What are your favourite books?

Question

And what are they about briefly?

Answer 1

I love magical - fantasy books.

Harry Potter
King Fortis the Brave
Chronicles of Narnia
Eragon

They all keep you turning the pages!

Answer 2

~The Narnia books. They are about a Land called Narnia that is ruled by a talking Lion called Aslan. It is set back is the years when people would say stuff like 'Tophole', and wouldn't get beat up for saying it. People from the real world would sometimes stumble into tis Mystical place and encounter foes like an evil White Which, a kidnapping fawn and many more.

Romeo and Juliet. About two young people who fall in love and are from two different families who hate each other. After a clever plan to run away together goes awry, the both eventually kill themselves for each other, and with their deaths uniting the two families as allies.

These two r the only books that I could think of now, but they r my top favourites and they were really fun to read and almost unputdownable (I made that word up :)

Answer 3

Yesterday I bourght a book and yesterday I read it. It is now my fave book. It is called ELSEWHERE. You may have heard of it.

The story follows a girl called Liz who gets hit by a car. She dies and soon finds herself arriving at a place called Elsewhere. In Elsewhere, you don't get older, you only get younger. And when you are a baby you are sent to become a new life. You cannot die and all pain and hurt heals quickly.

Liz died at 15 so she has a very short life in Elsewhere. But in that time she mets her grandmother, finds a new best friend, gets a dog and falls in love. It is such a beautiful story and I just love it. It's in the top 30 books for this year or something. Even the cover is sweet.

This story has her death and then her afterlife so it may sound gruesome or scary. It's not and I love it all.

It is written by Gabrielle Zevin.

Answer 4

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life… even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less?

Answer 5

Shoeless Joe--The baseball book that inspired Field of Dreams.

Underground by Haruki Murakami It is a book about the sarin attacks in the Tokyo train system in 1995. Very powerful book.

Answer 6

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels, about a colony starting with a spaceship crashlanding on an isolated planet and growing into a unique world, blending feudalism, magic and genetic engineering, and the clash with the Terrans when, centuries later, the planet is "rediscovered".

Answer 7

Harry Potter - ANY book but Goblet of Fire was the best.
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Tom's Midnight Garden
Left Behind Series

Answer 8

To Marilyn M: Abt The Shipping News might've watched the movie sometime ago..could u jog my memo and brief all of us on story. + Isabel Allende, Michael Ondaatje and Yann Martel are good. You wouldn't expect this of a suspense author but David Baladacci has some original literary devices.

Answer 9

Academic Wise - Engineering Mathematics by K.A. Stroud

Personal Reading - anything by James Herbert, they are classed as horror. His first few novels did fit the horror genre but his later stuff doesn't IMHO and I find his later stuff better.

LMAO
If anybody does put the bible, the description should be something like - Hard to read book about this guy who can be everybody's imaginary friend.

Answer 10

I love George Orwell. I try to read '1984' every year, as much for the purity of its language as for its social commentary. Better yet, Orwell's essays and journalism are amongst the best examples of literary non fiction anywhere or by anyone. The shorter ones collected in the anthology 'Shooting an Elephant' are a delight, although my preference is for 'Homage to Catalonia'.

Answer 11

I love books, and will read just about anything. My favourite fiction is sf, especially cyberpunk, and my favourite nonfiction is anything that tells me what I want to know, which varies but is usually some practical thing as opposed to autobiographies or history. My single most often referred-to tome is my mini London A-Z. I keep it in my pannier and am forever looking streets up in it as I ride around this lovely town.