NBR: Book Recommendations

lavendergiraffes

Now that I'm on maternity leave and waiting for this baby to show her face I need something to do. I know that after she is born I will have down time too especially since I decided to stay at home next year so....

What books do you recommend? I need something that I don't want to put down. Suggestions??

spacepotatoes

What kinds of books/authors do you normally like to read?

mirdamae03

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is easily one of my favorites and Starz is making it into a tv series airing in early August. Her books are long, but worth it.

lavendergiraffes

@spacepotatoes‌ Stephen King & Dean Koontz are my favorites but I also enjoyed the Hunger Games and Divergent series and I'm a huge Harry Potter nerd. I recently read The Book Thief which was excellent. Tried to read Game of Thrones and just couldn't get through them.

bumpuser10194737

If you liked Divergent you might like The Selection trilogy. Fun, easy, quick reads that are hard to put down!

If you like historical fiction The Winter Sea is one of my recent favorites.

spacepotatoes

Well, if you're into YA, I enjoyed When You Reach Me earlier this year. It's sort of an homage to the Wrinkle in Time series and is a fairly easy, quick read.

I'm not too familiar with Dean Koontz and the only Stephen King I've actually read is Under the Dome so I'm not much help with books in that vein. The closest I think of may be something like Michael Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer, sort of a legal thriller.

I'll also throw out The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared. It doesn't really fit into any category but it was pretty entertaining!

If you actually have the attention span right now for a longer, deeper book, then I'd echo the Outlander books.

spacepotatoes

Oh! Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island is good as well (in the suspense/thriller genre), especially if you haven't seen the movie. The book is way better.

skyrockets

Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild is good, and I also enjoyed The Fault in Our Stars... Two soon to be movie recommendations!

I just read All My Puny Sorrows by Canadian Miriam Towes and enjoyed it.

Next on my list is The Goldfinch which won the 2013 Pulitzer.

FlemDance

If you like dystopian fiction like HG or Divergent, I would recommend The Maze Runner trilogy. I read it a few weeks ago and loved it. I need to start on the next book! The movie based off of the book comes out later this year, as well.

ETA: Repetiton.

mirdamae03

Here's a list I shared with some friends a while back of YA lit series.

Ranked best to worst:

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Divergent - Veronica Roth
Legend - Marie Lu
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
Infernal Devices - Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare
Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Laini Taylor
Hereafter - Tara Hudson
Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan
Lorien Legacies (I am #4 book) - Pittacus Lore
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
Defiance - C.J. Redwine
Fallen - Lauren Kate
The Pledge - Kimberly Derting
Delirium - Lauren Oliver
The Selection - Kiera Cass
Matched - Ally Condie
Paranormalcy - Kiersten White
Caster Chronicles (Beautiful Creatures) - Kami Garcia

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ltay1982 said:

Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild is good, and I also enjoyed The Fault in Our Stars... Two soon to be movie recommendations! I just read All My Puny Sorrows by Canadian Miriam Towes and enjoyed it. Next on my list is The Goldfinch which won the 2013 Pulitzer.

I loved Wild!

skyrockets

@spacepotatoes‌ I am excited to see how Reese Witherspoon does in that role... It could be a very good adaptation!

lavendergiraffes

Awesome! That list should keep me busy! :-)

MerryLove

Gone Girl is a fun read (if you haven't already read it) and is coming out in theaters soon. I always love to read the book before I watch the movie.

skyrockets

Another vote for Defending Jacob!
I really enjoyed it.

spacepotatoes

@Carpenter627 Into Thin Air is one of mine and DH's favourites as well.

I'd love a book club thread! We might have to wait until the baby boom is over, though, and everyone gets settled.

lavendergiraffes

Yes! Book Club!!! But I agree, wait until everything is settled cause right now I am bored but once baby girl comes it will be nutso for a while for me (and I'm sure everyone else).

Emmagk

I love the idea of a book club! This thread is perfect timing, I just finished the divergent series and am looking for something new.

2 books I read in the last year and loved were Jack and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both are not emotionally easy reads but worth it. If you are looking for something very light hearted and fun I highly recommend the I Heart New York series by Lindsey Kelk

Tnpeach

I enjoyed Sharp Objects.

New recommendations: the Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton. First is Guilty Pleasures, and there are 18 or so books in the series.

Delve into some Classic Sherlock Holmes. That's what I'm currently on.

Also, the Kathy Reichs books, aka the Bones books.

Mimaloo

A friend recommended A Discovery of Witches trilogy by Deborah Harkness. I poo pooed it at first but was hooked as soon as I finally picked it up. Book three comes out in July and I'm psyched!

mmks

Love this thread. I've read lots on this list and will add:
- The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley
- the Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
- The House Girl by Tara Conklin
- Roses by Leila Meacham
Plus anything by Janet Evanovich or JD Robb/Nora Roberts

spacepotatoes

I hadn't even thought about the guilty pleasure stuff! For me, that's currently the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. The writing isn't great (not bad, either) but the stories are entertaining and pretty quick.

This is the series that True Blood is based on. I've heard that the show is actually better than the books, which I kind of believe from the trailers I've seen, but I haven't watched the show yet.

yvanehtnioj

How about some old school Jackie Collins? Both the Hollywood Wives and Lucky series are amazing. Stick with the vintage classics though. I recommend up to Lady Boss and Hollywood Wives: The New Generation.