Got some good books to read?

Question

Ok, so I'm at a point where I've read so many books that I'm beginning to recognize similarities...and it seems as if all books are the same. Does anyone have any suggestions for some GOOD, original fiction books to read?

Answer 1

How about the Bible?
Mystery, murder, mayhem, sodomy, bestiality, depression, intrigued, revolution, prophesy, finality, sex, music, spiritualism's of the demonic kind, truth without hypocrisy.
Isn't this what every so call "Best Seller" has in it?

Answer 2

Yes, Yes and Yes!!! Debbie Macomber has a series out called Cedar Cove, there are 5 books total and the first one starts with 16 Lighthouse Road, 204 Rosewood Lane, 311 Pelican Court, 44 Cranberry Point, 50 Harbor Street. This is a great series!!! The first one starts and characters keep getting added on as the books go on. So you get to keep up with everyones lifes. It is kinda like a soap opera, but only better!!! She keeps you guessing, and there are up to 4 different things going on in the book at a time. This is one of the better series of books that I have read!! If you are looking for inspirational books, try the Left Behind Series by LaHayes and Jenkins. I just got done with the series of 12 books and they were phenomenal. I never would have thought I would like to read inspirational books.. Good luck to you.

Answer 3

Terry Pratchett Discworld Series
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Hysterically entertaining
Dave Barry's 2 fiction books: Big Trouble (way better than the movie) and Tricky Business, also the 2 he's written with Ridley Pearson : Peter & The Starcatchers, & Peter & the Shadow Thieves.
Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel : this is about as different as they come, all about how an organization decides to make money off of gifted children by "torturing" them throughout their lives to make them better artists (ie. The more an artist suffers the better quality work they produce), it focuses on one artist in particular and starts out with a letter written to him when he was a kid by the guy who spends the next 20 yrs ruining every happy moment he has.
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, this is different too: set in a fictional country on the brink of civil war you'd think it was all seriousness but it can get you laughing too.
The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz: Sometimes we need a little poetry in our lives.
Now's a good time to hit the library and re-read some classics too: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
This is a good place to start but don't limit yourself here.
One last suggestion, another older classic book: The Boat of A Million Years by Poul Anderson, follows a group of people who for some unknown reason never age and can nearly be called invincible (they can die but not easily), it starts out in ancient times and ends in the far far future where by that time everyone is ageless. It is a very moving story and you can easily become attached to each of the "Immortals".

Answer 4

At First Sight - Nicholas Sparks
True Believer - Nicholas Sparks(read first before At First Sight)
4th of July - James Patterson(all the books in this women series)
A Perfect Day - Richard Paul Evans
The Last Promise - Richard Paul Evans
The Street Lawyer - John Grisham
No Place Like Home - Mary Higgins Clark
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Penelope Lively - THe Photograph
The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve

That will do for now...... : )

Answer 5

Try Immoral by Brian Freeman. It has lots of twists and turns. It was on the best seller's list not too long ago and is an excellent book.

Synopsis
The deceit and closed mouths of family and friends make it difficult to discover the fate of two missing girls in this debut thriller. Everyone wants to connect the Duluth, Minnesota, disappearance of Rachel Deese, a gorgeous but incredibly amoral 17-year-old girl, with that of Kerry McGrath, a teenager from the same high school who disappeared 14 months previously. Police lieutenant Jonathan Stride has his doubts that such a link exists, but it will take three years before he is able to learn the ugly truth about what happened to each girl.

Answer 6

I would recommend Middlesex! It's got similarities, sure, but it's so expansive that you will feel that you have gotten a lot out of it by the end.... There are so many compelling, fun characters, too, that you will never be bored.

If you're ready for some nonfiction, try Random Family. It's one of the best books I've read in the past few years, hands down. A journalist follows the ups and downs of wanna-be mobsters, hot teens and welfare moms in the Bronx. Fabulous! It flies by.

Answer 7

For fiction, I *highly* recommend "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.

Are you limiting yourself to just fiction? I know some excellent non-fiction.
I recommend anything Elie Weisel, "Wasted" by Marya Hornbacher, "Without You" by Anthony Rapp, "Revenge: A Story of Hope" by Laura Blumenfeld, "The Spy Wore Red" (if you can find a copy), "All the President's Men," and "Reading Lolita in Tehran," off the top of my head. Do you tend to like darker books or more fluffy reading? What are some of your fa

Answer 8

I just read James Patterson's "Four Blind Mice." It was good. Also check out Lee Child's "Die Trying." Lee Child is a good military mystery writer. Also for light reading, try Robert Spenser's "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)." and for deeper reading, Lee Strobel's "God's Outrageous Claims." I liked the Lee Strobel book so much, I bought a copy of it for my wife and one for my mother.

I also liked C.S. Lewis's, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." It's billed as a children's book but I like C.S. Lewis so I read it anyway. It's one of the "Chronicles of Narnia."

And Walter Mosely's "Six Easy Pieces." is a good collection of short stories about a gritty problem solver in the 1960s. And anything by Elmore Leonard is cool and original with unforgettable characters and plot twists. Enjoy.

Answer 9

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, The Schwa Was Here by Neil Shusterman

Answer 10

If you've been reading only the contemporary stuff, go back a little. Try John Steinbeck, almost anything he wrote is good, but "The Grapes of Wrath," is a classic, plus, "East of Eden," and "The Winter of our Discontent," are especially good. William Falkner's, "The Sound and the Fury," is a Pulitzer prize winner, and very good. A man named Bernard Malamud wrote several novels, but there's only one worth opening. It's called, "The Fixer." One of my favorite novels of all time is Joseph Heller's, "Catch 22." Robert Raurk wrote two very good novels set in Africa, "The Honey Badger," and "Uhuru." Kurt Vonnegut's stuff is great. It's really unusual with unexpected twists and turns. If you don't try anything else from this list, read, "A Confederate General from Big Sur," I can't remember who wrote the thing, and you may have to go to the library to find it. It's pretty short, but it's hilarious.

Anyway, there's some writing for you to consider. If you try some of them it'll get you out of your rut. Happy reading.

Answer 11

The Pilots Wife
anythind by Jodi Picuolt