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itsafactiact:
Lets see, I love reading soo much! So here are my favorites:
-Ella Enchanted
-The Harry Potter Series
-Lotr
-All Sherlock Holme's stories
-Matilda
-Any Hercule Poirot story by agatha christie (especially Murder on the Orient Express)

But my all time favorite Agatha Christie book is And Then There were None or Ten Little Indians. It's the same book but goes under different titles. If you love murder mystery this is a must!!! Agatha Christie is one of the best!!

Sohru-san:
I started Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship or whatever its called a long time ago. I still need to finish it. I don't read books that often but I want to read more.

Hikari B.:
Oh, I'm a big fan of Magic Tree House! ^_^

Hira:
There are hundreds of excellent literatures you guys should read.
Here are some of the books that I've read for class, but they are nice, I mean great!

Any of the stories by Charles Dickens
Any of the plays by Arthur Miller, particularly Death of a Salesman
Books by Orson Scott Card
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Poisonwood Bible
Invisible Man
1984
The Great Gatsby
Sound and Fury <- Until you understand how the mind of a lunatic works, you'll probably have a hard time getting it
Yellow Raft in Blue Water (My teacher always called it Yellow Sponge in Bathtub, I'm guessing it's the cover page)
Of Mice and Man (I didn't really like the story because it's sad, but is still good piece)
Scarlet Letter
Heart of Darkness (This is a very odd book. If you want to understand what the author is trying to say, you have to read the book PRIMARILY for the imagery and symbols, not the plot, because each character/object/place represents something special, not telling how they are, though  :tongue3:)
I can tell you this, it is a darker incarnation of LOTF
Alas, Babylon!
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bless Me, Ultima
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
Memoirs of a Geisha<-Gonna read it during summer, not for class, though

I've heard from my friends that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dune are also good books to read (I'm not that big of a sci. fi. fan, though), Oh, when I was Sophomore, Firebird was a craze among some of my friends
LOTR & Harry Potter, I'm sure a lot of people are reading them now
When I have time, I'm gonna read Joy Luck Club, too. Anyone who has read this book, is it a good book?

Jeannette:
Hmm... Here goes.

It goes without saying (yet I'm still saying it... :sweatdrop:) that I worship the ground J. K. Rowling walks on. I was at the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. When I'm not haunting here, I'm probably immersing myself in Harry Potter.

I enjoy most of Orson Scott Card's books (though I find his belief that gay people should just **** it up and go into a straight marriage absolutely repulsive and ridiculous).

I also read the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, though I think that he goes more than a bit overboard in his constant insistence on proving how absolutely horrible socialism is. (Okay, okay, socialism=bad, we learned that lesson five books ago. Can we find some other theme now?)

I enjoy most of Mercedes Lackey's books as well, though I sometimes find her politics and philosophy over the top just like I find Card and Goodkind over the top in the opposite direction. (Sometimes she reads like a fanfic... I swear, one of her characters is a self-insert. Seriously.)

I adore Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. (I don't like Emily Bronte nearly as well.)

Charles Dickens I usually like, though at times I can't read him without getting a headache. I also enjoy J.R.R. Tolkien.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet are my heroes. Everyone needs to read them.

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