What do you like to read? (Aside from HP)

New thread started Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 08:47 PM, by Monjeblack
I've combined this new thread with these old ones:
"What do you like to read?" by LadyBlakney, August 18, 2007, 35 replies, August 18, 2007
"Rave on...Books" by shirlincairns, Oct '07, 17 replies
"Books?" // by monjeblack, Feb '08. 14 replies
"Do you read any of these...?" hedwig123, 7 replies, Apr '08

Of course, we all love the Harry Potter books. But, what else do you like to read?
I really enjoy the Truth series, by Dawn Cook (First Truth, Hidden Truth, Forgotten Truth & Lost Truth). And, I'm looking forward to reading Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.

I'm looking forward to reading that Stephanie Meyer book too.

I'd picked up another series by Cornelia Funke. She's a German writer. I've loaned those books out and they've been out over a year. It's a trilogy with the first two installments done. Inkspell I think. It's about readers who are able to make characters in a book and people in the real world exchange places by reading aloud. Wonderful story teller. She's written several other things too, but I think these are her best.

The Bartemaus Trilogy. Lemony Snicket.

I love a good mystery and a good adventure. I'll read anything by Tom Clancy or John Grisham. Other Authors are hit and miss. Nevada Barr is good for the most part. I like the Goldy Bear mysteries -- she's a caterer. I start out with a lot of authors until their books start to run together and I can't remember which book was which. I also don't like a book with a lot of curse words in it. Ruins a good story IMHO.

There is also a series of murder mysteries by a woman names Camille Minichino. In addition to teaching math, I've also taught several science courses and she's written mysteries about the elements -- carbon, oxygen, helium . . . they are kind of fun in an Americanized Agatha Christie sort of way.

I also like Sci Fi, if it's no so far out there I can't follow it

I love bio's, reading about people and their life journeys. Fantasy ... but I get really stuck if it's lot's of invented language ... that'll slow my reading up, lol
Historical event based novel's .... and love classical writing ... Greek plays to Shakespeare. Yes - Plays, I really like.

Yeesh, I had completely forgotten about the Barteamus Trilogy, but I loved that.
Garth Nix, The Seventh Tower Series, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen. (I think that's spelled correctly).
Da Vinci Code. I LOVE the Da Vinci Code. It's by far the best of Dan Brown's books, but I have to say I'm rather enamored of his others as well...though keep in mind they can be a little risque. :/
Obviously Eragon and Eldest, which were still good when you actually read them, really dragged you into the storyline, but it drags and stops in odd places. Very odd and annoying places. Possibly I only liked it because I never read it's forerunners.
I do like the Artemis Fowl books as well, or at least I did when I was younger.
A Wrinkle in Time. I think this is where a lot of my crazy theories about time and distance and so forth are based from. There are also three other books, it's a quartet.
The Count of Monte Cristo. One of my favorite books of all time, but I'm not exactly sure what version I have...still, I love it.

I like Louisa May Alcott, Meg Cabot, The Anne of Green Gables series, and the Sweet Valley High series.

I reread Jane (Austen, of course) every year, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice are my favorites.

At the moment I am reading almost strictly mysteries. I love Ian Rankin and Henning Mankell (Scottish and Swedish noir) although they are more crime fiction, I suppose.

Pride and Prejudice. It's been years, but I loved that book.

I've also made my way through Artemis Fowl.

My oldest tried to get me started on a new children's series when the Lemony Snicket books ran out . . . cute but not enough to remember the name. I'll have to look it up. Something about the Edge of the Forest. About a little one who didn't fit in until he found his Pirate Dad.