I need some new reading material. What is the best book(s) you have ever read?

Answer 1

Depends if you want serious books or light books for serious books i recommend middlesex and kite runner and History of love
if you want light books i'll add som e
Middlesex- (Reveiw from Amazon) I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.

Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:

Kite runner- The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.

History of LoveNicole Krauss's The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is left to wonder what really happened. In the hands of a less gifted writer, unraveling this tangled web could easily give way to complete chaos. However, under Krauss's watchful eye, these twists and turns only strengthen the impact of this enchanting book.

The History of Love spans of period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love. Leo Gursky is a retired locksmith who immigrates to New York after escaping SS officers in his native Poland, only to spend the last stage of his life terrified that no one will notice when he dies. ("I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even though I'm not thirsty.") Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer vacillates between wanting to memorialize her dead father and finding a way to lift her mother's veil of depression. At the same time, she's trying to save her brother Bird, who is convinced he may be the Messiah, from becoming a 10-year-old social pariah. As the connection between Leo and Alma is slowly unmasked, the desperation, along with the potential for salvation, of this unique pair is also revealed.

Answer 2

It depends on what genre you like reading and your age, etc...
But some really good classic books are:
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1984 by George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Answer 3

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Rage of Angels, Sidney Sheldon
Anything by Lawrence Sanders is good
I just finished " The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime",. pretty good, also "A Million Little Pieces", "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold was excellent. Hope this helps, I work for a bookstore so I get alot of books and love to read.

Answer 4

Life of Pi, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Lovely Bones, Me Talk Pretty One Day, I like James Patterson's 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree, 4th of July, John Grisham has some classics, Marley and Me was great! Eat, Shoots and Leaves, French Women Don't Get Fat, The Devil In The White City, Stiff, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Just a few to get you started, it's a mix, so you can choose what you like.

enjoy.

Answer 5

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Glass Castle, and Until They Bring the Streetcars Back These are all pretty good books. I came back to read the responses, and someone wrote Marley & Me. That is such a good book.

Answer 6

Books by Kurt Vonnegut, The Jesus Mysteries by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Answer 7

Blind Alley, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Five People You Meet In Heaven are a few books to check out.

Answer 8

The Brothers Karamozov
The Master and Margarita

Answer 9

The Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky

Answer 10

Invisible Man