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Books I have loved pls add yours 2
Books to love - an incomplete list - thought to share and asks 4 yours 2
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Books that I have loved *Reading*(mostly from my youth)- Please let me know some of yours (e-mail or reveiw) and which ones of these you agree are special *Idea*- There is no order here and these are books for a variety of differant ages. This is just something for fun and sharing..... Please send your suggestions to me so that I can add them to the list (and possibly read them myself!). I am grateful for each addition! *Delight*

Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court,
The Prince and the Pauper,
The Call of the Wild,
White Fang,
Little Big Man,
The Horatio Hornblower series, by C.S. Forester,
The Man Who Never Was
The Harry Potter series,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Harriet the Spy
The Tales of Alvin Maker Series by Orson Scott Card
The Phantom Tollbooth *Flower6*
Charlotte's Web
Jansson, Tove: The Moomim books
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood *Snow2*
Johnny Tremain
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be *Bigsmile*
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson
Robinson Crusoe
My side of the Mountain
The Wind In The Willows
The Lorax *Flower6*
The adventures of Huck Finn
The Mouse that Roared *Balloon3*
The Secret Garden
The Narnia Series (not counting the last book)
Otto of the Silver Hand
The Pushcart War
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. ...Frankweiler
-E.C. Tubb (author)Dumerest of Terra series all 32 books (pulp chain sci fi)
-Andre Norton (author) the following -
Sea Siege
Galactic Derelict
Judgment on Janus
Plague Ship
Postmarked the Stars
Sargasso of Space
Star Gate
Star Born
Star Guard
Uncharted Stars
Victory on Janus
X Factor
Zero Stone
Starhunter & Voodoo Planet
The stars are ours
-E Nesbit (author)the following -
The Railway Children
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Storey of the Amulet
-Edmond Cooper (author) The Cloud Walker - I wish I had this book still!*Balloon6*
-James Schmitz (author)The Witches of Karres - also wish I had this one!
-John Christopher The Guardians *Heart* - and want this one too! also his Tripod series
-Jack Vance (author)The Languages of Pao
-Alexei Parshin (author)Rite of Passage - another book I really loved and have lost
-Robert Heinlein (author) the following
Have Space Suit WIll Travel
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
-Fred Saberhagen (author) the following
Empire of the east
and all the sword books
-Larry Niven (author)the following
The Mote in God's Eye
Ringworld
-Gordon Dickinson (author)The Dragon and the George
Hello God It's Me, Margaret
That Was Then, This Is Now
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Once A Great Notion
Clockwork Orange
The Hobbit,
The Lord of The Rings (trilogy),
Nine Princes in Amber,
Cemetery World,
The Black Caldron,
Black Beauty,
The Princess Bride *Bigsmile*
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984,
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Outsider (Camus)
The Kiss
Don Quiote
Gullivers Travels
17 Flags (This might be titled 15 flags - book about Russia)
Clan of the Cave Bear
Nine and a half weeks (9 1/2 weeks) (not the movie the book big differance in meaning between the two)
The asbestoes Dairies (-2 points for spelling - a very rare book)
Short stories by Twain, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Brautigan, Doris Lessing,
Ionesco and poety by E.E. Cummings
and
Anything Vonnegut, Kotzwinkle, Brautigan, Mark Twain, Steinbeck Truman Capote, P.K. Dick and A. Nin.

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Other Writing.com member suggestions follow - *Smile* (please keep sending in your suggestions so that I can add them also)
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
No promises in the wing by Irene HUnt
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Indiscreet by Peggy Webb
Come back to me by Josie Litton
Believe in me By Josie Litton
Dream Of me by Josie Litton
Destiny Strikes Twice by Maris Soule
Tightrope by Gillian Cross
The Unconsoled by Kazou Ishiguro is the most fascinating book I've ever read.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
The Catcher In The Rye
The Bible
The Koran
lord of the flies by william golding
Emma, by jane austin
anything and everything Marion Keyes wrote
Nora Roberts' books
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred Taylor
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Miss Nelson Is Missing by Harry Allard
Superfudge by Judy Blume
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, Trip to the Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Anne Rice's The Witching Hour
Thomas Covenant series by Stephen Donaldson
the McNally series by Lawrence Sanders
What? I see no Stephen King on your list!
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Debbie is an excellant book of adopted parents only child Debbie passing on written by Preacher Doug White
Freedom Tree is precivil war of a black womans life and marriage to a white Boston upper socialite by Marie Middleton with 2 revised by male writer editions. Is a bit diiferent I expected forum of why reading is impotant so I do thank you.
Bridge to Terribithia
The Giving Tree
Dear America Series
Angela's Ashes
Island of the Blue Dolphin
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Watership Down
Long Day's Journey into Night
Maniac Magee
Slaughter House Five
A Raisin in the Sun..
There were two books that impressed me over the past year and a half maybe(?)...one is God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (bit late in the day considering that she won the Booker years ago) and the other is Shantaram - a 900 page book by Gregory David Roberts, an Australian adventurer...bit of Indian flavor there....incidentally, Shantaram is now being picturized with Johnny Depp starring as Shantaram a.k.a Gregory David Roberts.
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Another one is The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks.
James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
The Chrysalids
'Patriot Games'
'Ender's Game''Faerie Wars'
The entire Discworld series. It's the best!
'The Sword of Shannara' did everything 'The Lord of the Rings' did in one book, without the useless descriptions and twice as skillfully
Animorphs
The Boxcar Children
'A Ring of Endless Light'
If you like suspense and thriller then Mary Higgins Clark is awesome.
A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark
All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
I'm the King of the Castle' by Susan Hill, is one of my very favourite books!
'Child of the Jago' by Arthur Morrison.
The Monk, Matthew Lewis
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
Tomorrow When the War Began, John Marsden
Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind
The Belgariad, David Eddings
A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
Don't Call Me Ishmael, Michael Gerard Bauer
Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight, Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow
Catch 22
Shogun
Atlas Shrugged
Armor
Gridlinked
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
Salem's Lot
The Stand, by Stephen King
The Looking Glass Wars and Seeing Redd.by Frank Beddor
the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
Enid Blyton Adventure Series. I thought it was great.
I liked "Baree, Son of Kazan" a wolf book like Jack London's
And Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning" a cowboy story.

And anything by Lawrence Block, A. J. Quinnel, James Lee Burke, John Lescroart, David Morrell, and Robertson Davies.

This is a play not a book however worth adding "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder.

The Inkheart Series

Duchess Bu Night by Eloisa James





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