What are your favorite novels?

[KyErva]

This can include independent works from places like Tapas or Webtoon and also famous literature.

I personally have found The Picture Of Dorian Grey to be a favorite alongside The Great Gatsby for it's themes of over self indulgence, debauchery, and the way that material gain is used to numb and cloak underlying issues.

I also really enjoy The Perks Of Being A Wallflower for it's representation of a teen's coming of age. One that I found that I could relate to much more significantly in comparison to other teen highschool novels that often fall into highschool cliches.

[Maps]

I've always loved fantasies and I loved The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as A Wizard of Earthsea. I also just admire JRR Tolkien and Ursula Le Guin's writing styles and world-building.
Also, the fact that Tolkien created his language of Elvish still blows my mind (I did English and Linguistics as my BA and MA).
I do enjoy some Steven King because I like to be creeped out, but sometimes I don't like the way he portrays his male and female characters.
And I have a lot of respect for Neil Gaiman and his storytelling.
I'm an escapist. Anything that gets me away from reality for a while and stretches my mind.

[KyErva]

Ah I'm the same way! I'm planning to get my degree in English when I start college so it'll be exciting to learn all of that

[WillisAuthor]

Hmm... here's some of my favorites:

Blue Sword and Deerskin by Robin McKinley taught me its ok to start a character weak and put them through hell to make them ready for the real battle.

Chronicles of Narnia was my first love of Fantasy.

Gai-jin by James Clavell taught me that 'Yes, you can be historically accurate while following fictional and flawed characters to their doom'.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova took me through history and places I still want to visit and showed you can add just a little paranormal flair with huge impact.

Captive Prince Trilogy by CS Pacat gave me a coupling that knew who they were and never once apologized for it.

Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward reminded me of how much I adore narrative where the character's voices and thinking disrupt or take over at any given moment for both emotional impact and humorous jabs. (WRATH FOREVER!)

[Maps]

Yesss! That's awesome! You're going to love it.
I was such an average student in high school (and maybe during my General Ed), but once I started college for my English degree, I excelled. It is so fun learning about something you're passionate about. I hope it's the same for you!

[silverraven0]

Some of novels I love from my country writer is the Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Troops) tetralogy (and other novel addition) by Andrea Hirata, and Sirkus Pohon (Tree Circus). The Rainbow troops has a lot of translation in other languages so you might just find one in a store.

And Some novels from overseas is The murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ten little nigger/indians/and then there were none, and the Crooked house, by Agatha Christie, and the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan.

[CarltonIsaac]

Asimov's 'The Gods Themselves." and his original 'Foundation' Trilogy.

Howard's 'The People of the Black Circle' and his other 'Conan' yarns.

Crichton's 'Eaters of the Dead' (The 13th Warrior is the poorly adapted movie version)

Michener's 'Space' and 'The Covenant'.

Knight and Lomas' 'Uriel's Machine' (non-fiction)

And everything written by me.

[ivanskilling]

Prey by Michael Crichton

Contest by Matthew Reilly

The Analyst by John Katzenbach

Live By Night by Dennis Lehane

[amberberry]

Howl's Moving Castle is my favourite novel. It's a lovely story and the characters are just wonderful.

[Lyric]

Adult Favs
The Stranger by Albert Camus (for it's simplicity of style)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (for it's theme)
Less Than Zero & Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (for their plotlessness)
Play It As It Lays by Join Didion (for it's subtext layers)

YA
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (for character voice)
The Virgins by Pamela Erens (it's a retelling of A Separate Peace by John Knowles)
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (for it's narrators--the souls of dead AIDS victims)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (for it's amazing plot twist)