Summer Reading Recommendations...

[TwinMom7]

Looking for some good summer reading - preferably romance/mystery. I just finished James Patterson's "The Lifeguard" and I'm open to recommendations.

Any favorite authors? Read any good books lately??

 

[clarabelle]

For mystery I like the British cozy type- I like the ones by MC Beaton and have just started another series by Rhys Bowen.
A book that has a bit of both (romance and mystery) that I like is "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoulti.
Jayne Ann Krentz has just came out with a new romance -I read an excerpt and it sounds good -it was called "All Night Long"
I also like romances by Jennifer Crusie

 

[ktglads]

Meg Cabot has a new mystery series coming. The first book is Size 12 is not Fat and is out now. The next is due out in the fall, I think. She has some really good adult books as well as the Princess Diaries series. Some of her earlier works are under Meggin Cabot.

 

[KarenB]

I just finished The Winner by Davis Baldacci.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...102-4833257-5028912?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
I would like to try another of his.

I am now reading The Husband by Dean koontz.

Karen

 

[Annette_VA]

I highly recommend the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

One For the Money
Two For the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven On Top
Twelve Sharp

 

[daemom]

Just finished "Promise Me" by Harlan Coben. I've just discovered his books and really enjoy his writing.

 

[NMAmy]

I read The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was excellent--the third of a trilogy that includes Brimstone and Dance of the Dead. I recommend any of their books for beach/summer reading. Pure entertainment.

I just finished a book called King Dork by Frank Portman. It's technically a "young adult" book but I had a friend lend it to me. It was really funny--I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Crankyshank]

I read The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was excellent--the third of a trilogy that includes Brimstone and Dance of the Dead. I recommend any of their books for beach/summer reading. Pure entertainment.

Ditto the Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child recommendation. I wouldn't start with that trilogy though- too many of the previous books are tied into it. I would start with Relic, Thunderhead, or even Riptide. Utopia by Lincoln Child is excellent - especially for a summer book because it's about a theme park.

I also recommend Sandstorm and Map of Bones by James Rollins
If you read and liked the Outlander books, I highly recommend Sara Donati's Into the Wilderness series

 

[LBAK]

Anything by Jodi Pico.ult, True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

 

[mouseclick1]

I just finished Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult. I thought it was a great book.

 

[amy4bruce]

I just finished The Winner by Davis Baldacci.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...102-4833257-5028912?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
I would like to try another of his.

I didn't care overly for Saving Grace, but everything else I've read by him is excellent. I particularly recommend The Wishing Well (I think that's the name) which isn't a mystery, but a coming-of-age story set in the rural South during the depression. Yes, the ending is transparent and unlikely, but if you get that far, who cares?

Dean Koontz's older stuff is excellent. Lately, his work has read like a pastiche of his own work, and not a very good one at that.

 

[kelleigh1]

Anything by Jodi Pico.ult, True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

If you read True Believer by Nicholas Sparks, you need to get the follow-up which is At First Sight. A friend is reading it now after my recommendation and she is loving it and doesn't want it to end.

Other good reads are Something Borrowed and Something Blue by Emily Griffin. She's just got a new one out now, but I can't recall the name of it at the moment.

 

[EthansMom]

I just finished reading "Orbit" by John J. Nance and have to say that it was one of the best books I've read in a long time (and I read 2-3 books per week).

"Orbit" is set in the not-too-distant future and tells the story of a man named Kip who's in his fifties and finding that his life hasn't turned out the way he wanted. His marriage is going badly, he doesn't care for his job, etc... Then he wins a trip on a commercial spacecraft, the dream of a lifetime.

Once in space, things go wrong and Kip is left stuck in space, alone, with no communications to the ground. Alone, with only 4 days of air, Kip begins to write his story on a laptop computer, thinking that the computer may be found in 50 or 100 years. Unbeknownst to Kip, the laptop is transmitting to the internet and people on Earth start to read his story. The real story to "Orbit" is how Kip's outlook on everything changes during his ordeal and how his words change other people's lives (his son's, people in government, and people who've never even met Kip).

"Oribit" is just out in hardback -- I was able to check it out at the library.

Happy Reading!

 

[AC7179]

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume is wonderful.

 

[babytrees]

Meg Cabot has a new mystery series coming. The first book is Size 12 is not Fat and is out now. The next is due out in the fall, I think. She has some really good adult books as well as the Princess Diaries series. Some of her earlier works are under Meggin Cabot.

I am reading Size 12 is not Fat right now and I am enjoying it....haven't got very far. Next week starts my vacation I do believe I will be catching up with my reading!!

 

[Jeafl]

Other good reads are Something Borrowed and Something Blue by Emily Griffin. She's just got a new one out now, but I can't recall the name of it at the moment.

It is called Baby Proof, and from the excerpt I read, it looks to be as good as Something Borrowed and Something Blue, which I loved!

I also like all of the Sophie Kinsella books. The Undomestic Goddess was really good, and all of the Shopaholic books are good as well.

 

[hpygrll]

I'm reading "Oakdale Confidential" by Anonymous. I guess it's a take off of "As the World Turns" - it's pretty cheesy but now I'm so far into it I have to finish it.....
Jenny

 

[snickerharley]

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights