1. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
2. Salem's Lot by Stephen King
3. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
4. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
6. April Morning by Howard Fast
7. The Killer Angels by Jeff Shaara
8. Star Trek Deep Space Nine-The Lives of Dax (various authors)
9. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
10. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Ten Favorites!

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

Salem's Lot - Stephen King

The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough

The Shining - Stephen King

A Separate Piece - John Knowles

This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff

Gap Creek - Robert Morgan

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

Cane River - Lalita Tademy

The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve

Great choices, Michael. :)

Not really in any order:

1. Alive (The Story of the Andes Survivors)... excellent!

2. The Solar System (printed in 1962)

3. A Night to Remember (The sinking of the Titanic)

4. 8.4 (A fictional story of an 8.4 earthquake in New Madrid)

5. The Earth in Turmoil (another earthquake book, written by two quake experts Kerry Sieh and Simon LeVay)

6. Earthquake Country (yet another earthquake book)

7. The San Fernando Valley (history of the valley, with many historic photos)

8. Embraced by the Light

9. The Other Side and Back (Life after Death, by Sylvia Browne)

10. The "Three Investigators" mystery series, especially "The Mystery of the Green Ghost" and "The Secret of Terror Castle"

Not in any order...

Lethal Seduction
Dangerous Kiss
Hollywood Kids
The Love Killers
The World is Full of Married Men
all by Jackie Collins

Bittersweet
Vanished
The Long Road Home
The Klone and I
all by Danielle Steel

Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Subject to change, and in no particular order:

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
The Inn at the Edge of the World by Alice Thomas Ellis
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Side Effects by Woody Allen
Markings by Dag Hammarskjold

No particular ordah.

A Tree Grows in Brookyln by Betty Smith
The Secret History by Donna Tart
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chobowsky [sp?]
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Runaway Jury by John Gresham
The Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

go dog go.

More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel


I loved that book! If I hadn't restricted my list to fiction, I would have included both Prozac Nation and More, Now, Agian.

To list my favorite books in any particular order would be playing favorites. I couldn't do that. Here are ten of my favorite books.

1 Titanic: The long night by Diane Hoh
2 Anne of Green Gables series by L.M Montgomery
3 Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin
4 Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis
5 The Blue Castle by L.M Montgomery
6 Until We Meet Again by Michael Korenblit
7 True Ghost Stories by Hanz Holzter
8 Lost Horizon by James Hilton
9 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
10 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

That doesn't even begin to cover it!

Hmm I don't think i've read ten really good books but I really like (in no specific order)

The Cay
To Kill A Mocking Bird
The Outsiders
Foxfire
The tatooed girl
Man Crazy
We were the Mulvaneys
The Giver

I really don't read that much at all but my favorite book I've ever read is "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Some others I've read and enjoyed are
Peyton Place
Flowers in the Attic
Me (Katharine Hepburn's autobiography)
All the Harry Potter books
The Thin Man
Where the Red Fern Grows

go dog go.


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Dr. Seuss is alway a great choice!!!

My ten favorites:

The Stranger - Albert Camus
Malcolm X - Alex Haley
Roots - Alex Haley
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flats - John Steinbeck
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Brothers In Arms - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation - Philip Norman
Family Album - Danielle Steele
Guitar People - William G. Moses

1.) Call me Lumpy
2.) Elvis and me
3.) The Giver
4.) Loser
5.)The Pigman
6.) Elvis: A life in pictures
7.) My scrapbook :p
8.) Harry Potter
9.) Gone With The Wind
10.)The Gospel of Elvis

Lord of the Rings
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Practical Magic
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
To Kill A Mockingbird
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I love my Lois Duncan...

"Summer of Fear"
"Killing Mr. Griffen"
"They Never Came Home"
"Stranger with My Face"
"Gallows Hill"
"A Gift of Magic"
"Daughters of Eve"
"Down a Dark Hall"
"Don't Look Behind You"
and some others I probably forgot...

oh and "SUDS, a new daytime drama," by Judie Angell.

Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation - Philip Norman


Probably the best book written about The Beatles. :)

Probably the best book written about The Beatles. :)


:nod: :nod: :yeahthat

If your a Beatle fan this is definitely the book to read. :wave:

Centennial- James A. Michener
The Little House series
I'm With The Band- Pamela Des Barres
Light My Fire- Ray Manzarek
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte(or is it Emily?) :lol:
Ammie Come Home- Barbara Michaels
Any autobiography that I can get my hands on!

I have so many books that I cannot say which other ones are my favorites. But these that I have afore-mentioned are my faves!

I think that I have evry book written about The Beatles and the Kennedy's and JackieO. After awhile they all become repetitive. But I enjoy reading them anyway! :)

The Outsiders
That Was Then, This Is Now
The Notebook
Harry Potter Series
Princess Diaries Series
Nancy Drew Series
The Diary of Anne Frank

There are a couple more but I can't think of them.

Flowers in the Attic

Ahh how was that? I've seen the movie, but I've always wanted to read the book.

Ahh how was that? I've seen the movie, but I've always wanted to read the book.


