Books I Like~
Often people ask what I like to read. The answer is very hard because I read many genres. So I decided to make a post of my favourite books, authors and series. I've organized it according to genre for easier reading.
Note: [titles in brackets are series names] ♥books♥ are my absolute favourites~
Romance (Paranormal & Mythology)
Allyson James - ♥[Dragon]♥
CL Wilson - [Fading Lands]
Gail Carriger - ♥[The Parasol Protectorate] ♥
Ilona Andrews - [Kate Daniels]
Jerri Smith-Ready - ♥Requiem for the Devil♥
Kathryne Kennedy - ♥[The Elven Lords]♥
Karen Marie Morning - [The Highlanders Series] [Fever]
Liz Maverick & various - [Crimson City]
Nalini Singh - ♥[Guild Hunter]♥ [Psy/Changeling]
PC Cast - ♥[Goddess Summoning]♥ [Partholon]
Sherrilyn Kenyon - ♥[Dark Hunters]♥ ♥[League]♥
Romance (Regency & Historical)
Amanda Quick - Scandal
Celeste Bradley- ♥[Liars Club]♥
CS Harris - [Sebastian St. Cyr] - more mystery bent
Diana Gabaldon - [Outlander]
Juila Quinn - [The Bridgertons]
Lisa Kleypas - ♥[Wallflowers]♥ [Hathaways]
Stephanie Laurens - ♥[Cynsters]♥
♥Teresa Medeiros♥ - [Lennox Witch] [Fairy Tale], and standalones: (favs.) Shadow & Lace, Nobody's Darling
Mystery/Thriller
Anne Frasier
Anne Stuart - [Ice]
Kay Hooper - [Noah Bishop trilogies - [Stealing Shadows] [Evil] [Fear] [Blood]]
Keith Ablow - ♥Psychopath♥
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - [Sherlock Holmes]
Sujata Massey - [Rei Shimura]
Sidney Sheldon
General Fiction
Christopher Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Frederick Forsyth - The Phantom of Manhattan
Lian Hearn - [Tales of the Otori]
Liza Dalby - The Tale of Murasaki
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
Mishima Yukio - ♥Spring Snow♥
Murakami Haruki - Norwegian Wood
Shoko Tendo - Yakuza Moon
Walter Moers - ♥The City of Dreaming Books♥
Xiaolu Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
♥Amy Tan♥
Robert Dessaix
♥Max Lucado♥
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Science Ficion & Fantasy
Anne Agirre - [Sirantha Jax]
Elizabeth Kerner - [Tales of Kolmar]
Janny Wurts - To Ride Hell's Chasm
Jim C Hines - ♥[Princess]♥
Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory - ♥[Obisidian Trilogy]♥
Moira J Moore - [Source/Shield]
Naomi Novik - ♥[Temeraire]♥
Sharon Shinn - ♥[Samaria]♥ [Twelve Houses]
Steven Brust - To Reign in Hell
Literary Bent
Anna Sewell - ♥Black Beauty♥
Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)
Ben Johnson - Volpone
Bram Stoker - Dracula
♥Charles Dickens♥
Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
Delarivier Manley
Edmund Spenser - ♥The Faerie Queene♥
Elizabeth Gaskell
Frances Hodgson Burnett
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Donne
Oscar Wilde
O. Henry - Gift of the Magi
Robert Frost
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Walt Whitman
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing
Victor Hugo
Chicklit
Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret?
'Children to Young Adult'
Baronet Books - [Great Illustrated Classics]
C.S. Lewis - [The Chronicles of Narnia]
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
Eleanor Coerr - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
♥Enid Blyton♥ - [The Twins at St. Claire] [The Faraway Tree] [The Famous Five] [...& Other Stories] [The Naughtiest Girl]
Francine Pascal - ♥[Sweet Valley Kids]♥
Gertrude Chandler Warner - ♥[The Boxcar Children]♥
James Gurney - ♥[Dinotopia]♥
JK Rowling - [Harry Potter]
Judy Blume - ♥[Fudge]♥
Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta - [Young Jedi Knights]
Laura Ingalls Wilder - [Little House]
Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr. Tom
Micheal Morpurgo - ♥My Friend, Walter♥
♥Roald Dahl♥ - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Revolting Rhymes, The Witches, The BFG
Robert Louis Stevenson - A Child's Garden of Verses
Military & War
Bob Norris - Check Six
Robert Tine - ♥[JAG novels]♥
W.E.B Griffin - [Brotherhood of War] [The Corps]
Non-fiction, Biography, Creative Non-fiction
Adam S. McHugh - ♥Introverts in the Church♥
Anthony Bridges - The Crusades
AJ Jacobs - The Know It All
Diana Wynne Jones - ♥The Tough Guide To Fantasyland♥
♥Jack Zipes♥
Max Lucado
Li Cunxin - Mao's Last Dancer
Nick Hornby - The Polysyllabic Spree
Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence
RHP Mason - A History of Japan
Simon May - Atomic Sushi
Note: [titles in brackets are series names] ♥books♥ are my absolute favourites~
Romance (Paranormal & Mythology)
Allyson James - ♥[Dragon]♥
CL Wilson - [Fading Lands]
Gail Carriger - ♥[The Parasol Protectorate] ♥
Ilona Andrews - [Kate Daniels]
Jerri Smith-Ready - ♥Requiem for the Devil♥
Kathryne Kennedy - ♥[The Elven Lords]♥
Karen Marie Morning - [The Highlanders Series] [Fever]
Liz Maverick & various - [Crimson City]
Nalini Singh - ♥[Guild Hunter]♥ [Psy/Changeling]
PC Cast - ♥[Goddess Summoning]♥ [Partholon]
Sherrilyn Kenyon - ♥[Dark Hunters]♥ ♥[League]♥
Romance (Regency & Historical)
Amanda Quick - Scandal
Celeste Bradley- ♥[Liars Club]♥
CS Harris - [Sebastian St. Cyr] - more mystery bent
Diana Gabaldon - [Outlander]
Juila Quinn - [The Bridgertons]
Lisa Kleypas - ♥[Wallflowers]♥ [Hathaways]
Stephanie Laurens - ♥[Cynsters]♥
♥Teresa Medeiros♥ - [Lennox Witch] [Fairy Tale], and standalones: (favs.) Shadow & Lace, Nobody's Darling
Mystery/Thriller
Anne Frasier
Anne Stuart - [Ice]
Kay Hooper - [Noah Bishop trilogies - [Stealing Shadows] [Evil] [Fear] [Blood]]
Keith Ablow - ♥Psychopath♥
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - [Sherlock Holmes]
Sujata Massey - [Rei Shimura]
Sidney Sheldon
General Fiction
Christopher Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Frederick Forsyth - The Phantom of Manhattan
Lian Hearn - [Tales of the Otori]
Liza Dalby - The Tale of Murasaki
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
Mishima Yukio - ♥Spring Snow♥
Murakami Haruki - Norwegian Wood
Shoko Tendo - Yakuza Moon
Walter Moers - ♥The City of Dreaming Books♥
Xiaolu Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
♥Amy Tan♥
Robert Dessaix
♥Max Lucado♥
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Science Ficion & Fantasy
Anne Agirre - [Sirantha Jax]
Elizabeth Kerner - [Tales of Kolmar]
Janny Wurts - To Ride Hell's Chasm
Jim C Hines - ♥[Princess]♥
Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory - ♥[Obisidian Trilogy]♥
Moira J Moore - [Source/Shield]
Naomi Novik - ♥[Temeraire]♥
Sharon Shinn - ♥[Samaria]♥ [Twelve Houses]
Steven Brust - To Reign in Hell
Literary Bent
Anna Sewell - ♥Black Beauty♥
Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)
Ben Johnson - Volpone
Bram Stoker - Dracula
♥Charles Dickens♥
Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
Delarivier Manley
Edmund Spenser - ♥The Faerie Queene♥
Elizabeth Gaskell
Frances Hodgson Burnett
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Donne
Oscar Wilde
O. Henry - Gift of the Magi
Robert Frost
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Walt Whitman
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing
Victor Hugo
Chicklit
Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret?
'Children to Young Adult'
Baronet Books - [Great Illustrated Classics]
C.S. Lewis - [The Chronicles of Narnia]
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
Eleanor Coerr - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
♥Enid Blyton♥ - [The Twins at St. Claire] [The Faraway Tree] [The Famous Five] [...& Other Stories] [The Naughtiest Girl]
Francine Pascal - ♥[Sweet Valley Kids]♥
Gertrude Chandler Warner - ♥[The Boxcar Children]♥
James Gurney - ♥[Dinotopia]♥
JK Rowling - [Harry Potter]
Judy Blume - ♥[Fudge]♥
Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta - [Young Jedi Knights]
Laura Ingalls Wilder - [Little House]
Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr. Tom
Micheal Morpurgo - ♥My Friend, Walter♥
♥Roald Dahl♥ - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Revolting Rhymes, The Witches, The BFG
Robert Louis Stevenson - A Child's Garden of Verses
Military & War
Bob Norris - Check Six
Robert Tine - ♥[JAG novels]♥
W.E.B Griffin - [Brotherhood of War] [The Corps]
Non-fiction, Biography, Creative Non-fiction
Adam S. McHugh - ♥Introverts in the Church♥
Anthony Bridges - The Crusades
AJ Jacobs - The Know It All
Diana Wynne Jones - ♥The Tough Guide To Fantasyland♥
♥Jack Zipes♥
Max Lucado
Li Cunxin - Mao's Last Dancer
Nick Hornby - The Polysyllabic Spree
Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence
RHP Mason - A History of Japan
Simon May - Atomic Sushi