Can anyone recommend any good books to read?
I usually like horror, science-fiction, and mystery, but I’ll also be open to anything else if there is a must-read book out there.
- Nooooooooooo
Tags: Books To Read, Good Books, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
October 31st, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I would read Hop On Pop if I were you.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:39 am
I loved “House of sand and fog” by Debuce (I think).
November 4th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Twilight Saga = scifi, mystery, horror somewhat (in the later books)
The Hot Zone
Uglies Trilogy
November 4th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Ender’s Game is really good science fiction. It’s young kids who play a combat game…… it’s very good.
If you’ve already read that, then I recommend….. The Year’s Best Science Fiction short story collection. Those are so great and 2008 is the 25th edition.
Another series that I loved was the Vorkosigan series by Bujold. Her writing can be hit-or-miss, but the first few books of the Vorkosigan series were really enjoyable.
The first two books are about the parents and then the subsequent books are about their mutant son.
Cordelia’s Honor (contains Shards of Honor, Barrayar)
Young Miles (contains The Warrior’s Apprentice, “The Mountains of Mourning”, The Vor Game)
November 6th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Maybe you would like to try “Kathy Reich” as an author. She is a brilliant novelist and, if you are into mysteries then I am sure you would enjoy her books.
November 8th, 2009 at 4:49 am
all of Dean Koontz are good novels
November 9th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Try some of these
HISTORIC FICTION
Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follet
The Great Plague A London girls’ diary – Pamela Oldfield
The Pest House by Jim Crace
6th Wife by Suzanna Dunn
At the Sign of the Sugar Plum by Mary Hooper
SUITABLE FOR KIDS/TEENS
Ingo Series by Helen Dunmore 1-4
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder
Whistling for Elephants by Sandi Toksvic
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Maximum Ride series 1-4
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Last Chance by Sarah Dessen
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzack
The Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce
The Tales of Beadle the Bard by J K Rowling
FANTASY
Confessor by Terry Goodkind
Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger
American Gods by Neil Gainham
Swimming with Fishes and Swimming without a Net by MaryJanice Davidson
Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanne Clark
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album
The Trouble With Angels by Debbie Macomber
Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanne Clark
The Children of Hurin by J R R Tolkien
GENERAL FICTION
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Only human by Jenny Diske
The Four Feathers by AEW Mason
Shakespear by Bill Bryson
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwen
A Wayne in a Manger by Gervase Phinn
Sorting out Billy by Jo Brand
The Best of Fathers by Anne Baker
The Sunday Philosophers Club by Alexander McCall Smith
5th Child by Doris Lessing
No! I don’t want to join a book club by Virgina Ironside
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
21/2 Pillars of Wisdom by Alexander McCall Smith
My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
My Best Friend’s Girl by Dorothy Koomson
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations by Alexander McCall Smith
Mr Commitment by Mike Gayle
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M C Beaton
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Turning Thirty by Mike Gayle
HORROR
Heart Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Devil’s Labyrinth by John Saul
Duma Key by Stephen King
CLASSICS
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskill
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift
The Inheritors by William Golding
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
A Room with a View by E M Forster
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Aesop’s Fables
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
The Awakening and other stories by Kate Chopin
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
Ultimate Peter Rabbit - story of Beatrix Potter
Carnarvon and Carter by 8th Countess of Carnarvon
A girl with a Pen – story of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Kyle
Nobbut a Lad by Alan Titchmarsh
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
November 12th, 2009 at 1:49 am
I have just read the best series of my life. There are three books in Dark Heavens (that’s the name of the series) and they are White Tiger, Red Phoenix and Blue Dragon incorporates magic, martial arts, mystical creatures and more into three to create a highly entertaining, humorous and exciting series.
Set in Hong Kong, the book follows the intelligent and headstrong Emma Donahoe, working as a nanny for John Chen. He is a mysterious and wealthy man and Emma is soon captivated by both him and his talented little girl. She enters a world of celestial beings, demons and dragons and must soon learn to protect the young girl (Simone) from the supernatural evils that threaten them.
I have recommended this book to my own friend and she says quote, that I really, really like it and it’s one of the best books I’ve read.end quote.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Read Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories like The Tell-Tale Heart. Must read!
November 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am
carer has listed good books for u
November 16th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Horror:
Frankenstien (Mary Shelley)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Mystery:
Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
SciFi:
Day of the Triffids (Cant remember who by)
— I strongly reccommend the middle section!
Hope this helps.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Twilight Saga ( :
November 20th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Mystery:
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
anything by Agatha Christie - Titles at
Sci-Fi
anything by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, or Arthur C. Clarke - Titles at
Horror
anything by Dean Koontz
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tell Tale Heart and others by Edgar Allen Poe
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Cujo, Carrie, IT, Pet Semetary, Misery, The Shining, and The Stand by Stephen King