Young Writers Society

My favourites include:
The Bartimaeus Trilogy:
The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eyes -- Jonathan Stroud
The Last Seige -- Jonathan Stroud
Horrible Histories Series (makes history so funny and interesting and also tells you the WHOLE truth)-- Terry Deary
All the Star Wars books -- Various Writers
Sugar Secrets Series -- Mel Sparke
Lady Grace Mysteries -- Patricia Finney
Fingersmith -- Sarah Waters
Kitty Books -- Bel Mooney

That's it for now, but I'll add more later on (if I'm bothered)

The things they carried by Tim O'Brien is a really really good book about the vietnam war. THe author actually fought in the vietnam war. This book is suppoesed to be fiction but it also is partly his memories. But what is so cool is the way he tells the storys is its like they are actually his memories and the story is told very vivdly.

DarkerSarah wrote:I read a retelling of Beauty and the Beast called Beauty. It was very good. Very sad, but very good. It wasn't by the author you guys are talking about though.

Robin McKinley perhaps...I own it it's one of my favorites.

so here goes my list of altime favorites (because well if I were to type all of them down you would shoot me for this post being so long)

Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
Abarat by Clive Barker
There Will be Wolves by Karleen Bradford
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Gallow's Thief by Bernard Cornwall
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (the movie is also one of my favorites -- this is a book/movie to get)
The Ol Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Barrytown Trilogy: The Snapper, the Van, The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Charlotte Grey by Sebastian Faulkes
Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Rocked My World when I was in 6th grade and it still does!
About A Boy by Nick Hornby -- absolutely hilarious
The Dubliners by James Joyce -- really powerful story
Shield of Three Lions by Pamela Kaufman
St. Patricks Gargoyle by Katherine Kurtz (much better in my opinion than any of her deryni books)
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley -- fantastic book
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley -- also fantastic book
The Dreamtheif's Daughter by Michael Moorcock -- everyone should read this
The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
Belinda by Anne Rice (this is much better than any of her vampire books)
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
the Joy Luck Club by Amy tan
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (great book, amazing author)
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Black Horse for the King by Anne McCaffrey

and many more...

My favorite Series

The Hitchhikers Guide Series by Douglas Adams
The Book of Three Series by Lloyd Alexander
The Vesper Holly Books by Lloyd Alexander
Anything, (but his Chee and Leaphorn books are the best) by Tony Hillerman
The Books of Merlin by T.A. Barron
The Bishop Blakie Ryan Books by Andrew Greeley
The Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russel Books by Laurie R. King
Anything by Mercedes Lackey favorite though are the Last Herald Mage Books and Take A Theif
The Wizard of Earthsea books by Ursula LeGuin (Sci-fi just made a mini series of this and it was fantastic)
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Novels by Anne Perry
William Monk Novels by Anne Perry
Anything on Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Favorite Alltime Author: Lloyd Alexander

The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. YAY! Can't wait for the movie to come out. It had JOHN HOWE working on it, and he worked on The Lord of the Rings. Yihoo Canadian artists! I swear, when I saw the preview for that movie, I almost cried.

My other favourites include:
The Cry of the Icemark -- Stuart Hill
Aztec Century -- Christopher Evans
The Legends of Elita -- Kate Jacoby
The Runelords -- David Farland
Dream Master 1&2 -- Theresa Breslin
Fire and Hemlock -- Diana Wynne Jones
A Charmed Life -- Diana Wynne Jones
The Time Witches -- Michael Molloy
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath -- Alan Garner
The Narnia Chronicles -- C.S. Lewis

Here in this passage, lies the books of Red. Readeth if thee will.

Sabriel by Garth Nix
Lireal by Garth Nix
Dragonclaw by Kate Forsythe
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (and the rest of the 4 books in the so called "trilogy")
Pawn Of Prophecy by David Eddings
Darkfall by Isobelle Carmody
Master Of The Grove by Victor Kelleher
Duncton Wood by William Horwood
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
The Goblin Reservation by Cliffard D. Simak
The Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (did anyone else noticed the movie was mucked up)
The Lorax by Theodore Seuss Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss)
The Guy Next Door by Meg Cabot
The Singer Of All Songs by Kate Constable
Nonsense Omnibus by Edward Lear
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book presumingly by Lady Cottington
Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton

I think thats it. You may have noticed I also included books that I read when I was younger...I urge you to do the same.[/b]

I finished reading this really great book by Robin Hobb called Assassin's Apprentice. It was great. Highly recommended

My favorites
The entire Artemis Fowl series
The Wind On Fire trilogy
City of Ember
The DaVinci code
Gathering Blue
The Supernaturalist
The Wish List
House of the Scorpion
The Chronicals of Narnia series
Fealing Sorry for Ceila
The Harry Potter Series
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Wow, almost all of my favorite books start with The.

I just finished {Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson...definitely one of my new favorites...I sat and read through it in a sitting. At three in the morning...YAY INSOMNIA!

Noughts and Crosses Trilogy as well their a powerful portrayl of racism and prediduce
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
How I live now Anne Rossoff
Pride and Predudice

Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. Larger than Life characters, intriguing plot, dynamic heroism, revenge, treasure, and more! What more can you ask?!?

I finished reading this really great book by Robin Hobb called Assassin's Apprentice. It was great. Highly recommended

Yay! another Robin Hobb fan! I love that book, have you read the others in that series? They are all very good.

I've recently read this book called "The Vally of Secrets" by Charimin Hussy and that comes highly recommended from me, one of my favourite books at the moment.

Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. Larger than Life characters, intriguing plot, dynamic heroism, revenge, treasure, and more! What more can you ask?!?

Exactly! Definitely a favorite of mine... I've read it several times over.

Not forgetting The Three Musketeers (also by Dumas). Gotta love the classics...

-Amice-

Now how can I name all of my favorite books? Well let me start with these-

The Lemony Snicket series
The Harry Potter books
All of the Boston Jane books
The Da Vinci Code
24 Girls in 7 Days (Or something like that)
All-American Girl
The Meditator (Pretty much all of Meg Cabot's books)
Walk Two Moons
Maine Squeeze
Framed in Fire
The Sisterhood books
Fever
Northern Light

That's all I can think of at the moment.