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    edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
    I have been looking for some suggestions for some good books to read. Any suggestions? What are you reading?

    (I normally read a lot of biographies, memoirs, etc. but also recently finished all the Hunger Games books so I am pretty open!)

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    • Posts: 173 Member
      Someone?....Anyone?
    • Posts: 160 Member
      I just finished One good dog by Susan Wilson. I really liked it!
    • Posts: 2,335 Member
      I just finished "The Hour I First Believed". It is over 700 pages, so it will keep you busy for a while :D I really enjoyed it.
    • Posts: 260 Member
      I was thinking about creating a forum like this! I love hearing suggestions on good books! I just started reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks... its really good if you like memoirs
    • Posts: 441 Member
      I'm reading "The Four Agreements". It is such an incredible book.. I also read "The Happiness Project". These are both a change from what I normally read(fiction!) It is a must read for all!
    • Posts: 392
      I love to read and enjoy a good book. I don't have any preference as long as it holds my attention and interesting.

      Anything by Wally Lamb is good, including The Hour I First Believed and She's Come Undone. And all 3 books by Stieg Larson, which is the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series Very good and dying to see the movie!

      I read a lot, including different series with vampires, werewolfs, and the occasional fairy, but being an adult wasn't too thrilled with the Twilight series, but did like the Trueblood series.

      Just threw that out there, even if it isn't your genre. lol
    • Posts: 4,404 Member
      More the historical fiction genre, but The Kitchen House and Those Who Save Us were both great.
    • Posts: 260 Member
      I love to read and enjoy a good book. I don't have any preference as long as it holds my attention and interesting.

      Anything by Wally Lamb is good, including The Hour I First Believed and She's Come Undone. And all 3 books by Stieg Larson, which is the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series Very good and dying to see the movie!

      I read a lot, including different series with vampires, werewolfs, and the occasional fairy, but being an adult wasn't too thrilled with the Twilight series, but did like the Trueblood series.

      Just threw that out there, even if it isn't your genre. lol

      Really? I loved the Twilight Series... I never thought of reading the Trueblood series, I thought it was for younger kids, but maybe I am wrong and ill try it!
    • Posts: 58 Member
      I love Lisa See's books. I definitely would recommend Shanghai Girls and the sequel, Dreams of Joy. Very interesting, compelling, emotional books. I also liked her book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and am currently reading Peony in Love.

      Have you read The Help, Water for Elephants, or Eat, Pray, Love? Tthe books are very good and of course better than the movies.

      I've also read like 75% of Jodi Picoult's books and would recommend most of those...

      Happy reading! I need more book suggestions too, so thanks for starting this thread!
    • Posts: 582 Member
      Well, I read a lot. But most people wouldn't like what I like. So something more mainstream that really affected my life: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon. I read it in one day and it is amazing. It is from the viewpoint of an autistic boy.
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      Im just reading 'The Secret' by Rhonda Bryne, its a really interesting book that makes you thnk about life in a new light, Im cynical on this genre of books but I must admit, Its making me feel differently for the better, I would deffinitly recommend it
    • Posts: 318 Member
      Check out this group:

      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/477-when-i-m-not-on-mfp-i-m-reading

      :flowerforyou:
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      Timeline, by Micheal Crichton
      Enchanted, by Orson Scott Card
      The Fault in our Stars... Forgot authors name!
    • Posts: 229 Member
      I love books by Patricia Cornwell. The Scarpetta series is my favorite! If you're into CSI stuff you will not be disappointed with these!
    • Posts: 3,122 Member
      Anything by Wally Lamb is good, including The Hour I First Believed and She's Come Undone.

      Just re-read She's Come Undone and loved it again. Hard to believe it's written by a man.
    • Posts: 82 Member
      Song of Fire and Ice series, Better known as Game of Thrones.

      Also for health: Protein Power lifestyle by Drs. Eades. Just got done with this one, really interesting!
    • Posts: 910 Member
      Bump for suggestions I love to read
    • Posts: 313 Member
      i'm currently in the middle of the 2nd book of the 'outlander' series by diana gabaldon. time travel. romance. history. politics. the books are huge, too. i think the 7 books total something like 8000 pages!
    • Posts: 8,646 Member
      The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series.

      Water For Elephants.

      Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Huge books & A LOT of books in the series. I loved it!

      A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
    • Posts: 182 Member
      I'm reading the Hunger Game Series. I'm on book 2
    • Posts: 622 Member
      The Descendants

      The Vow

      I wasn't dragging hubby to see them, so I read them. SO glad I did.
    • Posts: 492 Member
      Check out www.goodreads.com

      Hunger Games Series
      Game of Thrones Series
      Anything by Janet Evanovich
      Girl.....with the dragon tatoo and others by Steig Larson
      Language of Flowers and Night Circus were my two favorites from last year
    • Posts: 782 Member
      How about the Steve Jobs autobiography? It is very interesting. We are reading that one for our next Book Club. Or The Help was a fantastic book, probably one of the best 10 I have ever read.
      Little Bee was also good, (think it was released in some countries as 'the other hand') agree with the Jodi Picoult recommendations, and Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I found Paths of Glory (Jeffrey Archer), interesting also, it was about the first 2 guys that may have made it to the summit of Mt Everest.
      I also didn't mind the White Queen, but Patricia Gregory (think that was her name).
      We also read One Day, which was nice.
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      I love everything the Lee Child writes, John sandfords Prey series is really good (mystery) and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plumb series is a light and laugh out loud funny. I also just read "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein and it was very good. It is written from the perspective of the dog which is different. I agree the Dragon Tatoo series is really great!
    • Posts: 312 Member
      11/22/63 by Stephen King. Nothing like anything I've read by Stephen King. Really enjoyed it.
    • Posts: 90
      If you enjoyed The Hunger Games trilogy, you will like Divergent.
    • Posts: 7,486 Member
      Well if you like baseball I am reading "The Baseball Gospels" by Dirk Hayhurst. It is an autobiography from time in the minor leagues. He also has an new one out "Out of My League" which I am hearing is great and has to do with his girl friend/wife and having a relationship while being a pro-baseball player.
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      Well, I read a lot. But most people wouldn't like what I like. So something more mainstream that really affected my life: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon. I read it in one day and it is amazing. It is from the viewpoint of an autistic boy.
    • Posts: 335 Member
      Stones From the River by Ursala Hegi is one of my all time favorite books. I get lost in this epic novel every time I read it. Another homerun for me is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Very powerful read - especially for someone on a weight loss journey.
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      Well, I read a lot. But most people wouldn't like what I like. So something more mainstream that really affected my life: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Haddon. I read it in one day and it is amazing. It is from the viewpoint of an autistic boy.


      Oops -- forgot to post my seconding of this book. Read it some years ago and loved it. Also, John Adams by McCullough. Any book by Sarah Vowel -- The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Assassination Vacation.
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