Summer reading list..Your suggestions?

Question

I have so far...
The Great Gatsby
The entire Jane Austen collection...besides pride and prejudice-already read it....
Why People Believe Weird Things
Witness
Whispers
Re-read Lord of the Rings books
Inkspell
Left Behind-Tribulation force

I read fast, and often. The number of pages does not affect me. I have no particular taste in books, I love em all.

What are some of your favorite books, and which ones would you recommend me to read?

Answer 1

Here is my book list for the summer:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith



The Shack- William P. Young



Shawshank Redemption- Stephen King



Life of Pi- Yann Martel



The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini



Cell- Ted Dekker



The Man Who Was Thursday- G. K. Chesterton



A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier- Ishmael Beah



Boy in the Striped Pajamas- John Boyne



Skin- Ted Dekker



The Boys in the Trees: A Novel- Mary Swan



The Innocent Man- John Grisham



Water for Elephants: A Novel- Sara Gruen



The Children of Húrin- J.R.R. Tolkien



Taliesin- Stephen R. Lawhead







Hangman's Curse: Book 1 in The Veritas Project- Frank Peretti



Nightmare Academy: The Veritas Project - Volume 2 (The Veritas Project)- Frank Peretti



I kind of cheated and started on it already, but oh well. I love to read.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I am a huge book lover and I can totally help you out. I also worked at Borders for years and thats were my paycheck went!

Have you read The Other Boleyn Girl yet? If not, you should. Then you can read The Queen's Fool and The Virgin's Lover all by Philippa Gregory. These books are amazing.

Let's see...

The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd

The Mermaid Chair- Sue Monk Kidd



And for the lighter side...

Me and Mr. Darcy- Alexandra Potter

Save Kayrn- Karyn Bosnak (non-fiction, really funny)

Twenty Times A Lady- Karyn Bosnak (fiction, still funny)

The Boy Next Door- Meg Cabot

Boy Meets Girl- Meg Cabot

Stupid and Contagious- Caprice Crane



Just to name a few

Answer 4

Some of the books I've read so far this summer, maybe not exactly the books you love, but still good nonetheless: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Fault in Our Stars- A love story, without the "gooey romance." I even cried reading this book, which NEVER happens The Night Circus The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Series A Song of Fire and Ice Series

Answer 5

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Mary Stewart's Arthurian cycle (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment, The Wicked Day)

J. Robert King's Arthurian trilogy (Mad Merlin, Lancelot du Lethe, Le Morte D'Avalon)

Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Eyes of the Dragon

Answer 6

Hey! My name's Julia too! How weird! Anyway, the series I would recommend to you is the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. It's a wonderful romance series that is a mix of warriors, mythology, vampires, were-animals, Atlantis, and so much more.



Basically, the jyst of it is that these men have been hurt or betrayed in such a way that it resulted in their death. Right before they die their souls cry out for vengeance and the goddess Artemis grants their wish. However, the catch is, they only get one night to exact their revenge and then they must spend the rest of eternity guarding humanity from the evil soul-eating creatures called Daimons. And thus a Dark Hunter is born.



I would recommend this series to any and everyone (even men, despite the fact that it's so heart-stoppingly romantic). It starts with a book called Fantasy Lover then goes from their to Dream Chaser. An awesome series. And a must try for anyone!!

Answer 7

Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris!!!



Make sure to read the philip pullman trilogy (if you saw the movie the golden compass, try not to judge the books by the movie, they're incredible).



A great and terrible beauty by libba bray

Answer 8

Read the book of Proverbs-it's amazingly practical-or,if that's not enough,try reading the whole Bible in a row.I'm on 1kings.I prefer King James version.It's the one w/ most accuracy.



By the way I like Pride and Prejudice too.

Answer 9

If you like the Lord of the Rings, you might try the Shannara series by Terry Brooks. The first one is The Sword of Shannara and there are at least 12 in total.

Answer 10

Here are a few books off the top of my head of different genres.



Jeffrey Archer - Prisoner of Birth (Law)



Sidney Sheldon - Master of the Game (Business and romance - over 4 generations of a family)



Dean Koontz - Phantoms (Horror - I couldn't sleep all night)



Sylvia Waugh - The Mennyms series (really unusual one - a family of kapok rag dolls comes alive)



Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights



Robin Cook - Invasion (aliens take over - horribly realistic)



Robin Cook - Outbreak (medical thriller)



Stephen King - Cell (gruesome horror - you'll look at your phone in a different light)



Sidney Sheldon - If tomorrow comes (His best. Con games galore)



P.G. Wodehouse - Any Blandings story (Humour)



Meg Cabot - Nicola and the Viscount,

Victoria and the Rogue ( historical, humorous

romance)



Hope you like em!

