Reccommend a great book you think more people should have read?

Question

I've found myself re-reading a lot of my old books and would like to find something new. Some of the authors on my bookcase are Jeff Noon, Dennis Cooper, Charles Bukowski, William Gibson, Jack Kerouac, Haruki Murakami.

Anyone have a good book they think I might like?

Answer 1

"The Mystery of Marriage" by Mike Mason

(Doesn't have anything to do with your categories....but still is one of my favorite books of all time, and I read about 10 a week.)

Answer 2

The First Casualty by Ben Elton. Most vivid and realistic description of WWI trench warfare, plus it's a detective story and a spy novel, all in one. And it brings in the great social changes happening in Britain and Europe at the time: the Bolshevik Revi\olution and its effect on the working class in Britain, with the rise of the Labour Party; the Fenian Movement, fighting for a free Ireland; the Suffragettes, votes for women; and attitudes to gays. Very well written.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Set mainly in Afghanistan pre- and post- Soviet era, including under the Taliban. But primarily about childhood friendship and family relationships. Most emotionally alive book I've read.

Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley. Written in the 1940s in what is still an experimental style, maybe the most memorable novel I've read.

Answer 3

My favorite historic fiction is "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. It won the Newberry. Or maybe it was Newberry Honor. Either way, it won something. It's really more for kids but I still like it. At the end, Lois Lowry tells you everything that actually happened. It's cool. I also like the "Dear America" series. There are 37 books written in diary format that tell the lives of girls living during all of America's history (Civil War, Gold Rush, Salem Witch Trials, Mayflower Pilgrims, The Great Depression, etc.) They are also for younger teens but I still like them. The Royal Diaries is a 20 book series written from the perspective of real female royals as teens (Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Anastasia, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, etc.) across the world and throughout time. I also love the classics. Little Women (Lousia May Alcott), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelly), Oliver Twist (Dickens), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Moby Dick (Melville), Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne), The Little Mermaid (by Hans Christian Anderson), anything by Shakespeare, The Oddessy (Homer), the Ramayana (Various), Inferno (by Dante). The classics are classics for a reason....people like them! There are 4 series of books I love by Tamora Peirce. There are 14 books. The series are called "The Song of the Lioness", "The Immortals", "Protector of the Small Quartet", and "Daughter of the Lioness". The Song of the Lioness is a bit worse than the rest because it was the first series the author ever wrote. But you really must read it to comprehend the subsequent books. good luck. :)

Answer 4

For a course I am doing, I had to write, on the WW1.
I read one book titled, Letters From A Lost Generation.

They are the letters between two people mainly, but a group of six friends. At the end of the war only two of them were still alive.
This is factual.
Edited by, Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge

Answer 5

I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet, which is surprising. But I found that I couldn't put down "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. Unless you're deeply religious (in which case don't bother going near the Harry Potter series, which is also brilliant). I always heard that Angels and Demons was a "good book" - that term doesn't do it justice. It's an amazing book - go read it!!

Answer 6

The Alienist by Caleb Carr is great. Or try some of the classics like East of Eden, Lady Chatterlys Lover, Pride and Predjudice, etc... If you are an avid reader you will appreciate the way these books were written as well as the stories themselves.

Answer 7

For true stories that bring history to life, I have read The Holy Bible twice.

For fiction reading, I absolutely love Hemingway. My favorite story is "The Old Man and the Sea". This novel won a Pulitzer Prize and the movie won an Oscar. You can't go wrong here and any age may read/watch, which is golden!

Answer 8

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, hands down. This is by far one of the most outstanding books and authors of the 20th century. Also The Fifth Head of Cerberus by the same author. I was absolutely stunned when I read these books, by the sheer brilliance of Gene Wolfe.

Answer 9

A Soldier of the Great War

by

Mark Helprin

The directness of Hemingway and the lyrical language of Fitzgerald!
5 stars

Answer 10

James Clavell - Shogun

Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

Stephen King - The Stand

Answer 11

My story by Dave Pelzer. Its 3 books in one. A child called It about his mothers abuse towards him when he was a kid,
The Lost Boy, about when he was taken into care yet still his mother tried to get him back despite hating him.
A Man called David, how as a man he struggles to live a normal life and form relationships after the horrors he went thru.
Its heartbreaking stuff at times, downright shocking at others