can anyone recommend a really good book please?

Question

will be travelling on the coach a lot the next two months and need something to read!

Answer 1

To kill a mocking bird.

Answer 2

Ohhh the list is limitless!!! It really depends on what you like but since you will be travelling I am suggesting some 'page turners' and books that are not too hard to get into: its sometimes hard to concentrate when there are lots of people around you.
> Jodi Picoult books - My Sisters Keeper is the best one (in my opinion) - easy to read and fairly gripping
> Cecilia Ahern - A place called here (chick lit, very interesting angle and a page turner)
> The Girls - about conjoined twins (can't remember the author) but very interesting and a good story, a little bit different
> Charles Dickens - Great Expectations or David Copperfield (good classics and will keep you going for a bit!)
> This book may save your life (cant remember author) - an easy read and very 'now'
> The Time Travellers Wife - EXCELLENT book

I hope that this helps

Answer 3

"The Chosen" by Ricardo Pinto. It's the first in the "Stone Dance of the Chameleon" trilogy and is great if you like long, elaborate fantasy books, but don't want yet another Tolkien rip-off. It'll last you a long time, too...

Another good long read is Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour" - takes a while to get into, but if you persevere you'll find yourself hooked. You may want to read with the lights on as the story develops - unlike so many ghost stories, it's genuinely frightening.

"The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger marries the sci-fi and romance genres perfectly and without resorting to cliches. One of the most affecting books I've read this year.

Answer 4

Any of the series by Kay Hooper, anything written by Robin Cook or Micheal Palmer, only if you like medical fiction, anything John Saul, if you like horror, The Tommyknockers by Stephen King, Desperation by Stephen King, anything Nicholas Sparks, I.E. The Notebook, Message In A Bottle, A Walk To Remember, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, The Five People You Meet In Heave by Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom...
Hope I have been helpful

Answer 5

My personal favorites are The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. The Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton. The Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton. The Riley Jensen series by Keri Aurthur.

Then if you like romance anything by Nora Roberts, Brenda Joyce, Judith McNaught, and Rosemary Rogers is good. I've yet to read a bad one by these authors.

If you like the weird off the wall stuff Steven Kings Gunslinger series is great.

Answer 6

if you like romance, history, well written characters with lots of detail and a "one more chapter and I'll go to bed" addictiveness, I reccomend Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. Long reads, but you'll be wanting it longer when you reach the end. Right now the series consists of:

Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
A Breath of Snow and Ashes

there are at least two more books to come, according to the authoress' website, but they may be years in the offing.

If you like fantasy, with lots of subplots, suspense, and intruige, I suggest the George R R Martin series, "A song of ice and fire". There are 3 books in the series, I believe. I have only read the first, but it was a great work and my brother assures me the rest of the series is even better.

Have a great trip and happy reading!

Answer 7

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Joe’s Boys by L. M. Alcott
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Sophie's World and Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Lemony Snicket’s series of Unfortunate Events
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Catcher in The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
MatildaRoald Dahl
The Old Man and The Sea

happy reading :)

Answer 8

Richard and Judy's "Book Club" and "Summer Read" books are generally very good I find, often 'unputdownable' and thought provoking without being pretentious and confusing (as I think War and Peace and many other literary "classics" are for the average person who just wants to pass a couple of hours!!).

Particularly good was Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luiz Zafon and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton I thought.

Answer 9

Some really good books are as follows:-
Bill Bryson - Notes from a small Island
The Northern Lights trilogy - Philip Pullman
The Sally Lockhart series - Philip Pullman
Any of the Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett
McCartney's Bar - Pete McCartney
Any of the Moomin books - Tove Jansson.

Answer 10

If I might be so bold as to shamelessly plug my own novel. To Serve & Protect would be a great choice if you enjoy a good mystery/thriller.

By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) -

Written by James K. Magee, To Serve & Protect is an exciting thriller about Police Chief Tom Martin, the dedicated protector of the sleepy small town of Goshen, whose world is turned upside down by the brutal assassination of a U.S. senator - and a subsequent homicidal rampage as a ruthless unknown perpetrator seeks an alleged witness hiding in Goshen. Among the dead are Chief Martin's girlfriend. Determined to avenge her and protect the town's residents, Chief Martin braves a tangled conspiracy, in which masterminds fueled by greed and lust for power manipulate lives and no one is safe from the coming storm. A gripping, suspenseful novel that acutely hooks the reader's attention from beginning to end.

Answer 11

What sort of books do you like? I could recommend loads but they are all fantasy/SF. Try Julian May the saga of Pliocene exile (4 books), galactic milieu series (5 books), Stephen King always passes the time as does James Herbert, Dean Koontz (mostly horror novels). Anne McCaffrey has written loads of books about the dragons of pern, Capt corellis mandolin is beautiful and you will cry! Go to the library and pick new authors - you never know what you will find!