What is your favorite book...Any good recommendations of books for me to read?

Question

What is your favorite book...Any good recommendations of books for me to read?

Answer 1

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sallinger is my #1 fav. book of all time. Go Read it.

Answer 2

my favorite genre is historical fiction. My favorites are The Blue Bottle Club by Penelope Stokes, Christy by Catherine Marshall, The Shunning by Beverly Lewis, A Long Way From Chicago by Peck, No Promises in the Wind by Hunt, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, and Julie by Catherine Marshall.

Answer 3

My Favorite books change but right now I would have to say The Kiterunner, about a boy and his best friend who grow up in Afghanistan...and Girl with a pearl earring which is a fictional story about the girl pictured in Vermeer's painting of the same name...

and you can't beat Harry Potter...everyone should read this, I think it appeals to everyone no matter what age, gender, etc.

Here are some other good ones:

The Lovely Bones

How to be Lost

The Memory Keepers daughter

The secret life of bees

Answer 4

I will give you a list of some of my favorite books but since you don't state what you are interested in or how old you are then I really don't know what to list.

If you like strange stories then Dean Koontz some of them are,Semon Seed,Ticktock,Sole Survivor,Strange Highways,Intensity,Icebound,DarkRivers of the Heart,Winter Moon,The Door to December and many,many more.

If you are into fantansy the I like Piers Anthony some of his books are A Spell for Chameleon,The Source of Magic,Castle Roogna,Centaur Aisle,Ogre,Ogre,NightMare,Dragon on a Pedestal,Crewel Lye,Golem in the Gears,Vale of the Vole,Heaven Cent,Man from Mundania,Isle of View,Question Quest,The Color of Her Panties,Demons Don't Dream,Harpy Thyme,Geis of the Gargoyle,Roc and a Hard Place,Yon Ill Wind,Faun & Games,Zombie Lover,Xone of Contention,The Dastard,Swell Foop,Up In A Heaval,Cube Route,Currant Events,Pet Peeve, Stork Nake,Air Apparent .

Steven King writes horror,Carrie,Tommyknockers,Storm Of The Century,Shining,Secret Windows,Pet Sematary.

Then there is just the classics.Gone With The Wind,Peyton Place,The Good Earth.

Hope this will help in your search for reading.Great way to spend a afternoon.

Answer 5

I'd have to say The Mists Of Avalon. It's an extremely long book, and it's about life in this girl's world. In her religion she has to follow certain things. Cheating on her husband, lying to everyone, getting around. It's a really great book and I've read it twice. I also like The Stand by Stephen King, its about a disease that kills almost all of the world's population. Then the remaining members form a dark side and a light side and battle it out! I loved that book too!

Answer 6

Clan of the Cave Bear

Davinci Code

Answer 7

Given I read so much, here is a decent booklist:



Chocolat – Joanne Harris (the gypsy was based on me)



Unusual Point of View:



Skepticism – Bo Fowler (main character is a supermarket trolley)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – J. Safran Foer (main character is a boy whose dad called from World Trade Centre and left an answer phone message)



British:



Hemmingway’s Chair – Michael Palin

Not the End of the World – Christopher Brookmyre

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

Making History – Stephen Fry

Popcorn – Ben Elton



International:



The Ringmaster’s Daughter – Jostein Gaarder

Memoirs of a Geisha – Authur Golden



Well paced:



Jonathon Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach*

The Beach – Alex Garland

Life of Pi – Yarn Merkel

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway *

Flud – Hilary Mantel



Non Fiction:



Round Ireland with a Fridge – Tony Hawks

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

Playing the Moldavian’s at Tennis – Tony Hawks

Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby



Classics:



Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll *

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Madame Bouvary – Gustave Flaubert

Gormenghast Trilogy – Mervin Peake

I, Robot – Isaac Asimov



Humor:



The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1st three books in the trilogy) – Douglas Adams

A Book of Nonsense – Mervin Peake *



Detective:



