*~*BOOKS, AUTHORS, MANGA, ETC.*~*
RATINGS- +OA (Older Audience Recommended)
+T (Teen Audience Recommended)
+OT (Older Teen Audience Recommended)
+Y (Young Audience Age 6 and Up)
+OY (For Ages 10 and Up)
+AA (All Audiences)
*~* Authors *~*
1. Dean Koontz - +OA one of my favorite authors. He authored several novels that won 1st place awards for his detailed work.
2. J.K. Rowling - The fantastic author of numerous award winning, and best seller for most popular series "Harry Potter".
3. Dave Duncan - The Author of "The Lord of the Fire Lands" with other sequels (of which that I am looking forward to reading in the near future).
4. Stephen King - World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award 2004. Stephen King lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King.
5. Robert Jordan - Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he lived with his wife Harriet, in a house built in 1797. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He was a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations were the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he also wrote dance and theater criticism. He enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He had been writing since 1977 and intended to continue until they nail shut his coffin (which he did). Robert Jordan died on September 16th, 2007 from complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis).
6. Jonathon Stroud - A former children's book editor, Jonathan Stroud is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Amulet of Samarkand, book one of the Bartimaeus trilogy; The Leap; and Buried Fire. He lives in England with his family.
7. Tamora Peirce - A female fantasy writer, Tamora Peirce has witten various series popular amongst the female 13+ age group. Some of her best series include The Song Of The Lioness, Circle Of Magic and Protector Of The Small.
8. Diane Duane - the author of more then twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, including five other books in the Young Wizards series: So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry, A Wizard Abroad, and The Wizard's Dilemma, all available from Harcourt/Magic Carpet. Four of her Star Trek novels have been New York Times bestsellers, including Spock's World. Ms. Duane lives with her husband, Peter Morwood in rural Ireland.
9. Charles Dickens - Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870), was one of Victorian England's most popular and prolific authors. A journalist and editor, he was also instrumental in identifying and encouraging some of his most significant writing contemporaries. Dickens' early life was financially and emotionally unstable, and when his father was imprisoned for debt, he was sent to work in a blacking factory, an experience which haunted his later fiction. Dickens worked as an office boy and court reporter before his Sketches by Boz (1836-37) brought his writing to the attention of the publishing house Chapman and Hall. After the success of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens was able to found the journal Bentley's Miscellany, and from then on all his major novels were published as serial instalments in his own magazines. Dickens remained a tireless social reformer and popular figure all his life. He died suddenly, leaving his novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
10. Gaelen Foley- Recommended by a member.
11. Cornelia Funke- Biography The German author, Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia. Following university, she worked for three years as a social worker in an educational project, working with children from difficult backgrounds. Following a post-graduate course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a designer of board games and as an illustrator of children's books. Disappointment in the way some of the stories were told, combined with her desire to draw fabulous creatures and magical worlds, rather than familiar situations of school and home, she was inspired to write her own stories for young readers. During her time as a social worker, she had worked with children from deprived backgrounds and discovered the sorts of stories that grasped their imaginations. These were the stories she wanted to write – ones that would appeal to bookish children and to inspire those children who hadn’t had yet had positive reading experiences. As a reader, Cornelia has always loved good fantasy, particularly British fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia, and J. M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Cornelia Funke’s own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal – and power – of her storytelling. Cornelia Funke researches for each novel meticulously. For example, before writing Inkheart, she researched about booksellers, book collectors, book thieves and even book murderers as well as reading about martens and fire eaters. She then imagined the characters and the places they might go, writes down plot lines for the first 20 chapters. Then, and only then - after about six months – she writes the first sentence. A major novel will take her about a year to write. She always does her own sketches – in pen and ink (her grandfather was a famous etcher), she creates a picture of her own characters to help her write about them. Three of the four novels she has published with Scholastic are being made into movies – The Thief Lord, Inkheart and Dragon Rider! Inkspell is her newest novel that was published in Fall 2005. As of 2006 she lives in Los Angeles with her 16-year-old daughter Anna and 11-year-old son, Ben. Sadly, her husband, Rolf, died of cancer in March 2006. They had been married for 26 years.
12.Douglas Adams - Douglas Noel Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in May 2001.
He created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, tage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International.
13.Leo Tolstey- Recommended by a member.
14.Kurt Vonnegut- Recommended by a member.
15.Robyn McKinley- Robin McKinley won the 1985 Newbery Medal for her book The Hero and the Crown, and a 1983 Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, both set in mythical Damar. She is also the author of the novels Beauty, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast; Spindle's End; Rose Daughter; Deerskin; and The Outlaws of Sherwood. She also wrote the short story collections A Knot in the Grain, A Door in the Hedge, and The Stone Fey. McKinley was the editor of Imaginary Lands, an anthology that won the World Fantasy Award in 1986. She lives in England.
16.Charlotte Bronte- Recommended by a member.
17.Victor Hugo- Recommended by a member.
18.Meg Cabot- Recommended by a member.
19.Neil Gaiman- Recommended by a member.
20. Robert Graves- Recommended by a member.
21. Melvin Burgess- Recommended by a member.
22. P.G. Wodehouse- Recommended by a member.
23. John Steinbeck- Recommended by a member.
24. Paul Ridley- Recommended by a member.
25. Charles Dickens- Recommended by a member.
Hunter S. Thompson- +OA
*~* Books *~*
1. "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas"
2. "The Long Walk Home" - Authored by Anatole Kurdsjuk
3. "From the Corner of His Eye" Authored by Dean Koontz
4. "Velocity" - "Mickey mouse took a bullet to the throat..." (Chapter 2 first sentence) Authored by dean koontz
5. "The Husband" - Authored by Dean Koontz
6. "Dracula" Authored by Bram Stoker
7."The Mummy" Authored by Anne Rice
8. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galixy
9. Curious Incedent Of The Dog In The Night-time
10. Wicked
11. Is He Or Isn't He?
12. Getting The Girl
13. Pure Dead Wicked
14. Sister To The Wolf
15. Artemis Fowl
16. Grapes of Wrath
19. "Bag Of Bones" Authored by Stephen King
20. Memoirs Of A Geisha
21. Define Normal
22. Agatha Christie
23. Catcher In The Rye
24. The Other Boleyn Girl
26. All things Bright And Beautiful
27. The Truth About Forever
28. Sign Of The Crescent
29. The Historian
30. The Code Book
31. The DaVinchi Code
*~*Manga*~*
1. Chobits
2. Princess Ai
3. Revolutionary girl Utena
4. Inuyasha
5. Dragon Ball Z
6. Gravitation
7. Sailor Moon
8. Ruroni Kenshin
9. Trigun
10. Gundam Wing
11. Full Metal Alchemist
12. Deathnote
13. Godchild
14. Cain Saga
15. Angel Sanctuary
16. Loveless
17. Naruto
18. Marmalade Boy
19. Cowboy Bepbop
20. Scrapped Princess
21. Zodiac P.I
22. Kamichama Karin- Koge-Donbo
23. Pita-Ten- Koge- Donbo
24. Fruits Basket- Nasuki Takaya
25. Dreams Saga- Megumi Taghikawa
26. Pichi Pichi Pitch/ Mermaid Melody- Pink Hanamori & Michiko Yokute
27. Orphen
28. Cardcaptor Sakura
29. Yu Yu Hakusho
30. Ruroni Kenshin
*~* Series *~*
Harry Potter- J.K. Rowling
-and the Philosopher's Stone
-and the Chamber of Secrets
-and the Prisoner from Azkaban
-and the Goblet of Fire
-and the Order of the Phoenix
-and the Half Blood Prince
-Coming Soon!
Lord of the Rings Trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Fellowship of the Ring
-The Two Towers
-The Return of the King
Series of Unfortunate Events- Lemony Snicket
-The Bad Beginning
-The Reptile Room
-The Wide Window
-The Miserable Mill
-The Austere Academy
-The Ersatz Elevator
-The Vile Village
-The Hostile Hospital
-The carnivorous Carnival
-The Slippery Slope
-The Grim Grotto
-The Penultimate Peril
-The End
The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
-The Magician's Nephew
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
-Horse and His Boy
-Prince Caspian
-Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
-Silver Chair
-Last batle
-
Inheritance Trilogy- Christopher Paolini
-Eragon
-Eldest
-Coming soon!
