1.  Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, Shogun, Anna Karenina - mysteries, historical, fiction, the Poldark series, Trade Winds, Hillerman's books

2. History books

3. I Claudius by Robert Graves; the Churchill biographies by William Manchester (fantastic!!)

4. The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Evangeline, House Built on Sand

5. Political books, Legal Thrillers, Chick-drama books (like you'd find on Oprah's list)

6. current events, self help (Trauma and Recovery), non fiction

7. The Bible

8. philosophy

9. spiritual, metaphysical

10. That is a difficult question. The best book I've read recently is Pynchon's Mason and Dixon. Old favourites are On the Road, Dharma Bums, Brideshead Revisited, E.M. Forster, but if I had to pick one I would say Heart of Darkness.

11. Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil and... Swamplands of the Soul - James Hollis...and...see my website "favorites";

12. Matilda - Raul Dahl, A Confedracy of Dunces - JK Toole

13. A General Theory of Love, by Lewis et al; Dating Tips for Introverts that you wrote; The Good Earth, Hamlet, Macbeth, Women Who Run with Wolves ... any book I finish is beloved.

14. Gone With the Wind, Little Women, Christy, The Thornbirds, Walden

15. Voice of the Whirlwind, by Walter Jon Williams

16. textbooks

17. Anne of Green Gables, anything by Maeve Binchy

18. Spiritual

19. The Great Gatsby, The Tibetian Book of Living and Dying, The Saving Graces, anything by Pema Chodron, The Stand

20. Biographies and business "bios"

21. Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian

22. Lord of the Rings, manga, Anita Blake, vampire hunter series

23. science fiction, mysteries

24. Philosophy, nutrition and health, spirituality, different cultures, art, nature...

25. Hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternate histories. Dune,

Robert A. Heinlein, Laurell K. Hamilton, Poppy Z. Brite, Tom Robbins, Hyperion,

Siddhartha, The Playmasters, Necroscope Series, William Gibson, Brave New World,

Neil Gaiman, Greg Egan.

26. books with introverts as main characters

27. Jane Eyre, Swan Song, The Far Pavillons, Peace Like a River. Tom Clancy. All the Dark Tower books by King. I usually read thrillers, horror, science fiction and pre-1950s literature in fiction. It's mostly science and history in nonfiction (the more technical, the better!).

28. The Harry Potter series and Dean Koontz books. Also love Victorian but read a lot of non fiction as well to learn. Really in the middle of about 5 books right now.

29. history, romance, value systems

30. The Naked Ape

31. 1984, Animal Farm, A Clockwork Orange, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Crime and Punishment anything by Roald Dahl, Iris Murdoch, F.Scott Fitzgerald

32. Anything by Martha Beck, Self Help, Inspirational

33. all books exept maybee fictional westerns

34. Lake Wobegon Days, A Lantern in Her Hand, The Mill on the Floss, also books about gardening, tea, and interior decorating

35. The Last Unicorn, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy, Mystery, Non-Fiction

36. I am a big fan of the books of Amy Tan.

37. Fiction, essays, history, philosophy, poetry, general knowledge

38. SciFi, Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult...if it's imaginative, I probably like it! :)

39. Moby Dick; The Magic Mountain; Atlas Shrugged; any of the Freddy the Pig series; lots of SciFi from the fifties and sixties (Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, and Clarke)

40. The Vampire Chronicles, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

41. detective novels or books by female authors about relationships

42. The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan; Sister of MyHeart, Chitra BannerjeeDevakaruni , The Outsider Albert Camus, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto; Fear and Loathing Hunter S. Thompson; Love signs and Sun signs by Linda Goodman (& lots more), the Narnia books; The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass; The Outsiders by SE Hinton (& her other books too)

43. Most anything by C. S. Lewis, The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

44. Novels, Myths, History, Science

45. I love books about real life and things we all have to go through -- two of my favorites are Dancing with White Dog and To Kill a Mockingbird. I also love Dee Brown's fiction and nonfiction about Native American history.

