What is a good book that you've read recently?

Question

Please recommend a good book to read that you've recently finished.

Answer 1

If you like well-written, character-driven fantasy, the newly released The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore is fantastic. Despite being fantasy, it has quite a few philosophical things to say about war (even the war on terror), love, family commitments and fate versus free will. Enjoy!

Answer 2

I haven't read it myself, but Divergant and it's sequel are meant to be really good. Others I'd suggest: Harry Potter. Heroes of Olympus (Sequel series to Percy Jackson.) The Silver Brumby (I first read this when I was 11 and have loved it ever since. I'm now 28.) The Mortal Instruments series. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. I would also recommend you find the Stephanie Plum murder mystery series by Janet Evanovich. It's more grown up than teenage books (swearing and sex), but they are some of the funniest books I have ever read :)

Answer 3

Sacajawea - Anna Lee Waldo
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Alas Babylon - Pat Frank

Answer 4

Alone on a wide wide sea by Michael Morpurgo.

hes a 60 yr old man telling his story of how when he was a child he was seperated from his sis kitty. he gets taken to austtralia and put on farm at the age of 5 i think. he is a slave he meets some good people and when hes older has a daughter and plans a trip bak to england to find his long lost sister and find our what the key means (when he left his sis she gave him a key- he calls it the lucky key)

but we he make the journey
that was a bit about the story
heres the blurb from the book:

THERE WERE DOZENS OF US ON THE SHIP, BOYS, GIRLS. WE WERE OF TO AUSTRALIA, IT MIGHT AS WELL BEEN THE MOON.

Orphaned in WW11, Arthur is separated from his sister and sent to the other side of the world. There his extraordanary journey continues as his friend Marty Survive brutal captivity on a working farm find a new family with eccentic Aunty Meg and her animals, and discover their talent for designing yachts.

Sixty years later, Arthur's Daunghter Allie sets sail single-handed in a yacht sesignded by her father, derermind to find his long los sister in england. Can her family LOve stretch across time and the vastness of the oceans? And will threads of Arthurs life finally come together

hope you read that book

Answer 5

I am reading His Dark Materials series. I know it's very pretten and cheesy, but they are really good novels. After that I think I will move on to some more classic literature like Silas Marner or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Both are really good. I'm a book nut; I like to reread everything. Like six or seven times. All of Amy Tan's books are good.

Answer 6

"Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist" by Bradley Steffens. It tells the fascinating, true story of a medieval Muslim scholar who overcame bouts of mental illness to develop the scientific method.

Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham first studied theology, trying unsuccessfully to resolve the differences between the Shi'ah and Sunnah sects. He turned his attention to the works of the ancient Greeks, including Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes. He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch of mathematics known as analytic geometry.

He traveled to Egypt to build a dam on the Nile, failed, and ended up imprisoned in Cairo for ten years. During this time he developed the idea of systematically testing hypotheses with experiments—the core of the scientific method. He wrote more than 200 books and treatises in his lifetime.

"Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist" was just chosen by California Readers, a nonprofit organization, to be part of the 2008 California Collection. You can find reviews of the book and a sample chapter at http://www.ibnalhaytham.net/

Answer 7

Ok here is a list

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

Tess of the Durbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Jade the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

and my most recent.....

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

These are some really good books..my most favorite are the first 2 they are really really good!

Answer 8

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan.

A truly fantastic book. Its about a chinese immigrant in USA.

TW K

Answer 9

House on Bear town road. It is about a mother trying to take care of her 2 year old daughter and then turning around and taking care of her father that has alzheimers. It is really about the 2 year old re-teaching her grandfather things that he had forgotten...very sweet story.

Answer 10

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen