Book Nerds --UNITE!

sisierra
sisierra Posts: 659 Member
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I've called you all here for a very important reason. I NEED NEW BOOKS! Give unto me your recommendations! Or we can have a lively discussion about things we've read. Any genre is welcome!

My personal favorites are Paranormal Romance though ;D

My absolute favorite authors include: Sherrilyn Kenyon, Katie MacAlister, Lora Leigh, J.R. Ward, Christine Feehan, Jaid Black and J.D. Robb
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  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    ...backs quietly out of the thread
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    ...backs quietly out of the thread

    nooooo come back! we can talk about...about...SHAKESPEARE! yes shakespeare! I've read Antigone and the one about her dad lol
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    The portrait of Dorian Gray?

    Crime and Punishment?

    The Fountainhead?
  • anabell31
    anabell31 Posts: 268
    Fellow book nerd here! Not much for romance but I do like Shakespeare :). And horror
  • Megdonald1
    Megdonald1 Posts: 149 Member
    I really like Janet Evanovich and G.A. McKevett. Both have strong female lead characters. I also like Brad Meltzer. James Patterson is pretty good.
  • bstherapymom12
    bstherapymom12 Posts: 3
    I love all books and by all I mean ALL. Bring on the romance girl! I'm working on my masters and have a new baby, so I would love to hear what people are reading to have time to do it for fun. I should finish my degree this year, so I'm collecting titles now!
  • Bridge_CG
    Bridge_CG Posts: 429 Member
    Fellow book nerd here! Not much for romance but I do like Shakespeare :). And horror



    I love Shakespeare!!!!!!!!!! Have you read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?
  • davenportk83
    davenportk83 Posts: 44 Member
    Recent reads........... Born Wicked by Jessica Spotwood, Amanda Hockings Tyrelle Trilogy :-) all of these are Young adult books but fun reads. I also loved, loved, loved Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and Angelogy by Danielle Trussoni.

    You should share some of your favorite books or authors too!
  • GrammyWhammy
    GrammyWhammy Posts: 484 Member
    Night Circus.
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    Fellow book nerd here! Not much for romance but I do like Shakespeare :). And horror

    Have you read the original Dracula? If I weren't a modern person, obsessed with vamps, weres and things of that ilk I would have been seriously creeped out
  • Ironman2be
    Ironman2be Posts: 140 Member
    I'm completely offended by the word nerd......
  • Megdonald1
    Megdonald1 Posts: 149 Member
    I love all books and by all I mean ALL. Bring on the romance girl! I'm working on my masters and have a new baby, so I would love to hear what people are reading to have time to do it for fun. I should finish my degree this year, so I'm collecting titles now!

    Congrats!! I have 12 more weeks until I finish my masters. WOO HOO!!! I try to sneak in a "good" book in between text books.
  • Cyngen
    Cyngen Posts: 557 Member
    I just started reading Stephen Kings: 11/22/63

    I enjoy Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy style books, action adventure with random authors of non fiction works centered around World War II.
  • Blaqheart
    Blaqheart Posts: 235
    I'm a giant book nerd. I will read anything as long as it's interesting. Gotta log for now, but will be back tomorrow and love to discuss!
    Take care namaste
    ~Blaq:heart:
  • grayprae
    grayprae Posts: 109 Member
    You should check out Simon R Green his Nightside books are awesome so are the books in the Forest Kingdom. Also they are a short but good read the Percy Jackson Series is great.
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    I'm completely offended by the word nerd......

    LOL embrace it!
  • kesteele
    kesteele Posts: 127
    discovery of witches is REALLY good!!!!!!!! can't wait for the next one to come out!!!
  • aki7chien
    aki7chien Posts: 85 Member
    I really liked The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates. I usually don't read much fiction, and it was the only one I have read by that author, but I liked it. I have been trying to read some of the old classics as of late. Really interesting stuff!

