thrillers, comedy, history .... any kind of books.
2007-03-07 01:03:27 · 9 answers · asked by chocanne 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Fiction: Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain); Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, White Fang, John Barleycorn & The Valley of the Moon (Jack London); The Sun Also Rises (novel), "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" & other short stories from The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway); The Iceman Cometh & Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill); On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Big Sur & Vanity of Duluoz (Jack Kerouac); Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller); Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden & The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck); A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley); The Lost Weekend (Charles Jackson); Burden of Proof (Scott Turow); Bonfire of the Vanities & A Man in Full (Tom Wolfe); Florence of Arabia (Christopher Buckley)
Non-Fiction: Life On the Mississippi (Twain); Travels With Charley (Steinbeck); Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac); Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac (Gerald Nicosia); Anais Nin, a Biography (Deirdre Bair); The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test & The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe); Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell); Bias (Bernard Goldberg); America Alone (Mark Steyn); Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand); Marley and Me (John Grogan); The Immortalist (Alan Harrington); Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond (Michio Kaku); The Singularity is Near & Fantastic Voyage (Ray Kurzweil)
Also, for mysteries & detective/police stories, I recommend the following authors: Archer Mayor, Philip R. Craig, Ross MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker, Joseph Wambaugh & Kinky Friedman
For science fiction: Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov (born in Russia, but an American citizen), Jack Finney, Michael Crichton, & Greg Bear
For horror: Edgar Allan Poe
For thrillers/suspense: Cornell Woolrich
2007-03-07 03:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ray 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King- 'Salem's Lot; Hearts In Atlantis; Bag of Bones
Edgar Allan Poe- Tales of Mystery; The Raven and Other Poems;
Ernest Heminway- For Whom The Bell Tolls; The Sun Also Rises; The Old Man and the Sea
Herman Mellvile- Moby Dick
Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott- Little Women
Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Scarlet letter
Diana Gabaldon- Outlander Series
Margaret Mitchell- Gone With The Wind
Pearl S. Buck- The Good Earth
Willa Cather- Death Comes For The Archbishop; O! Pioneers; My Antonia
Robert A. Heinlein- Starship Troopers
Hope this is a good start.
2007-03-07 09:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by travis_a_duncan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ralph Ellison-Invisible Man
Toni Morrison-Beloved
F. Scott Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby
Edith Wharton-The House of Mirth
James Farrell-Young Lonigan
Gertrude Stein-Three Lives
Thornton Wilder-The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Willa Cather-My Antonia
2007-03-07 12:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Karim W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try Stephen King for a contemporary writer: The Green Mile; or Tom Clancy: The Bear and the Dragon
And you have to read the old guys too like Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
2007-03-07 09:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by She Bee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary Higgins Clark
Jonathan Kellerman
Robert Ludlum
Dan Brown
2007-03-07 09:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by ira a 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the boks by Anne Rice, Ellen Hopkins and Estephie Meyers.
2007-03-07 14:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Ai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, or Nathaniel Hawthorne is good.
2007-03-07 09:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think you might like Margaret Atwood - a Canadian writer.
2007-03-07 09:15:18 · answer #8 · answered by Amelie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
le what?
2007-03-07 09:09:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