I would like some suggestions on new books to read please. Thanks!?

Question

I'm am open minded to all suggestions, please leave me a reason why you like that book or author ...

I just finished 3 of Dan Brown's 4 books (I still need to read Digital Fortress) & I am searching for suggestions on more authors that I would like ...

Also I just read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. Loved that.

I prefer stories based on real people, events, or history.

I really like these authors.

But I want suggestions for more.

I would like to read more about:

Native American stories or history,
Lives of amazing people,
True stories of real life events, &
Even action/mystery/thrillers like what Dan Brown has.

I have even read a few on the acts of serial killers & how they solved the cases. Those were okay, interesting I use to love Steven King. But for some reason lost my intrest and took a break for those books.

I got some books by Maya Angelou from Ebay I think she is great.

I'll take any & all suggestions!

Thanks a lot! :)

Thanks so much for all the responses so far!

My family has liked Toni Hillerman (sp?) and told me I would like that author. Has anyone read any of these books??

Now I have seen rumor of more than 4 Dan Brown books. Does anyone know the name of the others??

Answer 1

"The red heart", by James Alexander Thom is an excellent book. It is a fiction book but includes a lot of historical facts about the time during the Native American wars. I also recommend anything by Sue Harrison. "Mother Earth, Father Sky" and the other books in that series tell stories of the Aleut and Inuit Indians in Alaska. She brings the past to life so well, and her writing style is very unique.

I also enjoy mystery/thriller type books, some good authors in this genre are (in my opinion anyway) Tami Hoag, Dan Brown (which you already mentioned I see lol), Erika Spindler, John Grisham and Iris Johansen. I also have heard that Janet Evonovich and Dale Brown are worth reading, but I haven't had the time to find out myself yet.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Native American Fiction written by Native Authors:
Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday

Native American History:
- Conquest by Andrea Smith
- Native American Post Colonial Psycholgy by Eduardo and Bonnie Duran
- All Our Relations by Winona LaDuke
- Like a Loaded Weapon by Robert A. Williams Jr.
- Education for Extinction by David Wallace Adams & Education and the American Indian by Margaret Connell Szasz
- The State of Native America edited by M. Annette Jaimes

I've read them all and many by the authors listed above. All Great!

Answer 3

Have you read "A Child Called It" and all of the other books by that author about his life? It's an amazing story. I believe the author is David Pelzer, but I could be very wrong. Just type in "A Child Called It" into the yahoo search and it should be able to tell you. It's very popular.

Answer 4

I would avoid looking for new books to read. Instead I would look for OLD books to read.

A couple of reasons here.

First, well lets be honest, they make you look smart. You are reading THE FIRM everybody goes "Oh, she's reading that lawyer book." You read Sherlock Homes and everyone thinks you are real smart because you read old books, but Sherlock Homes is just the 19th Century version of C.S.I. Somewhere along the line American Public Schools decided that old books were only for smart people... which simply isnt' true. Still for some reason everyone belives it, so if you have a bookshelf full of John Grisham and Steven King people think you have no taste, but if you have Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne they all think you are some sort of super genius.... when all they are is good stories.

This brings me to reason number two... they are fun to read.
Nobody sat down and decided to "I'm going to write an unbelievably dull piece of great literature filled with metaphor and deep meaning about life..." (well except maybe for Herman Mellville...). No people like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Iules Vern, Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Jack London, Charles Dickens, they all had bills to pay and kids to feed.They needed people to buy their books, so they wrote stories people would enjoy reading. The fact we still read their books tells you that they must have done a pretty good job of it.

Another reason to read old books is... they are CHEAP. You can find them in used bookstores for next to nothing.

So go dig up a copy of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN... (one heck of a book) or GREAT EXPECTATIONS, or WUTHERING HIEGHTS, and have fun with it.

Answer 5

Hey....
I read some time ago a book called The Mask of Atreus. I thought it was really good, it is mystery, it has the same style of Dan Brown's book. I think you will like it. I forgot the author's name, sorry about that. I hope you find the perfect book for you. take care

Answer 6

I would like to recomment Catherine Coulter. However you mentioned you want to read about real stories. She writes FBI Thrillers as well as mid-evil romance. I can't get enough of her books.

But, if you want to read about Native American Storeis, you HAVE to read "She Who Remembers". It is my all time favorite. The author is Linda Lay Shuler. It's a novel of America's PreHistory. You won't be able to put it down!!!

Answer 7

I would suggest, although you may have already read it, Speak. The book Speak is about a girl in high school struggling with the fact that sometihng terrible happened ot he rover the summer. I believe the book is based on someone, but even if it isn't many girls suffer thorugh this anyway. I hope you read it && if you do enjoy it! :-)

Answer 8

Since you liked Stephen King once upon a time (so Did I but not so much now) you may like Dean R. Koontz. Especially his earlier books. Like Stephen King he has lost that interesting "spark" he used to have. But try "THE WATCHERS" or "SERVANTS OF THE TWILIGHT"> anything before 2004is better I think.

Answer 9

You say you like true stories...you should try "A boy called "it" by Dave Pelzer. I'm not sure if it would be your type, because it's about a very abusive mother. She does unbelievable things to that poor child, but somehow he always managed to survive.
It's a heartbreaking story, with so much emotion.

Answer 10

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