2025 Reading Challenge discussion

1. Who are your favorite authors?

Peter S. Beagle, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?

Ebook. It's slim and I can carry dozens of books with me at a time, so if I'm out and finish one I can quickly start a new one. After that, it's paperback. Hardcover is the bane of my existence.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?

I loved me some Goosebumps and R.L. Stine and The Boxcar Children. We didn't have the whole series of either, but I read what I could get my sticky little hands on. In middle school I moved onto Christopher Pike and in high school my tastes started getting eclectic.

4. What are your favorite genres?

Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Satire, Mystery

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

Well, it's not really strange, but when I was in like 2nd grade my school started this thing where you couldn't check out a book unless you could read the first paragraph. Being a total brat, I grabbed Frankenstein and checked it out. I didn't finish it, I just wanted to a prove a point.

Around the same time, I tried reading Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. I had seen Pagemaster one too many times and thought it was a good idea. I've had a personal vendetta against Herman Melville ever since.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?

The Last Unicorn. I love this book. The movie is great. The author is amazing.

I guess if amazing fantasy is not your cup of tea, then The Shining. A good ending from Stephen King. I didn't know such a thing was possible. Well, I guess the ending for Carrie wasn't too bad.

1. Who are your favorite authors?
JOhn Irving, John Grisham, ANNE Rice

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Hardcover and ebook, Ebook because it`s pratical especially when your`re on the bus standing. Hardcover you can't beat the feel of a book in your hand!

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
It was La Comtesse de Segur books

4. What are your favorite genres?
Suspense, crime, autobiography

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson. It was just a weird book

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
The world according to Garp, a beautiful written book

1. Who are your favorite authors?

Iain M. Banks, Albert Camus, William T. Vollmann, and Kurt Vonnegut.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?

ebooks and Audiobooks. I was an early adopter of ebooks in 2002 - long before Kindle - and it's become a preferred method to read common books. I've also been listening to unabridged audio books for seventeen years. I started with cassette tapes on my hour plus commute, but I still read audio books on my iPhone\iPod even though my commute has shrunk to just twenty minutes. I can listen while walking the dog and doing other things.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?

In sixth grade I discovered H.P. Lovecraft. My teachers and parents were a little horrified with my choice of reading material, but I kept rejecting the more age appropriate books they suggested, and at least I was reading, so they shut their gobs, fortunately. I think I would have turned into a TV head if forced to read kids books as a kid.

4. What are your favorite genres?

Literature (Classics and Modern), Science Fiction (but not so keen on most Fantasy), and Non-Fiction (Biography, Philosophy, and Science).

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

A Void by Georges Perec. The novel is a lipogram and was written without using the letter E. Brilliant for language lovers, but not the kind of book for readers who want an exciting story. It was translated from the French - an amazing feat. A close second would be The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. Wacky psychology, probably false, but utterly fascinating.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?

In the past few years, probably The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. Who know that an ex-president of the United States would explore an uncharted tributary of the Amazon river. This country does make many presidents like Theodore Roosevelt anymore.

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Hmm, well right now I'm exploring many different authors. One of these days I'll have a list of favorites.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Ah, tough question. I like hardcovers for their durability and also I can take off the cover if I don't like it. But paperbacks are lighter for carrying around and less expensive to buy. I don't have an e-reader because I love the smell of real books too much. *shoves her face into some pages and inhales like a crack addict*

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
The Whalesong Trilogy hands down. This kicked off an obsession with whales and marine conservation big time.

4. What are your favorite genres?
Ohh this question. I don't know man! Let's love all the books.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
Naked Lunch because it's... I mean it's... it's kind of... IT'S JUST INSANE OKAY.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
I guess I'd have to say The Handmaid's Tale, because it's my favorite.

1. Who are your favorite authors? John Green, Rick Yancey, and Kass Morgan as of right now.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? It depends, right now i have 1 john green book and it is soft cover so the rest of the john green books that i get are going to be soft cover, and 'the 5th wave' i have in hard cover, so the next book in the series that i get will be hard cover.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Probably Charlotte's Web

4. What are your favorite genres? Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Some Fiction, and YA

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? I don't think i've read any strange books, but i did start one that seemed very strange...that would be

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? I would have to say 'The 5th Wave' by Rick Yancey

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Hard to say...so many

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
I like paperback and ebooks

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Little Women, Lion Witch and the Wardrobe

