does anyone recommend any good books?

Question

i need another book to read, let me know what u guys recommend...

Answer 1

you've probably read it already but my fav.book is the catcher in the rye,moby dick is also pretty good but i dont know too many cuz i rarely read.

Answer 2

There are so many great books! I don't really know what your reading level is or what you're into so I'll suggest a variety. To begin with, "Nine Stories" by J.D. Salinger is amazing. If you're into Russian literature you should check out "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev or (if you have the time) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. While the book is gigantic, you'll be surprised at how well it keeps your attention. Anything by Nick Hornby will do. A challenging, but extremely well written book that I finished recently is "Love in a Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Answer 3

Since you didn't specify what you enjoy reading, here is a scattering of my favorite authors.

Donald Westlake is a great author. He has developed the comedy/caper into an art form. Check out his "What's The Worst
That Can Happen?" or "Drowned Hopes" for a fun, light-hearted crime story. Sometimes he does a more serious crime story. In "The Ax" a middle-aged paper mill worker realizes that nobody will hire him after being laid off. To improve his chances at getting a job, he decides to kill everybody else with his particular job qualifications.

Tony Hillerman's early works are wonderful. He is best known for his Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries set in the Navajo Reservation. The care and attention to detail in describing Navajo culture and taboo's is one of Hillerman's best aspects. Sadly, his most recent book, "The Shape Shifter" was all too predictable; but he still manages to tell a good yarn. I highly recommend Hillerman's "The Ghostway", "Sacred Clowns" and "The Blessing Way."

If science fiction is more to your taste, check out Robert Heinlein's "Friday." It is more of a near future tale with the heroine a special courier (able to smuggle documents and small items in a secret compartment in her stomache). Aside from the compartment, other featured nearly here inventions include space stations connected to earth by long elevators and jumbo jets that travel like ballistic missles. Not bad for a book written over 20 years ago. Don't miss Heinlein's two masterpieces "Stranger In A Strange Land" and "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."

For epic sci-fi, few come close to Frank Herbert's "Dune" series. However, his son, Brian has done incredible work on translating Frank Herbert's original story ideas into a series of prequels that set the background of the classic series.

If you prefer your action to be more realistic, Clive Cussler is a good pick. "Sahara" and "Cyclops" are wonderful reads.

For historical adventure, Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe's" series is a wonderful blend of historical fact and action. Sweeping through the late 1700's and early 1800's, Richard Sharpe is an orphaned gutter kid who is given a choice join the army or hang from the gallows. Forced into His Majesty's Army, Sharpe does the unthinkable in India and rises to a comission in a time where officers paid for their rank. This makes Sharpe very unpopular with officers, but a hero to his men.

Answer 4

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita

Answer 5

Read Plum Island by Nelson Demille
Read The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Answer 6

The Inside Ring---Michael Lawson
Just One Look---Harlan Coben
On Basilisk Station---David Weber
Storm Front---Jim Butcher

Answer 7

Introduce yourself to Tom Robbins with his masterpiece- Still Life With Woodpecker. It's hilarious and very smart. Tom Robbins is a true artist. He writes one sentence at a time and just makes it up as he goes along. And he's a twisted funny genius.
It's a difficult book to describe, but I'll try. It's about a king and queen from some tiny backwater third world country who get exiled to the U.S. And their beautiful redheaded daughter. Le Cheri, falls in love with a sort of psychopathic genius guy who likes to blow things up (like embassies and stuff). He sounds nutz, but he's charming. And Le Cheri has her ever present ancient nursemaid always following her about trying to make sure she doesn't get into trouble. It is just SO damn funny! I tell ya, give it a whirl. It's a pretty short book, like 200 pages. Not a huge investment. Hope you like it!

P.S. If you dig that one, go directly to his other work of hilarious art- Jitterbug Perfume. ;) He's a funny funny man, Tom Robbins.

Answer 8

I just finished Alan Weisman's book World Without Us, a fascinating and wide-ranging thought experiment on how the world would change if all humans neatly disappeared. Completely engrossing.

Answer 9

East of Eden, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Napalm & Silly putty, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Brain Droppings...
can't remember all the other good ones I have read.

Answer 10

I'd recommend anything by Meg Cabot. She wrote the Princess Diaries.

Answer 11

Read "The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot" by Bart Ehrman