Get Captured in Words! discussion

This is a discussion where you can share some of your favourite books/series with everyone!

Some of mine:
(Will probably be adding to this list as I remember)

- The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (entire trilogy)
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Legend of Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore (series)
- The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda (series)
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm by George Orwell

I absolutely love Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's so good

Excellent discussion! After much thought, I must include:
-Marion Zimmer Bradley's Arthurian pagan Saga Mists of Avalon. My version is in four volumes.
-Wilbur Smith's Ancient Egypt Trilogy (River God, The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, after that it went downhill) and a 17th century fantastic pirate (!) sub-series in his Courtney Series (Birds of Prey, Monsoon, Blue Horizon)
-R.A. Salvatore's DemonWars Saga Tetralogy (The Demon Awakens, The Demon Spirit, The Demon Apostle, Mortalis) and OF COURSE his Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn) with the hero of my teens Drizzt Do'Urden.
-Canadian genius of Fantasy Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, The Darkest Road)
-Erich Maria Remarque's WWI Trilogy: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back, Three Comrades (I don't write the original titles here, I don't speak German...)

All these I read from age 16 (wow, almost twenty years ago!) to when I was in the army at 20, in mediocre Greek translations. They made me love reading, I think Drizzt, Stephen King's IT and Edmond Dantès from Dumas's Count of Monte-Cristo may have saved my life back then...

After that I went on to University and commited the CRIME to think that these weren't serious enough, so I moved on to more "adult books". Only in the past two years, moved by the world-wide success of A Song of Ice and Fire and by joining Goodreads, I realized what an elitist looser I had been and returned to reading YA and Fantasy again. It felt like going home!!! :)

So all these (and others) I'm planning to re-read again soon, very seriously this time, in the original language, I consider them to be my all-time favorites and I won't include at this point other "mature" books I've loved since.

Sorry for the long paragraph.

The Kingkiller Chronicle, Patrick Rothfuss
All-the-things-written-by Neil Gaiman
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Six of Crows duology, Leigh Bardugo
Gentlemen Bastards sereis, Scott Lynch
ACOTAR/ACOMAF, Sarah J. Maas
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott

:)

A few of my favorites:
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
Mystra by CrystalPheonix
The O'Malley Chronicles by Dee Henderson
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
The Magical Cats Mysteries by Sofie Kelly
The Gifted by Elizabeth C. Bauer
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's more, but I can't remember the author names, will edit when I get home.

Let's see...regarding series:
- Shades of Magic by VE Schwab
- Monsters of Verity by VE Schwab
- Greatcoats by Sebatien de Castell
- Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
- Legend by Marie Lu
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
- Riyria Chronicles by Michael J Sullivan
- Riyria Revelations by Michael J Sullivan
- Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
- Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne

And book would have to be Vicious by VE Schwab or A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness...two books that are in a class of its own...

Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Seriously, you like sci-fi check this out. It won't disappoint.)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Penderwicks Series by Jeanne Birdsall