I love to read all kinds of books. My favourite writers are John Irving and TC Boyle. Their books pay attention to the small things in life, the plots are well thought out and, most of the time, there is a hidden message with a lot of truth in it. My love of reading started when I read the neverending story by Michael Ende (a German children's book full of fantasy). For me, this is still one of the most gripping stories I ever read and therefore I chose to call myself Fuchur in here. Fuchur is the protagonist's flying dog/dragon in the neverending story.
I admit I do like comics, too. Schuiten's La fievre d'urbicande and Spiegelman's Maus are my favourites at the moment. In case you are interested in comics and you don't know these, you should try them. They are really good.
Apart from that, I enjoy reading detective stories, too (British ones and American ones). Most of the books I read are English books. But I do have some favourite German books as well.

I like the idea of bookcrossing very much. I am looking forward to participating at bookcrossing by releasing and hunting books. The books on my bookshelf are not representative for the books I like as most of them are books I offer for trade. Currently reading: Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher (Walter Moers)

My all time Favourites (Fiction):
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
2. Tortilla Curtain (TC Boyle)
3. Life according to Garp (John Irving)
4. A Friend of the Earth (TC Boyle)
5. The Ciderhouse Rules (John Irving)
6. Dshamilja (Tschingis Aitmatov)
7. Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland)
8. Erklärt Peirera (Antonio Tabucchi)
9. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
10. Doctor Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb Party (Graham Greene)

all time favourites (non fiction):
1. Anne Frank Tagebuch
2. Hermann Vinke: Das kurze Leben der Sophie Scholl
3. Douglas Adams: Last Chance to See
4. Henri Charriere: Papillon
5. Morton Rhue: The Wave

all time favourites (children's books):
1. Neverending story (Michael Ende)
2. Die Brüder Löwenherz (Astrid Lindgren)
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
4. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor)
5. Let the Circle be Unbroken (Mildred D. Taylor)
6. Wie Spuke im Sand (Klaus Kordon)
7. Hypathia (Arnulf Zitelmann)
8. Monsun oder der weisse Tiger (Klaus Kordon)
9. Die rote Zora (Kurt Held)
10. Die letzten Kinder von Schwevenborn (Gudrun Pausewang)


all time favourites (German language)
1. Die Schachnovelle (Stefan Zweig)
2. Das Versprechen (Dürrenmatt)
3. Der Richter und sein Henker (Dürrenmatt)
4. Die Blechtrommel (Günther Grass)
5. Sansibar oder der letzte Grund (Alfred Andersch)
6. Das fliehende Pferd (Martin Walser)
7. Die Brandung (Martin Walser)
8. Frühlingserwachen (Wedekind)