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I have read a lot of books, and I'd have to say that my favorite is Watership Down by Richard Adams. I love this book, and everything about it. (:

 

I really liked a number of of the Redwall books by Brian Jacques.

Lord Brocktree was a very good one. Taggerung, The Long Patrol, Loamhedge, and High Rhulain where others that I remember really liking.

 

I've also been reading the Warriors series for a while now, though I'm starting to get bored with it. In the beginning it was more realistic, and in the more recent books, it's losing the sense of reality that it had in the beginning. =/

 

I've decided to compile a huge list of books/series' I like here in this first post. I shall call this list Books Tyto Highly Recommends. The more books I read, the more books I'll add to the list.

 

Books Tyto Highly Recommends:

 

Realistic Fiction Category:

 

Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

Cut by Patricia McCormick

After by Amy Efaw

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

Looking For Alaska by John Green

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Burned by Ellen Hopkins

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Godless by Pete Hautman

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Willow by Julia Hoban

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

The House On Mango Street by Sanda Cisneros

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I am J by Cris Beam

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Sprout by Dale Peck

Down To The Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Mosh Pit by Kristyn Dunnion

Girl Walking Backwards by Bett Williams

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Paper Towns by John Green

Shabanu: Daughter Of The Wind by Suzanne Fisher-Staples

Haveli by Suzanne Fisher-Staples

The House of Djinn by Suzanne Fisher-Staples

The Boy from The Basement by Susan Shaw

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Empty K.M Walton

Nevada Imogen Binnie

Hard Lov by Ellen Wittlinger

Peter by Kate Walker

Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea

Empress of The World by Sara Ryan

The God Box by Alex Sanchez

Dare, Truth or Promise by Paula Boock

Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters

Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters

 

Fiction and Fantasy Category:

 

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus

The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler

Rage by Jackie Morse Kessler

Loss by Jackie Morse Kessler

Breath by Jackie Morse Kessler

Redwall (series) by Brian Jacques

Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede

Ice by Sarah Beth Durst

East by Edith Pattou

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

Tailchaser's Song by Tadd Williams

The Wild Road by Gabriel King (adult novel, not young adult)

The Golden Cat by Gabriel King ( ^^^ ditto)

Selkie Girl by Laurie Brooks

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Changeling by Delia Sherman

Falling Under by Gwen Hayes

House of Night series by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

The Den of Shadows Quartet by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Tithe by Holly Black

Valiant by Holly Black

Ironside by Holly Black

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner

Faerie Winter by Janni lee Simner

Vittorio The Vampire by Anne Rice

The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan

Wolf Moon by Charles De Lint

Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles De Lint

The Harp of The Gray Rose by Charles De Lint

The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint

Dingo by Charles de Lint

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Ash by Malinda Lo

Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

Green Witch by Alice Hoffman

The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

Castle in The Air by Diana Wynne Jones

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

The Dark Crystal (novelization) by A.C.H Smith

The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven

The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

 

 

LGBTQ Category:

 

Ash by Malinda Lo

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

I am J by Cris Beam

Sprout by Dale Peck

Down To The Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Mosh Pit by Kristyn Dunnion

Girl Walking Backwards by Bett Williams

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Nevada Imogen Binnie

Hard Lov by Ellen Wittlinger

Peter by Kate Walker

Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea

Empress of The World by Sara Ryan

The God Box by Alex Sanchez

Dare, Truth or Promise by Paula Boock

Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters

Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters

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Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare

Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan

And *drum roll..* in first place...

Pendragon by D. J. MacHale.

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Wow, I'm amazed that this thread hasn't been made before.

 

Warriors by Erin Hunter =3 If you want to get specific, Long Shadows by Erin Hunter~

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Larklight is my favorite book along with its sequels.

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Hero by Perry Moore is my absolute top favorite book of all time.

It is just made of so much win.

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Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez.

 

Which... is obvious. Hilarious book.

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It's long, unabridged is over 1400 pages, but sooo worth it. So many plot twists. It's just a-maz-ing!

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I don't know how most of you above can pick just one book @__@

Let's see, individual books I love all around (going to leave off series that don't have one particularly exemplary book):

 

The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe. Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Panda's Thumb, Stephen Jay Gould; Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold; The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss; Prisoner of Conscience, Susan R. Matthews, Saturn's Children, Charles Stross; 1984, George Orwell..

Someone please stop me.

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Hmmm... Okay:

- The sookie Stackhouse series

- Hush

- Lord Of the Flies

- In the forest of the Night

- And the three novels I wrote and I'm currently trying to figuer out titles for 'em.

