What book should I read?

Question

i enjoy jules verne, hg wells, JRR tolkien, stephen hawking...
and i cant decide what to read next.

Answer 1

harry potter mayn

Answer 2

The Good Guy by Stephen King
Invisible Prey by John Sandford
The Traveler and The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
The Stand and Rose Madder by Stephen King
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Hobbitt and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Answer 3

Here are some excellent choices (I was going to say "page turner" until I heard the joke "why do people say this book is a real page turner--I know how books work!) Jeffery Deaver, Dennis Lehane, David Morrell and Lee Child, in my opinion they are the best thriller writers in the business!! I am a avid reader in this genre and have read Coben, King, Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Connelly, and many others but none can touch these authors I've listed! The Deaver book I've just finished reading now is "The Sleeping Doll"--a brand new release and has literally kept me up at nights!! I'm quite sure you'll love his other thrillers as well, such as "The Bone Collector", "A Maiden's Grave", "The Coffin Dancer", "Praying For Rain", "Cold Moon", "The Twelfth Card", "The Vanished Man", "Devil's Tear Drop" et el. For Lehane, start with "A Drink Before War" (don't let the title fool you) then "Darkness Take My Hand", "Sacred", "Gone, Baby Gone", "Prayers For Rain", "Shutter Island" and "Mystic River." For Lee Child, you can start with his first and move forward, but it's OK if you don't. Some personal favs are: "One Shot", "Trip Wire", "Hard Luck and Trouble"--a new release, "The Persuader"-my personal fav, "The Hard Way", but they are all page turners! Also, last but definitely not least is David Morrell. All his books are good, but I especially enjoy his last two releases "Creepers" and "Scavenger" which are guaranteed page-turners. Enjoy, Greg

Source(s):

http://www.leechild.com/
http://www.jefferydeaver.com
http://www.dennislehanebooks.com...
http://www.davidmorrell.net

Answer 4

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Dispossessed
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising sequence
Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy

Answer 5

Robert Heinlein
Frank Herbert - The Dune series
Isaac Asimov
Fred Hoyle
Arthur C. Clark
Will Durant
Bertrand Russell

Answer 6

If you like factual, science-based books like your example by Stephen Hawking, try The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

For Science Fiction, any books by Isaac Azimov or Arthur C Clarke.

For Fantasy and Imagination, any book by Terry Pratchett.

For Intellectual Good Humour, any book by Stephen Fry.

That should banish ennui for a day or two.

Answer 7

The Diceman by Luke Rhinehart. It's not scifi/fantasy (which I too would usually read) but an interesting book nonetheless. It's about a psychiatrist who decides to lead his life by throwing dice to decide what to do next.

If you like Stephen Hawking, maybe you'd also enjoy Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins. It's an accessible book about science - cool!

Answer 8

The "Riverworld" series by Philip Farmer. The cast of characters is everyone who has ever lived plus some fictional ones.

The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. One of the classics and a "must read" to be well versed in SF and see how it influenced so many other writers.

Ringworld by Larry Niven

The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Answer 9

Books for grown-ups: Orson Scott Card. Jacqueline Carey. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Neil Gaiman.

Books for younger readers that are still good reps for high fantasy: Lloyd Alexander. C.S. Lewis. Susan Cooper. T.A. Barron. Philip Pullman.

Answer 10

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Siddhartha or Glass Bead Game - by Hermann Hesse

Answer 11

JRR tolkien
or
hg wells