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[topochico225]

Hiya everyone!

My very favorite book is Sourdough: or, Lois and her Adventures in the Underground Market. So, so good.

More favorites: The Awakening of Miss Prim, The Bad Muslim Discount, Mariana (by Monica Dickens), anything Carl Hiaasen, and James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small series.

 

[CSAchook]

This is such a fun thread!

Some of my favorite classic authors are Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Douglas Adams, Edgar Allen Poe, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula K LeGuin, Lewis Carrol and Charlotte Bronte.

These days though also read a lot of indie YA fantasy. My favorite authors are KM Shea and WR Gingell (among others)

 

[Callender Girl]

I didn't think I would have time to read this summer, but lots of days of rain gave me some "indoor" time. I FINALLY read "Where the Crawdads Sing," and couldn't put it down. Read the whole thing in just over a day. I LOVE the Marsh Girl.

 

[Sally PB]

If I ever am looking for recommendations, I'll just look back through this thread.

 

[LostBoi73]

I'm trying Lord of the Rings again.....it's been a few years since I last attempted to tackle it. I know I know I know that it's good, but it's just so dense and it was hard for me to get past the solid wall of worldbuilding at the beginning.

My favorite SERIES of all time are:
1. Harry Potter
2. Hunger Games
3. Percy Jackson
(I want to read Keepers Of The Lost Cities, but I haven't had the chance to go to the library)
My favorite SINGLE books are:
-The Giver
-The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
etc....

And recommendations for good fantasy series?

A list of my favorites and why I like them.

Favorite series:

1. The Lunar Chronicles
I read this back in 2019, but the plot is similar to what has happened this past year, but much worse.
It is set way in the future where there are cyborgs, anroids, and very advanced technology.
There is a deadly virus that has plagued the earth for over 10 years. Anyone who gets it is sure to die. And the moon has been colonized and soon became it's own sort of country. If you've read/watched the hungar games series the aristocratic people of the capital are very similar to the people of Luna. The queen on Luna is also evil
Cinder, a cyborg, is the main character and her story is very similar to Cinderellas.
Each book in the series is based off fairytales.
If I continue typing I might spoil it, but it has a great story. I love all the characters and their personalities.
I could not put this book down once I started. The first few paragraphs and I was hooked.

2. Percy Jackson
This was one of my first longer series of books which I really enjoyed. I've read it many times since then.
It's about a boy, twelve year old Percy Jackson, that finds out he is a demigod. Odd things had happened to him his whole life. He finds Camp Half Blood and soon finds himself on a quest across America with his friends Grover and Annabeth. He has to fight monsters from Greek mythology along the way.

I love that you get to learn about Greek mythology along with Percy since he knows little about everything that is happening as well. And seeing (reading?) as Percy and Annabeths relationship grows stronger. This is a series I could read over and over again and not get bored.

3. Divergent
I'm still reading this one. I am currently half way finished the first book, and it's already easily a favorite.
I probably won't be very good at describing it, but I'll try.

In this world there are 6 factions. In each faction the people have very different values and beliefs. The main character, Beatrice (later goes by Tris) is from Abnegation (selfless), Erudite (intellectual), Dauntless (brave), Candor (honest), and Amity (peaceful).
At 16 she has to choose between staying in her faction or a new one.
I feel like I'm going to spoil it, so y'all can Google it

I stayed up until 4am reading this.


Favorite book:

1. Heartless
This book waa written by the same author as the Lunar Chronicles.
I don't know if it was just me, but this book seemed to play with my emotions.
This is probably my number one favorite. I feel like my description won't do it justice and I'm tired of writing descriptions so here's one from the Google
Heartless, by Marissa Meyer, is the imagined back story of Lewis Carroll's character the Queen of Hearts from his novel Alice in Wonderland. The story follows Catherine as a young woman who falls in love with the King's new joker.

I deleted the end part because I feel like it kinda spoils. Idk.


Some books I would like to read after watching the movies (not in oder):

1. Maze Runner
I watched the movies not long ago and they were pretty good, so I suspect the books will be even better. I did not expect there to be so many zombies though lol.

2. The Hunger Games
Probably my favorite movie series.
Tired of writing so here's wikipedia's description
The Hunger Games is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by the American author Suzanne Collins. The series is set in the Hunger Games universe, with the first three novels being a trilogy following teenage protagonist, Katniss Everdeen





Shizzle sticks, I was going to add another but now I've forgotten

So many books . I prefer books to tv. Iv even started useing audio book so i can listen while doing other stuff. Here as some favourites but in no particular order

King killer chronicles by patrik rothfus
Wheel of time series by robert jordan
stieg larsson millennium trilogy
The painted man by Peter v brett
Sword of truth by terry goodking
Storm light archive brandon sanderson
Night angel trilogy & light bringer series by brent weeks