Book series

[Gigi]

I like:
Kathleen O'Neal Gear and Michael Gear's First North Americans series
Sue Harrison's Pre-history series
Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series
J.A. Jance's JP Beaumont and Joanna Brady mystery series
Faye Kellerman's Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker series
Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware mysteries
James Patterson's Alex Delaware mysteries
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series
Gregory Maguire's take on old fairy tales eg: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Wicked. Mirror,Mirror
Gary Jennings Aztec series and other works
Edward Rutherford's series London, Sarum, The Forest, Princes of Ireland etc.
Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee series
Harry Potter, natch

[wildtao]

Has anyone read any Robin McKinley?  She has a pair of books, "The Hero and the Crown" and "The Blue Sword" that are young adult fantasy, "Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast" that is awesome, "Deerskin" which is adult fantasy, and I'm sure many others I haven't read yet.

She was one of my favorites as a teen, and I re-read her all the time.  I highly recommend.

Oh my gosh! Thank you for posting this. I loved her books when I was a teenager/ young adult, and then lost them in my move from California to London. I could not remember the names for the life of me, though I always remember the bits from the novel. Like her red hair and her growing into her abilities late in life and...yay. *C* And Beauty was a wonderful novel. I love how her sisters weren't evil sisters as tend to happens in most fairytales like that! Now I know what to buy from Amazon with some of my X-mas gift certificates.

[stanthedevil]

Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series

I bawled like a baby at the end.  I literally must have sobbed for ten minutes before I could finish.

[Lysitheia]

Hmmm....

-Earth's children (they start to go downhill at the end of book two, but I did it)

-Anne Rice ('' '' '', except that I stopped reading)

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

- SK's Dark Tower (I'm on book five)

- Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books

-The Dear America books

[Venus193]

I have some catching up to do on it, but I love the vampire novels by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.  The Count Saint Germain has been around since ancient Egypt and encounters some major historical figures and serious philosophical issues along the way.

On the non-fiction front I've been reading the Sex Lives series by Nigel Cawthorne.  There are volumes about the US presidents, English monarchs, popes, dictators, composers, artists, and film actors (I'm missing the two volumes on the Hollywood Goddesses).  I love "hidden history."

[OogaBooga]

In addition to many of the ones posted above: 

Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner.  Also the other two books in the series - The Lesser Kindred, and Redeeming the Lost. 

I picked up Song in the Silence at a library book sale and loved it, so I went out and bought the other two.  It's best to get the last two at the same time because the middle book ends with a number of loose ends. 

[Suze]

The Cat who... series Lillan Jackson Braun
Saint Germain series  (My veins are open anytime for him)
Harry Potter
Darkover series Marion Zimmer Bradly (I cried a bunch when I heard she had passed)
Anything Heinlien, Bradbury, Clark, Asimov, David Eddings (although Not So Sure about the newest series)
Star Trek and Star Wars

at least those are the books that get read till the covers fall off. (and then you buy a new copy) but I will pretty much read anything with a page in it.

On the research side I have been going through costuming books, weaving books (bought an inkle loom) and been sitting in front of a magic machine talking to all kinds of wonderfull people through the written word.

Suze

[TF298]

I absolutely love V.C. Andrews.  I love all of them.  Old and new.  I am only 1 or 2 away from owning the whole collection (60 odd books).

I also love the CSI books.  Only the original CSI though, not the spin-offs (same with the tv shows).

[Chonsil]

A lot of these I read when I was in my teens, but I still enjoy them:

Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising Sequence

Madeleine L'Engle - Wrinkle in Time triology, and the others involving the Murray family. And I like how she pulls the Austin family from her other series into this as well.

Anne McCaffrey Pern books. Although I have never quite went beyond the initial three dragon books and the Harper series.

Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine books. Okay, the plots get a bit strange, but I do like the visuals.

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Family Chronicles. Really enjoyed these. A bit dull and too detailed at times, but thought they were an entertaining way to read about England during WWII.

Ellis Peters - Cadfael Mysteries. Fun!

[Quossum]

I teach reading and my favorite books tend to be "Young Adult" novels.  I'm completely addicted to books and bad things happen to my credit card balance if I'm let loose in a book store for too long.

Like most of you, Harry Potter, LOTR, Narnia, the Pern series (until they started going downhill--I think All the Weyrs of Pern should have been her stopping point).

I liked Mercedes Lackey's Arrows of the Queen, Winds of Fate, and even the trilogy about Vanyel, but again, the Valdemar books got weird and unwieldy over time.

The Little House series

I liked His Dark Materials--or at least, the first two.  The last one got a little too hateful for me to really enjoy it.

The Ender's Game books--though the crown jewels are Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.  The Bean series, well...the first one was good, then it got a bit bloated, not as fun.

To bring in a whole 'nother category, I like some cozies as well.  I've read all the Susan Conant ones (as annoying as her protagonist is), the Carol Lea Benjamin series, Brother Cadfael, the Laurien Berenson series, the Elm Creek Quilters, Erlene Fowler's series, and most of the Miss Murphy series (they get worse later in the series, unfortunately).

--Q

[Venus193]

Saint Germain series  (My veins are open anytime for him)

I've only read about half of these, but of what I've read my favorite was The Palace.  I also looved Moorcock's critique of this series.

[Suze]

Saint Germain series  (My veins are open anytime for him)

I've only read about half of these, but of what I've read my favorite was The Palace.  I also looved Moorcock's critique of this series.

Blood Games and Hotel Translvania are two of the ones I read a lot. But I really like all of them that I have read, I am still missing a bunch too. 

Suze

[Venus193]

I just acquired some of the more recent ones, including the new Roman one.

Ancient Rome is one of my historical passions.  I have a bunch of coins I have to learn how to clean and some of the Marcus Didius Falco novels to read.

[Reika]

Like someone else said, it's probably easier for me to list the ones that I haven't read.

Besides Lackey, McCaffrey, King, Asimov, etc that I've read one of my favorites is Anne Bishop. Word of warning though, some of Bishop's stuff can be a little on the dark side, but is an excellent author.

I also enjoyed The Symphony of Ages series by Elizabeth Haydon. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series is awesome as is the two series by James Clemens (The Banned and the Banished and God Slayer Chronicles)

But my all time favorite author is John Ringo who writes semi-military sci-fi and tends to include assorted "easter eggs" that reference various sci-fi and fantasy authors.

[Suze]

you people are bad for my book buying habit you know--- Thanks to this thread I now have a list of books that I MUST go find to read. 

Thank the stars that the library has a good selection of books.

When I was a kid it didn't, When Mom was a kid it was ONE bookshelf in the back of the grocery store. Guess we all have to count ourselves lucky.  We are so spoiled by the library system. I would be lost without a book in my hand.

Thank you to all the librarians out there. You have expanded my world so much.