Good books??

George RR Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series!
Laurel K Hamilton - Anita Blake Series (if you are into the whole vampire romance/almost pornographic reads)
and anything by Dean Kootz.. My favorite book from him is Intensity!

I read a lot of teen fiction because I buy them for my sons.
Divergent by Jennifer Ross is really good.
Unwind by Neil Shusterman - creepy but really good.
Matched by Allie Conden is supposed to be good
Delirium by Lauren Oliver (these may be too girly for my kids but I might get them for me).
Ashfall by Mike Mullen and
Variant by Robinson Wells - these look really good and I have ordered them for Christmas.
You can look these books up on a website called goodreads

The Help - I bawled at the end
Game of Thrones series
Jodi Picoult, I think it's hit or miss, some I really like and some I could care less about
Have you read Heaven is For Real? It's a fast read, but it's an interesting look from a child's perspective
Of corse the Lord of the Rings (that'll keep you busy for a little while!)
Back when I had more time I really enjoyed the classics, like Anna Karenina or The Hunchback of Notre Dame or The Count of Monte Cristo
You might enjoy Christopher Paolini's series, but I would get it from the library. Not really worth purchasing. They just released the last book.

Anything by Jen Lancaster(funny) or Stieg Larsson(serious).

I'm an avid science-fiction reader, but one of my favorite books of all time is Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I also loved The Three Musketeers and Memoirs of a Geisha.

If you don't have a weak stomach and are somewhat interested in microbiology, Richard Preston's books are great - The Hot Zone is my favorite. Other good science-related non-fiction includes Phantoms in the Brain (V.S. Ramachandran), Genome (Matt Ridley), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and anything by Atul Gawande (a surgeon).

Now, on to the SF. All-time favorites include:
-Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
-Dune by Frank Herbert
-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (I love pretty much all Heinlein - short stories, Starship Troopers, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Stranger in a Strange Land, I love it all!)
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
-Minority Report and other short stories by Philip K. ****
-The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

Water For Elephants is a great book. I also like Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz. Other than that I'm into Jennifer Crusie books (romance, but not the mushy type) and musical biographies.

oh yes, anything by Jennifer Crusie. I read her books out loud to my Fiance, he enjoys them too. :-) Agree with others, all of Jane Austin, beautiful classics. Of course the Harry Potter series and Twilight serious. Why not? All of Anne Rice books if you like "better" vampire books.


Some shorter good reads are "Girl with a Pearl Earring" "Geisha" "the Reader" "the Prophet" "the Alchemist" "Memories of my Melancholy *kitten*" "Diary of Annie" not to be confused with "Diary of Ann Frank" "Everthing is Eventual" by King, it's a long book but it's short stories.

Ok "Geisha" is not that short, but it's good.
And if you like twisted, or more like twisted fairy tales, anything by Gregory Maguire. Not just "Wicked," all of his books. He will leave all adults with a tainted picture of any childhood fairy tale. LoL

Anything by Irene Nemirovsky or Graham Greene.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
If you are up for something serious and very sad, Elie Weisel books are fantastic.
Happy reading!

One book that will blow everything out of the water:

Good Omens - By Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. Yes, that's right... Neil Gaiman AND Terry Pratchett. How can you resist?

Tagging for later.

I read A LOT. Mainly at work during my breaks and down time because I have a very boring job lol. But I've been reading a lot at home lately too since I haven't felt up to doing much else but hang out alone at home. And I'm a pretty fast reader, so it doesn't take me long to get through a book. I just read all 3 Hunger Games books in 5 days... But basically, everytime I go to the book store I'm stumped on what to get. Nobody I know really reads so I don't have anybody giving me any good recommendations and I need some! I've read so many books I could probably own my own library, and I need some suggestions for some good reads! Thanks everybody!

The last series of books I enjoyed thoroughly was The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Laughed so hard so many times that I almost peed in my pants.

Anything by John Steinbeck

The Wizards First Rule series by Terry Goodkind I believe there is 10 or so books in the series and he just started writing some more. It's really addicting once you get into that first book. Loved them all I hated to end the series.

Just started this series. I like it so far.

Motley Crue, the dirt

Here are some authors I enjoy:

Sue Grafton, Jennifer Weiner, Tawni O'Dell, Wally Lamb, Joy Fielding, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Phillip Margolin