Young Writers Society

So am I!

I'm going to start up a recommended books list in lieu of the book YWS book club, and I'd love to hear what books everyone loves/hates/can't put down. You have a strong opinion on a book? Tell me!

Favorite authors, series, short stories, and anthologies are all welcome; as long as it's in print, and possible to find, it's game. Send ideas to me via PM, email, or reply to this post. If email/PM, please put something about Squills - book recommendations, in the subject.

Please keep all recommendations appropriate, and please note I will not recommend something I haven't read, so if you don't see your recommendation, odds are I'm reading it.

Happy reading, YWSers!

Well, I think I'll just go ahead and post here. An exelent series to read is the Firekeeper Saga by Jane Lindskold. They're great books that can easily be reread several times and still be just (or at least close to) as enjoyable as the first time. The series includes, in order, Through Wolf's Eyes; Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart; The Dragon Of Despair; Wolf Captured; and Wolf Hunting. The sixth book, Wolf's Blood, has not yet been released.

Two other books are The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson.

That's all I can think of for now. If I remember any more, I'll let you know.

The Brothers Karamazon by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Totally awesome... ^_^

Ooh! Or Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov... one of the most brilliant short stories I've read in a long time. Deals with insanity! Yay!

Codex by Lev Grossman
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

And an old favourite of mine: Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

View from the Glass Quarteppt-Ian Irvine
The Well of Echoes Quarteppt-Ian Irvine
Belgraith(Young Adult Version).
Edge Chroniciles.

Manalive by GK Chesterton ...and almost anything by Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday...Napoleon of Notting Hill.

Seconded - The Brothers Karamazov and by Dostoyevsky as well - Notes From the Underground.


Jorge Luis Borges --Collected Short Fictions and Poetry. Brilliant.

Surely Tolkien as well? The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth - the characters in this book especially are brilliant, but WATCH OUT!! My version of the book is 1500 pages long, so you're in for a bit of a read. Not that I doubt any of you guys' stamina.

Hehee... my list is incredibly long, if I get things together I'll post it.

The big question here is what kind of book are you looking for? Well, it's four in the bloody morning, I'm listening to George Lopez's Standup, and have nothing better to do. *grins*

So without futhur natterings, I bring you some of my favorite reads-

The Cronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Anthology by Douglas Adams
Abarat by Clive Barker
The Merlin Series by T.A. Barron
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Tanner on Ice by Lawerence Block
There Will Be Wolves by Karleen Bradford
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Fortune Like the Moon by Alys Clare
Gallow's Thief by Bernard Cornwall
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky
The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Charlotte Grey by Sebastian Faulks
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Bishop at Sea by Andrew M Greeley
The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain by Andrew M Greeley
Single White Vampire Seeks Same by Martin Greenberg et al.
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
Sold Down the River by Barbara Hambly
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
The Dubliners by James Joyce
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years by Paul Howard
The Teenage Dirt-bag Years by Paul Howard
Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
Volpone by Ben Johnson
Shield of Three Lions by Pamela Kaufman
Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
St. Patrick's Gargoyle by Katherine Kurtz
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey
Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee
The Cronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Never After by Rebecca Lickiss
The Flower Master by Sujata Massey
Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey
The Pirate's Son by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
The Dreamtheif's Daughter by Michael Moorcock
The Thieves' Opera by Lucy Moore
Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Siren by Donna Jo Napoli
The Difficult Saint by Sharan Newman
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien
Hornblower by C.S. Forester
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Knights of Madness by Peter Haining et al.
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Dagon by H.P Lovecraft
The Shipping News by Annie E. Proulx
Ruby in the Smoke by Phillip Pullman
Shadow in the North by Phillip Pullman
Tiger in the Well by Phillip Pullman
The Legend of Nightfall by Michey Zucker Reighert
The Return of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reighert
Belinda by Anne Rice
The Apothecary Rose by Candance Robb
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Peshawar Lancers by S.M Stirling
The Black Jewel's Trilogy by Anne Bishop
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo by JRR Tolkien
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Once and Future King by TH White
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Cyrano de Bergerac by
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Illiad by Homer
The Five Minute Illiad
Daniel Deronda by George Elliot
The Arms and the Man by G. Shaw
Romaunt of the Rose by Geoff Chaucer
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Lorna Doone by R.D Blackmore
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoyevsky
Peter Pan by Barrie
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
La Divina Commedia by Dante
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Capitan Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
1984 by Orwell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
No Exit by Sartre
Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Hmm... I think that's a good chunk for now.

I'll get started!!

I think a really, really great introduction to advanced mathematics is through:

* Richard Hill, Elementary Linear Algebra,

which, for the most effective learning to take place, should be followed up with (or along side)a solid book on calculus or differential equations.

CL, you are my hero. I see some of my favorites up there, too, so this is going to be fun digging though your list.

Thanks, everyone! I'm going to get started now, but keep the suggestions coming!

For lover's of fantasy.

Fantasy:
The Wars of Light and Shadow by Janny Wurts--IMHO, better then Tolkien

Bone Doll's Twin, Hidden Warrior, Oracle's Queen--Lynn Flewelling

Treesong of Pellinor series by Alison Croggon

Black Magician's Trilogy by Trudi Canavan

Fool's Gold series by Jude Fisher

Sorcerer's treason by Sarah Zettel

Tales of the Otori by Lian hearn

Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit by Tolkien

Getting tired now, so:
Anything by Raymond. E. Feist, Janny Wurts, Neil Gaiman, Terry Goodkind, David Eddings, David Gemmel, Fiona McIntosh, Carol Berg

Besides almost all that Cal stated (:D), here's a few more:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind by Alexandra Ripley

Emma, Pride and Prejudice (especially!), Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (oh and Mansfield Park too!)

Soooo many more, but don't have time for it. There's a start though! Plus I have to get through Cal's list first.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

- I've never met anyone who hasn't liked it. (And almost everyone I know has read it)