Book Worms

doozer1345 · November 2015

I want some suggestions. No pg books! Adult just for you books! I'll give you some of my recs:

Looking For Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (apparently Netflix is turning it into a mini series starring Selena Gomez...not sure I'm ok with this)
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Defending Jacob by William Landay (beware this may make you have crazy conversations with DH)
We Were Liars by E Lockhart
Mad Girls In Love by Michael Lee West
Sharp Objects/Dark Places/Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

All these are fab.

proudparent2b · November 2015

I'm not familiar with any of the books you listed. What types of books do you enjoy? I'm an avid reader and would be glad to share some recommendations!

bookelf221 · November 2015

I can suggest some awesome Young Adult books that I think adults would enjoy just as much as teens. Just as a warning- once you get me started I tend to go on and on and on :-)

yogahh · November 2015

I've been into Liane Moriarty recently. What Alice Forgot was pretty good.

Jesse835235 · November 2015

I love books. I read nonfiction almost exclusively though. Some of these suggestions look interesting though!

JoMunson · November 2015

I'm obsessed with The Bell Jar right now. It's reminding me how I was when I was younger and it makes me feel so much more ready to be a mom!

kbrands7 · November 2015

If you're up for funny nonfiction, check out books by AJ Jacobs (The Know It All is my favorite). In fiction, I'm working on Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes reboots right now: House of Silk and Moriarty. I'm also rereading the Harry Potter series.

Other favorites that I tend to recommend are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding, The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and (if you like fantasy) The Mistborn Trilogy by Brian Sanderson.

doozer1345 · November 2015

proudparent2b said:

I'm not familiar with any of the books you listed. What types of books do you enjoy? I'm an avid reader and would be glad to share some recommendations!

I honestly like all kinds. I love true crime, non fiction, fiction, I'm (shamefully) a Grey fan, mysteries, I like some YA series (Harry Potter, Hunger Games, etc), coming of age stories, etc.

doozer1345 · November 2015

@JoMunson I've been having a teetering relationship with that book. I've deleted and then put it back on my Kindle wish list.

@yogahh have you read Big Little Lies? I just finished it a few weeks ago. I liked it a lot.

I forgot to mention I'm reading the true story that the movie Alpha Dog was based off of... It's pretty good. It's written by the mother of the murdered boy.

Keep the suggestions coming ladies! I've been finishing books lately anywhere from a few days to a week.

lalala2004 · November 2015

I'm reading the first book JK Rowling wrote with a pseudonym, Cuckoo's Calling and I'm really liking it. Most of the time I read young adult fiction, with the occasional classic thrown in.

saltedcaramel518 · November 2015

I second Liane Moriarty. I loved The Husband's Secret.

Thatgirl123 · November 2015

3rd for Liane Moriarty. I'm reading 'The Good Girl' right now by Mary Kubica

vinerie · November 2015

I just read The Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. I was so sad when I got to the end. I went out and bought a couple others by him.

Currently reading A Paris Apartment, by Michelle Gable.

I'm enjoy period literature and am totally obsessed with the 1920s in general. Beautiful Ruins is set in the 1950s and then again in current time. Paris Apartment also connects the 1920s with contemporary time.

sarawifenow · November 2015

I am a huge reader. Recently I just read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Frederick Backman. I was crying and laughing the whole time!

LadySamLady · November 2015

I haven't been as interested in reading as I was before getting KU and I'm still making my way through Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. I started it the week of my BFP which is pathetic! It's really good though.

I am a big fan of memoirs and non-fiction, too. David Sedaris is an all time favorite.

kami09 · November 2015

@doozer1345 LOVED the night circus... try the Gemma Doyle Trilogy. I read it for the first time a long time ago, but I've read the series at least 5 times since. It deals with magic as well. The first book is A Great and Terrible Beauty.

@vinerie have you read anything by Christi Phillips?- I really love her. She goes back and forth between past and present as well.

Sadly, I haven't read a book in a loong time! I used to spend any free time I had reading and then I had a baby lol

AmmyBelle · November 2015

Oh yay! Book recommendations - my favourite!

My bookclub is starting Paris Time Capsule by Ella Carey, and so far it's fascinating.

Myself, I tend to read a couple of books at a time, and I like to read just about everything, so right now I am reading the latest Nora Roberts (Stars of Fortune) and a Jennifer McMahon (The Night Sister - super creepy). Agree with most of these recommendations - The Husband's Secret was so good, and the JK Rowling Detective Novels (The Cookoo's Calling, The Silkworm and now Career of Evil) are sometimes a little slow, but very compelling. For non-fiction, I recently finished The Soul of an Octopus (by Sy Montgomery) which was fascinating - it explored consciousness in animals, and ourselves, in a very basic way and was very touching.

