Looking for some good books.?

Question

Just looking for some good reads for the coming summer. I have recently finished (and loved)
Pride and Prejudice
Eragon + the Eldest
Flowers for Algernon
Abarat
To kill a mockingbird (the third time)
I can read anything and enjoy it, so any suggestions are welcome. :)

Answer 1

For thriller, check out:
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (what the other dude said)
Misery by Stephen King
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
Edgar Allan Poe Collection (Tell-Tail Hearts, Raven)

For Action:
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

For Coming-of-Age books:
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
The Body by Stephen King

For Classics:
Dracula by Bram Stroker
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Phantom by Susan Kay
Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Great expectations by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

For Fantasy:
Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan
Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (being produced into a movie)
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

For Drama:
Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Cold Mountain by CHarles Frazier
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

For Horror
It by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King

Other:
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
A Series of Unfortunate Events books by Lemony Sncket
Boy by Roald Dahl


This is just to name a few, if you need more let me know....

Answer 2

Snow Falling on Cedars; The Five People You Meet in Heaven; A Prayer for Owen Meany; any Anne Tyler book; The House of Sand and Fog. That should give you a start.

Answer 3

I really loved the books:
Oathbound Wizard
The Hero and the Crown
Harry Potter Series
Series of Unfortunate Events
Silent Boy
The Giver
Nancy Drew
I have a lot more but it would take forever to say. Have fun reading!

Answer 4

I second The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, I read it when I was 16 years old, made a profound impact on me. I has to be my all time favorite!
~Stones from the River by Ursul Hegi
~Don Quixote by Cervantes and if you can find it at the library
~Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote by Gustave Dore -great!
~The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (her first novel, written when she was just 23 years old, amazing!).
~The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (a little weird but interesting, lol, and very short)
~Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
~Emma by Jane Austen - more Austen, don't you love her?
~Testament by John Grisham (everyone loves John Grisham but this is particularly good, not a courtroom drama)
~Beach Music by Pat Conroy
~Time's Witness by Michael Malone
~Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
~Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason
~Dreaming Southern by Linda Bruckheimer
~Leaving Eden by Anne D. LeClaire
~Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
~Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens
~Black Betty by Walter Mosley (one of Bill Clinton's
~A Little Yellow Dog by Walther Mosely - favorite authors)
~Moby Dick by Herman Melville (you'll learn everything you could ever know about life on a whaling vessel but hang in there, it's a great novel, considered the great American novel).
Oh, so many books, so little time, these I read recently and I know I've got a ton more but just can't bring them to mind right now.
Have fun!

Answer 5

I just read The Grapes of Wrath. I thought it would be boring but I loved it. Some of my favorite books are those by Jean Auel, Clan of the Cave Bear and the other four, but you've probably already read them. My husband had to talk me into reading them, but I've read them over and over since then.

Answer 6

I'm reading the Betty Mahmoudy books...you know Not without my daughter and For the love of a child...there are also a few more in the collecion or head to Wilbur Smith.......

Answer 7

The Cat who novels
The Amber novels by Roger Zelanzy
Anything by David Eddings...
All very good reads....

Answer 8

'The Sword Of Shannara' and 'The Elfstones of Shannara', by Terry Brooks
The 'Prydain' chronicles, by Lloyd Alexander
The 'Earthsea' books, by Ursula K. leGuin
'In the Heat of the Night', by John Ball
'Inferno', by Larry Nevin and Jerry Pournelle

Answer 9

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. I found it hard to put this book down.

Answer 10

These are no suggestions for books but sites where you can find them for free:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
http://www.promo.net/pg/
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/index.html
You can browse through name or author; I particularly love anything written by Jane Austen, and Louise May Alcott