Hello Neatoramans! I've just finished reading a novel and have got a question for you: what books would you recommend for summer reading?
I'm kind of a light reader, mind you - so no treatises for me. My favorite books have been easy-to-read thriller novels by Frederick Forsyth, the usual NY Times Best Sellers fare like those by Douglas Preston and Lincoln
Child, and so on.
I've got a book on order (from the library - yes, that way it's free!), the latest one by Lee Child called Nothing to Lose, but I'm always interested in learning about new authors.
What would you recommend and why? Thank you!
Stephen King's Favorite:
This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Mad Cook of Pymatuning: A Novel by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel by Stef Penney
When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
J.K. Rowling's Favorite:
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Skellig by David Almond
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Jeffrey Eugenides, author, Pulitzer prize winner
"Herzog," by Saul Bellow
"Love in a Fallen City," by Eileen Chang
"The Lay of the Land," by Richard Ford
Oprah Winfrey's Favorite:
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Recommendation website:
http://www.famouspal.com
( http://www.famouspal.com/index.php?node=110 )
or
man in the high castle by pkd as well
How about Stephen Colbert's _I Am America (and So Can You)? Very truthy, very funny.
Novels? OK, I go "Vonnegut" as well. Read, reread.
Maybe you want to read a western, but afraid what your friends will say? Try anything by J.Lee Butts. He only has a couple of books out there, but thay are a fun read. If you get caught with the book, say its for your nephew or something. Enjoy.