There’s really nothing for the imagination like reading a book. Sure, movies and TV tell us stories as well, but those are played out right in front of us and we don’t get to make any of the choices. With books, you have the ability to imagine things a certain way in your head–everything from exactly the way a character looks to their mannerisms. In fact, this difference is actually what makes it hard for people to enjoy the movie adaptations of books they love; the movies just don’t fulfill the ideas they had in their head while reading.
While it may be tough to find time to read as a busy teen, if nothing else, you’ll be reading books for class throughout your education. Reading is one of the oldest and cheapest (hello, public library!) forms of entertainment and we want to know all about your favorite books, writers and reading rituals.
Answer the polls below and then let us know more in the comments!
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I LOVE reading! ^^ Especially Fantasy Adventure!
My fav. books –
The Edge Chronicles
Dragonlance – The New Adventures
The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Hikaru No Go
Yotsuba
and pretty much anything from Gail Carson Levien!
lately i’ve been reading a lot of Francis Chan. he’s awesome <3
Francis Chan is awesome. I just finished the Crazy Love Bible study about a month ago…it was incredible!!!
I love “Is that really you God?” by Loren Cunningham!!! It`s an awesome book about hearing the voice of God.
Oo… I love that book! My parents practically made me read it because we are apart of the missionary ogrnaization that he started (YWAM). And I loved it!
I have been with YWAM too!!
‘Shadow of a bear’ <<<Best book ever!
My favorite books ever: Lord of the Rings!!!!!
Though I also love The Left Behind Series, and I love books by Francine Rivers, Beverly Lewis, and Donita K. Paul. I also enjoy Love Inspired Christian Romance novels! 😀
haha must be a homeschooler thing. I am homeschooled and I read those books, and all of my homeschool friends are like obsessed with them! (Posters of Frodo all over the walls and such) I also LOVE and I mean LOOOOOVVVVEEEE the Ranger’s Apprentice books! Best things EVER! Can’t wait for the 12th book to come out in october 😀
I just started reading LOTR and I’m already loving it!
George R.R. Martin, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, and Tamora Pierce are my current literary addictions.
Anything by Karen Kingsbury is amazing! 🙂
I <3 karen Kingsbury too… Unlocked is a good, read by her.
Anything written by Cassandra Clare is amazing. Nuff said.
I love reading all kinds of books but my favorite books are the Nancy Drew series! I love them. 🙂 I am reading my sixth book in 5 days. (we just went to the library. :D)
I LOVE Reading so much! I don’t like reading overly descriptive books, but for school I much. I find Dickens and other “classics” as such quite boring. But I love reading fantasy, adventure, and sci fi. I like exciting books, but I love reading books by people who can incorporate meaning and action all at once. 🙂 Reading is basically just amazing. 🙂 I’ll admit to not having read Lord of the Rings or Narnia, but I’m not saying they are bad, just not for me. I love Skulduggery Pleasant, The First Test, Harry Potter, Inkheart (not the movie), and the list could go on and on. 🙂
I love all the books written by Robin Jones Gunn, and I just finished my new favorite book, “Kisses from Katie” by Katie Davis! Such an incredible book!! 🙂
I love reading! My favorite books are A Walk to Remember , Weddings by Bella series, and Kisses from Katie!
My favorite Books:
Bible!
Enemy Access Denied
Kisses from Katie
Slathbog’s Gold
Crazy Love
😀
I LOVE READING!!!!!!!!! I am currently working on Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre 🙂 Along with some of my fun books by Lois Walfrid Johnson or Janette Oke. Oh and I also like Shakespeare 🙂
Oh yes, and as to what my FAVORITE books are, I love The Adventures of the Northwoods, The Riverboat Adventures, Anne of Green Gables, and of course… The Mysterious Benedict Society :D!
I LOVE reading.
My favorites:
The Bible
Narnia
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Anything by Karen Kingsbury
Anything by Leslie Ludy
Elsie Dinsmore Series
So many more!
I wish I read more………….I really should. I know I like reading fiction and romance. And…………..Christian material, of course 🙂 I recently read a book called The Language of Sisters by Amy Hatvany. It was SO GOOD!
My Favorite Fiction:
The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Westmark Trilogy by Lloyd Alexander
My favorite genre is fantasy, and my favorite author is Lloyd Alexander.
The Fault In our Stars, Wintergirls, and Harry Potter of course!
john green is so brilliant! are you a nerdfighter? ahhhh dftba 🙂
I read once in a while, but since I am a really fast reader you could say I have read a lot of books! My favorite books are:
Les Miserables
Percy Jackson series
The Bible of course!
