i just love readin and i was wonderin wot everyones fave bks are? i no we all love harry potter but besides from that. mine is p.s i love u by celia ahern. its one of da best bks ever. soooooo sad. i totally recomend it 2 every1!


what bout u's?

lol i was about to start a thread about this, but you beat me to it

The Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Sloppy Firsts & Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Teenage Angst? Naahh by Ned Vinzzini
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
The A Wrinkle in Time series by Madleine L'Engle
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
that's all i can think of right now

when i was a kid, i loved ALL roald dahl books, especially The Witches, Matilda, and The BFG. i also loved The Search for Delicious & Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.

I love the LOTR books. They are like so awesome!

lol i cant say i like lotr, astronomy lover, the only way i can even bring myself to watch the film is cos of orlando bloom! but i do love the sisterhood of the travelling pants, doomed renascence.

Hmm, what do I like...

Most of The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice, my favourite of the Books being The Vampire Lestat...

The Song of Fire and Ice series, by George R.R. Martin *mental note, find out if the next one's any nearer to coming out....>.<*

Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Dune by Frank Herbert

*thinks* Oh, I don't know...

The Artemis Fowl series, The Alex Rider series, The Princess Diaries, anything based off of Greek/Roman mythology (unless it gets too weird), anything fairy taleish (unless it's far too happy-dappy, there has so be SOME angst for me to be pleased with it) Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan, ....I like a lot of books. And of course, The fantabulous Lord of the Rings series by the totally brilliant J.R.R. Tolkien. (Diss him and get bashed, by the ultimate MOD!)

Ooh, yeah, that's a point, I love mythlogy *any culture, I love it*, folk tales, fairy tales, especially obscure ones..I've got the complete works of The Brothers Grimm, and some of them are BIZARRE...especially the religious ones...o.o

o i love mytholgoy ones too, and the princess diaries!

Yay I'm over 21!!!! *runs to Amazon.com*

Sisters Grimmer? Oooh, never heard of....

But that's the thing with fairy tales, they're actually SO SO dark, depending on how you interpret them...I mean, I'm gonna think twice about reading my little girl Snow White, for example...

Oh, they've been on about fairy tales for years being really dark and full of hidden symbolism and meaning....especially things like Snow White and Red Riding Hood....Hansel and Gretel gave me terrible nightmares when I was little....some of those things are really horrific. Maybe kids don't view them in quite that way though....perhaps it's just as well....

My favourite books when I was a kid though were The Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree and The Enchanted Chair by Enid Blyton (I always loved magic and mystery, even back then).

Now, I'm more into Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, John Connolly, Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, James Patterson....(bit of a change from the magic and fairy stuff I was into as a kid, huh? Although HP keeps me balanced....)

And I've just started 'The Lovely Bones'...can't remember who it's by...Alice someone, I think....but what I've read so far is very haunting...and touching....

Oh my goodness, The Magic Chair!!!!! With with the chair with wings and then the puppies with wings and and the taps with soup in them and and and ohhhh....*happy sigh* I'd forgotten all about that...Enid Blyton was so cool...

Oh yes, definitely! The JK Rowling of her day. Although I have to admit that some of her stuff seems pretty dated now. Still, it's good clean, family-friendly stuff....great escapism for kids....although I think her publishers might want to rename some of the characters now...particularly in the Magic Faraway tree....know what I mean? Some of those names are really going to start giggling kids off....

the magic chair was a def classic

i dont know about you guys.
but i always loved (and still to this day) robert muncsh stories.
especially a book called "angela's airplane"
also, one of my favourite books is "The Pillars of Creation" by Terry Goodkind.
but i like anything fictional. with magic in it.

I think some of Enid Blyton's stories are somehwhat politically incorrect these days though *not that I care really, it's all a case of taking things in context...*, which is a shame...the only Enid Blyton books I see in shops these days are the Famous Five ones...and possibly the Secret Seven....

aw i was never really in2 the famous five newys...

