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Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. -- Libba Bray
Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books. -- Kristin Gore
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. -- Pink
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. -- James Patterson
Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever. -- Hilary Swank
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that. -- Marie Lu
One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos. -- Jan Brett
I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.' -- Kurt Busiek
There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare. -- Tatiana de Rosnay
One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it. -- Rob Lowe
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. -- Neil Gaiman
You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite. -- Joan Rivers
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers. -- Lisa Scottoline
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. -- Simone Elkeles
I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book. -- Victoria Chang
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. -- Elif Batuman
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. -- Kevin Brockmeier
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years. -- Suzanne Collins
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent. -- Freddie Highmore
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do? -- Vint Cerf
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories -- Sarah Addison Allen
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories. -- Sarah Addison Allen
I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer. -- David Yates
I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of weight and power in them. -- Danielle Dutton
Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell. -- Rachel RenÃ©e Russell
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for. -- Nate Berkus
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about. -- Monica Ali
Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book with me everywhere when I was in fifth or sixth grade. Eventually, it just fell apart. -- Jill Davis
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose. -- Elizabeth Crook
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated. -- Nick Hornby
Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people. -- Zack Snyder
A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year. -- Caroline Leavitt
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. -- Beverly Cleary
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. -- Meg Cabot
I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love. -- Julia Glass
What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing. -- Carl Deuker
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books. -- Tina St. John
I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much. -- Dav Pilkey
My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books. -- Jane Green
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. -- Winona Ryder
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. -- Karin Slaughter
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun. -- Candace Kita
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens. -- Tom Peters
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? -- Mitch Albom
I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. -- Mary Pope Osborne
Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went. -- P. L. Travers
Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things. -- Julie Andrews
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. -- Khaled Hosseini
I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine. -- Jason Schwartzman
One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end ... -- Hillary Clinton
My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time. -- Jacqueline Woodson
I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes." -- Coco Jones
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage. -- Gail Carson Levine
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! -- John Piper
Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word. -- Tim Gunn
Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john. -- Stephen King
I'm not sure that I have a favorite either on-screen or in the books! Whenever I'm writing, I'm always really excited to dive back into each character. -- Sara Shepard
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books. -- Helen Simonson
I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world. -- Steve Hockensmith
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away. -- Drew Gilpin Faust

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