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- Christian B. MillerInterview
I guess it depends on the subject matter. If it is fiction, then my favorite of all time is The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe are right up there too. If is young adult fiction, then it would be The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis or…
- Stephen Graham JonesInterview
I read a lot of books over and over. The one I’ve read the most times is The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (see Jack Ketchum’s reading list here). I’ve read Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich five or six times. Same with The Shining by Stephen King. I used to read VALIS by Philip K. Dick and The Crying of Lot 49 by…
- Matt ForbeckInterview
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. It essentially created the entire fantasy genre, in which I’ve written all kinds of stories and games. The popularization of such worlds made it possible for me to fashion a career out of warlike fairy tales.
- Rachel ParrisInterview
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. I loved this book so much – The Faraway Tree, the ever-changing different worlds at the top, the Slippery Slip, fairies and brownies and Moonface! I always loved fantasy and fairytales and as different as they are, it was probably a precursor to me loving Lord of the Rings by J.R.R…
- Rory PowersInterview
I never really got into the Harry Potter books but The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is always going to be on my reading list.
- Darren ShanInterview
Different books have impacted on me at different times. I’ve already mentioned The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. There are lots of others. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker made the teenage me want to push the envelope of visceral darkness as far as I could. The Land Of Laughs…
- Diane CoyleInterview
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- Philip ReeveInterview
I quite often re-read books. Once you reach my sort of age you start to find that all the classics you read in your teens and twenties have faded in your memory to the point where you can read them again, and, of course, you see different things in them as you get older. There are some favourite books from childhood…
- Daniel CohenInterview
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. My mother turned me on to them in the early 1960s when I was still in elementary school. They were not yet big on the public radar, but I took to them from the first page, and I read them quite often, probably every other year, all the way through graduate school.
- Anthony RyanInterview
I think it’s a very slippery slope if we start forcing people to read anything. But, I believe there are few lives that won’t be improved by reading The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien.
- Tracy WiseInterview
I have my mother’s copies of her Georgette Heyer books; she opened up the world of Regency England to me. The Narnia and Lord of the Rings series I strongly associate with my brother. For my dad, the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling along with the Wheel of Time series. And, I read The Count of Monte Cristo because…
- Annelise OsborneInterview
My father was a mountain climber so Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer makes me think of him as does The Lord of the Rings trilogy because he read it to me when I was little.
- Kit GrierInterview
I don’t read much fiction, so I’d have to go full fantasy! So The Lord Of The Rings world.
Often recommended alongside
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The Brothers Karamazov
Game of Thrones
The Wheel of Time
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