On the subject of books - What are some of your favorites?

mckayleesmom wrote: By Jennifer Wiener
Little Earthquakes
In Her Shoes
Goodnight Nobody
Good In Bed
The only one of her books I didn't like was the one with the short stories, I think it was The Guy Not Taken.

Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
My Sisters Keeper
Vanishing Acts

Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Lucky

Lorna LandvikPatty Jane's House Of Curls
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bon's (truly my favorite of all time)

Pearl S Buck
The Good Earth

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women

J.D SalingerCatcher In The Rye

James Patterson
The Notebook (the book was so much better to me)
Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas

My3LilMonkeys replied: My 2 favorite books of all time are Gone With the Wind and Scarlett.

I also love pretty much anything by:
Stephen King (except the Dark Tower series, I hate those)
John Grisham
Nora Roberts
J.D. Robb
Erma Bombeck

I'll try just about anything though - I love to read.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: James Patterson didn't write The Notebook. That was Nicholas Sparks--my favorite author. I love all of his books.

I really loved Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.

Gosh, I read so many books I can't even begin to list them. I probably read about 3 a week.

HuskerMom replied:
I love that book.

I'll have to think about this and come back.

stella6979 replied: I'm a big true crime/horror fan so anything scary I usually like. I did love The Lovely Bones and The Bone Parade, but I also love To Kill a Mockingbird.

stella6979 replied: Oh and Promise Not to Tell is another one of my favs! I've read that at least four times already.

Danalana replied: Anything by Max Lucado
Redeeming Love--Francine Rivers
Anything by Nicholas Sparks, especially "A Walk to Remember"
Captivating--John and Stasi Eldredge
Heaven--V.C. Andrews
Get Out of That Pit--Beth Moore
A Heart Like His--Beth Moore
What's So Amazing About Grace?--Philip Yancey
The Battlefield of the Mind--Joyce Meyer
Woman, Thou Art Loosed!--T.D. Jakes
With an Everlasting Love--Kay Arthur
This Present Darkness AND Piercing the Darkness--Frank Peretti
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants--Ann Brashares
The Purpose Driven Life--Rick Warren
Animal farm--George Orwell
The Lord of the Flies--William Golding

and the list goes on and on and on...

Teesa®© replied: Everything from Stephen King/Richard Bachman, V.C. Andrews, Brian Lumley, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew - I'll only read the originals, though - , Jean Auel, J.R. Tolkein [I have the original First Edition books], J.K. Rowling, DragonLance and Forgotten Realms Novels [they are written by MANY writers] and countless others.

I have all of or darn close to the entire collections of all the above mentioned books.

mckayleesmom replied:
Sorry...that is who I meant...James Patterson wrote Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. I forgot to seperate the 2 and put Nick Sparks It won't let me edit though.

cameragirl21 replied: I'd have a hard time listing all my fave books, there are so many. Lately, I like anything by Dean Koontz, especially "From the Corner of His Eye" and anything by James Patterson, especially the most recent one I read, "You've Been Warned" (I think that's what it's called) and also, Beach Road" and so many others. I loved "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" but it took me some time to get into it...once I was into it, I was hooked. Used to love Stephen King but I felt it all went downhill at around "Rose Madder" which really depressed me in the end (and I imagine it would depress any mother). Anything he wrote after that I just couldn't get into, but I loved "It", "Needful Things" and "Salem's Lot", among others.
I've never read anything by Jennifer Wiener but I'll have to check her out and will definitely check out Jodi Picoult. As for non fiction, I love the Princess series by Jean Sasson...that is how I learned much of what I wrote (in a previous post) about Saudi Arabia...reading those books is not for the faint of heart, though, they will rip you apart emotionally.
I also liked "Tuesdays With Morrie"...it's about ALS, the disease I raise money for and books like "Marley and Me" that are about the human-animal bond.

Danalana replied: Jennifer, I have "Marley and Me" somewhere and I really want to get to it. But is it very sad? I knew I would probably end up in tears (animal lover!), but is it too sad? And about ALS...when I was in college, I went to this church on occasion, and I loved the pastor there. Not long after I started going, he was diagnosed...it got to the point that we could hardly understand him He died when I went home for the summer. I hate hate hate that disease! How do you raise money for it?

cameragirl21 replied:
well, "Marley and Me" is sad toward the end but it really does a good job of showing the strength of the human-animal bond which I think people take too lightly. We can bond with animals in a way that we can't bond with humans and that too needs to be acknowledged.
As for ALS, I made a calendar, photographing children who lost someone (or were currently losing someone) to the disease for the ALS Association...showed some pics from it here. Was all over the news for it too, it was kind of exciting but I cried so much and kept having bad dreams about ALS. Sorry to hear about your pastor, believe me, I know how awful this disease is. I am looking for other ways to raise money for it now, perhaps another calendar or notecards or something to that effect. There are many ways you can get involved if you're interested.

Danalana replied: That's really nice...and I'm gonna read that book when I find it!

jcc64 replied: All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, changed the way I look at life, particularly my own attitudes about spirituality. It is commonly thought of as a political novel, but that is not the best part, imo.

What is the What, by Dave Eggers, true story about the Lost Boys of Sudan. Unbelievable what these kids, and they were young kids, endured in order to just survive.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, also by Dave Eggers. Funny and heartbreaking autobio describing the author's experience of raising his little brother when both parents died of cancer within a few months of each other.

For fun, anything by Augusten Burroughs, who wrote Running with Scissors. That, also autobiographical, was one wacky childhood. Warning, he's gay and has an irreverent, pretty liberal orientation, which some might find offensive.

youngmomofone replied: I havent read in years but my sil told me to read Twilight and New Moon and whatever the last one is and to order the last book that's coming out soon so we'll see if I like those

Sam & Abby's Mom replied: My all time favorite has always been Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

bawoodsmall replied: I read whenever possible. Its kinda awesome because I can do it while on the exercise machine in the morning at the gym. My boss got me hooked on Debbie Macomber. She is in the romance section but I wouldnt call it romance.

by her
Dakota Born
Dakota Home
Always Dakota

The shop on blossom street
A good Yarn
Back on Blossom street

Jodi Picoult is awesome
I have read a couple of hers and really like her style.

I love Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
and
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Lucky is really good too.

Hey Brianne...do you still think about lovely bones all the time? I do...it really made an impact on me.