For whatever reasons - looks like the alert for yesterday's post never went out. So if you missed reading that one, do click on the hyperlink and let me know your thoughts.
I know I haven't been posting the each day post of "Ten day you challenge" in a continuous flow - I myself needed a break from posting that every day and so skipped a few days in between and posted something else for a change :P
So the next one on the challenge was to post about four books - now, how can I ever pick just four from the huge favorite list I have - its absolutely impossible.. So I am gonna tweak it to list the genres that I enjoy the most and then list my favorite authors/books from those genres... Too much of tweaking, I know, but, its definitely not possible for me to list just one book even if I narrow it down to a genre :P
Favorite Genre 1 - Thrillers: I absolutely love reading thrillers. I need to read a thriller to get me back into reading mode when I have tried a book from any other genres. The anticipation of the ending, the process of deduction as I read, figuring out the climax, and then waiting to see if I was right, the legal intricacies and exciting twists and turns, the nail biting reads that doesn't let me sleep a wink sometimes - thrills me. My favorite authors of this genre are John Grisham(legal thrillers), Dan brown, Jeffrey Archer, Robin Cook(Medical thrillers), Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha Christie, Lee Child and Stephen King. I cannot list just one book of any author as my favorite book - every single book I have read of these authors are my favorites for its own reason.
Favorite Genre 2 - Romance: This was not my initial favorite of genres. I read one "Mills and Boons" novel and I was forever done with this genre. All of it changed when I read " The Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller - Thanks to a friend who loaned it to me for a weekend. I didn't read it until Monday morning breakfast time and I then bunked office that day for completing it (I have not even bunked in college, forget bunking work, so that's something very huge in my life). For such a dry title, the book is not at all that. The myth was broken and I finally understood romance genre doesn't mean only Mills and Boons. I moved on to "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and this is my all-time favorite. The other worthy mention that made me not ditch this genre is "P.S. I Love You" by Cecelia Ahern.
Favorite Genre 3 - Fantasy: This is a recent addition to my favorite genres. I must admit, I haven't tried a lot in this genre and the one that I can really boast of is the Harry Potter series. Oh, I hated these books and movies initially for all the hype it had created - and it didn't help that I watched one of the movies (probably the third one in the series) before I read or watched it in sequence, and I couldn't get head or tail of whatever was happening on big screen. It didn't pique any interest in me for these reasons - But being the curious one, I bought the box set just to see for myself the reason of hype around this. It was on my book shelf for a quite a few years, before I braved to read it. I couldn't stop once I began, and I now cannot stop feeling silly for ignoring it for so long. A definite potter head now. "A Song of Ice and Fire" is something I haven't been able to generate any interest similar to Harry Potter series - but since having this experience with Harry potter series - I have now marked this series to read next in fantasy genre (If you want to gift me, "A Song of Ice and Fire" box set should be your first choice :P) .
Favorite Genre 4 - Fiction that doesn't fit in any of the above three genres: I really don't know which genres I should fit these books in as they are quite diverse and am constrained here to list only 4 - so I titled this point broadly so :P Following are my absolute favorites apart from whatever I have mentioned in the previous three points:
The help by Kathryn Stockett, To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger , The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Erich Segal 's Novels, Khaled Hosseini's novels - Oh, I think I will go on to list everything I have read at this pace :P So, I am going to stop here.
If you want to know what I have read till now - my humble list is available here.
Do you have any favorite books? Can you try to list just four :roll:
Well, I don't mind if its more, you know? I will definitely make sure to add it to my never ending to-read list if its not already there :P :)
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Interesting list. I haven't read most of the classics. Something about them makes me not want to read them *wondering smiley*
ReplyDeleteIn fantasy definitely read Mistborn :P
Yep, mistborn is on my to-read from quite sometime :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd go read the classics, they're so for a reason :-)
I go to thrillers when there is a lull in my reading and I am unable to progress with any of the books that I might be reading. Nothing speeds up my reading and turns me back into the bookworm that I once used to be like a good thriller. I couldn't really choose a genre...I read almost everything...not much romance though. Recently I have started including more of non fiction in my reading list after having forever stayed away from them. And what I found is that just like other books, if I find them interesting enough, I just can't put them down, but if I don't find them very interesting then I never end up finishing them.
ReplyDeleteSame here!! Non-fiction - I haven't tried much! Some day, some day!!
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