Fiction Friday: 08.13.10

Every Friday we ask our followers what they are reading, then we post the answers the following week with links to the work whether it is original fiction or fan fiction. If you didn’t have a chance to participate, please leave a comment below with what you are reading and if you are enjoying it so far.

On August 13, 2010 we tweeted: Happy #fictionfriday! Today we would like to know, what is your favorite “go to” novel–the book you read over & over? Why?

Here were the responses:

@the_author_: @fictionistawksp Mine is The Raw Shark Texts because it’s such a twisty, mend-bending, beautiful and weird story. #fictionfriday

@roglows: easy reading: Shiver, Twilight, judy blume’s Summer Sisters RT @fictionistawksp: #fictionfriday! favorite “go to” novel

@jools_dk: @fictionistawksp Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables and everything Richelle Mead writes

@Connie_79: @fictionistawksp One by Richard Bach, its 1 of the 1st books my dad gave and Eclipse RT @fictionistawksp: #fictionfriday! favorite “go 2″ novel

@wordninja_ali: @fictionistawksp Pride and Prejudice (never gets old) and King’s Dark Tower series (genius on an epic scale)

@xHammondGirlx: @fictionistawksp The “Alpha & Omega” series and “Mercy Thompson” series, both by Patricia Briggs.

@mycrookedsmile: @fictionistawksp My most re-read books are from my childhood: Harriet the Spy, Wrinkle in Time, & Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

@crimsonrambler: @fictionistawksp My favorite “go to” novel is probably any book in the Ivy League Novel series by @dpeterfreund. Or Pride and Prejudice or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

@belli486: @fictionistawksp My most re-read books include The Count of Monte Cristo (<3 A. Dumas), Cold Mountain, and anything by Toni Morrison.

@aylah50: @fictionistawksp The Distance from the Heart of Things by Ashley Warlick because of the amazing imagery #fictionfriday

@lobsters4ever1: @fictionistawksp Besides Harry Potter or Twilight, another fave Tuesdays with Morrie. Short, quick read that makes me laugh and cry every time.

@AdeleVarens: @fictionistawksp Jane Eyre (hence my pen name), Kindred by Octavia Butler, any Harry Potter, Eclipse, Pride and Prejudice

@Duskwatcher: @fictionistawksp Kindred by Octavia Butler, that’s a great book you         don’t see often on everyone’s must read list

@bookjunkie1975: @fictionistawksp Persuasion and any of my Elizabeth Peters books and when I’m sick I like my Trixie Belden for the nostalgia factor.

@arfalcon: @fictionistawksp It’s not fiction, but Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther, and for awhile Twilight

@jenndema: @fictionistawksp The Stand by Stephen King and Gone With the Wind. They’re both long & have richly drawn characters and settings.

@LoreliD: @fictionistawksp The Good Earth, Vanity Fair, The Color Purple, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Anything Austen.

@Day_Zeee: @fictionistawksp The Coldest Winter ever by Sista Soulja. Its the 1st/only book me & all my girlfriends read as a group and loved!

@reneechantelle: @fictionistawksp personally in high school I read all of the Clan of the Cave Bear books by Jean M Auel

@RDL85: @fictionistawksp A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice. Because I always catch something new that changes my view of the novel.

@StarlightS_: @fictionistawksp I love the Harry Potter books. Specially Goblet of Fire, I’ve read it 8 times. #fictionfriday

and here were the responses on Facebook:

Tami Winbush I live Stephen King’s The Stand. It has everything you could need/want in a book. Romance/envy/spooky characters/and so much more.

Jill Greene ‎1984 by George Orwell. It never fails to make me shiver.

Elena Berrino Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens. It makes me laugh evey single time, and yet the end of it never fails to make me think.

Tiffany Madison All Quiet on the Western Front and Stephen King’s The Stand.

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