Great books any recommendations?

Question

I love almost every genre, but not to keen on romance. And is modern literature better that the old ones??

Answer 1

let me answer the second part of your query, first.
i am of the opinion that the pre-modern literature is indeed superior to the latter. most of the modern literature, i have felt, are just 'literary derivations' of the older ones. not much of substance. do note the 'most'. there are exceptions too.
you read kafka, garcia marquez, thakazhy shivashankara pillai and vilasini(india), tagore, gunter grass, kahlil gibran
must-reads-gorky, tolstoy, good old shakespeare, milton, blake, chaucer, dickens, wodehouse.
and please do check out the site www.gutenberg.org

happy and fruitful reading!

Answer 2

I really liked a few books I have read in the past year. Here are a few fiction books to get you started. NOTE: I don't know the authors, but you should be able to find them on Amazon or at your local bookstore.

The Lovely Bones (awesome book!)

The Historian buy Elizabeth Kostova (very exciting and compelling reading)

The Secret Life of Bees (poignant and I couldn't put it down)

The DaVinci Code (of course - but very, very good if you haven't tried it yet!)

Angels and Demons (by the same author as DaVinci Code - but I thought this book was almost better!)

Take Big Bites by Linda Ellerbee (what a great travel, anecdotal book with awesome recipes incorporated into the story - a must read if you love adventure and good food!)

I love books! Have fun!!

Answer 3

All right, I got quite a few. The Firm by John Grisham is an awesome, fun read. Also check out The Da Vinci Code. Fun, enjoyable, and full of intrigue. And if you like young-adult books, try Harry Potter if you haven't already, anything of Meg Cabot is good, try reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini, super incredible book, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, no romance in there, I promise, well, hardly, Shadowmancer and Wormwood by G.p. Taylor, good religious/fantasy, anything by Stephen King, Deep in the Darkness by Michael Laimo, not a warm cozy horror story at all, try Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Lord of Snow and Shadows by Sarah Ash, try the Pendragon series, and so on. Happy reading!

Answer 4

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Houndred Years of Solitude
Virginia Woolf: Orlando

Answer 5

Dang, i replaced into going to advise Twilight! nicely, if not that, then how about...New Moon =) (the sequel) i don't understand what type of books you're searching for... the golf eco-friendly Rider sequence, through Kristen Britain, are fairly solid (although there're in straightforward words 2 out, the third is taking a at the same time as!). it really is type of myth/journey. one among my favourites from at the same time as i replaced right into a baby: Ella Enchanted, through Gail Carson Levine. definite, i'd nonetheless examine it over and once extra if i might want to get my fingers on it. a lot extra acceptable than the movie--to me, the movie replaced into an utter sadness. I loved A tale of two cities (Charles Dickens) and the guy contained in the Iron mask (Alexandre Dumas) finally, in case you want historic fiction, you may want to attempt Philippa Gregory. I examine her e book The consistent Princess, about Queen Katherine of Aragon, yet at the same time as she replaced right into a woman first coming to England to be wed and all that... How's that? =)

Answer 6

Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 7

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Answer 8

Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts i would recommend to anyone it's a brilliant read i feel in love with India just reading this book

Answer 9

House of Secrets by Lowell Cauffiel

Eddie Lee Sexton is evil incarnate. Like Charles Manson, he exercised a cult-like mind control over others who did his dirty work. But unlike Manson, both Sexton's victims and his subjects were his very own flesh and blood." As strong as they are, these words from an assistant district attorney barely hint at the depravity hidden for years within the Sexton family. Strange notions about "Futuretrons" and hand markings that convey absolute power, revelations of incest and physical abuse, bodies buried in the camping area of a Florida state park-- House of Secrets has so many layers of weirdness that it will amaze even seasoned readers of true crime. Lowell Cauffiel has a talent for combining quotations from interviews and unembellished facts into prose that reads like a novel. Two people are dead, and the children who suffered the cruel fate of being born into the Sexton family may never completely heal from their injuries--but at least their story has been told!

Seldom in the annals of modern true crime has a father exerted such a depraved influence on his children. Eddie Lee Sexton's control was so total that he was actually able to order his kids to commit cold-blooded murder. On an October night in 1993, at one of the campgrounds dotting Florida's Gulf Coast, Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. It seems almost inconceivable, but the young mother obediently smothered her helpless eight-month-old infant son. Two days later, the tiny corpse - a rattle in his hand and a pacifier in his mouth - was stuffed inside a gym bag and buried in a shallow grave, just a few feet from the family's campsite. Less than a month later, the Sexton patriarch would issue another homicidal command. To stop the dead baby's father, Joel Good, from going to the authorities, Eddie Lee ordered son Willie to strangle the bereaved dad during a family picnic. Pixie, so under her father's thumb that she had already committed infanticide, reportedly helped cover up husband Joel's murder. Sexton was priming his third victim when the FBI and Florida cops finally caught up with him. After the ensuing investigation sparked a six-hour standoff with local cops, Sexton took his family on the run. When it was finally over, he and other members of the Sexton clan would be linked with crimes ranging from fraud, arson, extortion, and armed robbery, to conspiracy, child abuse, incest, and murder. By early 1995, Sexton would be sitting on death row, waiting for a date with Florida's electric chair.

Answer 10

I still like the old books. I can't think of any good books. I have read a lot but I don't thinl you and I have the same taste by the sounds of it.