<p>Just took a trip to the bookstore and was wondering what your opinions are.</p>
<p>My favorite author is currently a tie between Tracie Peterson and Tamora Pierce. My favorite book would probably have to be Squire by Tamora Pierce. :)</p>
<p>I loved Tamora Pierce in middle school. She’s great; I still have a bunch of her books.</p>
<p>I absolutely love love love Philip Pullman (though I admit to being less than thrilled with “Lyra’s Oxford”) and Douglas Adams… Orson Scott Card’s books are great as well, provided you can get past his really blatantly Conservative viewpoints.</p>
<p>I also really, really enjoyed “The Scarlet Pimpernel”. I mention this because it’s the only time I’ve enjoyed the book version more than the musical version. (“Les Miserables” would also fit this category if it hadn’t taken me three months to read.)</p>
<p>I tried to read Pullman…wasn’t really my style.</p>
<p>I love reading Tamora Pierce because it’s such an easy read, gives me a nice escape. :)</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of Scarlet Pimpernel though, I’ll have to look for it next time I’m at B&N.</p>
<p>Here’s my extremely random list of favorite books that I’ve read recently OR can otherwise think of:</p>
<p>Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (try it in the original dialect!)
Stuff by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes - but not Euripides
Animal Farm
The American Dream
Cat’s Cradle
Ubu Roi (virtually unknown play by Alfred Jarry)
Dubliners
As I Lay Dying</p>
<p>Ohhh, I really liked Animal Farm.</p>
<p>When we did that in my English class sophomore year, we were a “communist classroom” for the duration of the book. It culminated in this huge walk-out of the class and the administration happened to be standing right there. XD</p>
<p>I loved Of Mice And Men</p>
<p>One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is my favorite book for sure
I also liked The Road by Cormac McCarthy</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird was pretty good too.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby is my fav book</p>
<p>There are a ton I like though.</p>
<p>OMG. I could talk about books all day.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre is definitely one of my all-time favorites.
Also.. the Scarlet Pimpernel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion
And who doesn’t love Harry Potter? Seriously.</p>
<p>I’m currently reading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. It is absolutely insane. Anyone else read it?</p>
<p>Ugh.I couldn’t STAND Jane Eyre. I finally just had to use SparkNotes.</p>
<p>My school is doing Pride & Prejudice for our fall play this year, so I’ll probably go see it.</p>
<p>I haven’t read Faulkner at all…but I bought a new Tamora Pierce yesterday, and I’m absolutely loving it. I’ve already read like 100 pages. XD</p>
<p>Harry Potter 1-7, J.K. Rowling
Hitchhiker’s Guide series, Douglas Adams
Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
Anything by Stephen Baxter</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston</p>
<p>It made me feel good because I waded through the colloquialisms and finished while a bunch of 40-year old adults couldn’t even finish a few chapters. Plus, it’s an excellent book!</p>
<p>I can’t stand Pride and Prejudice. I hate all those anti-women books of Jane Austens…:)</p>
<p>Orson Scott Card, he’s such an amazing writer, and considering I am fairly liberal, he is good enough for me to overlook his views and read almost every single literary piece he has written.</p>
<p>Kurt Vonnegut is awesome</p>
<p>kirsten, I read “As I Lay Dying” and “Absalom, Absalom!” Faulkner’s one of those authors I can really only digest once every three months or so. His writing style is just so weird!</p>
<p>Kaznack, we have basically the same taste in books. (:</p>
<p>Oh! Another good YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi writer is Garth Nix. I looooved “The Ragwitch” and his “Abhorsen” books. And Jodi Picoult is probably my new favorite. (:</p>
<p>I also love reading plays- Thornton Wilder is the man! I can’t stand Tom Stoppard, though… His plays are fine to watch, but I just can’t read them. Heaven help me if I ever have to be in one, especially if it’s a “Coast of Utopia”-esque nine-hour marathon play.</p>
<p>ChellyBelly42, I know!! Faulkner is kind of intense. I didnt even know who was talking for like 30 pages. It was kind of ridiculous.
And hooray for Thornton Wilder. Our Town pretty much makes me cry. It is amazing how much he varies his style.. .the diff. between the Matchmaker and By the Skin of Our Teeth is soooo crazy. But great.</p>
<p>How could I have forgotten E.E. Cummings?? Definitely my one of my favorite poets of all time ever. Gah.</p>
<p>SCOTT WESTERFELD.
Yes, teen sci-fi readers…</p>
<p>I also love Audrey Niffenegger (sp?). The Time Traveler’s Wife was the best book I’ve ever read. </p>
<p>And who could forget Sylvia Plath? :)</p>
<p>Harry Potter’s were fun to read.</p>
<p>I also liked the LotR trilogy.</p>
<p>I like alternate history fiction such as Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling. I also like short story fiction collections on basically everything.</p>
<p>My school did The Matchmaker last year! It was awesome. :)</p>