The Book Meme

Stolen from Jen though I'm seeing it around quite a bit.

1. A book that made you cry
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

2. A book that scared you
Misery by Stephen King (though I only read the first...2 chapters before I couldn't take it.)

3. A book that made you laugh
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

4. A book that disgusted you
Divine Evil by Nora Roberts

5. A book you loved in elementary school
The City Under the Back Steps by Evelyn Sibley

6. A book you loved in middle school
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

7. A book you loved in high school
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (really and truly and not making it up to look literary)

8. A book you loved in college
Persuasion by Jane Austen (hands down my favorite of her books)

9. A book that challenged your identity or your faith
A Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster (I know, I know, I still owe a post on this)

10. A series that you love
The Pern books by Anne McCaffrey (haven't read the continuations written by her son yet though, not sure if I want to go there)

11. Your favorite horror book
Don't do horror. I get nightmares way too easily - I think the closest I've come to this is The Oath by Frank Peretti

12. Your favorite science-fiction book
The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey & S.M. Stirling

13. Your favorite fantasy book
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon (ok, it's a trillogy bound as one volume but it's still hands down my favorite. Individual titles are: The Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold.)

14. Your favorite mystery book
Gosh how do you choose? Anything by Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie. I love the China Bayles series by Susan Wittig Albert (fluffy mysteries), I enjoyed Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman a bunch, I loved the first 20 or so each of the Thomas & Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series by Anne Perry (then they got predictable), and I really enjoy the "in death" series by JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts -- though those are probably more "police procedurals" than true mysteries)...

15. Your favorite biography
I would honestly rather have my eyes poked out with pointy sticks than read biographies, however the ubiquitous John Adams biography was ok. The only other biographies I read with any interest whatsoever are those in the Bible (I love Esther, for example, and it's pretty much a biography, right? And Ruth, same deal.)

16. Your favorite coming-of-age book
The Harper Hall trillogy by Anne McCaffrey (if I have to choose one of the three, Dragonsinger)

17. Your favorite book not on this list
Oh this is tough. There are too many - the whole Anne of Green Gables series, the Chronicles of Narnia, Pride and Prejudice, A Room With A View...