can anyone recommend a good book to read?

Question

I need a good book to read. Have you read anything that you've really enjoyed lately? Can you make a suggestion to me, giving me a few details of the story line please...

Answer 1

To kill a mockingbird...Anything Stephen King...Or a good Doctor Phil book...

Answer 2

The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time.
By Mark Haddon.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is 15 and has Asperger's syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. he hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. he has never gone further than the end of his road on his own, but when he finds a neighbours dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

That was the blurb, and it does not do the book justice. This is one of my favourite all time books, its amazing and intriguing to witness the world through the eyes of a sufferer of Asperger's.

Please give this book a try.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Absolute Power, David Baldacci
Gone Baby Gone, Denis Lehane
Tick Tock Man, Terrance Strong.

Answer 4

Sender Unknown by Sallie Lowenstein is a great book. It's about a young computer programmer who is trying to look more "respectable and grown up" so he moves into a new house that gets mysterious catalogs. He orders some of the toys on a lark as gifts. But when they arrive the toys are alive . . .

If you read this and like it, or like the genre (fantasy) also read the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde . . .

Answer 5

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - Loved it! Couldn't put it down...

This is what Amazon says about the plot:

From Publishers Weekly
This highly original first novel won the largest advance San Francisco-based MacAdam/Cage had ever paid, and it was money well spent. Niffenegger has written a soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes, and one that skates nimbly around a huge conundrum at the heart of the book: Henry De Tamble, a rather dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in, say, 1998 to find himself suddenly, usually without his clothes, which mysteriously disappear in transit, at an entirely different place 10 years earlier-or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby Michigan peninsula, and a lifelong passion is born. The problem is that while Henry's age darts back and forth according to his location in time, Clare's moves forward in the normal manner, so the pair are often out of sync. But such is the author's tenderness with the characters, and the determinedly ungimmicky way in which she writes of their predicament (only once do they make use of Henry's foreknowledge of events to make money, and then it seems to Clare like cheating) that the book is much more love story than fantasy. It also has a splendidly drawn cast, from Henry's violinist father, ruined by the loss of his wife in an accident from which Henry time-traveled as a child, to Clare's odd family and a multitude of Chicago bohemian friends. The couple's daughter, Alba, inherits her father's strange abilities, but this is again handled with a light touch; there's no Disney cuteness here. Henry's foreordained end is agonizing, but Niffenegger has another card up her sleeve, and plays it with poignant grace. It is a fair tribute to her skill and sensibility to say that the book leaves a reader with an impression of life's riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills.

Answer 6

EARTHS CHILDREN ;

1] clan of the cave bear

2] the valley of horses

3] The mammoth hunters

4] plains of passage

5] dwellings of stone

All BY ;==== Jean M .Auel

setting of this series is in stone age Europe

a small child gets separated from her tribe, during a devastating earthquake
she survives a lion attack and is found half alive by another primitive , but very different tribe
she is taken in by a woman with healing knowledge
and raised by her,
She comes to love this strange girl and passes on her knowlage of the healing herbs .
she is raped by a young member of the tribe, who hates her for her wilful,quick mind and blond hair .

Women have only a subservient role, in this tribe !

Her story runs through all 5 books .

beautifully researched and almost impossible to resist, reading .

Jean Auel, has done a great deal of research and she really transports the reader, into the stone age society

I have read her books several times ,
and enjoyed them a fresh --
I hope you will love Earths Children - as I do .

>(^,,^)<

Answer 7

This is a really feel good book: Snap Happy by Fiona Walker
Basically young women (bit like Bridget jones) lives in her bro big house in London and he has flat swopped with a fit guy called Jay from New York, Jay comes over and lots of misunderstandings, fun and dodgy chilli all ends nice. Infact anything by Fiona Walker is pretty good. Sort of makes you feel better when you cant fit into your jeans and your face looks like a pizza exploded, time of the month book.

Answer 8

If you like history:

There is a book called Winds of War by Herman Wouk, it is one of the best novels I have ever read. Its about a family and how WWII impacted each member. It is not a holocaust story.

If you like crime:

Another book that I really like is The Sicilian by Mario Puzo, he wrote the Godfather and its about the time that Michael spent in Italy and how he tried to help one of Italy's most feared crimminals.

If you like biography:

Try Marlon Brando's "Songs my Mother taught me" it is very interesting to read with both funny and serious topics discussed.

If you like a good Classic:

Try Dante's "Devine Comedy" that has to be one of the best stories ever told.

If you like fun and funny books:

try "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" if you read the few intro pages on Amazon.com you will buy the book, it is non stop laughing! :)

Hope that helps :)

Answer 9

"Empress Orchid" by Anchee Min. It's about one of the last Empresses of China from her point of view, a very moving and historically interesting novel.
"The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami (one of Japan's best fiction writers). It's a crazy tale, a mystery about a man who has psychic adventures while he tries to find his lost cat and wife. It's really magical.
"Sweetness in the Belly" by Camilla Gibb. It's about a young girl who is orphaned in Morocco and goes on to live in Africa for most of her life, before fleeing to England. This is such an interesting book, not only because of the descriptions of her life in various cultures bur also because of her profound psychological insights.
Other books I read recently and would recommend that are gorgeous:
"Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
"The Beet Queen" by Louise Erdrich
"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
"Light on Snow: by Anita Shreve

Answer 10

A must read -

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

It is set in the American South and the story is told through the eyes of a little girl.. and how children see adult issues - rape, racism etc..

A funny, endearing and just classic story..

The first chapeter is a bit slow then it cannot be put down.

Exceptionally well written..

Answer 11

The Collector by John Fowels. I first read it about 10 years ago and have recently read it again. It is excellent. It's about a guy who is a sad case. He's very isolative with poor social skills and he collects butterflies. He falls in love with a girl named Miranda but he doesn't actually know her. It's obsessive stalker type love. He kidnaps her and keeps her in his celler. The book is excellent. Wonderfully written and it keeps you glued. Once you pick it up , you wont be able to put it down.