2006-07-20 22:20:45 · 21 answers · asked by agliotti 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
My favorite authors are:
John Irving - especially The Hotel New Hampshire
Nick Hornby - esp High Fidelity and How to be Good (actually all of them are just ridiculously awesome)
Anne Tyler - The accidental Tourist and Amature Marriage are great
Then i love rubbish suspense/thriller/mystery stuff esp Karin Slaughter (who is the only author to ever create a character that I have an actual crush on - Jeffrey Tolliver just seems broodily yummy...)
Of course I've read every Harry Potter book two or three times over.
Dan Brown didn't live up to the hype - was a bit convenient but still interesting. Eager to read the Illuminati one.
Currently have run out of thoughts....
2006-07-20 22:37:11 · update #1
Deltora Quest (the series) by EMily Rodda. book of magic and monsters unbelievable plot. boy faces fact that he is heir to thrown and must defeat evil beast with a magical belt when he is 16.
Acceleration by Graham McNamee- young kid finds the journal of a killer on the subway. explains how killer went from killing animals, to burning buildings down, and now is going to kill a person. the book says all the plans the killer is going to take to kill the person. now the boy must get to the girl before the killer does.
2006-07-20 22:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the following,
Matthew Reilly's - Seven Ancient Wonders, Scarcrow, Area 7, Contest, Temple
Alan Moore's (mainly graphic novels) - From Hell, Watchmen, V For Vendetta
Frank Miller's (graphic novel) - Sin City (7 graphic novels)
Robert Ludlum's - The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Holcroft Covenant, The Materese Circle
Frank Herbert's - Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Dune Heretic, Chapterhouse: Dune
Gregory David Robert's - Shantaram
Niall Ferguson's - Colossus, Empire, The Pity of War
Jules Verne - 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Around The World In Eighty Days
Alexander Dumas - The 3 Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
The list goes on, try not to limit yourself to novels, graphic novels of the comic variety are equally satisfying to read and appreciate.
2006-07-21 05:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by sparkle1272001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science book:
The Pattern on The Stone, by: W. Daniel Hillis
The Science of Harry Potter, by: Roger Highfield
Novel:
Murder in The Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
Kara ben Nemsi, by Karl May
Semi Historical:
Romance of The Three Kingdoms, by: Luo Guan Zhong
Water Margin, by: Shi Nai An
Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa
Legend of Condor Heroes, by: Jinyong, aka Lois Cha
2006-07-21 05:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by agus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like crime novels, anything in James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" series (especially "Dances with Flamingoes" or "Black Cherry Blues"). All of them are great though. His writing will blow you away! It is the best I have ever read. You "live" in his novels. You will know what I mean when you read one :)
Try something by James Patterson too. Interesting author, if you can put up with the constant scene switches.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Predjudice..got to love them. Lovely light hearted, girly reads (if you can get past the archaic language). These two are my all time favourite "period novels". They make me feel so wonderfully feminine.
Go for Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" too, great book if you have the patience to read it a few times :)
Just a couple of ideas :)
2006-07-21 06:38:38 · answer #4 · answered by xian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what kind of books you like. If you lean towards Sci-Fi / Fantasy, try Lois Bujold.
For classics - something by Jane Austen, say, or the Bronte sisters.
I also like to read children's books - Pollyanna, the Secret Garden, the Little Princess... The Little Prince (highly recommended! All of them)
Overall reading... Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
The list goes on and on... it really depends on what genre you want to pursue.
2006-07-21 05:25:55 · answer #5 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
2006-07-21 05:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by Middle of the Desert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
2006-07-21 05:23:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arabian Nights
2006-07-21 05:24:30 · answer #8 · answered by vhessamixture 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2006-07-21 05:22:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson. Unbelievable use of language befitting a mad,mad story.
2006-07-21 05:34:23 · answer #10 · answered by dingdong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