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Five Favourite Books (86)

1 Name: Reikki : 2015-02-10 15:03 ID:HXkoRWrd [Del]

List your five favourite books here so other people can read them too!

Mine are:

Never Let Me Go
Atonement
Harry Potter
The Liveship Traders
Watership Down

2 Name: Conno K : 2015-02-10 19:08 ID:ClDI7hr+ [Del]

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

3 Name: jill : 2015-02-10 19:57 ID:aZCuZUuJ [Del]

The League:
Born of Night
Born of Fire
Born of Ice
Born of Fury

4 Name: Aggie-tan !8OAWN3A0Q6 : 2015-02-10 20:37 ID:g14zy+br [Del]

I'm keeping this on my bookmarks cause I never have too much to read XD

1)The Familiars
2)Clockwork Angel
3)The Call if the Wild
4)Enders Game
5)Wings

Definately checking out the Leaugue though >>3

5 Name: jill : 2015-02-10 21:02 ID:aZCuZUuJ [Del]

Its the league series. I only 4 books. I put title of the series to make it look like five. That series is really awesome I really recommend it.

6 Name: *Lyrics*of*Pandora : 2015-02-11 03:12 ID:JTsnNgCd [Del]

>>5 Sherrilyn Kenyon is one of the best authors ever

7 Name: Reikki : 2015-02-11 03:17 ID:mcRGUTLb [Del]

Yeah "The Liveship Traders" is a trilogy by Robin Hobb, it's really good. All of her books are actually you should try them out.

8 Name: Rei : 2015-02-11 06:51 ID:ct2HoDAH [Del]

The strange library, 1Q84 and Kafka on the shore by murakami haruki and the thief nakamura fuminori and lolita

9 Name: Reikki : 2015-02-11 09:16 ID:HXkoRWrd [Del]

Oh I do actually want to read 1Q84 @Rei

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11 Name: Rei : 2015-02-11 15:33 ID:ct2HoDAH [Del]

@Reikki you should I thought it was a great read, I just bought never let me go too

12 Name: Reikki : 2015-02-11 18:31 ID:HXkoRWrd [Del]

@Rei I will. Re-reading The Hobbit right now though. Never Let Me Go is brilliant. The movie is too, I actually saw it first

13 Name: Baka-chan : 2015-02-12 07:49 ID:lyPNaDsk [Del]

1)And Then There Were None
2)Lord of the Rings
3)Artemis Fowl
4)Harry Potter
5)Another

I want to list more! I love so many books! It was difficult enough to choose just five.

14 Name: Reikki : 2015-02-12 12:00 ID:HXkoRWrd [Del]

@Baka-chan I know! I have an entire bookshelf full of my favourite books.

15 Name: Bankai : 2015-02-12 15:11 ID:aXIDeGys [Del]

Hum...it's hard to choose five of them, but ok:
1) The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
2) Harry Potter (all), by J.K.Rowling
3) Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
4) The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Well, there are many more, but these are the ones I really love.

16 Name: Rei : 2015-02-12 19:33 ID:ct2HoDAH [Del]

I know most people say it but books, I find, really are better than their movie counterparts

17 Name: Keiichi : 2015-02-12 21:08 ID:BBTp8MS1 [Del]

1) Ami the children from the stars
2) Shamtaram - Gregory Roberts
3) Le Rois maudits - Maurice Druon (the seven books saga)
4) Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
5) The Propeth - The Madman - Khalil Gibran

18 Name: akaixtenshi!8NBuQ4l6uQ : 2015-02-12 23:28 ID:008xPM0a [Del]

(1)Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
(2)Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Montgomery
(3)Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
(4)Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
(5)Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James

19 Name: Spaz : 2015-02-13 03:05 ID:LVD/NMEC [Del]

Little prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Alice in wonderland - Lewis Carrol
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum
Divine comedy (Inferno) - Dante Alighieri

20 Name: Reikki : 2015-02-13 10:20 ID:HXkoRWrd [Del]

I usually think so too, but I like both the movie and the book of Never Let Me Go equally

21 Name: Shoku : 2015-02-14 13:11 ID:01uNnDsA [Del]

The Giver - Lois Lowry
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Say Goodnight Gracie - Julie Reece Deaver
Unwind - Neal Shusterman
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

I have countless others

22 Name: Elucidator : 2015-02-14 17:14 ID:6lZpaF7A [Del]

The stand (Stephen King)
Metro 2033 (Dimitri Glukofskie)spelled wrong
Fire Starter (Stephen King)
Full dark no stars (Stephen King)
Night Shift (Stephen motherfucking King)

23 Name: YoloLord : 2015-02-15 19:20 ID:5kAAYAir [Del]

Digital Fortress
Asimov books (all of them)
Lord of the Rings
The Reader (i fucking guess i can't remember shat)
Inferno

24 Name: Alex : 2015-02-16 20:58 ID:IaZ8uFS+ [Del]

A Study in Scarlet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Harry Potter
Narnia
The Angel's Game

25 Name: Kira Uchiha : 2015-02-17 02:07 ID:liDkg0+8 [Del]

1. Another
2. Attack on Titan
3. Durarara
4. Elfen Lied
5. Deathnote

26 Name: Arkton : 2015-02-17 12:06 ID:hx314dQZ [Del]

Check out Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, one of my personal favourites

27 Name: Neige !h45CN3bvL2 : 2015-02-18 00:41 ID:bfzHtxEu [Del]

>>25 books are not the same as manga.

28 Name: Romeo : 2015-02-19 04:54 ID:+fN+q8QQ [Del]

1. ACID ~ Emma Pass
2. The Fearless ~ Emma Pass
3. Battle Royale ~ Koushun Takami
4. Kamikaze Girls ~ Novala Takemoto
5. Grotesque ~ Natsuo Kirino

(I don;t really have a favourite... It's more like they're all a favourite?)

29 Name: Magnolia!2ipznOcc5g : 2015-02-19 18:32 ID:ab76+gX8 [Del]

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30 Name: Alfrie : 2015-02-21 19:23 ID:kIa6HQd+ [Del]

1.Looking for Alaska (John Green)
2.Skulduggery Pleasant (Derek Landy) <--series
3.World War Z (Max Brooks)
4.Dune (Frank Herbert)
5.Neverending Story (Michael Ende)

31 Name: Askans Rike : 2015-02-22 10:51 ID:XrW3HFhR [Del]

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Ilinden - Dimitar Talev
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

32 Name: Hanzo : 2015-02-23 06:17 ID:hXLN645g [Del]

All You Need Is Kill
Skulduggery Pleasant series- Derek Landy
L, Chand the World
Once-Moris Gleitzman
Lord of The Rings - Tolkien

33 Name: Litairtak Speruff!NRf7wfm3Qk : 2015-02-23 21:31 ID:c1aZi7su [Del]

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Book of Hours ("Das Stunden-Buch") by Rainer Maria Rilke
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

34 Name: Totode : 2015-02-24 10:49 ID:iSlbGE+T [Del]

Sophie's World - Jostein Garden
Tunnels - Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
El Flautista Antes de Hamelin - Rodolfo Castro.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

35 Name: Nymeria : 2015-02-24 15:22 ID:shsT40Wu [Del]

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
All The Fires The Fire, by Julio Cortázar
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
Pillars of Earth + World Without End, by Ken Follet
Blindness, by José Saramago

36 Name: sayuri : 2015-02-24 21:47 ID:JCkBNf7L [Del]

Eragon - Christopher Paolini
switched - Amanda Hocking
Jane eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter - J.K.Rolling
Wake - Amanda Hocking