The Vampire Chronicles- Anne Rice
-Interview With a Vampire
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Queen of the Damned
-The Tale of the Bloody Thief
-Merrick
-Blood and Gold
-Blackwood Farm
-Blood Canticle
NEW TALES OF THE VAMPIRES
-Pandora
-Vittorio, The Vampire
-Coming Soon?
Circle of Three-
-So Mote It Be
-Merry Meet
-Second Sight
-What the Cards Said
-In the Dreaming
-Ring of Light
-Blue Moon
-The Five Paths
-Through the Veil
-Making the Saint
-House of Winter
-Written in the Stars
-And It Harm None
-The Challenge Box
-Initiation
Twilight-Stephenie Meyer
-Twilight
-New Moon
-Eclipse
The Immortals- Tamora Pierce
-Wild Magic
-Wolf Speaker
-Emporer Mage
-The Realms of the Gods
Kushiel's Legacy- Jacqueline Carey +OA
-Kushiel's Dart
-Kushiel's Chosen
-Kushiel's Avatar
-Kushiel's Scion
-Kushiel's Justice
-Kushiel's Mercy
Tales From the Five Hundred Kingdoms- Mercedes Lackey
-The Fairy Godmother
-One Good Knight
PLEASE POST OR PM ME OF ANOTHER AUTHOR, BOOK TITLE OR MANGA SO THAT THIS LIST MAY GROW INTO THOUSANDS OF BOOKS. WHEN I HAVE ENOUGH I WILL PUT GENRE CATEGORIES.
*~* Please note that these books may not be suitable for young audiences. *~*
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU MENTION A BOOK, PLEASE SPECIFY IF IT IS A SERIES, TRILOGY, SEQUEL. ETC. iT WOULD HELP AS WELL IF YOU INCLUDE THE AUTHOR. WHEN YOU ARE MENTIONING AN AUTHOR PLEASE INCLUDE A FEW BOOKS OR NOVELS THAT THEY HAVE WRITTEN OR IF THEY ARE LABELED "AWARD WINNERS", OR "BEST SELLER" TITLES.
Thank you, Ami
RATINGS- +OA (Older Audience Recommended)
+T (Teen Audience Recommended)
+OT (Older Teen Audience Recommended)
+Y (Young Audience Age 6 and Up)
+OY (For Ages 10 and Up)
+AA (All Audiences)
*~* Authors *~*
1. Dean Koontz - +OA one of my favorite authors. He authored several novels that won 1st place awards for his detailed work.
2. J.K. Rowling - The fantastic author of numerous award winning, and best seller for most popular series "Harry Potter".
3. Dave Duncan - The Author of "The Lord of the Fire Lands" with other sequels (of which that I am looking forward to reading in the near future).
4. Stephen King - World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award 2004. Stephen King lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King.
5. Robert Jordan - Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, where he lived with his wife Harriet, in a house built in 1797. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He was a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations were the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he also wrote dance and theater criticism. He enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He had been writing since 1977 and intended to continue until they nail shut his coffin (which he did). Robert Jordan died on September 16th, 2007 from complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis).
6. Jonathon Stroud - A former children's book editor, Jonathan Stroud is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Amulet of Samarkand, book one of the Bartimaeus trilogy; The Leap; and Buried Fire. He lives in England with his family.
7. Tamora Peirce - A female fantasy writer, Tamora Peirce has witten various series popular amongst the female 13+ age group. Some of her best series include The Song Of The Lioness, Circle Of Magic and Protector Of The Small.
8. Diane Duane - the author of more then twenty science fiction and fantasy novels, including five other books in the Young Wizards series: So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry, A Wizard Abroad, and The Wizard's Dilemma, all available from Harcourt/Magic Carpet. Four of her Star Trek novels have been New York Times bestsellers, including Spock's World. Ms. Duane lives with her husband, Peter Morwood in rural Ireland.
