Good Reads?

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

my BFF tells me I need to get the book "Hunger Games".......not sure of the author!

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.

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!

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!

Anything and EVERYthing James Patterson

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).

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.

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.

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!

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

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

If you like Sci-Fi check out "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi

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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!!!!!!!!!!

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!