Favourite Book(s)?

[eseamir]

one of my all time favourite books is pride and prejudice, I will watch, read, or listen to anything that is any sort of adaptation

 

[eggie_]

definitely depends on genre!! my fave mangas are jojo's bizarre adventure and witch hat atelier (both totally different vibes but still awesome omg)
as far as novels go, dune by frank herbert is one of my absolute #1 favorites. have read it twice and about to read it a third time LOL
we've read a bunch of stuff for my english class this year, and i honestly wasn't super stoked about the workload but i deffs cant fault my teacher for his taste in books (except for scarlet letter god i cant stand that book it was so BORING UGH). frankenstein was amazing, 1984 + the crucible were really really good.
for outside of class reading, i started a tale of two cities before school started and i didnt finish it (got a quarter thru section 2) and ohhhh my god its so good. i think if ihad to rank my favorite novels, it would be something like this:

1) Dune
2) A Tale of Two Cities
3) Frankenstein
4) The Crucible
5) 1984

 

[Jessi]

My all time favorite recently would be perks of being a wallflower. Call me sappy, but I love plots like that

 

[oranje]

I have a few favorites but my reading preferences have changed a bit since I was a kid. I used to be really into fantasy but now I'm more into historical/history with slight fantasy elements, and non-fiction. But here's my list of my all time favorites:

• Watership Down by Richard Adams (Fantasy)

When I was a kid, I used to love reading books with animal protagonists (White Fang, Call of the Wild, Silver Wing, Warrior Cats, Redwall, etc). but Watership Down was my absolute favorite. I liked how it didn't tone down the violence and it did a fantastic job with worldbuilding and fleshing out the the lives of wild rabbits.

• What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything? And Other Stories by Avi (Slice of Life)

Also a childhood favorite. Avi was an author I really liked a lot as a kid and this book in particular really spoke to me. It's a collection of short stories about kids whose lives were less than perfect and had difficult episodes in their lives and I could relate quite a bit. Reminds of Hey Arnold! in that regard.

• The Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke (Fantasy)

I loved the characters and villains and I thought the concept was pretty original. If could read characters out of books, I'd do it in a heartbeat!

• Abhorsen series by Garth Nix (Fantasy)

Necromancy! That's all I have to say! Seriously though, I love how necromancy is used here (The bells are so cool) and how the land of dead and the dead themselves are described. If someone raises the dead, somebody has to put them to them to rest!

• The His Dark Material series by Philip Pullman (Fantasy)

Again, a series that has excellent worldbuilding. I really wanted a daemon (fyi, it would be a cat). Also 12 year old me thought these were the most shocking books ever.

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Sci-fi)

Usually, I'm not a huge fan of sci-fi as a book genre but Nancy Farmer has a really good knack for humanizing her characters. One of my favorite concepts in the novel is "what is family?". Matteo as a clone questions his identity at every turn and learns how to become his own person, separate from his own flesh and blood. It's something we all have to do in our lives, at one point or another. Plus I really wished Tam Lin was my adoptive father. ;_; Adopt me rugged Scottish Papa.

• We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen (Historical Fiction)

Found this book in a college bookstore one day (see bookstores are important!) and saw a ship on it and I was like, "I like sailors" so I bought it and didn't regret it! It's about three generation of sailors in the Netherlands and how their lives out at sea affected the lives of those back home in their sailing town. Basic, but the characters are great and sometimes I just want a slower paced book.

• The Terror by Dan Simmons (Historical Fiction/Horror)

My most recent favorite and for good reason! Very suspenseful, great characters and it's interesting to see how their fates all intertwine with each other, the elements, and the beast that stalks them on the ice. Plus it has sailors!

Honorable mention: The Animorph series by K. A. Applegate. I loved this series as a kid and surprisingly, it's a pretty dark series, dealing with themes such as body horror, death, war, and self-sacrifice. It's basically a sci-fi series about child soldiers. But hey, I was too caught up wanting to turn into a cheetah to catch all of that when I first read it. Nexflix, please consider turning it into a mini-series!