37 Name: Honoko Orihara : 2015-02-25 01:53 ID:IG1/m/GL [Del]

Harry Potter
A Wrinkle in Time
Ice
The Secret Life of Bees
Holes

38 Name: koi : 2015-02-26 09:01 ID:iLzNxkP4 [Del]

1. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
2. A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R.R. Martin
3. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
4. Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
5. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - James Patterson
6. 1984 - George Orwell

39 Name: Suzu-chan : 2015-02-27 02:07 ID:PuVHAm0M [Del]

Divergent series - Veronica Roth
The hunger games series - Suzanne Collins
The fifth wave - Rick Yancey
Mental instruments series - Cassandra Clare
Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

40 Name: Sayomi : 2015-03-02 12:18 ID:bjTeGdnZ [Del]

>>39 I just started reading throne of glass its really good :)

41 Name: Incognito : 2015-03-06 02:05 ID:UEeFM/zY [Del]

Red Azalea by Anchee Min
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

I recommend them all!! I'm starting A Song of Ice and Fire once spring break starts so maybe this list will change haha

42 Name: Akuma : 2015-03-06 02:49 ID:ZEGfW952 [Del]

The fault in our stars (the book NOT the movie)
My other favorite books is in Swedish (my home languages) so I won't write them here.

43 Name: Neverman : 2015-03-06 05:17 ID:vlgK0sMa [Del]

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

44 Name: Berthold : 2015-03-06 09:39 ID:NcwdL0qz [Del]

The golden compass' triology
Harry Potter
Alice in wonderland and Alice and the looking glass
Narnia's chronicles

45 Name: Enigami : 2015-03-07 18:31 ID:/s62FzO6 [Del]

1984
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
The Sound and the Fury
The Great Gatsby
A Stranger in a Strange Land

46 Name: Nyarla : 2015-03-07 21:23 ID:jmI1kr5q [Del]

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Tales from the White Heart
Fundation
Metro 2033-2034
At the mountains of madness

47 Name: Tree : 2015-03-08 10:50 ID:J5KeFLYr [Del]

1)New World Translation of the Holy Bible
2)That was then, this is now (and the other book by this person)
3)Charlotte's Web
4)1984
5)The lord of the flies
these are the only ones i could think of because i haven't read many books, i hate reading... except for
manga/manhwa:
One Piece
Tower of God
Naruto
Mysteious girlfriend x
and Angel Densetsu
...Not really my top 5, but good reads

48 Name: Arima Kishou : 2015-03-09 12:52 ID:EaMrL3ro [Del]

1984
Hamlet
Oedipus The King
Oedipus At Colonus
Antigone

49 Name: Magnolia!2ipznOcc5g : 2015-03-10 04:49 ID:ab76+gX8 [Del]

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50 Name: DaiMajutsu13!0UZD1OR/j. : 2015-03-10 17:45 ID:ykcJ+SvW [Del]

1) Bushido (Tsunetomo)
2) Post Office (Bukowski)
3) Factotum
4) Hollywood
5) Lord of the flies (Golding)

51 Name: Night_ : 2015-03-10 21:31 ID:O9Q+JWr2 [Del]

1.-Percy Jackson The Lighting Thief
2.- The Book Thief
3.- Hunger Games
4.- Eleanor & Park
5.- Nada

52 Name: Jed : 2015-03-11 23:37 ID:8f2+yWbj [Del]

1.Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox
2.Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of Baskerville)
3.A Brief History of Time
4.Artemis Fowl First Novel
5.Physics of the Impossible

53 Name: wolf-heart : 2015-03-12 01:57 ID:AEe6gYW0 [Del]

1. Heretic
2. Divergent
3. City of Bones
4. The Sliver Wolf
5. Angel of Death

54 Name: CGNah : 2015-03-12 04:48 ID:8PkwbaD9 [Del]

1. Legend of the Sun Knight
2. ½ Prince
3. The Redemption of Althalus
4. Throne of Glass
5. Harry Potter

55 Name: Lofiq : 2015-03-12 05:48 ID:aaeVO0iP [Del]

1. Caledor
2. Blood Storm
3. Ironhand
4. Secrets of the Dragon
5. Wormwood

56 Name: Adlez : 2015-03-12 19:38 ID:zszci3vh [Del]

1. The bible
2. Fault in out stars
3. Its kind of a funny story
4. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
5. The oath

