Can you reccommend a good book for me?

TigressPat

One of the best things I have ever read is The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Great, lyrical, wonderful.

lol

couldn't get past chapter 2
and I like rothfuss as a person/character

cloveraz

National Book Award Finalist, The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Power...

shelbrain

I really like anything by Greg Iles.

TigressPat

since this topic already exists, can anyone recommend something funny/witty?

and no, I don't mean joke books or base scatological humour.

TigressPat

anyone?

TigressPat

Bueller? Bueller?

grimendale

You may have read some of these, but still. This is sort of a scattershot of various types (all great books). I'm a voracious reader, so if you want more than is listed here, feel free to ask me for others.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Child Thief
The stories of HP Lovecraft
The Known World
A Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
Catch-22
Rebecca
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Things Fall Apart
Dubliners (read before attempting Joyce's novels)
Secret Identity Crisis
Understanding Comics

dejamos

I read a lot, too. it's hard to recommend books to someone when you don't know their taste. I did not like The Book Thief at all. I might have enjoyed it more if the author had done some research and knew anything about World War II, or perhaps if I had known less.

In no particular order, these are books I have read and enjoyed over the years:

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Stoner, by John Williams
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willett
Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Gormenghast Triology by Mervyn Peake
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (pretty much anything by Jonathan Lethem)
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabakov
Ada, or Ardor, by Vladimir Nabakov
The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy

TigressPat

You may have read some of these, but still. This is sort of a scattershot of various types (all great books). I'm a voracious reader, so if you want more than is listed here, feel free to ask me for others.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Child Thief
The stories of HP Lovecraft
The Known World
A Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
Catch-22
Rebecca
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Things Fall Apart
Dubliners (read before attempting Joyce's novels)
Secret Identity Crisis
Understanding Comics

next?

TigressPat

i guess it's true that no one reads anymore!
:sad:

maiaroman18

I love reading.

Room, Running with Scissors, Sarahs Key, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, A Child Called "It"

CkepiJinx

A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Love it

simplyciera

I liked warm bodies it was suprisingly well written

God yes. I hateeee commercial stuff. The plot was a little 'ehhhh' but the writing made up for it! It was great.
Some of my fave classics are

The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton
The Awakening- Kate Chopin (this changed my life)
Metamorphosis- Frank Kafka

Lets start a book club! I love reading anything as long as it's fiction or interesting non-fiction!

PhoenixRising7

I will try and come back tomorrow with more suggestions, but I am currently reading Serena by Ron Rash. It reads like a reworking of Shakespeare's Macbeth, though I think Serena is even more evil than Lady Macbeth.

GnomeLove

My favorite book is 'The Time Machine' by HG Wells.

BleedsCoffee

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
World War Z by Max Brooks
Bill The Vampire (Trilogy) by Rick Gualtieri
The Vampire Chronicles (Series) by Anne Rice
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran
The Last Hiccup by Christopher Meades
Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne M Valente
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This Book Is Full Of Spiders by David Wong

Just a few of my favourites!

Lochlyn_D

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
World War Z by Max Brooks
Bill The Vampire (Trilogy) by Rick Gualtieri
The Vampire Chronicles (Series) by Anne Rice
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran
The Last Hiccup by Christopher Meades
Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne M Valente
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
This Book Is Full Of Spiders by David Wong

Just a few of my favourites!

A bit too teenage-y for me, thanks though!

Lochlyn_D

My favorite book is 'The Time Machine' by HG Wells.

very good book. I might re read this one. Been a long time.

Lochlyn_D

Really enjoyed "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. Told from the dog's POV.

I also just finished "Room" by Emma Donoghue. I can't say exactly that I "enjoyed" it, because it was very dark (think the kidnapping story from Ohio, told by the child's POV) but I could NOT put it down.

Ken Follett is an author who's worth reading, the Pillars of the Earth and its sequel World Without End are both really big, epic tales, and very engrossing. I got very attached to the characters.

I will check out racing in the Rain, for sure. And Room.

I loved the Pillars and World W/O End series'. So amazing!

Lochlyn_D

I love reading.

Room, Running with Scissors, Sarahs Key, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, A Child Called "It"

Five people was great.

WalkingMermaid_

'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed << AMAZING book

Lochlyn_D

"The End of Oil" Illustrates how this world will always be dependent on fossil fuels.

Sounds like something I'd like. thank you.

kmartinixx

I'm not much for books like this but you should definitely check out Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns." He writes about life in Afghanistan through the eyes of the younger generation (typically children/teenagers who grow into adults as the book progresses). It's most definitely not a romance book and while it does include teenage characters, it's such a different culture that it is -- in no way -- a young adult book. I would never have even given it a chance if it wasn't a required book in one of my classes. I thoroughly enjoyed it and ended up reading his first book ("The Kite Runner") which I found was still very good, but not as good as "A Thousand Splendid Suns." Look it up on Amazon for a preview inside the book and see what you think! :-)

I was going to say the SAME THING! There are two of my favorite books! He has just come out with a new book! I purchased it and plan on reading it when I'm on vacation next week!

tigerblood78

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Lochlyn_D

I APOLOGIZE FOR THE CAPS IN ADVANCE.

PLEASE NO TEENAGE OR KID BOOKS.

Some people seem to be overlooking that in the original post.

Thanks again.

Really some great suggestions out there.

amyk0202

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow

It's been years since I read them, but they have stayed on my mind as excellent, powerful books.

Sarah_L_S

I love Mararet Atwood as well. A few books I enjoyed:

Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
The Cathedral of the Sea - Ildefonso Falcones
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Kxgz

Canticle for Leibowitz. Pick up some Hemingway. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and Pope Joan, forgot the author.

ChristinaD2

The Masters of Rome Book Series by Colleen McCullough?

Lochlyn_D

I will check out the last three posts there. All sound good.