I'm looking for a good summer read, not drippy romance either. Any suggestions on a good fiction book?

Question

I'm looking for a good book that is fiction but resembles a real regular person's life. Any suggestions for my summer read?

Answer 1

Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey....the best book I've ever read!!!You won't be able to put it down

Answer 2

Yola I'm going into 8th grade too, and I've read like 49 books in the last semester. Here are some of my favorites -Click Here to Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade (it's actually really dood) -I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You -Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse -Bridesmaid -Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (you may have to search for that one, but it's actually really good. It's a british series, being made into a movie in July) -The Alice Series All of these were really good ones, and most of them are really easy reads. I found that the Angus Thongs books were really funny, because they had alot of the perverted things that are going through the minds of your average 12-16 year old's head. Georgia, the main character, goes through snogging lessons, boyfriends, crazy sisters, and mich more. Hope you enjoy!!

Answer 3

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.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

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.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind are also good books by the same author.

Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?

Answer 4

Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring by Neil J. Lehto. Visit the book's website at http://www.algonquinelegy.com. It's a fictional investigation into the remarkable true story of Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson's drowning in Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake in 1917.

Answer 5

Try "Motherless Brooklyn" by Jonathan Lethem. Nominally a detective novel, it's a literary tour de force with the narrator suffering from Tourette's Syndrome. It won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction.

Answer 6

I'm in the middle of "Shem Creek" by Dorothea Benton Frank, it's great so far. Very much the story of a regular person, a woman with two kids trying to start her life over when she moves from the city back to her old hometown in the south.

Answer 7

Have you ever read any of Michael Cunningham's books? The last one, Specimen Days, was not so good, but the rest of them were great. Atonement by Ian McEwan is another great book.

Answer 8

If you haven't read it already, The Kiterunner.... amazing book, no romance, its fiction but the background is a true historical period in Afghanistan.

Answer 9

Sure a great read would be Dan Browns Angels and Demons, very excellent book.

Answer 10

Anything by Matthew Reilly or Jack DuBrul or Stuart Woods.

Answer 11

Maggie Shayne is a great author. I have read several books of hers and the are the best