Reading recommendations

TheVirgoddess

I'm a bookworm and in need of recommendations.

I love all genres, but romance is my least favorite.

So, have you read anything decent lately?

wheird

Any suggestions for the Fantasy fiction genre would be appreciated. I feel like I'm forever between books.

wheird

Oh hey, did you know that Tolkien did a translation of Beowulf?

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beowulf-j-r-r-tolkien/1118935267?ean=9780544442788

Chieflrg

Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a good one, though romance does play a part in it.

TheVirgoddess

Any suggestions for the Fantasy fiction genre would be appreciated. I feel like I'm forever between books.

A Song of Ice and Fire (the GoT series), I also enjoyed Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Though I'm guessing you've read both. A less popular one that I really enjoyed is The Deed of Paksenarrion.

Have you checked out Baen books? They are a sci-fi/fantasy publisher and they have a free library of digital books.

TheVirgoddess

Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a good one, though romance does play a part in it.

Oh yeah, I've read it. It made me ugly cry.

I don't mind a bit of romance in a book, I just don't generally enjoy the heaving breasts and pirates type of stuff.

wheird

Any suggestions for the Fantasy fiction genre would be appreciated. I feel like I'm forever between books.

A Song of Ice and Fire (the GoT series), I also enjoyed Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Though I'm guessing you've read both. A less popular one that I really enjoyed is The Deed of Paksenarrion.

Have you checked out Baen books? They are a sci-fi/fantasy publisher and they have a free library of digital books.

Read all of the GoT series. I have NEVER read Terry Goodkind or Terry Brooks. In fact, The Sword of Shannara is sitting in front of me as we speak, unopened and unread. :laugh:

FatOldManMN

"What I know about Government, World Affairs and Foreign Policy" by Barak Obama; a very short book.

nickylee76

Also in for book suggestions. It's an older book but I really enjoyed Michael Crichton "Prey". Kinda Sci-fi but good.

And I am not religious but I do sometimes like reading about it. I read these books not long ago called Conversations with God.... they were interesting....

I don't do romance novels either.

TheVirgoddess

Any suggestions for the Fantasy fiction genre would be appreciated. I feel like I'm forever between books.

A Song of Ice and Fire (the GoT series), I also enjoyed Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Though I'm guessing you've read both. A less popular one that I really enjoyed is The Deed of Paksenarrion.

Have you checked out Baen books? They are a sci-fi/fantasy publisher and they have a free library of digital books.

Read all of the GoT series. I have NEVER read Terry Goodkind or Terry Brooks. In fact, The Sword of Shannara is sitting in front of me as we speak, unopened and unread. :laugh:

I loved the first one by Terry Goodkind, but the second one just did NOT hold my interest.

Oh another one - the Study Series. It's not an epic fantasy, but it's a well done trilogy.

TheVirgoddess

Also in for book suggestions. It's an older book but I really enjoyed Michael Crichton "Prey". Kinda Sci-fi but good.

And I am not religious but I do sometimes like reading about it. I read these books not long ago called Conversations with God.... they were interesting....

I don't do romance novels either.

Have you read Pillars of the Earth? I'm not religious either and this is about the building of cathedrals/religion in the 12th century. It's fiction, but it's well researched and fairly accurate to the time period. I loved it.

BekkahS1552

Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a good one, though romance does play a part in it.

Thanks for recommending this... I've been debating whether or not to buy it

nickylee76

Also in for book suggestions. It's an older book but I really enjoyed Michael Crichton "Prey". Kinda Sci-fi but good.

And I am not religious but I do sometimes like reading about it. I read these books not long ago called Conversations with God.... they were interesting....

I don't do romance novels either.

Have you read Pillars of the Earth? I'm not religious either and this is about the building of cathedrals/religion in the 12th century. It's fiction, but it's well researched and fairly accurate to the time period. I loved it.

I have not... Thanks..... sounds interesting.

HalfwayGone

I'm reading game of thrones at the minute..

TheVirgoddess

One of the best series I've ever read (GoT).

Anyone willing to share their top 5/10 so I can get some new picks?

Smirnoff65

Any suggestions for the Fantasy fiction genre would be appreciated. I feel like I'm forever between books.

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss was excellent as was The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson although this is a huge series. One of my other favourites is Stephen Kings Dark Tower series.

Smirnoff65

One of the best series I've ever read (GoT).