This is my new favourite thread! Thanks!

yogahh · November 2015

OH! If you haven't read "The Lost Wife" you need to! I don't recall the authors name, but it was one of the best books I have read in a long time. Beautiful story, revolving around WW2 and Auschwitz.

bookelf221 · November 2015

I'm a youth services librarian- so I'm going to go with Young Adult titles- they are great I promise- but reading adult books for me happens so rarely.

Throne of Glass series - Sarah J Maas (Fantasy)
Cinder series by Meyer (Sci/Fi meets retelling of fairytales)
ANY Tamora Pierce book
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (satire - it's hilarious and if you listen to audio books I highly recommend the audio version)
The Naturals by Jennifer Barnes (mystery)
Reckoning by Kerry Wilkinson (dystopian)
Mortal Danger by Ann Aguire (Fantasy)
I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amelie Sarn (Real Life)
The Martian (ADULT- science fiction- another one I highly recommend the audio book for)
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky.

I'll stop there for now...

laurenmdrn16 · November 2015

Any book by Mary Roach is my go-to when I just need to read. Her books are non-fiction and totally macabre, but hilarious and super interesting. She wrote:

Spook

Stiff

Bonk

And another book I have yet to get on my Kindle about how astronauts live in space. I don't know the title and am too lazy to open another tab to search it.

Also, in that same realm of gross out, laugh out loud non-fiction is Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand (not sure on the author). It is so funny and details what it is like to be a real life CSI (spoiler alert: it is NOTHING like the TV show!)

I know it might be a bit trendy now that the movie is coming out, but Room is actually a very good book. It is disturbing for sure and more than a bit upsetting, but super compelling and I have read it at least 5 times. While it is fiction, the author admits it was based heavily on a real-life case.

Anatomy of an Epidemic is an interesting (if a bit out-date) look at psycho-pharmacology in America and Forces of Habit is an really good read on the way our world economy and culture have been shaped by various addictive substances, like cocaine, marijuana, and even sugar.

The Shack is a great religious-fiction book about a man's encounter with his own spirituality in the light of tragedy.

I also really like The Lovely Bones and Lucky (fiction and then memoir by the same author). Trigger warning: they are about sexual assault.

Musicophilia and The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat are by the same author and are (surprise!) non-fiction books about music-based neurological disorders and various perceptive neuro-psych disorders respectively.

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know is an intriguing memoir about a woman with a condition called face-blindness. It is really fascinating.

I have very bizarre and morbid tastes so I apologize in advance if these are not everyone's style.

AmmyBelle · November 2015

@laurenmdrn16 - "Packing for Mars" - Mary Roach is one of my favourites too. If you like her, you'll probably like Caitlin Doughty's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"

doozer1345 · November 2015

proudparent2b said:

I'm not familiar with any of the books you listed. What types of books do you enjoy? I'm an avid reader and would be glad to share some recommendations!

I honestly like all kinds. I love true crime, non fiction, fiction, I'm (shamefully) a Grey fan,

vinerie said:

I just read The Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. I was so sad when I got to the end. I went out and bought a couple others by him.

Currently reading A Paris Apartment, by Michelle Gable.

I'm enjoy period literature and am totally obsessed with the 1920s in general. Beautiful Ruins is set in the 1950s and then again in current time. Paris Apartment also connects the 1920s with contemporary time.

I am at the beginning of Beautiful Ruins... I feel like it's kinda slow. Does it pick up?

saltedcaramel518 · November 2015

@laurenmdrn16 I LOVED Room.

doozer1345 · November 2015

I've started Room. I'm only in the first chapter though.

arj14 · November 2015

Another YA novel - Dumplin'. My only complaint is that the ending feels a little rushed. I also loved loved loved Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.

wsgjmw1 · November 2015

Girl on the train was ah-mazing
All three by Flynn are fantastic
Currently reading the game of thrones book series - tough long reads but so worth it

dshannah · November 2015

vinerie said:
I just read The Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. I was so sad when I got to the end. I went out and bought a couple others by him.

Currently reading A Paris Apartment, by Michelle Gable.

I'm enjoy period literature and am totally obsessed with the 1920s in general. Beautiful Ruins is set in the 1950s and then again in current time. Paris Apartment also connects the 1920s with contemporary time.

Read Kate Morton! So freaking good. Her 1920s ones are The Distant Hours and the House at Riverton, but my favorites are The Forgotten Garden and my special super-favorite The Secret Keeper.

They are all historical mysteries (small ones, family ones) told with beautiful prose, time jumps, and beautiful character and relationship development. The Secret Keeper centers on London during the Blitz.

I was just coming here to post these, and I saw your post about period stories and I had to reply:)

nerdymama15 · November 2015

Dark Hunter series by Sherillyn Kenyon (not sure if I spelled her name correctly)
The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison
The Dresden Files series by a dude I can't think of his name.

yogahh · November 2015

doozer1345 said:
I've started Room. I'm only in the first chapter though.

