Vacation reading suggestions?

Question

I'll read anything. Classics, new fiction, non fiction....anything.

Answer 1

Classic: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings and "The Hobbit"--JRR Tolkien
Science Fiction: "The Martian Chronicles"-Ray Bradbury or anything by Isaac Asimov
Mystery: John Grisham, Earl Emerson, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allen Poe
Romance: Daphne DuMaurier or Mary Stewart
Modern: "I am David" and "Cal" and "A Memory of Running", David Guterson, Anne Tyler: ("Saint Maybe" or "Breathing Lessons" or :"A Patchwork Planet") , Anne Lamott: "Hard Laughter"
Poetry: Mary Oliver,Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and Nikki Giovanni,
Non-fiction: Maya Angelou, Frank McCourt, Jimmy Carter, Emerson, Thoreau, John Fox
Spirituality: Emmett Fox, Ernest Holmes, Roger Housden, Kent Nerburn

Answer 2

Quest for a maid, Midnight for Charlie Bone, Harry Potter books, Stravaganza, Roahl Dahl books, Ella Enchanted, Daughter of the forest, Oracle betrayed, Princess diaries, The angus thongs books, V.C. Andrews books, The series of unfortunate events, Midnight Magic, A great and Terrible beauty, Riding Freedom, Esparenza rising, Any Tamora Pierce book, Posion, Phoenix Dance, Eva Ibbotson books, Chris Paolini books, Donna Jo Napoli books, The Narnia books, Lord of the rings, Pirates, Bloody Jack, Firebringer, Memories of a Geisha (I know I spelled that wrong), The sight, Narnia books, Cirque Du Freak, The water mirror, or The never-ending story.

Answer 3

Any book by eighther Frank Peretti or Ted Dekker and the books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Books by Frank Peretti: This Present Darkness, Peircing the Darkness(2nd book), The Prophet, The Visitation, and The Oath
Books by Ted Dekker: Black, Red(2nd book), White(3rd book), THR3E, and House(by Frank and Ted)
Books by Douglas and Lincoln: THe Cabinet of Curosities (3rd book in series, start with this), then go to: Still Life with Crows, then Brimstone, then Dance of Death.
I also recommend the 5 people you meet in Heaven and the Phantom of the Opera. If you saw the Phantom of the Opera it is completely different in the book.

Answer 4

Memoirs of a Geisha is really good.
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty series if you like ummmmmm dark erotica
DaVinci Code is decent
Pretty much anything by Ann Rice
Chronicles of Narnia

Answer 5

I have just come back from Greece (fab...go!) and I couldn't put down Nando Parrado's 'Miracle in The Andes' The most incredible true story, told by a man who knows what life is about.

I would by the way, second, 'Memoirs of a Geisha' subtle, moving and absorbing.

Answer 6

The Secret Life of Bees

Answer 7

Elizabeth Berg - "Range of Motion" A really moving story by an amazing author. Her books aren't too long so you can probably finish it over your vacation.

Answer 8

"The Chrysalids", by John Wyndham. The best imaginitive fiction i have ever had the pleasure to read.

Answer 9

if you like sci-fi and fantasy better check out Dresden files book series by Jim Butcher.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters-vampires,werewolves,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Another good series is the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.The books provide an alternate take on vampires.People who are unjustly murdered call upon Artemis(Greek goddess) and she grants them a day to avenge themselves.After that they are recruited to her army to fight against evil.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.Its about a young French sailor who was unjustly imprisoned for 14 years before he escapes and ultimately takes revenge on his enemies

If you like duels and intergue try Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.Its about Andre-Louis an illegitimate young lawyer who swears a vendetta against the noble man Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr who killed his friend.Its set in the days before and during the French Revolution.You can download this from gutenberg.org.

If you like fantasy try the Dragon Jousters series by Mercedes Lackey.The first book 'Joust', is about Vetch a young serf who is rescued by a Dragon Jouster from his cruel master.He becomes a Dragon boy(one who takes care of dragons).Later he secretly hatches his own dragon.The later two books are about how he escapes to his native Alta and how the war between Alta and Tia ends.The setting reminds you of Ancient Egypt.

Take a Thief by Mercedes Lackey is about a young boy Skif who is ill-treated by his relatives.He later falls in with a gang of thieves and becomes a master thief.Later he gets bonded with a talking horse and is admitted to a Herald's College.

Door to december by dean koontz.
A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

Answer 10

James Patterson is one of my favorites. Suspense, intrigue, and it's good vacation reading because he keeps his chapters fairly short in length.