Anyone willing to share their top 5/10 so I can get some new picks?

The series I have mentioned in the post above are all very good reads, I would also recommend Wilbur Smyth's 'Egyptian' series, do read your books the tradional way or ebooks?

TheVirgoddess

One of the best series I've ever read (GoT).

Anyone willing to share their top 5/10 so I can get some new picks?

The series I have mentioned in the post above are all very good reads, I would also recommend Wilbur Smyth's 'Egyptian' series, do read your books the tradional way or ebooks?

Ebooks generally. I tried to read the Dark Tower series and couldn't get into it - I'll try again (King is one of my very favorite authors.)

Smirnoff65

I'm reading game of thrones at the minute..

Fantastic series just wish he would get his finger out and get the next one finished, I'm going to re-read them all in the run-up to the next release just to get a feel for them again. I'm watching the TV series and doubting myself as to certain things happening although I realise they have been changing things around.

Smirnoff65

One of the best series I've ever read (GoT).

Anyone willing to share their top 5/10 so I can get some new picks?

The series I have mentioned in the post above are all very good reads, I would also recommend Wilbur Smyth's 'Egyptian' series, do read your books the tradional way or ebooks?

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Ebooks generally. I tried to read the Dark Tower series and couldn't get into it - I'll try again (King is one of my very favorite authors.)

Golightly17

Ebooks generally. I tried to read the Dark Tower series and couldn't get into it - I'll try again (King is one of my very favorite authors.)
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^Virgoddess

I'm a King fan as well. His son, Joe Hill, has a similar style and reminds me of King's earlier works. NOS4A2 and Heart Shaped Box were entertaining.

PinkPanther318

Revenge wears Prada was awesome sorry don't know the author's name at this moment

PinkPanther318

the Divergent series was also really good. Number 4 comes out in July

baba_helly

Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a good one, though romance does play a part in it.

Thanks for recommending this... I've been debating whether or not to buy it

I liked this, but if you're going for John Green, I recommend Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines before Fault in Our Stars. It was just *ok* for him in my opinion.

tagging this thread cause I am out of books

baba_helly

Ebooks generally. I tried to read the Dark Tower series and couldn't get into it - I'll try again (King is one of my very favorite authors.)

^Virgoddess

I'm a King fan as well. His son, Joe Hill, has a similar style and reminds me of King's earlier works. NOS4A2 and Heart Shaped Box were entertaining.

Have you read 11/22/63? One of my favorite books of all time, although it's very different from his usual (probably why I like it so much, lol). It's more in the vein of The Green Mile, but if you read IT there's a lot of references to that in the storyline that you might enjoy!

Ihatecoldsoup

Dresden files by Jim butcher. Best series I have ever read

Golightly17

I've heard 11/23/63 is good. Anyone read Doctor Sleep?

joanthemom8

One of my favorite books of all time is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I also love The World According to Garp (I could laugh and cry on the same page - it was amazing).
I like a lot of Stephen King books, too, but not the too "monster-y" stories.... The Stand was great and so was The Green Mile. I'm now reading 11/22/63 - it's a time-travel history-changing story. So far, it's great (I'm about 1/3 through it).

saranne1015

i'm reading "pillars of the earth" RIGHT NOW! how crazy you mentioned it!

i don't know how interested you are in being really depressed, but "king leopold's ghost" is great. "mukiwa: a white boy in africa" by peter godwin is absolutely amazing. "season of migration to the north" or really anything by tayyib saleh--he writes a lot of short fiction about sudan. can you tell i'm an africa junky?

if you wanna go more philosophical, "life of pi," "the wind-up bird chronicle" by murakami, or "the black swan: the impact of the highly improbable" by nassim taleb.

simple entertainment, "the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society," "crime and punishment," "river town" by peter hessler about his peace corps years in china.

but the best book of all time, coming in at a whopping 1200 pages and easily the best book i have ever read in my entire life: "the count of monte cristo".

wheird

The Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan.

The Beyonders series by Brandon Mull.

TheVirgoddess

The Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan.

The Beyonders series by Brandon Mull.

I loved the first, haven't tried the second - I'll look into it!

11/22/63 was really well done, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've also heard great things about the Dresden Files. My list is growing

I'll list my top 5 if anyone is looking for books:

HP series (I'm cheating)
GoT series (cheating, again)
Me Before You
The Kite Runner
The last is a tie between The Stand by King and Pillars.