Good books to read..tell me a great book you have read. I read the last list you helped me compile.?

Question

Can you please give me some new suggestions? Thanks so much!

Answer 1

"Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist" by Bradley Steffens tells the fascinating, true story of a medieval Muslim scholar who overcame bouts of mental illness to develop the scientific method two hundred years before the Europeans learned of it--by reading his books. You can find reviews of the book and a sample chapter at http://www.ibnalhaytham.net/

Answer 2

Nonfiction:

A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia) and Incidentally The Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia by Private G.W. Nichols

Fiction:
Dune by Frank Herbert

The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

The first six of The Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte
The Skystone
The Singing Sword
Eagles Brood
The Saxon Shore
The Fort at River's Bend
Sorcerer: Metamorphosis

The latter books (those that I read) were, in my opinion, a complete drag. I've yet to buy the last one and doubt I will.

The series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (seven books, only the first four are out now)
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast For Crows

The DemonWars Saga by R.A. Salvatore
The Demon Awakens
The Demon Spirit
The Demon Apostle
Mortalis
Ascendance
Transcendence
Immortalis

The Highwayman by R.A. Salvatore.

Answer 3

The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral Philip Roth An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm George Orwell Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume The Assistant Bernard Malamud At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien Atonement Ian McEwan Beloved Toni Morrison The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder C - D Call It Sleep Henry Roth Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron The Corrections Jonathan Franzen The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell The Day of the Locust Nathanael West Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather A Death in the Family James Agee The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Deliverance James Dickey Dog Soldiers Robert Stone Falconer John Cheever The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Herzog Saul Bellow Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul I, Claudius Robert Graves Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Light in August William Faulkner The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Loving Henry Green Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Money Martin Amis The Moviegoer Walker Percy Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch William Burroughs Native Son Richard Wright Neuromancer William Gibson Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 1984 George Orwell On the Road Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays Joan Didion Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Possession A.S. Byatt The Power and the Glory Graham Greene The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Rabbit, Run John Updike Ragtime E.L. Doctorow The Recognitions William Gaddis Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Revolutionary Road Richard Yates The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Sportswriter Richard Ford The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Ubik Philip K. Dick Under the Net Iris Murdoch Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons White Noise Don DeLillo White Teeth Zadie Smith Wide Sargasso Sea

Answer 4

I've been reading Dean Koontz' books about "Odd." I think there are only three... "Odd Thomas," then "Forever Odd," then "Brother Odd."
Those are all I know about, but I've been enjoying them-- perhaps a step behind most Koontz fans.

I took a detour into "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson... nothing like the movie looks and reads; this story is a maverick, and a good one. Novella, I mean.

I also have "Velocity" by Koontz to read next... it looks like a real barn-burner.

Have fun compiling a new list--

Answer 5

1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
3. Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke (really short)
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Answer 6

The Prydain Chronicles
Gone with the Wind
Inheritance Trolgy(Eragon & Eldest Book 3 coming soon)
His Dark Materials(Golden Compass, Amber Spyglass, and another one)
Roald Dahl books
A Wrinkle in Time
Dragon Rider
The Theif Lord
Inkspell & Inkheart(Inkdawn coming soon)
Please tell me which one you liked best!

Answer 7

In tribute to a sometimes great, sometimes not, American author who just passed away: Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song" were both amazing books.

If you're looking for something a little different, try the short stories of Nikolai Gogol. I promise, if you have any feel for literature at all, you will enjoy them.

Answer 8

If you like history, romance, adventure, fantasy...Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.

If you like great romance...Nicholas Sparks is a great read.

Chick lit...Jennifer Weiner or Emily Giffin or Lauren Weisberger or Elizabeth Noble.

General Fiction...Anita Shreve.

If you loved Gone with the Wind...Rhett Butler's People by McCaig.

Southern Lit...Billie Letts or Pamela Duncan.

Syrie James...The Lost Memoir of Jane Austen...wonderful book.

I know I'm all over the map but I like a little bit of everything.

Answer 9

Books by James Patterson.

Answer 10

The Day of the Storm by Pilcher
The Shunning by Lewis
In His Steps by Sheldon
Joshua by Girzone
A Dog's Life by Mayle
Christy by Marshall