Complicity – Iain Banks

Filth – Irvine Welsh

Inspector Rebus novels – Ian Rankin



* books that I read cover to cover without putting down



Source(s):



my 360 Blog

Answer 8

John Connolly's Book of Lost Things if you like fantasy. Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind if you like fiction or Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses if you like fiction and you aren't a very strict Muslim. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre if you like something classic. Victor Hugo's Les Miserable if you have a lot of time on your hands (I've read the unabridged version, so I don't know what they've taken out on the abriged one). Rule of Four for mystery (I think one of the authors' names is Ian Caldwell, but it could be Campbell, I get confused). The King Alfred the Great series by Bernard Cornwell for historical fiction. Lian Hearn's Otori series (Across the Nightingale Floor is the first) also for historical fiction/fantasy type stuff. Go to Amazon.com for summaries of any of the above.

Answer 9

Summaries would take too long so here's a few of mine!!!

1) Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

2) Nancy Drew series

Answer 10

What's your favorite genre?



Some good classics: Mutiny on the Bounty, about, obviously, a mutiny against a cruel captain. Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, about some children in the Slavery-era South.



Some good sci-fi: The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.

Answer 11

My favorite book is Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, it's basically about a disinherited knight who is trying to regain his honor by fighting in a joust. Meanwhile, he is also trying to earn his Love's heart, but an evil Templar and another knight kidnapped Ivanhoe's love and a Jewess who is in love with Ivanhoe, but can never be with him because their different religions. It's a wonderfully written book and I highly recommend it, I've like read it seven time already! It's a pretty big book, it's four hundred fifty pages long (not including the author's notes). My second favorite is the Lord of the Rings series by J. R. Tolkien, you've probably already seen the movies, but I also recommend this series because there's a lot in the books that they didn't put in the movie, like Tom Bombadil and the romance between Eowyn and Faramir. So, if your not into the medieval ages, try Lord of the Rings.

Answer 12

H.R.H. by Danielle Steel- A princess has yearnings for more freedom and ends up going to Africa to help the Red Cross and falls in love with a doctor there. Complications ensue because the Doctor is not royalty.



Left Behind series- It is a series of 15 books including the three prequels that are centered around a group of those left behind after the Rapture that become Christians and fight the Anti-Christ

Answer 13

Nicholas Sparks - Author

Writes romance like Message in a Bottle and Notebook which are now movies. Once you start I promise you will have to finish, they are so heart touching. I just read one that was amazing. It's called " The Rescue", to be honest the summary on the back of the book sounds very corney but I promise the book isn't.



Piers Anthony - Author

Xanth Series

These are fantasy books. They are very funny. It is a fantasy world set in Xanth. They go on adventures like all fantasy books and they characters are all connected if you keep reading more books. It is humurous, they make fun of "our world" and call it mundania menaing boring. They use lots of puns as well if you like that kind of humor.



Sherman Alexie - Author

He writes books about Native American culture. One of his stories became the move Smoke Signals. He has books that are entire novels or are a bunch of short stories. "Lone Ranger and Tonto: Fist Fight in Heaven" is great!



I know lots more cultural books if you are interested in that, just email me.

Answer 14

If you are a teenage girl:



Any of the books by Sarah Dessen, specifically Someone Like You, This Lullaby, and The Truth About Forever



Romance/Love Stories: Authors:



Nicholas Sparks



Nora Roberts



Danielle Steel



Specific books- Message In A Bottle (A MUST READ!), THe Notebook, Chesepeake Blue, Fine Things, Changes, Once in a Lifetime



Fantasy:



His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (MUST READS!)



Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (MUST READS!)



HP Series by J.K. Rowling



Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini



The Seventh Tower Series by Garth Nix



Hero's Song and Fire Arrow by Edith Pattou



Other books that I really enjoyed:



Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (A MUST READ!)



The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (A MUST READ!)



Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis



East by Edith Pattou



Any of the books by Dan Brown, specifically Angels & Demons



If you want any further suggestions by genre or author or type or anything...Or even if you want to discuss contemporary books, feel free to click on my name and send me an email..! I'd be interested to hear your recommendations as well!!





