracle Prophecies" series by Catherine Fisher
The "Outlander" series (I think thats what its called) by Diana Gabaldon

I'm sure I'll think of loads more once I've posted this, LOL. Has anyone read "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Disbeliever" series by Stephen Donaldson? I've been trying to get ahole of the first book and was wondering if it was any good...

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell (I once thought the politics were subtle in this book, given that comunism was represented by animals, but now I guess it's anything but subtle, it's down right brutal)
The Old Man And The Sea - Hemingway

Some of my favorite books are:

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Curse of the Mistwraith (I want to read the rest of the series, but haven't so I just put the 1st book) by Janny Wurts
Tahn by LA Kelly
Out of the Red Shadow by Anne DeGraaf
The Silver Hand (second book of the Song of Albion series) by Stephen Lawhead
The Debt by Angela Elwell Hunt
Afton of Margate Castle by Angela E. Hunt
The Dragon King Saga by Stephen Lawhead
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (The Thief was okay, but not great)
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle (definitely my favorite classic)
Sea Wolf by Jack London (or at least I think it was by him)
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson (I'm not sure about this author either)
The Lord of Rings by JRR Tolkien
The whole Belgariad series by David Eddings (I love Mandorallen)
As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers (I *heart* Theophilus. hee hee)





Hm... I can't think of anymore at the moment, but I'm sure I will later

My fave books???

All works of Paulo Coelho:
*By the River Piedra, I sat Down and Wept
*Veronika Decides To Die
*The Pilgrimage
*The Valkyries
*The Alchemist
*The Fifth Mountain

and i hope to read his latest: The Zahir

And of course, I also love Harry Potter 1-5.
I'm waiting for HP6 to be released on July 16.

You are all going to hate me for this
The 'Alex Rider' series - Anthony Horowitz
The 'Artemis Fowl' series - Eoin Colfer
and the 'His dark materials' series - Philip Pullman.

I like all the same ones too Shadow o.0

And I like all Tamora Pierce books,
J.R.R Tolkien,
and Terry Goodkind books.


I rest my case.

Seeing how long some of these lists are, I'm wondering how anyone really can choose a favourite. I read too much to pick just one, or even a short list of five or ten. It's more like I haeva favourite of the month.

Another one of my fav books is Life of Pi by Yan Martel
American Woman by Susan Choi

"A Great and Terrible Beauty rocked my socks, but the ending was the worst I have ever read, by far."

I think it's going to be a series. *loved the book as well*

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Wicked by Gregory McGuire (ugh, how do you spell his name?)
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Sloppy Firsts by Meagan McCaffrey
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Harry Potter series
The Draco Trilogy (haha to all you fandom geeks out there)

How do you turn the HTML code back on? Somehow, mine go turned off!

-Sarah

I've just read Drowning Anna by an author with the last name Mayfield. It's really good and reminded me of the movie Odd Girl Out off Lifetime which is very good and sad. I can't believe I admitted I watch Lifetime...LOL

Reichieru wrote:I have a new favourite. Zel, by Donna Jo Napoli When I first heard about it, I didn't think anyone would be able to do it, but she managed to write a novel version of Rapunzel.

Isn't it awesome? Have you read any of her other fairy tale retellings? They're all great.

As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers (I *heart* Theophilus. hee hee)

Are you serious?!! That series is my absolute, all time favourite. I love Theo too...*sighs* But I'm still in love with Marcus. If that man stepped off the pages and into the real world I would marry him in an instant. *drools*