Favourite book/series?

[StasyWalker]

What is your favourite book or book series? Why? My favorite books are a series called the Earth's Children series,& they're by Jean M.Auel.(The first book in the series is called 'Clan of the Cave Bear',then it's 'Valley of the Horses','The Mammoth Hunters','Plains of Passage','Shelters of Stone',& the final book in the series is 'The Land of Painted Caves'.I love those books;even though there's only 6 books in the series,she puts so much research into them that the first book came out in 1981,and the final book didn't come out until 2011. And romeo and juliet by william shakespeare The fifth book came out in 2002,so I was so excited when the 6th & final book came out because I had been waiting 9 years for it. They take place in ice age Europe during the late Pleistocene Era,which I've always been really fascinated with.

 

[CJ]

It's been a while since I read a book, but as a gamer, I really enjoyed Console Wars by Blake J. Harris. A really engaging story of how former Mattel President Tom Kalinske was hired by Sega to help the struggling company go against Nintendo back in the early 90's.

As for classic novels, Charles Dickens Great Expectations is my all-time favorite. I highly reccommend it.

I also enjoyed the Jules Verne novels 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & Journey to the Center of the Earth.

 

[ComicChick]

Sabaa Tahir's Ember in the Ashes series is probably my favorite series i've read in a very very long time. ive read each book 3 times already.

also, i really like Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse, particularly the Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom Duology

and Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy/Bloodlines series are very fond favorites from when i was younger. ive read the Vampire Academy series at least twice through, and almost every Bloodlines book twice as well.

 

[Silvermoon]

I don't know that I can pick just one.... so just a few of my favorite book series:

Mercy Thompson/Alpha & Omega (counting it as one series because they are somewhat interconnected/have started overlapping a bit more) - by Patricia Briggs

Green Rider series - by Kristen Britain

Like @ComicChick, The Grisha books/series (specifically Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom and by gosh I wish she would write more about Kaz and his group of miscreants) - by Leigh Bardugo

Bone Witch series by Rin Chupeco (still need to read the most recent one)

Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman (3rd book should be coming out this fall!)

 

[ComicChick]

@Silvermoon finally someone else who has read the Grisha books
i'm actually tempted to re-read them

 

[Thorne316]

I'm partial to John Sandford's Prey series, that old Lucas Davenport fella is tough as old leather and twice as ornery.

 

[joombo]

Harry Potter for me. I read all books a few times and I even wrote an essay about my fav character based on these books. With some help of wiritng service here https://uk.essayshark.com I got the hignest score in the class.

 

[childeroland]

Series:
The Gormenghast books.
The Chronicles of Narnia.
The Aegypt series
The Dark Tower (books 1-4 only)
The Alice books


Individual Books:
The Neverending Story
Luds-in-the-Mist
Little Big
Winter's Tale
Lolita
The Divine Comedy
Pride and Prejudice
Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible translation
Richard Lattimore's New Testament
Shakespeare's major tragedies
Exercises in Style
Jealousy
The Voyeur
The Erasers
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Homeric epics
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

 

[ComicChick]

Throne of Glass series turned out to be pretty enjoyable for me

 

[JimThompson]

Series:
The Fleming Bond series
Robert B. Parker's Spencer series
Andrew Vachss Burke series
Don Pendleton's Executioner series (1-38)
Murphy and Sapir's Destroyer series
John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series
Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
Bill Granger's November Man series
Stephen King's The Dark Tower series
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance series (Chronicles and Legends)
Craig Johnson's Longmire series
John LeCarre's Smiley series
Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series
Robert Ludlum's Bourne trilogy
Raymond Chandler's Marlowe series
Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series
Robert Howard's Solomon Kane series
Robert Howard's Conan series
Robert Howard's King Kull series
Tim Jenkins and Jerry Jenkin's Left Behind series
Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series
Leslie Charteris' Saint series
Nick Carter Killmaster series

Individual novels/works:
The Bible
The Matarese Circle, Robert Ludlum
Spycatcher, Peter Wright
Beowulf
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
Friday, Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein
The Past Through Tomorrow, Robert Heinlein
The Parsifal Mosaic, Robert Ludlum
The Aquitaine Progression, Robert Ludlum
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Stand, Stephen King
Layercake, J.J. Connelly
Contact, Carl Sagan
The Immense Journey, Loren Eiseley
'Salems Lot, Stephen King
American Gods, Neil Gaimen
Good Omens, Neil Gaimen
The Gentle Assassin, Clay Richards
The Dogs of War, Frederick Forsyth
The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
The Negotiator, Frederick Forsyth
The Deceiver, Frederick Forsyth
License Renewed, John Gardner
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
Final Blackout, L. Ron Hubbard
Shalako, Louis Lamour
Heller with a Gun, Louis Lamour
Last of the Breed, Louis Lamour
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Colonel Sun, Kingsley Amis
No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Down the River unto the Sea, Walter Mosley
On Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates
Love and Glory, Robert B. Parker
James Bond: The authorized biography, John Pearson
Star Trek: Federation, Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens
Star Trek: Prime Directive, Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens
Star Trek The Next Generation: Q-Squared, Peter David
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
World War Z, Max Brooks
The Virginian, Owen Wister
Musashi, Eiji Yosikawa
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Love Story, Erich Segal
Oliver's Story, Erich Segal
Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
The Night Manager, John Le Carre
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
The Sicilian, Mario Puzo
Sharky's Machine, William Diehl
The 7 Habit's of Highly Effective People, Stephen R Covey
The Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey
Babbit, Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

 

[Fincher]

I'm not the biggest reader around, but my favorite book is Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, and my favorite series is The Dark Tower.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Favorite book is a toss up between ‘The Feast of All Saints’ by Anne Rice and ‘East of Eden’ by Steinbeck.

Hands down, Harry Potter is my favorite book series.

 

[jolldan]

Happy Roald Dahl day everyone

 

[Slade W]

Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari are two great books that I have read in recent years. They are amongst my favourite books ever, and are the best books I have read in recent years. Obama has praised Sapiens and Bill Gates has praised both Sapiens and Homo Deus, and both are known for going through lots of books. If I recall, Bill Gates had Sapiens 7th on a list of his favourite books ever. Basically what I am saying is, I highly recommend both books. They are very thought-provoking and can change how you view many things, both in the present and in history. Yuval Noah Harari is great at seeing the big picture.

 

[gaffer]

Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are my top two favorite series.

 

[Marvolo]

In no particular order:

Malazan books
Harry Potter
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books
Dresden Files
Riyria world books
Powder Mage books
Longmire Mysteries
Pet Semetary