2007-04-14 08:29:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If you like geo-historical non-fiction :
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.", Jared Diamond, Viking Books, New York, 2005, ISBN 1-58663-863-7.
2007-04-14 08:37:17 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a Non Fiction book that I really thought was hard to put down, "Dispatches From The Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival" by Anderson Cooper. Anderson is the CNN field reporter we see at all the terrible disasters, tsumania, Iraq, Katrina, etc. He also tells of his personal life as the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. I recommend it highly.
2007-04-14 08:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by jehrapha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you mean books that were published recently, i would recommend going to a local bookstore and going to a section that interests you. If you mean in general, i really enjoy novels by Dan Brown, such as Deception Point and Digital Fortress. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is also very good. If you like classics, anything by Agatha Christie is excellent, as well as by Jane Austin. Orphans by V.C. Andrews is pretty good. The Observations by Jane Harris is interesting.
2007-04-14 08:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by Karissa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have just re-read Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig. It is very well-written, and the characters are very compelling.
I would also recommend anything by Kurt Vonnegut, an American treasure who unfortunately died this week. I have also recently re-read his Galopogas, and TimeQuake. Vonnegut had the knack of causing the reader to see society from new perspectives.
2007-04-14 08:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by Tricia R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by lately? Something recent?
Here's one, came out in 2005.
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky by Benjamin Deng-its about the Lost Boys of Sudan
2007-04-14 08:34:29 · answer #5 · answered by buttercup 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Rings
anything be Mercedes Lackey, especially:
-Outstretched Shadow
-To Light a Candle
-Firestarter (i think??? is the title)
-Exile's Honor
-To Take a Theif
-Alta
-Sanctuary
2007-04-18 04:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by orchestra_chick07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Frank Peretti. Here are a few:
"This Present Darkness"
"Piercing the Darkness"
"Prophet"
"The Visitation"
"Monster"
"The Oath"
2007-04-14 08:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Watchers - Dean Koonz, great book!
The Last Don - Mario P (I don't remember his last name)
2007-04-14 08:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by specdro 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
moon called by patricia briggs
2007-04-14 08:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by Vi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
--l.o.v.e and the other four letter words(smut book)
--jade green(mystery)
--Farhenheit 451(sci fi)
2007-04-14 08:32:34 · answer #10 · answered by ohbaby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