Young Writers Society

What have been the top ten books that you've read?

THE TOP TEN BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ:

1.The Dead of Night by John Marsden
2.Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
3.Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
4.Bloomability by Sharon Creech
5.Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
6.Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
7.Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
8.The Cage by Ruth Minksy Sender
9.My Brother, The Thief by Marlene Fanta Shyer
10.Who Will Tell My Brother? by Marlene Carvell

My 3 favorite out of these would have to be:
1.Fever 1793
2.Glory Field
3.Who Will Tell My Brother?

*side note* if you have never read Who Will Tell My Brother, you are missing out...this book changed my life...I think every human should be required to read it. It only last about 120 pages and takes a day or maybe two to read. I encourage everyone to get the book on your next visit to the library/bookstore

This top 10 is in order from greatest to just great:

1. Masters of Rome series by Collen McCollough
2. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
3. London by Edward Rutherford
4. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
6. Foundation Triology by Issac Asimov
7. 1984 by George Orwell
8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
10. Any Dr. Suess book

Took me a while with a lot of changes, but there it is... so many others I could include on there, but the Masters of Rome series is the absolute best. I could read those books over and over and never tire of them; same with Pillars of the Earth.

Top Ten (NOT in order, since I have NO SUCH THING in my life):

1. "1984" - George Orwell
2. "Song of Susannah" - Stephen King*
3. "Abarat" - Clive Barker
4. "American Gods" - Neil Gaiman**
5. "The DaVinci Code" - Dan Brown
6. "Obsidian Butterfly" - Laurell K. Hamilton***
7. "Abhorsen" - Garth Nix****
8. "Troubling a Star" - Madeleine L'Engle
9. "I Ain't Got Time To Bleed" - Jesse Ventura
10. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" - J.K. Rowling

I tried not to list an author twice... but I generally like any other book by the authors... if they've written one (does not apply to George Orwell and Jesse Ventura).

* - The entire "Dark Tower" series is worth reading, this is the 6th installment.

** - Neil Gaiman's best work, perhaps, is "Sandman", the graphic novels, which he wrote and before they were made into comics. They are WONDERFUL.

*** - Both LKH's Anita Blake series (of which the book listed is #10) and Merry Gentry series are wonderful.

**** - The third installment of a trilogy, starting with Sabriel, then Lirael, and finally Abhorsen. They're very interesting, especially if you're into magic and dead things.

Wasn't the Abhorsen trilogy written by Garth Nix? Geesh, get your authors straight! Loved it too.

I don't have an order either.

1. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
2. The confessions of Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Renison
3. Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana wynne Jones (I like all of her books)
4. Warriors of Alavna by N.M. Browne (See above)
5. Abarat by Clive Barker (I want the second one for Christmas)
6. The Sword-Dancer saga by Jennifer Roberson
7. Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
8. Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman (the 2nd one's good too.)
9. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
10. The Named and The Dark by Marianne Curley (will be a trilogy)

I don't know if I have a specific order of books. there's just a bunch of books I really enjoy, such as....

Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Assassn's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
Magician: Apprentice
Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Waifs and Strays by Charles de Lint
Stop Pretending by Sonya Somes
The Stand by Stephen King
Dark Tower series
Gunslinger, Drawing of the Three, The Wastelands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Deathstalker series by Simon R. Green
Speak by Laura Halse Anderson
and the Thrawn Trilogy (Star Wars books)
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command by Timothy Zahn
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Marie Borroff
oh and Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Ah, yes, it was. Brain fart. Apologies.

And the second Abarat book is pretty awesome. Can't wait for the third...

No specific order, just the order in which they pop into my head.

1. Abarat
2. The Return of the King
3. Stormchaser (Edge Chronicle book)
4. Trickster's Choice
5. Sabriel
6. Briar's Book
7. Series of Unfortunate Events
8. Artemis Fowl
9. Supernaturalist
10. Oh The Places You'll Go

WOW! Am I in the right place! I like almost all books, but these are my top ten, not in order!

1. The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King- J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring- J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Robot Dreams- Issac Asimov
5. The Thirteenth Warrior- Michael Crichton
6. The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World- Robert Jordan
7. Ocean's 11- Dewey Gram
8. Windtalkers- Max Allan Collins
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. BUNNICULA!

*Bunnicula, yeah, I just love those books and enjoyed them when I was a strapping young lad. That is why I put them in.

I liked the original Artemis Fowl, but the last two... blew...

I remember reading Artemis Fowl a few years ago, months later I hear that its really big or something. I dunno where I was when I was reading it, but all I can remember was a boisterious fairy trying to break into this little boys house.

i read feaver 1793 aswell, but didn't like it as much as her other books. Cataclyst is the one that i liked the most, Kate was familiar in a way.

10 favourite books:

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
2. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
4. Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
5. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
6. The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
7. The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
8. The Hobbit- J.R.R Tolkien
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
10. Blood and Gold- Anne Rice

Not read that many books recently, but one series that stands out for me is the Broken Sky series (Chris Wooding). There are 18 installments. So I guess that's my top 10 (or 18 ).

1) Harry Potter (Any & All of them!)
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
3) Holes
4) Ella Enchanted
5) The Gossip Girl Series (Although superficial, I know)
6) The Giver (loved it!)

& that's all I've got @ the moment

Oh! I love HOLES and THE GIVER! Have you read "GATHERING BLUE" by the same author (not Holes, the other person... Louis Lowrey, is it? Something like that)? It's pretty cool. Not as good, but pretty good... it's supposed to be a kinda-sequel to it... I found it very interesting... yes indeedy I did...

Nope, never heard of it.. But I'll have to read it. What's it about?

Tessitore wrote:Oh! I love HOLES and THE GIVER! Have you read "GATHERING BLUE" by the same author (not Holes, the other person... Louis Lowrey, is it? Something like that)? It's pretty cool. Not as good, but pretty good... it's supposed to be a kinda-sequel to it... I found it very interesting... yes indeedy I did...

OOH I read it! I don't really remember it though lol. I just remember something about a chain..

I'm almost positive that I finished it, though. I can't just ignore a book until I finish it, unless it's a horrible book that I have absolutely no interest in (like After, for instance).

My top ten.. Uh.. No order, and this is typed at 2:15 in the morning.

1.LOTR series
2.HP series
3.Dragonriders of Pern series
4.Wings of a Falcon
5.The Giver
6.The Ellimist (in the Animorphs series lol)
7.Ender's Game series (including alternate POV)
8.The Nurgle's Magic Tear (I was so young when I first read that.. little kid book, but I still like it)
9.His Dark Materials series
10.A Tale of Two Cities (call me crazy, but I loved this book! I had to decide between this one and Jane Eyre for the 10th book)

I'll probably get up tomorrow, reread this, and immediate replace almost all of these lol.