I love to read, I'm an English teacher, and it's summer vacation.
I loved these books:
Everything Is Illuminated
The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime
A Lesson Before Dying
A Room With A View
Girl With A Pearl Earring
The Lord of The Rings
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Jane Eyre
I Know This Much Is True
Any suggestions?
2006-07-25 16:36:03 · 14 answers · asked by rphelan23 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I loved Curious Incident!
If you liked Heartbreaking Work you should read You Shall Know Our Velocity! by the same author. I'm reading it now and I love it.
Perhaps Ridley Walker would interest you. I forget who wrote it.
2006-07-25 16:55:40 · answer #1 · answered by Quiet Amusement 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋
I'd advocate the starvation video games sequence by way of Susan Collins. I'm obsessive about the ones books on the second and they've equivalent style/topics to the books you've got acknowledged above. Its additionally being made right into a movie that is due for free up this March!
2016-08-28 17:52:12 · answer #2 · answered by gombos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ruth Rendell's Pirahna to Scurvy
Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Close
Jeffrey Deaver's Garden of Beatss
2006-07-25 17:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by Totoru 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing your list there, you might enjoy The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchet.
Another one that is really excellent and off the beaten path: Midnight in The Garden of Good And Evil by John Berendt.
And here's something different - Dean Koontz, of whom I'm not normally a fan, wrote two absolutely fantastic books. I guarantee you'll be riveted and surprised:
Odd Thomas and
Life Expectancy
2006-07-25 16:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd very much reccomend the work of Dan Brown - particularly Angels and Demons - it's a little like Clive Cussler if you've read any of him... I absolutely loved it. He was also the author of the DaVinci Code, but I liked this far better :)
2006-07-25 16:46:03 · answer #5 · answered by ballerina_dancer017 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Clique by Lisi Harrison!
2006-07-25 16:46:50 · answer #6 · answered by Ashley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Its a really fast read and a very funny book. I loved it and reccomended it to everyone I know!!
2006-07-25 18:06:37 · answer #7 · answered by SidTheKid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to like the same kinds of books as I do, so here are my favorite authors. (I have read & recommend all of their books)
Carol Shields, Ann Arensburg, Anita Shreve, Kaye Gibbons, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Wallace Stegner, Fannie Flagg.
2006-07-25 17:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by Just Ducky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each one of your books is about human experience. I would recommend Myths to live BY by Joseph Campbell. Heavy read but very thought provoking.
2006-07-25 16:48:03 · answer #9 · answered by James L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The House of Mirth.By E. Wharton
2006-07-25 16:43:59 · answer #10 · answered by twistedsister 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