46. religion and spirituality, metaphysics, art history, classics, original fairy tales, mystery, biographies and specifically: Herman Hesse - all his books; Maria Szepes: The Red Lion;

Michail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita; Arthur Golden: Memoirs of Geisha (Jane Eyre in Japan environment); Peter Hoeg: Smilla´s Sense of Snow; Joseph Heller: Something happened; Paulo Coelho: all; John Fowles: French Lieutenant´s Woman, The Magus; Roald Dahl: short stories; Nick Cave: And the Ass saw the Angel (hard to read, lots of suffering but helped me during my university studies to survive); J.G.Ballard: all; Oscar Wilde: all; Mika Waltari: all, especially Egyptian Sinuhet

47. My favorites are the Astronomy books and Bibles.

48. Books on relationships mostly. Such as Christian romances, books on family, etc.

49. Harry Potter, Narnia Chronicles, Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers, Anne of Green Gables Series, Heidi, The Homecoming Series by Orson Scott Card, The Redemption of Christopher Colombus by O>S>Card, biographiesof interesting people ( ie William Hershel, Jonas Salk- people who achieved something, or contributed, or learned about llife not just actors or sports stars

50. Les Miserables , The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, all of Doestoevsky, Religion, History and Politics

51. Fiction

52. Jane Eyre, The Secret History, anything by Henry James, Life 101, Perv: A Love Story, anything by Jane Austen

53. Literature, Political Books, Science

54. nonfiction/sociology/biographical

55. Hard sciencefiction, fantasy (when done well), classic literature

56. Memory and Dream by Charles deLint, anything by Neil Gaiman

57. Dune, The Harry Potter Series, The fellowship of the Ring, Shogun.

58. Atlas Shrugged, The Lord of the Rings, Bible

59. The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, In the Beginning Was the Command Line, The Time Machine, The Pendragon Cycle, Dune... basically fantasy with some sci-fi thrown in

60. My non-fiction is mostly history and biography. My fiction is mostly sci-fi/fantasy - anything that takes place in an imaginative, unreal world where the rules of reality are broken. My favorite book at the moment is Dante's Divine Comedy -- which, come to think of it, has both history and fantasy!

61. Jane Eyre, The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Jane Austen books and fantasy

Memory and Dream by Charles deLint, anything by Neil Gaiman

1.  First grade

2.  I don't know.  Preschool maybe

3. My aunt taught me at home before school started (now it would be preschool) so I was really excited to get to first grade and see the alphabet letters on the ceiling around the room and to sit in the reading circle.

4. in school, by the sounding method

5. My parents taught me before first grade. My father read to my brother and me every night from as young as I can remember.

6. Very young, the family myth is I was 2 years old. I've always known how to read. So has my daughter. In the genes.

7. in school, I think

8. dont know

9. My mother taught me

10. I suppose my mother taught me, because I could read before I got to school.

11. My mother began to teach me before I entered school...

12. School - alphabet

13. My aunt taught me.

14. My mother read to me extensively, and I simply absorbed it. There was never a need to be formally taught.

15. I don't remember that far back

16. Sesame Street

17. My sister taught me when I was about 2 and she was about 7.

18. Catholic nuns

19. I don't remember.

20. Self taught

21. I don't remember exactly, although I have dim memories of sitting on my father's lap sounding out Beatrix Potter.

22. At school

23. In school

24. elementary school

25. Mother, grandmother, pre-school

26. school..don't remember not being able to

27. Don't remember learning at all so I must have learned at home before I went to school.

28. According to my mother I made her teach me and could read and comprehend when I was 2.

29. school

30. I don't remember

31. I dunno , guess parents read to me every night when i was 2 - 3 then I gradually started picking these series books on Pirates myself.

32. Taught by the nuns at school

33. at home

34. My mom read to me daily when I was little. I still remember the sense of accomplishment I had when I read my first book by myself.

35. From my parents, and in school

36. at school, but my interest in reading became bigger when I went to university

37. parents specially mother taught me at home

38. My mom and dad are both teachers, and from the time I was about three, they'd listen to me sound out words while they got ready for work.

39. I seem to have picked it up on my own. The first word I learned to read was "Maytag", from my Mom's wringer washer. I went from there to canned food labels at the supermarket and billboards along US1.

40. Family

41. Can't remember-can't remember not being able to read

42. Dont know - was born reading

43. I had a slow start. I couldn't get the hang of it in Kindergarten, but that summer I decided that my family needed to read the Bible through in a year. I decided to sound out entire chapters of Leviticus. It nearly drove my parents crazy, but by the end of the summer I could read.

44. by myself - I was about 5 years old

45. My sister taught me the alphabet and how to spell a few words before I started kindergarten. My mom read to me a lot so by the time I started school, I could read a little. By third grade, I was reading almost constantly.

46. I started myself at 5, then at school

47. My mother taught me when I was four.

48. My mom

49. I don't remember. Phonics maybe?

50. By myself, with help from my mom

51. School

52. my mother read to me and helped teach me (along with a formal education)

53. Self-taught

54. N/A

55. Mother taught me at age 5 (as I was starting kindergarten)

56. I honestly don't remember. It feels as if I have always been reading

57. My mom read to me when I was little, and I learned that way. I was never really 'taught' how to read, I just picked it up.

58. In school and on my own

59. My mom read to me a lot when I was young, though I don't really remember learning to read...

60. I learned by looking at the words while my parents read to me. They claim I could read at the age of 2 -- or at least recite "was the Night Before Christmas."

61. My family taught me.

62. I honestly don't remember. It feels as if I have always been reading

1.  None

2.  None very well. Some Arabic, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Greek but not enough to master literature.

3. German and French, can recognize some Russian words!

4. English and pathetic self learned, by trial and error, Spanish

5. Nada

6. Russian, Spanish, a very little French. Not really fluent, but I love practicing Russian and Spanish.

7. Spanish but not well

8. i like french & greek(english is my 1st lang.)

9. none

10. French, some Latin

11. None

12. English, Greek

13. Spanish, French, Latin, Greek

14. None.

15. German and French

16. Spanish, snippets of french

17. French

18. German

19. French

20. French and Latin

21. A little Japanese, and a little Latin

22. Japanese, Russian

23. A little German

24. some Spanish

25. none

26. music

27. Latin

28. none very fluently

29. French

30. Spanish

31. German, Mandarin

32. none, really, just a tiny bit of Spanish and French

33. French

34. Russian

35. None

36. Dutch, English, German, some French and Spanish

37. german

38. A moderate amount of French and a tiny bit of Spanish.

39. I used to read French and ancient Greek, but these days none.

40. French

41. none really now, but I used to be able to read in French and German

42. only English

43. Spanish, a little French

44. german, english, slovak, czech

45. None.

46. English

47. None.

48. Very, very, very little German, Spanish.

49. French, German

50. Hindi, Malayalam French

51. none

52. French, un peu :)

53. Spanish

54. N/A

55. German (took 5 years of it, now a little rusty)

56. some spanish...kind of.

57. None

58. French

59. Espanol (un poco).

60. French, Italian and a little Latin.

61. French I suppose.

62. some spanish...kind of

1. Bridget Jones Diary - I don't really believe this but it's the only one come to mind

2.  Tie: Catch 22 by J. Heller, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

3. Catch 22 by J. Heller, I,Claudius by Robert Graves

4. Good Neighbor Sam

5. Can't remember the name!!! Don't usually find books that funny though.

6. Bobos In America; (probably not the funniest, but the most recent!

7. Don't remember

8. archies

9. don't remember

10. I can't remember, but it was pretty damn funny.

11. Bird by Bird

12. Confedracy of Dunces - JK Toole

13. I don't read funny books. The Milagro Beanfield Wars

14. N/A

15. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

16. N/A

17. N/A

18. Ya Ya Sisterhood

19.The GIrls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

20. Florence King's book on misanthropes

21. Anything by Patrick O'Brian has me chortling from page one

22. Obsidian Butterfly

23. Robert Ludlum The Road to Gandolfo

24. N/A

25. N/A

26. N/A

27. Any Tom Sharpe book - any of them. I have actually laughed out in public.

28. Probably either the ones George Carlin has written or Sein Language by Jerry Seinfeld. I don't read many funny books I suppose. :)

29. Max Ferguson's account of his career as a CBC host

30. Men Are Pigs (But We Love Bacon)

31. Ehh... Red Dwarf! despite not a being big on sci-fi. Harry Potter's funny too

32. Can't remember

33. N/A

34. I really loved Lake Wobegon Days. For laugh-out-loud funny, I'd have to say Dave Barry Slept Here (A Sort of History of the United States).

35. Undecided

36. Bridget Jones 2nd Diary

37. sukumar ray's stories

38. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

39.A Confederacy of Dunces; had me rolling helplessly on the floor the first time I read it. I also nearly busted a gut reading one of Dave Barry's books (Dave Barry turns 40, I think)

40. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

41. Can't remember

42. The male cross-dresser support group, Tama Janowitz

43. Well, superlatives are difficult, but Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman would have to be near the top.

44. Hitchhikers Guide from Douglas Adams or Catch XXII; And also very good funny books I forgot - by the Russian writer Bulgakow from the 20-30ties.

45. Probably something by Wodehouse.

46. can´t remember one, all books by David Lodge and Malcom Bradbury

47. Bunnicula. It's great!

48. Hmm... The funniest that made sense would probably be Freedom's Belle, by Dianna Crawford.

49. I think Gordon Korman's older books - ie: the Bruno & Boots series , I Want To Go Home , Interflux & Amp No Coins Please are great for a good laugh even though they're kid's books

50. It was doestovesky! sorry but i cant remember which one.. Notes from the dead house i think...

51. Prayer for Owen Meany

52. Perv: A Love Story or anything by Dave Barry

53. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

54. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

55. Catch 22

56. Oh boy...who knows...I've read some doozies.

57. I've never read any humorous books.

58. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

59. I can't remember the title, but it's about a kid who always tells jokes and one day finds himself in a crazy place where telling a joke is bad and he has a guardian devil... yeah, I can't remember the title.

60. Dave Barry's novel, Big Trouble

61. Georgia Nicholson books

62. Oh boy...who knows...I've read some doozies.

1.  The Sun Also Rises (women issues),The Bible, astrology books collectively

2. The Occult by Colin Wilson, As a Man Thinketh by J. Allen (?), Orientalism by Edward Said, The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

3.I, Claudius, anything by Liz Greene, The Botany of Desire by Pollan, The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, As a Man Thinketh by James T. Allen

4. Inside the Space Ships by George Adamski

5. To Kill a Mockingbird, A day no Pigs Would Die, Little Britches -- fictional books I read while young that talked about morals and values.

6. Grist for The Mill; by Ram Dass, Trauma and Recovery;

7. the Bible

8. osho,ayn rand,vivekananda

9. The Celestine Prophecy

10. Same as everyone else: On The Road. (corny but true; I didn't know there was a world outside of books before I read it). Also a bunch of others but nothing I've read recently.

11. The Four Agreements, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Real War on Crime ...and see my website

12. Matilda - Raul Dahl

13. General Theory of Love, Emotional Intelligence (Golrman), Optimism (Seligman), Survival (Siebert)

14. Please Understand Me by Kiersey/Bates. Anything focussing on personality issues, spiritual/inspirational issues, self-help issues.

15. Trashing The Planet, by Dixy Lee Ray

16. N/A

17. N/A

18. Spiritual healing

19. The Big Book, anything by Pema Chodron, Starhawk and Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization

20. Usually everything I read

21. N/A

22. White Oleander, A Child Called It

23. Gary Zukov, Seat of the Soul

24. Cosmos Reader

25. Stranger in a Strange Land when I was 12 (I am polyamorous).

26. kit's law by donna morrissey.....gave me a vital clue on why life went the way it has for me...on the way that i "learnt" to play with the extraverted world pointed it out to me and made a huge impact

27. The Bible. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence.

28. Oh I think nearly every book I read has some sort of an effect but there have been a couple that it felt like my soul was just hungering for, as if I had been starved for the knowledge. One of those books was The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

29. some of Eric Berne's

30. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

31. Everything I guess to a certain extent, opens my mind up abit more. Maybe Lord of the Flies... it was the first book i ever read that really made me take a closer look at society/civilisation.

32. Books by Barbara Sher, Iyanla Vanzant

33. ??

