TWO!
Two. We're already at number two! That's a really, really, really low number countdown-wise. (In case you guys hadn't figured that out yet.)
1....TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Will this book ever have an equal? I don't think so. At least not for me. It's one of the rare books that I read as a teenager that, when I re-read it now, I love it even more. It speaks to you in very different ways at different points of your life. It is a classic for a reason.
2...PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. I have to admit that I discovered this one relatively late in life. I read it for the first time after the BBC miniseries brought it back into the limelight. And oh am I glad it did. There's just something so utterly perfect about every character in that book. The squealing Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Bingley's snobby sister, the mumbling, pretentious Mr. Collins... Even though those characters were set a few hundred years ago in a completely different country I still felt like I know them. Oh heck, I DO know them--or people just like them--and that's why P&P will always be at the top of my list.
So what about you guys? What are your favorite books ever?
-Ally
TWO GREATEST BOOKS EVER (IN MY OPINION)
1....TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Will this book ever have an equal? I don't think so. At least not for me. It's one of the rare books that I read as a teenager that, when I re-read it now, I love it even more. It speaks to you in very different ways at different points of your life. It is a classic for a reason.
2...PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. I have to admit that I discovered this one relatively late in life. I read it for the first time after the BBC miniseries brought it back into the limelight. And oh am I glad it did. There's just something so utterly perfect about every character in that book. The squealing Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Bingley's snobby sister, the mumbling, pretentious Mr. Collins... Even though those characters were set a few hundred years ago in a completely different country I still felt like I know them. Oh heck, I DO know them--or people just like them--and that's why P&P will always be at the top of my list.
So what about you guys? What are your favorite books ever?
-Ally
posted by Ally Carter at Sunday, September 30, 2007
31 Comments:
I have too many to pick...
but if i had to pick one i would pick Harry Potter 3.
anything by tamora pierce, she has a great discussion grouop, sheroescentral.com. i like the other co-founder's site too.
luv, karmina
the co-founder had a girl star in a movie that recently started something else too. go to the tv site and chat that girls name
luv, karmina
actually the character and the guy she gave a second chance's thread is best
luv, karmina
I totally agree with you about Pride and Prejudice. My other top favorites are Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
By the way, I went to Borders today (in Gainesville, FL) and guess what they had out . . . yep, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy! I purchased it, of course, and can't wait to start reading it!
those two certainly make the list
twilight series and harry potter series
~alizah
That's a really tough one.... but I think I would have to say L.M. Montgomery's Rilla or Ingleside, and Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. Oh, and Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South gets an honourable mention.
Besides 'love you, kill you' (as my friends call it)? Umm.. The warriors series and.... Hmm. Nothing else besides comes to mind besides the Gallagher books you write. The Inheritance (eragon, eldest) Series is my third one
I like the Private series, and the Gallagher series and the Inkheart trilogy.
I like THE CREEK and every single Alex Rider book (the new one comes out this halloween) Also I was going to see you at the KBF but it ends at 3:00 and school ends at 3:15
The Pushcart War!
Other than LYKY, I like the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You is seriously, my favoritist book EVER! It's so amazing! 12 times! 12 times I've read it.
~Meagan Elizabeth
One of my favorite books is The Lord of the flies. Very interseting. Also an incredible book that ever girl should read is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's incredible and the movie actually does teh book justice.
Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books too, but my favorite book ever is the oh so excellent, yet underrated Galax-Arena by Gillian Rubinstein. I first read it when I was about nine and I last read it a couple of months ago (I'm 19) and it only gets better. I can't even describe how much I love this book.
Lots of really good books out there...but right now I'm reading the Ender's Game books and they're REALLY GOOD!!! Others I luv include LYKY, Twilight, the truth about forever, HP, and a lot more I can't think of right now......
Two I loved as a child (and have re-read and loved as an adult) were "The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler" and "The Westing Game". In addition to Ally's books, some of my favorites in recent years are anything by Meg Cabot and Ann Brashares.
i really like the clique series. they're really easy to read and every one is completely different from the one that came before it. of course, none of them compare to LYKY! :)
Another vote for P&P - also The Great Gatsby!
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Enough Said...
To Kill A Mockingbird is amazing
they had cross my heart at borders and I'm reading it right now...eek!
I'm not a classics person (*cough* no To Kill a Mockingbird or Pride and Prejudice *cough*).
But as for modern books, besides LYKY, I like the Faerie Tale series by Holly Black (who is the nicest person ever), City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (who rivals Holly in the nicest-person award), the Twilight series, the Young Wizards' series by Diane Duane, anything by Laurie Halse Anderson, almost anything by Sarah Dessen, and a bunch of others that I'm not going to list because I'd take bore you all. :)
I read too much, methinks.
OH! And I almost forgot. "Cut" and "Sold" by Patricia McCormick are REALLY REALLY good too.
I am holding "the book"!!!! omg! i got it early! can you believe that!? the harvard bookstore already had it in stock today october 1st!!!
MY FAVORITE BOOOKS EVER BESIDES YOURS ARE TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE BY STEPHENIE MEYER
In addition to some of the other great books mentioned (like all things Jane Austen, although my fav of hers is Emma), I have to throw out Philip Pullman's His Great Materials and Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series. Also Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine.
When will the next Gallagher Girls book come out! The agony is killing me! I just HAVE to know what happens!
Really...are you going to right a third book in the series aboutb Cammie and the Gallagher Academy? Please do they are amazing!
my favorite books are I'd tell u i loved u bet then i'd have to kill u by U of course
and cross my heart and hope to spy
and the blue is for nightmares white is for magic silver is for secrets and red it for romembrance series
totalyy the TWiLiGHT series by Stephenie Meyer... then comes ur books and a bunch of other books that i'm too lazy to name right now
=D
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