I live in Northern Canada... there's not a book store for 800 km (about 500 miles). I've finished my Christmas stash... any authors that make your heart, mind, or soul move? I have to mobilize my southern pushers.... Thanks!
2007-01-02 04:48:33 · 18 answers · asked by Mikisew 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I agree with the Pahlinuk guy (i also cannot spell), he's great.
I enjoy finding one author who is fairly prolific and reading all his/her books. Some authors I recommend aside from Pahlinuk are:
Vonnegut - great and classic stuff
Clive Cussler - very Bondish, turn your brain off type stuff
Nick Hornby - somewhat depressing, but very thoughtful stuff
Stephen Ambrose - very historical, very much an acquired taste, but very excellent writing and informative stuff
and my personal favorite these days:
Christopher Moore - Hilarious, somewhat insightful, crude, turn your brain off, quick read. just good all around if you are not easily offended. Personally i'd recommend starting with "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff" to get an idea of where he's coming from and then moving to the other books. Many of the same characters pop up in many of his books, so it feels like you're hanging out with old friends when you read his entire catalogue. Good stuff.
2007-01-02 05:04:07 · answer #1 · answered by walt flanagan's dog 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read The OUtlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. They have a bit of everything and I couldn't put them down. . .there are. . .6 books in the series and they're all well over 800 wonderful pages!!
Perfect for the winter.
Here is an Amazon.com link for you for the first book. They have a list of the other 5.
Hope you read and enjoy!!
2007-01-02 12:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by YuckItUp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2007-01-02 12:53:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recommend Sherri Tepper
The Revenants. Berkley Publishing. 1984.
After Long Silence. 1987. (published as The Enigma Score in the U.K.)
The Gate to Women's Country. Doubleday. 1988.
Beauty. Doubleday. 1991.
A Plague of Angels. 1993.
Shadow's End. 1994.
Gibbon's Decline & Fall. New York: Bantam / Spectra, 1996.
Family Tree 1997.
Six Moon Dance. 1998.
Singer from the Sea. 1999.
The Fresco. 2000.
The Visitor. 2002.
(These works all take place in a single universe but far apart in time and space.)
Grass. Doubleday. 1989.
Raising the Stones. Doubleday. 1990.
Sideshow. Doubleday. 1992.
The Awakeners:
Note: Issued together as The Awakeners (1987)
NorthShore. Tor Books. 1987.
SouthShore. Tor Books. 1987.
Marianne Trilogy:
Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore. Ace Books. 1985.
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods. Ace Books. 1988.
Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse. Ace Books. 1989.
The Books of the True Game: Mavin Manyshaped (Note: all three released in one omnibus edition as The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped (1985))
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace Books. 1985.
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace Books. 1985.
The Search for Mavin Manyshaped. Ace Books. 1985.
The Books of the True Game: Peter
(Note: all three released in one omnibus edition as The True Game (1985))
King's Blood Four. Ace Books. 1983. (first novel)
Necromancer's Nine. Ace Books. 1983.
Wizard's Eleven. Ace Books. 1984.
The Books of the True Game: Jinian
(Note: all three of these released together as The End of the Game in a book club edition)
Jinian Star-Eye. Tor Books. 1986.
Dervish Daughter Tor Books. 1986.
Jinian Footseer. Tor Books. 1985.
Mahlia / Badger (These two books are straight-forward horror without even much of a feminist spin.)
Blood Heritage. Tor Books. 1986.
The Bones. Tor Books. 1987.
Anything by Laurel K. Hamilton
Anita Blake series
Guilty Pleasures (1993) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
The Laughing Corpse (1994) ISBN 0-425-19200-8
Circus of the Damned (1995) ISBN 0-515-13448-1
The Lunatic Cafe (1996) ISBN 0-425-20137-6
Bloody Bones (1996) ISBN 0-425-20567-3
The Killing Dance (1997) ISBN 0-425-20906-7
Burnt Offerings (1998) ISBN 0-515-13447-3
Blue Moon (1998) ISBN 0-515-13445-7
Obsidian Butterfly (2000) ISBN 0-515-13450-3
Narcissus in Chains (2001) ISBN 5-558-61270-3
Cerulean Sins (2003) ISBN 0-515-13681-6
Incubus Dreams (2004) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
Micah (2006) ISBN 0-515-14087-2 (novella, released February 28, 2006)
Danse Macabre (2006) ISBN 0-425-20797-8 (released June 27, 2006)
The Harlequin (2007)
[edit]Meredith Gentry series
A Kiss of Shadows
A Caress of Twilight
Seduced by Moonlight
A Stroke of Midnight
Mistral's Kiss (Just released)
A Lick of Frost (forthcoming)
2007-01-02 14:04:34 · answer #4 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dean Koontz, Clive Barker,Steven King,Peter Strause,love that horror.
2007-01-02 12:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just finished reading the book "The Eagle of the Ninth" by Rosemary Sutcliff. Very well written.
2007-01-02 12:51:59 · answer #6 · answered by weskisats9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd suggest "Bloody Jack", "Curse of the Blue Tattoo", or "Under the Jolly Rodger"!! Of course that ALL depends on if you are okay with books about pirates and sailors and are okay with a few bad words and occasionally something gross.....I personally found them quite interesting <(^-^)>
2007-01-02 12:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by Momo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read a great book called "The Doctor's Wife" but I can't remeber who wrote it. Any books by Patricia Cornweel, especially Kay Scarpetta books, are GREAT.
2007-01-02 12:54:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really liked Stand by Stephen King, really interesting and thought provoking. I haven't read much more from Stephen King. but he seems to be a solid author. About how old are you ? Might help those of us, trying to help you...
2007-01-02 12:52:49 · answer #9 · answered by girl3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The art of seduction by Robert Greene
2007-01-02 12:54:51 · answer #10 · answered by HEY boo boo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