Answer 11

Here's 3 off the top of my head:

-Silent Spring by Rachel Carson-- sparked the environmentalist movement.

-Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk-- super fast read but pretty damn awesome.

-Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka-- man wakes up to find that he's been turned into an insect-- awesome surrealism and philosophy.

Answer 12

Song of Solomon, the Kite Runner, and East of Eden.

All really entertaining page turners, and all of them actually have a lot of literary value.

These really helped revive my faith in reading for pleasure. Definitely at least check them out.

Answer 13

Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule.



In the Fantasy section, but you'll possibly like it even if you aren't a fan of these usually.



It is a bit graphic in its descriptions, though, and a bit violent . If this isn't your cup of tea, disregard.

Answer 14

I am one not to read books. I have taken out a few tape cassettes or cds books on tape before.



Its great to lay back & close your eyes to imagine what is happening. Plus if the phone rings you can stop the tape where you left off.

Answer 15

Find a stranger, say goodbye by lois lowry

number the stars

the alchemist

catcher in the rye

proof: a play by david auburn



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Answer 16

The World to Come - Dara Horn

Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

The History of Love - Nicole Krauss

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger- http://books.google.com/books?id=pkw2iLaxvU8C&dq=time+traveler%27s+wife&pg=PP1&ots=4Tdp1o4h7y&sig=SfHP5rChUo4sWTrYmRJcZS3Pn6M&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dtime%2Btraveler%2527s%2Bwife%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail

The Little Minister - J.M. Barrie (http://books.google.com/books?id=M3cQAAAAYAAJ&dq=the+little+minister&pg=PP1&ots=YVshppZF-O&sig=1REXvKLko8P38Ljiv9vnPRPhykw&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dthe%2Blittle%2Bminister%2B%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail

The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams (http://books.google.com/books?id=qt9Qnulz2ikC&dq=glass+menagerie&pg=PP1&ots=UIzClbypKr&sig=sXFgW3VEi9O1m8gW5SLRGK87y9Y&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dglass%2Bmenagerie%2B%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP1,M1

Answer 17

if you havent read it yet, you should read twilight...its an amazing book.



all my friends are obsessed with it

Answer 18

Here are some of my favorites:



Series:



Maximum Ride series by James Patterson

City Of Bones series by Cassandra Clare

The Xenogenesis series by Octavia E. Butler

Everworld series by Katherine Applegate

Daughter of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer

Lemony Snickett - A series Of Unfortunate Events

Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson

Dark Tower series by Stephen King

The Border Trilogy: (All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain) by Cormac McCarthy.

Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer

Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R Tolkien

Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander



Non Series:



Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Tangerine by Edward Bloor and Danny De Vito

The Pact by Jodi Picoult

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, and George Mouratidis

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Atonement by Ian Mcewan

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Postman by David Brin

Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Stick by Elmore Leonard

What to Keep by Rachel Cline

The Lizards Tail by Marc Brandel

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Vision Quest by Terry Davis

Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged by Rebecca Fjelland Davis

On Writing by Stephen King

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)

Blue Is for Nightmares By Laurie Faria Stolarz

Abarat by Clive Barker

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick



Young Reader:



Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume

James Patterson's Maximum Ride series

Tangerine by Edward Bloor and Danny De Vito

Abarat by Clive Barker

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Super Fudge by Judy Bloom

Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)

Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber

The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruze

Boys That Bite by Marianne Mancusi

Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Life Force by Colin Wilson (Space Vampires)

Midnighters By Scott Westerfeld

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

Belinda by Anne Rampling

The Beast Within by Edward Levi (vampireesq)

Maximum Ride by James Patterson

The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice

The Vampire Companion by Katherine Ramsland

Exit to Eden by Anne Rampling

Communion by Whitley Strieber

I am Legend by Richard Matheson



Chick Lit:



Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston

Love Over Scotland by Alexander Mccall Smith

Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

Magic Study (Study Series) by Maria V. Snyder

Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich

Love the One You're With Hardcover by Emily Giffin

Maximum Ride series by James Patterson

Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld

Tangerine by Edward Bloor and Danny De Vito

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

What to Keep by Rachel Cline

The Lizards Tail by Marc Brandel

On Writing by Stephen King

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Where the Heart Is is a 1995 novel by Billie Letts

Vision Quest by Terry Davis

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler