I don't get to read as often as I would like, but I usually like to pick a good book and give myself a whole month to read it.
Do you have any suggestions for titles I can look through?
I am open to just about anything, but I really love classics (like 'The Three Musketeers' or 'Of Mice and Men') and fiction tales ('Their Eyes Were Watching God' and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven').
2006-11-13 09:48:27 · 16 answers · asked by Danielle C 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Try the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, for classics, great read. Mysteries are good so are thrillers and adventure. Try Matthew Reilly's TEMPLE, one of favorite books. Sci-fi/fantasy is also good. Try anything by Dennis McKiernan or David Weber, Jane Lindskold. If you ever read RELIC by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, follow it up with all the other books they co-wrote, all of them are great reads. Douglas Preston also wrote a book by himself called THE CODEX which is a good book by itself. James Rollins is another good author and his book AMAZONIA is a rollercoaster of a book. Good fortune and happy reading.
2006-11-13 10:01:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Classics...Anything by Jane Austen.
Fiction: The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (you will absolutely LOVE this book)
If you like love stories read ANYTHING by Nicholas Sparks, my personal favorite is Message In A Bottle which is my favorite book of ALL TIME.
If you're into Christianity....You might like Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
If you like legal thrillers try The Firm by John Grisham
If you're a teenager try anything by Sarah Dessen
If you want any more suggestions feel free to email me....
Kiara
2006-11-13 10:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by Kiara 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just read a book about the Salem witch trials. It was by Kathryn Wesley. It was pretty good.
A couple days before that, I finished "Forever Odd" by Dean Koontz. It's a sequel to his book "Odd Thomas". I highly recommend both.
Right now I'm reading "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown, and it's excellent.
After that, I think I'm going to either start in on "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens (or "Great Expectations"), or "The Count of Monte Cristo." I'm still deciding what's next. I've got a bunch of books I haven't read yet.
2006-11-13 11:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by Nemo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Milan Kundera's "The Joke"; anything by Hunter S. Thompson; Diana Ackerman's "An Alchemy of Mind"; "Killing the Buddha"..any of Virgina Woolfe's short story collections..
2006-11-13 09:53:06 · answer #4 · answered by BrightEyedBlasphemer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I just read the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. And just so you know, the book came BEFORE the movie (most people never knew it was a book first). It was really an amazing book, you might check that out.
2006-11-13 09:52:48 · answer #5 · answered by Alice 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
King Fortis the Brave, Harry Potter and Eragon are great.
2006-11-14 05:24:28 · answer #6 · answered by Caveman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abarat
Atremis fowl, the lost colony
The looking glass wars
Try your local library's Young adults section too
2006-11-13 10:14:56 · answer #7 · answered by ichigo_li2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Prophet
2006-11-13 09:51:27 · answer #8 · answered by PoppingBubbles<3 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Billy by Albert French
it is really sad, and its about a 10 yr old black boy who stabs a white girl in self-defense, she dies, and the boy gets convicted and executed
it happens in 1937
both the black community and white community are affected by this event...and the author shows it very powerfully
2006-11-13 09:53:19 · answer #9 · answered by Secondhand Rose 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Last Van Gogh, and Gone with the Wind are my favorites!!
2006-11-13 10:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