I'm looking for some good books for gifts for a few people in my family. For my brother and father I need a few good mystery/horror books. They like Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Nelson Demille, but I need books by other authors because they have all their books already. And then for my mother I need a book that has a story similiar to the chicken soup for the soul books or the book Marley and Me by Josh Grogan? Any suggestsions?? Thanks!!
2006-11-27 03:48:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I highly recommend Jim Thompson books for mystery fans. They have some of the most amazing twists and turns in them. His best are Population 1280, The Grifters, After Dark My Sweet, The Getaway and The Killer Inside Me.
All of these books were made into movies, by the way, and are all great. (But if you do rent the Getaway, rent the Steve McQueen version)
For your mom I recommend Erma Bombeck - The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank ... It's a little older, but if she's never read it, she needs to.
2006-11-27 04:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by John P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister really likes Dean Koontz and other authors she reads are Anne Rice, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub. Ghost Story, by Straub is one of the scariest books I ever read. On Amazon, Stephen King is recommending The Ruins by Scott Smith.
For you mom, how about Tuesdays with Morrie or The FIve People you Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom?
2006-11-27 07:34:08 · answer #2 · answered by senlin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a variety for different tastes:
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Joe’s Boys by L. M. Alcott
Harry Potter by J. K Rowling
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Lemony Snicket’s series of Unfortunate Events
The Catcher in The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
The Old Man and The Sea
hope this helps!
2006-11-27 20:06:42 · answer #3 · answered by ~ ANGEL ~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For your brother and father I recommend Jeffery Deaver as an excellent mystery author.
2006-11-27 08:38:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get each person a book that you think would best suit there personality and a coffee mug so that they can read and drink something relaxing and warm at the same time.
2006-11-27 08:04:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