Book Meme

Currently Reading: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

 

Next Reading: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (if it is delivered before I finish Cold Mountain, otherwise: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling)

 

Last Book Read: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

 

Last Book Bought: A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

 

Longest Book Owned: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

 

Shortest Book Owned: Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin

 

Favorite Book: Can’t make up my mind

 

Book Read the Most Times: The Princess Bride by William Goldman

 

Least Favorite Book: Deception Point by Dan Brown

 

Favorite “Serious” Fiction: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

Favorite Comedy: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

 

Favorite Classic: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

 

Favorite Shakespeare: “Twelfth Night”

 

Favorite Poetry Collection/Poet: I’m afraid the only poetry collection I have is of English Renaissance era poetry

 

Favorite Fantasy: Maia by Richard Adams

 

Favorite Sci-Fi: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (though I feel this shouldn’t count toward this; I don’t read much Sci-Fi)

 

Favorite Non-Fiction: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

 

Favorite Historical Fiction: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

 

Favorite Chick/Lad Lit: Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

 

Favorite Horror: The Shining by Stephen King

 

Favorite YA: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

 

Favorite Manga/Comic/Graphic Novel: Monster by Naoki Urasawa

 

Favorite “Other” Genre: Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (though the rest of the series can go jump up my butt)

 

Favorite Series: The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

 

Favorite Short Story: “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara” by Hisaye Yamamoto

 

Favorite Play: “The Verge” by Susan Glaspell

 

Best Book Read this Year: Love Walked In – Marisa de los Santos

 

Worst Book Read this Year: The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner