Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Top 10 Books I Recommend the Most

1. Fruits Basket: This is my favorite series of all time because it has the most amazing character development that I have ever seen and I love all the characters and the way that they work through all of their issues and how they have to work really hard to earn their happy ending. I also love the way that relationships develop through out the series and I love that the series doesn't just value the romantic relationships but also the friend and family relationships as well. I love that the relationships develop as the characters develop and that for the romantic ones the series wait to get the characters together until they are emotionally ready for a relationship, this is the only series that I have ever seen that allows the characters become fully ready for a relationship before entering one so therefore the relationships in this series are better than in most others. I also just love that there was so much wonderful foreshadowing through out the series which makes rereading the series really fun. I love that this is a series that has made me laugh, cry and squeal over cuteness of my favorite couples.
2. Perks of Being a Wallflower: I just really love reading Charlie's story of how is freshmen year of high school went because I love the character Charlie and how he sees the world and how interacts with the world or how he has trouble interacting with the world. I love this book because Charlie is one of my favorite characters of all time and being in his head is a place that I always love to be even when it gets sad, dark and a bit scary in a psychological emotional way. I just think this whole book is perfect and I just love reading it over and over again.
3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians series: I love this series because it has great characters who are all different but equally lovable. I love the plot because it involves so many great adventures and because each book is building up to the last one but also has it's own plot. I love that the books have a great sense of humor as well.
4. Cardcaptor Sakura: I just love everything about this series. I love the characters and I love the relationships that they have with each other and I love how the story values all different kinds of love. I love how there is magic through out the series but the mundane stuff seems just as interesting if not more so. I love that the series is just so cute and sweet and never fails to put me in a good mood.
5. The Darkest Powers series: This is an amazing action packed series that deals with teenagers with special abilities and how people want to lock them up and how they must escape from them while still learning how to control their own abilities. I also love that even though there is romance in the series it always takes a backseat to the plot.
6. Tokyo Babylon: This is an amazing series that questions a lot of things in modern society as well as human nature in general and has a theme about no one but the person who is experiencing pain has the right to say how much pain they are in. I also love all of the main characters and their relationships with each other. I love how the series ends on such a sad note and that it wasn't afraid at all with leaving the readers feeling slightly depressed.
7. Secret Circle series: I love this series because it deals with teenage witches in a way that I would assume teenager who are witches would act and I like learning all about their witchcraft as well. I think that the series has a great plot that made it almost impossible for me to stop reading it. I also really love the characters as well.
8. Impulse: I love this book because it's so beautifully written and it gives all the characters so much depth. I loved all three main characters and I liked seeing them try top better themselves and even liked but was sad about one of them failing to recover.
9. The Glass Menagerie: I just love this play because it's about this family that is quite messed up which makes reading about them very interesting. I relate to the character of Laura Wingfield so much it hurts so this play will always hold a special place in my heart.
10. Gallagher Girls series: I just really love this spy girl series because I love the characters, the plot and all the friendship that the girls share. I also think the series has a pretty good sense of humor.

13 comments:

  1. If there is one thing I love about The Perks of Being a Wallflower--aside from Charlie (who is an adorable character)--it's Chobosky's writing style. I love the format, but it's also very addicting with wonderful lines tossed in everywhere. One of my all-time favorite books!

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    1. Glad to hear you love Perks of Being a Wallflower and Charlie as well and I agree that the writing style is one of the best parts of the book as well. Thanks for commenting.

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  2. This looks like a great list! Especially Fruits Basket, good thinking there!

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    1. So glad to hear you love Fruits Basket as well and thanks for commenting.

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  3. I like your list! I enjoyed a lot The Perks, and I loved the Percy Jackson series (although it's been years since I've read it) & I loved The Darkest Powers series, too.

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    1. Glad to hear you love all those series as well and thanks for the comment.

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  4. I adored the Percy Jackson series too! One of my all time favorites! I wanted to do a reread before the second movie comes out this year!

    Thanks for stopping by Take Me Away...

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    1. Love to hear that your also a Percy Jackson fan and it's my favorite book series as well. Thanks for commenting.

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  5. I adore the Gallagher Girls series, and am so excited for GG #6 to come out this year! :) My TTT list: http://aliceinreaderland.com/2013/03/25/mostrecommended/

    Alice @ Alice in Readerland

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    1. Glad to hear your a fan of Gallagher Girls as well but I'm sad to say that I'm a bit behind the series and actually only just finished the fourth book so I still have one book to read before the last one comes out. Thanks for the comment.

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  6. I tried to stay away from manga on my list (because it was already so long), but if I had, I definitely would have included Fruits Basket (even though I still have a few more chapters to go in order to finish it...I should do that) and Card Captor Sakura (I keep looking for a new series like it, but nothing quite captures the same atmosphere/feelings of this manga! *sigh*). Tokyo Babylon is one I keep hearding about, but haven't gotten around to reading yet, and of course you already know I love the Gallagher Girls books (ONE MORE LEFT! September seems so far away!). Percy Jackson and Perks have both been on my TBR forever. One of these days I'll get around to finally reading them. Great list!

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    1. I never seem to be able to keep manga off these lists but I can understand why you want to. Also I would love to read a list of the manga that you recommend the most.

      Glad to hear that Fruits Basket is a favorite of yours as well and I love the ending of the series so I think that as soon as you get a chance you should finish up the series.

      I love few series as much as Cardcaptor Sakura but some series that I think you would like as well would be Clamp's other magical girl series Magic Knight Rayearth it's shorter and is more about friendship than romances but it's almost as good as CCS. I would also recommend Clamp's newer series Kobato because it's atmosphere and to some extent it's art style remind of CCS quite a bit despite the plot being a lot differnt and the characters being a lot older. I also recommend Shugo Chara and Arcana Famiglia as well.

      I'm excited for you to read Tokyo Babylon and I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on the series.

      I completely agree with the excitement over the Gallagher Girls series but I still need to read book 5. I highly recommend Perks and Percy as well. Thank you for commenting on my list and I hope to hear from you again soon.

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  7. love percy! so good! and i was a big fan of the Secret Circle TV show! Great Recommendations! Thanks for checking out our TTT ~ Katie @ Inkk

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