Good Book To Read?

Question

Looking for some great books to read while I am waiting for a total knee replacement.

Answer 1

Anything by John Grisham, Also Nelson DeMille, read "Gold Coast" by Nelson DeMille,it is very entertaining and quite humorous.

Answer 2

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series. One for the Money; Two for The Dough etc. all the way up to 12 Sharp. Stephanie is the main characeter - she is a bounty hunter in New Jersey. She is kind of like a Lucy Ricardo - if it can happen to Stephanie it will. These books are fast reads and make you laugh out loud. GREAT entertainment.

Answer 3

if you want some big thick books, let me recommend the Outlander (aka Jamie & Claire) series by Diana Gabaldon. Some places reference it as romance, but it's not strictly accurate. Time travel from the 20th c. to the 18th, just in time for Bonnie Prince Charlie and later the American Revolution; earthy, well-researched (no whitewashing about life and difficulties of the time), and a love story that spans centuries, as a PR agent would say. While highly enjoyable, they are not light reads.
Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow & Ashes

Answer 4

I don't know how old you are, but I enjoyed Gerald Durrell's books on his life as an zookeeper and naturalist.
Sci fi? Poul Anderson's "There Will Be Time".
Mystery? Lindsey Davis's Roman series.
Drama ? "A Present From Peking" by David Lampard.
Historical? "Crimson is the Eastern Shore", or "The Last of the Wine".
Play? How about "Philadelphia Story" by Philip Barry.
Happy reading.

Answer 5

Well, it's all about preferences. Do you like mysteries? Love stories? Comedies? Without knowing you too well, I can't really specify, so I'll name some books that I think are worth reading.

SPEAK - Laurie Halse Anderson; a adolescent becomes strangely quiet after an occurance at a party. As to why, nobody knows. The only one who knows is Melinda (the girl), and to get help she must learn how to do one thing: speak.

CATALYST - Laurie Halse Anderson; after Kate's mother's dead, she quit believing in the God that her father preaches about every Sunday. Her mysterious neighbors become all the more mysterious to her once fate brings them into Kate's everyday life - something she isn't exactly thrilled about. Through her less-than-pleasant neighbor, Kate learns about life, love, and faith.

HARRY POTTER BOOKS - J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter is treated poorly by his Aunt and Uncle after his mother and father mysteriously died in a car accident, and is taught every day that he is not worthy of the Dursleys--he is too "normal." That was, until fate dropped poured in (quite literally) through the openins of Privet Drive and forced a young, lightning-bolt scarred boy into a world unlike the one he had known--and so much better.

ELSEWHERE - Gabrielle Zevin; life for Liz changes in a single second--she hit on her bike while crossing the street and sent into a coma, in which she later dies. She is dead, but, as odd as it may seem, she is alive still; headed off to a place known as "Elsewhere," aboard a ship, she learns that she will be turning younger, going back in time, until she is a week old and returns to Earth. This hits her hard. She wants to turn sixteen, not six! She wants to drive, not crawl! Can she overcome herself and finally learn to accept life after death, or will she find some way out?

That's all I have for now. I've read about a million and one in my lifetime, but I really don't know what to recommend to you since you never specified what kind of books you like. If you still have any questions, please, feel free to e-mail me at [e-mail]. I'd be happy to give you more ideas. : )

Answer 6

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Lamb by Christopher Moore

Answer 7

I'm a fan of historicals like:

"Katherine" by Anya Seton
"Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon
"The Fool's Tale" by Nicole Galland
"A Catch of Consequence" by Diana Norman
"Shadow Patriots" and "Ride the Wind" by Lucia St. Clair Robson

Answer 8

I would totally suggest Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. It is a trilogy.There is a movie about the first one, Eragon, but it is really bad. The third book comes out this summer, I think. The website for the books is: http://www.alagaesia.com
Hope this helps.

Answer 9

Try " This book will save your life" by A M Homes. Just finished reading it - throughly enjoyable. Heres some blurb on it from Publishers weekly.

The journey from isolation to connection in a semiapocalyptic Los Angeles is the subject of this blithely redemptive new novel by Homes (Things You Should Know). Richard Novak is a day-trader wealthy enough to employ a housecleaner, nutritionist, decorator and personal trainer, but after he's taken to the hospital with a panic attack he realizes he has no one to call. Determined to change his life, but also stalked by strange circumstances (e.g., a sinkhole opens in his lawn), Richard makes extravagant gestures of goodwill toward various acquaintances, relatives and strangers. By the time his misguided altruistic adventures have become fodder for late-night TV jokes, Ben, the son he abandoned years ago in a divorce, arrives in town. Richard's tenuous and fraught reconnection with Ben is at the heart of his reclamation, but when it is complete the city of L.A. itself collapses, à la Mike Davis's City of Quartz. Homes's stale cultural critique feels deliberate. She gradually undoes the ordered precision of Richard's Bobo paradise, and literally leaves him floating serenely on his kitchen tabletop in an "it's all good" sort of daze. But the cool distance she keeps from Richard's struggle, and the banal terms in which she articulates it, leave one with a much darker sense of the possibilities for being saved.

Answer 10

Harry Potter books 1-6 :)