34. A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich

35. The Last Unicorn

36. The High Sensitive Person from Elaine Aron and Emotional Intelligence: D Goleman

37. Gita our spiritual text and upanishad

38. Gifts Differing by Elisabeth Briggs-Myers. Can't get more affirming than that

39. I think they've all changed the way I look at the world, at least while I was reading them. Some of the most lasting effects on the way I live have come from the Bible, the works of the Greek philosophers (Plato, Aristotle), and the works of scientists and mathematicians (Newton, Einstein).

40. The Interview With the Vampire, the Bible, Tao Te Ching

41. The road less travelled - started me thinking that there might be a way out of depression

42. All of the books I have mentioned above have had an effect on me in some way

43. still blame The Phantom Tollbooth for some of my extreme literalism. The Ragamuffin Gospel also had a profound influence on me

44. Catch XXII, Neverending Story, The Alchemist, Red Lion - Books from Erich von Däniken, Johannes Fiebag, Paracelsus..., The Bible, The Book of Hopi

45. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown; Angela's Ashes really made me appreciate what I've got. Of course the Bible, especially the New Testament -- I read it almost every day.

46. Thorwald Dethlefsen: Challenge of fate (and all his other books), M.Scott Peck: The Road less travelled, A Bed by the Window, Green face by Gustav Meyrink (all his books), Louise Hay : You can heal your life

47. The Bible.

48. The Bible. His Chosen Bride, by Jennifer J. Lamp

49. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins, The Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola, Mind Seige by Tim LaHaye

50. Doestovesky --Crime and Punishment, Victor Hugos two tomes..

51. Prayer for Owen Meany, Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer

52. Life 101, The Four Agreements, Night, Please Understand Me, Tuesdays With Morrie

53. Nabokov's Lolita, Stephen Jay Gould's Full House, Madame Bovary

54. books by Alan Watts

55. Why They Kill, All Quiet on the Western Front, Timequake

56, 57, 58, 59. N/A

60. "Not Without My Daughter" when I was ten and it blew me away. Reading about Iran under Ayatollah Khomenei, I remember thinking, "Places like that really exist? Right now?"

61. n/a

62. Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon and Scott Cunningham's Earth Power - I wasn't the "only one" anymore!

1.       N/A

2.       The Moral Animal , The Altruistic Personality,  Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley with Malcolm, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

3. Anything by Carl Jung

4. n/a

5. Books mentioned above and political/historical books.

6. Grist for the Mill

7. Walden, among others

8. osho,ayn rand

9. Messages from Water

10. Forster

11. Swamplands of the Soul...and...all the Don Juan books by Casenada...and all of Pema Chodron's books

12. Confedracy of Dunces - JK Toole

13. There is something in most every book.

14. Please Understand Me - Kiersey/Bates. Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto - Rufus

15. The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins

16. N/A

17. N/A

18. Metaphysical

19. The path of the heart

20. Ayn Rand's books

21. N/A

22. Anita Blake

23. James T. Allen, As a Man Thinketh

24. Books by Edmod Szkeley, Rudolph Steiner, Carl Jung, Paul Ferrini, and Joseph C. Pearce

25. The Ethical Slut, Siddartha

26. party of one by anneli rufus....never had read a non-fiction book about people like me....

27. The Bible. Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher. Peace Like a River. From Paralysis to Fatigue. Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates.

28. Not sure

29. O'Murchu's

30. To Kill A Mockingbird, All Men Are Pigs (But We Love Bacon)

31. Catcher in the Rye , Lord of the Flies haha ....

32. The Road Less Travelled, The Highly Sensitive Person

33. ??

34. Garrison Keillor's books are very close to my heart (and that's one of the reasons I keep listing Lake Wobegon Days here).

35. The Gospels, Inkling Fiction

36. Making Work Work for the High Sensitive Person

37. Gita our spiritual text and upanishad, life stories of people

38. N/A

39. N/A

40. The Witching Hour, Memnoch the Devil

41. too many to remember

42. too hard to answer

43. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

44. The novels of Paolo Coelho, metaphysical books

45. Again the New Testament. A lot of the books I read as a kid were about nature and animals and their importance in the grand scheme of things.

