I need a book!!?

Question

I need to get stuck into a really good book. Nothing that takes ages to get into, but something addictive.
Have just finished 'The time travellers wife' which was brilliant!!
Anyone got any suggestions?
Not a fan or science fiction, crime books.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I loved the Time Travellers Wife ! One of the best books I've ever read.

Have you read Memoires of a Geisha ? If not i'd really recommend it. It's so much better than the film.

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult is Also really good.

If you're looking for a more mindless diversion, I've just finished reading The Devil Wears Prada, not a work of great literature, but certainly entertaining enough !

Other recommendations would be:

The Life Of Pi
The lovely bones - Alice Sebold

Answer 2

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
microserfs by Douglas Copland
A Monk swimming by Malachy McCourt
Where the Red Ferns Grow by Wilson Rawls

Answer 3

Check out Johnathan Safran Foer; his style takes some getting used to (he writer first-person and creates speech mannerisms for his characters), but the payoff is totally worth it.

Also anything Michael Chabon is worth looking into. He has short story collections and novels of varying lengths depeneding on how long you like to spend with a book. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (one of my all-time favorite novels) and wrote a great children's novel that's a little too smart for kids to catch a lot of the references called Summerland in...2003? He's best known for Wonderboys, which was made into a movie with Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire. To get ahead of the curve, his first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is being made into a film soon, so read that before it comes out.

Answer 4

I would agree with Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I had a friend buy it for me as a birthday present recently. It is actually considered a teen lit. book, but I am twenty-six years old and loved it. After finishing I immediately rushed out to buy the sequal. The book to me was like endless hours of fourplay. Since it is a teen lit. book you know they are not going to have sex, but the beginnings of first love are wonderful to read about. The story to me reminded me very much of Romeo and Juliet, two people that are falling in love that shouldn't be.

Answer 5

The Little Prisoner. I am sorry but can't remember who wrote it. It is about child abuse on a young girl by her stepfather. Lik the female equivalent to A Boy Called It by Dave Pelzer. I read it in about 3 hours. Can also recommend Gloria Hunnifords book about her daughter Caron Keating, which is heartbreaking but puts your life into perspective. For a good light hearted read, you can't beat Jade Goody's autobiography Jade. Makes you laugh and cry at the same time. Hope this hepls.

Answer 6

There's a book called : A walk in the woods by: Bill Bryson.It's a humerous story about a writer hiking the Appalachian Trail with his alcoholic friend. It's an easy quick read.

Answer 7

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

Answer 8

The ROAD LESS TRAVELED ( A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth)
by M. Scott Peck

Answer 9

I love the Jasper Fforde books. Start with the Eyre Affair. It is about protecting the first edition of a book so that a bad guy doesn't change the ending. Thursday Next is the heroine and she can speak to the characters of Jane Eyre.

Answer 10

If you liked 'Time Travellers Wife' try 'The Loverly Bones' or 'The curious tale of the dog in the night'
Reading the 'Historian' at the moment very good!