4. What are your favorite genres?
I like most except scorcery, vampire, things of that nature

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
11/22/63 (Stephen King)

1. Who are your favorite authors? Mary Higgins Clark, Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Dean Koontz, Ted Dekker, Robin Cook

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? Whatever is the cheapest :) But when I travel I only have my Kindle.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? The Bernstein Bears and The Hardy Boys (I had an older brother)

4. What are your favorite genres? Mystery and the Doggie genre

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? The Breathing Method by stephen King. I listened to this audio book. Then slept with the lights on

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck or The Stand by Stephen King

1. Who are your favorite authors? Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, and Charles Dickens.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? I prefer paperbacks, but I like to buy hardcover books every once in a while.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? The Chronicles of Narnia and the Little House on the Prairie books.

4. What are your favorite genres? Classics.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? One Hundred Years of Solitude. That book goes from sane and normal to absolutely insane in one sentence. Weird things happen all over the place and Marquez's style of writing is so matter of fact that when those things happen, it leaves you confused for a minute.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I read it once a year, cry like a baby every time, then spend a couple of days walking around in a Les Miserables haze, unable to start another book. It's always a good time.

1. Who are your favourite authors?
Donna Tartt, Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl, Thomas Harris and Neil Gaiman

2. Favourite book format?
Hardcover!

3. What was your favourite book as a child?
North Child by Edith Pattou, and before this the Faraway Tree stories by Enid Blyton :)

4. Favourite genres?
Adventure, psychological, mystery or comedy, also non fictions!

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read?
Definitely The Windsinger by William Nicholson!
It's a fantasy novel with brilliantly surreal settings and characters, although their motives are like those of normal folk! (Recommend this book a lot!)

6. ONE recommended book?
The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
I just finished it and really think it's the best and most thought provoking book I've ever read. Recommend whole heartedly!!

1. Who are your favorite authors?
I don't really have one, I rarely read many books by the same author. Maybe Mika Waltari, even though I haven't even read his most famous novels yet but I recently read a non-fiction book by him and he managed to put some humour in it even if the subject matter was serious.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Hardcover, they last longer. But paperbacks are good for bookcrossing (cheap and light). I don't own an ebook.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Uncle Fedya, His Dog, and His Cat before I could read and Gone with the Wind when I was a bit older, Sherlock Holmes between them.

4. What are your favorite genres?
Classics, literary fiction (often historical), (historical) mysteries

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
I usually read realistic fiction, so there are not many but probably The Rabbit Back Literature Society that I just finished. It just was. Cities of the Red Night started strange but I never finished it.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
Depends on the person. I might say that people shouldn't be afraid of Anna Karenina, because even though it's a long book, it's very readable.

1. Who are your favorite authors? Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago, ...

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? Ebook

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Jurassic Park

4. What are your favorite genres? Short Stories, Fantasy, Magic Realism, Horror ...

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? The Cave by Jose Saramago, (view spoiler)[ I didn't expect this ending! (hide spoiler)]

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? The Little Prince - its a mustread ...

1.My favourites are those that I'm reading at present, Agatha Christie, Reginald Hill, RD Wingfield and Colin Dexter. In the past I have read lots of Stephen King, Wilbur Smith, Robert Goddard, Kate Mosse, and many more.
2. Book formats are a difficult thing. I have two e readers but find touch screens are often too quick for me. Always tend to revert back to a book.
3. As my mother was never a goat, I have never been a kid! As a boy Biggles by Capt. WE Johns hooked me on reading.
4. Crime, some biography and history, science fiction.
5. Lots of books start out strangely but but grow on me.
6. Biggles of the Camel Squadron.

1. Who are your favorite authors? Ted Dekker, Stephen R. Lawhead, Kate DiCamillo, Francine Rivers, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, and many more.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? Paperback. I love them because they can be easily transported in a bag and they are usually very light and easy to read from.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

4. What are your favorite genres? Fantasy and historical fiction

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Life of Pi. The ending was really strange and it took me a long time to figure out how I actually felt about it.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Vladimir Nabokov, Chingiz Aitmatov.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
I was a physical book person until I received a Kindle as a gift. I take it everywhere, I can read using only one hand, while I'm lying on the bed before sleeping. And no more excess baggage fees!

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Treasure Island and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. I read each of them 5+ times. Another favorite wasLe petit Nicolas series by René Goscinny.

4. What are your favorite genres?

Literary Fiction. I used to read mysteries 90% of the time in high school, so I think it's a favorite genre too, although I don't read and enjoy mysteries now as much as I used to before.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
Pale Fire by Nabokov.