46. Paulo Coelho: Achemyst, Manfred Kyber: The three candles of Veronica

47. My Astronomy books.

48. The Bible

49. Woman at HomeBy Barbara Cardoza that being a stay-at-home mom isn't a second class choice, but a legitimate one

50. Stehen King

51. Pycho Cybernetics

52. Jane Eyre, Please Understand Me, Tuesdays With Morrie,

53. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

54. Didn't like The Great Gatsby in high school, now I love it

55. conversations with god. way of the peaceful warrior

56. The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter [thank you for reminding me of this book!!! Nancy]

57. None

58. Atlas Shrugged, the Bible

59. Black (Ted Dekker)

60. Every once in a while a great author will come along and write books that reassure me about the way I am: Borges, Baudelaire, Dante, Petrarch, and Jane Austen.>

61. n/a

62. Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

1. n/a

2. I often change my mind about Orientalism by Edward Said.

3. Things Falls Apart by Chinua Achebe. My daughter kept recommending it and I thought it was just a pity thing but it's one of the most profound books I've ever read and moved me off the European continent for a few moments intellectually.

4. The 27th Wife

5. Not sure I understand the question? Books I used to like and don't now? Romances/fiction about wealthy people like Sidney Sheldon would write

6. man-hating early feminism, Andrea Dworkin, etc

7. I used to read a lot of poetry but it bores me now for the most part.

8. nancy drew, hardy boys

9. n/a

10. This applies more to authors than books. Many of the ones I hated in high school, especially Alice Munro and Joseph Conrad.

11. A little about The Four Agreements....basically still wonderful, but I have problems with "heaven on earth" concept.

12. None have really changed just confirmed.

13. Faulkner is just too negative.

14. N/A

15. Anything by Ayn Rand. (I used to be a Rand fan, now I think she's a psycho)

16. N/A

17. N/A

18. Religious

19. none

20. None

21. N/A

22. The Laughing Corpse

23, 24, 25 N/A

26. bible

27. Wow, a lot. Most of J.D. Salinger (self indulgent rich kids who need jobs) . All of Hemingway (was English really his native language?). Poe (I though he was great, got tricked into believing he was a hack in college, now I think he's great). Edith Wharton (bored silly in my 20s, now they seem insightful). Any Beat Poet (I thought there was a point to it all until I reread them).[Nancy's comments: I didn't realize how much I feel the same way about these, especially #1]

28. Only I think it was called the Celestine Prophecy, because I felt very dissilusioned after reading it to find that it was fictional.

29. N/A

30. Can't think of any

31. Prozac Nation i think

32, 33 and 34. ?????

35. The Cynic's Dictionary

36. The Book of Mormon

37. N/A

38. The Scarlet Letter. The first time I read it, I was bored to tears, now it's one of my favorite classics.

39. Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse: Doesn't seem to mean as much to me now as it did when I was a college student.

40, 41, 42 N/A

43. I was afraid of The Tawny Scrawny Lion when I was little. I'm not sure why. An American Childhood by Annie Dillard seemed good the first time I read it, but it definately did not carry over to the second time.

44. some classic literature, postmodern autors, the books by my father

45. I'm sick to death of books like the YaYa Sisterhood and the other one that came first -- I've forgotten the title. Bastard Out of Carolina, and so forth. All those poor me stories about childhood and how child abusers are "victims too." Please. One exception was "The Secret Live of Bees". I still like that book -- it wasn't as whiny or as irritating as the others.

46. Abd-Ru-Shin: In the light of truth- the grail message. I refused it when I read ot for the first time, after a year I tried to read it once more and it was pleasure. Also, Dostojevskij: I had times I could not get enough of his books, then it suddenly stopped and I have no need to read them or have them at home. Though I admire him and appreciate as a writer. Honore de Balsac: When I was younger, his books seemed too long and boring to me, then I rediscovered him and really enjoyed all his books, especially his novel Lilly of the Valley. N.D. Walsch: Conversations with God I,II - I was avoiding his books because of all the hype around, then got to them and found them quite interesting. Patrick Suskind: the novel Perfume, the same case as Walsch. Marcia Davenport: The Valley of Decision - I bought this book on my holiday in Greece, thought it would be simple, easy reading and was positively surprised, it´s great family saga

47. None.

48. ??