I started Room last night. What do you think??

doozer1345 · November 2015

@yogahh I'm not sure yet. I got immediately enthralled in this other book so I stopped reading Room. I read the book about the girl who was kidnapped, held for like 18 years I think, and had 2 kids with her kidnapper. It was traumatizing to read and I believe this book is loosely based off her experience as well as some others. It terrifies me thinking of this as a reality but it is.

yogahh · November 2015

doozer1345 said:
@yogahh I'm not sure yet. I got immediately enthralled in this other book so I stopped reading Room. I read the book about the girl who was kidnapped, held for like 18 years I think, and had 2 kids with her kidnapper. It was traumatizing to read and I believe this book is loosely based off her experience as well as some others. It terrifies me thinking of this as a reality but it is.

Yeah it makes me think of Amanda berry- who was held for years in cleveland and had that baby with her capture. Not sure I like the writing yet or that it's from a five year old perspective. Not too far in though so will give it a go!

doozer1345 · November 2015

@yogahh I think that's why I wasn't sucked in immediately. The fact that it's from a child's point of view is initially confusing and usually child narrators aren't very reliable.

thismakes4 · November 2015

I definitely like Gillian Flynn, I haven't read Sharp Objects yet.

A Thousand Splendid Suns...I forget who the author is.

BuzzBee614 · November 2015

Books like Room make me want to keep my child in a bubble or lock her in her room until she's 30. It's a great book written from an interesting perspective, but I did not like what the author did towards the end. We'll have to discuss when everyone has read it!

One of my favorite books is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It's more of a gothic mystery novel and is amazing.

Outlander is my guilty pleasure! I read Outlander and the Game of Thrones series on my iPhone kindle app when DD was a newborn because I could read while cuddling the baby and rocking her to sleep.

twinmom3221 · November 2015

Just started Girl on the Train

Room was good, I thought

My all time favorite book is The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

Silver Girl by Elin Hildebrand

The Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes by Diane chamberlain

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

These were all good - I am a huge fan of kindle!

Get your reading in now ladies! I went from reading a book a week to reading maybe 5 books over the past 2 years

LemmyRN · November 2015

My taste in books are all over the place with fiction, nonfiction, and almost everything in between except romance... Only once in a blue moon will I delve into one of those.

Books I recommend that are therapeutic for a parent issues are The Prince of Tides by Pat Conrad (?) and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Definitely if you had religion forced on you, the Poisonwood Bible is a must read. I found both to be cathartic.

The Red Tent by Anita Diamont would be a fun read since we're all knocked up. The writing's tone is very feminine and by the end you may need a break from your own womanhood... But good story.

The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans was a fascinating nonfiction that tells the story you all may have heard of years ago: guy goes to Alaska and is a self-proclaimed bear expert, takes his girlfriend up one visit and they get eaten.

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne was AMAZING, like traveling back in time to the rough rider days. I felt like it was a fair telling of both sides and wasn't pro-settlers or pro-native Americans. It was a brutal period in time.

Currently reading Dune by Frank Herbert; this SciFi Classic is awesome, vivid and timeless, I can't believe I haven't read it sooner.

I personally hated the Kite Runner and A thousand Splendid Suns from K. Houseinni (?). The authors writing is good and it shows a glimpse of a different society, but the main characters have to go through so much oppression and violations, I felt there was never a resolution for them. Things went from shitty to less shitty in the end.

Copernicus08 · November 2015

I just finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. I really enjoyed it—it was a mix of dystopia and celebrity and the arts ... Things that you don't think should go together, but they do.

lest12 · November 2015

If you enjoyed Girl on the Train or Gone Girl, I would also suggest The Luckiest Girl, and The Good Girl (that one was really good).

After that, I have no more suggestions on book with Girl in the title.

I've heard Room was great. I'll have to add it to my amazon cart!

wsgjmw1 · November 2015

lest12 said:
If you enjoyed Girl on the Train or Gone Girl, I would also suggest The Luckiest Girl, and The Good Girl (that one was really good).

After that, I have no more suggestions on book with Girl in the title.

I've heard Room was great. I'll have to add it to my amazon cart!

Who is the author of The Good Girl

sillyfox · November 2015

nerdymama15 said:
Dark Hunter series by Sherillyn Kenyon (not sure if I spelled her name correctly)
The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison
The Dresden Files series by a dude I can't think of his name.

Dresden Files was by Jim Butcher- DH is obsessed and we listened to a few of the audiobooks on road trips, I loved them!

I haven't read much since having DD but here are some of my relatively recent reads that stand out:

Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
The Beach by Alex Garland
My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick van Dyke (his memoir)
Gone Girl & Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (haven't read Sharp Objects yet!)
Hunger Games trilogy

And I have Girl on a Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, House of Silk, Sharp Objects, and I Am Malala high on my list of things to read next.

sillyfox · November 2015

Just a thought - would you be interested in making a "Book Club" group on a site like Shelfari for just our BMB book worms? Could be fun! Maybe have a book a month with discussions or something?

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