57 Name: Mourilyon : 2015-03-20 08:15 ID:ITWaYrVl [Del]

1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsk
2. Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar
3. Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft
4. John Dies at the End / This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong
5. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

58 Name: itsrainingagain : 2015-03-20 10:50 ID:xl45eN4d [Del]

Artemis Fowl
Floors
Maximum Ride
H.I.V.E
Alex Rider

59 Name: Jack Hunter : 2015-03-24 01:20 ID:YCZRG43p [Del]

Dante's inferno
Da vinci code
Illiad
Odessy
Any war books

60 Name: Kuusou!v4RRDXulH2 : 2015-03-25 00:44 ID:qAli280r [Del]

Murakami the strange library, kafka on the shore, 1Q84. The thief nakamura fuminori and antti tuomainen the healer

61 Name: Ayumi Nakada : 2015-03-26 17:51 ID:5TurAIbg [Del]

inkheart
the thief lord
rooftoppers
the invention of Hugo cabret
a series of unfortunate events

62 Name: Dj-3pic : 2015-03-27 01:03 ID:EH9ayMB9 [Del]

Maximum Ride (Whole series)
The Divine Comedy
Principia Discordia
Military Handbooks

63 Name: PuellaMagi : 2015-03-28 16:59 ID:0i7eWvrU [Del]

The Book Thief
Daughter of Smoke and Bone(Trilogy)
Les Misérables
The Fault in Our Stars
memoirs of a teenage amnesiac

64 Name: Prose : 2015-03-28 17:38 ID:sYISSq29 [Del]

Perfume - Patrick Süskind
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
The Etymologicon - Mark Forsyth

65 Name: EJM : 2015-03-29 13:13 ID:EF9yHHs7 [Del]

The knife of never letting go
House of mirrors -( my comfort book...)
The screaming staircase -(and the other Lockwood and Co.'s)
five key's -(I've lost it, and i haven't read it in ages)
What If? -(scientific and hilarious!)

66 Name: rivaillis : 2015-03-29 14:11 ID:Xt/gGNIe [Del]

Hmmmm
Throne of glass
The fault in our stars
The 5th wave
Unwind
The false prince

67 Name: Keemie : 2015-03-29 19:20 ID:BQMicfUC [Del]

Thirteen Reasons Why
Sherlock Holmes series
To Catch a Pirate
The Future of Us
The Paradise Prophecy

68 Name: Rat : 2015-03-29 19:23 ID:gQFJrgGZ [Del]

Men, Women, and Chainsaws - Carol J. Clover
The Dharma Punks - Ant Sang
Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

69 Name: KitAvian : 2015-03-30 16:23 ID:ITinEYc2 [Del]

1) 1984
2) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
3) House of Leaves
4) Ender's Game
5) The Millennium Trilogy

70 Name: ____ !HInKxu8cQQ : 2015-03-31 03:00 ID:MfnzMXQJ [Del]

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine


None of these are by any means more important than another to me. All of them have very powerful meaning behind them, but I have a library of Crowley, Huxley, Chaucer, Keats, Bousquet, Neruda, and all of the other names listed above with many more less common names.

