I’m looking for a good summer read, not drippy romance either. Any suggestions on a good fiction book?
I’m looking for a good book that is fiction but resembles a real regular person’s life. Any suggestions for my summer read?
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Tags: Fiction Book, Romance
May 18th, 2009 at 7:03 am
I’m in the middle of “Shem Creek” by Dorothea Benton Frank, it’s great so far. Very much the story of a regular person, a woman with two kids trying to start her life over when she moves from the city back to her old hometown in the south.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
If you haven’t read it already, The Kiterunner…. amazing book, no romance, its fiction but the background is a true historical period in Afghanistan.
May 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am
13 Little Blue Envelops is a fantastic novel about this girl who goes on a scavenger hunt through Europe.
May 21st, 2009 at 9:45 am
Sure a great read would be Dan Browns Angels and Demons, very excellent book.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey….the best book I’ve ever read!!!You won’t be able to put it down
May 27th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
try one of Laurell k. Hamiltons Vampire hunter novels but not the first one in the seires that one is a little slow. or one for the money by janet evanich. if you are looking for historical try memoirs of cleopatra by margaret george. if you like kinda cheesy fun try piers anthony in the sci/fi fantasy section.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:21 am
Have you ever read any of Michael Cunningham’s books? The last one, Specimen Days, was not so good, but the rest of them were great. Atonement by Ian McEwan is another great book.
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Maggie Shayne is a great author. I have read several books of hers and the are the best
June 5th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Devil wears Prada.
June 6th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Try “Motherless Brooklyn” by Jonathan Lethem. Nominally a detective novel, it’s a literary tour de force with the narrator suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome. It won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson’s Last Spring by Neil J. Lehto. Visit the book’s website at. It’s a fictional investigation into the remarkable true story of Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson’s drowning in Algonquin Park’s Canoe Lake in 1917.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Anything by Matthew Reilly or Jack DuBrul or Stuart Woods.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago’s only professional wizard.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters-vampires,werewolves,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire
Reilly’s Luck by Louis L’Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind are also good books by the same author.
Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?