Favourite books!!

[lawrawrrr]

HEY I need some recommendations 'cos I've only got one unread book on my shelf

so my favourite books are Room by Emma Donoghue, recently also loved The Circle by Dave Eggers

I'm also obsessed with basically all YA fiction, Everything Everything was great, Beautiful Broken Things etc

So has anyone got their fav books which I'd like to read maybe?

Tagging wixard; to read it cos she seems to comment on my book choices on Twitter back in the day when I tweeted more than just complaining about trains (H)

[Charlie]

I'm sat next to my bookshelf so I'm just gonna list the ones I've read and enjoyed.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist which is also a fantastic film
Grow Up
Hush Hush series
Dorothy Must Die (haven't finished it yet but really enjoying it so far, it's the same world as Wizard of Oz)
Eleanor & Park
Bleed
Blue is for Nightmare series
Peeps & The Last Days
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

John Greens books are also really good but I imagine you've read them/heard about them.

[FlyingJesus]

If you like YA then you need to get the Animorphs series and Everworld series, both by KA Applegate +*+*+*+
For something brilliant in general Flowers For Algernon it will make you cry and Brave New World is also perfect

[lawrawrrr]

I'm sat next to my bookshelf so I'm just gonna list the ones I've read and enjoyed.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist which is also a fantastic film
Grow Up
Hush Hush series
Dorothy Must Die (haven't finished it yet but really enjoying it so far, it's the same world as Wizard of Oz)
Eleanor & Park
Bleed
Blue is for Nightmare series
Peeps & The Last Days
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

John Greens books are also really good but I imagine you've read them/heard about them.
I thought perks was alright but nothing amazing. I've read TFIOS and something else but I can't remember what..

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If you like YA then you need to get the Animorphs series and Everworld series, both by KA Applegate +*+*+*+
For something brilliant in general Flowers For Algernon it will make you cry and Brave New World is also perfect
i've tried to read brave new world before but coudlnt get into it!! might give it another go now im older...

[Prosiary]

eleanor and park
the state of grace
if i stay,
everything, everything
papertowns
the fault in our stars
the hate u give
all the bright places
fangirl

[Neversoft]

I adore Haruki Murakami and have read the majority of his work. He's masterful — he'll win the Nobel Prize one day. My favourite novel of his is Norwegian Wood, but everything I've read thus far has been remarkable and poignant in its own distinct way. His work generally includes elements of magical realism, but he has also put out some more straightforwardly realist fiction, with themes of sexuality, romance and loneliness.

His short work is probably the most accessible, with his story On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning likely the most straightforward and unfiltered. It gives a good glimpse into his style of prose without the inclusion of some of his heavier themes and more illustrative writing. The Second Bakery Attack is also very good and displays his addictive wit, and I really love The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women, which formed the basis for one of his novels. I'm currently reading his new collection, Men Without Women. He always captures emotion with such clarity and has the tremendous ability to make the mundane seem almost ethereal. He writes often of melancholy, but it's never straightforwardly depressing or sad, but rather enlightening and terrifically layered.

Besides Murakami, I like Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Shusaku Endo's novels Silence and The Samurai, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I also like to read autobiographies occasionally. The latest was Brian Blessed's Absolute Pandemonium.

Two years ago, I began noting my favourite quotations whenever I read through a new book. I now have quite the collection. It's really brilliant how some finely assembled words can conjure such terrific emotion and imagery. You can't beat a good book.

[Sho]

i'm not very good at recommending books but my favourite is the book thief by markus zusak and i recommend that if you've not read it. it's historical fiction though

[wixard]

Did you ever finish the holly bourne books Laura? If you want I have two of them as brooks I can send you that I bought on amazon!! I know they're quite youngish but they're a nice read and obviously English and relatable

i also just read Simon vs the homo sapien agenda and I thought it was good

I also really recommend Jenny han, AMAZING YA author prob my fav ever!!

[Empired]

Wtf at liking Room that was one of the worst reads of 2015 for me

[lawrawrrr]

Did you ever finish the holly bourne books Laura? If you want I have two of them as brooks I can send you that I bought on amazon!! I know they're quite youngish but they're a nice read and obviously English and relatable

i also just read Simon vs the homo sapien agenda and I thought it was good

I also really recommend Jenny han, AMAZING YA author prob my fav ever!!

OMG no I completely forgot there were more!!! I love YA books cos they're really easy to follow. I only read for about ~30m each day on the train so need something I can dip into easier.


Wtf at liking Room that was one of the worst reads of 2015 for me

The perspective, from the kid, with such unknowns and confusions, is just such a literary masterpiece! Read it about 5 times now!

[Empired]

Ya it was a literary masterpiece but the entire thing felt like such an anticlimax to me and the kids p.o.v actually irritated me after a while

But on a more positive note, have you read the long way to a small angry planet by becky chambers? One of my faves for sure x

[MightyMagician]

http://holocausthandbooks.com/

[FlyingJesus]

lol

[LUCPIX]

MY-FIRST-MOONTREK STARTER'S PACK

I, ROBOT
CHILDHOOD'S END
WONDLA Series

[Samantha]

I know they're a bit young for me, but I love Jacqueline Wilson books! I have a lot of them and I've had them years - a few of them I have gone back and reread, although in some cases I've realised they're very young for me and the simplistic language used in some irritates me. I absolutely love her teen series though about Hetty Feather, read all 5 in the set, I hope she writes more.

[-:Undertaker:-]

umm nothing specific other than a few but i like those books where when you've read it joins up a lot of dots/holes in your knowledge

[Sloths]

Other than those already recommended, I've recently read and loved the A Court Of Thorns and Roses series (part way through the last one atm), This Raging Light series by Estelle Laure, The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Braken (although the ending kinda sucked), A Gathering of Shadows series by V E Schwab (loooove this series), We Were Liars by E Lockhart, anything that's written by Nicky Pellegrino, Not if I See You First by Eric Lindstrom. There's a few to get you started, most are YA!