49. Some of Phyllis Whitney's: ie. the Turquoise Mask.

50. N/A

51. None

52. N/A

53. Madame Bovary, Mrs. Dalloway, Crime and Punishment, Heart of Darkness

54. books about murders (Jack the Ripper, Manson, etc.)

55. N/A

56. Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon and Scott Cunningham's Earth Power - I wasn't the "only one" anymore! Gone with the Wind - the second time I read it (I was in my early twenties), I just wanted to slap every one of the characters.

57, None

58. 1984

59. Ishmael

60. Those awful Sweet Valley High books I read back in middle school.

61. Of Two Minds. I used to love them but then went I got older and decided to read the sequels, I grew to hate the book

62. Gone with the Wind - the second time I read it (I was in my early twenties), just wanted to slap every one of the characters

1.  Alfred Hitchcock's various tale

2. As a child I found Heidi terrifying. I could never get past the first chapter when her parents died. I also recall feeling the same way about the beginning of The Call of the Wild because of the torture of the animal that opens the book. As an adult, I can't remember anything that scarey.

3. I don't read scary books or see scary movies. My slightly sadistic aunt read me The Murders of the Rue Morgue for a bedtime story at 8 years old and I was truly, truly terrified all night long.

4. n/a

5. Suspense thrillers -- love that serial killer stuff

6. Rosemary's Baby, when I was 17.

7. Don't read scary books any more but I used to read science fiction. Isaac Azimov

8. nothing scares me

9. Stephen King or Dean Koontz

10. Ayn Rand

11. The Stand, and most pop psychology...the really braindead stuff

12. Dont read scary books.

13. I don't read scary books.

14. N/A

15. The Bible

16. N/A

17. Stephen King novels

18. Nancy Drew

19. The Shining

20. Books about business frauds

21. Stephen King scares me. I started <I>Insomnia</I> and had to put it down...

22. N/A

23. Stephen King, Salem's Lot--had to turn on all the lights in the house!

24 and 25. N/A

26. Dean Koontz

27. The Haunting by Shirley Jackson. Swan Song by McCammon. A lot of horror by Derleth. Desperation by King.

28, 29 and 30. N/A

31. Edgar Allan Poe's stories? 1984 was pretty unnerving. havent read anything thats scared me much.

32. Stephen King's It

33. Intensity was the scariest

34. When I was a kid, I used to sneak Grandma's Stephen King novels from her bookshelf while she took her afternoon naps. I'd hide within earshot and when I heard her stirring, would close the book and quickly put it back on the shelf before she noticed. I read several books this way.

35. Stephen King's IT, and just about any thing else he writes, discounting Tower series

36. Terug naar Oegstgees from Jan Wolkers had disgusting passages

37. ghost stories as a kid

38. The Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton.

39. Stephen King's The Shining. I'm not a big fan of his work or the horror genre, but that one just about scared me to death. Gives me the creeps just to think about it. The book was way scarier than either of the movies that were made from it. I also think Bram Stoker's Dracula was pretty creepy.

40. N/A

41. The Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring at first reading, Silence of the Lambs

42. The shining, stephen king - so scary I cannot finish it, even though I know what happens at the end!

43. I don't read scary books. Probably The Chronicles of Narnia on one I just finished called The Hippopotamus Pool would have to qualify

44. H.P.Lovecraft, Bram Stoker - i dont know if they were really scary for me, because i like them very much

45. I know it's a phony but the Amityville Horror scared me when I was a teenager. I don't read many scary books.

46. Bram Stoker: Dracula - I read it when I was 10, under the blanket with my flashlight, because my parents would not approve it, then I was going to bed with garlic and had nightmares following few months., some of E.A.Poe´s stories: Pit and the Pendulum, The tell tale heart, Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis - actually it is not the scarriest, but I do not like insects so it is scary for me

47. No books scare me, but I enjoy the science-fiction of Stephen King.

48. Left Behind probably. And I read some mysteries too. Oh, BLINK, by Ted Dekker is good too.

49. N/A

50. Stephen King

51. One flew over the coo coo's nest

52. don't read scary books. I have a wild enough imagination as it is.

