Good books?

Question

I need good books!
I like literature and fiction.
name as many as you can think of

I definitely do not like Chick lit...
I hate the authors who write 2893719 books that go on the bestseller list.
Quality stuff...

for example authors like patterson and d. steele.. i dont like to read

Answer 1

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize, so no worries about the quality. The story is absolutely epic (1024 pages of paradise! Blast the length, about 2 pages into the book you'll feel like you never want to look away from the pages again), set immediately before, during, and after the American Civil War and revolves around Scarlett O'Hara. Man, if I could find another book like this...

Flowers for Algernon nearly ripped my heart out. Tragic, good, and famous for very good reasons. Read to find out why.

Thomas Hardy is one of the best classic authors I've ever read. The interweaving, complex relationships are absolutely visionary, in my opinion. Hardy really anticipated the today's moral issues of love.

For some good, brainless but entertaining reading, try Agatha Christie (I know, I know. You hear about her so much, you just can't stand the sight of her best-selling books. But the fact remains that they're entertaining beyond belief.) Excellent mysteries and an ensured, nearly boundless supply of fun reading (she wrote so many...).

So there you have it. Good luck with your reading!

Answer 2

Anything by Jane Austen, especially Pride and Prejudice, the Brontes, Wuthering Heights. They may seem hard to relate to but they all have themes, situations and ideas that are very relatable today plus they are all well good. Oh, "Gone With The Wind" is good to if not abit daunting. Just look to the classics they will never go out of print and they tell storys that have inspired so much.

Answer 3

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman= the best book ever as long as your not a religious zealot. Neil Gaiman's really just a fun author to try, I haven't read anything of his that I didn't like.

Pet Semetary by Stepehn King= One of the scariest things ever, next to clowns.

The Illiad, The Odyssey, or The Aeneid as translated by Robert Fagles

That's about all I can think of right now.

Answer 4

Daniel Silva
Michael Connelly
Nelson De Mille

Three authors who are best sellers with more substance.

William Faulkner
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Dickens
any of the classics

Answer 5

Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Patrick Robinson

Answer 6

I love love LOVED Memoirs of a Geisha...the book is 10000 times better than the movie.

I read Janet Evanovich books...the protagonist is Stephanie Plum (lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter)...the books are pretty funny and hard to put down.

Shopgirl by Steve Martin was a really good novella.

I liked Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

I don't usually read literary classics...sorry. :)

I just saw that you added you don't like chic lit...sorry!

You might want to try The Art of War...that was good.

Answer 7

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn...Original, shocking, a study of corruption and evil, and the dynamics of a carnival family, whose matriarch has conceived a family of her own freaks by indulging in various toxins and drugs during her pregnancies. Very poignant and thought provoking.

Answer 8

you might have already read him but i like on the road by jack kerouac. the dharma bums by kerouac is my favorite book at the moment. my brother has two books out right now that i would appriciate you checking out. the first one published is called the weight of absence. and the second is titled beautiful. search on amazon for clint j. terry and they should both come up.

Answer 9

I've just finished reading Kokoro by Soseki Natsume. I found it very interesting. Give it a try.

Answer 10

I like the "classics"-

Crime & punishment
lord of the flies
the hobbit
roots
grapes of wrath
east of eden

If you haven't read any of those they are well worth the read.