Looks like rain, so can anyone recommend a good book?

Question

I like novels, biographies, and The Roaring 20s through the 1970s.

Answer 1

The Great Dune Trilogy will keep you going for quite a long time.

Answer 2

Summersea
by Eileen Lottman

I got lost in the fantasy right along with the heroine.
What a magical book. Once I started, I couldn't stop. When Bianca Wilder decides to prolong a summer job at a resort hotel on the New Jersey shore, she never imagines the world she will find, perfectly tailored to her tastes. The huge, decaying old Victorian that overlooks a superhighway, but stands its ground, and speaks of more than seventy years of golden summer memories.....when all thirty bedrooms were filled, tea was served in the solarium, croquet was played on the sprawling lawn, and the beautifully carved mahogany ballroom doors opened....to the last ball of the season. Now that many guests are dead and gone, the 80 year old owners, Sarah and Andrew support their floundering hotel on social security checks and the kindness of certain purveyors of antiques in town.

Bianca is a film student, who feels like a fish out of water in her own "time". She hates plastic, condominiums, smog, fast food, and womens' libbers. She feels pulled back into Summersea's "time"....and soon, her fantasies of how good it used to be turn into a reality that she can enter, *almost* whenever she wants. In the past, she finds true love, and far more interesting people. But what happens when summer is over? Read and find out!

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The ONLY problem is, this book is pretty rare, and you might have a hard time finding it!

Answer 3

Have you ever read the Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes? It starts before the Revolutionary War and continues until about the 1960's. It is a series of 8 books starting with "The Bastard." All of his books are really great historical fiction - with the historical part well-researched and portrayed as truthfully as possible. "Homeland" and "American Dreams" are a couple that go together starting somewhere around 1900 if you don't want to start such a long series. Both follow a family through American history. All of his books are a great read. Enjoy your rainy day.

Answer 4

Here's one (or a bunch) off the beaten track. A woman by the name of Rhys Bowen writes a series of mystery stories about an Irish immigrant named Molly Murphy, fresh off the boat in the early 1900s. Molly's gotten herself into a spot of trouble on the Emerald Isle and manages to book passage on a ship setting sail for New York. In the premier installation of the series ("Murphy's Law" - 2001), she has to deal with a murder that occurs just after the boat deposits everyone on Ellis Island. In subsequent books, which do a good job bringing the 'feel' of turn-of-the-century New York to readers, she establishes herself as a working detective (Book Two called "Death of Riley" forces her to search for the murderer of her detective boss, Paddy Riley). This is followed by "For the Love of Mike" (2003), "In Like Flynn" (2005), "Oh Danny Boy" (2006) and just this year "In Dublin's Fair City." Start with the first, though, because as a character, Molly develops. You get to know her a little at a time and picking up the series in the middle would be like picking up one of the books and starting that in the middle.

Answer 5

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni. Good book.

Answer 6

I'm the king of the castle by Susan Hill
and anything by Anne Jacobs...she's a genius
The Ninja by Eric Lustbader(dnt worry the story is wayyyyyyyyy better than the name sounds)

Answer 7

One Child by Torey Hayden...or any one of The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Answer 8

Strange But True

i forget the authors name...John Something

Also..

Brave New World.

Answer 9

Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier. It's one of my favorites, and I just saw the Hitchcock movie a couple of weeks ago. It takes place on the beaches of England - very gray and rainy - in the 30's (i believe, never says for sure). I think you'd love it!

Answer 10

The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo. Newberry Award, quick fun read, and very very sweet.