It is a shame, yeah. All this political correctness stuff just really...well....it just does my head in, for want of a better phrase!!! (Can tell I'm Welsh, can't you? ) Some of it I can understand, because it cuts out racism, sexism and things, but it can be taken too far. I mean who on earth would take offense over a character called 'Big Ears'? It's not a dig at anyone who happens to be...er...aurally challenged....it's just a name for a flippin elf (or whatever he was!), for goodness sake...

Still...there are a lot of other great books out there that transcend age barriers as well as time....The Chronicles of Narnia, for example...The Railway Children ('It's my daddy! It's my daddy!' **tears up** That bit gets me every time...), The Secret Garden, Alice In Wonderland (Sooo full of symbolism), White Fang, Call of the Wild (absolutely brilliant books...particularly if you happen to be as fond of wolves as I am! Even before my beloved Lupin came along...beautiful animals...)

I can't say I think much of the Lemony Snicket books though...or Roald Dahl's stuff.....I read 'The Witches', 'The BFG' and 'George's Marvellous Medicine' when I was a kid, but I only tried to read 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' fairly recently. Very dark books...and I'm not talking Harry Potter kind of dark....I mean creepy, menacing, malevolent sort of dark...the kind of books that leave you feeling a little disturbed afterwards, do you know what I mean?

aw the railway children is such a tear jerker!

Ahh A series of Unfortunate Events, they're great, kinda creepy but great nonetheless, I have a feeling i wont be rereading them anytime soon as the last time i was reading one the power went out, right at the *oh no is there a murdarer over my shoulder* type of part too, pure creepy. O the Chronicles of Narnia, great books there too...

I like a ton of books. Artemis Fowl's really good. The Diary of Anne Frank is really sad towards the end. But the Harry Potter books are the best!!!

A Series of Unfortunate Events....good series. It's intresting that they're making a movie version of it. Jim Carey's suppose to be in it. I think it's coming out this Christmas.

I usually read books by my favourite authors...such as Nicholas Spark (he always leave me crying at the end of the book..*sniff*), Jude Deveraux, Iris Johansen and Sidney Sheldon...I didn't buy any of them though, instead I simply rent them from the rent-store...but since I read Harry Potter, I just couldn't resist them and buy all of the series straight away!!!

Yeah, JKR had made that much impact to me....and I'm glad!

belive it or not at my age I was never much a reader until harry Potter. Now I can't get enough of it. It is hard for me to have time to sit and read with a rwo year old, but if you guys have any suggestions of good books. I would love to hear it.

If you never read anything else in your whole life, you have to read 'Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption' by Stephen King...it has got to be one of the best, most uplifting, most touching and best written book I think I've ever read.....actually, anything by Stephen is brilliant. That guy is just simply in another world....I've never read anyone who can so totally draw a reader into his books...except maybe JKR..

Pretty much anything by Patricia Cornwell won't disappoint either....

'Past Imperfect' by John Matthews is an excellent read too if you like your thrillers with a bit of a twist....

Never been much for the romantic novels myself though really....I'd rather a good thriller or drama or something with a bit of mystery to it....

Not Agatha Christie though....films are brilliant, books have got to be the most boring things I've ever read...I find her characters very 2-D to be honest, but that's just IMHO.....of course...

Anybody ever read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom? Someone told me that I'm not supposed to be upset with the end of the book.

And I'd add The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom in there too.

The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons have a wonderful plot. The characterization isn't that brilliant. What can I say? It's Dan Brown. The latter has a story that's more predictable. Good reads nevertheless. You can add Dan Brown's Deception Point too. It's the female perspective rather than a male one (like in the other two that I mentioned).

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. That book really pulled me in. Imagine selling your soul. . .*shudder*

One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz is a really good book and made me feel better about my father. lol. It lagged at times though - still the worth the read.

If you want to start with Shakespeare, please read Twelfth Night! I never knew they knew of funny things back then.

Hmm one last one that I can think of right now. If you want some teenage story read J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. I don't care what other people say about it, it's a neat book. Maybe I find it amazing that after a few decades, I can still understand the book and Holden as a character. (I would never live life with his philosophy though). I've got to ask about that. I have a question about the book but I don't want to spoil it for anyone. . .

