Q: Dear 100 Hour Board,
What are some of your favorite books you've read?
-anna
A:
Dear Wade,
I mostly read non-fiction and have a terrible memory for books I've read. Some that have stayed with me are Classic Feynman and Moonwalking with Einstein. Recently my favorite book has been 10% Happier.
-M.O.D.A.Q.
A:
Dear anna,
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss—Best book ever. The end.
The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle and the Dark of Deep Below by Patrick Rothfuss—People! If you haven't read this book, you absolutely need to! Do not bother with the first one, just find this book and read it! The story is awesome, the pictures are great and the ending is brilliant. Be warned though there is some violence.
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson—It is just so much funnier than all of his other books. And it has Vasher and Nightblood and Lightsong! Characters that I love!
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand—While I don't necessarily agree with Ayn Rand's philosophies, I think they are very interesting to think about. Be warned, this book has some sexual content.
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen—Best play ever.
Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip—You probably haven't heard of her. If you have, I applaud your taste in books; if you haven't but you enjoy well written books with fairy tale-like prose, you will like her books.
Alphabet of Thorns by Patricia A. McKillip
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern—While the story isn't my favorite, I think the prose and the imagery are simply beautiful.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
I would also add that I love just about anything by Jane Austen, Brandon Sanderson, Terry Pratchett, and Robin Hobb. And of course, there will always be a very special place in my heart for Harry Potter.
Sincerely,
The Soulful Ginger
A:
Dear anna,
Some books that I gave 5 stars to on Goodreads: The Book of Mormon, Unwind, The Wizard Heir, Ender's Game, Choosing Up Sides, Point Blank (Alex Rider #2), Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl #6), A Christmas Carol, The Shadow Children series, Physik (Septimus Heap #3), Firewing (Silverwing #3), Things Not Seen, Deathwatch, The Trumpet of the Swan, Hatchet, Mistborn, The House of the Scorpioin, The Wednesday Letters, Maximum Ride series, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Airborn.
Looking at this list, I noticed a few things you might want to know:
I haven't updated this list in a while—there should be a lot more on here, but I don't remember them at the moment. Also, some of these aren't really my favorites anymore, but I started this list a looong time ago.
These aren't the same as "Books I Think Everyone Should Read" or "Books that Changed my Life." These are books that meant a lot to me at the time that I read them; they're books that, while reading them, I was able to get caught up in the story and get emotional about the characters and the issues they faced. Some of them are thought-provokers, and some of them are just my own personal examples of how enjoyable reading can be.
The ones that come from series are the books in that series that do a great job with the villain. I love me a good villain. (Er, well-written villain, anyway.)
A lot of them are my first introductions to new genres, too (Airborn was my first steampunk read, Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) and Unwind my first dystopians, Alex Rider my first spy novel, etc.). Because of this, they're special to me, although they might not be the "best" in their genre.
These are also mostly middle- and high-school grade-level. I'm a big fan of children's/YA literature.
Wait, what do you mean my favorite books "that I've read"? As opposed to my favorite books I haven't read?
-Owlet
A:
Dear anna,
Going by books I've given 5 stars on Goodreads:
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Almost anything by Brandon Sanderson
Brave New World
The Book Thief
The Giver
Never Let Me Go
The Night Circus
Harry Potter
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow
The Hunger Games
Ella Enchanted
The Hobbit
Atonement
That isn't all of the 5-star books, but that should give you a good idea of what I like.
--Maven
A:
Dear elsa,
In no particular order:
The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Brianna, My Brother, and the Blog by Jack Weyland
Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
Press Here by Herve Tullet
Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Belgariad series by David Eddings
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Hogfather and Monstrous Regiment, among other books by Terry Pratchett
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Anne of Green Gables series by L. Maud Montgomery
Dealing with Dragons series by Patricia Wrede
And, of course,
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of 'Nym, who acknowledge that this list is far from complete. The rats have a lot of favorites.
A:
Dear anna,
I've narrowed it down to just two that I love and have re-read countless times:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
These is my Words by Nancy Turner
-Concorde
A:
Dear anna,
I have recently compiled a list of all the chapter books I've ever read, so it was pretty easy to browse through it and pick the ones that I felt I liked the best. Of course, you'd likely get a few different books if you asked on a different day. Plus I tend to really like whatever book I just read a lot, so this list is someone biased toward the recent past.
The scriptures (I'm not just saying that--they can get quite intense) by a whole lot of people
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn and The Well of Ascension (still haven't read The Hero of Ages) by Brandon Sanderson
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Watership Down by Richard Adams
-El-ahrairah
A:
Dear free soul,
Some of my favorite books have already been mentioned, so I'll keep it simple and limit my list to the fabulous flying frog fiction of David Wiesner's Tuesday.
--Ardilla Feroz
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