The book was excellent, the movie sucked big time.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life by Clay Aiken
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Visits from the Drowned Girl by Steven Sherrill
Go Ask Alice
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret? by Judy Blume
Forever by Judy Blume
Unlubricated by Arthur Nersesian

B:eyes2:KS R BORING.

I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Go Ask Alice
the Harry Potter series
Lennon in America by Geoffrey Guliano
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuck
1984 by George Orwell
The Body by Stephan King
Heaven by V.C. Andrews

I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO LIKED THAT BOOK?!

IM NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO LIKED THAT BOOK?!


I thought the same thing when I saw yours!!!!! :D It's my favorite book of all time :D

Holessss. That's like the only book I've ever read for leisure. Ohhh, and there was the Princess Diaries. That one was good, too.

I don't read unless I absolutely have to.

Enchantress of the Stars and Trickster's Choice were good. I love fantasy books.

This one looks good, I saw it in an article in a magazine. It's...not fantasy, unfortunately. http://www.lcmedia.com/kramerreview1.htm

B:eyes2:KS R BORING.

I find that many books are more interesting than most movies. A good book is never quite the same as it was the last time you read it, and you always learn something new about the author, the book and even yourself. Books are my friends and I would choose them over many people I know, anyday.

But then, my cousin agrees with your sentiment that books are boring, and nothing I've said has changed that... :wave:

Too many to choose from!

10. She's Come Undone
9. Beloved
8. Funny in Farsi
7. The Crucible
6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
5. The Bluest Eye
4. Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
3. To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
2. The Waves (Woolf)
1. Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte(or is it Emily?)

I've wanted to read that for a while, but everyone says it takes such a long time to get into the book- nothing interesting really happens until halfway through the book. I personally loooooved Wuthering Heights, though no one else in my class did. It was like...watching a Lifetime movie with all the drama and the urge to just slap one of the characters. You must read it.... :D

I find that many books are more interesting than most movies. A good book is never quite the same as it was the last time you read it, and you always learn something new about the author, the book and even yourself. Books are my friends and I would choose them over many people I know, anyday.

But then, my cousin agrees with your sentiment that books are boring, and nothing I've said has changed that... :wave:
Very true. I frequently re-read books and remember things in it I forgot.

Your cousin is going to miss a lot of learning if he never reads books (especially non-fiction books).
Back in 1999, my mom had back pain. We took her to the doctor in the afternoon and he gave her pain pills. They didn't do a thing and I remembered reading that one of the symptoms of a heart attack is back pain, so I took her to the emergency room at the hospital. They did tests and said something was going on with her heart. She was admitted and early the next morning had a very mild myocardial infarction (heart attack). She had an angioplasty (medically called "Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty") soon after to clear some almost-blocked arteries. Luckily, one of my reading interests is health and medicine. I wonder what would have happened if I wasn't familiar with coronary-artery disease and atherosclerosis (narrowing and/or blockage of the arteries)?

Very true. I frequently re-read books and remember things in it I forgot.

Your cousin is going to miss a lot of learning if he never reads books (especially non-fiction books).
Back in 1999, my mom had back pain. We took her to the doctor in the afternoon and he gave her pain pills. They didn't do a thing and I remembered reading that one of the symptoms of a heart attack is back pain, so I took her to the emergency room at the hospital. They did tests and said something was going on with her heart. She was admitted and early the next morning had a very mild myocardial infarction (heart attack). She had an angioplasty (medically called "Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty") soon after to clear some almost-blocked arteries. Luckily, one of my reading interests is health and medicine. I wonder what would have happened if I wasn't familiar with coronary-artery disease and atherosclerosis (narrowing and/or blockage of the arteries)?


That's basically what I told him. Not only about the joy of reading, but about the importance of it, as well. So many disastrous situations can be avoided with a little bit of research and knowledge.

He thinks you aren't living life if you rely on information. His philosophy is: "You just need to live life and take it as it comes. We're all going to die, anyway" I actually agree, to a certain extent, with that. But I think he's misused it as an excuse not to read and to stay ignorant.

He's a stubborn teenager. I'm sure you know what that entails. Once he thinks he's right, he's impossible to reason with!

Here's another tip you can tell him... There is ample evidence that vitamin C supplements can prevent the development of cataracts. But, strangely, only the chewable vitamin C is effective, not the regular tablet-type. Just a little thing I picked up from reading. :D
I've been taking the chewable type for over 20 years, mainly to help prevent colds and the last time I had a physical, there was an added bonus- my cholesterol reading was a very good 168 (200 and less is desirable).

Here's another tip you can tell him... There is ample evidence that vitamin C supplements can prevent the development of cataracts. But, strangely, only the chewable vitamin C is effective, not the regular tablet-type. Just a little thing I picked up from reading. :D
I've been taking the chewable type for over 20 years, mainly to help prevent colds and the last time I had a physical, there was an added bonus- my cholesterol reading was a very good 168 (200 and less is desirable).

That's probably one of his problems. People who actually read tell him things, so he doesn't feel the need to read at all. In any case, knowing him, he'd actually want cataracts because then he'd be a "cute old man", bumping into walls.

He's really out of my hands. He doesn't respect me, so he won't listen. It is a shame.

I guess he's on his own, then. He'll probably be sorry someday for not listening to you, but he'll find that out himself.