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Fahrenheit 451.- Ray Bradbury
I Robot.- Issac Asimov
One Hundred Years of Solitude(Cien Años de Soledad).-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Guardian- Jeffrey Konvitz (One of my favorites)
Narnia Saga
Harry Potter Saga

And Authors:
Edgar Allan Poe
Horacio Quiroga
Jack London
Dr. Brian Weiss
Julio Verne
Eric Nylund

And a lot i can't remember now.
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Ghosts of Onyx, read it twice, half way through the audiobook. It is undoubtedly my favourite book of all time. Oh and a sequel to it is being written, I hope it lives up to it's predecessor.
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Edgar Allan Poe.
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I liked Watership Down, it was a nice book about Bunnies that was filled with blood, death, pain and fear.

and to think... the moive is for KIDS!
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KizerZin wrote:I liked Watership Down, it was a nice book about Bunnies that was filled with blood, death, pain and fear.

and to think... the moive is for KIDS!
So was Old Yeller.
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I;m reading a book called "The Things They Carried" for English class, it's okay so far.
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Dubiousity wrote:I;m reading a book called "The Things They Carried" for English class, it's okay so far.
Okay!? That book is awesome!
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Off-topic: Currently, I am reading Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb.

On-topic:
My favorite books include The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Redwall (not a real big fan of the series now); Eragon (it got me back into reading, so I gotta give it some credit where credit is due, despite it being unoriginal); Night; His Majesty's Dragon; and Throne of Jade.
Favorite authors:
None. I don't like to pick authors, since it'll only distract me from trying other authors. But I am particularly fond of Naomi Novik's work. Even if she needs to tone it down with the complex sentence structures.
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across the wall
the abhorsen trilogy~
keys to the kingdom series~
coraline
percy jackson series
m is for magic
mirror mask
maximum ride series

~ = horribly writen books that i love.

neil gaimen and garth nix are my favorite authors. ^^
(especially mister gaimen)
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Right now I'm reading:

Ender's Game ... (awesome book)
Trying Hard To Hear You ... (it's okay, but I dislike the really informal writing style)
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (I'm going to try to suffer through all his books, so I have a valid argument when I say his books are crap. heh.) Sorry if I just offended someone. =(;;
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A Great and Terrible Beauty.

That was amazing.
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Senator_Sunburst wrote:
Dubiousity wrote:I;m reading a book called "The Things They Carried" for English class, it's okay so far.
Okay!? That book is awesome!
Well, we've only read the first chapter so far.
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Personally? I'm a huge fan of all of Tamora Pierce's works, from her Tortall books to her Circle of Magic Books.

To get into the series or for younger readers, "The Circle of Magic" and the "Song of the Lioness" quartets are the begginings of the series, but the longer and best of her books would be the Beka Cooper trilogy-in-production, the Will of the Empress, and the Trickster's Choice/Trickster's Queen duet.

A pretty good middling point between her older works to get into the series, and the length and depth of her newer books would be the "Immortals" quartet, starting with the book Wild Magic.
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My favourites are:
Redwall series by Brian Jaques.
Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Warriors series by Erin Hunter
Watership Down by Richard Adams
And a ton of random, yet still awesome stuff from Will A. Sanborn
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MartinSS wrote:My favourites are:
Redwall series by Brian Jaques.
Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Warriors series by Erin Hunter
Watership Down by Richard Adams
And a ton of random, yet still awesome stuff from Will A. Sanborn
So. Many. Books. In. That. Series.

I can't even read it cuz I have no idea which is the first one :shock:
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The last book I read was "The Count of Monte Cristo," or was it "Siddhartha?" Meh. Point is, I read them 9 months ago.
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So. Many. Books. In. That. Series.

I can't even read it cuz I have no idea which is the first one
Warriors? Yup, the book count is past 32 I believe.

*Hint, Into the Wild is the first one. ;)
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Spargo wrote:Ghosts of Onyx, read it twice, half way through the audiobook. It is undoubtedly my favourite book of all time. Oh and a sequel to it is being written, I hope it lives up to it's predecessor.
Karen Traviss is writing the sequel - I think her writing style will make the sequel fantastic. I hope.
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I knew she was writing it, I don't think it'll be as good as the original because I've read one of her books before and it got boring, very boring...
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Today I started reading The Origin of the Species.
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Sue Grafton's alphabet mystery series is pretty good.

I also like Christie and any book on mythology. :)
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I'm currently reading Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, the discworld series on a whole is very good. Also I highly recommend the Well World saga by Jack L. Chalker. Tho most are out of print now..
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MartinSS wrote:
So. Many. Books. In. That. Series.

I can't even read it cuz I have no idea which is the first one
Warriors? Yup, the book count is past 32 I believe.

*Hint, Into the Wild is the first one. ;)
Thanks!
But I still don't think i'll read it. Mostly because I'll NEVER find all 32 books in one place and I'l go insane waiting to read the next book.
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...would manga count? :S
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They're bound stacks of cellulose-based pulp strategically stained with ink to tell a story, are they not?
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Oh okay.

I've been reading Soul Eater, I like it, a lot.
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I'm now itching to get my hands on the rest of the Ender's Game saga. The best series I've read in a while.
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