 

[Imbri]

I am a lifelong bookworm, and some of my earliest memories are of reading. Trying to come up with a favorite book is hard, and almost like asking a parent who their favorite child is. In no particular order, I'd go with these:

Circe by Madeline Miller
Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows & Mary Anne Shaffer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Persuasion by Jane Austen (I love P&P, as well, but this is my favorite of her novels)

I know I'm missing a ton of them. The best books are the ones you either can keep coming back to over time or the ones that you read once but they stay with you for a long while - I felt that way after reading Go Set a Watchman. I wouldn't say it was a favorite, but it made an impression on me.

 

[Plume]

My favorite books are nonfiction books about music.
Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerad
33 1/3 Series - it's a series of books that explore specific albums. My favorite one is of course You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr, and I also really liked Doolittle (Pixies), and Hemogenic (Bjork).
A Wailing of a Town by Craig Ibarra

for fiction my favorites are probably...
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 'cause I'm an edgelord
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

I'm also really fond of children's books, especially Robert Kraus! I love Leo the Late Bloomer and Spider, Fly, and Ladybug.

And for manga...
Shigurui by Takayuki Yamaguchi
Berserk by Kentaro Miura

 

[Cherry Tree]

I have a few favourite books that I can read over and over again. Broken Wings by Virginia Andrews, Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann and The Nanny by Melissa Nathan. I'm also a series reader and hands down my favourite series is The Morganville books by Rachel Caine.

 

[Korichi]

I don’t read much anymore (though I should definitely get back into it!), but my favourite book series is Warriors by Erin Hunter! I also have a few favourites that I haven’t even read yet...:

- No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
- Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

All these books are special to me and hold a place in my heart, even though I still need to read them! Though there’s one book in particular, One Litre Of Tears by Aya Kito, is especially special to me as it was given to me by my dad one Christmas years ago.

 

[ting1984]

I was an English major back in college over a decade ago and have always lived and breathed books. Some favorites include the Bible; most material by Leo Tolstoy, John Steinbeck, Stephen Crane, Franz Kafka, and the Bronte sisters; poetry, especially T.S. Eliot, Robert Hayden, Stanley Kunitz, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Phillis Wheatley

 

[Lozzx]

I absolutely love reading, it's so hard to pick a favourite, but I think it has to be Blood Secrets by Craig Jones. I picked it up for 50p, and then lent it to someone. I haven't seen it since </3

 

[princess.looking.for.frog]

Among my favourite series are hunger games, even though it is among the most cliche series I could like. My favourite when I was younger was The Babysitters Club!

 

[GothiqueBat]

Im absolutely in love with all Of Sarah J. Maas's work! My favourite has got to be A court of mist and fury, but she's still writing more, and I need to catch up with her other works.

Also not sure if this is exactly a book? I think it was released as one but only in Japanese so I only managed to read someone's translation of it on Tumblr. -Danganronpa 0. I am an absolute weeb for the rest of danganronpa but the plot and emotions conveyed in DR0 really stayed with me and I absolutely loved it.

Manga wise it's a hard pick between Happy Sugar Life, Killing Stalking, White Angels Have No Wings + full moon. I own the first 5 volumes of full moon but hahahaha no way could I purchase the other 3... Maybe when I move out.

When I was younger I was SUPER into the warrior cats series, Harry Potter and Skullduggery Pleasent. They will always have a special place in my heart❤

 

[Midoriya]

These are the book series I have in my bookcase that I’ve read all of in years past and would recommend to anyone:

The Magyk series by Angie Sage (Favorite book series)
The Hunger Games series (A bit cliched, but still enjoyable)
The Divergent series (Interesting read)
The Circle Series by Ted Dekker (Christian fantasy/fiction)

I haven’t done any reading in awhile, but I’ve been recommended an interesting book by a friend, so I may check that out soon.