Can anyone recommend any good books?

Question

I like reading any thing but would like to know what are some interesting books. Thanks

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,fallen angels,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.

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?

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

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 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 2

Recommended Reading

Non-Fiction

Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
The Society Of Mind - Marvin Minsky
The New Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain - Betty Edwards
Wrinkles In Time - George Smoot & Keay Davidson
The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
Fingerprints Of The Gods - Graham Hancock


Fiction, General

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
Rising Sun - Michael Crichton
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The Collected Poems Of A.E. Housman - A.E. Housman


Fiction, Science

A Call To Arms - Alan Dean Foster
A Matter For Men - David Gerrold
A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
A Deepness In The Sky - Vernor Vinge
Encounter With Tiber - Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
Passage At Arms - Glen Cook
The Dragon Never Sleeps - Glen Cook
Emprise - Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Cosm - Gregory Benford
Neuromancer - William Gibson
All My Sins Remembered - Joe Haldeman
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Contact - Carl Sagan
Anvil Of Stars - Greg Bear
The Forge Of God - Greg Bear

Answer 3

Have you tried reading novels by Janet Evanocich? Her book are hilarious.
PLUM SERIES
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One For the Money
Two For the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
The Last Peep (short story in the Mary Higgins Clark anthology The Plot Thickens)
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven On Top
Twelve Sharp

Answer 4

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, American Gods by Neil Gaimin, The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan, The Princess Bride by William Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (a young adult book, but interesting none the less!) I also second the suggestion for Secret Life of Bees! :)

If you like "controversial" literature, I also suggest checking out this link for a list of books that have been banned over the years!

Answer 5

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (3 books)
The Eragon Series by Christopher Paolini (2 out, 3rd to be released)
The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (7+ books)
The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine (4 books, more to come)
The Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires series by Charlaine Harris (5+ books)
The Flowers trilogy by Nora Roberts (Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, Red Lily)
The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison (starts with Dead Witch Walking - 4 books so far)
In Shadowside by Elizabeth Ashe (sequel to be written....)
Anything by Dean Koontz, although especially Cold Fire, Lightning and The Bad Place

Those are just off the top of my head. Most are related to the supernatural in some form - magic, ghosts, the djinn, etc.

Answer 6

1. The Count of Monte Christo (classic)
2. Braveheart (based on a true story)
3. The Sword of Shannara (fantasy)
4. In the Hall of the Dragon King (fantasy)
5. The Princess Bride (fantasy)
6. Watership Down (I read it when I was younger, it's about rabbits)
7. Pirates! (naturally it's about Pirates! ;)
8. The Negotiator by Dee Henderson (really good books!)
9. and Tahn by L.A. Kelly (fantasy? It's a hard one to classify)

Well, happy reading to you! :)

Answer 7

Check out the following authors and books:

Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony), Keri Hulme (The Bone People), Caryl Phillips (The Nature of Blood), Alexie Sherman (Indian Killer), Jonathan Safran-Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated), Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Memories of my Melancholy Whores), Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

If you're looking for a light, comic read check out "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon - it's funny, but it's not so stupid as to waste you're brain cells. Also, all of Terry Pratchett's Disc World series are really funny - satirical. And Neil Gaimon's "Neverwhere" is a good, intriguing read. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is REALLY good, but it may be daunting for you since he just released his 11th book in the series, there will be 12.

And I almost forgot Christopher Moore - I'm enjoying his "Lamb: the gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal" right now

Answer 8

Interesting fiction books...

I just finished reading the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. (Uglies, Pretties, and Specials). And I would definitely consider them interesting.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is definitely an "interesting" love story of a girl and a vampire....and it's the first of a series...which I don't know about you but I love to read series. It gives you the chance to know your characters and watch them change and grow...and the adventures they get into!

Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card are great reads too. Both start series as well.

Interesting nonfiction...
Guinea Pig Scientists
Invisible Allies
Dear Miss Breed

Answer 9

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz is really good. I'm a dude and the ending made ME cry! lol

You might also want to try the WorldWar/Colonization/Homeward bound series (each has it's own little mini-series that ties into the next). It's written by Harry Turtledove and it's an eight-book series that took me over a year to finish. I'm not sure if this genre's for you though, but it's a little sci-fi; he prefers to call it "alternate history." Really cool series. Enjoy!

Answer 10

King Fortis the Brave was a really great book - kind of a cross between Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia - I had a hard time putting it down