What is a good book to read?

Question

Give me a good book to read. tell me the name and author and whether its fiction or non fiction please.

Answer 1

The Black Dahlia, the Notebook, anything by Dean Koontz, Beyond Borders

Answer 2

The best book to read is the Bible, because it is God's Word and tells us how to live in this life and how to achieve salvation for the next life. (I prefer either the NIV or the NASB.)

However, assuming you are asking for a book written in modern times, then I highly recommend "Boundaries" by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. This is non-fiction, and it is a book which can help you in dealing with others in any type of relationship (personal, work, etc.). I really learned a lot from it and what I've learned will serve me well for the rest of my life.

Answer 3

Excellent Fantasy Books:

Christopher Paolini:

Eragon
Eldest

Jonathon Stroud:

Bartimaeus Trilogy

Nancy Farmer :

The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm
A girl named Disaster
The Sea of Trolls

Answer 4

The Book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It is of course fiction. The book is really good and one of my favorite. It makes me sympothis with her and I never looked at the wizard of oz in the same way.

Answer 5

I just finished reading ,Perfect Nightmare by John Saul,fiction,I enjoy all of his books.

Answer 6

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz. Although if you have not read Odd Thomas, start there. Then read Forever Odd. They are fiction.

Answer 7

"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier...fiction. Also, check out "Beach Road" by James Patterson, fiction. Great books.

Answer 8

King Fortis the Brave

Fiction

Answer 9

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author.

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?


Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

The Cop and the Anthem by O.henry.Its about a young tramp Soapy who tries desperately to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail.He eats in expensive restaurents,steals,insults women,cause general mayham.But to no avail.he just doesn't get arrested until...
The Gift of the Magi,From the cabby's seat,Last leaf all by the same author are terrific stories.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

Answer 10

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, by Ken Kesey is a great read! its fiction and there are some risque parts, but it is one of my favorites.