David Estes Fans and YA Book Lovers Unite! discussion

In light of the holiday tomorrow in the USA (Thanksgiving)--

What books are you most thankful for?

ohhh man. I'm thankful for all books! lol but I think I can narrow it down a bit for now

super-relevant books like

and more escapist books like

All the Harry Potter books
All the Narnia books
All of David Estes books, but especially the Slip Trilogy, Fire Country, Ice Country, The Salem's Witch Revenge Trilogy, The Earth Dwellers, Strings--okay, never mind, all of them!!!
The Monstrumologist series
Throne of Glass series
Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy
The Raven Cycle series
The Hunger Games trilogy
The Twilight books
The Infernal Devices
The Inkheart Trilogy
The Graceling Realm books by Kristin Cashore
Every Rick Riordan book
The Lunar Chronicles

And some random favorites:


I'm sure I'm missing a bunch! Some of these are for different reasons (Like Twilight I'm grateful for because its what started me reading YA, The Hunger Games because it started my love of dystopian, Rick Riordan helped my older 3 kids to love reading, etc)

Ashley *Hufflepuff Kitten* wrote: "ohhh man. I'm thankful for all books! lol but I think I can narrow it down a bit for now

super-relevant books like [bookcover..."

I know right? You have to be thankful that we even still have books! At times in my life I've felt its a dying art, but it keeps getting revived :)

I also had To Kill A Mockingbird, I've learned so much from that book and Harper Lee in general :)

Nice thread!!

The Little House on the Prairie books that are the first books I remember being obsessed with! ;)
And my other major obsessions throughout my life:
Lord of the Rings
Dune books
The Stand
Dragonriders of Pern books
Darkover books
Mist of Avalon books
Twilight series - started my love of YA!
The Hunger Games - made me obsessed about YA
Harry Potter books
All of David's books, because of David, his writing, and the amazing friends I've met because of this group!
Chaos Walking books
The Book Thief
Rot and Ruin books - first zombie books that made me realize zombie books could be awesome!
Unwind books
The Passage books
Daughter of Smoke and Bone books
Lunar Chronicles
The Infernal Devices
The Plantagenant and Tudor Court books
The Chronos Files
The Martian
Ready Player One
Red Rising books
The Raven Cycle
Six of Crows books
Illuminae books
Sleeping Giants

And I'm sure I'm missing many!! ;)

If I took the time to list all the books I'm thankful for, I'll be here all day. Seriously, there are so many!

I'm thankful for Beatrix Potter's books, Enid Blyton's books, Roald Dahl's books, and Hans Christian Anderson's books, because those were what started my love of the written word as a child, closely followed by the Harry Potter and Narnia books, as well as Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, because they're just excellent, so I'm glad they're in the world. Also, everything by David Estes, because his books are awesome, and so is he.

There are loads of others, but - as I said - I'll be here all day if I list them all.

Anyway... Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it, and happy Thursday to those not doing so.

fun thread.

a bit "mad" no one has mentioned.

yet.

also

Karen wrote: "Nice thread!!

The Little House on the Prairie books that are the first books I remember being obsessed with! ;)
And my other major obsessions throughout my life:
Lord of the Rings
Dune books
The S..."

Looking your list, there's a ton I missed! Of course the Little House books, and the Chronos Files, because we got to meet Rysa because of those books!

Lord of the Rings! It set me on this path in life!

David wrote: "Lord of the Rings! It set me on this path in life!"

Which makes me thankful for the Lord of the Rings, too, even though I haven't read them.

I forgot to add The Hobbit, though, I loved that book!

OH MAN HOW CAN I LIST ALL THE BOOKS

Ok first off I guess I should mention Harry Potter, I've read books before HP but went on a reading slump and then HP came and now I just never stopped reading lol.

For books that had a huge impact on me I am thankful for Les Miserables, The Book Thief, and any book by Rick Riordan tbh. He's one of the most compassionate authors I've read/know of.

This year I'm so thankful I've read A Monster Calls. Book was both harsh and beautiful and made me bawl my eyes out.

All in all a lot to be thankful for!

Chiqui wrote: "OH MAN HOW CAN I LIST ALL THE BOOKS

Ok first off I guess I should mention Harry Potter, I've read books before HP but went on a reading slump and then HP came and now I just never stopped reading ..."

omg A Monster Calls was amazing!!

Harry Potter!!! It for me into reading again and also reading YA books in general. I second A Monster Calls too.