Good Reads?

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  • 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

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    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!
  • RedBullLiz
    RedBullLiz Posts: 469 Member
    This might be an old book to recommend but the one that really gave me a great imagination story was The Shining.
  • Terri_39
    Terri_39 Posts: 122
    Any of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris
    The Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich (although her newer ones are not as funny)
    The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward
    The Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    For Fantasy-any book by Terry Brooks
    George R R Martin-Game of Thrones Series
    Anne McCaffrey-any book
    C.S. Lewis-The Chronicles of Narnia (I know they are for kids, but I just loved the books!)
  • sparrows7
    sparrows7 Posts: 59
    I just finished Pride and Prejudice and zombies. :) Which was a fun read!
  • kaitimae
    kaitimae Posts: 727 Member
    Mercedes Lackey is another wonderful fantasy author! The Valdemar books are the best, and there are so many! There are at *least* 5 sets of trilogies set in Valdemar, and a good number of standalone books as well. Start with Arrows of the Queen and go from there.

    I will say that my favorite Valdemar trilogy is the Magic Trilogy with Vanyel. Those books never fail to make me just bawl my head off. SO heart wrenching and romantic... won't give away more than that. =)

    They are really all fantastic reads - awesome characters (a lot of the main characters are strong female leaders, which is very cool!), and a fantasy world that you can completely escape into. In fact, I might start re-reading these again this weekend...
  • onlyrobey1
    onlyrobey1 Posts: 140 Member
    Frankinstein series by Dean Koontz
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
    Abeng by Michelle Cliff
    Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
    Life of Pi by Yann Martel
    The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
    Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
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