Favorite books?

[amoona]

I read all the time. The types of books I read are sooo drastically different though haha. I was originally a Middle Eastern Studies major until I realized I didn't want to be a teacher or a lawyer or anything so I read a lot of books on Middle Eastern history and politics ... not to mention that's my interest. The other books I like to read are best described as "Sex and the City" type books haha.

The Serious Stuff
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
Dreaming of Palestine by Randa Ghazy
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
Palestine by Joe Sacco and Edward Said
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid by Roane Carey

The Girlie Stuff
The Second Assistant: a Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
The Right Address by Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman
Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

 

[NutMeg]

These are some of the good ones on my shelf right now.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Sailing to Sarantium and Lord Of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fifth Business, World of Wonders and The Manticore by Robertson Davies
The Blue Sword, and The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen and Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
All of the Carol Berg books
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Denner's Wreck by Lawrence Watt-Evans
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Seedling Stars by James Blish
Watership Down b Richard Adams

And that's all that I could come up with running around the bookshelves in my house.

 

[shlomit_mp]

ok, mine's a bit crazy...-
"justine...."- d.a.f. de sade
"the parfume"- patrick suskind
"the secret life of lazlo, count dracula"- roderick anscombe

and here are some i love about the native americans-
"split feather"- shuki ben-ami
"whitch chlid" and "sorceress"- celia rees

 

[shlomit_mp]

oh, how could i forget? anything by oscar wild!

 

[mskitchmas]

My favorite book ever is The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Also anything by Reynaldo Arenas is excellent as well as anything by Isable Allende.

Oh! and on a lighter note Christopher Moore is a really great author.

 

[redambition]

i love love love the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. My favourites are Moving Pictures and The Truth.

These books are incredible as when you re-read them you pick up on more humour that you may have missed the first time around

They are very well written.

I also love Ben Elton's books. A favourite is This Other Eden. Sometimes humourous, however they hold a disturbing mirror up to reality... they really get you thinking about the world and the society we live in.

Recently I've been reading a lot of non fiction. two of my picks:

The Code Book - Simon Singh (the history of codes and code breaking. kinda heavy but very interesting)
The World According to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson (this man is funny.. I laugh out loud when i read his books)