Soldier X
The Help
The Invention of Hugo Capret
The Giver
Oh I love Percy Jackson! That’s probably one of the best books I’ve read since maybe 4th grade.
I love to read!! I read more then I watch tv. My favorites are fiction usualy vampires or supernatural but I like romance books too. And of course I love reading my Bible 🙂 Favorite book series: House of Night <3
Harry Potter, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, Inheritance. ♥Right now I’m reading A Song of Ice and Fire.
I just got reading the hunger games series 🙂 I read the all in one day because I couldn’t put it down 🙂 in my bible study we talked about how it related to the bible and history. It was pretty interesting.
I really like Sammy Keyes,Silent stranger,Shadow of the bear,Harry Potter,Deltora Quest,and Percy Jackson. 🙂
It’s really fun when two boy’s are competing over one girl,
or when there’s a snob in a book it helps keep things interesting like on the edge of your seat 🙂
i adore reading but i especially love all of john green’s books and the book thief
I love to read!!! <3 My favorite books are the Hunger games series, Jenna's Cowboy, a Texan's Promise, and sooo many more. 🙂
I LOVE READING. The o’malley series by dee Henderson is my fave.
-Abbi
The O’Malley series was the best Christian series I ever read. Had action, romance, and faith! Perfect!
I love all books that include dragons!!!
I also like fantasy, Sci-fi, and books about other worlds… My favorite book series is either The Inheritance series, Or The Chiril Chronicles!
Ohhhhh!!!!!!! Then have you ever read the Dragons in Our Midst series by Bryan Davis?! It’s AMAZING!!!!
Reading is one of the best things ever! I really love Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, PJATO, HoO, the Unwind trilogy, and many others! <3
Question, has anyone ever read Unwind by Neal Shusterman?
I LOVE the Christy Miller books by Robin Jone Gunn!!! And Nicole, may I put in a suggestion for the monthly book club?!?! It’s a book I believe EVERY girl should read!
I Love true stories or stories based off of real life events or people in this world. = )
I LOVE reading! My most favorite books are Nancy Drew or other fantasy and mystery books =D
My primary genre is science fiction. I am aspiring to be a sci-fi author, and as you can imagine I devour science fiction like a Saiyan devours ramen noodles! My favorite books include:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Anthem by Ayn Rand
…and others.
I love the Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I am also a gigantic fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation novels. My favorite Star Trek author is Diane Duane, and two of her books that I absolutely love are Intellivore and Dark Mirror.
I am a fan of war novels as well, but I am definitely not keen on romance. I am addicted to classic novels such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and even enduring Greek mythology like The Odessey and The Iliad by Homer. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte are the only two romance novels I actually like.
I am not a big fan of fantasy, although I do pay my respects to the genre. I love The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, but that’s about it.
I have a passion for intellectual subjects, and I hunger for knowledge. I keep an obscenely fat Thesaurus in my bookshelf for reference as I’m writing my novels, and my entire bookshelf is beset by classical and intellectual books. In fact, I own so many books that I have had to create a makeshift extra bookshelf on top of my bookshelf, if that makes sense. One of my favorites is The Dramatic Writer’s Companion by Will Dunne, which offers a very useful question format to help develop one’s characters in writing.
I think I’ll stop rambling now; I’m quite sure you get the picture.
I love classics! Austen, Dickens, Gaskell, and all the rest. Gaskell is probably my favorite. I love, love, love ‘Wives & Daughters’
Also, though they aren’t really “reading” books, the Kerri Smith books are incredibly fun.
I LOVE to read! My favorite books are Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Heroes of Olympus, and Kingdom Keepers!
I love to read!!! I wouldn’t love it so much if it weren’t for Harry Potter though
NARNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love reading. Some of my favorite books are:
The Hunger Games Series
Striking a Match Series
Chronicles of Narnia Series
Christy Miller Series
Kingdom Keepers Series
Books of Bayern Series
River of Time Series
Princess Academy Series
and that’s it lol. I also love reading magazines and online articles.
I can never decide whether I like The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia better! I also really enjoy all the Sherlock Holmes stories, Montezuma’s Daughter, The Princess Adelina, and The Children of Odin.
I love classics, historical fiction, and romance. Kind of a weird blend, but it works. 😉 I will honestly read just about anything though! My favorite books are probably Little Women, the Hunger Games series, Phantom of the Opera, The Fault in Our Stars (I cried sooo hard!) Maze Runner, and pretty much any Ann Rinaldi book.
Right now I’m reading Moby-Dick, and I love it!