Here's a list of books that I love. Read on.
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. It's a good, sad story about these girls who live in a Hitler-like family. It's great.
Mr. Pratt by Joseph C Lincoln. This book is from the turn of the century, and is utterly hilarious. I highly doubt very many people have a copy, or would know where to get a hold of one. It's a strange thing that I have one myself. It's so funny though!
This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I like this one best... It's messed up and amazing. It makes me want to read every book that was ever written!
The Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, and Amber Spyglass, by Phillip Pullman. These are my favorite books, never felt such powerful emotions as when I read these books. The best, I swear.
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. This book is like the diary I've never written. Seriously, I bet I highlighted half of it. It made me feel like I was reading my own thoughts. Scary but engulfing.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's odd to say, but this book really made me believe in true love. I know that's not the point of it at all, but that's what I felt while reading it. I got about 50 plus quotes from this book, too.
Sabriel, Lirael, and The Abhorsen by Garth Nix, also very good books, though Abhorsen doesn't even seem to be written by Nix. It's no where near as good as the others.
The Mists of Avalon. I've read this book 3 or 4 times, which is insane, since it's over 800 pages... Love it, though, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Great story!!
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder is super! I love history, and philosophy, and liked learning through this book. I like learning through tricky things.
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Took a class about this book, and the movies. I loved the book. Shelley was a great writer, even if she did it for a contest.
Coming Of Age In Mississippi by Anne Moody. I actually read this for a history class, and it just killed me. I finished reading it probably two good weeks before we were supposed to (blush). It really touched me. It's a great book about well, coming of age in the fifties as a black woman in the south... You get a perspective from someone who's trying her best to rise above something impossible and infuriating, and it just made me cry. It's a great book, even if I got to know it through my US History class!
I really liked Dickens as a child, and probably still would now, Great Expectations having been my favorite way back when (can you imagine anyone actually getting excited to read that in 9th grade English? Hehe I was!)
I was insane about L Frank Baum and all of the Oz books. I thought they were so cool!
I adore/d C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Have the set, watched the BBC movies, loved it. I'm an imaginative kid at heart.
I've read the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes, actually, I HAVE the entire collection. I like that, too, and I've read the majority of all of Agatha Christie's books... I suppose that's because, when I was little, I liked Nancy Drew books, and Agatha Christie is like a grown-up Nancy Drew type story... Well not really but they're both mysteries!
Dennis McKiernan (sp?) also has a good set of books, called Into The Forge and Into The Fire, which are good, and very much resemble the Lord of the Rings. They're still good, though!
I guess that's all I can think of for now. These are the things I like--- pretty much everything, in other words! Read them all, if you'd like!
My favorite phrase from an author: "I write for myself and ...strangers." ~Gertrude Stein
~Mlle Collette