What are your favorite books/authors?

Question

I have a goal to read at minimum one book a week for the rest of my life. i am looking for suggestions. Right now i am reading Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen.


I like all different kinds of books

Answer 1

I like that one-a-week goal - I think I might end up trying for something like that myself.

One of my favorite books is Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which covers the time period Jane Austen wrote about.

I really enjoyed "Little, Big" by John Crowley (contemporary fantasy)

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is great. (Edit: I should probably add the titles. First one is "Northern Lights" in the UK and "The Gorden Compass" in the US, second is "The Subtle Knife," and third is "The Amber Spyglass")

I liked Gregorie Magurie's "Wicked," and the sequel, "Son of a Witch" - they both left so much to think about.

"The Historian" was fun, though the ending was somewhat disappointing.

Um - well, those are some of the ones that are coming to mind at the moment, though I'm sure there are many others. I hope they're of some help to you.

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One final note: I read Jane Eyre a couple of weeks ago. It was a decent book, but I personally enjoyed the story and writing in Pride and Prejudice a lot more.

Answer 2

a million. The count number of Monte Cristo 2. Gravity's Rainbow 3. Frankenstein 4. Huckleberry Finn 5. Neuromancer 6. A Confederacy of Dunces 7. The Crying of Lot 40 9 8. A Farewell to hands 9. The Kite Runner 10. capture-22 11. To Kill a Mockingbird 12. Alice in Wonderland thirteen. The Phantom Tollbooth 14. The intense King 15. 1984 16. The Alchemist 17. Lord of the Flies 18. the strong Earth 19. The Bridge Over the River Kwai 20. the guy interior the intense Tower

Answer 3

I've just bought three new books last week, they are Multiple Choise, My best friend , and Mine.. I'm not finished reading them yet.. my favourite book right now is THe Tea House In Mulbery Street by Sharon Owens.. as for the author, I just liked J.K Rowling..

I've read Pride And Prejudice when I was in grade 6..and the story is great,,..you should also read Little Women..coz you'l find the story will throw your heart away...it's really touching story...


I also read a book a week...since I was in grade 5

Answer 4

Well, my favorite book is "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. So, if you haven't read that one, I suggest it. Some other good ones are, "1984" and "Animal Farm", both by George Orwell, "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, "Tuesdays with Morrie" (I cried, its sooo good, but I can't remember who the author is), "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "The Coral Island" by R.M. Ballantyne, "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells, any John Steinbeck novel, especially "Of Mice and Men", "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, and if you want something similar to "Pride and Predjudice", try "Jane Eyre" by Charolette Bronte.

Answer 5

Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini.
"The Artemis Fowl" series by Eoin Colfer
"His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman

All brilliant books.

Currently Reading "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth

Forgot about Gregory Magurie's "Wicked," A great book -sequel was just OK

Answer 6

Hey, that's a very honorable goal! One of my favorite books of all time is called "Blindness" by Jose Saramago. He won a Nobel prize for literature, so I'm not the only one who thinks he's cool. "Blindness" is about an epidemic of contagious blindness and how it affect the ways we see one another, what it means to "be seen" and the complex ways we interact. I enjoy Victorian literature like Dickens and the Austens, so I think we might both like it!

Actually, Jane Eyre is one of my all time favorites...such a tragic tale. Hope you have fun with you reading!

Answer 7

John Grisham books, like The Firm, The Runaway Jury..
Nicholas Sparks books like The Message in the Bottle...

Answer 8

If you like stuff like Jane Austen, you might like other Victorian novelists like Henry James, although, Henry James is by far better than Jane Austen. Virginia Woolf, and the Brontes are excellent also.

Answer 9

Anne Rice
Edna Buchanan-non fiction and mysteries
Carol O`Connell
Carl Hiaasen
Elizabeth Jenkins
Carolly Erickson

Answer 10

I'll take stuff from what I'm reading right now:

Graham Greene, one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. He writes a dreary, melancholic atmosphere, and yet has moments of utter hilarity. There aren't many authors like that.

Fyodor Dostoevsky-I consider him the greatest author in history, but then I'm a rabid fan. His books can change your life, and yet they have a great sense of irony and comedy to them.