Hope this helps!! :)

Answer 15

My favorite book is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" but you probably already know the plotline of that, or of HP books in general... So I will recommend the "Emily" trilogy by L. M. Montgomery. The first book is "Emily of New Moon." Like "Anne of Green Gables" it is about an orphaned girl who has to learn to live in a new environment, this time with relatives - two elderly aunts and a cousin who is a little slow. Emily loves writing and has episodes called "the Flash," which are like a psychic visions.

Answer 16

well it really depends on what kinda thing you like um lets see the john conolly books are really good they are about a private detective called charlie parker and there is always something happening i think they are sort of thriller but they are not that scary some of his titles are the white road, every dead thing, the black angel and bad men

if you like sort of sad and happy ups and downs the child called it is amazing and the sequals the lost boy and a man called dave its a true story about an abused little boy and all the trauma hos mother puts him through

but my personal fav has to be an awsome book called liverpool annie about a girl and her whole live you just cant put it down

i hope you like my suggestions and they are all excellent books that you wont want to stop reading good luck and let me know how you do!!

Answer 17

I like reading of dragon books, but my favorite author is Mercedes Lackey and so far he hasn't dissappointed me. Also Anne McCaffrey is a great author, the book series about a planet called Pern, where dragons with their riders fly to burn the skies free of a threat called Thread (a long silvery parasite) which eats anyliving thing and after its done gourging it dies.

Answer 18

I read a book that I loved called the Devil in White City written by Erick Larson. It is a true story very well written about a serial killer doctor during the worlds fair in Chicago in the 1890s. Please check it out. It is totally true because of his extensive use of his bibliography. It is in paperback and came out a few years ago. I am going to read it again.

Answer 19

The Neverending Story - my life time favourite.

About boy that losted his mother and grown straneger with father, having problems in school and having no friends. Except fictional characters that he made up.

And about entering that fictional world for real and finding lifetime answers and coming back to find out that he got his father back. Too long to be summarized, but this is the best I can do. The Neverendind Story is book for kids and book for grown ups, because it has eternal truths and fantasy all together.



How old are you?



Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan if you have time and nerves, coz he didn't finished writing yet.

Great fantastic story about eternal fight between good and evil. Shows that things are not always black and white, but that every person has darkness inside her/himself and that only choice and will to be good can help person to defeat inner deamons.



Discworld series by Terry Prattceht

Funny critics about our world. About everything, but placed in invented world. Flat world. World so oposite to our that it became disparated world and mirror image in the same time.



Anything by Amanda Quick if you like romance, happy-endings and XVIII century.

Anything by Sandra Brown if you like romance, happy-endings and present times.



Alquemist by Paulo Coleho - story about journy to oneself as all of his books. Story about shepard who dared to follow dream. And who was rewarded for that in many ways.



And many, many more, but you really should specify if you have particular interests.



Jonathan Livingstone: Seagull by Richar Bach - can be read in one afternoon and it is of the same kind as Little Prince.

Answer 20

If you just like the delusion style, listed here are a few ideas. The first of the sequence is in parenthesis. Harry Potter Series (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) by way of JK Rowling His Dark Materials Series (The Golden Compass) by way of Phillip Pullman The Hunger Games by way of Suzanne Collins The Books Of Pellinor (The Naming/Gift) by way of Alison Croggon Abarat by way of Clive Barker The Tricksters Series (Trickster's Choice) by way of Tamora Pierce

Answer 21

My fave book is My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Another good one is On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Fountainhead by Any Rand

Answer 22

i just love Summer Sister. not sure if u read it by Judy Blume its really great book try it. Also i love The Prophet by kahlil Gibran try both books their great

Answer 23

marley and me by john grogen,

the series of unfortunate events,

thud by terry pratchett.

Answer 24

Her:

Try site below, read the stories and see if these would interest you.

Answer 25

Harry Potter

-and if your not in to that then there are no books out there for you.

Answer 26

james clavell-Shogun:action,love,history;all in one