It's that time again, chickies! Again, this is kind of an older question, but I don't know how many people are around now that were around back then, or if the answers changed, so here goes:
What are your all-time favorite books (list as many as you want!)?
1. the handmaids tale by margerate atwood
2. the pillars of the earth by ken follett
3. wifey by judy blume
4. rebecca by daphne du maurier
5. the stone diaries by carol shields
"The Once and Future King" by T.H. White (I'm a huge medieval lit and arthurian lit fan)
"The Canterbury Tales" and "Book of the Duchess" by Chaucer-- in its original Middle English
"Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
All the Harry Potter books... Book 3 is probably my favorite, and Book 4
"Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of the Island" by Lucy Maud Montgomery-- I love these books, very comforting.
"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett--my favorite children's book
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte (bc she's just that friggin awesome)
"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen-- great social commentary, funny and satirical if one reads it properly
"Medea" by Euripedes (technically not a book, but an awesome, powerful play)
Being a Classics major, of course the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, etc.
Those are the ones I can think of now. I'm a huge bibliophile. I also like books by Barbara Michaels (and her pseudonym, Elizabeth Peters), Mary Higgins Clark, etc.
I'm with Alaynna. I love Nicholas Sparks books! I also like Stephen King books. Dan Brown isn't a bad author, either. I love reading! Here's some of my faves:
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
Sole Survivor (Dean Koontz)
Bag of Bones (Stephen King)
You Belong to Me (Mary Higgins Clark)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
ncola, I read "The Once And Future King" when I was 9 years old b/c it was required summer reading for my older sister. I remember wanting to read it b/c a) I was (and still am!) a major bibliophile, b) It was the thickest book I had ever seen in my life and c) I wanted to do everything my older sister did.
I might not have understood everything, but I managed to read the entire thing that summer.
I just got done reading "Citizen Girl", by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus, the authors of "The Nanny Diaries". I highly, highly recommend it.
Keep the lists coming, girls! I'm writing down some of these authors for when I go to the library tomorrow.
jenn-- that's one of the things I love about The Once and future King. I first read it in hs and I thought it was great. But when I went to college I took an Arthurian lit class (I concentrated on medieval lit in my English major) and we read all these texts starting back in the 6th century. At the end of the course I had to read TOAFK again, and I got soooo much more out of it-- so many little nuances and allusions. That's what I love-- every time you learn a little more, you reevaluate what you've read and it makes it just that much more poignant. Books like that rock.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Gian'ts House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Rings
any Steinbeck
all of the Harry Potter books (but especially Goblet of Fire), The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, THe Joy Luck Club, Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights
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