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Can you recommend good books that you've read?

I got an e-reader yesterday...I was resisting, but DH decided to get it for me.  I haven't read anything in awhile, so I'm not sure what's out there!  Can you recommend some books that you've read that you've liked?  I think the last books that I read were Water for Elephants, The Thirteenth Tale and The Piano Teacher.

Thanks!

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Re: Can you recommend good books that you've read?

  • Ape House (by the author of Water for Elephants), The Help
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  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

    In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

     

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    Ape House (by the author of Water for Elephants), The Help

    Yeah, Ape House is awesome!

    I'm trying to read Girl with the Dragon Tattoo right now.... but I keep falling asleep while reading :) 

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  • Loved The Help and if you want a cute fun read Anna and the French Kiss is a favorite of mine too. 
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  • the red tent by anita diamant.  it's several years old, so you may have read it already, but if not it's fantastic.
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  • Ditto The Red Tent!

    I love The Time Traveler's Wife, All of "The Idiot Girl" Books, and The Five Love Languages.

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  • I like a lot of the ones people have mentioned. Also, Kitchen Confidential (especially if you're a Bourdain fan), The Lovely Bones, Three Cups of Tea, the Outlander series, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
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    I'm trying to read Girl with the Dragon Tattoo right now.... but I keep falling asleep while reading :) 

    I tried this book and just gave up. I am not sure if I wasn't into it or just skimmed through too quick. Now I am reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 

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  • Thanks!  I think I have a great list going now!
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  • i second, third and fourth the lovely bones.  it was fantastic.
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  • i second, third and fourth the lovely bones.  it was fantastic.  also, not sure if you like science fiction, but thirteen, by richard k. morgan, is one of the best books i've read in the past ten years.  simply fantastic.
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    i second, third and fourth the lovely bones.  it was fantastic.  also, not sure if you like science fiction, but thirteen, by richard k. morgan, is one of the best books i've read in the past ten years.  simply fantastic.

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  • I second Three Cups of Tea and also recommend Zeitoun. 
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    imageladipale:

    I'm trying to read Girl with the Dragon Tattoo right now.... but I keep falling asleep while reading :) 

    I tried this book and just gave up. I am not sure if I wasn't into it or just skimmed through too quick. Now I am reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 

    Don't give up! Sitck with it, once you get about 200 pages (I know 200 is a LOT) into it the book picks up and you won't be able to put it down!  It's worth it!

  • I really liked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl who Played with Fire.  I'm reading the 3rd one now.

     

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    imageanneg:
    i second, third and fourth the lovely bones.  it was fantastic.  also, not sure if you like science fiction, but thirteen, by richard k. morgan, is one of the best books i've read in the past ten years.  simply fantastic.

    True. Makes you wonder, doesn't it, how "representative" the government there is if legislators keep trying to push through laws that the majority of the state doesn't support...

    Huh?  Are you in the right post?

    Ditto The Help and Outlander. 

    If you're looking for light and fluffy then the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris is highly recommended.

    Young Adult: Fever 1793, Shiver, The Hunger Games.

    Old ones: Dan Brown's books. Not just the DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons, but I really liked Deception Point and Digital Fortress too. 

    I also really like Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island, Mystic River and I just started his Kenzie & Gennaro series with Darkness Take My Hand that was excellent.

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  • Gloria by Keith Maillard. It's a slow read, but extremely good.
  • These aren't new, but anything by Isabel Allende, especially The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia (a series that spans several generations of the same family...each book can be read on its own as well). Also The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. And everything else she's written for that matter. And don't forget The Pioneer Woman's new book, Black Heels to Tractor Wheels!
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  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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