53. Don't read scary books

54. N/A

55. non fiction deviant behavior books

56. The Aminityville Horror - that little pig critter became just a little *too* real in my mind...

57. I've never read any scary books.

58. Jurassic Park (not something for a sheltered 12-year-old to read...)

59. N/A

60. The scariest thing I've ever read was the last chapter of a French book called W ou les souvenirs d'enfance -- when you suddenly realize the whole book is a metaphor for a concentration camp. On a lighter note, Roald Dahl has some deliciously scary stories for adults.

61. Ahh.....Tenderness was quite the creepy book

62. The Aminityville Horror - that little pig critter became just a little *too* real in my mind...

1.  I can't even begin to count.

Could it be as much as 1000?

2. 500-1000

3. Ditto

4. No idea

5. over 1,000

6. Almost as many as drinks of water I've taken. Can't begin to geuss.

7. 500

8. havent counted

9. hundreds

10. I couldn't even estimate the number.

11. Thousands

12. 40-50

13. 100,000

14. Thousands. Couldn't even begin to guess.

15. Thousands

16. tens of thousands

17. thousands

18. 1,400

19. ad infinitum

20. Hard to say; usually at least two per week

21. Oh, goodness. Too many to count, certainly!

22. 500

23. Too many to count!

24. 1500

25. 500+

26. hundreds

27. Hah, hah! Many thousands.

28. Too many to count most likely.

29. ?

30. About 200

31. Jesus... hahah I tried to count once but i gave up halfway.

32. At least 200,000

33. over 100

34. Thousands, most likely

35. Unknown

36. I cannot remember......

37. approximately 150 in addition to genral text books and subject books in school and college

38. At least five or six thousand, maybe more.

39. Not a clue; I probably averaged two a week until I was forty, and since then, maybe one a month. More than a thousand, to be sure.

40. hundreds...maybe a thousand.

41. 12-15,000

42. Oh my God I have no idea!

43. Oh, I'm sure I've read at least 400. I have a list of around 300 that I've read all the way through, and I know that there are several of those that I couldn't find or don't remember to put on the list.

44. ...i dont know...

45. Can't even imagine.

46. absolutely no sense

47. Too many to guess. I read during most of my free time.

48. Oh, I couldn't begin to figure that out, even though I'm only 15. I've been reading since I was 5, and I love to read. I read a lot and I read pretty fast. So I can only say that I have read A LOT of books.

49. Countless- esp. since I reread my favourites every so often just to revisit or relearn things

50. countless , maybe in thousands

51. 200

52. I've been reading since a very young age, it's difficult to tell exactly how many.

53. 200

54.several hundred

55. 300

56. Oh good god...how many grains of sand get into the average shoe at the beach?

57. At least several hundred.

58. A few thousand

59. Well into the 100s, possibly over 1000

60. Thousands.

61. Hmm.....I don't know, novels? Maybe 300 or so....

62. Oh good god...how many grains of sand get into the average shoe at the beach?

1.  Haven't counted.  But over 100

2.  300-400

3. Not all that many. I've lived in small living spaces and have to keep it down to the prized few. Also I don't like it when a house gets full of books that start looking really old, like time stood still. Books I've read are all a part of me so I'm glad that I don't need them physically. I rarely buy a hardback. I've kept about 150 at most times. Of course this includes my astrological and metaphysical reference libraries which are invaluable to my business here at home.

4. More than I can count, mostly self help books and about a dozen astrology books now

5. 300 or so. The family library was recently passed down to me. I don't usually keep paperback/fiction when done with it.

6. Another unanswerable. . at least 4-500.

7. 50

8. not even one

9. hundreds

10. 500

11. 300-400

12. 5

13. 100; I give them away regularly, to the prisoners or the homeless.

14. In the 3000-4000 range.

15. A few hundred

16. several hundred

17. Several hundred, but I recently got rid of several boxes

18. 400

19. about 100

20. 500

21. Not enough! There's always room for more!

22. 300

23. 500

24. around 500

25. About 50

26. several hundred

27. See above. Seriously, I have an actual detached library on my property and 15 bookcases in the house (plus more books in storage).

28. Maybe 200?

29. hundreds

30. About 100

31. 150 or so.

32. 800

33. over 300