Any suggestions for good novels to read?

Question

Please tell me a little bit about the novel you suggest and why you suggested it.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are a biginner in Reading..........I'd suggest you to start with books by Ken follet jeffery archer and Sidney sheldon

If you like Philosophy i'd suggest Richard bach, Paulo Coelho and best Ayn Rand ( i am a fan......Read every novel atleast 3 times)

If you Like Love strory Read " Gone with the Wind " margret mitchel

If you want descriptive Life story you can read, The city of joy, Papillion, David Copperfield.

Hope that helps
cheers!

Answer 2

I'm partial to Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and James Blish among others some of their work may be a bit dated for some tastes but the story telling is first rate. Rudyard Kipling, Charles Steinbeck and Charles Dickens are good for those not so into SciFi. Of course I like the Harry Potter books. I read a lot of British mystery stories including Agatha Christi, Sherlock Holmes, Campion and Lord Peter Whimsey. I practially live in used book stores.

Answer 3

Herman Hesse "Demian" - maybe it was a right moment when I started reading it, but this book helped me to get rid of some of my fears and uncertainties. It was like a guide.

M.G. Markes "Hundred Years of Solitude" - I can't say why I liked it, I just liked it. The book made me percept differently life, people and some values. And I understood that I'm afraid of lonliness, I don't want to realise at the end that there's no person beside me who is ready to share happiness and sorrow - everything with me.

Ueda Akinari "The meeting on the holiday of chrysanthemums" and Yukio Missima's "The newspaper" - are very philosophical and vital stories. I admire the loyalty and responsibility of the hero in the first story and lost in thoughts about the life, destiny and perspectives of every human-being after reading the second.

Among romantic novels I like Jane Austin's. I'm actually fan of British classics. I also can highly recommend E. Gaskell's "North and South" novel.

Answer 4

Swan Song by Robert McCammon - a great piece about the human condition and miracles therein(semi-horror)
It by Stephen King - a great book about friendship and nostalgia (horror)
My Antonia - a view of Frontier life and pain, a different outlook
Catcher and the Rye - everyone should read this once, yet again a different outlook, a very good read, shows the pivot of the novel to a new form.
A good pre-18th century British piece like Pamela or the unedited unabridged edition of Gulliver's Travels, the skill of the writing will knock your socks off, as will the views on philosophy and bigotry (for instance).

Answer 5

for mindless entertainment I recommend the Stephaine Plum series by Janet Evanovich. The first one is called One for the Money. There's a little bit of everything in these. She's a bounty hunter so there's crime, and she's involved with a guy or two so there's romance, and the writing style is rather comical.

if you want to drive yourself crazy I recommend House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. It's a book about a movie about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Part of the mood lies in the way to book is layed out, with blank pages and footnotes and stylized text. I absolutely love it, but I think it takes a certain kind of person to appreciate it.

Or if you're mathamatically-minded I recommend Contact by Carl Sagan. The book is far more in-depth in the science and math than the movie.

Answer 6

If you like historical fiction, I recommend Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead. Following the trials of an Irish monk who is enslaved first by vikings and later in the Caliphate in Byzantium, we are treated to a well researched story that immerses us into several different cultures. A fascinating read.

Another interesting story is Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. The owners of a publishing house that specializes in books of occult and secret societies, decide to write their own fictional book that weaves together many of the most popular themes of other books. The book makes a ton of money for them, but then a mysterious group who take this kind of stuff seriously assume that the authors know about their secrets, and they are not happy. Very suspenseful.

Enjoy

Answer 7

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende I LOVE this book! It is set in South America and is semi true. Its about life, and one family set in a country going through all types of political changes, in the 1900's, up to about the 1970's. This is what the back cover says:

Book Description
Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.

Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess.

Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas.

Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores.

Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.

I like it because there is a quote in the beginning by Pueblo Neruda, and after I finished the book I completely understood what he was saying. How much does a man live after all....?

Answer 8

HI Purple,

I have two for you to choose from, both are tropical, or sea oriented, novels.

First, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is a classic Nobel Prize winner that will touch your heart and paint a unique combination of courage and perseverance for the reader. Also a great movie, Spencer Tracey gives an Oscar winning performance. I also did a paper in college and received an A for this reveiw.

The other selection is for young and adult readers, by Scott O'Dell, called "Island of the Blue Dolphins". O'Dell earned a Newberry Medal for best Children's book in 1960. It also captures the courage and perseverance of the main character, a teenage girl, who faces the extreme challenges of solitary survival on a Pacific island.

The latter book, "Dolphins", was the project book for my 5th grade class and they loved it! Whether you have children, or not, you will enjoy and benefit from this inspiring soft cover novel by Scott O'Dell. We learned many great vocabulary words and morals from this story. I know that you will enjoy it!

Answer 9

The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye is one of the best novels I have ever read. It has everything, a great romance, history, war, a wonderful friendship, and an unbeatable story. Also Aztec by Gary Jennings for the same reasons. Both are long books, but your sorry when they end.

Answer 10

Either "Jane Eyre" or "Gone with the Wind." These two novels are great and they're classics. I am right now reading "Scarlet" the sequel to "Gone with the Wind," and it's good so far.

The reason I suggest these novels is they are about love, struggles, and their realistic to a degree.