I am looking for some good novels to read, any suggestions?

Answer 1

Classics

Answer 2

I guess it would depend on the type of novel you are looking for.

I just read You Suck a Love Story and it was hysterical its a comedy and love story about Vampires.

The Lies of Locke Lamora, is a fantasy novel, which typically isnt my thing but it is one of my new fav novels, its basically a cross between Pirates of the Carribean and Oceans 11, thats soudns crazy but its true.

The Historian, this is another vampire novel but its not your typical one, itmore traces the history of Vlad the impaler and Vampire lore through time and different countries and cultures, there are some super natural elements too its really well written.

I also really like the Thirteenth Tale, it was just like a southern gothic novel, it was kind of dark and twisted and very cool.

If you like adventure type novels, Clive Clussler has the Dirk Pitt novels its what the movie Sahara was based off thier are great summer reads and there are like 20 of em so its hard to run out of stuff to read.

I also really like Steven King, Micheal Criton, John Grisham pretty much any of there books are pretty darn good.

Its also good to look at movies you may like becuase a lot of movies out now are adaptations from books. The prestige for example was a book before it was a movie, i havent gotten a chance to read the book yet but the movie was great.

Good luck finding books.

Answer 3

The Kite Runner is a good one. Much of it takes place in Afghanistan, before and during Taliban rule, and follows a young man making his escape and then returning to his country years later in an effort to make good on some choice he made as a youngster. I could "see" much of this book as I read it.

If you like fantasy, you might check out Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. It's YA, but I'd recommend it to anyone that enjoys the genre. The characters cross many worlds to come together for the battle of all battles.

My Sister's Keeper is interesting, especially due to the theme. A young girl, created to be a genetic match for her older, sick sister, sue for medical emancipation when her parents want her to give a kidney to her sister, though they've been told there's little chance the older girl will survive.

Some fun books I've read lately include Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz. YA again, with a young man (14) spying for Britain's MI6. The scenarios are CRAZY! I can really see these making excellent films if they go that way.

Also, Scott Westerfeld's trilogy Uglies, Pretties and Specials. YA, science fiction about a possible future - at 16 you go from being an Ugly to a Pretty with an operation and your only job is to party - problem is they mess with the inside, too.

I've been reading a lot of YA lately, I say for research, but I enjoy them, too!

Answer 4

Obviously there is no one-size fits all answer, but if you're between 12 and 18 and into video games and best friends stories I think you might like my novel GAMEPLAYER: The Genesis Portal.
GAMEPLAYER follows the adventures of Nine-dog, Gator and Louie; three racially diverse buddies growing up in the skateboarding, video gaming obsessed Santa Monica, California beach life-style.
Their lives revolve around school, skateboarding and video gaming until a bizarre encounter with a run amok video game propels them into a deadly world of terror, murder and intrigue.
It's available at the normal online sites like amazon, B&N, Borders, etc. and as an e-book on mobipocket.com.
You can check it out further and read the prologue on my site www.myspace.com/gameplayerbook.

Not meant as a commercial just a suggestion,
Gary Anderson

Answer 5

Yes, I suppose it all depends on what type of boods you like to begin with. However, I'll share some of my favorites:

"Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - For fans of British humor for certain. A satire on religion written in a very Douglas Adams-esque style. The wit and sarcasm literally drips off of every page. The story centers around an angel and a demon who have, over their long tenure on Earth, become friends. They've even grown fond of the world they're being forced to inhabit. When it comes time to bring about the Apocalypse, they really don't want to see it go. Add to that mix a baby Antichrist that is misplaced, a witch and her deceased witch ancestor whom had a knack for predicting every detail of events that wouldn't occur for hundreds of years, the very pushy and often impatient minions of Satan, and the Four Horsemen...along with their motorcycle-riding imitators who keep changing their names. Sound complicated? It is. But it's also one of the funniest books I've read in a long time.

"The Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinger - There's a reason it's a classic. It's hard to read this novel and come away from it NOT thinking that Holden Caulfield was a real person who wrote down his real experiences.

"Hearts In Atlantis" by Stephen King - I'm not a big fan of King's, but this book was almost impossible to put down. If you can muscle your way past the Dark Tower reference in the first story, this is a truly wonderful bit of storytelling that tends to get overlooked in his catalogue.

"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffennegger - Yes, it's a romance. But it's a romance between a woman and a man who unwillingly and quite spontaneously travels forward or backward in time on a regular basis. But it's a great story.

"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman - I realize this is the second Gaiman book on the list, but it deserves to be there as well. A great story with a good measure of humor and drama. Definitely some fantasy elements as well.

Answer 6

By Ted Dekker: Black. Red. White. Showdown. Saint. Skin. House (co-authored with Frank Peretti). By Robert Liparulo: Comes A Horseman. Germ. By James Byron Huggins: Cain. The Scam. By Tim Downs: Shoofly Pie. Chop Shop. Plaguemaker. Headgame. And try Waking Lazarus by T. L. Hines, which is excellent. By the way, Dekker is my favorite writer.

Answer 7

The Abhorsen series by Garth Nix- Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen. they look a little strange (and they are) but they're waaay good.

The Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) series? the fifth one came out recently.

Maximum Ride-The Angel Experiment (James Patterson) hilarious, the second and third are also out. (School's Out Forever, and Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports)

Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician. These are absolutley hilarious, they're written by 2 people writing letters back in forth "in charecter". By Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Steevermar.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel, also Skybreaker (its sequel).

Hope this helps!

Answer 8

Recently I have just read -
"We Need to Talk about Kevin" Lionel Shriver, thought provoking and sometimes shocking novel about high school killings from the perspective of the mother of the perpetrator.
"Saturday" and "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, two wonderful and accomplished novels from perhaps the best contemporary writer of literature in Britain - artistically, politically and morally.

Answer 9

I have just finished re-reading The Professor's House by Willa Cather. She wrote throughout the first part of the twentieth century, but her writing is surprisingly relevant today. This book is about a middle-aged professor who is re-examining his life. Next I plan to re-read My Antonia, also by Willa Cather.
I have also recently read The Divide by Nicholas Evans, who wrote The Horse Whisperer. It is excellent. One of the main characters is a college-aged girl who takes part in some demonstrations having to do with environmentalism, and gets charged with murder.

Answer 10

Lot's of good answers here, so I'll add to it: Shogun by James Clavell, as well as Tai Pan, Noble House & King Rat.

George R.R. Martins "Fire & Ice" series

Anything by Elmore Leonard