9. Charles Dickens - Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870), was one of Victorian England's most popular and prolific authors. A journalist and editor, he was also instrumental in identifying and encouraging some of his most significant writing contemporaries. Dickens' early life was financially and emotionally unstable, and when his father was imprisoned for debt, he was sent to work in a blacking factory, an experience which haunted his later fiction. Dickens worked as an office boy and court reporter before his Sketches by Boz (1836-37) brought his writing to the attention of the publishing house Chapman and Hall. After the success of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens was able to found the journal Bentley's Miscellany, and from then on all his major novels were published as serial instalments in his own magazines. Dickens remained a tireless social reformer and popular figure all his life. He died suddenly, leaving his novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.
10. Gaelen Foley- Recommended by a member.
11. Cornelia Funke- Biography The German author, Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia. Following university, she worked for three years as a social worker in an educational project, working with children from difficult backgrounds. Following a post-graduate course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a designer of board games and as an illustrator of children's books. Disappointment in the way some of the stories were told, combined with her desire to draw fabulous creatures and magical worlds, rather than familiar situations of school and home, she was inspired to write her own stories for young readers. During her time as a social worker, she had worked with children from deprived backgrounds and discovered the sorts of stories that grasped their imaginations. These were the stories she wanted to write – ones that would appeal to bookish children and to inspire those children who hadn’t had yet had positive reading experiences. As a reader, Cornelia has always loved good fantasy, particularly British fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia, and J. M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Cornelia Funke’s own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal – and power – of her storytelling. Cornelia Funke researches for each novel meticulously. For example, before writing Inkheart, she researched about booksellers, book collectors, book thieves and even book murderers as well as reading about martens and fire eaters. She then imagined the characters and the places they might go, writes down plot lines for the first 20 chapters. Then, and only then - after about six months – she writes the first sentence. A major novel will take her about a year to write. She always does her own sketches – in pen and ink (her grandfather was a famous etcher), she creates a picture of her own characters to help her write about them. Three of the four novels she has published with Scholastic are being made into movies – The Thief Lord, Inkheart and Dragon Rider! Inkspell is her newest novel that was published in Fall 2005. As of 2006 she lives in Los Angeles with her 16-year-old daughter Anna and 11-year-old son, Ben. Sadly, her husband, Rolf, died of cancer in March 2006. They had been married for 26 years.
12.Douglas Adams - Douglas Noel Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in May 2001.
He created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, tage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International.
13.Leo Tolstey- Recommended by a member.
14.Kurt Vonnegut- Recommended by a member.
15.Robyn McKinley- Robin McKinley won the 1985 Newbery Medal for her book The Hero and the Crown, and a 1983 Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, both set in mythical Damar. She is also the author of the novels Beauty, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast; Spindle's End; Rose Daughter; Deerskin; and The Outlaws of Sherwood. She also wrote the short story collections A Knot in the Grain, A Door in the Hedge, and The Stone Fey. McKinley was the editor of Imaginary Lands, an anthology that won the World Fantasy Award in 1986. She lives in England.
16.Charlotte Bronte- Recommended by a member.
17.Victor Hugo- Recommended by a member.
18.Meg Cabot- Recommended by a member.
19.Neil Gaiman- Recommended by a member.
20. Robert Graves- Recommended by a member.
21. Melvin Burgess- Recommended by a member.
22. P.G. Wodehouse- Recommended by a member.
23. John Steinbeck- Recommended by a member.
24. Paul Ridley- Recommended by a member.
25. Charles Dickens- Recommended by a member.
Hunter S. Thompson- +OA
*~* Books *~*
1. "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas"
2. "The Long Walk Home" - Authored by Anatole Kurdsjuk
3. "From the Corner of His Eye" Authored by Dean Koontz
4. "Velocity" - "Mickey mouse took a bullet to the throat..." (Chapter 2 first sentence) Authored by dean koontz
5. "The Husband" - Authored by Dean Koontz
6. "Dracula" Authored by Bram Stoker
7."The Mummy" Authored by Anne Rice
8. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galixy
9. Curious Incedent Of The Dog In The Night-time
10. Wicked
11. Is He Or Isn't He?
12. Getting The Girl
13. Pure Dead Wicked
14. Sister To The Wolf
15. Artemis Fowl
16. Grapes of Wrath
19. "Bag Of Bones" Authored by Stephen King
20. Memoirs Of A Geisha
21. Define Normal
22. Agatha Christie
23. Catcher In The Rye
24. The Other Boleyn Girl
26. All things Bright And Beautiful
27. The Truth About Forever
28. Sign Of The Crescent
29. The Historian
30. The Code Book
31. The DaVinchi Code
*~*Manga*~*
1. Chobits
2. Princess Ai
3. Revolutionary girl Utena
4. Inuyasha
5. Dragon Ball Z
6. Gravitation
7. Sailor Moon
8. Ruroni Kenshin
9. Trigun
10. Gundam Wing
11. Full Metal Alchemist
12. Deathnote
13. Godchild
14. Cain Saga
15. Angel Sanctuary
16. Loveless
17. Naruto
18. Marmalade Boy
19. Cowboy Bepbop
20. Scrapped Princess
21. Zodiac P.I
22. Kamichama Karin- Koge-Donbo
23. Pita-Ten- Koge- Donbo
24. Fruits Basket- Nasuki Takaya
25. Dreams Saga- Megumi Taghikawa
26. Pichi Pichi Pitch/ Mermaid Melody- Pink Hanamori & Michiko Yokute
27. Orphen
28. Cardcaptor Sakura
29. Yu Yu Hakusho
30. Ruroni Kenshin
*~* Series *~*
Harry Potter- J.K. Rowling
-and the Philosopher's Stone
-and the Chamber of Secrets
-and the Prisoner from Azkaban
-and the Goblet of Fire
-and the Order of the Phoenix
-and the Half Blood Prince
-Coming Soon!
Lord of the Rings Trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Fellowship of the Ring
-The Two Towers
-The Return of the King
Series of Unfortunate Events- Lemony Snicket
-The Bad Beginning
-The Reptile Room
-The Wide Window
-The Miserable Mill
-The Austere Academy
-The Ersatz Elevator
-The Vile Village
-The Hostile Hospital
-The carnivorous Carnival
-The Slippery Slope
-The Grim Grotto
-The Penultimate Peril
-The End
The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
-The Magician's Nephew
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
-Horse and His Boy
-Prince Caspian
-Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
-Silver Chair
-Last batle
-
Inheritance Trilogy- Christopher Paolini
-Eragon
-Eldest
-Coming soon!
The Vampire Chronicles- Anne Rice
-Interview With a Vampire
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Queen of the Damned
-The Tale of the Bloody Thief
-Merrick
-Blood and Gold
-Blackwood Farm
-Blood Canticle
NEW TALES OF THE VAMPIRES
-Pandora
-Vittorio, The Vampire
-Coming Soon?
Circle of Three-
-So Mote It Be
-Merry Meet
-Second Sight
-What the Cards Said
-In the Dreaming
-Ring of Light
-Blue Moon
-The Five Paths
-Through the Veil
-Making the Saint
-House of Winter
-Written in the Stars
-And It Harm None
-The Challenge Box
-Initiation
Twilight-Stephenie Meyer
-Twilight
-New Moon
-Eclipse
The Immortals- Tamora Pierce
-Wild Magic
-Wolf Speaker
-Emporer Mage
-The Realms of the Gods
Kushiel's Legacy- Jacqueline Carey +OA
-Kushiel's Dart
-Kushiel's Chosen
-Kushiel's Avatar
-Kushiel's Scion
-Kushiel's Justice
-Kushiel's Mercy
Tales From the Five Hundred Kingdoms- Mercedes Lackey
-The Fairy Godmother
-One Good Knight
PLEASE POST OR PM ME OF ANOTHER AUTHOR, BOOK TITLE OR MANGA SO THAT THIS LIST MAY GROW INTO THOUSANDS OF BOOKS. WHEN I HAVE ENOUGH I WILL PUT GENRE CATEGORIES.
*~* Please note that these books may not be suitable for young audiences. *~*
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU MENTION A BOOK, PLEASE SPECIFY IF IT IS A SERIES, TRILOGY, SEQUEL. ETC. iT WOULD HELP AS WELL IF YOU INCLUDE THE AUTHOR. WHEN YOU ARE MENTIONING AN AUTHOR PLEASE INCLUDE A FEW BOOKS OR NOVELS THAT THEY HAVE WRITTEN OR IF THEY ARE LABELED "AWARD WINNERS", OR "BEST SELLER" TITLES.
Thank you, Ami
