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Come here and share your favourite books, novellas, babylonian wheel scripts or what not with the rest of us.

Here's my short list:

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (another Scott...)

Jingo/Witches Abroad/Maskerade/The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

The Outsider - Albert Camus

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Collector - John Fowles

The Belgariad Series - David Eddings (the basic story might not be too original, but the in-depth nature of the different societies and the characters make it worthwhile. Avoid The Mallorean Series at all costs though)

Be prepared for me to suddenly remember that I forgot some.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Perks of being a Wallflower

Go Ask Alice

Slam

Holes

I don't read much. Harry Potter is basically all that I read. I decided to check it out after I heard all of hype. I didn't start reading until a few weeks after the 3rd book was released.

All of the other books I listen I had to read in school. I liked all of them quite a bit.

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Angels and Demons : Dan Brown

- Very good read, kept me turning the pages deep into the night. I remember when I was getting close to the end I started reading at about 10:00 one night, and ended up finally putting it down at midnight when I finished it. Never actually done that with a book before, I was that interested in it. Ended up reading DaVinci Code after that, but it wasn't a great as Angels and Demons.

HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy : Douglas Adams

- A must read for anyone. After reading reviews for the movie saying it was nothing like the books, I decided to go ahead and get the books hoping that they would be better. Ended up putting it down half way through the series (think I just ended up rereading Harry Potter again >_>) and about a year later I picked it up again and read it all the way through and really really enjoyed it. Enough humor to keep me laughing, enough story to keep me interested.

Other books that I liked

His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman (Decent read, didn't like the ending)

Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling (Decent read, first two books started the series off slow, third was good, fourth was boring, and the rest just got better from there)

Cell - Stephen King (Good read, horrible ending)

Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King (Good read, but short sense I am accustomed to longer fantasy)

The Mist - Stephen King (Part of the Skeleton Crew. Good read, but very short)

Lord of the Flies (Good read, started off odd)

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (At first I hated this book, but after reading it for a second time, it grew on me)

Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Meaning of Life - Bradley Trevor Grieve

Candy - Kevin Brooks

Sloppy Firsts -Megan McCafferty

There are more, but I don't want to go search my room. =P

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  • 4 months later...

My favourite books are

A Passage to India Edward Morgan Forster

A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving

A World Turned Over Lorian Hemingway

Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt

An Annotated Alice Martin Gardner

Breakfast Of Champions Kurt Vonnegut

Child of God Cormac McCarthy

City Alessandro Baricco

City at Night Zachary Weiner

Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

East of Eden John Steinbeck

Emma Jane Austen

Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco

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Pendragon - D.J. MacHale

-Merchant of Death

-The Lost City of Faar

-The Never War

-The Reality Bug

-Black Water

-Rivers of Zadaa

-The Quillian Games

-Pilgrims of Rayne

-The Raven's Rise

-The Soldiers of Halla (Not yet released)

Pendragon: Before the War - D.J. MacHale

-Book One of the Travelers

-Book Two of the Travelers

-Book Three of the Travelers

The Underland Chronicles - Suzanne Collins

-Gregor The Overlander

-Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

-Gregor and the Curse of the Warm Bloods

-Gregor and the Marks of Secret

-Gregor and the Code of the Claw

The Last Apprentice - Joseph Delaney

-Revenge of the Witch

-Curse of the Bane

-Night of the Soul Stealer

-Wrath of the Bloodeye

-Attack of the Fiend

Septimus Heap - Angie Sage

-Magyk

-Flyte

-Physik

-Queste

The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud

-The Amulet of Samarkand

-The Golem's Eye

-Ptolemy's Gate

Guardians of Ga'Hoole - Kathryn Lasky

-The Caputre

-The Journey

-The Rescue

-The Siege

-The Shattering

-The Burning

-The Hatching

-The Outcast

-The First Collier

-The Coming of Hoole

-To Be a King

-The Golden Tree

-The River of Wind

-Exile

-The War of the Ember

Keys to the Kingdom - Garth Nix

-Mister Monday

-Grim Tuesday

-Drowned Wednesday

-Sir Thursday

-Lady Friday

-Superior Saturday

-Lord Sunday

The Abhorsen Trilogy - Garth Nix

-Sabriel

-Lirael

-Abhorsen

Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

-Eragon

-Eldest

-Brisingr

-Unknown Name

Inkheart Trilogy - Cornelia Funke

-Inkheart

-Inkspell

-Inkdeath

The Fire Within Series (Not sure if this is the actual series's title) - Chris D'Lacey

-The Fire Within

-Icefire

-Fire Star

-Fire Eternal

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Micheal Scott

-The Alchemyst

-The Magician

Shandril's Saga - Ed Greenwood

-Spellfire

-Crown of Fire

-Hand of Fire

Dragonlance Series - Many authores...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels

The Dark Elf Trilogy - R. A. Salvatore

-Homeland

-The Fires of Narbondel - Mark Anthony

-Exile

-Sojourn

The Icewind Dale Trilogy - R. A. Salvatore

-The Crystal Shard

-Streams of Silver

-The Halfling's Gem

Legacy of the Drow - R. A. Salvatore

-Dark Mirror - Jame Lowder

-The Legacy

-Starless Night

-Siege of Darkness

-Passage to Dawn

Paths of Darkness - R. A. Salvatore

-The Silent Blade

-The Spine of the World

-Servant of the Shard (Also the first book in the The Sellswords series)

-Sea of Swords

The Hunter's Blades Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore

-The Thousand Orcs

-The Lone Drow

-The Two Swords

-The Dowry (A short story appearing at the end of the novel The Highwayman)

-Comrades at Odds (A short story appearing in the Last Mythal Anthology Realms of the Elves) - Phillip Athans

Transitions - R. A. Salvatore

-The Orc King

-The Pirate King

-The Ghost King

Note: Will be updated from time to time

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Few of mine are:

Before I Die Jenny Downham

Eragon Christopher Paolini

Eldest Christopher Paolini

The Black Tattoo Sam Enthoven

Resident Evil Books S.D. Perry

Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen [Trilogy] Garth Nix

Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass [Trilogy] Phillip Pullman

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