I am so bored with the books on offer by my usual sources.?

Question

I have been reading books recomended to me by the Powells books Daily Dose and Review a day features and the New York Times Book Review. Lately they have been coming up all dogs. Woof who wants to read another book about how Bush messed up Iraq (one or two is enough thank you) or more about the civil war (south lost get over it.) '
How do you people decide what to read? You all know of a good book? Non fiction, fiction I don't care. Just no genre stuff
Except mystries. Love a good hard boiled dectective story.

Answer 1

Thought you m ay want to combine your passsions - here are some prominent cats in literature:

Bastet, matriarch of a line of Egyptian cats in the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels; followed by Anubis, Horus, Seshat, Sekhmet, and The Great Cat of Re

Behemoth (Begemot, Russian: Бегемот), the huge, trolley-riding, Satanic black cat in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

:-) Broccoli from The Broccoli Tapes by Jan Slepian

For more go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_cats#Cats_and_felines_in_literature

Answer 2

My sister is an Enlish teacher and my mom an aspiring writer, so we tend to exchange books. Here's some you might want to try:
Cry the Beloved Country
The Secret Life of Bees
The Time Travelers Wife
Things Fall Apart
Watership Down
Middlesex
East of Eden
Life of Pi
The Historian- This would actually be my #1 pick for you
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Catch-22

Answer 3

Try going to different university and college websites and look for the Freshman reading lists. Always lots of variety. Non-fiction and fiction.
A few titles I have read as of late
My Sisters Keeper
The Year Of Magical Thinking
Miss America's Family

Answer 4

i decide which book i'm going to read based on referrals from friends usually, tho sometimes i just go to the bookstore and browse until something catches my eye (yes, i judge the book by its cover).
a good example was STIFF by Mary Roach. how could i not pick up a book with a picture of cadaver feet on the cover. after i read the back i knew i was at least interested enough to purchase it. it turned out to be one of the most amusing, creative and informative books i have ever read.
when i am running low on referrals and can't find anything interesting at the bookstore. i'll go to an on-line bookstore and type in some names of authors that haven't let me down in the past. i see if they have anything new or something older that i haven't read yet.
also, i have a dozen old faithful books that i could (and do) read over and over.

right now i am reading psychopathia sexualis by kraft-ebing. it is a nonfiction sexual deviant case study.

Answer 5

Fiction, try James Doss, John Dunning, J.A.Jance and Stuart Woods.

Answer 6

The maximum unearthly e book: Ripley's have faith it or not! Encyclopedia of the unusual super e book i prefer to advise it! maximum uninteresting (and finished): my seventh grade literature e book (in line with possibility that is why I dispise assaigned examining, even even with the undeniable fact that come to think of of it examining the entire factor wasn't assaigned... why the heck did I study the great factor besides? Sigh, oh nicely )

Answer 7

try "brick lane" by monica ali, or "a tree grows in brooklyn" by betty smith--i'm reading this one right now, and it is not often that i can say the book's language is just shimmering...try them...let me know what ya think...