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PostPosted: August 28th, 2008, 7:57 pm 
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The title says it all. Post a list of all the books you've read. (Bigger job for some people than others, I know. =P)

Here is my list, favorites generally toward the top. As you'll note, I'm an avid Fantasy reader.

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb.

These three books are brilliant and a must read. Robin Hobb is a very gifted writer, and while some of her other works tend to have a weird neo-native American/magical setting, the Farseer books are jewels of straight High Fantasy. Her characterization is incredible, the world is intriguing, but most of all, the whole feel and setting of the books, coupled with and created by her writing style, is amazing. Highly recommended.

All of the Pern books, by Anne McCaffery.

These are definitely my second all-time favorite books. Although if you're going to read them, you really should read them all, as they are all part one story. (I hardly ever think of them in terms of individual books.)
It's a mix of fantasy/Sci-fi, but don't let that put you off, they are all excellent stories and well written.

The Song of Albion Series, by Stephen Lawhead.

Very good books, recommended. My favorite of his.

Dune, by Frank Herbert.

Dune, well, who hasn't read Dune? A must read if you never read Sci-Fi again. In short: Classics.

The Balgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium and The Tamuli, but David Eddings.

Quantity over quality, right? Eddings isn't the best writer in the world, but the stories are good. It's hard to put them down.

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan.


They're only down here because I haven't read them all yet. Good books, alot of reading.

The Pendragon Cycle, by Stephen Lawhead.

Good books.

Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Borroughs.
(They aren't down here because I dislike them, they're just a different type.)

All 24 for them. If you ever see them at used book stores, get them. Classics. A must read.

The Mars books, also by Edgar Rice Borroughs.

Also very good books. Don't be fooled by disreputable covers; they are entirely decent and well written.

The Land that Time Forgot, also by Edgar Rice Borroughs.

This is a stand-alone, and his best book in my opinion. Novel-length.

The Arthurian Saga, by Mary Stewart.

More books on Arthur, very good. Also check out Mary Stewart's mysteries. The Gabriel Hounds is very good.

Timeline and Sphere,
by Micheal Crichton.


Stand-alones, good books.

Brother Cadfael, by Ellis Peters.

Theres a bunch of them, all good.

Beowulf.


Everyone should read this.

Ender's Game [And Co.], by Orson Scott Card.


Also a must read. All of his books are very good.

There's is probably more that I forgot, but those are off the top of my head.


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Should this be books required during school as well, surely my list will be uber long

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Don't have to list them if you don't want to.


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I'll have this up soon, but I have to write them down first so I don't leave anything out!

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If I wrote the list of all the books I read it would be almost 100 pages long.

Reading is so much fun!!! :-D

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If I listed every book I've ever read it will take hours so I'll just list what I can see on my bookshelf in my bedroom which are the books which I don't want my mother to chuck out... (she's having a bit of a chucking out session and the 1,500+ books we have in the house are the first to suffer :(...)

The Boudica Series by Manda Scott - Best books in the world

The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Roverandom by J.R.R Tolkien
Also on my bookshelf but haven't had time to read yet are: The Silmarillion (started it yesterday), Book of Lost Tales part 1&2, The People of Middle-earth, The Unfinished Tales (I have read some of it), The Children of Húrin, Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and A Guide to Tolkien by David Day - all thanks the the wonder that is the Oxfam Bookshop (baring Children of Húrin and People of Middle-earth)

Warlord Chronicles (Arthurian Legends)
Most of the Sharpe novels
The Alfred the Great (Viking) series
The Grail Quest trilogy
Fallen Angel

all by Bernard Cornwall

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (those published) by Michelle Paver

Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn

The Angel Mountain Saga by Brian John. (Set around the place where I go on holiday every year and am going tomorrow! :D)

The Eagle Series by Simon Scarrow.

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud.

The Sight by David Clement-Davies

The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson. (Boris! :goofy: )

The Odyssey by Homer (Read for college)

Medea, Electra, and The Bacchae by Euripides (Read for college)

The Acharnians, The Knights, The Wasps, Peace and Lysistrata by Aristophanes (Some read for college, others read just for the sake of it - although I will probably be reading them for college)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen.

Viking: Odinn's Child by Tim Severin. (First of a trilogy.)

Raven's End by Ben Gadd

The Edge Chronicles by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart

The Wind on Fire Trilogy by William Nicholson.

The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis (Editor really.)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman. And also Good Omens.

Wales: History of a Nation by David Ross

I Never Knew That About Ireland by Christopher Winn

Irish Studies: A General Introduction by Thomas Bartlett and Chris Curtin

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

Harry Potter by JK Rowling (What teenager doesn't have HP? :P )


And that (baring my Irish and Welsh language courses) is what's on my bookcase in my bedroom...



Books that I can remember reading...


Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart (Not a patch on Bernard Cornwall's series)

A number of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett and also The Carpet People and Good Omens.