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Oh. DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED.

1. HARRY POTTER, all time favorite, never will change!

(OMIGAWSH I FORGOT Tamora pierce books. These go between HP and Hunger Games, too lazy to change the numbering xd.png)

2. Hunger Games

3. Ranger's Apprentice

4. Fablehaven

5. Cherub

6. Warriors

7. Redwall.

8. Eragon

9. Nightrunner Series

10. Pirate wars series

11. The Goblin Wood

12. The Mysterious Benedict Society

13. Skulduggery Pleasant

14. The Heir Series

15. Daniel X

16. Maximum Ride

17. Witch and Wizard

18. Vampirates

19. Percy Jackson

 

I COULD GO ON AND ON xd.png

I love so many

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My absolute faves are the Temeraire books. :3

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@ Darkangel: WOW you have a lot of favorites! 8D

 

@ Amber Ember: You've written three books!? That's amazing! And I've also read In The Forest of The Night. By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, right?^__^

 

@ Soup Nazi: What is Larklight? It sounds interesting. :3

 

 

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YESH because I've read LOTSHANDLOTSH of fantasy.

And I missed a series or two...added em in where they belong

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Oh man, favorite books? Ehhh try series/authors xd.png

The Five Ancestor series by Jeff Stone

A collection of all of Edger A Poe's work

The Everworld series by K.A. Applegate

Any work by Christopher Pike

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Any book by Robin Cook wub.gif

Stephen King's books as well

 

George Orwell - 1984

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince

Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Stories (his fairy stories are just amazing)

 

Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole series

 

A collection of all of Edger A Poe's work

...Oh, true! Especially "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Raven".

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@Darkangel: You like Eragon more than Skulduggery Pleasant? But Skulduggery Pleasant is made out of so much win!

 

@Tyto_alba: Larklight is a children's book by Philip Reeve. It's about Arthur and Myrtle Mumby, two children living with their father in the spaceship house Larklight. However, on day they get attacked by giant spiders and Art and Myrtle get away in an escape pod and crash land on the moon. The plot is really cool, but what JUST manages to overshine it is the world.

 

See, Larklight is set in a world that's basically what would happen if space travel was invented in the mid seventeen hundreds, and space worked how people believed it to then. For instance, just about every planet is inhabited with all kinds of alien creatures, and space-or Aether, as it's called, is just cool, and contains enough air to survive for a few hours.

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Tailchaser's Song, by Tad Williams

A Song of Ice and Fire(series), by George R. R. Martin

Temeraire(series), by Naomi Novik

The Malazan Book of the Fallen(series), by Steven Erikson

The earlier books in the Xanth series, by Piers Anthony, I don't care for some of the newer ones.

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Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Stories (his fairy stories are just amazing)

Never thought I'd meet someone else who liked these n__n Do you have a particular favorite?

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Ok, sorry, I cna't live with this. I left out vital stuff.

 

THIS IS DEFINITELY FIRST:

harry potter

 

The rest of them are in no specific order, though the ones towards the front five are my favorite favorites other than HP:

Mortal instruments

Tamora pierce books

Nightrunner Series

Ranger's Apprentice

Fablehaven

Cherub

Warriors

Redwall

Skulduggery Pleasant

Eragon

Vampirates

Pirate Wars series

Maximum Ride

Daniel X

Infernal Devices

The Heir series

Percy Jackson

The Red Pyramid

magyk, Flyte, Physik, et cetera

Graceling and Fire

The Mysterious Benedict Society

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Never thought I'd meet someone else who liked these n__n Do you have a particular favorite?

The Nightingale and the Rose ...for sure (I just cry whenever I read it)

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1. The Elves series from Bernhard Hennen

2. Eragon from Christopher Paolini

3. The dragon fighter from Licia Troisi

 

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Am I just allowed to pick a favorite author? D: If so, then Terry Pratchett. And my favorite books...ah. Probably Guards! Guards! I guess, though Men at Arms is a close second. I'd add Night Watch but I haven't finished it yet. xP

 

Then also The Hunger Games, the Tortall Universe books by Tamora Pierce (never cared for the Circle of Magic books), and American Gods by Neil Gaiman and A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. :3 I could go on for awhile, given enough time to think.

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Snow Crash : Neil Stephenson

Ethos Effect : L.E. Modessit Jr.

The bridge series by William Gibson.

 

And pretty much every Forgotten Realms novel, just for the lore xd.png

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