Can you suggest some good books?

Question

i'm not sure really what i'm into, i guess drama or just anything...lol! i have one called "Love Walked In" by: Marissa De Los Santos and another called "One More Time" by Claire Cross...i just finished one by Danille Steel called " Long Road Home" and i loved it! it was so heartwarming and yet sad. maybe somewhat moderate reading, i'm still trying to challenge my brain so nothing too hard.

Answer 1

The Guardian, or The Notebook both by Nicholas Sparks

Answer 2

I really like Danielle Steel. Her book The Promise is excellent. I'd suggest you read The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher and then September by Rosamunde Pilcher (which follows The Shell Seekers but isn't an actual sequel). All of Rosamunde Pilcher's books are really good, and if you like Danielle Steel, I'm sure you'll like her books.

Maeve Binchy has some very good books, too, like This Year It Will Be Different.

If you want to "test the waters" and read some classics, I'd suggest Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte or Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

Answer 3

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve

Answer 4

I personally like Stephen King

Answer 5

the diary of anne frank
catcher in the rye
the cruicible

Answer 6

are you ready?? I have a reading list started in 2001 and I started a new book yesterday September 12. The list is 104 books. I won't tell you all of them. but the highlights of the ones I particularly liked. Note: the majority of them are young adult fiction=like teen books, but not ALL of them are. Okay. ready?

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity's Death (there's a second part to this too but I don't recall the title) this lady doesn't know her aunt, but there's a house left to her in the will....)
Robert Alley: Last Tango in Paris. This IS scandalous and maddening too. The very famous book which I read and film I've never seen and when I was through reading it I was angry with myself for having wasted the time! Try it yourself and see if you've heard of it but never read.
Catherine Atkins: Alt Ed (short for Alternative Education. about a group of high school misfits who must take counseling class after school and what they learn about themselves along the way)
Margaret Atwood: very famous for writing alternate political universe stories. The Handmaid's Tale and her other books are intriguing and creepy and you have to read them to believe it!
I love Maeve Binchy! She's Irish and she wrote the book the movie Circle of Friends was made from.
All of her stories start in Ireland, the characters are mostly country folk doing what they have to do. love, relationships and life and it's heartwarming I swear! It's not overly mushy either. Try Scarlet Feather (trying to get a catering service going)
Tara Road ( trying to patch her life together after divorce)
the Copper Beech People in town, and those that move away and come back again...
The Lilac Bus very cute representations of trips taken on the county bus down to the big city.
Beverly Bird: Touch the sun Are you into Native american writing? This was a good story.
Lillian Jackson Braun: most popular are her The Cat who novels which are mysteries where 2 siamese cats help their owner solve crime mysteries. There's at least 15 or more titles.
Pearl S. Buck: Pavillion of Women is also set in china just like the other famous novel she wrote. but this is about a um, what's a chinese harem called? Well, it's all the wives and concubines of the Palace and what happens there. It's not as scandalous as you imagine. It has substance.
Stella Cameron: 7B It's a fun apartment building and what goes on there. It's not terribly scandalous either, but it is a bit funny I think. It's been a while since I read it.
Stephen Chbosky: Perks of Being a Wallflower. This is teen fiction, but it relates to everyone who feels like they don't fit in.
If you like cute fantasy fiction try the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.
The first Artemis fowl and Artemis fowl-The Eternity code: both have the main character human: a very precocious genius teenager; plus fairies, gnomes, electronics galore a big battle and magical secrets of the Leprechauns...shhh, don't tell, haha.
Louise Erdrich: Tracks. I thought she was famous but you decide. Another Native American novel. This involves a bunch of characters and lots of I remember when flashbacks. I think, but it's been a while.
Nancy Farmer: House of the Scorpion. Labeled as teen fiction but it is almost sci fi in the way the character gets to the end of the story.
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair (yes, as in Jane Eyre the famous novel of England ) this has everything! Time travel, literature discussion. a mystery, a bad guy and funny puns too! And apparently this author has written a series of these books. try one and see for yourself if you really like a little fantasy in your fiction.
Dick Francis: he is a top mystery writer. usually his stories revolve around horse racing and/ or wine making families or their estates. A few also incorporate art paintings too. They are my favorite mysteries because i love horses and because you never read a full description of the murder or the crime. it's not intensely gory mystery writing.
my picks would be Proof/ Dead Wrong/ Straight/ and Field of 13 (13 collected Short mystery stories by the author.)
Dorothy Gilman: The Amazing Mrs. Polifax. I hope you understand what I mean but this is like seeing little old Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show become a female James Bond! It's hilarious, it has suspense and it has heart.
Kristine Grayson: Utterly Charming. This girl falls into a fairytale in the suburbs! A witch is after her and she needs help=from a prince. there is a second story after this but i forget what it's called.
Do you like scandalous romance?
Kathryn Harvey: Butterfly Thru years of hard work this girl climbs her way up the social ladder to reap revenge on someone in the end.
Mark Helprin: Winter's Tale This was fantasy as fiction of the future and the past? Anyway, I loved this book. Winter is a horse by the way and he can fly. It's set in New York City, but it's not the regular new york you would see today. And it has lots of news paper reporters getting the story of what's going on so you feel like you're in on the action.
If you liked the movie or even if you never saw it you could try reading Witi Itiahemera's book Whale Rider. It is more indepth to the Maory culture than the movie was allowed to portray.
Dianna Wynne Jones: unexpected magic=16 collected stories by the author. A very enjoyable collection if you like a little magic and/or adventure in a short story format.
Nora Roberts: The MacGregor Brides This is a series so I understand, but it's basically how the 3 sisters who are very different personality types all fall in love and become brides. Which makes their parents/grandparents immensely happy.
Robert Kimmel Smith: Sadie Shapiro Match-Maker. Do you know any old Jewish Grandmother types? This is one of them. Even if you don't know the type, she's a funny old gal who loves her friends and would never do anything to hurt them on purpose. but she believes in pushing to help fate along
Kathlyn S Starbuck: India's Story. Now, I don't recall exactly this story, but India is a girl and she's got to overcome a problem. I do know I liked this book all the way thru.
Someone Smith McCall(sorry I just finished reading it and returned it to the library very fast before I got the full name of the author. anyhow, this is African writing. the #1 Ladies Detective agency is how the character sets up shop, and the second book, the Kalahari typing school for men is how the detective's sometimes secretary sets up an evening class for business men who don't have secretaries and need typing skills. The books are funny, full of African greetings to one another in the polite way, and a lot of sitting on the porch and drinking tea. I liked these 2 books. They are adult fiction, but the action is so mild, young people can read it without parents being worried about sensoring sex or foul language.
Amy Tan is Chinese American but her books are so wonderful there are bits of everyone in her characters. The Joy Luck Club is 4 daughters trying to live up to their mother's expectations, and trying to hold on to the memories their mother's left in China. The 100 Secret Senses is a touching tale of characters searching for something in back country chinese villages and they find themselves too.
Victor Villasenor: Rain of Gold. This is Villasenor's biography of his family's village in Mexico and their move to California and the legend of Gold they left behind but never forgot. An Amazing story to read even if it wasn't true!
Rex Stout is very famous for Nero Wolfe mysteries. Perhaps you've heard there is a tv series based on these books? They are set in 1940 new york when there are still private eyes and ladies wear hats and look just so every time they walk out the house. The character of Nero Wolfe is a genius mostly because he never leaves the house but before the story ends he;s solved the case! I've read Nero Wolfe-Before Midnight(that's the full title of the story), Prisoner's Base (this one has lost love during the war and someone gets reunited after the mystery is solved) and The Golden Spiders (it's jewelry in the shape of a spider not real bugs, ok?)
Robert James Waller: Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. Ever wanted to visit Mexico with a bandit? This is the story for you. A love story that can't end as a love story with all that shooting going on! It wasn't gory, and it wasn't scandalous love either. it's more a psychological analysis of the bandit's motives and why she stays with him. Intriguing and sad.
Dee Wells: Jane This is a English novel of Renaissance England. She marries him, she loses him to another, she gets him back but everyone hates her, then he dies and everyone goes after her because he dies with money owing to everyone. This book goes thru the life and loves of a full family surrounding the character Jane. If you like historical romance but not "every other page is a scandalous sex scene", then this is a good book to try.
Jane Yolen: 12 Impossible Things Before Breakfast. These are 12 short stories by the author. All of them are a little bit of fantasy mixed with reality, most of them are a little creepy, or maybe it was just me (haha). It was entertaining to read all of the stories. It was listed in the library as teen fiction, but don't let that stop you. She's a very good writer. She uses a lot of description in her narrative.