The Various and Celandine by Steve Augarde.

Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.

Magician's House Quartet by William Corlett

One of the Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters. Only read it because it's set where I live...

Narnia series by CS Lewis

The Famous Five by Enid Blyton... The best children's author ever... Love her :D Also read many of her other books... Magic Faraway Tree is really good as well

And that's as many as I can remember for now....


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PostPosted: September 1st, 2008, 1:26 am 
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God grief ... don't think I can even remember all the books I've read, but I'll post my list of ones I remember and liked...


  • Lord of the Rings (all six books) - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Children of Hurin - Christopher Tolkien
  • The Silmarillion - Christopher Tolkien
  • Unfinished Tales - Tolkien
  • The Black Company series (all ten books) - Glen Cook
  • Dune series (the first 5) - Frank Herbert)
  • The Elric Saga (six books) - Michael Morecock
  • The Gentleman B@st@rd series (two books so far) - Scott Lynch
  • The Illistrated Man - Ray Bradbury
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  • The Foundation Series (first three books) - Issac Asimov
  • Assasin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb (plan to read the other two someday)
  • The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  • Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
  • Combat Mission - Joe David Brown
  • The Willing Flesh - Willi Hienrich
  • Wheels of Terror - Sven Hassal
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  • The Longest Day - Cornilius Ryan


Those are just the ones I remember while writing this post.

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PostPosted: September 1st, 2008, 10:08 pm 
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Oh man :blink: I'd love to make my list right now, but I'll have to take some time later to choose my favourites, then post them up... it would take me days to list all the books I've ever read, haha!

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Yeah, I've been reading for a very long time, it'd take ages, and a library computer to list all of them.


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PostPosted: September 3rd, 2008, 9:57 pm 
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It's so weird to see what others have read and to have never even heard of some of them. :blink: there are SO many books out there... it's insane!

and, sadly, like many of the others my list of books read would be impossible to list. :P ;)

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About five dozen horse books that I can't remember all the names of...

Maximum Ride the Angel Experiment
Twilight
The Lord of the Rings
The Children of Hurin
Book of Lost Tales 1
Eragon
Eldest
first of the Ranger's Apprentice
The Oath
Hero's Song
Fire Arrow
Dragonriders of Pern
All the Wyers of Pern
Harperhalls of Pern
Black Beauty
King of the Wing
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Hobbit
The Circle Opens Quartet
The Circle of Magic Quarted
The Lioness Quartet
The Immortals Quartet
Holes
The Naming

Only to name a few. Don't make me try to remember all those authors...

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Well. All the books? Way to long to list them all. So a few, pretty much ones I've enjoyed and/or read multiple times.

    Lord of the Rings
    Silmarillion
    Book of Lost Tales
    Chronicles of Narnia
    Screwtape Letters
    Wheel of Time (all 11)
    New Spring
    Death Gate Cycle
    The Sword, the Ring, and the Chalice
    Chronicles of Prydain
    The Lost Years of Merlin
    The Robe
    The Unicorns of Balinor
    The Tenth Kingdom
    The Bounty Hunter Wars
    Han Solo Trilogy
    Heir to the Empire/Dark Force Rising/The Last Command
    Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
    Tales from the Empire
    Tales of the Bounty Hunters
    Callista Trilogy
    Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy
    Young Jedi Knights
    Jedi Academy
    The Saddle Club
    Pride and Prejudice
    Sanditon
    Love Comes Softly
    Praire Legacy
    The Secrets of the Rose
    The Russians
    The Stonewycke Trilogy
    Cheny Duvall, MD
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    Witch of Blackbird Pond
    Anne of Green Gables
    American Girl: Samantha
    American Girl: Felicity
    American Girl: Kirsten
    American Girl: Abby
    American Girl: Molly

    Death on the Nile
    The Murder of Rodger Ackroyd
    Cards on the Table
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    The A.B.C. Murders
    And Then There Were None
    A Caribbean Mystery
    Hickory Dickory Dock
    A Pocket Full of Rye
    A Murder is Announced
    Crooked House
    N or M?
    Ordeal By Innocense
    The Moving Finger
    The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
    The Seven Dials Mystery
    They Do It With Mirrors
    Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
    The Floating Vicar
    The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    The Sign of the Four
    A Study in Scarlet

    Atlantis Found
    Raise the Titanic
    Trojan Odyssey
    Valhalla Rising
    Mediterranean Caper
    Iceberg
    Vixen 03
    Cyclops
    Black Wind
    Patriot Games
    Hunt for Red October
    Cardinal of the Kremlin
    Taming of the Shrew
    The Tempest
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Twelfth Night
    Romeo and Juliet
    Julius Caesar
    Macbeth
    The Merchant of Venice

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Oh, remembered a few more!

The Riddles of Epsilon
Chronicles of Narnia
The Red Pony
Freedom
Molly Moon's incredible book of hypnotism

And a long list of mangas...

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