    I am currently reading the Divine Comedies by Dante. I'm up to Paradise, and I like it, but not nearly as interesting as the Inferno. :)

    Next in my Nook cue, Metamorphosis by Ovid!
  • anabell31
    anabell31 Posts: 268
    Fellow book nerd here! Not much for romance but I do like Shakespeare :). And horror



    I love Shakespeare!!!!!!!!!! Have you read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?

    Yep, had to read it for an English class back in high school. It was really good!!

    Sisierra, Dracula was another book I had to read for school, lol. Also very good! I love vamps and weres and stuff like that. I'm in the process of writing my own series right now :3
  • Megdonald1
    Megdonald1 Posts: 149 Member
    I'm completely offended by the word nerd......


    I might believe that a little bit more if your screen name wasn't like the GREATEST of ALL TIME SUPERHEROS!!
  • jlenz74
    jlenz74 Posts: 30
    Nora Roberts is an excellent romance writer! She also writes under J.D. Robb which offers more suspense/romance! Of course I have heard alot of buzz about the 50 shades of grey series. I havent read those yet but they are on my list!
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    You should check out Simon R Green his Nightside books are awesome so are the books in the Forest Kingdom. Also they are a short but good read the Percy Jackson Series is great.

    I've totally read a couple of books in the Nightside Series! You should check out The Fallen series by Thomas Sniegoski, its not as dark as the Nightside series but great nonetheless!
  • SpecialKitty7
    SpecialKitty7 Posts: 678 Member
    I've enjoyed anything by Patricia Briggs. Her Mercy Thomson novels are better than the Alpha and Omega ones IMO. I also read the Anita Blake series by Laurell Hamilton and the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris.
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    Nora Roberts is an excellent romance writer! She also writes under J.D. Robb which offers more suspense/romance! Of course I have heard alot of buzz about the 50 shades of grey series. I havent read those yet but they are on my list!

    I've read Master of the Universe, its by the same author of 50 shades, and apparently they are VERY similar if you have an ebook reader I can e-mail you the PDF!
  • unsuspectingfish
    unsuspectingfish Posts: 1,176 Member
    I'm told Kelley Armstrong's books are good. They're teen paranormal romance. I just got done with Mockingjay and a zombie book called Dog Blood, and I'm working on In The Woods by Tana French and Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, neither of which are paranormal or romance.

    Oh, and I recommend any book by Christopher Moore. They're all supernatural/horror, all contain romance, and are all hilarious.
  • PonyTailedLoser
    PonyTailedLoser Posts: 315 Member
    So many great reads. Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest Trilogy. Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series. Anything by Stephen R Donaldson. Patricia Cornwell. The Pendergast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child to name a few :)
  • aki7chien
    aki7chien Posts: 85 Member
    Another great series (to me) are the Clan of the Cave Bears series by Jane Auel.
  • ajhr
    ajhr Posts: 92 Member
    Hi!

    A few of my favourite books:
    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    Watership Down - Richard Adams
    The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
    Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
    A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe

    I also enjoy reading young adult fiction, and particularly love the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • sisierra
    sisierra Posts: 659 Member
    Fellow book nerd here! Not much for romance but I do like Shakespeare :). And horror



    I love Shakespeare!!!!!!!!!! Have you read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?

    Yep, had to read it for an English class back in high school. It was really good!!

    Sisierra, Dracula was another book I had to read for school, lol. Also very good! I love vamps and weres and stuff like that. I'm in the process of writing my own series right now :3

    Writing your own series?! You are such a BAMF!!! But I would definitely recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon to you. I don't if you want to try out the Paranormal Romance but the action in there is absolutely divine!
  • anabell31
    anabell31 Posts: 268
    I'm told Kelley Armstrong's books are good. They're teen paranormal romance. I just got done with Mockingjay and a zombie book called Dog Blood, and I'm working on In The Woods by Tana French and Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, neither of which are paranormal or romance.

    Oooh, zombies. Cherie Priest has a great series of zombie books set in the Civil War era. The first one is Boneshaker I believe, and Dreadnaught was really good.

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