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Question: What books in your library!?
What books in your library at home do you love and are proud to own!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Poet by Michael Connelly
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

They're just some of my favourites!. I've got many more but I'd be typing all day if I tried listing them all!.

Cheers, great question!.

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Hm,
House of Leaves- Mark Z!. Danielewski
Lord of the Flies- Willaim Golding
Valley of the Dolls- Jacqeline Susann
East of Eden- John Steinbeck
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk- Legs McNeil
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
1984- George Orwell
Candide- Voltaire
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
As well as everything Chuck Palahniuk has ever written, including his non-ficton!. (haha, I'm a nerd!.)

I would have to say those are my top picks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Oh god, it would take days!.
Here's a list of books I've read recently!. I've starred the must reads:

1!. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
2!. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer *
3!. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer *
4!. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer *
5!. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare*
6!. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare*
7!. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
8!. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E!. Lockhart
9!. Unwind - Neal Shusterman*
10!. The Great Gatsby - F!. Scott Fitzgerald
11!. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld*
12!. The Host - Stephenie Meyer*
13!. A Great And Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
14!. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray
15!. The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
16!. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld*
17!. Specials - Scott Westerfeld*
18!. Extras - Scott Westerfeld*
19!. The Sun also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
20!. Peeps - Scott Westerfeld
21!. The Last Days - Scott Westerfeld
22!. Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
23!. Gone - Michael Grant
24!. Everlost - Neal Shusterman*
25!. Evernight - Claudia Gray*
26!. The Wizard Heir - Cinda Williams Chima*
27!. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
28!. Lady Friday - Garth Nix
29!. Superior Saturday - Garth Nix
30!. Full Tilt - Neal Shusterman*
31!. Physik - Angie Sage
32!. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer*
33!. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & The Beast - Robin McKinley*
34!. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer*
35!. The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong*
36!. Blue Bloods - Melissa de la Cruz*
37!. Masquerade - Melissa de la Cruz*
38!. Midnighters 1: The Secret Hour - Scott Westerfeld
39!. Midnighters 2: Touching Darkness - Scott Westerfeld
40!. Wake - Lisa McMann
41!. The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
42!. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson*
43!. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
44!. The Dragon Heir - Cinda Williams Chima*
45!. So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld
46!. The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E!. Pearson*
47!. The Midnight Twins - Jacquelyn Mitchard
48!. Sweethearts - Sarah Zarr*
49!. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin*
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All of Jane Austen, some of Diana Wynne Jones [The Castle series, first volume of Chrestomanci, A Tale of Time City and Fire and Hemlock] Anna Karenina, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Doctor Zhivago [love love love!], Anne of Green Gables [the first, second and third], Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, Rebecca, some Shakespeare !. !. !. also, do comic books count!? Because I love Calvin and Hobbes and Foxtrot =)
Hey! I've Catcher in the Rye too!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

These are just a few! I have about 1000 books and my dining room is now a library!

Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt
Ingo series by Helen Dunmore
Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic
The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
All the Harry Potter books
Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
The Railway Children - E Nesbit
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol
Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chronicles of Narnia

Adult

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir!.!.!.!.!.!.and her other books
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger
Best of Fathers by Anne Baker
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
Cell by Stephen King
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others
Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh
Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett
Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald
1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell
Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe
I Claudius - Robert Graves
Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love - D H Lawrence
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce
Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldais Huxley
Anna Karnina - Tolstoy
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov
Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
Burning Bright - John Steinbeck
Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
A Room With a View - E M Forster
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo
Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch
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Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn ; Harry Potter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7Www@QuestionHome@Com