Any really good books that you want to recomend?

Question

I'm looking for summer books to read, please include title, author, and details.

Answer 1

Hi there. I'm the author of a new medieval fantasy book that you might like. It's a coming of age story about a young Scot and his Irish love interest, but it's also a terrific fantasy adventure. It has received excellent reviews in the national media and is being considered for a movie deal.

The title is THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY. It's 445 pages of action, adventure, magic, mystery and mayhem. If you like Conan style books and you're not afraid of a little blood being spilled, you'll like this book. If you're looking for a Harry Potter clone, this may not be for you. It's rated PG-13 by most libraries.

If you want to try it out, request my FREE, illustrated four chapter pdf eBook demo from [e-mail]. That way, you can see if you like the story without spending a dime. Fair enough?

Good luck, whatever you decide to read!

Jon Baxley
Author, THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY
(A new medieval fantasy epic from Thomson Gale and Five Star Publishing--available now in hard cover and eBook)

Answer 2

You're asking for summer books, so I'll take that to mean the kinds of books you can pick up, read a little, put down, then pick up again when you have the time. I'm a big fan of Janet Evanovich and her crime/romance series starring Stephanie Plum. The books have numbers in their titles:

One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score (my favorite in the series)
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven On Top
And, coming in July, Twelve Sharp.

Stephanie Plum is a former buyer for a lingerie dealer who gets downsized and goes looking for work from her cousin, a bail bondsman. Stephanie becomes a bond enforcement agent, aka a bounty hunter. She's romantically involved with Joe Morelli, a Trenton, NJ vice cop, but there's also this other top kick bounty hunter named Ranger who has the hots for Stephanie too.

Excellent mystery/crime stories blended with Stephanie's crazy personal life and a wonderful cast of characters make for great reading.

If you prefer something more classical, with beautiful language and plenty of wit and social commentary, you can't do much better than the writings of Jane Austen.

Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion (my favorite)
Northanger Abbey

Austen writes about life among the wealthy and semi-wealthy of Regency England. Most women are occupied in playing "the marriage game," which means catching a man who has an annual income that will allow them to live in fashionable comfort. This is very difficult for the girls who have little money themselves. That problem is at the heart of Pride and Prejudice, Austen's greatest work. I own the four versions of this book made into movies and miniseries for TV. I look forward to buying the latest movie version now on DVD, which stars Kiera Knightley as the admirable Elizabeth Bennet.

Happy reading!

Answer 3

Oh my...........some books that I love:
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles:
1.) Interview with the Vampire
2.) The Vampire Lestat
3.) Queen of the Damned
4.) The Tale of the Body Thief
5.) Memnoch the Devil
6.) The Vampire Armand
7.) Merrick
8.) Blood & Gold
9.) Pandora
10.) Vittorio the Vampire
These books serve as a tool,oddly enough,meant for unlocking terra incognita and everything that we wish & hope for.They are a symbol for the outsiders in all of us.These vampires are not cheesy at all.Rather,they are gifted with otherworldly intellect and a perpetual hunger.......that ironically leads them to value the life of a fragile human-being.
Whatever........read for yourself.You won't forget it.Anne Rice will give you the power of the psychoanalytical elite.

Answer 4

Depends on your tastes, but if you're looking for some really good Historical Fiction, Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series is top notch. 6 books in this order:

Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
Fiery Cross
Breath of Snow and Ashes

Basic premises: Army nurse in WW2 in Scotland on a 2nd honeymoon with her husband. She steps into a circle of standing stones and gets thrown back in time 200 years. Book 1 is about her travels and tribulations during her time in the mid 18th century, as well as her love affair with a Scottish chap, told in breathtaking detail. Really brings Scotland, the people and the culture to life.

Book 2 is set in France and continues the story of the two protagonists as they set out to sabotage the Jacobite rising under the leadership of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Book 3 takes them to the Indies where some crazy scary voodoo takes place.

Book 4 lands them in the New World. Along with 5 and 6, these books tell the story of what leads up to the American Revolution.

Sadly, and incorrectly, these books are marketed under romance. It's a travesty because they neither follow the cookie cutter pattern of romance novels nor reach the level of smuttiness to be found therein. That's not to say that romance isn't an element of the books...it factors in heavily, but it's much more artfully presented than in romance/trash novels. Also, the sheer amount of research that has gone into these novels is staggering. You don't get that kind of background in romance novels. (Each of these books is at least 850 pages long. Half of them are around 1100 pages long. But they go FAST!)

Anyway, I would highly recommend these books if you're interested in this genre.

P.S. lotuseater: "Count of Monte Cristo"! YES! One of the best novels I've ever read. It took about 300 pages in for me to really get into it, but once I got there...oh my! Fantastic!

Answer 5

Great question!
"What Lies Beneath" by Wally Lamb. It deals with a girl's coming of age in a most disfunctional way. I read it in a day and couldn't put it down!

"Blindness" by Jose Saramago. Read this in college. Saramago combines filth with beauty in a way that can't be compared to anything or anyone else. It basically deals with people who are suddenly struck blind and then have to survive in a chaotic society.

"Invisible Man" by Ralph Waldo Ellison. Read this in college. Should be required reading for everyone. Metaphorically, without giving the whole plot away, it deals with a black man being treated like a dog, like he's invisible.

Answer 6

Katherine by Anya Seton

It's based on a very romantic true story of an English prince who fell in love with a commoner. He couldn't marry her, but their love survived nearly thirty years of war, separation and infidelity. It's a great read. It really plops you down into all the grittiness of medieval life while still managing to be an uplifting read.

Answer 7

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.


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.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.

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 is strongly Ancient Egyptian.

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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

Answer 8

I say the De Venci Code. You can find the tittle, author and any details in any book stores.

Answer 9

Never let me go by Chuck Rosenthal

It about growing up, dealing with some major crap involving confusion with love, sex, drugs, etc.

Its autobiographical and I think a must read for anyone who cares about children and is just going through a tough time in life in general.

It helped me out a lot.

Answer 10

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I just read it and it was wonderful. Here's a link where you'll find several reviews...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594480001/qid=1150618075/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-4919381-7388021?s=books&v=glance&n=283155