1. Who are your favorite authors? Short list: Zora Neale Hurston, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Steinbeck, Dean Koontz, John Sanford, Robert Ludlum

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? Paperback. I am not a gadget guy. I do not own an e-reader, but I can see the benefit.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Big Red and anything by Jim Kjelgaard, Call of the Wild, Ralph Moody's Little Britches series. The Witch of Blackbird Pond was probably the most pivotal book to turn this narrow minded child into an open minded adult.

4. What are your favorite genres? Mystery, Fantasy, History, Classics.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer (one of Chuck Palahniuk's writing teachers. Unfortunately, I have yet to read Palahniuk.) What is more strange is how much I enjoyed this book. Some disturbing subject matter that is not off-putting, rather it draws the reader in.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? I'm going with The Grapes of Wrath

1. Who are your favorite authors?
To only name the ones I re-read and re-read:Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, Colleen Hoover, John Green
2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Paperback has always been my favorite but there's something about the feel and smell of a hardcover that's enticing as well. I've owned a kindle, but it just wasn't the same when reading an e-book :(

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

4. What are your favorite genres?
Science fiction, YA, contemporary, psychological thriller (don't really like crime novels though)

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Don't get me wrong, the book turned out great, but reading it was so confusing!

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. There's something about the writing and the story line that is absolutely beautiful and should be experienced.

1. Who are your favorite authors?

Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?

Ebook is my favorite simply because its is easier to carry around. However, I will go into the library and sniff the spines of the hardbacks. I miss the smell!

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?

As a 5th grader I loved There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

4. What are your favorite genres?

Classic Lit, Historical Fiction, Biography, Erot/Rom, Cookbooks, Humor, History, Self-Help (parenting, relationships, life coach).

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

South of Bixby Bridge - I must say this book was fantastic, it just wasn't my style because of the content. I wouldn't have chosen the book myself, and read it with my bookclub. It was dark and twisty.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?

His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage

Oops.. Gwen' s likes continued....

2) My highly recommended books are "The Help" , "The Gauguin Connection", and "The DaVinci Code"

3) The Ugly Duckling was my favorite book as a kid.
4) Genres: Fiction- Realistic fiction, Sci-fi, Romance, Murder/Mystery, Thrillers/Adventure, Paranormal. Very little nonfiction or memoirs/autobiographies.

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Louisa May Alcott and Jeannette Walls

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Unless it's a classic or brand new author, I can typically check out a hardcover from the library or buy it for $4 on Amazon...much cheaper than ebooks.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
I liked all sorts, but I went through a phase where I only read Choose Your Own Adventure Books or Truck Drawing Books. I basically read like a boy and avoided Goosebumps at all costs!

4. What are your favorite genres?
Memoir and Historical Fiction

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
Stuart Little...that book be pretty crazy! I mean, it's not a mouse being adopted into a family like the movie adaptation says, it's a mouse that is inexplicably born into a human family. It's just weird, and that's only the very beginning!
And I have to give a shout out to the straight-up worst children's book ever, but I loved, The Story About Ping.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
I definitely tend to recommend books that I've read recently, but the ones that come up again and again are
The Night Circus and The Glass Castle and The Book Thief

1. Who are your favorite authors?
I often feel like I haven't read him or her yet, but I've read John Grisham and Steven D. Levitt, and I greatly admire Maya Angelou and the women writers of 18th and 19th century England like Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
I prefer paperbacks (especialy the ones that are about iPad size), and I also love audible books.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Bridge to Terabithia and The Babysitters Club was the strangest book I ever read. It was such a serious topic to read through the eyes of such a little child.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
To Kill a Mockingbird (and I always tell people if they love it, they should read The Help).

Who are your favorite authors?

A small sample is Emily Bronte, Neil Gaiman, Liz Worth, William Shakespeare, and Edgar Allan Poe.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?

It's got to be a draw between paperback and audiobooks.
Paperbacks because I love the weight of the book in my hand, and audiobooks because I find them so relaxing.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien and Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K Rowling.

4. What are your favorite genres?

I really enjoy Classics, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, and Fiction. But no matter the genre, I try to give the book a chance.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

The most recent one I can think of is The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein. The narrator is a dog and there is a passage where a stuffed zebra comes to life and attacks the other toys. Very strange.


6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. It's so dark and beautiful.

