Favorite Book(s)?

[enderdragon]

Hello Massivecrafters!

I'm curious about what everyone's favorite books are? It can really be anything: fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, romance (eww), graphic novels, horror, etc... It can even be a book you were forced to read in school.

Personally, my favorites are classic mystery novels (Father Brown, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, etc...)

 

[Iknay]

I tend to read fantasy books such as the Belgariad or Elantris.

 

[Trackedpilled]

Dishonored, the corroded man

 

[Jovee]

Redwall series! I loved them so much as a kid-- it's a wonder I'm not a furry tbqh. ;o

 

[Miss_Confined]

From my childhood, especially as a young, young child, the "Magic Treehouse" series. I remember my mom reading us them as a kid and it brings back a lot of good memories.

 

[indyfan98]

1984 by George Orwell and Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Both great novels. I love the novel version of Jurassic Park, possibly even more than the movie.

 

[AtticCat]

oh fuck oh god this is probably the thing ive procrastinated the most in answering, and thats coming from someone that did a problem that was due for a month in two hours out of sheer panic.

regardless, i LOVE historical novels, but I also love FANTASY and YA because guess what?? im a teenager, go figure.

REGARDLESS, books i highly recommend?? will follow

The Valiant trilogy by Lesley Livingston | A historical fiction/fantasy type story. It takes place in the middle of Caesar's Rome and focuses around the Ludus Achillea, which is an order of Gladiatrices.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | Historical fiction taking place in the middle of Nazi Germany in which an orphaned girl is adopted by a German couple, it more or less is a coming of age story with a sprinkle of happiness and an overdose of tragedy.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | Another... fictional story, it follows the lives of four mothers, whom each have a daughter. The whole book is following the struggle of understanding between the mothers, who each come from a traditional Chinese upbringing, though all from different classes, and the daughters, who were brought up living in America.

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri | Another immigrant type fictional story, this one is about the life of an family that moved to America from India before the birth of their first child. The whole story is the life of the son, Gogol Ganguli, and his struggle to balance out a relationship with his parents - who are very traditional in their beliefs - and his own culture since he always lived in the United States.

 

[ElderShrub]

Ooooh, fun question. Sadly, I don't read as much as I used to. Currently I'm slowly making my way through the discworld series (and it's amazing), but I don't know if I'd call them my favorite book.

When I was younger I did a lot more reading, and I have very fond memories of 'The Pushcart War' by Jean Merrill. No doubt I missed a lot of the political subtext of this novel, but honestly its zany humor drew me in and it was a delightful read.

 

[Sadface_Saturn]

The Throne Of Glass series. Best series out there in my opinion. It took me 6 months to read all 8 but they're worth it.

 

[Tiaq]

AGREED.
The Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Mass is one of my absolute favorite of all. I read through the first five books within like two weeks and stopped near Queen of Shadows, but then I kept on and finished the rest.

Spoiler: SpOIlers

Continent's best Assassin named Celaena (Aelin) is captured and put into slavery but taken out for a duel to decide who would be the best Champion of the King. She's offered this deal by Captain Westfall (Who she probably rEGRETS FUCKING.) and the King's son. Fast forward five books, she's the queen of an entire continent and the empire of Terrasen, and fighting against the king in order to save the realm from basically the Void.
Also, side story with Manon Blackbeak, best witch ever.

@MeganDgamer , you'll get this joke. Right? Remember the beach scene with AELIN AND ROWAN? Now you won't get it out of your head.

Same author, but the Court books by Sarah J. Mass, MMM. That's some good shit. It's basically just beauty and the beast. With two beasts.

Spoiler: sPoILERS

Feyre is from a poor family and accidentally kills a beast-turned-fae, and ends up being dragged away in order to pay for her crime. She finds her captor isn't an animal, but actually Tamlin. The best man to whore herself out to, right? NO. She smashes, ends up getting caught by someone named Amara, fucking dies, then turns into a High Fae. wOaH. She ends up making a deal with Rhysand, the High Lord of the Night Court, and eventually moves in with him, the world dies, the end...? Sure. (Aka we have nothing past Amren and Feyre touching a coffin and everyone dying and Amren dies and Rhysand dies and everyone dies but. Yeah.)

Reading this will NEVER let you see Soup the same again. Paint either.


The Cruel Prince (Or better known as The Folk of the Air)
Ohohoh. All I can say about this is,-- Pet kiddies, suck tiddies, spend fiddies.

Spoiler: SpoiLErs

Lil ol' Jude's parents get brutally SlauGHteReD, and her two sisters and she are taken away to live in the High Court of the Faerie people. Aka, PRINCE CARDAN. She wishes to belong but god said uno reverse, so does Cardan. She ends up dying, getting into politics, finding out her brother is actually a Faerie man after an affair, yeehaw. Everyone betrays Jude. She ends up becoming the queen (kinda) and becoming Cardan's TRAP CARD. She's betrayed thRICe, becomes an Exiled queen, yeehaw. I remember reading this and finding out that I, indeed, am in love with the 'Kill me or kiss me' relationship and it's perfect. Jude and Cardan are pretty much enemies-turned-lovers but still. Enemies. THEY REMAIN. ENEMIES.

And, you all will never know the pain of having to exile your wife and not tell her why and make her think you betrayed her so when she comes back and realizes it's a joke she hates you. ;^)

Red Queen by Victoira Aveyard is pretty good. The ending is... Eh, though. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is amazing too! Short, but good.

 

[AtticCat]

Red Queen by Victoira Aveyard is pretty good. The ending is... Eh, though. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is amazing too! Short, but good.

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Yes to both of these, hopefully one day SoC becomes a trilogy :agony:

 

[ASickRat]

The Ranger's apprentice series by John Flanagan.

 

[NebulaePrimo]

The Zodiac series by Romina Russell. I love the hidden clues that seem like random details in the first two books, but then make sense as you learn more about the universe.

 

[Sadface_Saturn]

@MeganDgamer , you'll get this joke. Right? Remember the beach scene with AELIN AND ROWAN? Now you won't get it out of your head.[/QUOTE]

YES I REMEMBER IT. I shall go cry now. if this is the beach scene you mean at the end of empire 0f storms then nO IM HURTING. i cried reading it too...