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what are your favourite books and/or authors, and your least favourites?

personaly, I believe that Orson Scott Card is THE best author, and his Ender's Shadow series are my favourite books, closely followed by his Homecoming series.

least favorites have to be nearly all of asimov's(sorry!)

Personal favorites?
J.M Auel for her Earths Childrens series. My favorite book of those ones would be Clan of the Cave Bear...
Brian Jaqcues for Redwall. Favorite of the Redwall series being Mariel of Redwall, Marlfox and Lord Brocktree
Margarite Henry for her horse books... namely King of the Wind
Ken Follet for Pillars of the Earth
J.K Rowling for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Tolkien for the Hobbit
Kristen Britain for Green Rider (and Riders First Call)...
Bill Peet for ALL of his children books. I love them, they're amazingly good.
Stan and Jan Berenstein for the Berenstein Bears (classic books)
And... possibly my all time favorite...

Eric Carle and Bill Martin for Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see?

Ooh! I *love* book threads. I seriously have my own personal library.

Favorite authors:
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Rice
Naoko Takeuchi
Yu Watase
CLAMP
Katya Reimann
J.K. Rowling
Ursula K. LeGuin
Mercedes Lackey
Myself (Sorry if that's wrong to say, but I really like my work. lol)

I know their are more, but a lot of my books are still packed away. We just got another bookcase, so I'm going to get more out and go through them this weekend.

Oh geeze..*looks on her book shelf*

Robert Jordan for the Wheel of Time series
Brian Jaqcues for the Redwall books
J.K Rowling for the Harry Potter books
Daine Duane for the So you want to a wizard series
Tamora Pierce for her quartets, I've yet to read them all though.
Philip Pullman for the His Dark Materials trilogy
and Corniala Funke for Inkheart, and The Theif Lord.
and last but not least, Edgar Allen Poe, for his short story "the cask of Amontilaldo"

I like: Michael Critchon, Timothy Zahn, Tom Clancy, a few SW authors.

My favorite books are: October Sky, Jaws, some Star Wars books (Vision of the Future, Courtship of Princess Leia, Champions of the Force, etc), Watership Down, Congo, Prey, and others I can't think of right now.

My favourite authors are :

Sue Townsend
Helen Fielding
Margaret Atwood
Valerie Mendes
Sherryl Jordan
Melvin Burgess
David Almond
Cate Tieran
Gail Carson Levine
JRR Tolkien
Nick Hornby
Joan Lingard

Tolkien and Rowling, of course.

Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Brontë
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
Fools Crow -- James Welch
Wise Blood -- Flannery O'Connor

I can't remember any others at the moment.

EDIT: I suppose I could add Fast Food Nation since I'm always advocating for people to read it. It is useful for information, but I don't find it entertaining.

All of those, and nearly all other sci-fi fantasy writers...Rowling, Tolkien, Ian Irvine. And, of course, Colleen McCullough.

And many more besides...

The Alchemist is my favorite book ...

Authors:

Terry Pratchett
Robin Hobb
(I cant remember the authors names dagnamit!)

Some of my favorites:

JK Rowling - Harry Potter series
Paul Myers - Barenaked Ladies: Public Stunts, Private Stories
Beverly Donofrio - Riding In Cars With Boys: Confessions Of A Bad Girl Who Makes Good

I need to read more...

Tom Robbins,
John Lennon,
George Orwell.

I could live off those three.

Max Barry.
Christobell Mattingly. (Met her. ^-^)
Jhershierra. (Talked to her. ^-^)

Brain Jaqcues - his book called Angels Journey something like that...

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (Can't wait for the 6 and 7th, somewhere, can't remeber where though, they said she was actually going to write an 8th book...)

Lemony Snicket - Series of unfortunate Events!! (Can't wait for The Grim Grotto.)

Brain Jacques - His Redwall series, and the two other books, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman and the Angel's Command

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials

William Nicholson (or however you spell his surname) - The Wind on Fire (I think it's called)