I would like some book recommendations.....?

Question

Here is my "top 10 favorite books of all time" Based on this list is there anybody out there who can give me some great book recommendations?
ps> I also just finished Nelson Demille's "NIghtfall" and loved it.
"Ahab's Wife"
"The Poisonwood Bible"
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
"The Power of One"
"Roots"
"I Know This Much is True"
"To Kill A Mockingbird"
"Memoirs of Geisha"
"Lovely Bones"
"Wuthering Heights"

I'm leaving for the libraray as soon as I get a good list together....so the sooner the response the better!!!

Answer 1

Hi, well, I am a huge reader and I just read a few books that were absolutely amazing adn range from serious/mystery/adventure, to romantic/funny/philosophical...

OK here goes:

~The Psycho Ex Game
~The Da Vinci Code (I read it before I saw the movie, the book was better by far)
~The Screwtape Letters
~The Historian
~Coyote Blue
~Bridge to Terabithia
~The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
~The Truth About Diamonds (I know Nicole Richie is ridiculous, but your heart actually kind of goes out to the characters of the book)
~My Sister's Keeper (ok, so this rapidly becoming my favorite book of all time, It makes you question everything in it and it hits your heart like no other!!!)

Ok, Well, I hope that helped some and if you ever would like some more suggestions from me, feel free to e-mail me!

~JM

Answer 2

Love in The Time Of Cholera
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Grapes of Wrath
Fall on Your Knees
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
A Monk Swimming

Answer 3

Gilgamesh by Joan London
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Thornbirds by Colleen McCollough
The Reivers by William Faulkner
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Poldark by Winston Graham

Answer 4

In Watermellon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut.
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich

Answer 5

Try either of Jonathan Safran Foer's books - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" or "Everything is Illuminated". Judging from your book list, I think you'll enjoy them both.

I also absolutely adore "An Unexpected Light" - I think it's by Jason Scott. It's about a man's travels through Afghanistan. Maybe you're not into travelogues, but this is a stunningly beautiful and well-told story.

Someone else recommended Richard Brautigan. In Watermelon Sugar is a great read, but if you've never read anything by him before I highly recommend "A Confederate General in Big Sur". It's one of my all-time favorites.

"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco

Answer 6

Try these:
"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett (give it a try it's the story of a small South American country hosting a party for a Japanese business man in hopes of gaining a contract. They have invited his favorite opera singer to the party. Things take a turn when a group of guerrillas take over thinking the president is there. It's the dynamics of captor and captive and how things evolve the longer they are stuck in the house.)
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Ann Bronte (she used her brother as the model for Mr. Aurhur Huntingdon)
and if you like mysteries you might try
"The Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters

Answer 7

Try Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Answer 8

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Anansi Boys
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anything by John Steinbeck
The Ciderhouse Rules (have i got that right?)

Answer 9

You could try She's Come Undone. I really hated Wuthering Heights, but I loved Jane Eyre. Have you read any Jane Austen? There's a book called Ex-Libris that is really good.

Answer 10

The Scarlett Letter
Anna of Byzantium
Reading Lolita in Tehran