Help me fill my kindle - book recommendations

[MickeyMickey]

I need to 6-8 books to add to my kindle to keep me in reading material for my Mexico vacation next month and would appreciate any suggestions. I am pretty much open to anything, fiction or non fiction.

This is what I have read recently:

Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult (ok, not great)
The Girls From Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow (Very Good)
Life's that Way - Jim Beaver (Very Goood)
Master your Metabolism (Good)
The end of Overeating - David Kessler (ok, not great)
Matters of the Heart - Danielle Steel (I like all her books)


I have downloaded In defense of food and Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan but haven't read either yet

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, one bummer about leaving the country is once you are there you can't download.

 

[paintnolish]

Water for Elephants and The Book Thief are my 2 most recent reads and they were great! I am thinking about a kindle but I like the feel of a book. I don't know...there's just something about it!

 

[MickeyMickey]

I thought the same thing, I would miss the book, but I love, love, love my kindle!

 

[DVCLiz]

Let me look and see what I have liked -

The Forgotten Garden was my beach read so far this summer. I also have The House at Riverton for my next beach trip ready to go.

Cutting for Stone is the best book I have read so far this year.

Olive Kitteridge is wonderful so far - and you can brag that you've read the Pulitzer Prize winner when all your friends are still reading chick lit.

Shanghai Girls is next - I love everything Lisa See has done, especially Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield - one of my all time favorites.

The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid's Chair by Sue Monk Kidd.

I've also dowloaded The Little Stranger, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Piano Teacher, April and Oliver, The Beach House, The 19th Wife, and The Help - think I'll have enough to read this summer?

I LOVE my Kindle - it has completely changed the way I read and brought it back to me as a favorite hobby. I just upgraded to the Kindle DX and passed my Kindle 2 down to my daughter. We are now a 3 Kindle family!!

 

[DVCLiz]

You can download if you have access to a computer - just buy what you want on your Amazon account and take the USB cord with you on your trip. You can transfer via the cord from your computer to your Kindle.

 

[Imzadi]

Now, how did I know DVCLiz would probably answering a Kindle thread?

ETA: Liz, I like following along on your Kindle journey, since you had first posted her about the idea of just getting one.

OP, have you tried your library online? They may have eBooks you can download for free for a short period of time. Then you have to "return" them. Which is a fancy way of saying the ebooks are time encoded and the files will no longer open after a certain date. Then you simply delete them. It's a great way to read many eBooks for free.

Does anyone know if the Mobipocket format ebooks that are available at some of the larger libraries work with Kindles? I heard there may be some DRM issies with those downloads and they may not work with Kindles.

 

[hellokitty86]

Some of my favorite books- "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True" both by Wally Lamb, and "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" and "Standing in the Rainbow" both by Fannie Flagg.

 

[laughinplace199]

I love the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith and the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

 

[DVCLiz]

Now, how did I know DVCLiz would probably answering a Kindle thread?

ETA: Liz, I like following along on your Kindle journey, since you had first posted her about the idea of just getting one.

OP, have you tried your library online? They may have eBooks you can download for free for a short period of time. Then you have to "return" them. Which is a fancy way of saying the ebooks are time encoded and the files will no longer open after a certain date. Then you simply delete them. It's a great way to read many eBooks for free.

Does anyone know if the Mobipocket format ebooks that are available at some of the larger libraries work with Kindles? I heard there may be some DRM issies with those downloads and they may not work with Kindles.

I'm so predictable...

I don't think library ebooks will download on the Kindle, will they? It seems to be a deal breaker of an issue when people post on Amazon and in reviews about why they decided not to get Kindles. But I don't use library ebooks so I don't know for sure.

I do love the Kindle, though!

 

[starann]

Can't Wait to get to Heaven, Fannie Flagg (fun read, despite the title!)

 

[Ephany]

Go to amazon.com, put your cursor on Kindle on the left side of the screen and then click on books from the pop up menu. This will bring you to the kindle books section and on the left is an option called Big Deals on Kindle. If you click on this it'll bring up a list of free books offered currently. There's usually a bunch of romance ones available (you mentioned you liked Danielle Steel) and there might be a couple there that catch your interest. If not, well then at least they're free.

 

[MinnieMe87]

These are the ones I've most recently read and loved!

Body Surfing- Anita Shreve

Barefoot- Elin Hilderbrand

Pieces of My Sister's Life- Elizabeth Joy Arnold

One Day at a Time- Danielle Steel

 

[CookieGVB]

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella - funny!

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt (good place to start in this subject)
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
People are Idiots by Larry Winget (and anything else he writes is funny)
Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko
Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads by Rosalind Wiseman
What EveryBODY is Saying by Joe Navarro (book on body language)

I tend to obsess over subjects that interest me and read everything I can get my hands on in that given subject until there literally are no more books or I feel like I understand it.

Most of the books above are in the area of behavioral economics.

I've just started reading books on body language after having watched "Lie To Me" on Fox.

I'm jonesing for a Kindle!