Can anyone please recommend a good book for me to read???

Question

im an 18 year old girl and i find it hard to keep interested in books so i need one thats hard to put down from beginning to end. im open to ideas as to what kind of book but please dont suggest anything with dragons or sci-fi cos i find that kind of stuff a bore!! thanks xx

Answer 1

What about some good chick-lit type books?? Try the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella-they're hilarious. Or any of Chris Manby's books. Belinda Jones is good too.

Or what about thrillers? Karin Slaughter is excellent,so is Kathy Reichs. Iris Johanssen is an easy read.

Try the classics; To Kill A Mockingbird (I couldn't put that down!),Of Mice And Men (very short book but excellent),The Color Purple is good too-very sad but relevant to todays society.

Answer 2

The Outsider by Albert Camus, short but enthralling.
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn only 150 pages long.
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, perfect for your age. Everyone should read this at least once in their lifetime.
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle and The Van also by Roddy Doyle - both books incredibly funny.
All the above are short books not drawn out or filled with piffle (you know - he wore a red shirt blue tie blah blah blah....)

Answer 3

I like the Jodi Picoult books,they are very good, i could not put the books down not alot of housework got done. Here are some of the books i have read;
The Pact
Salem Falls
Plain Truth
Vanishing Acts
My Sisters Keeper
Some librarys have the books in so you don't have to buy them.
Enjoy

Answer 4

I'll recommend 3 books to you - a series called His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Starting with Northern Lights, then onto The Subtle Knife and finally the climax of The Amber Spyglass. Brilliant, engaging and thought provoking books, brilliantly written.

Answer 5

Depends on what you're into... Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie which is fab!
I love Austen, but a lot of people complain that she isn't an easy read so I'm not so sure I recommend that.
If you're into romance then Melissa Nathan is good.
Philippa Gregory does good historic fiction, I couldn't put 'The Other Boleyn Girl' down
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is another one that I can't put down!

Answer 6

These are some of the ones I just couldn't put down.
Valentine by Tom Savage
The Long Walk by Steven King (even if you aren't a fan, I am not, this book is incredible)
Oh and another good author that won't let you down is Tami Hoag.
Have fun!

Answer 7

Right now I am reading Consider Lily by Dayton and am enjoying it. Try authors Ann Tatlock, Richard Paul Evans, Penelope Stokes, John Steinbeck, Gail Tsukiyama,Peter Mayle, and Melody Carlson.

Answer 8

A man returns to his summer house by the lake after a season away and discovers a stack of manuscripts left behind by someone who broke in and spent the winter there.It's kind of a quiet philosophical poetic kind of book, but pretty short. If it sounds interesting to you, it's called The Clam Lake Papers and was written by Edward Lueders.

Answer 9

i just read Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie. It was a really well written book full of emotion. Also, comes a horseman by Robert Liparullo was fantastic. Maybe you should read IT by Stephen King not too much sci fi and its scary as hell.

Answer 10

Twelve step fandango by Chris Haslam

Martin Brock is living a wasted life. He wants to be happy. He wants to have a girlfriend who can stand to be near him. He wants his friends to respect him. Burned out and self-deluded, he takes each day as it comes, dealing low-quality cocaine to tourists, his head in a perpetual cloud of pot smoke. Martin knows he's in a rut, but he lacks the will to dig himself out. Incapable of changing his life, he hopes instead that one day something momentous will simply fall into his lap.

And, one day, it does. An old friend rides into town, unannounced and uninvited, needing a place to lie low for a couple of days. He says he's been in a motorcycle accident, and hides a badly infected leg beneath his expensive leathers. Martin almost cares, but he's far more interested in what's concealed beneath the seat of the bike: five kilos of high-grade cocaine. Suddenly Martin has the means to escape his miserable existence: all he needs is a little time and a lot of luck. But Martin Brock is not a lucky man. He's spent years dreaming of a life of ease, a life of plenty, and a life of unlimited narcotics. By the end of the week, he'll settle for any life at all.

Fantastic!