The Series of Unfortunate Events look dark. My brother was describing the stories and I just think the ideas introduced in it is a bit too much for children.

As a kid, I loved reading the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner and these chapter books with the Berenstein Bears. Encyclopedia Brown and Clue books were good too. I remember being obsessed with mystery books and then it became historical fiction. I probably switched around a lot.

I think the book version of Cheaper by the Dozen is funny. In a way, it reminded me of Sounds of Music. The authors last name were Carey - they were members of the actual family.

Finally, read Our Town by Thorton Wilder. I think it has a good theme we should all learn from. And maybe, just maybe if you have time, read A Raisin in the Sun (yes that play P. Diddy is in that has mixed reviews). I don't remember the playwright. . .I'm sorry.

I love Anne Rice! She is so great. Anything by her I would read.

I also like White Oleander and romance novels by Linda Howard, Julie Garwood, and Susan Mallory.

I like fantasy and sci-fi mainly. I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, and Tolkien's various Middle Earth based epics. His Dark Materials was also very good (I actually cried ).

awwwww dats so sweet! i love a boy who can cry! (but not all da time, lol)

I love the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming (they're so much better than the movies, more often than not).

The other series I love is the Gordianus the Finder series by Steven Saylor. Has anyone else read one of these? I think they're fantastic. They're detective stories set in the Ancient Roman Republic.

I'd might just read Catcher in the Rye again to relieve some stress.

There are James Bond novels? I've only heard of the movies.

Has anyone ever read Cold Mountain? Is it good?

lotr and hp but i also like tom clancy and gary paulsen but my 2th fave book is black hawk down by mark bowden but if there is any littel kids out there do not read it is really gory

I love Catcher In The Rye!!! It was the only book that we were forced to read and analyse at school that I genuinely enjoyed! So many levels in there.....brilliant book....

Did you know that there were suspicions at one time that there was some hidden kind of code in there or something to do with assassinations? I think Mark Chapman was carrying a copy of the book when he shot John Lennon, wasn't he? I'm pretty sure there were connections to JFK's assassination too, although I can't remember the details now....

Ohhh, Enid Blyton. To me she symbolizes being a second grader.
I always got annoyed though, that only the boys got to do things. I indentified with Suzie. How about the series with Fatty? Those were hilarious. And the Adventurous four, or whatever they were, were FUN. The brownie book of brownies... Ohhhh...
When I was in third grade (before my introduction to HP) I read all of Grimm's in one month.
Has anyone ever read "A big day for scepters" by Stephen King? I really love those kind of books. Light, funny, witty, the good always win and fantasy. What more do you need?
"Our Town", though is such a pesimistic story. I hated it.
Other good books are, "Gone with the wind"- such a wonderful, wonderful book. Jane Eyre is also well, for lack of discriptions, wonderful, wonderful.
The Da Vinci Code was Brilliant.
I've read The History of Mankind. That was really interesting.
Ella Enchanted is fun, too. So's Artemis Fowl, not to mention the Redwall series.
LoTR, I've never gone for too much, because by the time your at the end you've forgotten the begining. I read it in 5th grade, for the first time and for a few years after, till around two years after the LoTR movies came out I reread it every year. I gave up. Too muddling.
Narnia, has a problem. It's Christian. The symbols behind it are glaringly obvious. I didn't understand that till I was older and knew more about Christianity. I couldn't figure out those wierd, barbarian things.
High rating to the Boxcar Children. But only to the original ones (till number 19). My sister gobble dthem all up last year. Even I remember reading it in 1st grade.

My mother told me that the reason The series of Unfortunate events is such a hit, is because, after 9/11, kids liked to read stories of kids worse off than themselves. Wierd- I've always prefered Fairy tales.