71 Name: EvoRulz : 2015-04-02 00:15 ID:i1W7OzjT [Del]

Magician - Raymond E. Feist
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Ranger's Apprentice Series - John Flanagan
Rowan of Rin Series - Emily Rodda
Deltora Quest Series - Emily Rodda

My absolute favourites are the first two, the last three are my most memorable childhood favourites

72 Name: firelily : 2015-04-21 16:07 ID:/PLfK9aQ [Del]

1. harry potter
2. the infernal devices
3. i hunt killers
4. dancing in red shoes can kill you
5. the gray wolf throne

they are all part of a series if any plan to read these, my fave books are all fantasy and i just had to read them more than once
^_^

73 Name: Tsuzuku !QVSWEXJfns : 2015-04-21 22:02 ID:OIl3Nzcb [Del]

1. Matilda by Roald Dahl
2. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
5. Seraphina by Rachel Hartmen

And there are plenty more books that I love! Like A Resurrection of Magic series by Kathleen Duey and the Half Bad series by Sally Green. And let's not forget anything by Donna Tartt and Robin McKinley. There are just so many fantastic books out there that it's hard just picking five.

74 Name: Shikonbel !SXzmSmQBwY : 2015-04-22 18:37 ID:ll/GwlOr [Del]

1) The Art of War - Sun Tzu
2) Broken April - Ismail Kadare
3) Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
4) The Sound of Waves -
5) Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels - Scott McCloud

75 Name: Accelerator : 2015-04-23 13:38 ID:1Blt2aXm [Del]

1. 1984
2. The divine comedy
3. One hundred years of solitude
4. The " To aru majutsu no index" LN
5. Sherlock holmes

76 Name: Accelerator : 2015-04-23 13:39 ID:1Blt2aXm [Del]

Maybe "tokio blues"

77 Name: Anonymous : 2015-04-23 16:54 ID:7E0/BNIu [Del]

Anything by Stanisław Lem one of the greates fantasy writers, for me he is the Greatest but wikipedia says there are some more great writes. whatever.
Lord of the Ice Garden
Diana Wayne Jones - Chrestomanci
Terry Pratchet
the sandaman
Girl Genius - webcomic awaible online for free
Stay Still Stay Silent - like above
I prefer to use writers than titles.
I know i don't obey the rules but ther is no fun i doing things akording to them ;)

78 Name: TheRisingShadow : 2015-04-23 19:15 ID:DvG6Z8t1 [Del]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Les Miserable
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Life of Pi

79 Name: Iza : 2015-04-24 01:07 ID:qSU9I5jH [Del]

1. The Leviathan Trilogy, Scott Westerfield (anyone read this? hmu)
2. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
3. The Samurai's Tale, Erik Haugaard
4. Hamlet, Shakespeare (heh)
5. John Grisham has some quality stuff

80 Name: Ame : 2015-04-24 15:00 ID:qze3pgjW [Del]

1. Earagon, Christopher Paloni
2.Harry Potter, J.K Rowling
3.[basically any Ellen Hopkins book]
4.Out of Nowhere, (forgot the author)
5. The Art of French Cooking, Julia Child (and two others)

81 Name: Kiseki : 2015-04-24 15:12 ID:mtEh5810 [Del]

1. His Dark Materials (trilogy)
2. The Adoration of Jenna Fox
3. Before I die
4. A Little Princess
5. The Shadow of the Wind

82 Name: Steelheart : 2015-04-25 12:06 ID:JA0eDVNj [Del]

1.The Wheel of time(13 books)
2.The Stormlight Archive(2 books,ongoing)
3.Steelheart
4.Mistoborn(trilogy)
5.The Well of Echoes(4 books,midle series)

83 Name: CJS-051 : 2015-04-26 14:14 ID:Jmn3kvP6 (Image: 96x156 jpg, 3 kb) [Del]

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The Dresden Files Series 16 books and counting. Great modern fantasy with humor, mystery and surprise.

84 Name: Sentaro : 2015-04-26 21:47 ID:jv5pQPLA [Del]

1. Let it snow
2. A Thousand Pieces of You
3. An Abundance of Katherines
4. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.
5. White Fox

85 Name: Saijo : 2015-04-27 12:53 ID:tEyw7ptb [Del]

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi
Arthurian Legend by Bernhard Cornwell

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