I need book/author suggestions?

Question

I need suggestions on new books to read, new authors to try. Okay, my favorite authors are:

Mary Higgins Clark
Nicholas Sparks
Jodi Picoult

I like a variety of books, but not most of your average fiction crime thrillers. I like romantic stories, but not trashy romance novels. I like history and historical fiction, some travel stories, biographies and autobiographies of famous people (depending on who). Fiction based on true stories.

On the other hand I like young adult novels too, the likes of Harry Potter, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Little House on the Prairie, Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn, stuff like that.

One of my favorite books is The Stand, by Stephen King, though I don't like anything else of his, because I don't like horror. I have also read things like Sherlock Holmes, and all the Lord of the Rings books. So you can see, my likes are varied.

Any suggestions??? Thanks.

Answer 1

Read The Three Musketeers and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. They're awesome!!

Answer 2

You don't give your age or gender--this would help with some books. One of my favourite authors is Pauline Gedge. She writes historical novels about Ancient Egypt.
Child of the Morning--About the life of Queen Hapshetsut--only female to become 'pharaoh'
The Twelfth Transforming--About Pharaoh Akhenaten the heretic king
The Lord of the Two Lands Trilogy
The House of Dreams
They have certainly kept me enthralled.
If you like sci-fi, Anne Mccaffrey has written 'tonnes' of books about her 'Dragons of Pern' including:
Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy
For light humour I read a lot of Stuart McLean's books--they are really funny.
I am on my second book by Greg Maguire--I finished 'Wicked' and now on its sequel 'Son of a Witch'. He write quirky little 'extensions' of children's stories most of us have read. 'Wicked' is the story of the Wicked Witch of the West--it has also been made into a musical.
Then, if you like THICK historical fiction, there is always Edward Rutherfurd's 'Dublin Saga: The Princes of Ireland' and 'The Rebels of Ireland'.
These are choices that may be somewhat different from what you have listed but variety is 'the spice of life'!

Answer 3

Here's a really wonderful book that I just finished a few days ago: "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. It's loaded with excitement, history and a compelling human story. An extremely old man remembers his life in the circus during the great depression. The book is so well written, you just want to consume it at one sitting.
If you haven't read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold, this is also a "must read".

Answer 4

Try "Shadow of the Lion" by Ruthie Jorgensen, released April of 2006. It's a well-developed, well-written, inspiring story. It's not trashy or smutty, it just doesn't take filth to write a good story. It's not a long novel, but it's good. I know the author personally... she's a great gal.

Answer 5

For mystery some of my favorite authors are:

James Patterson - the Women's Murder Club series
Anne George - the Southern Sisters series
Ayelet Waldman - the Mommie Mystery series
Dolores Johnson - the Mandy Dyer Mystery series

Answer 6

Checkout The Firefighter Trilogies by Kathryn Shay.

Answer 7

Well we are absolutely on the same page! I love Nicohlas sparks and jodi picoult (and of course harry potter!!). let's see..you could try alice hoffman. She writes some great stuff, it's a little different..like sort of magical, but not in the harry potter way. I don't know, we seem to like the same authors so I would give her a try.

Also, I love Augusten Burroughs. He wrote "Running with Scissors (my fav. book ever) and Dry." Give hiim a try too

Answer 8

I adore Marian Keyes, she has an awesome perception of life, very funny, it has romance thrown in (not trashy bodice ripping stuff, but handled with a very acidic sense of humour) you will also find her stories quite moving, and you really come to care about her characters. If there is one book that I would 100% recommend it would be Rachel's Holiday, promise me you'll read it??

Answer 9

"Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut is the best book I've read. It's about a Nazi propagandist after World War II. It has spies, war, love, all of that stuff. Kurt Vonnegut has a lot of other good books as well, but "Mother Night" was my favourite.

Answer 10

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.

Read Odd thomas,Forever odd and Brother Odd by Dean Koontz.These books are about Odd Thomas who see dead people and is compelled to solve crimes.


Brother Odd by Dean Koontz is the third book in his Odd Thomas series. Poor Odd has been through so much in the last couple of years. He lost Stormy, the love of his life, he's given up his job and his home to move into seclusion at a California mountainside monastery in hopes that his "gift" for seeing the dead won't be an issue up there. Instead he finds a poltergeist monk and evil spirits gathering around the young disabled children the monks (and nuns) care for. Odd knows that trouble is coming, and as usual he's the only one to recognize it.Can Odd mitigate the coming cataclysm? Of course he can, despite the arrival of murderous bone creatures and grim Death itself, for the monks include quite a contingent of reformed martial sinners, most memorably Brother Knuckles, formerly of the New Jersey Mob, and another guest, a mysterious Russian librarian from Indianapolis, who is more and different than Odd thinks he is.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Mercedes Lackey's Take a Thief is the tale of Skif, a young orphan reminiscent of Oliver Twist, making his way in the knock-and-tumble neighborhood between two of Haven's outermost walls. Skif is intelligent, good-hearted and creative enough to forage up three meals a day in a place where food is scarce and kindness almost unheard of. After a chain of events leave him homeless, Skif lands in the lair of Bazie, an Faginish ex-mercenary who trains thieves...until he is "Chosen" by one of Valdemar's magical horses and becomes a Herald serving the Queen.

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.