Agatha Christie is the best mystery writer. No denying that. I've loved her since I stumbled across the Moving Finger in my parent's bedroom. My oldest sister and I have even read all her books that were translated to Hebrew. (We were that desperate...)
If you're looking for good tearjerkers- Jodie Picoult (Warning- it's adult reading). "Jacob have I loved" is, well *sniff*, the best tearjerker ever *sniff*
Dickens is a great author, if you're looking for good literature. Mark Twain is a genius. Dumas is also supreb, especially the Count of Monte Christo. I read it when I was 11, and I even timed myself, for the fun of it- 18 hours and 45 minutes.
The Avi is another good writer- depending on the book. Lloyd Alexander is another marvelous fantasy author. "The Hero and the Crown" is sweet.
Irene Hunt is a good author too. John Grisham has such talent, too, it's unbelievabe! He can really cause you to think.

Wow! I could go on forever. I really should get off now.
Thalia E. Muse

My favorite books are as follows:

Call of the Wild
White Fang
Eragon
Of course Harry Potter!

These are the only ones I can think of.

My favorite books besides Harry Potter have to be:

The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messanger

There really good books but you have to be able to look at eveything in different ways, like everything symbolizes something else.The Giver is kind of like the movie "The Village".

I love reading books. Besides Harry Potter my favorite books would have to be: Eragon, The Mist of Avalon, and the Artemis Fowl Series.

Hmmmm, favorite books.....I liked the idea of His Dark Materials, although the end wasn't too good in my perspective......Eragon was great, I loved it, can't wait for the next one.....ah, and Garth Nix. I loved Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, they remind me of Harry Potter except explicitly darker....not for little kids with all the Dead stuff going on....and Orannis, yup, not reccomended for little ones......

AND Artemis Fowl, i loved that, except at the time I didn't know a second book existed so I've only read parts one and three, lol.

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I liked Ella Enchanted!!!

I haven't read many books besides Hp though.

Has anyone read Eragon(sp)? I kinda want to read it.

I cannot stand Eragon. I read a chapter and I thought it was boring. Usually I'm not into fantasy. Unless it has something to do with magic, nope, I'm pretty sure I don't like it.

Hmm what's a good poet to read?

Ella Enchanted was a good book, although the movie did it no justice!
The Two Sisters of Barramere was also good (although I'm not sure the title is spelt like that) Its by the Ella Enchanted author also
The Wish is also another good book by the author of Ella Enchanted (I went through a phase where I adored her books, they are still really good)
LOTR gets me all confused.
Esperanza Rising is very good.
Rising Water is good as a quick read, not exactly a future classic or anything
The Series of Unfornate Events is very good
I love fairy tales when I was littler, still love Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella type stories.
I love Doctor Suess too!
There are plenty more, just none that I can think of right now.

Did someone in here mention The Mists of Avalon? I haven't read it yet so its sitting on my shelf getting dusty, what was it about?

I love Eragon. It is my second favorite book! If you like Lord of the Rings you will like Eragon... It has magic in it by the way.

I really enjoyed The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by Julie Ansrews. It is one of the only kids novels that I still like to this day. I also really like The Princess Bride. The movie rocks, but the book is tons better. (Isnt that the way it normally is?) And then there is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. That is a great book that makes you think. I know people that have a hard time getting in to it, but many more people agree with me that is a good book.
Fairy tales are the best as well as greek/roman mythology. They always make me feel good on crapy days.

first of all i really like fantasy books. [ i also like realistic fiction, which makes no sense but anyways] i really liked speak too! i like a wrinkle in time, number the stars, the giver, [ lois lowry] i also like the lemony snicket series. i love reading. i dont know what i would do without reading [or music]

Number the Stars was very good
The Land- historical fiction, prequel to Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry (which I have yet to read)
The Wayfinder- fantasy, very good
Coraline by Neil Gaiman- Just a little on the creepy side
Skelaton Man- very scary, be afraid, be very afraid
The Devil's Arthmitic- historical fiction, WWII holocaust, good book.

hmm I can't think of any more right now....

Speaking of the snicket series i had read one years ago. but my frineds were talking about them so i started reading ut of otder i have read the 5th,6th,and 9th i just bought the 7th i will start that on monday. it WILL NOT replace HP nothing will

Artemis Fowl, and SoUE.