NEED a GREAT BOOK, NOW!

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  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
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    "And the Mountains Echoed"
    If you're in the mood for scary, "Pen Pal" scared me to death and was a page turner.
    "The Wool Omnibus" was a dystopian nightmare (in a good way)
  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
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    Not to go too off-topic, but is there a way to "bookmark" a thread on this site so I can go back to it later? I'm often looking for good book recommendations, but I currently have a newborn so I haven't been reading as much lately. Hope to get back to it soon!
  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,271 Member
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    Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

    PS. I am going to plug Goodreads here. They do a pretty good job of recommendations if you have your reading history in there.
  • abyt42
    abyt42 Posts: 1,358 Member
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    Plainsong (Kent Heruf)
    Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)
    Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)

    Ready Player One (if you're a bit of an 80s geek)
    Red Shirts
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,741 Member
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    Not to go too off-topic, but is there a way to "bookmark" a thread on this site so I can go back to it later? I'm often looking for good book recommendations, but I currently have a newborn so I haven't been reading as much lately. Hope to get back to it soon!

    I know a lot of people use goodreads.com

    Another idea, which I love, is using Pinterest...I have a board for each year starting with 2012 and pin everything I read with 1-5 star ratings, it is fun to look back on and refer to for friends and whatever...also I have a "secret" Pinterest board with books I plan to read or what's been recommended to me lately.

    Hope this helps!
  • terra32907
    terra32907 Posts: 33 Member
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    Gone Girl....first time in a long time I got to the end of a book and was dumbfounded by all the twists and the ending.
  • toolzz
    toolzz Posts: 163 Member
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    I'm terrible with titles but anything by Stephen King or John Irving. I will second Gone Girl - it was a great read. The Outlander series is awesome (Diana Gabaldon)....so many books to read....
  • ShannonS921
    ShannonS921 Posts: 194
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    Game of Thrones series (A Song of Ice and Fire)

    ^This.

    I'm in the middle of book three now and it's seriously addicting.
  • chanadh
    chanadh Posts: 4
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    The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell refuses to leave me alone every time I read it.

    I also second pretty much everything abyt42 suggested!
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
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    bump for book ideas... I'm always open for new ones to read
  • aliakynes
    aliakynes Posts: 352 Member
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    East of Eden. You have to muscle through the first chapter but after that, it's among the more profound books I have read to date. Periodic but timeless.
  • SusanL222
    SusanL222 Posts: 585 Member
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    Bump
  • disneygallagirl
    disneygallagirl Posts: 515 Member
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    Inferno by Dan Brown
  • Keepcalmanddontblink
    Keepcalmanddontblink Posts: 718 Member
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    Check out The Game by Terry Schott. About people living in a VR world, aware when they go in, and while they are "playing the game", they are born, live and die there and come back to the real world. It was free for my Nook. The Fault in Our Stars was great. I really enjoyed The Host by Stephanie Myer as well.
  • liftmeup1
    liftmeup1 Posts: 373
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    Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson...excellent!
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
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    Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Funny, thought provoking and really long. :happy:
  • liftmeup1
    liftmeup1 Posts: 373
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    I didn't know that they wrote a book about me....LOL

    The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
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    Non fiction:
    The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
    Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
    Sex and the Second City by Karen Abbott
    The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

    Fiction:
    The Time in Between by Maria Duenas
    The Arsonist by Sue Miller

    There are more but I am too tired to remember
  • Oi_Sunshine
    Oi_Sunshine Posts: 819 Member
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    Anything by P.D James for a murder mystery, Maeve Binchy for people stories, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman for fantasy sci-fi awesomeness.
  • Smirnoff65
    Smirnoff65 Posts: 1,060 Member
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    If you like historical fiction I can heartily recommend any of Bernard Cromwell's books, his Saxon Chronicles are fantastic .

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