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Book suggestions needed

A_Valerie
A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
I just finished my book and now I need a new one to read.

Any suggestions?

One of my favorite authors is Erika Spindler but I enjoy a lot of different types of books.
The only genre I tend to not be able to get into is fantasy. While there is nothing wrong with that genre I just find my mind drifting when I try and read them.

My favorite book to date is probably... The Bannaman legacy by Catherine Cookson.

I really enjoyed the hunger game series. And yes I even enjoyed 50 shades.
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  • mandy_lynn
    mandy_lynn Posts: 165 Member
    I just enjoyed Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. It's just a quick read, reminded me a bit of 50, meaning the love story line of it.
  • TheseNewDays1994
    TheseNewDays1994 Posts: 2
    "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini are both absolutely beautiful books.
    Personally i really enjoy reading autobiographies about unknown people, I highly suggest 'A Piece of Cake" by Cupcake Brown as a massive eye opener.
  • mjsunshine16
    mjsunshine16 Posts: 251 Member
    I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
    Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
    Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
    Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
    On the Island
    A Gentle Rain
    Stephanie Plum Series
    The Help
    Sing You Home
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) - Three Book Series
    Eight Keys
  • Icelandic_Saga
    Icelandic_Saga Posts: 2,926 Member
    My suggestion is anything by Dean Koontz! If he writes it I will read it :) Except maybe Intensity, that was creeped me out too badly lol
  • A_Valerie
    A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
    I just enjoyed Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. It's just a quick read, reminded me a bit of 50, meaning the love story line of it.

    I just finished reading this yesterday. Started it Sunday night and stayed up way late reading it until I fell asleep. then finished it in the morning. I enjoyed it too.
  • A_Valerie
    A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
    What a wonderful list, keep em coming. I am going to the library today and pick up a few of these. :)
  • linz1125
    linz1125 Posts: 441 Member
    I second the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo Series...I'm on the third right now and its great.
    Maybe the Sookie Stackhouse series if you haven't already read it.
  • heliumheels
    heliumheels Posts: 241 Member
    On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Ken Kesey
    Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, or Anthem by Ayn Rand

    I could suggest many more, but I'll stop there...
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    Try The Gunslinger by Stephen King to pop your fantasy cherry.

    Or Insomnia.
  • MsMuniz
    MsMuniz Posts: 399 Member
    Just read 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn, it was very good.

    And anything by Harlan Coben, especially the Myron Bolitar series.
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    My suggestion is anything by Dean Koontz! If he writes it I will read it :) Except maybe Intensity, that was creeped me out too badly lol

    I still know the mantra.

    The Odd Thomas books are good too.
  • DLKeeble
    DLKeeble Posts: 200 Member
    The Cold Dish was my most recent book.
    The books listed below are my all time favorites:

    The Book Thief
    The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    Water for Elephants
    A Town Like Alice
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
    The Kitchen House
    The Help
    Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End
    Up from Orchard Street
  • aholly70
    aholly70 Posts: 577 Member
    I love Danille Steel I have every book she has wrote,they are all good.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I just finished The Lincoln Lawyer. It was a quick, easy read, though a shallow one.

    Look me up on Goodreads.com (rml_16).
  • BlueMacaroniArt
    BlueMacaroniArt Posts: 122 Member
    They already gave you a lot of my suggestions! But have you tried Jodi Picoult? I have really liked most of her books. I'm reading the Sookie Sackhouse ones now. (Someone mentioned those already) If you do like Dean Koontz, (I do) try Blake Crouch. He's a lot newer and greener but I found myself sitting up late to finish his books too.... I love so many and I can't think of them right now... Grrr
  • quellybelly
    quellybelly Posts: 827 Member
    The Poisonwood Bible
    A Complicated Kindness
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl who Played with Fire
    The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

    the last 3 are a trilogy and the first book is a bit hard to get into, but once you pass the first 100 or so pages it's AMAZING!
  • A_Valerie
    A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
    Try The Gunslinger by Stephen King to pop your fantasy cherry.

    Or Insomnia.

    at the very least, this made me laugh!
  • A_Valerie
    A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
    I love Danille Steel I have every book she has wrote,they are all good.
    I like Danille Steel too, I bet you would like Erika Spindler also.
  • A_Valerie
    A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
    I just finished The Lincoln Lawyer. It was a quick, easy read, though a shallow one.

    Look me up on Goodreads.com (rml_16).

    thanks for the link!
  • deales
    deales Posts: 13
    I cannot BELIEVE no one has mentioned the Grey Trilogy!!!

    I read all three books within one week and that included working full time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    :blushing:
  • A_Valerie
    A_Valerie Posts: 129 Member
    The Poisonwood Bible
    A Complicated Kindness
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl who Played with Fire
    The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

    the last 3 are a trilogy and the first book is a bit hard to get into, but once you pass the first 100 or so pages it's AMAZING!

    thanks. I did see and enjoyed the movie Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and heard the book was way better.
    I will read the other 2 from the trilogy, wonder if i should read the dragon tattoo since i only saw the movie. ???
  • TahliaHarveysMummy
    TahliaHarveysMummy Posts: 59
    I love Erica Spindler too! Some of your past reads remind me of my own book collection (apart from 50 Shades - not gone there yet!) so i'd suggest Sophie Kinsella (Shopaholic series in particular) and Dorothy Koomson :o) Stephenie Meyers none-Twilight book The Host is slow getting into but amazing once you do! x
  • tnshahud
    tnshahud Posts: 163
    Bumping for Ideas!! Thanks!!
  • Monkeymomma05
    Monkeymomma05 Posts: 116
    I just started The Book of Thrones series, not really fantasy but kinda is....still really good read. :smile:
  • jennnnn2u
    jennnnn2u Posts: 133
    Asylum (Patrick McGrath)
  • TahliaHarveysMummy
    TahliaHarveysMummy Posts: 59
    Maybe the Sookie Stackhouse series if you haven't already read it.

    Ooh i forgot those! How i don't know cos i pre-order the next book every Xmas - they come out in May!!! lol
  • NewChristina
    NewChristina Posts: 250 Member
    Try The Gunslinger by Stephen King to pop your fantasy cherry.

    Or Insomnia.

    I don't like fantasy either, but read every one of the Gunslinger series. My all-time favorite books.
  • RAF_Guy
    RAF_Guy Posts: 230 Member
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Avenue-Newcastle-Backstreet-Boyhood/dp/0752468863/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345557987&sr=8-1

    Everybody I know who has read this story has said how great it is
  • tjoyjohn
    tjoyjohn Posts: 31 Member
    I just got the Nook tablet for my birthday...so I'm bumping this for later :)
  • sandyjeffery
    sandyjeffery Posts: 140
    My favorite authors are :

    Jackie Collins
    John Sandford
    Linda Howard
    Nicholas Sparks
    James Patterson
    Stuart Woods

    If you like hot and naughty, suspense or love stories, any of their books are a page turner.
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