Good Reads?

kateistoned
kateistoned Posts: 116
edited September 29 in Chit-Chat
Anyone have any good book recommendations?

I'm outta books that I haven't read and going to the used book store to stock up - suggestions?
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  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    Yeah my suggestions are hit up some yard-sales and buy some cheap books by authors you don't know! Great introduction to new writers on the cheap.
    That said I bought out someones Anne McCaffrey collection 2 weeks ago, and this past week it was John Grisham... I'll never turn down a Matthew Reilly book or RA Salvatore.
  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    Crossing to Safety-Stegner
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    Anything by James Rollins
    Anything by Michelle Moran
    The Beautiful and Damned-Fitzgerald
  • bbear
    bbear Posts: 96 Member
    I'm a book addict and I just read a page turner...'Before I Go To Sleep' by S.J. Watson. I really enjoyed it. If you decide to read it let me know so we can chat about it. Happy reading!
  • ShellyKay67
    ShellyKay67 Posts: 489 Member
    my BFF tells me I need to get the book "Hunger Games".......not sure of the author!
  • barefootbeauty
    barefootbeauty Posts: 188 Member
    I review science fiction novels, so if you like sci-fi then I can recommend a few good ones!

    If you enjoyed Harry Potter, then try The Dresden Files series -- it is totally addicting and like a grown-up version of HP.
  • kimmerroze
    kimmerroze Posts: 1,330 Member
    I recommend the following

    The goddess summoning series by PC Cast
    The House of Night Series By PC Cast
    The Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
    Angels and demons, The divinci code and The lost symbol by Dan Brown
    The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
    The count of monte cristo (unabridged) by alexandar dumas
    A painted house John grisham
    The splinter cell series Tom Clancy

    Those are probably my fav's right now... especially the very first series... AMAZING!

    EDIT: I just wanna give you the gist of the goddess summoning series. Its basically about the greek goddesses like athena, venus, persphone, udine etc, they take women out of the modern world and bring them to the greek realm of the gods to help them solve their problems, they are sort of a romance suspense novels and So incredibly unique... definately check them out. She has a website.
  • Drunkadelic
    Drunkadelic Posts: 948 Member
    I just read all of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris (the True Blood Books) and I'm completely hooked. If you told me a year ago I'd be so into a Vampire series, I would have called you crazy, but they are seriously addicting (and the show is awesome!)
  • daydreamer_28
    daydreamer_28 Posts: 16 Member
    There is a site called goodreads.com, they have some pretty good ideas, I am a member of that site. Here are some good ones I have read lately. I like to read all types of books, my husband teases me when he looks at the bookcase and sees such an eclectic book selection. I love romance, mystery, historical fiction. Some of my favorite authors are Nora Roberts, Lisa Gardner, James Patterson, Catherine Coulter.. Is there anything in particular you are looking for?

    The Historian by Kostova, Elizabeth
    The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe
    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
    The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
    The Samurai's Garden by Tsukiyama, Gail
    Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
    The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski
    The Help by Stockett, Kathryn
    A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

    I have heard The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series is good and The Hunger Games series is good too. This should get you started, if you need any other suggestions let me know! :smile:
  • daydreamer_28
    daydreamer_28 Posts: 16 Member
    I have read all the Sookie Books and they were addicting!
  • angela828
    angela828 Posts: 498 Member
    The Hunger Games trilogy is written by Suzanne Collins - I HIGHLY recommend them! So good!

    I recently read "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies".. very sarcastic/enjoyable.. but I suggest reading the *real* "Pride & Prejudice" before haha.. also a good read!

    I like fun reads by Sophie Kinsella (she wrote the Shopaholic series) and she wrote a few others. She goes by another name, Madeline Wickham, and those books are fun and good too. Emily Giffen is another good author for fun, girly stories.

    Jodi Piccoult is always good.. page turners! My favorite is Nineteen Minutes and The Pact.

    "Youth in Revolt" by CD Payne is HILARIOUS. Like, I could not stop laughing... so good. They made a movie but it's not great.

    "It's Kind of a Funny Story" .. blanking on the author, but very good,interesting, thought provoking..

    And my ULTIMATE FAVORITE - "Perks of Being a Wallflower" OMG amazing!!! :) HIGHLY RECOMMEND! :)Also a movie coming out :)

    Ha, can you tell I like to read?? Just a little.... ;)

    EDIT: I read the first 3 sookie stackhouse books.. very good! I stopped bc the friend I borrowed them from only had the first 3.. one day I'll read them all!
  • jend114
    jend114 Posts: 1,058 Member
    my BFF tells me I need to get the book "Hunger Games".......not sure of the author!

    Amazing read! They are making them into movies too!
  • mkcalvert
    mkcalvert Posts: 219 Member
    Anything and EVERYthing James Patterson :love:

    Edit: I agree with Hunger Games, Sookie Stackhouse, and I like Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan(even though they are found in kid's section of library; very good reads).
  • dmoses
    dmoses Posts: 786 Member
    the Stieg Larsson trilogy:
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl who Played with Fire
    The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    Yeah my suggestions are hit up some yard-sales and buy some cheap books by authors you don't know! Great introduction to new writers on the cheap.
    That said I bought out someones Anne McCaffrey collection 2 weeks ago, and this past week it was John Grisham... I'll never turn down a Matthew Reilly book or RA Salvatore.


    awesome idea, I just bought a book for 50 cents at a garage sale, and I can't put it down. It's called "god is not great...how religion ruins everything"..it definitely gives you some insite. And I also bought "satanic verses" by Salman Rushdie, it's been banned in 4 countries, and people have been assassinated because of that book (Rushdie's interpreters, his agent, etc). I'm proud to live in a country that allows me to read what ever I want.
  • dmoses
    dmoses Posts: 786 Member
    couple more:
    Emily and Einstein by Linda Francis Lee
    Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

    The numbered series by Janet Evanovich - always entertaining and easy reads!
  • NA_Willie
    NA_Willie Posts: 340 Member
    All I read is political non-fiction. If you are into that I can recommend some really good books.

    I should probably add you wouldnt like my recommendations if you are a liberal pinko commie.
  • hotpot83
    hotpot83 Posts: 88
    `im 3/4 of the way through a book called Labyrinth by Kate Mosse... its bloody brilliant :) x
  • DaChozn
    DaChozn Posts: 134 Member

    I recently read "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies".. very sarcastic/enjoyable.. but I suggest reading the *real* "Pride & Prejudice" before haha.. also a good read!


    Speaking of zombies, pick up a copy of (or download for free on your e-reader from a library-or borrow from library) "Brains: A Zombie Memoir" by Robin Becker. I don't think I've laughed so much at a book in long time. It's a bit gory (hey, it's zombies from their perspective) but the tongue-in-cheek is so well done, you don't really care. It's also a good summer read because it's only 182 pages! :)
  • marindak
    marindak Posts: 168
    bump
  • heidiberr
    heidiberr Posts: 643 Member
    I totally recommend getting a Kindle---tons of free ebooks or .99 cent ebooks I check out on there--and all the classics are free! It's been an awesome investment and I discover lots of books that way.

    I recommend the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books--even if they are YA--they just came out with another one. I second the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series and Water for Elephants as well :)
  • Theweebarrell
    Theweebarrell Posts: 100 Member
    Hi i am also a member of good read another good book site is read it swap it. i have been a member for a few years and done over 100 swaps.

    The Authors i like are: James Patterson, Simon Kernick, Stuart MacBride, Helen Black, Jessie Keane, Karen Rose, Karin Slaughter, Kimberley Chambers to name just a few
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    I posted this on another topic a few weeks ago, but:

    William's Top 75 Books

    75. Killing Yourself to Live, Chuck Klosterman
    74. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safron Foer
    73. Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
    72. The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
    71. The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
    70. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
    69. Astonishing X-Men, Issues 1-24, Joss Whedon
    68. John, Cynthia Lennon
    67. Fighting for the Rain Forest, Paul Richards
    66. A Cellarful of Noise, Brian Epstein (Derek Taylor?)
    65. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
    64. Developing Ecological Consciousness, Chris Uhl
    63. Rashomon, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    62. Gertrud, Herman Hesse
    61. Behind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison, Marc Shapiro
    60. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
    59. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
    58. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
    57. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdee
    56. The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
    55. The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek
    54. Hell's Angels, Hunter S. Thompson
    53. Castle, Franz Kafka
    52. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
    51. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
    50. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien
    49. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson
    48. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, William Blake
    47. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
    46. Narcissus and Goldmund, Herman Hesse
    45. Der Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
    44. Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
    43. Patterns of Democracy, Arend Lijphart
    42. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
    41. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
    40. The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington
    39. Sailor Song, Ken Kesey
    38. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
    37. The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
    36. The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
    35. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
    34. A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
    33. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
    32. In His Own Write, John Lennon
    31. Goethe's Faust, Goethe
    30. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
    29. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos
    28. Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz
    27. The Trial, Franz Kafka
    26. Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas
    25. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
    24. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
    23. No Longer At Ease, Chinua Achebe
    22. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
    21. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
    20. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
    19. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
    18. Chronicles, Volume One, Bob Dylan
    17. When Victims Become Killers, Mahmood Mamdani
    16. Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
    15. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
    14. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
    13. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
    12. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
    11. Le Petite Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    10. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
    9. The Temptest, William Shakespeare
    8. The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
    7. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
    6. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
    5. Slaughter-House Five, Kurt Vonnegut.
    4. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
    3. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
    2. L'estrange, Albert Camus
    1. Job, unknown

    ___________________________________________

    I compiled this list recently for a friend. Hopefully you see some on there that interest you.
    -wtk
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    wow I can't believe how many of those I've read...that's AWESOME!
  • anthony438
    anthony438 Posts: 578 Member
    If you like Sci-Fi check out "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi
  • tinacrane
    tinacrane Posts: 134 Member
    Everyone has to have to have a few light, silly books-you have to include the entire "Shopaholic" series! Extremely funny!
  • pitbullmama
    pitbullmama Posts: 454 Member
    bump
  • slimdownspicey
    slimdownspicey Posts: 110 Member
    These aren't "beach reading" but here are 3 of my absolute faves...books that changed my life

    Blindness by Jose Saramago (they made a movie out of this, I heard it was crappy and I never saw it because I didn't want some director to ruin the world I had pictured them in - truly moving, also truly disturbing)
    The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks (also made into a movie I never saw) - short, easy read but very thought provoking
    The Darling by Russell Banks - just read it

    On a lighter note, I'm hands down obsessed with David Sedaris. If you've never read any of his books start with "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and move on from there - you'll get hooked!
  • kaitimae
    kaitimae Posts: 727 Member
    okay, i know a bunch of people have already said this, but they are so good i will repeat.... if you haven't already, read the hunger games!!!!!!!!!! =)
  • elsham
    elsham Posts: 549 Member
    go to goodreads.com.

    I found so many good book reccs from there!
  • Jonicha26
    Jonicha26 Posts: 107 Member
    Lots of people have already recommended things I love...

    The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanna Collins FOR SURE!
    The Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris
    The Books of Bayern (Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, Forest Born) by Shannon Hale (Anything by her really...)
    The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray

    I love to get into a good series... These are all my favorites. :) Along with HP, but I know you've read that!
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