What is your go-to recommendation right now?

jackiback · February 2015

I'm pimping Liane Moriarty hard right now. I read all of her books in a huge gulp last year and when people ask for a book rec, they almost always come to mind.

Also, The Martian.

RevJen · February 2015

I don't have a specific go to referral. I try to tailor it to the person asking.

jackiback · February 2015

But don't you ever find yourself coming back to the same ones over and over for awhile? I guess that's what I meant. I always recommend books more that are fresh in my brain

booneybear · February 2015

I just finished We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler last night and I think I may have to pimp that book out a bit. I kind of loved it, it was so different than anything I have ever read.

I also kind of fell for The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh which I just finished as well. I adored both the characters and the story.

RevJen · February 2015

My perennials would be HP and outlander then. I think I refer books i've read multiple times and think everyone else should too. I haven"t read anything lately that I would pimp out after one reading.

Plus most of the people I know IRL don't read like I do.

sfgiantsjo · February 2015

The Martian, for sure! I've been pimping that book out at every opportunity!

AyshM · February 2015

I really enjoyed The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony.

I also am going to finish We Were Liars today and I'd recommend it unless I hate the ending.

I enjoy Sarah Jio, Kate Morton and Susanna Kearsley, if someone is into historical fiction with present day connections.

Wool by Hugh Howey is a standby solid rec!

CeeCeeSugaPie · February 2015

Anything by Maggie Stiefvater. Outlander & HP are always good. I enjoyed We Were Liars as well and would recommend it.

j*&p* · February 2015

The Arcana Chronicles by Kresley Cole

In Death series by JD Robb

sagoon · February 2015

The Golem and the Jinni.

Young_Love · February 2015

The Raven Boys

Tootermi · February 2015

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

One Sweet Shannon · February 2015

14 by Peter Clines. Anything by John Scalzi. Also the Magic 2.0 series by Scott Meyer.

84Lauren · February 2015

Young_Love said:
The Raven Boys

Same, but I'm rarely successful. Gahhh.

Also Rainbow Rowell, particularly Landline.

ALSO my sister recently started reading a lot more again and I'm constantly feeding her YA recs. she's in the middle of the Seven Realms series now.

julie37619 · February 2015

As of the second I finished it last week, The Book of Strange New Things. I'm still having a hard time going on with life now that it's over.

sfgiantsjo · February 2015

julie37619 said:

As of the second I finished it last week, The Book of Strange New Things. I'm still having a hard time going on with life now that it's over.

I am intrigued.

julie37619 · February 2015

sfgiantsjo said:

julie37619 said:

As of the second I finished it last week, The Book of Strange New Things. I'm still having a hard time going on with life now that it's over.

I am intrigued.

It's the same author who wrote The Crimson Petal and the White and it's literary science fiction - in the future we've discovered a new planet with intelligent life and they've requested a Christian missionary be sent to teach them. So this devout minister goes and leaves his wife on earth, where things immediately start to go to hell - natural disasters, riots, basically the end of modern civilization. So while he's having this intense religious experience on the new planet, she's losing her faith on earth. It's AMAZING. The author is an atheist, but he has an incredible respect for religion - I was just blown away. There's not a ton of action, but I couldn't stop reading.

ThisModernLove · February 2015

I'm recommending The Golem and the Jinni even though I haven't finished it. The book feels like such a decadent dessert that I only want to read bits at a time as to not have to finish it.