can anyone suggest some books for me to read please?

Question

what are some books that YOU liked and would suggest?

i am want to read something clever and witty, kind of like Chuck Palaniuk's books, out of his books i've only read Survivor and Diary though. i am also planning on reading Fear and Loathing in Las vegas, and Farenheit 451, are those books good?

suggest some stuff, thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not going to suggest something clever or witty, but instead something that will draw you in, challenge you and make you think.
Read "A Lesson Before Dying" by Earnest J. Gaines. I recommend it to everyone and anyone who ask. It is a great book.

Answer 2

Fahrenheit's an excellent book. It definitely is one of my favorite "classic" reads.

Some more good "classics" are:
Animal Farm or 1984 by George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Flies

And if you do read Fahrenheit 451 and enjoy it, another great one by Ray Bradbury is "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

Some more good reads are:
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (A bit long)
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Long as well but my current read which I'm loving)
- Anything by Kurt Vonnegut will blow your mind

Tis all I can think of right now. I've enjoyed reading all of these books, but may add a little bit about what types of books you may be looking for (classics, drama, horror, comedy, short reads, long reads, etc.) and I may be able to suggest some more a bit better.

Answer 3

Yes you will enjoy Fear and Loathing and 451. You might also enjoy One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest -If you like witty, try some Christopher Moore. His books are great. I just finished Lamb and I was actually laughing out loud on the train. He is great. Also try Carl Hiaasen - I love all his books especially Lucky You. Another great choice is Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre. That is a great book to team up with A Clockwork Orange. They have a lot in common as far as themes go. Pax - C

Answer 4

check out Goerge R. R. Martins series "A Song of Ice and Fire." the first book is titled "A Game of Thrones." Martin is a genious, and his books are the least predictable of anybody I've ever read, and I read alot. you never know when someone you think is the main character is going to die. He is the best with no close second. the "Left Behind." series written by: Tim Lahaye is excellent. Orson Scott Card's "Enders Game." was brilliant. Robert Jordans: "The Wheel of Time." series Rocked. I couldn't put "Harry Potter." down. Piers Anthony's series "Xanth." is awsome. If you do nothing else in your life, but read these books I listed you will be a happier person, they are all awsome books. I could list probably over a thousand books but heres a start.

Answer 5

I myself love classical romanticism. I recommend Notre-Dame de Paris(The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.) by Victor Hugo. It has a alot of irony, and to me it's a bit of a dark comedy. Don't judge it by Disney's adaptation, because frankly Disney's adaptation did not to justice to the novel. I also recommend The Toiler of The Sea. Again, writeen by Hugo. It has some amazing descriptions.
I am also a fan of Shakespeare's comedies, so A Midsummer's Night's Dream and The Tempest are good if you enjoy Shakespeare.
I'm currently reading The Story of French and it's all about the French language and how it came to be, and where it's going.(Obviously I am interested in French, and that title may not be for everyone.) But I strongly suggest Notre-Dame De Paris because it's one not a lot of people read these days which is suprising because more people read Les Miserables, which is by the same author and it's 1200 pages long(about double the length of Notre-Dame De Paris.) If you have the time to read it, then I suggest it as well.

Answer 6

In non-fiction, Michael Pollan is a great writer. Clever and interesting. I haven't yet got to his latest book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, but I am looking forward to reading it. I loved Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, and The Botany of Desire:A Plant's-Eye View of the World.
I also love all of David Mas Masumoto's books, starting with Epitaph for a Peach. He writes about organic farming and his family in California. Really beautiful writing.
The Count of Monte Cristo and Jane Eyre are two of my favorite classics.
Anything by Alexander McCall Smith. There are too many to start listing!! His books are "mysteries", but really, they are more just about interesting characters, and quite funny.
Cry of the Kalahari, and Eye of the Elephant, two books by Mark and Delia Owens. They have a more recent book, Secrets of the Savanna, which I'm sure is wonderful, but I haven't got to that one either! They study and write about African wildlife in a really wonderfully descriptive way.
So much to read, so little time!!! I think I am going to take a vacation just to read books.

Answer 7

John Sandford has a series of detective novels called the "Prey" series that are excellent. Theres also Sue Grafton and her "alphabet" novels. Dean Koontx writes some scary stuff but its not all that and he writes terrific. Theres a book by John Twelve Hawks called the Traveler thats also well written and the second book by him and the second in the Fourth Realm is due out in July. Happy Reading.

Answer 8

Fahrenheit 451 is amazing. One of my favorite books. Read it!

Clever and witty...sorry, bit of a strikeout there. Off to finish reading 'Dandelion Wine', if I come up with anything else I'll post again.

Answer 9

Fear and loathing is an AMAZING book.


My suggestions:

House Of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Lamb - Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore

Answer 10

Anything by Ray Bradbury is good reading. Robert Heinlein, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon and Isaac Asimov are other great authors.