[Ratta237]

The Fault in our Stars- possibly the saddest book I have ever read.

[dlgn]

Just so no one is confused, I'd like to make a slight clarification about the Graceling series: Only Gracelings have the powers, and not all people are Gracelings. In fact, most aren't. And in some places, Gracelings are the property of the king, to use as he chooses.

[SuperCreeper007]

Favorite Author: Isaac Asimov (science fiction)
I forget what the individual series are named, but he has 3 series of books that actually make up one huge series, and each series is set a few hundred thousand years from each other and....well I can't explain it properly D: Here's Amazon's description lol:

Spoiler:

Okay so Asimov wrote three separate series that all take place within the same universe. The best way to read them is in chronological order of actual events within the story. The three different series inlcude the "Robot" series, the "Emipire" series and the "Foundation" series. The last book of the "Foundation" series wraps up all the loose ends of the series and there are numerous other refreneces that justify reading the books in this order.

The "Robot" series starts off with an excellent book of short stories. Asimov was just as talented at writing short stories as full length novels and I, Robot inlcudes some of the best. I, Robot The first story takes place in 1998 and introduces us to the "three laws of robotics" which run throughout all the books. The rest of the stories take place approximately over the next 80 years. The crux of the "Robot" series continues over the next three books, The Caves of Steel The Caves of Steel (R. Daneel Olivaw, Book 1), The Naked Sun The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn The Robots of Dawn. These are detective novels at heart, following the adventures of a human detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner Daneel Olivaw. The series finishes with Robots and Empire Robots and Empirewhich concludes some of the major questions and leaves some things unexplained.

Asimov's universe picks up again later in the "Empire" series. Asimov considered this to be some of his weakest writing and if you were going to skip one series this is the only one to consider. It's not that these books are bad, its just that they are not up to the normal level of Asimov excellence. They are still out of print but floating around the internet and used bookstores. The Stars Like Dust The Stars, Like Dust (The Empire Novels), The Currents of Space The Currents of Space (The Empire Novels), and Pebble In the Sky Pebble in the Sky (The Empire Novels).

Asimov's universe concludes with the fantastic "Foundation" series voted Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy series of all time. "Foundation" takes places thousands of years in the future and deals with a genius using "psychohistory" to predict and save the future of mankind. It also deals with various other themes and universe specific issues and Asimov's writing strength is his ability to use simplicity and conversation to pace the events and action. The first book is Foundation Foundation (Foundation Novels) followed by Foundation and Empire Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels), Second Foundation Second Foundation (Foundation Novels), Foundation's Edge Foundation's Edge (Foundation Novels) and Foundation and Earth Foundation and Earth.

The books in this series have been nominated and won countless Hugo awards for best sci-fi/fantasy books and won the Hugo for Best Series of All Time. One of the real strengths of the series is the way Asimov infuses detective/mystery and thriller genres into his science-fiction world. It works very well and provides variety to keep the large series interesting. Like all good books, Asimov writes brilliantly thought out stories, but also addresses many larger societal issues that are thought provoking and will keep this series important for years to come.

EDIT: The set of series is known as Asimov's "Greater Foundation" Series, mostly because one of the series is the foundation series

Favorite book: The Westing Game :3 (not by Asimov tho xD)

[izzie789]

I haven't read many books in my life but here are a few that are pretty good in my opinion

A Gathering Light (in America it's called "A Northern Light")

Twopence to cross the mersey

As i lay dying

Lord of the Flies

Private, Peaceful

WarHorse

and i'm way too lazy to post descriptions >:)

[Joey791]

Septimus Heap series - this well told fairy tale tells of a heap family whome were wizards, but there mischievous brother, Simon Heap, was jealous that his younger sister was gonna be queen and his youger brother was gonna be the Extraordinary Wizard even though simon was supposed to be...so on simon captures his younger sister and that's were the adventure begins....In a galaxy far far away -star wars music plays-

[Darth_Raven]

The Book of Awesome and the Book Of Even More Awesome - both are feel good books lots of stuff that make you smile everyday little things.

[hippoface]

Just so no one is confused, I'd like to make a slight clarification about the Graceling series: Only Gracelings have the powers, and not all people are Gracelings. In fact, most aren't. And in some places, Gracelings are the property of the king, to use as he chooses.

Oh yeah! Sorry, I'm really bad at descriptions.

[OZinky]

I'm currently reading The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson. It's really good so far. The book is about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. It combines the true stories of architect Daniel H. Burnham and the serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes. Other really good books I've recently read include The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, The Innocent by David Baldacci, and of course The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins.

Edit: Eep, I forgot The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. I love that book so much!

[Rick]

Junie B. Jones

-Rick

(p.s. I keed)

[mwan]

Ultimately the only major book series I can think off that I really liked are.

Airborne by Kenneth Oppel - This is basically a book of a boy worker who works on a blimp/zeppelin who meets a girl that is of upper class and they go on adventures, the other two books in the series are more adventures with these two and the books are called Skybreaker and Starclimber (I feel that it's kinda like a time where zeppelins and blimps still exist had the Hindenburg crash never happen. This is one of my favorite book series and it was just so amazing when I read it that it's the only series I have ever wanted to reread).

Cherub Series by Robert Muchamore - This is basically a series based that surrounds a young 12 year old protagonist and each book involves some major case that he takes on with teammates and they are pulling off different cases that no normal adult would be able to take on due to the circumstances of each case. I feel that this is an interesting series that I just always thought would be so neat if I were to have a lifestyle like that. Just one of the interesting childhood dreams that lives in me.

The Seven Towers Series - I completely had forgotten the author for this series however, this was a memorable story that was a get fictional interesting world where there is a wizard like castle where a low level boy tries to reach the higher ranks but, runs into major issues along the way and some major event really changes how his life is. Also like a convict he is almost made a public enemy and is forced to fight a battle that seems to be impossible. I read this series back in 5th grade and yet I still feel that it still was a great read and still enjoy the story when I reminisce upon it.

Mechwarrior Series - Although hard to find, these are the older mechwarrior books that were made by various authors and told of different stories that took place inside the different clans across the universe. Due to the fact that it is based off one of my all time favorite game series, I could not help but be interested in this book and yet today, I still play Mechwarrior on the new Mechwarrior Online Beta.

Well that basically is everything that really covers my favorite reads. All of them are interesting fictional series where Airborne stands as the most realistic, and the others are harder to really say which one is the most fictional. I will state however that the Seven Tower series and Cherubs are more childish but Cherubs is a bit more mature yet still very childish and not as serious as something like mechwarrior. I still love these books and may revisit a few on my spare time.