<p>I wanted to start this just for fun, and as a way to procrastinate from AP gov summer homework... But last night I was wondering what types of bookworms were out there. Everyone has different genre preferences and such so maybe a few sentences on what types of books you usually like and/or don't like and then you could list favorite books. So here I go.</p>
<p>Starting with won't I don't like is easier for me. I don't like fantasy. I tried to read Harry Potter but when I got to the fifth book I realized I just didn't like it. I'm also not much of a "classics" person. Charles Dickens and the like put me to sleep. I don't know, it feels like I've accomplished something when I read one of those books but I don't like them. I absolutely love anything written by the expatriots, like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. I'm much more of a modern literature person. I can be found scanning the "New Fiction" table at Barnes and Noble. Now for some favorites...</p>
<p>Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (I read this way before the movie came out)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (who doesn't love this?!)
Hector and The Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
and many others... but enough about me, what do you guys like?</p>
<p>I pretty much read anything, but I don’t really like “chick lit” type books. I prefer more recent classics. </p>
<p>My favorites:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
1984 by George Orwell.</p>
<p>My list is going to change as I read more books, but that is it for right now.</p>
<p>I like classics, although some put me to sleep; modern classics, like Fitzgerald and Faulkner, are excellent. I like non-fiction, mostly about politics.</p>
<p>The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
Class by Paul Fussell
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald</p>
<p>Franz, I like 1984, Gatsby, and Lolita, too.</p>
<p>I pretty much only read classics and the rarity of good modern fiction books.
The only two modern writers I trust (one of whom might technically not be modern since he’s dead) are John Green and David Foster Wallace. Other than that, my favorite author is probably Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I also like John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway (though I like Fitzgerald better), Ayn Rand (though I hate her as a person), Ray Bradbury, J. D. Salinger, etc.
Most modern fiction honestly makes me cringe, and authors seem to have become obsolete since we allow people like Snooki, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Stephanie Meyer top the reading charts, and you can’t walk into a bookstore nowadays without passing by the massive rows of $5 a piece awful romantic novels made by middle-aged divorcees with too many cats. I just find it too hard to trust modern authors to have any literary integrity.</p>
<p>EDIT: I also trust Chuck Palahniuk as a modern writer.</p>
<p>I’ve mostly been reading classics lately. I really enjoy Lost Generation writers (Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald). Loved Catcher in the Rye.</p>
<p>I used read science fiction/action a la Michael Crichton, but that interest kind of died in high school. I had less time to read recreationally and, though interesting, they lacked a lot of substance. But Prey remains to this day one of my favorite books.</p>
<p>Im not really into classics they make me fall asleep
Some of my favorite books are
Never let me go- kazuo isiguro
Harry potter books
Daisy Fay and the miracle man- Fannie Flagg
The French gardener
The art of raising in the rain
I’m down</p>