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28 Dec 2009, 13:40
*Forever Changing*
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I need your book suggestions, I plan on reading 100 books in 2010, and I need some ideas. I am really into the Last Vampire series, and (gasp) Twilight. I am also into My Sisters Keeper, Harry Potter, umm...Lisa Gardner and crime books. I also do not mind Non-fiction, so if you have any suggestions that are similar to these books or totally different, let me know!
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28 Dec 2009, 13:44
Acid Fairy
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I'm just going to tell you my favourite books...

1984 - George Orwell
The Beach - Alex Garland
Interview With The Vampire and
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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28 Dec 2009, 13:46
*Forever Changing*
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I've never read any of them, so thank you!
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28 Dec 2009, 14:04
lithium layouts.
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Anything by Jostein Gaarder... particularly The Solitaire Mystery. One of my favourite books of all time!

Also, have you read the Eragon series? It's quite good.
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28 Dec 2009, 14:36
*Forever Changing*
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I have not read the Eragon series actually :)
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28 Dec 2009, 15:50
Lauren.
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My co-worker just let me borrow the first Eragon book. I've never actually heard much about it, so I'm glad to see that someone I know likes it xD.
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28 Dec 2009, 23:45
lithium layouts.
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There was actually an Eragon movie (the first book in the series; it's a trilogy). Did you guys (America) get the movie? Or was it only a southern hemisphere thing? xD
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30 Dec 2009, 01:28
Lauren.
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I do think we had the movie here, because my co-worker that let me borrow the book mentioned the movie as well. Is it called Eragon too?
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31 Dec 2009, 09:40
~RedFraggle~
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I thought it was an American movie. And I seem to remember it not getting very good reviews here. :P
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28 Dec 2009, 16:00
Lauren.
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If you like crime books, have you read The Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson? There are currently 9 out and they're one of my favorite series. They're ordered by number: 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree, 4th of July, The 5th Horseman, The 6th Target, 7th Heaven, The 8th Confession, and The 9th Judgement.

If you like murder mystery books, the "Prey" series by John Sandford is also very good. There are..er..20 (?) in that series. You can see all the titles at the authors website here.

The author of My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult, has a lot of great books. Some of my other favorites are Handle with Care, Nineteen Minutes, and Keeping Faith.
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28 Dec 2009, 16:10
*Forever Changing*
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I havent read any of the ones you have listed either :) thanks!
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28 Dec 2009, 16:15
raen
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The Power of One -Bryce Courtenay (My favourite :D)
Black Man -Richard Morgan
The Song of Tears trilogy - Ian Irvine
I can't think of any others right now, but when I do, I'll post them...and anything by Douglas Adams is pretty much awesome.
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28 Dec 2009, 16:47
Giggle
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The woman in white by Wilkie Collins was great and I've enjoyed every book I read by Judith McNaught so far =]
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28 Dec 2009, 18:34
ICky VICky
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look at Anonymous Source-Books survey, stolen from ULTRA Logica it has 100 books in it right their i also put it in one of my entries cause im going to read those for the 2010 year.
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28 Dec 2009, 19:18
Chris
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Here are 100 books here, many of which considered to be literary classics, if that's what you're going for:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

This was taken right out of the reading meme that's been making rounds on Bloop again. It makes annual rounds around late December every year.
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2 Jan 2010, 00:43
Lovin'MyLittles
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I just recently started reading a new trilogy. It's called City of Bones, City of Ash, and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. I
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28 Dec 2009, 18:05
all.is.vanity
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Have you read any of charlaine harris (the series true blood was based of?) They're good, adult take on the vampire genre.

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28 Dec 2009, 20:30
.Ban.Ignorance.
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Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to get Deadly, Four to Score, High Five.....Finger Lickin' Fifteen

I also really liked Janet Evanovich's Full series - Full house, Full tilt, Full speed, Full Blast, Full bloom, Full Scoop

Some of my favorites:

Anne Frank

Blue is for Nightmares (BIFN 1) - L.F. Stolarz
White is for Magic (BIFN 2)
Silver is for Secrets (BIFN 3)
Red is for Rememberance (BIFN 4)

You Don't Know Me - D. Klass

A Child Called "it" D. Pelzer (it's hard to read.. mentally.. but its a great book and theres two or three more by him about his life)

Tuesday's with Morrie - M. Albom

Walk Two Moons - S. Creech

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - M.Albom

Hearts in Atlantis - S. King

Keeping Faith - J. Picoult
Plain Truth - J. Picoult
Nineteen Minutes - J. Picoult
Vanishing Acts - J. Picoult
Change of Heart - J. Picoult

The Glass Castle - J. Walls *******

The Host - S. Meyer

Dance Upon the Air (Three sisters island 1) - N. Roberts
Heaven on Earth (Three sisters island 2)
Face the Fire (Three sisters island 3)

Size 12 is not fat - M. Cabot
Size 14 isn't fat either - M. Cabot
Big Boned - M. Cabot

While My Sister Sleeps - B. Delinsky

Wherever Nina Lies - L. Weingarter

Dead Until Dark - C. Harris (this whole series...theres 11 i think?.. its where True Blood comes from)

The Last SUmmer (of you and me) - A. Brashares

Lakeside Cottage - S. Wiggs

The Friday Night Knitting Club - K. Jacobs

okay theres SOME suggestions :-D
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28 Dec 2009, 23:47
lithium layouts.
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I loved A Child Called "it"... makes you marvel at the endurance of the human spirit.
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30 Dec 2009, 01:27
Lauren.
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Oh my, I read that book. It breaks your heart, yet lifts your spirit at the same time!
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2 Jan 2010, 13:00
Aubrey;
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I second "Hearts in Atlantis" by Stephen King. It's one of his good, not-as-creepy ones, but it's still weird.
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28 Dec 2009, 20:56
The Ryan
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Anything by Mitch Albom is satisfying to read, yo! :)
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29 Dec 2009, 06:38
Makayla
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I agree Tuesdays with Morrie was my favorite book by him.
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29 Dec 2009, 05:14
RealLifeComics
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Jean M Auel, Earths children series. Start off with "Clan of the Cavebear" theres 5 books I think.
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29 Dec 2009, 16:23
Estella
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Oh yes, yo - those are good. I'd started reading them before Fatt Dad came along and stole them all and took them to his house so he could read them! So, yeah, Fatt Dad thinks they are good too.
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