Looking for some good books

[gemmie214]

I am headed for some fun in the sun in Costa Rica. I'd like to bring some great books with me. I read about a book a day so I am all caught up with Nora Roberts and the like. What I am looking for is all time favorite books. So what is your all time favorite book?

 

[minniepumpernickel]

OMG- I'm so jealous! I 've wanted to see Costa Rica for a long time now! You've got to tell me how your trip goes!

I'm reading- "The Best American Travel Writing" Bill Bryson

Not really my all time fave, but It might be fun on vacation!

 

[elmosmom]

I also love to read and always have at least one book going. I have been reading The Cat Who______series by Lilian Jackson Braun. Their not a great read but an easy read, good for vacation.
My all time favorite book is Rebecca by Daphne Du Mauier (spelling?) Its really good.
Have a great trip! Think of us shoveling snow and bundling up againest the cold.

 

[debster812]

hey!

Where are my books?????

 

[Rajah]

What genre?

 

[Jenn Lynn]

I recommend Seabiscuit to everyone. I love that book!
Also good are The Secret Life of Bees, Good In Bed, and The Devil Wears Prada.

 

[Alice28]

I LOVE Sue Grafton's ABC mystery's...it starts with A is for Alibi...her most recent one is Q is for Quarry. Great mysteries with a funny, sassy female protaganist. I also like Diane Mott Davidson's culinary mysteries. And Patricia Cornwell, but that might not be fun Beach reading. Another funny female mystery novel series is Janet Evanovich's---she does "numbers"---her latest is "To the Nines."

I just finished reading the Da Vinci Code and it was VERY GOOD.

Have a great time in Costa Rica!!!!!

 

[GlennandAnn]

I recommend anything by Isabel Allende. She wrote Eva Luna, Paula, Portrait In Sepia, Aphrodite, and a bunch of books whose titles escape me now. She is my favorite author. I also like Maeve Binchy, author of Circle of Friends.

Ann

 

[Crankyshank]

Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits was great!

Are you looking for trashy type reading like mind candy? or something like thrillers?

Some beach reads I recommend are:
Anything by Maeve Binchy
Utopia by Lincoln Child
Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child (actually any of their books are great)
Girl with a pearl earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier

 

[msteddom]

I highly recomend the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella. They crack me up!



Melissa

 

[Allie322]

My all time favorite has to be "To Kill a Mockingbird". It's a classic.

 

[Cindy B]

Lets see...

I love Jonathan Kellermans books.. they are intelligent mystery books that don't get too formulaic.. (I hate the ones that you just know what is going to happen)

I do read John Grisham, but in small doses.

Better yet, let me make a deal with you..

You can read my two psychology course textbooks, write the notes and fax /email it to me while you are relaxing...

(Yes, I have been known to take school work to vacation with me!)

 

[momof2inPA]

A Prayer for Owen Meany is my all time favorite.

I also like anything by Edith Wharton, they're all about the struggles of Victorian women, but these might be too old fashioned for some.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

As silly as it sounds, Save Karyn by Karyn Bosnik, was an excellent truye story. Very funny.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Any thing by Stephen King.

:jumping4:

 

[CajunDixie]

Another funny female mystery novel series is Janet Evanovich's---she does "numbers"---her latest is "To the Nines."

I love the books by Evanovich too! She also co-wrote with Charlotte Hughes a book titled Full Tilt.

 

[JohnsPrincess]

The Princess Bride

Anything Steven King, but the Gunslinger Series is Wonderful.

The Neverending Story

The books by VC Andrews are my favorite easy read series.

 

[deno2]

My personal all time favorite book is, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I read 20 years ago in college and became a Marquez fan. The book is currently the Oprah Book Club pick.

A good series is the "Stone Gap" series, (Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler, and Milk Glass Moon) by Adriana Trigiani. They are a bit fluffly, but they suck you right in and they are "feel good" books.

The book which I am currently reading is, "The Crimson Petal and the White", by Michel Faber. It is about 900 pages, but well worth the read. The New York Times said, "A big, sexy bravura novel. Wildly entertaining."

deno

 

[DISJAZZ]

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT by Norman Maclean. A real master at writing about many of the threads of his life and weaving those threads into a beautiful story. The ending of the first story always leaves me with a lump in my throat. I'll bet he's casting a GreyWulff to a dimpling Rainbow right now and thinking how he's going to enjoy a beer after the evening rise in heaven.

 

[Lezah]

I read like you do Gemmie and read at least a book a day. I also love Nora Roberts and the like. I have just found a new (at least to me) author that I have really liked. Eileen Goudge and the 2 I've liked the most are Stranger in Paradise and Taste of Honey which are both part of a series called Carson Springs. I have also read other older ones of hers that were good too, but those two are my favourite. Another fave of mine is Joy Fielding and Elizabeth Lowell. I have to find new authors every few months or so because my favourite authors can't write fast enough for me. Hope all of our suggestions have helped somewhat. Have an awesome and safe trip!!