BOOKS! HELP!!

JennaM222
JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
Hi All!

I NEED to get my hands on some new books -

I love Elizabeth wurtzel, Chelsea Handler, Hunger Games, Twilight, Memiors aabout meth heads and call girls, etc.

Anyone have some good reads for me?

Any ideas I'd Love!!

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  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    bump bump me and tell me some good reads :)
  • 31993703
    31993703 Posts: 1,144
    Bumping after 5 minutes? Wtf?
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown. (memoir)
  • classycouture
    classycouture Posts: 888 Member
    Divergent by Veronica Roth
    Delirium by Lauren Oliver

    Both are like the Hunger Games in that futeristic dystopian society. I really enjoyed them! (They are also a multi-book series!)
  • StaceyJ2008
    StaceyJ2008 Posts: 411 Member
    The Mortal Instruments seriesby Cassandra Clare is fantastic! The first movie for the series comes out in August of 2013 so you have time to catch up before it does.

    The Fallen series by Lauren Kate is good as well.
  • jaweave1
    jaweave1 Posts: 10 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UT9iBdQDI&feature=g-all
    this video gives some good recommendations!!
  • Anything by Alice Hoffman or Jen Lancaster
  • The Strain Trilogy.

    it is not about pooping.
  • Still_Fluffy
    Still_Fluffy Posts: 341 Member
    Check out Jeff Lindsey. He worte the book the show Dexter is based on. The first two books are amazing. The 3rd is ok, and 4th and 5th are good.

    I also like John Sandford, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and many others.
  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
    1. Alice in Zombieland. Can't remember the author. Hey, the title made me raise eyebrows too but it was actually reeeally good. /shrug

    2. Virals by Kathy Reichs. She's behind the show "Bones" so the book was amazing. Couldn't put it down!

    And FYI? DON'T read The Maze Runner. Sooo dumb.
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    Vanishing Country - Mel Hurtig



    Hardcore Zen - Brad Warne



    Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds



    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



    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



    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 Zamyatin



    Huck Finn - Mark Twain



    Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain



    The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
  • godblessourhome
    godblessourhome Posts: 3,892 Member
    poison princess by kresley cole. (not a fan of her other books)
    hush, hush by becca fitzpatrick.
    strange angels by lili st. crow.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Since you like vampires and some silliness, I would recommend the Betsy the Vampire series by MaryJanice Davidson. The Sookie Stackhouse series is great too but don't read it if you watch the tv series (True Blood) too. The characters are different and the story line gets quite different after the first few books.so it can get confusing.

    Also, since you mentioned "good reads", check out www.goodreads.com. You can rate books you've read and they'll give you suggestions. You can also friend people (a few of us MFP members are there) and see what they think of the books they're reading and get more ideas that way as well. I mostly love it because I can keep track of my to-read list and which books are next in some of the series I'm following (In Death by J.D. Robb, Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich, etc)

    Happy reading!
  • godblessourhome
    godblessourhome Posts: 3,892 Member
    The Giver – Lois Lowry

    awesome book. my son had to read this for school, so i reread it with him. also enjoyed rereading 'where the red fern grows'.

    another childhood book i love is 'watership down' by richard adams. i think i have six copies of it.
  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    thank you thank you!
  • rblair_22
    rblair_22 Posts: 202 Member
    I would suggest The Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead. It's a teen series but really good. She also writes the Georgina Kincaid series, which is about a succubus. If you like Stephen King I would suggest any of his books, but would really reccommend The Dark Tower series. I've been reading a lot of mystery books right now, so I would suggest anything by Sue Grafton, J.D. Robb or Charlaine Harris. Charlaine Harris has more series than the Sookie Stackhouse series. Hope this helps.
  • BetterMike
    BetterMike Posts: 131 Member
    Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying.
  • shiraLA
    shiraLA Posts: 272 Member
    The Mortal Instruments seriesby Cassandra Clare is fantastic! The first movie for the series comes out in August of 2013 so you have time to catch up before it does.

    The Fallen series by Lauren Kate is good as well.

    ^^^these books are great :)
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Seduction & Snacks and the sequel Futures & Frostings are hilarious! I laughed until I cried and had to stop reading for about 10 minutes from a couple of parts in these books.
  • Charmed285
    Charmed285 Posts: 189 Member
    anything by amanda hocking
    books are sold on amazon, b&n and the like for ereaders but her newest books are out in book stores now

    GO GET IT!
  • Raw_Bean
    Raw_Bean Posts: 293 Member
    I am currently loving The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon