Got a Good Book Recommendation?

[mjkacmom]

You can watch season 2 episodes *here* for a little while longer. I own both seasons on DVD *purchased from Amazon.

Thank you!

 

[jvorhis]

Read and listened to The Night Circus...loved it!

 

[KBW]

I am just finishing up Wool (a series of 5 novellas)...loved it!!

 

[Celidh]

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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There is also a prequel to this book, I believe it was called Half Broke Horses. Both are good books.

Also, although it is an older series is the Outlander series by Dianna Gabaldin. There are quite a few books and they are very long but I loved them.

Another great series is the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel.

A few other choices are:

The Midwife's confession - Diane Chamberlain;
The Virgin Cure and the Birth House both by Ami McKay

I could go on, but I think I will leave it at that. Happy reading!

 

[tzeitel]

Sheri S Tepper is an amazing Sci-Fi writer, very much a feminist Loved Grass and The Gate to Women's Country.

I love reading memoirs/biographies. My favorite memoirs are West with the Night by Beryl Markham and Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain. One is about growing up in Africa and flying. The other about working as a nurse during WWI while her fiance and brother fought in the trenches.

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut (especially Cat's Cradle and Hocus Pocus and Stephen King (Salem's Lot still creeps me out!).

If you like art history I highly recommend Dark Water: Art, Disaster and Redemption in Florence by Robert Clark. It is about the 1966 flood that killed 33 people and damaged thousands of works of art. He covers the history of the city, the bridges that cross the Arno, the people who died and the ones that came from all over the world to try and save the works of art, books and architecture.

 

[nunzia]

There is also a prequel to this book, I believe it was called Half Broke Horses. Both are good books.

Also, although it is an older series is the Outlander series by Dianna Gabaldin. There are quite a few books and they are very long but I loved them.
Another great series is the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel.

A few other choices are:

The Midwife's confession - Diane Chamberlain;
The Virgin Cure and the Birth House both by Ami McKay

I could go on, but I think I will leave it at that. Happy reading!

OH!! Heck yea..I never did the read the most recent book though..too long between the previous one and that one for me. That's also why I gave up the Dark Tower series..complex books are just too hard to get back into after a long break..you forget characters and some plot lines.

 

[flyergrad09]

To all of the Book Thief haters... I completely understand. I had to read it for class (I'm working on my Masters of Library Science), so I was obligated to finish it, and let me tell you, that book is one of the slowest books I've ever read. However, the last 100 pages make it all worth it! I pinky promise you that if you stick it out, the last 100 pages will blow your mind. If it wasn't for my need to finish it for school, I probably wouldn't, but it's one that will reward you in the end. Books rarely make me cry (Marley & Me is the only one I can think of), but The Book Thief had me in tears by the end. Emotionally draining is what I would call it.

I know it's a YA book, but I highly recommend Stolen by Lucy Christopher. Honestly, I'm not sure it's even appropriate for teens (it has a strong sense of Stockholm syndrome) but as an adult it was amazing.

 

[rkandmjsmommy]

LOVED
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
ANYTHING Jodi Piccoult or Kristin Hannah...especially "Firefly Lane"
Read the 1st and 2nd Hunger Games, LOVED book 1...book 2 was ok...struggling with book 3

 

[toystory1130]

Reading Micro by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston~Think...Honey I Shrunk The Kids for grown-ups.

 

[Anne34]

Some really good suggestions here. I've been reading lots of freebies on Kindle, nothing OMG spectacular, but there are a few that haven't been bad a all.

Golden Lies by Barbara Freethy was a good romantic mystery set around Chinatown in San Francisco. Probably the best free book I've read.

Taking out the Trailer Trash by Janice Ivy (another freebie) was cute. Not a masterpiece but entertaining enough that I read it in one night.

I'm reading South Beach Cinderella by Sharon Potts now, not bad. Also reading Heaven is for Real by Todd Burbo. Really good story.

I borrowed Water for Elephants on Amazon Prime and loved it. I do not care to watch the movie, the book was enough. In that same vein, I downloaded The Midget's House (A Circus Story, a Love Story, A Ghost Story) by Anita Bartholomew a few days ago and while I haven't had a chance to read much of it, I like what I have read so far.

I recently read and really liked Fannie Flagg's I Still Dream About You. So great! I love her characters.

I always said I would never go to the dark side and get an e-reader, but Santa left one in my stocking and after finding so many free books (go to pixelofink.com and ereaderiq.com to sign up for daily alerts), I am loving it. I am ashamed to admit I haven't even gone to the library since Christmas, lol...I am addicted to my freebies on Kindle.

There's a great thread on this board that I read through when I am looking for something new to read. It is long and will take a while to go through, but there are great suggestions to books. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2424126

Ahhh...doncha just love books?

Thank you for the free sites!!! I just got a kindle and am stocking up on books now!!

 

[BelleBeautyandtheBeast]

I just ordered Thirteen Reasons Why and am on the waiting list for The Book Thief from my library.

Books I have recently read...

Between Friends by Kristy Kiernan

Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon

One of my favorites is Tell No One by Harlan Coban

Looking forward to reading lots more that you have all mentioned