Looking for a good book to read
smuehlbauer
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Hey there.
I am looking for a good book to read.
Doesn't have to be diet related or anything like that.
Just not a fan of romance and I don't want to get into any series.
I'm debating re-reading Eat, Pray, Love - so any books that are similar would be good.
Let me know your suggestions!
Thanks!
Stephanie
I am looking for a good book to read.
Doesn't have to be diet related or anything like that.
Just not a fan of romance and I don't want to get into any series.
I'm debating re-reading Eat, Pray, Love - so any books that are similar would be good.
Let me know your suggestions!
Thanks!
Stephanie
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Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah. One of my favs. About lifelong friends.0
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Oh man, I am a book fiend. I have a bunch I could recommend but the first book that comes to mind...
The Help by Kathryn Stockett0 -
Sweet Potato Queens (any of em)
Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
Comedy0 -
"A Million Little Pieces" can't remember the author. It was an Oprah book a few years ago. It's kind of harsh though. Its about a guy who was a drug addict and his life in rehab. I really enjoyed it though. It's semi-autobiographical. The author did go through most of what he wrote, but his true life story ends a little differently.0
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Oh, I also love "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver. A novel about a family who's father is a preacher, they become missionarys....the battle between thinking whether they should be there or not....It's good and not at all preachy or religious. I personally am not offended by religious things though.0
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!!
Everyone in our office has read it and also it's gone round the husbands too, mine is now on the third book of the trilogy, but start with this one. Excellent read.0 -
My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes - anything by Jodi Picoult
Over My Head by Claudia Osbourne - About a doctor that suffered a brain injury very similar to my mom's. Facinating and eye-opening.
I DIDN'T love Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.0 -
Woman, food and God (can't remember author)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen I think)0 -
Best books I have read over the last few years that come to mind RIGHT NOW....
Time Travelers Wife (WAY better than the stupid movie)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (funny name - fabulous can't put down book)
Both are fabulous books!0 -
I just read Mistaken Identity- good book. Or it's not about the bike, by lance armstrong. Both books are true stories and motivating.0
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Battlefield of The Mind by Joyce Meyer. It's a great book for any situation! Our mind is involved in everything we do and this book teaches/helps define the thoughts that help us and more importantly the ones that HURT us!!0
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I also just picked up The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi which is award winning. Haven't started it yet though.0
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Well, I know this is nothing like Eat Pray Love, but I loved the book World War Z by Max Brooks. It's fiction. It's an oral history of the Zombie World War. It sort of walks you thru from the beginning of where the first infection happened to how it affected the world and how humanity fought against it, taken from different perspectives - military, civilian, children, doctor, etc. I thought it was a great read. I also loved Old Man's War by John Scalzi. It's sci-fi. It's set in a futuristic world about how a man at retirement age enlists in the military (most enlistees are retirement age) and the wars he fights in other planets, etc. Those are my favorites from this year. Happy reading!
Melanie0 -
Holy response!
I love this site!
I might have to start at the top and work my way down the list you guys gave me!
Thanks everyone!0 -
Divine revelation of Hell. I loved it. Can't remember the author....0
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good thread!
My favorite book I have recommended to people for years now is The Lovely Bones. I know it is a movie now but there is just no comparison between the book and the movie.0 -
There are some great suggestions here. I would have also recommended two already mentioned - The Help and Water For Elephants. Both excellent books!0
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This is my list to santa...all books lol I haven't read any of them but I really want to
BOOK LIST
Vanishing Country - Mel Hurtig
Hardcore Zen - Brad Warne
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
The Spiral Staircase - Karen Armstrong
Zero - Charles Seife
Letters To A Young Poet - Rainer Marie Rilke and M.D. Herter Norton
Tiny Dancer - Anthony Flacco
Ten Thousand Lovers - Edect Ravel
A Blade of Grass - Lewis Desoto
The Time in Between - David Bergen
In Cold Blood - Capote
Papillion - Henri Charriere
Simulation and Simulacra: Jean Baudrellard
Looking Backwards – Edward Bellamy
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
What Evolution Is - Ernst Mayr
Pilgram - Timothy Findley
Manufacturing Consent – Edward S. Herman & Noam Chompsky
Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power – Joel Bakan
Pride – Michael Eric Dyson
Envy – Joseph Epstein
Anger – Robert A. F. Thurman
Sloth – Wendy Wasserstein
Greed – Phyllis A. Tickle
Gluttony – Francine Prose
Consumed – Benjamine R. Barber
Even the Rat was White – Robert V. Guthrie
Beautiful Losers – Leonard Cohen
Energy of Slaves – Leonard Cohen
Junky – William S. Burroughs
Generation X – Douglas Coupland
Feakonomics – Steven Levitt
The Subterraneans - Kerouac
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Notes from The Underground - Fydor Dostoevsky
The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemmingway
Naked Lunch – William S Bouroughs
Why I Am So Wise – Friedrich Nietsche
Erewhon – Samual Butler
Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Island – Aldous Huxley
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Children of Men – P.D. James
The Dispossessed – Ursala K. le Guin
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Utopia – Sir Thomas More
News From Nowhere – William Morris
Women on the Edge of Time – H.G. Wells
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin0 -
I would highly recommend Eay Pray Love, particularly to women like us who are watching what we eat. Its just a good reminder to enjoy food and life!!
Well, my favorite book is Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg!
Some that I have read recently though are;
The Elegance of the Hedgehog ~ Muriel Bradberry (or something like that) ~ it was good
The Scent of Rain and Lightning ~ Pickard (don't quote me on any of the author's name spellings!) ~ this one was really good!
Great House ~ Nicole Krauss ~ really good, but not exactly uplifting..
I am currently reading The Darkest Evening of the Year ~ Dean Koontz and it is really good so far!!
Oh and I also agree with the people who listed The Girl Who... series and A Million Little Pieces, they are awesome!
Ok, thats all, have fun! :happy:0 -
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. There is a movie of this book that came out a few years ago. Both the book and the movie is great.
Thanks for asking the questions as now I have a new list of books to read.
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Oh yeah -- this one came out in 2004 -- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells.
I also like any book from Adriana Trigiani.0 -
I am a huge fan of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It was so amazing and I recommend it to everyone.
Into The Wild is also very good. I loved the way it was written.
I also really like books like Freakanomics, Outliers, Blink, The Tipping Point. They are very interesting and really make you think. I am reading Atlas Shrugged right now and I think it is a great book if you are interested in politics and economics (and also have some time, its over 1,000 pages)
The next book on my list is 127 Hours (which was just made into a movie) It is a true story of a young man from Colorado that was pinned by a boulder while rock climbing and he had to amputate his own arm to survive. Not for the squeamish. My friend just read it and said it was so inspiring. Another friend had just saw the movie and said it was very well done.0 -
bump! WOW Lots of suggestions here!0
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Oh man, I am a book fiend. I have a bunch I could recommend but the first book that comes to mind...
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I second The Help--it is a wonderful book!
If you are looking for a lighter read, The Starter Wife was pretty funny.
If you don't mind a longer book, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet (sp?) is pretty amazing.
Other books I've read that I really enjoyed:
"Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons," by Lorna Landvik
"Pilot's Wife," by Anita Shreve
"The Count of Monte Cristo," by Alexander Dumas
"The Devil in the White City," by Erik Larson
"Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson
"The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," by David Wroblewski0 -
I read a lot on matern. leave-
The Help (couldn't put it down!)
Room
Life on Hold
Her Daughters Dream
Her Mother's Hope
Drowing Ruth
A scattered Life
I am reading the Anne of Green Gables series right now--- all 8 books on kindle for like 98 cents0 -
Best books I have read over the last few years that come to mind RIGHT NOW....
Time Travelers Wife (WAY better than the stupid movie)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (funny name - fabulous can't put down book)
Both are fabulous books!
I read Guernsey as well & it was fantastic!0 -
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts I think. It's long but a good read. Semi-autobiographical.
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt. An interesting read.
An Audiobook I downloaded ages ago was the count of monte cristo which was a great time pass on my commute to work.
Others have recommended books to me but I haven't got around to reading yet are - notes on a scandal, the believers, the namesake. Will get to these eventually.0 -
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
awesome.0 -
Oooh. I'm just about to start Eat, Pray, Love so I don't know what it's like yet to be able to compare to other books you might like. But I will recommend gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson. It was a fantastic read. I also second the My Sister's Keeper recommendation. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters is a HUGE novel but very good if you don't mind 400+ pages. I love to read so I have a huge list of to reads. Let me know if you want more...0
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Funniest book I've ever read.0
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