Looking for some author or book recommendations...?

Question

I have really eclectic taste in books. I will usually grab for mysteries or thrillers first, but I will basically read anything that is not a romance novel if it's well-written. Some of my favorite popular authors are Walter Mosely, John Grisham, Mo Hayder, John Irving, Graham Greene, and Amy Tan. I also love Harlen Coben and Patricia Cornwell.

I also really like unusual books with strong characters that tell a story of a unique place, time, or situation. For example, almost any Stephen King book, DBC Pierre, or "Memoirs of a Geisha."

Looking forward to your answers... and thanks in advance!

Time Traveler's Wife is my favorite book ever!! Great recommendation.. thanks (but have already read 5 or 6 times)

Answer 1

Since you have an eclectic taste, you might like books on spiritual themes (DO NOT confuse this with 'religious'). I mean books that present compellingly different takes on life & spirituality in a fascinating, non-preachy way:

'One' by Richard Bach
'The Alchemist' and 'Eleven Minutes' by Paulo Coelho.

Answer 2

Matthew Skelton - Endymion Spring

In The Dead Of Night,A Cloaked Figure Drag A Heavy Box Through The Snow Covered Streets. The Chest, Covered In Mythical Beasts, Can Only Be Opened When The Fangs Of Its Serpent`s-head Clasps Tastes Blood.

Centuries Later, In An Oxford Libra, A Boy Touches A Strange Book And Feels Something Pierce His Finger. The Volume Is Blank, Wordless, But Its Paper Has Fine Veins Running Through It And Seems To Quiver As Its Alive.
Words Begins To Appear On The Page -
But No One But The Boy Can See Them.

Answer 3

Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Catcher in The Rye
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Old Man and The Sea
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
William Shakespeare's tragedies
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Five point someone by Chetan Bhagat
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Harry Potter book series by J. K Rowling
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lemony Snicket’s series of Unfortunate Events
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Wind, Sand & Stars by Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Joe’s Boys by Louisa. M. Alcott

Answer 4

If you are in for Irving, King and Greene's "Journey Without Maps," then you will surely love Ken Follet's "The Modigliani Scandal." This is it. The other Ken Follet I recently enjoyed tremendously is "Eye of the Needle" but this is about this German spy wrecking havoc in a sleepy English town during WWII, so it may not be for you.
However, get the cheap paper back Modigliani and I bet you'll certainly enjoy the search, the scandalous espionage . . . the thrill. Ken Follet knows how to keep a reader late for an important date! Here's the link:

Answer 5

Joyce Carroll Oats In particular Dark Water, Foxfire and Them.

Margret Attwood - The Handmaidens Tale

Answer 6

I'm an avid and eclectic reader as well. One of the best books I read this past year was "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" by mark haddon. the narrator of the novel is a fifteen year old autistic boy in england. another good book I read was "never let me go" by kazuo ishiguro about students at a myserious bording school in england. it is sort of a literary thriller/mystery. but subtle being british.

hope this helps!

happy reading!

Answer 7

If you are looking for unique situations and interesting characters, anything by Chuck Palahniuk should suit you just fine. Start with "Invisible Monsters" or "Survivor".

And on second thought, "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger is a fantastic book!

Answer 8

Have you read:

John Irving's "Until I find You"
Patricia Cornwall's "Case Closed"
Arundhati Roy's " The Goddess of Small things"
Salaman Rushdie's "Shalimar the Clown"

Good luck

Answer 9

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Answer 10

Try Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series. They are historical fiction with a bit of romance and time travel in them. The women charaters are very strong.