I need a book recommendation

Kickingboy · November 2008

I haven't really read since I was pregnant but want to dive back in. I miss reading.?

Fiction please. Tell all the books you are loving or have loved.?

Halo79RN · November 2008

Water For Elephants was really good...

I also read Thousand Splendid Suns, Funny in Farsi and I Feel Bad About My Neck this summer... the last two are more funny essay types about the two women. The I Feel Bad one was written by the screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally. Both were easy quick reads.

I'll have to watch what pops up, I am in despirate need of recs. My mil gave me playing for pizza (by john grisham... I think that's the title).. but I haven't gotten into it yet.

ashersmom · November 2008

Everything by Jennier Weiner or Jodi Picoulet. Till We Have Faces-CS Lewis. A Tree Grows in Brookland. The Pilot's Wife. Harry Potter.

lxlz611 · November 2008

I pph books by Sarah Dessen. I think they are for older teenagers, but I love them.?

kiliwicket · November 2008

extreme harry potter fan, so if you have never read them, (or even if you have...) read them! I also like Jennifer Weiner for girly books and I'm a HUGE Daniel Quinn fan. Also, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski is one of my all time favorites and very artistically written.

Halo79RN · November 2008

also am a Jennifer Weiner fan... those are nice reads too. There is another author similar to her (well a few, but one who had quite a few books who I read a lot of pre babies)...I wish I could remember that name.

ndilemma · November 2008

I like Jennifer Weiner, Jodi Picoult as well. Elizabeth Berg wrote Talk Before Sleep, What We Keep and Joy School. Love them all. I like Pat Conroy books, especially Prince of Tides and Lords of Discipline. Phillippa Gregory has a good series, The Virgin's Lover, Queens Fool, The Constant Princess and The Other Boleyn Girl. I think they made a movie out of one of them. Diana Gabaldon is one of my favorites. She wrote a series as well, Dragonfly in Amber, Outlander, Voyager and some others.

triumphantreturnofplanningbug · November 2008

Ditto Jennifer Weiner, Philippa Gregory, Diana Gabaldon,

and Jodi Picoult. I also like Jane Green (Greene?) for

chick lit similar to Weiner's stuff.

If you like mystery, Lisa Scottoline is fun.

Historical stuff, I love Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and

Barbara Wood's The Blesing Stone is a fabulous romp

through history

It's not fiction, but Ruth Reichel's Garlic and Sapphires

is a fabulous autobiography of when she was a food

critic in various disguises.

FutureSRC · November 2008

Madeleine L'Engle is one of my all-time favorite authors. She writes young adult, adult fiction, and non fiction. I've read almost all of them.

Other fiction I've read and liked recently: The Time Traveler's Wife, Middlesex, Water for Elephants, Secret Lives of Bees, The Mermaid Chair.

I need recs too. I'm stuck without a book at the moment too.

ndilemma · November 2008

FutureSRC:
Madeleine L'Engle is one of my all-time favorite authors. She writes young adult, adult fiction, and non fiction. I've read almost all of them.

Other fiction I've read and liked recently: The Time Traveler's Wife, Middlesex, Water for Elephants, Secret Lives of Bees, The Mermaid Chair.

I need recs too. I'm stuck without a book at the moment too.

I totally forgot about Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle In Time was my favorite book growing up. I've read that book at least 5 times. I think I might need to revisit it. Thanks for the reminder!

brightning · November 2008

Have you ever read anything by Ann Patchett? The Magician's Assistant was great, so was Truth & Beauty (nonfiction). I'm just starting Bel Canto and have Run, but I'm sure I'll love them.

Or John Irving? Widow for a Year is amazing.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is a good quick read.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel is older but also a fun read.

ashersmom · November 2008

triumphantreturnofplanningbug:

Historical stuff, I love Anita Diamant's The Red Tent,

I forgot about that book...I am going to the used bookstore tomorrow and will see if they have a copy. I love that book!

jehan · November 2008

The Time Traveler's Wife and Water for Elephants were ones I liked too! I also loved The Thirteenth Tale, and Loving Frank (fictional account of a factual part in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright). A few older books that I just read for the first time and enjoyed were Bel Canto (Ann Patchett), Cold Mountain, and The English Patient.

Oh, how I love books!

tinamichelle · November 2008

I just read The Single Wife. It was odd but I thought it was good.

lytedark · November 2008

I'm a little late to this but I looooooove books so have to participate. First of all if you could give a subcategory of fiction that you prefer that would be easiest - unless you like it all. hehe..

I love young adult fantasy books, they are the bulk of what i read - all the harry potters, the twilight series, Cornelia Funke's "Ink" series (they're making movies of them sometime soon), the Phillip Pullman "His Dark Materials" series is way better than the movie was, and Allison Croggan's Books of Pellinor are fabulous. while all of these are theoretically considered YA books - i feel they are definitely written in language adult enough that you don't ever notice. honestly i feel like the only diff between these and the "adult" fantasy books is these usually don't have 5 pages of graphic sex every couple chapters.. lol

for romatic comedy books: sarah mlynowski's books, jane green, isabel wolff - basically most of the 'red dress ink' published books

mystery: it's sci-fi mystery kind of but anything by james rollins, janet evanovich's stephanie plum books, iris johanasen (slighty romance-y though) and same with tami hoag

straight up "fiction": "marley and me" which if you have or have ever had dogs you are guaranteed to love but will wind up sobbing so be forewarned, the gregory macguire books "wicked," "son of a witch," i also second 'the secret life of bees' - i haven't seen the movie so don't know how the movie rates against the book but i loved the book when i read it so long ago - i also like ann patchett but read 'patron saint of liars' which wasn't mentioned here, the secrets of the ya ya sisterhood was good..

okay this is getting excessive and probably overwhelming for you. yikes - sorry! :-D

E C · November 2008

Middlesex was an excellent read! I just finished The Brambles, and The Blessings. Both were excellent as well.

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