I'm looking for a good book to read on my trip to and from work. I like murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, horrors, and philosophical , basically stuff that make you think. List some books that will keep me wanting to turn the next page. Sci Fi books are ok too.
2007-10-30 08:20:36 · 36 answers · asked by desitur 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You should read Orson Scott Card's Ender series. It's the best sci-fi series that I've read to date.
Ender's Game
Speaker For The Dead
Xenocide
Children Of The Mind
2007-10-30 08:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by Mir 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of these are from female perspectives, some may be a little "girly girl" for your liking but others should be okay. I've left both genre on and you can decide. Meryll of the Stone (Brian Caswell) Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay) Stranger with my face (Lois Duncan) Playing Beattie Bow (Ruth Parks) My Sister Sif (Ruth Parks) Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Holes (Louis Sachar) Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit Eragorn trilogy Narnia The Golden Compass Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice) Requiem for a Princess (Ruth M Arthur) Looking for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) Angels Gate (Gary Crew) Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Pelican's Creek (Maureen Pople) The Diary of Anne Frank To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) The Shiralee (Dárcy Niland) Into the Wild (John Krakauer) Chocolat (Joanne Harris) Harp in the South; Poor Man's Orange; Missus (Trilogy by Ruth Parks) Where the Heart is (Billie Letts) My Place (Sally Morgan) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Rebecca (Daphne De Maurier) The 3 Muskateers (Alexandre Dumas) Anything by the Bronte sisters or Jane Austen Whatever you do don’t run The December Boys (Robert Noonan)
2016-05-26 02:54:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For horrors,
you could try the
Darren Shan series, ex: Cirque du freak, Tunnels Of Blood
Best Ghost stories of Algernon Blackwood
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell
The Between by Tananarive Due
Darklands by Dennis Etchison
Raven by Charles L Grant
Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
For Sci Fi,
you could try
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game/Orson Scott Card
The War of the worlds/H G Wells
Hyperion/Dan Simmons
20,000 Leagues under the sea/Jules Verne
A Wrinkle in time/ Madeleine L'Engle
These books are ones you might like...
The Uglies series
Peter and the starcatchers
And my favourites, The Twilight series.
good luck finding a book!!
2007-10-30 09:02:56 · answer #3 · answered by rainbowhatgirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Armor By John Steakley- It's a sci-fi book that definately lets the imagination run wild...Body Armor that turns you into weapon, a war against 6ft tall ants, and lots of dead bodies... It was a fun book and the character development was well thought out. Definately a guys book.. but I would read it again some day. (if only for the fighting parts- very exciting)
2007-10-30 08:38:01 · answer #4 · answered by Katchoo Choovanski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tommorow Series by John Marsden
The Ellie Chronicles by John Marsden
A Thousand Splendid Suns by the author of Kite Runner
2007-10-30 08:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by kyle_robinson_10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Dan Brown books, ya know the DaVinci Code guy, but he has other books that are really good like "Angels & Demons" and "Deception Point." Both of these are really good thrillers IMO. Some other murder thrillers that I recently liked are.. "A Thousand Bones" by PJ Parrish, "The Third Victim" & "The Killing Hour" both by Lisa Gardner. Hope I helped alittle, I liked all of these books and I like the same kind of books as you.
2007-10-30 08:32:08 · answer #6 · answered by mbs25 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tess Gerritsen (medical based thrillers)
The surgeon
The apprentice (sequel to the Surgeon)
Harvest
James Patterson (thrillers and crime)
Along came a spider (Alex Cross series)
Kiss the girls (Alex Cross series)
Step on a crack
Mary Mary
Kenneth Oppell
The Devils cure
2007-10-30 09:42:48 · answer #7 · answered by esoeterik_librarian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been reading Ngaio Marsh. I like Orson Scott Card. if you go to amazon.com, they can help with recommendations based on what you have already read. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have written a wonderful series with FBI Agent Pendergast. the book Relic is SO much better than the movie!!
2007-10-30 08:24:29 · answer #8 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a thriller: you must try The Ruins. It's a page turner. You will love it.
For philosophy: read Heart In the Right Place
2007-10-30 08:32:57 · answer #9 · answered by Kimmy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite SciFi novel is Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. If you have never read Dracula, it is the classic horror tale. Also, try the Spencer detective series by Robert B. Parker.
2007-10-30 08:30:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