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book recs?
We're going away next week and I'm trying get some books out of the library to read on vacation... but so far, everything I've thought of is already checked out!
Any good book recommendations? I'm game for any suggestions! Thanks!
Re: book recs?
what kind of books do you like to read?!?
I love Stieg Larsson - that's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series
I like Dan Brown and Steve Berry (if you like DB, you'll like Berry, just make sure you start at the beginning with his)
I've just started reading Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone private investigator series (A is for Alibi, etc) and really like it so far
If you haven't read them yet, Emily Giffin's books are good chick-summer reading, and Something Borrowed is in theaters now, so it's a timely choice. If you decide to read that one, make sure you bring Something Blue too, because you'll finish Borrowed quickly and want the next one.
Giffin also has a few other books that I've read, though I did not care for Love The One You're with.
Thanks! I like things from silly chick lit to more serious books and definitely love mystery-- not really sure. I'll read almost anything.
I have never been able to get into the Dragon Tattoo series though. I do love the Dan Brown books so I'll have to check out those other suggestions!
Yeah, if you like Dan Brown, definitely try Steve Berry - good ones to start are his first ones, The Romanov Prophecy, The Amber Room, The Third Secret.
I think most of the others are from his Cotton Malone series - basically a character like Brown's Robert Langdon who has lots of adventures over a bunch of books - I think there are 5 or 6 Cotton Malone ones.
I have heard lots of people say they couldn't get into the Dragon Tattoo books - I didn't have that problem, but the ladies in my old book club that did said once they got past page 100 in the first book, it started to fly. So if you really want to read them, maybe try to get through that first chunk?
I am currently reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and really like it so far.
Other suggestions that I have read: Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert, Little Bee by Chris Cleave, A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard and Bright, Shiny Morning by James Frey, and anything in the Sookie Stackhouse series (vampire lit that was the inspiration for True Blood). I also love anything by David Sedaris and really enjoyed Bossypants by Tina Fey.
On my "to read" list: Still Alice and Left Neglected by Lisa Genova, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.
EDIT: I also want to add The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski to the suggestions list. I LOVED IT!
Beware!!! This is a crying book!!!! (I will never ever finish it because I can't deal with it. I closed it sobbing about 12 years ago and will not go back. That said, it is masterfully written...I wouldn't care so much if I hadn't gotten so attached to all the characters through her great writing.)
How about "The Guernsey and Potato Peel Pie Society"? Or the most recent Kingsolver, "The Lacuna"? I've also just started Anne Tyler's "Digging to America", and although I'm not far into it, I'm enjoying it.
Stern Men was fantastic, agreed!
Recently, I read Red Hook Road, another book based in Maine by Ayelet Waldman that was quite good. I picked up Blacklands by Belinda Bauer, and that was a good short crime/drama read. I really want to read Tina Fey's Bossypants and Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 before the babe, but we'll see if that happens!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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This is a hefty, big book -- you'd better get crackin'!
I just finished The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and I really enjoyed it. I second any Emily Giffin books. Jane Green, Sophie Kinsella, Jodi Piccoult and Lauren Weisberger are some of my other go to chick lit authors when there is nothing else that I'm interested in. Sloane Crosley and Chelsea Handler have entertaining essay collections that are fast reads.
A couple of my all time favs:
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
My to read list includes:
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
Two Kisses for Maddy - Matt Logelin
A Wild Ride up the Cupboards - Ann Bauer
A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay
I agree with a lot of PP recommendations, but also:
Augusten Burroughs
Bill Bryson
Elizabeth Berg (easy reading chick books)
John Irving
I know a few of us are on Goodreads - if anyone else wants to connect through the site, I'd love to see more recommendations.
I loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle too, I'm glad I'm not the only one. We read it for book club once, and no one else seemed into it, but I thought it was fantastic. I have Still Alice and Cutting for Stone on my to-read list too.
The Likeness by Tana French was a good psychological/mystery book that I just read on my facation. It probably makes more sense if you've read Into the Woods first though, although I didn't love that book. I just started the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon which is like time travel/romance series that they always rave about on the Nest Book Club; I liked it and it'd be a good vacation read. The Sookie Stackhouse books would also be fun for vacation. The Shadow of the Wind is kind of a gothic mystery book set in Spain that I loved recently. The Name of the Wind is the first of the Kingkiller Chronicle series, it's kind of a grown-up and dark Harry Potter - magic, wizards etc. Not my typical genre, but a really good book!
I know- it's a lofty goal, but I'd at least like to get it started soon!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
http://cookthehumbletable.blogspot.com/
Yes, Sophie Kinsella is great summer reading! And I LOVED The Help, though I cried through the middle third of the book.
However, I was not a fan of Little Bee - I saw someone recommended that - I found it so unsettling. Definitely not my idea of fun vacation reading.