Who is your current or new favorite author/book? Or who is the newest writer you are reading?

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Who or what are you currently reading or who is your current favorite author/book and why? I am constantly looking for new material to read since I read so much so fast. I also read most of the popular writers but not all it doesn't have to be fiction it can be non-fiction, autobiography/biography. I will read just about anything....

Who or what are you currently reading or who is your current favorite author/book and why? I am constantly looking for new material to read since I read so much so fast. I also read most of the popular writers but not all it doesn't have to be fiction it can be non-fiction, autobiography/biography. I will read just about anything....

I have read most of the classics and I re-read them a lot...I will read anything I mostly read fiction, but I do like non fiction too.

Thank you everyone for participating. I have narrowed it down to my two favorite answers and I am trying to decide. I will definitly be checking out all these great suggestions for books to read! Thanks again!

Answer 1

Hello fellow-reader. I understand you completely - you are in a reader's block! There has been a time when I'd go to the library and spend hours to find something interesting I haven't read. Here is something interesting and fresh, which you'd probably like ;) Recently I finished "Changing Places" By David Lodge - brilliantly written, about academical life and so much more...
Another very interesting book that sets you thinking is Paul Arden's Whatever You Think Think The Opposite - you can read it in a day, and then it can turn into your favourite bedside book! ;P
Also, try Jeanette Winterson's books - they give you whole new perspective on life :)
One more book - "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" by Susan Townsend - it's a whole series and it's really fun!
I Hope you like some of these and I hope they set you in a new, more exciting direction in life :)

Answer 2

Currently I’m reading:

The Odyssey by Homer (for school)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (rereading for a book club)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

With the Odyssey, I haven’t read enough to be a thorough judge (only the first three “books” thus far). Personally, I hated Wuthering Heights the first time around, but I’m hoping to be more open this time. I just checked out The Handmaid’s Tale this morning, and I’m loving it! It’s a story about a woman who’s living in the future “US” where women have lost nearly all of their rights and a recent war has caused most people to lose their fertility. Because reproducing is so important now, there are “handmaids” who are assigned to families and whose main goal is to get pregnant. Although the lives of the handmaids are hard, it is still better than being shipped off to live with the “unwomen” and slowly waste away. The story is narrated by Offred, a handmaid who is old enough to remember the better times when she still had her freedom. The Pickwick Papers is also a great read! Very entertaining!

Answer 3

Because it's unexpected, different... and mostly different :) I haven't heard of anything like what I'm writing before, and it's something i would like to read. Hope other people feel the same way if they read it... BQ: she is very perceptive, which makes her understand people better. But it's a weakness sometimes, cause it makes her more emotionally involved with people she shouldn't relate. BQ2: editor. I think it would be cool to help other people with their novels, if I can't be an author myself, why not helping others become one? BQ3: This is an excerp of the beginning paragraph of my story, I haven't edited it yet so it isn't very good, but it's still my favorite part. Here it goes: "Someone once said that life is like a road, you know where it starts, but where it ends is up to you. This is the story of a road, the journey of a girl and her sister searching for the truth. (...) And I hope you thank, every time you turn the page, not being in the place of this poor girl that one day, by a strange coincidence, took an unexpected turn in the path of her life."

Answer 4

I enjoy reading Ian McEwan's two novels, Atonement and Saturday. He has a really great was of getting into a character's head and make you feel what they are feeling, think what they are thinking, see the world from their point of view. It's very interesting. I liked Saturday more than Atonement.

I also really like David Mitchell. He wrote Cloud Atlas which was fantastic. One of the best books I've ever read. His new book which I haven't read yet is long listed for the Man Booker Prize. He's a very good writer. He has very interesting ideas about our crazy world but it works and its great!

Answer 5

My favorite authors are Janet Evanovich, Jane Austen and James Patterson. The newest writer I'm reading is Emily Bronte

Answer 6

I just finished reading Laurie R. King's Mary Russell mystery series.
I'm about to start Harry Turtledove's Alternate History series about the South winning the Civil War.

Answer 7

it all depends on what you like.

i'm a fan of modern and contemp. american lit personally. anyway, heres a nice list to get you started (btw, im an english major)

The Rum Diary, Of Mice and Men, Breakfast at Tiffany's, On the Road, Howl--by Allen Ginsburg, Heart of Darkness, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Catcher in the Rye, The Importance of Being Earnest, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, aby poetry by Langston Hughes, try finding some poetry by Bob Dylan, thats always good. also, Neil Simon and Arthur Miller have some great plays

Answer 8

My current favorite is Phil Rickman--his Merrily Watkins series is superb, not only in that the basic premise and storylines are great (female Anglican priest, single mother, turned diocesean exorcist) but that the writing is amazing and the characters just come to life. Very intelligent and well-researched along with being fantastic supernatural mystery/thiller stories.

Answer 9

I've read James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, Janet Evanovich, & Dan Brown. Lately I've been reading John Lescroart. His Hardy/Glitsky books are set in San Francisco where I live nearby.

Answer 10

I just discovered Michael Swanwick by reading some of his short stories in some anthologies. I'm impressed & plan to read more of him. He's a living author. Usually the authors I read are already dead.

George MacDonald Fraser is still living I believe, & he's great fun. He has a cult following & I'm definitely one of his followers! He's a great read.