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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Bumping cause I am always looking for a good book.
  • bazaar1982
    bazaar1982 Posts: 159 Member
    If you liked hunger games etc, try delirium by lauren Oliver, Uglies by Scott Westerfield z(rubbish book name but great story) and divergent by Veronica Roth.

    For something a bit different try Dark inside.
  • kristy6ward
    kristy6ward Posts: 332 Member
    Give Jasper FForde a try. He's got a pretty long Thursday Next series that involves her going into 'Book World', expect to see classic characters and places you've probably read about. Also has a nursery crimes series. It's murder/mystery involving all your favorite nursery rhyme characters told in a darker, crazy witty way. And my favorite..Shades of Grey, which is a crazy inventive book about people being ranked in society by their color-sightedness.
  • awisegirl84
    awisegirl84 Posts: 82 Member
    I'm seconding fifty shades of gray. I freakin' hate reading and in 2 days I finished the 2 out of 3 books from the trilogy. I highly recommend it if you like sex.
    Oh so THAT's why every woman on Earth is reading it... I did wonder.

    It's a sadism, whips and chains, BDSM trilogy :D And before everyone opens their mouth all appalled at me. I didn't know what it was, bought it, every security guard in the airport stopped me to ask what chapter I was on, and they were all farther. The flight attendant also stopped me and asked about it.

    I finished it and left it at my very 'vanilla' moms house one night and in the morning I found it half open in the living room table. I asked her how she was finding it and she said "oh I guess it would be ok for anyone who would be into that kind of thing" and then she told me she was on chapter 16...after one night and staying up late to read it lol. She's now on the second book and has recommended it to several people, including dad. She told a friend in the hospital today that she had to put it down a couple times because it leaves nothing to the imagination and was sick...but I would say that's lies considering she was on chapter 16 :P

    50 Shades for sure!!
    Also the Hush, Hush series by...Becca Fitzpatrick. The 4th and final book should be out in October, I think
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    listen to Confessions of a Shopaholic on CD, one of my favorites
    Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series (One for the Money)
  • Jain
    Jain Posts: 861 Member
    Early George RR Martin, Fever Dream and Armageddon Rag.
    Anything by Neil Gaiman
    50 Shades
    And if you like vampires & sex, the Anita Blake books by Laurell K Hamilton.
  • TealStar13
    TealStar13 Posts: 165
    Jen Lancaster is hysterical!!!

    Jenny Lawson is fantastic!!

    I love Jen Lancaster!! :)
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series
    Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
  • pam6870
    pam6870 Posts: 100 Member
    The Walk Series by Richard Paul Evans
  • Bippie252
    Bippie252 Posts: 14
    I'm a huge werewolf buff. Movies, books, tv shows. I've been hooked since I was a kid. I've been reading Patricia Briggs. She has a whole Alpha/Omega series. But she does other story lines too.
  • Arani70
    Arani70 Posts: 84
    Cassandra Clare- Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series. :)

    YES, my fav book series!! It's aimed at 15 - 25's (The main character is 15-16) but the story is awesome if you love magical creatures.

    I also reccomend The true blood books (10 of them so far), Vamire academy is also an AWESOME series too!
  • shortandfaithful
    shortandfaithful Posts: 83
    I am an Amish Fiction all the way reader and I just finshed book 3 of Shades of Grey, couldn't put them down. Loved them, how can you not be intriqued by a story like that? Besides I don't want to read about a life just like mine, how boring I live that everyday. besides my guy deffinitly has nothing negative to say about me reading the triology either...... :blushing:
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    I just read American Sniper, it was an amazing true story.
    I am now reading "Post Apocalyptic Nomadic Warrior", which is sci fi comedy book.
  • JMT2711
    JMT2711 Posts: 8 Member
    Just finished "Daughters For A Time" by Jennifer Handford....an incredibly poignant and very well-written story...please check it out! But prepare to grab a box of tissues to have near you...it's a sad one (happy, too :) )
  • Ashley_Panda
    Ashley_Panda Posts: 1,404 Member
    I've read 50 shades, it was poorly written but fantastically enjoyable.
    Snow White series.
    Black Dagger Brotherhood
    Scansguard Vampires
  • HappyathomeMN
    HappyathomeMN Posts: 498 Member
    I've read 50 shades, it was poorly written but fantastically enjoyable.
    Snow White series.
    Black Dagger Brotherhood
    Scansguard Vampires

    Black Dagger seconded! (JR Ward)
    Janet Evanovich for beach reading, Dorthea Benton Frank for good stories - Sullivan's Island, Plantation, Shem Creek
    Gil McNeil - The Beach Street Knitting Society
    John Hart - The Last Child
  • Sid422
    Sid422 Posts: 77 Member
    I LOVED, "The Art of Racing in the Rain". If you like dogs at all you will LOVE this book. You will laugh out loud and probably shed a tear but it's a wonderful read or audio book.
  • 75Juniper
    75Juniper Posts: 376
    Jen Lancaster is hysterical!!!

    This!!! You will literally LOL with her, even in a public place. You won't care who's around. She has such a nice writing style, too.

    I also love Alice Hoffman.
  • Molly182
    Molly182 Posts: 406
    I like The Vanished Man and The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver

    American Assassin by Vince Flynn
  • Barbellsandthimbles
    Barbellsandthimbles Posts: 205 Member
    I third the black dagger brotherhood. I also enjoy the Sookie Stackhouse series. OH and the Fever series!
  • mamamudbug
    mamamudbug Posts: 572 Member
    Oh so THAT's why every woman on Earth is reading it... I did wonder.
    Hm, not every one.

    However, if you (people reading this thread, not you necessarily, ironanimal) enjoy that, check out the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by A.N. Roquelaire (better known as Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire et al.)

    I didn't read them, either. I did however read the Sleeping Beauty series.:bigsmile:

    My go to authors are Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn kenyon, JR Ward, Larissa Ione etc.

    LunaPhaedre, have you read Kushiel's series by Jacqueline Carey? Her main character's name is Phédre.
  • LunaPhaedra
    LunaPhaedra Posts: 71 Member
    Oh so THAT's why every woman on Earth is reading it... I did wonder.
    Hm, not every one.

    However, if you (people reading this thread, not you necessarily, ironanimal) enjoy that, check out the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by A.N. Roquelaire (better known as Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire et al.)

    I didn't read them, either. I did however read the Sleeping Beauty series.:bigsmile:

    My go to authors are Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn kenyon, JR Ward, Larissa Ione etc.

    LunaPhaedre, have you read Kushiel's series by Jacqueline Carey? Her main character's name is Phédre.

    Can't say I have. but now i'm reading about it on wikipedia :laugh: I guess that that's what this page os for, right? thanks for the recomendation :smile:

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