Let's get to know each other a little better!

1. Who are your favorite authors? J.R.R. Tolkien, Erik Larson, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, J.K. Rowling, James Herriott. I could go on an on.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? I prefer paperback because they are easier to hold as I read (I have some arthritis in my hand). I do have an e-reader which I use for travelling primarily, but I prefer a "real" book most of the time.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

4. What are your favorite genres? Historical fiction, Mystery/Detective, fantasy, non-fiction related to nature/animals/environment.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the fantastical writing style threw me off. I finished the book and was glad I stretched outside of my usual reading genres. After I finished it, however, I kept thinking, "what in the world did I just read?"

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It forced me to think of what a world would be like without books or the ability to express oneself freely.

1. Well, I have to say that my favourite authors are J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Rick Riordan and Patrick Ness.

2. I love physical copies. I don't know why, but it's not the same reading e-books, even though I love my Kindle. There is something special with a physical copy. The touch of it, the way it stands in my bookshelf, the fact that you have to turn the pages...

3. My favourite when I was younger was Harry Potter. Some would probably say that I'm still a kid (16 years old), but I chose my favourite from when I was younger.

4. My favourite genres are fantasy, science fiction, paranormal, contemporary and historical fiction.

5. The strangest book I have ever read was probably The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but it was strange in a brilliant way. I loved it so much! The quirky writing style, the hilarious language and the story which was just stupid, but at the same time really enjoying.

6. The book I recommend the most is The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is the best book I have ever read, and it's a literary masterpiece. It's perfect in so many ways.

1. Who are your favorite authors? Albert Camus, Jane Austen, Dorothy Parker, JD Robb, Isabel Allende, Barbara Kingsolver, Ray Bradbury, and the list goes on and on...

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? I'm continually adding to my library and I prefer getting hardbacks in that regard. But I also love the feel of a well worn paperback with almost indeterminate scribblings in the margins. Especially since I'm a note-taker as well and just can't help myself. Honestly, I'll take a book in any form.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Harry Potter, no contest.

4. What are your favorite genres? I'll read anything that comes my way but in a pinch I usually fall back on classic fic.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Hmm, I don't know that I've read anything abnormally strange. But now I feel like I need to go on a hunt for something really bizarre immediately.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Well, when I was working at Walden's I always recommended JD Robb for people wanting a new modern fic series to get into and Jane Austen for people who didn't really know exactly what they wanted but knew they were looking for classic fic. However, it really depended on how much info they could give me about what they liked to read.

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1. Who are your favorite authors? Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Hardcovers are wonderful as they are both beautiful and durable. Ebooks are very convenient for travel.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Harry Potter and Roald Dahl books.

4. What are your favorite genres?
Magical Realism, Southern Gothic, and dystopian lit.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
This book is written in the second person and tells the story of the reader attempting to read the book If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. It jumps into many different stories as "you" search for the correct one.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
That's a tie between East of Eden and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Alison wrote: "3. my favorite book as a kid was Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

4. I put this in my first post.

5. I cant think of the strangest book i read but the book I just finished was up there. It was The pictur..."

I was just scanning through this feed and noticed your favorite kids book. I love Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. I got this great idea from somewhere online that instead of buying new babies a greeting card, buy them a book. I have two baby showers coming up soon and I am putting that book in as the cards. Thought you might like the idea as well:)

1. Who are your favorite authors? wow.. there's so many really. For poems I love Emily Dickinson. I also love from my own country Amalie Skram. Stephen King is great. Jean M.Auel is my most read books. C.S Marks always write to my heart. Dostoyevsky is so great! There's just too many..

2. I love every format, but my kindle is my saving angel right now since I with my bad health in arm and shoulder can't really hold a book so it needs to lie on me open.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? I Morgentåkedalen. A children's book that my parents read and read. It's about what's important in life. Author is Jan Deberitz, but I don't think it was ever really translated from Norwegian. The name means a In a valley with morning mist :)


4. What are your favorite genres? Classics, fantasy, literary fiction.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Hm. I think the strangest must be Donna Tartt and her The Secret History. It's just strange, but so good. Though since I have only read it many years ago I can't remember or explain why. But it will be reread in the next two years at least. Recommended!

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Just one? I think if only one book. Must be The Clan of the Cave bear of Jean M. Auel. Read probably 10 times, more maybe.

1. Who are your favorite authors?
A lot actually, so far, I love almost or all of Melissa Brayden's works. Marie Castle's work is great too. Some authors write a certain genre that I like, but sometimes they switched to another genre that I don't like. So I usually look at the genre/description of the book instead of the author's name.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
I actually like the feel of a hardcover book in my hand, but ebook is cheaper so most of my books are kindle. Plus, I don't have to store them in shelf at home.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Comic books.

4. What are your favorite genres?
lgbt, horror, romance, time travel etc.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
Some of the books I read involved BDSM, what's stranger than that? (all kind of interesting plays) Otherwise, here is this one particular book that I can't quite fathom: Hater- it's about an apocalypse where certain normal people suddenly lost all senses of self, and they started to attack other normal people. There is no explanation whatsoever as to why they acted the way they are.
Also the Satanic bible, Christian's bible, and Buddhism books/Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo (yeah I kinda read all/ or most of them/ given I don't stop halfway that is)- Philosophy/religious books are mostly subjective. So only those that believed in that same beliefs could relate to it. Those that only read for curiosity will think of it as strange, because they are not in the same shoes nor belief of the one who wrote them. Personal opinions I say.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
To Kill a Mockingbird- adults should especially read this, not children (oh the irony)- after all, children by nature are not judgmental.

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Albert Sánchez Piñol

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
I love softcovers, because I'm weird and I want to bend and smell them... O.o

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
I really liked this german series of books called Lilli the Witch (it was translated into my native language) and a lot of R. L. Stine stuff.

4. What are your favorite genres?
Mystery, magic, adventure, fantasy... I love graphic novels too, but you can't find many good ones in my native language and there are maybe around 3 stores in the whole country that sell them in english.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? I could easily say the one I'm reading right now: A Scanner Darkly. The main characters are drug addicts who slowly fry their brain with drugs and from there it just gets weirder and weirder...

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? I would say Alamut, because it's really not that well known as I think it should be since it was written about 50 years ago by a Slovenian author (the book was later translated into many languages). It tells the story of a man who proclaimes himself as the prophet send from Alah, who can talk to him and access the afterlife garden. He means to use his authority for war and tricks young men to become his soulders, promissing them that if they will fight for him, they will be send to this garden full of virgins upon glorious death. (view spoiler)[But just talk is for young men not enough, so he drugs them and leaves them in a beutiful (real) garden, full with (actual) women, who convince the boys that they are getting a taste of the afterlife. (hide spoiler)] It is really interesting!

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Hm. This is a difficult question, since I don't really take note of the author's name while reading a book. As it is, the only author I could think of is Jennifer E. Smith. I found that I cannot help but love whatever she writes. J.K. Rowling deserves a mention as well, simply because she made my entire childhood magical and that is something few authors ever achieve.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Depends. If I'm going for practicality, I'd have to say eBooks are the best. If I go for aesthetic, nothing beats hardcovers.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
The entire Harry Potter series. You cannot possibly make me pick between them.

4. What are your favorite genres?
Uh. Nothing and everything? Seriously, though, I just pick up whatever seems interesting. Being a teenager, though, I can't help but gravitate towards YA.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
The Mezzanine has got to be it. The whole story takes place while on an escalator ride. Try adapting that into a movie, Hollywood!

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

I cannot repeat the book's name enough. Seriously. It's the best.

1. Who are your favorite authors? J.K. Rowling, Brandon Sanderson, Louis Sachar,E. Nesbit, A.A. Milne, William Shakespeare

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? I am sad to admit it's e-book. I never thought that I'd become a convert; but I can take JK Rowling and Shakespeare's complete works everywhere I go!

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Easy: Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

4. What are your favorite genres? Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? China Miéville's Embassytown. It was strange because it was the first book I read for my first "adult" book club, and I had no idea what to expect. I had never heard of China Miéville and it was... a challenge. I struggled with the words he used as part of the language for the characters. I struggled with the visualizations. I struggled with the whole plot and process of reading it.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. It is a riveting novel that is often overlooked. There is incredible character development and a driving plot-- even though everyone already knows how it ends! Thank you, Battle of Gettysburg.

I cannot believe I haven't done this yet, unless I did and I forgot which is a possibility.

1) Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Camilla Läckberg, Yoko Ogawa and George RR Martin.

2) I prefer softcovers. I do have an ereader but I find that when I use it too long I end up with what I can only call "sunburn" marks on my face. So I go back and forth, to minimize the redness on my face which sucks because I have a few ebooks! :(

3) I wasn't a big reader as a child, I loved the RL Stine books

4) horror, mystery, classics, fantasy and SciFi

5) House of Leaves- just oddly written, I honestly do not even know what the story was about, I gave up. I never finished it, I might try to read it again but it was way too disorganized.

