What books?

What books do you guys love? Hate? Current obsessions? Longtime favorites? I read a lot and I'm always looking for new authors to read! I have a pretty broad interest... Please share!! Unless I'm the only dork that still reads real books... Haha!

My current obsession is the Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris. Anybody who is a fan of True Blood on HBO should read these!

Also, my alltime favorite author is Jane Austen... I couldn't tell you how many times I've read Pride and Prejudice!

I've always got a book on me. I tend to lean towards the "who done-its" type of genre. Harlan Coben is a favorite. I like Jonathon Kellerman and his wife Faye Kellerman. I recently discovered an author named Tananarive Due - her books aren't really in the same genre, but still has you turning the pages to figure out what happens next. The Living Blood is a good book to start with.

I also like werewolf/romance type books. I adore Donna Boyd's books, The Promise was one of my favorites. Also, Virginia Lanier has a series of Bloodhound books that are pretty awesome. I believe I read that she has died, so once you read her series, there are no more on the way.

My library has a section when you first come in where the librarians put up new releases and some of their favorites, and I usually just head there and get about 10 books, all sorts of different authors. None have disappointed so far.

I also don't even listen to the radio any longer, I head to the books on CD section, and I find the ones for Young Adults to be the best stories. I recently got hooked on the Pendragon series. My commute to work is about 30 minutes, and home is 45 minutes. And any time I'm on a road trip alone, I always make sure I have a couple of books on CD for the trip.

Oh, and the Kindle is going to be mine one day!!!!

Have you read the Otherworld series by Yasmin Galenorn? You might like those! Also Rachel Vincent has a series about werecats that I love!

Stephen King "Dark Tower Series", "The Stand"
Anne McCaffhrey "Dragon Riders of Pern"
Donna Tart "Secret History"
E.E. Knight has a dragon series which is pretty good.
Anne Rice "The Mayfair Witch Series"

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Anne Rice "The Mayfair Witch Series"

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I love anything by Anne Rice, the Mayfair Witches especially! I also have all of the Vampire Chronicles...

Another series I really like is the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, etc...) by Christopher Paolini. I can't wait for the next installment!

My favourite authors are Darren Shan, Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell and S.E Hinton.

I have quite a few different favourite books. I could easily say my favourite book is probably A Clockwork Orange. An absolutely amazing book and quite a badazzz movie. That Kubrick was a damn genius.

Other favourites include Invisible Monsters, Fight Club, 1984, the Outsiders, Animal Farm, the Harry Potter series, and Darren Shan's vampire saga.

I also really enjoy books they had us read in school. Lord Of The Flies, To Kill A Mockingbird, LOADS of Shakespeare plays.

I love reading. I plan to major in English.

I also loved the required reading in school! Especially The Outsiders, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Romeo and Juliet. There was another one that I really liked but I don't remember what it was called...

I read constantly John Grisham, Michael Crichton are a couple of my favorite authors, 1984 is a great one too

Wraeththu by Storm Constantine.

I love the Dragonlance series, as I know Tracy Hickman personally.

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Have you read the Otherworld series by Yasmin Galenorn? You might like those! Also Rachel Vincent has a series about werecats that I love!

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Thanks for the tips - I'll have to check them out. We have an awesome library, and I just simply put books on reserve online, and they e-mail me when they're ready to pick up. And they're about 2 miles from me. Sweet!

John Saul has been my absolute favorite author since I was a child. He does mostly horror/suspense type work and I have yet to find even one of his books that I didn't love. The Blackstone Chronicles was the first book of his that I read and is definitely at the top of my list. I recommend his work to anyone that loves reading.

I'm pretty much a pure fantasy reader, and my book collection shows it. I think out of over 600 books only 10 aren't based on dragons or magic of some sort (and five of those ten are poems! Bah!).

A few of my favorites are R.A. Salvatore (Drizzt!), E.E Knight (Age of Fire. Quality starts to die out by the 4th book, but hoping the next two are as good as the first three.), and Elizabeth Kerner. I believe the last only has one series to her tally - starting with Song in the Silence, but that trilogy is pretty much my inspiration. They're the only books that have gotten me attached enough to the characters to be crying right along with them.

Another series I've been following, and is hyping up to be a new obsession, is Kate Elliot's Crossroads series. It's a slow start, but gets it hook in you about three chapters in. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get my hands on Traitor's Gate to finish it off. :mad:

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John Saul has been my absolute favorite author since I was a child. He does mostly horror/suspense type work and I have yet to find even one of his books that I didn't love. The Blackstone Chronicles was the first book of his that I read and is definitely at the top of my list. I recommend his work to anyone that loves reading.

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I used to have a few of his books but they were lost in a move. I think my favorite was Suffer The Children. I'm pretty sure that's what it was called. It was crazy!

I like to read anything with werewolves or vampires. I also enjoyed the harry potter books and the neverending story. Also anybooks with sea monsters or shark related. Any kind of educational book containing information about the animals I keep. And I have tons of maneater books with animal attack stories

Two people who I used to like were Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski...

What we have on our book shelf: Koontz, King/Bachman, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, Feist, Dan Simmons (love his books), Rice, Tolkien, Rowling, Liam Hearn... etc. Lots of sci-fi fantasy stuff. King, Koontz and Jordan pretty much dominate our shelves. :p

I love going to the new releases pile and picking up whatever catches my fancy. Right now I am reading The Affinity Bridge, and Chris is still working on The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons.

I should just go to my book shelf and name off all the authors... Haha! Connie, I have ALL of the Vampire Chronicles by Rice and also the Mayfair Witches. I've always enjoyed vampire books/movies ever since I saw Interview With A Vampire when I was little. Now all you can find are vamp books...