can anyone give me the names of some good novels?

Question

novels which we feel like reading and reading ..which we feel like not leaving them until completed

Answer 1

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 who works as a detective.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,Galloway 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.

Hunter's moon,Moon's web are novels about a werewolf Tony Giodone who is an assassin-for-hire by profession.It is written from Tony's first person POV (point of view).Tony meets his new client, one Suzi Quentin. She wanted someone offed. Well, this is child's play to our boy...um...wolf...Tony. Only she knocks him for a loop when she tells him the name of the person she wants killed - herself!So begins the story.

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.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?

I liked the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey.The books I liked in the series are Exile's honor,Exile's valor and Take a thief.

The review given below is about Exile's honor.
Valdemar and Karse have long been enemies. The Karse have made an art of it, sending bandits to plunder Valdemar, having their priests train the people to believe that anyone with a Herald's Gift is a demon in need of death. Alberich of Karse, newly-made captain and gifted with a handsome white stallion, has never formally committed himself to battle with his hereditary enemy. He has the gift of foresight, which he has long tried long to hide, but cannot when he sees that a village is about to be attacked and destroyed. He rallies his men, and saves the lives of many, only to forfeit his own. Two men who wanted his commission take advantage of the situation and have a Priest condemn him as a demon. They throw him in a small barn, planning to burn him to death. His white stallion charges in to save him, but he is still badly burned. This stallion, a Companion named Kantor takes him to Valdemar, where he is healed... only to find himself facing a whole new set of problems.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

The 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.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad history.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

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.

Rebecca Paisley-A basket of wishes.
Its about a fairy Splendour who is ordered to marry a human( a duke).The poor hero is confused by the woman who will shrink if not kissed regularly,drinks apricot face lotion.On top of that he is harassed by splendour's sister who even turns him into a snail.His cousin Emil thinks that Splendour is exactly what the doctor ordered for the staid ,boring Jordan.

Answer 2

Choosing a good novel is a matter of your personal choices. What type of book do you like to read? In Sci Fi catagory I loved The Foundation series by Issac Asminov, In Fantasy the Wheel of Time series of books is quite good. In mystery any of Sara Parasky's books are very entertaining. In adventure Clive Cussler especially the Dirk Pitt series of books are exciting. In the classic catagory my first love was The Count of Monte Cristo and of course John Steinbeck never let me down and Mark Twain. The list goes on and on but I have been at it for many years now. :)

Answer 3

One that my brother told me about is "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, as well as the Ender's series. They are really good. Also, if you like Science-Fiction, try Phillip K. Dick books, they are really good. Minority Report was based on a short story of his, although the end I'm told is very different. Also, look up Isaac Asimov. Brilliant writer, he wrote all sorts of things, and not only Science-Fiction, or even fiction in general. There are also classics like Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, etc. etc., and even some older ones, if you have a little more patience, like Charles Dickens, Alexander Dumas, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, etc. etc. Try new things out too; don't read only what others suggest - look for something that interests you.

Answer 4

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Of Mice and Men by John Stienbeck and most other classics...there are also some childish books that i have enjoyed immensely: Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted, Edward Eager books, books by C.S. Lewis, and the Royal Diaries series books, Caroline B. Cooney books etc.

Answer 5

King Fortis the Brave by Michael R. LaMontagne and Ronald E. Snyder. It's a young adult novel, so if you're looking for something more adult this might not be the book for you. But it's one I've used in the classroom several times and I never get tired of it (and the students all seem to love it too).

Answer 6

Some of my favorites:

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Contact- Carl Sagan

All Quiet On the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque

Answer 7

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Good Omens, Anansi Boys
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the RIngs, Hobbit

Answer 8

The Historian (about dracula and the Cold War)
Anil's Ghost (about Sri Lanka)
The Crimson Petal and the White (about Victorian prostitutes)
East of Eden
Light in August

Answer 9

The Kite Runner, Middlesex, Secret Life of Bees, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Memoirs of a Geisha,Lovely Bones, anything by Jane Austen, The Other Boleyn Girl, Into Thin Air, Year of Wonders....
of course it depends on what you like, but I really enjoyed these...

Answer 10

Roger Zelazny- The Chronicles of Amber
Frank Herbert- The Dune series
George R.R. Martin- The Song of Ice and Fire

Answer 11

Alright, these are the best books ever. They are written by Janet Evonovich...there are 11 in the series...starts off with One for the Money, Two for the Dough...etc. It is about this clutz who becomes a bounty hunter and messes everything up. It is sexual, hillarious, and you won't want to put it down till the end and then you will want to start the next one. Great books!