6) I don't recommend books, sometimes I do but not often, Yoko Ogawa is one I recommend most people are not aware of her writing and I adore it. it is creepy and macabre but strangely beautiful.

1. Angelou, Walker, Goodkind, Cohelo,Faiman, Dickens

2. I absolutely love hardback books with leather binding. I love the smell of the old leather,the old fashioned fonts, and the look of a well made book.

3. Charlotte's Web

4. Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Autobiographies

5. I don't know if it's the strangest, but A Thin Line was one of the most unusual books I've ever read in my life. Seeing and feeling the thoughts of a homeless woman was graphic and tormenting. I've never read a book like it before.

6. Anything by Charles Dickens

1. Who are your favorite authors? JK Rowling, Charlotte Bronte, Riordian and Christie Agatha

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? Paperback! I'm awful, I love curling the pages.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

4. What are your favorite genres? Dystopian fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction and nonfiction.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Brave New World. This book was extraordinarily weird and confusing. I completely get it's attempt at being over-exaggerated, but it does not make it any less weird.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Fantastic read that anyone, despite being interested in video games or not, would love.

1. Who are your favorite authors? Jennifer L. Armentrout, Sthephenie Meyer, Monica Murphy, J. Sterling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Paolini.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardocover, ebook, etc) and why? I love hardback books because I love the smell of books and curling pages.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Well, Cinderella... maybe.

4. What are your favorite genres? Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Romance, YA, New Adult.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Maybe New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. It's the first book I've ever read and I didn't know what to expect.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

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2. Hardcover..but can't afford it always so ebook has to do.
3. Secret Seven Series
4. Young Adult/Contemporary/Action
5. The Alchemist...gave me weird dreams and made me sleep in between...was hard to finish even though it was a slim book...made me feel strange, I didn't like it.
6. Dan Brown's Inferno
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1. Who are your favorite authors?
JK Rowling, VC Andrews, Dan Brown, Cassandra Clare, Jane Austen, Sophie Kinsella, Robert Ludlum, Kelley Armstrong, Diana Gabaldon, Seth Grahame-Smith, Emily Giffin, Philippa Gregory. My tastes are all over the place and so are my fav authors

2. What’s your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc) and why?
Hard/soft cover. I've tried the ebook way but I just love the feel and smell of a book in my hands. Can't beat it!

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Babysitter’s Club, anything by Shel Silverstein

4. What are your favorite genres?
Anything from classics, to young adult, to mystery. I can read pretty much any genre if it sounds interesting to me. The only thing I don't read a lot of is non-fiction

5. What’s the strangest book you’ve ever read? What made it strange?
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
It was a really weird book and the pictures made it very strange.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
The Night Circus - I love this book!

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Honestly? Well... I suppose these are my favorite authors:
Ilona Andrews
David Eddings
Kristina Ohlsson
Elizabeth Moon

and many more...!

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
I prefer real books in my hand, there's nothing quite like it when you can take out a book from your shelf, open it and read it. It's an amazing feeling and I can't see myself using ebook or audio. It's not just for me.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?

As a kid? Oh wow... well I suppose... hm... Well I don't think I had a favorite book as a kid, more like a favorite series... I loved and of those I especially loved . Then of course there's -series that I just swallowed whole.

4. What are your favorite genres?

Well to be honest I am diversed. My absolut favorite genre is fantasy, I read almost always fantasy books, I reread my books and I can't walk into a book store for science fiction or fantasy without walking out with a bag in my hand. I do like crime and drama as well, and I haven't really tried sci-fi yet, so if anyone has any good books for beginners in sci-fi throw them at me, please!

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

Oh that's got to be that book about a cat's adventure that this writer wrote and I can't remember the name of either right now. Gah this is going to kill me... hang on...

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Tad Williams: Tailchaser's song! Ha I knew that...

Probably the strangest book that I've ever read because it was about cats... but also one of the sweetest books I've ever read.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?

Well strangely... Tailchaser's song by Tad Williams... it's such an endearing book.

1. My favourite authors are: Cecelia Ahern, Jojo Moyes, Adriana Trigiani and Sara Foster.

2. Preferred book format: Definitely paperback or hardcover, there is nothing better than having an actual book in my hands.

3. Favourite book as a kid: Bow Down Sadrach by Jow Cowley (NZ book)

4. Favourite genres: Thriller, psychological thrillers and sometimes romance.

5. He's Just Not That Into You, not a fan of this book!

6. One book I'd recommend: This is the hardest question, It would have to be The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes. Such a good book!!

1. Who are your favorite authors?
I don't really have any tbh

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
Hardcovers. They're so much prettier, I think.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
The Little House on the Prairie series. I remember my mom reading the series over and over to me each morning before I had to go to school.

4. What are your favorite genres?
This is a tough one. I like contemporary and sci-fi the best, I think, but I read almost every genre.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
I can't really think of any...

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
because not many people have read it yet. My personal favorites are and

1. Who are your favorite authors?
Charlotte Brontë, J.K. Rowling, Cassandra Clare, William Shakespeare, and Jane Austen

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why?
It would have to be hardcover because they look nice and I love the smell and feel of holding an actual book. I just love being able to feel the pages as I go through the book. (paperback is fine too, but paperback copies don't look nearly as nice in my opinion.)

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone my mom wouldn't let us go see the movie until we read the book so me and my siblings all sat around her and she read us the book at night before we went to sleep. I have read it so many times since and I can pretty much recite the first chapter from memory as well as many of my favorite scenes.

4. What are your favorite genres?
YA, fantasy, romance, paranormal, and sci-fi (but I will pretty much read anything)

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi I can't truly explain what made it so strange because I still can't even comprehend everything that happened in it. It was just so strange to me. I spent the entire book in a constant state of confusion and just wondering why.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most?
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë it is my favorite book of all time and I just want everyone to experience it.

1. Who are your favorite authors? George Martin, Clive Barker, Stephen King and many others

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? Ebook and audiobook. More convenient than paper books.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? The Stand by Stephen King

4. What are your favorite genres? Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy and thrillers

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Imajica by Clive Barker. The whole world and characters are very strange.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Game of Thrones by George RR Martin. Great first book to the series and very accessible. Could be read by both fantasy and non-fantasy fans.

Who are your favorite authors? Depends on what I want to read. J.R.R. Tolkien got me started. I was an English major and I do love the classics. Right now, I read anything Seanan McGuire, Allie Brosh, or Jenny Lawson writes.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? I switched to ebook to save space and I love not having to hold a book open in bed (also, who can resist having ALL THE BOOKS at her fingertips?) but I'm finding I actually read much faster on the dead tree version, so I have been reacquainting myself with the library here lately.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? My uncle and aunt gave me a box set of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when I was 11 or 12. I had been a reader before that, but that book was THE book of my younger self. (This taken together with Star Wars, which was THE movie of my younger self, probably still explains upwards of 80% of my predilections in entertainment. Scary.)

4. What are your favorite genres? Still fantasy and fairy tale, with some SF thrown in for good measure. I also like biography and history. I've noticed lately that I have read a crazy amount of self help books on various issues, so I guess I have to own that, too.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? That's like asking a mother which child is her favorite. I like strange. But I guess the most memorable recently was Annihilation, and almost everything about the book is strange: the situation the characters are in, the narration, the setting, the fact that everything is more evoked than described, the fact that I loved it ... really, all strange.

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Moby-Dick; or, The Whale This is one of the few that you really, really must read. (I was lucky; I read it on my own when I was a kid before it had a chance to become homework and I think that made all the difference. I've reread it twice as an adult and it completely holds up.)

1. Who are your favorite authors? I don't really have ''favorite authors''... If i like a book, I like a book! But if I really have to choose, I'd say Christopher Paolini. I just LOVED Eragon etc.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardcover, ebook, etc.) and why? That would be hardcover! I don't like paperbacks at all. I own a lot of paperbacks tho but i just like hardcovers more.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? Uhh.. Yeah i guess that would be ''goosebumps book series'' haha.

4. What are your favorite genres? Thriller, mystery, young adult, fantasy.. That kind of stuff. :)

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? I never read a strange book, or at least, not that I can recall. :P

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? Eragon ofcourse. It's my favorite book, and i was so sad when the series ended. :( If you start Eragon, you want to read the other books to! And you won't be able to stop haha. That's why I recommend it

1. Lev Grossman George R.R. Martin Gregory Maguire Erika Johansen

2. I love collecting hard back books but right now my kindle is my god. I haven't got the space or money to buy all of the books I want in hard back so the ebook is the way forward for me.

