Can anybody recommend a good book?

Question

I like almost anything except romance.

Answer 1

Anything by Steven King, The Dark elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

Answer 2

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was already mentioned - it is a wonderful book. It's listed as sci-fi in bookstores, but it does not focus on aliens or explaining weird technology... it's all about the story and characters.

For fantasy, go for Harry Potter, but be sure to start at the beginning. Easy reads, fun stories.

If you're looking for something more thought-provoking and less action-filled, Moby Dick is a good choice. Not for someone who's looking for a good story or plot, but definitely for someone who loves words and the musing of an author's view of the world.

For something more centered in reality, Blue Like Jazz is an excellent choice. Really got me thinking about life without scaring me to death.

Answer 3

The Bible, for starters. Then I would recommend "Thier Eyes Were Watching God" (an extremely good African American story) and "Smashed" (a type of biography by a young, recovered female alcoholic) and "The Devil In The White City" (a murder mystery) and "All Creatures Great And Small" (a very nice, sometimes comical book written by a veternarian about animals in his practice) and "The Stand" (by Stephen King)These cover a wide variety of interests.

Answer 4

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. It is a little strange but if you like philosophy you'll enjoy it. a jew and an arab open a restaurant together across form the United Nations. A girl who fancies herself an artist has to come to terms with her new husband's success in the art world. the main characters are a sock, a can of beans, a painted stick, a spoon and a conch shell. it sounds weird but i've read it 4 times and every time, when i read the last 100 or so pages it's like "Hell yeah! Finally somebody gets it!"

Answer 5

Yeah, 1984 you should actually provide a attempt. Farenheit 451 is kinda resembling that yet i did not truly like it. and that i understand Artemis poultry will be an consumer-friendly examine for you yet i'm round you're age and that i nonetheless examine the present one at the same time as it got here out because they're merely witty and funky. Plus, Jonathon Stroud- i love Bartimaeus trilogy... some solid stuff precise there! you've solid style in books!

Answer 6

The Vampire Chronicles series (begins with Interview With the Vampire) and the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series (begins with The Witching Hour) by Anne Rice.

A Density of Souls and The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice.

Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding (it's sort of romancey, but much more comedy).

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella (same as above).

The Dollanganger series (starts with Flowers in the Attic) and the Casteel series (starts with Heaven) by VC Andrews. (Again, sort of romancey, especially the latter, but very dramatic and well worth it!)

Answer 7

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason. If you like books that infuse history and a good plot, then this is the book for you. It reminds me of some of Dan Brown's work.

Answer 8

Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka.

Answer 9

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,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

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?

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.

Answer 10

Robert Ludlum - Jason Borne trilogy