What books in your library?

Question

What books in your library at home do you love and are proud to own?

Answer 1

Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn ; Harry Potter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Answer 2

These are just a few!  I have about 1000 books and my dining room is now a library!

Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

Adult

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Answer 3

Hm,

House of Leaves- Mark Z. Danielewski

Lord of the Flies- Willaim Golding

Valley of the Dolls- Jacqeline Susann

East of Eden- John Steinbeck

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk- Legs McNeil

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert

1984- George Orwell

Candide- Voltaire

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

As well as everything Chuck Palahniuk has ever written, including his non-ficton. (haha, I'm a nerd.)

I would have to say those are my top picks.

Answer 4

All of Jane Austen, some of Diana Wynne Jones [The Castle series, first volume of Chrestomanci, A Tale of Time City and Fire and Hemlock] Anna Karenina, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Doctor Zhivago [love love love!], Anne of Green Gables [the first, second and third], Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, Rebecca, some Shakespeare . . . also, do comic books count? Because I love Calvin and Hobbes and Foxtrot =)

Hey! I've Catcher in the Rye too.  

Answer 5

Oh god, it would take days.

Here's a list of books I've read recently. I've starred the must reads:

1. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

2. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer *

3. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer *

4. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer *

5. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare*

6. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare*

7. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

8. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart

9. Unwind - Neal Shusterman*

10. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld*

12. The Host - Stephenie Meyer*

13. A Great And Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray

14. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray

15. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray

16. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld*

17. Specials - Scott Westerfeld*

18. Extras - Scott Westerfeld*

19. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

20. Peeps - Scott Westerfeld

21. The Last Days - Scott Westerfeld

22. Little Brother - Cory Doctorow

23. Gone - Michael Grant

24. Everlost - Neal Shusterman*

25. Evernight - Claudia Gray*

26. The Wizard Heir - Cinda Williams Chima*

27. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

28. Lady Friday - Garth Nix

29. Superior Saturday - Garth Nix

30. Full Tilt - Neal Shusterman*

31. Physik - Angie Sage

32. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer*

33. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & The Beast - Robin McKinley*

34. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer*

35. The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong*

36. Blue Bloods - Melissa de la Cruz*

37. Masquerade - Melissa de la Cruz*

38. Midnighters 1: The Secret Hour - Scott Westerfeld

39. Midnighters 2: Touching Darkness - Scott Westerfeld

40. Wake - Lisa McMann

41. The Alchemyst - Michael Scott

42. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson*

43. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

44. The Dragon Heir - Cinda Williams Chima*

45. So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld

46. The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson*

47. The Midnight Twins - Jacquelyn Mitchard

48. Sweethearts - Sarah Zarr*

49. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin*

Answer 6

- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

- The Shining by Stephen King

- The Poet by Michael Connelly

- 1984 by George Orwell

- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

- Gallipoli by Les Carlyon

- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

- A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

They're just some of my favourites. I've got many more but I'd be typing all day if I tried listing them all.

Cheers, great question.

:)