NBR : Book recommendation

Roseypants · August 2014

I just finished the book I was reading, and am looking for a new one start. If you have any recommendations on great books or book series, please let me know! I'm up for anything

MrsSarahRenee · August 2014

What did you read? What do you like?
Books I read recently and liked:

A Discovery of Witches (trilogy)
Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (young adult)
Tell the Wolves I am Home

SusieBW · August 2014

Have you read the Demon King series by Cinda Williams Chima? It's YA fantasy, which is generally not my style at all, but this series completely sucked me in. It's 4 books, it's complete, and The Demon King is the first title.

If you're into non-fiction at all, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand was completely a amazing WW2 survival story. And Devil in the White City by Erik Larson was non-fiction that read like a novel about the Chicago World's Fair and America's first serial killer, who used the Fair as his cover.

If you want to give me some more idea of what sort of stuff you normally enjoy, I can recommend more . . .

Roseypants · August 2014

I usually seem to go towards non-fiction, but I will read anything!

Thewizardofrhythm · August 2014

I just read Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami and really enjoyed it. I also liked Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner.

Roseypants · August 2014

SusieBW said:

Have you read the Demon King series by Cinda Williams Chima? It's YA fantasy, which is generally not my style at all, but this series completely sucked me in. It's 4 books, it's complete, and The Demon King is the first title.

If you're into non-fiction at all, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand was completely a amazing WW2 survival story. And Devil in the White City by Erik Larson was non-fiction that read like a novel about the Chicago World's Fair and America's first serial killer, who used the Fair as his cover.

If you want to give me some more idea of what sort of stuff you normally enjoy, I can recommend more . . .

Thank you! I will have to check these out!

MrsSinner402 · August 2014

I just finished a great book by Blake Crouch called Abandon. Its about an old mining town, where on Christmas Day of 1893, the entire town vanishes without a trace. And youre taken on the present day explorations into the mystery. Its SO good. And not at all the twists and turns you'd expect. Highly recommended.

Roseypants · August 2014

MrsSinner402 said:

I just finished a great book by Blake Crouch called Abandon. Its about an old mining town, where on Christmas Day of 1893, the entire town vanishes without a trace. And youre taken on the present day explorations into the mystery. Its SO good. And not at all the twists and turns you'd expect. Highly recommended.

Ooo that one sounds good!

MrsSarahRenee · August 2014

Have you read Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? I know it is old news but it is nonfiction and really good.

bumpuser10309732 · August 2014

The Fault in Our Stars was a good read. Gone Girl was good, messed up, but good. I'm currently in the middle of Sycamore Row by John Grisham. Also the cuckoos calling which is written by JK rawling's alter ego is a good one and she just put out a second.

Roseypants · August 2014

Thanks ladies! I have not read any of these!! Thank you for the recommendations

SusieBW · August 2014

Henrietta Lacks was really good, I second that.

rae76 · August 2014

I'm reading The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks. It took a while to get into and seemed slow moving at first but now it's very interesting.

I just finished Kentucky Home and Kentucky Christmas. They were both good.

SusieBW · August 2014

I really like music biographies and autobiographies, but I don't know if that's your thing or not. Catch a Fire, Tim White's Bob Marley biography, was great - it was a nice little Jamaican and Rastafarian history lesson along with a really solid biography. Also, The Dirt by Motley Crue was really, really good. I was never a huge Crue fan, and even less so before I picked up the book, but if you like rock music, it was a really entertaining read.

Someone's post about long audiobooks on the random thread reminded me that I listened to the first two books in Ken Follett's Century trilogy a year or so ago, and they were completely amazing. The series is historic fiction and follows five families (from the US, Russia, Wales, England and Germany) through the 1900s. Fall of Giants was the first book, and Winter of the World was the second. I think the third book comes out maybe this fall.

MrsSarahRenee · August 2014

Oh audiobooks! I listened to A Walk in the Woods and it was hilarious! Bill Bryson.
I also enjoyed A Long Way Gone - read it awhile ago but really powerful

SusieBW · August 2014

MrsSarahRenee said:

Oh audiobooks! I listened to A Walk in the Woods and it was hilarious! Bill Bryson. I also enjoyed A Long Way Gone - read it awhile ago but really powerful

This was great, and I also just read the author's first novel recently, and it was also really powerful. It was called The Radiance of Tomorrow. It was set in post-war Sierra Leone, and got into the trials faced by folks trying to move back to their villages and resume their lives in that setting.

MrsSarahRenee · August 2014

SusieBW said:

MrsSarahRenee said:

Oh audiobooks! I listened to A Walk in the Woods and it was hilarious! Bill Bryson.
I also enjoyed A Long Way Gone - read it awhile ago but really powerful

This was great, and I also just read the author's first novel recently, and it was also really powerful. It was called The Radiance of Tomorrow. It was set in post-war Sierra Leone, and got into the trials faced by folks trying to move back to their villages and resume their lives in that setting.

I am really looking forward to reading that!! It is on my (endless) list but as school starts next week, I am thinking my reading for fun days are limited.

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