3. I loved Sarah Manning books. Especially, Guitar Girl and the Diary of a Crush trilogy - French Kiss, Kiss and Make Up, Sealed with a Kiss. I related to the content at the time.

4. Fantasy. I particularly love a female hero.

5. My biggest WTF moment with a book came when I read 50 Shades of Grey. I was totally sucked in but the books pretty much stand against every value I hold.

6. The Magician's Trilogy by Lev Grossman. It's like Harry Potter, meets Skins, meets The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I absolutely love it and would highly recommend.

Favorite authors: George R. R. Martin, John Green, Jodi Piccoult and Dr. Seuss

Favorite format: I love the paper book especially paperbacks as they're easier to carry around. I love to refer back through the story. I love the way they smell and feel. I love to see books on my book shelves.

Favorite book as a child: Wow, there wasn't just one but I'll name two. [Where the Red Fern Grows, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Favorite genres: realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, young adult and children's books.

Strangest book I ever read: Probably has to be A Clockwork Orange because I found the ruthless violence hard to read about and I'm not a fan of dystopia. Just a strange and disturbing story to me.

A book that I recommend. Sorry, I can't just recommend one:
Watership Down-- Wonderful story using rabbits
I Capture the Castle-- all-around a great and fun read
The Tale of Desperaux-- DiCamillo has a beautiful writing style
A Thousand Splendid Suns-- beautiful but have those tissues handy

1. Who are your favorite authors?

Hm, this is quite a difficult question, but I think I would have to go with: Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Louis L'Amour, Frank Herbert, and Edgar Rice Burrohough.

2. What's your preferred book format (hardback, ebook, ect.) and why?

I really like paperback books. I like the feel and they are less cumbersome than hardback books. And what I don't like about ebooks is the fact that I need electric power to use them. If I am somewhere without an outlet, and my battery was very low, I could still read a physical copy of a book without worries.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid?

This depends on what age we are talking about, and if we are talking about books that were read to me or that I read. If they are ones I read, going from youngest to slightly older the books would be following series: The Junie B. Jones Collection, The Guardians of Ga'hoole Boxed Set, and the Dear America series.

4. What are your favorite genres?

I like most all genres, I'm not really picky about which ones I read. But I tend to avoid heavy romance novels, because a lot of them seem to follow a basic story line that is entirely too predictable. I'll still read one if it is suggested to me, but I'm less likely to enjoy a romance novel.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange?

I am honestly not sure about which book I would have to choose for this. I'd have to give it some more thought.

6. What is the ONE book you recomment the most?

I would have to say anything by the authors listed in the first question. But the one that has come up in conversation the most lately is The Death Gate Cycle series.

Hello again!

My favorite authors are; Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King & Piers Anthony (so far..I'm new to this, remember?)

I preferred hardcover for a long time; the feel, I guess. And they were sturdier. But now, I'd have to say the ebook because I was building a rather respectable collection of my favorite authors, until a case of leaking roof destroyed it! Now, I feel safer having them all kept in cyberspace!

My favorite book from childhood? Old Black Witch by Wende & Harry Devlin!!!! It was the very first book I read on my own, for fun! Also foster my love of cooking! :)

Fantasy and Fiction are my favorites, by far.

The strangest? Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Because it was the first book I ever read that was a perfect blend of humor, fantasy, contemporary, religious, satirical and just a little bit creepy.

I ALWAYS recommend Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman! Hands down.

1. Who are your favorite authors? Mary Higgins Clark, JK Rowling, Jenny Han, John Greene, Lois Lowry, Sarah Dessen, and Harlan Coben (to name a few).

2. What's your preferred book format and why? I prefer hardcover or paperback books. There's just something so amazing about reading an actual book; turning the pages, the smell of a bookstore.

3. What was your favorite book as a kid? My absolute favorite book as a kid was The Giver by Lois Lowry. I still love the book!

4. What are your favorite genres? I love mysteries, thrillers, chick-lit, young adult, memoirs, and non-fiction the most, but I'll read just about anything.

5. What's the strangest book you've ever read? What made it strange? Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut was the strangest book I've ever read (because of the time travel, war and aliens). I chose to read it in 8th grade and write a report about it, and the whole time I just kept asking myself why I chose it...

6. What is the ONE book you recommend the most? This is such a tough question! I think I recommend authors more than individual books. I used to recommend The Giver all of the time when I was younger, though.