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Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:03 pm
uniaeca says...



All my favourite authors except one have already been talked about (Tamora Pierce, John Marsden, JRR Tolkien, and Terry Goodkind.)

However I also enjoy most of Bryce Courtney's books. Oh and another of my fav books is the one my sister is writing and The Rumble Family Register is probably my most favourite book.
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Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:32 pm
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ZZAP wrote:1. Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
2. Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
3. Harry Potter by JK
4. Magician's Apprentice by ???
5. Artemis Fowl
6. Hobbit
7. LOTR
8. Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
9. Wheel of Time by Rober Jordan
10. My book I'm creating...

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i'm a big fan of song of ice and fire. it's epic, and a damn good read. i haven't been able to get a feast for crows, but i've read up to the book, and must say the characters are delightfully rogue, and very choice.
  





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Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:24 am
zelithon says...



:lol: You guys have bad taste in books-besides the ones I am about to mention that overlap. The first two are in order the rest...
1. Both Abarat
2. All of terry Pratchett's books
3. Of mice and men
4. The princess bride
5. Watership down
6. The moor child (don't ask me why)
7. The princess bride and the secret garden (by the same author)
8. Wicked and Son of a witch (by the same author)
9. Tarzan lord of the jungle (I have a 75 year old first addition :P )
10. The Life of Pi
11. the Hitchhikers guild

I am not at all sure of this list except for the first 2 I have read so many books I can't think of them all at once. I know it is not 11. :-k
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:54 am
Bjorn says...



1. The Silmarillion-J.R.R. Tolkien
2.The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Tears of Artamon(series)- Sarah Ash
5.Han Solo Trilogy- A.C. Crispin
6.Harry Potter(my favourite being the fifth)-J.K. Rowling
7.Two Against the North-Farley Mowat
8.Shogun-James Clavell
9.Dracula-Bram Stoker
10.(I don't know if it counts, but they're technically[graphic]novels)Hellsing(series)-Kohta Hirano
  





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Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:49 am
Sam says...



1. Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt

2. My Brother Sam is Dead, by Christopher and James Lincoln Collier

3. Bloody Jack, by L.A. Meyer

4. The Minister's Daughter, by Julie Hearn

5. 1984, by George Orwell

6. The Year of the Hangman, by Gary Blackwood

7. Georgia Nicolson (My favorite being Away Laughing on a Fast Camel :P), Louise Rennison

8. Looking for Alaska, by John Green (most beautiful book ever written)

9. The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

10. Elements of Mathematics: Introductory Logic (hehehe)
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:16 am
Areida says...



Not in order. I don't know if I could do that.

1. The Mark of the Lion series, Francine Rivers

2. The Giver, Lois Lowry

3. A Wrinkle In Time, Madeline L'Engle

4. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

5. Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis

6. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison

7. Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

9. Constance, Patricia Clapp

10. Grandfather Twilight, Barbara Berger (I used to make my mom read this to me over and over...)
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:55 am
The Silent Aviator says...



Hello.
I apologise, but I don't remember who wrote some of these books.

1.Jarhead, Anthony Swofford.(better than the movie based off of it, fyi)
2.Flags of our Fathers, James Bradley
3.In Harm's Way,Doug Stanton
4.Making the Corps
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6.Baa Baa Black Sheep, Greggory Boyington
7.Night, Ellie Weisel(sp?)
8.Firebirds, Chuck Carlock
9.Hiroshima
10.Salam Pax, Salam Pax
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:43 am
Boni_Bee says...



Has anyone read these?

1.‘Dare to Fly’ by Janine Shepherd
2.‘My God, it’s a Woman!’ By Nancy Bird-Walton
3.‘Read for the Sky’ by Douglas Bader
4.‘The Little House on the Prairie Series’ by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.‘Biggles in the Desert’ by Captain W.E. Johns
6.'A Fortunate Life’ by A.B. Facey
7. ‘Beyond Defeat’ by James E. Johnson
8.‘Free Rein’ by Gillian Rolton
9.‘My Place’ by Sally Morgan
10.‘Annabelle Boswal’s Journal’ by Annabelle Boswal

I mainly read biographys.
  





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Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:18 pm
Mankind says...



Brain Fart? hehe.

Here we go, although my choices shall not be as sophisticated as yours. I'm special :D

In no particular order:

1. Death on the Nile- Agatha Christie
2. The Wish List- Eoin Colfer - brilliant for eleven year olds everywhere!
3. The Last Juror- John Grisham
4. 1984- George Orwell
5. Montmorency- Eleanor Updale
6. Harry Potter series- Take a guess!
7. The Moving Finger- Agatha Christie
8. ASOUE- Lemony Snicket (i can't resist 'em)
9. The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time- Oh...Marc something. Little help?
10. Johny and the Bomb- Terry Pratchett
  





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Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:41 pm
backgroundbob says...



Order is too hard.

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (just about anything by him makes my top whatever list)
Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card
The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Thus Spoke Zarathusra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

ah... now I want to read them all again at once..
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Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:55 pm
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Stuff the order and I have no idea if these will be my favourite books next week but these were the first ones that came to my head as "good books".
Duncton Wood by William Horwood
Abhorsen series by Garth Nix
Darsong series by Isobelle Carmody
Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansonn
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Heidi by Joanna Spyri
BFG by Roald Dahl
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (please don't judge me)
The Lorax/Fox In Socks/Thidwick The Big Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss
  





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Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:04 pm
zelithon says...



"The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (please don't judge me)"
Either there is more than one or you got the author wrong.
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Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:07 am
faith says...



I don't know about my ultimate top ten ever but some good ones that i've read fairly recently:

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
The Purgatorio- Dante
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis- Sigmund Freud
The Catcher In the Rye- JD Salinger
Lost Boys- Orson Scott Card
Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
  





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Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:17 am
Elizabeth says...



The Series of Unfortunate Events (All current 12 and the newest 13 (coming next year)) by Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair ALL THE WAY!
House of the Scorpian by Nancy Farmer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Crooked by (Forgot)
The Sitter by R.L. Stine
Something Wicked this Way Comes, Ray Bradburry
The Angels Trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnely

There's my book list... haha!
  





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Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:08 am
Jennafina says...



1. The Wind on Fire Trilogy by William Nicholson

2. The His Dark Materials Trilogy

3. The Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer

7. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by some person. I cant remember his name.

8. House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

9. Howl's Moving Castle by somebody or other.

10. Dandelion Wine by some other person.

I remember titles but not authors, lol.
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