good book recommendations

[LoveTrains]

anyone have a recommendation for a good book to read? I am trying to load up my kindle before a cross country flight this weekend. TIA!

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Kingkiller Chronicles series by Patrick Rothfuss if you like fantasy/Game of Thrones type stuff
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Edit to add Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn... not a book I normally recommend because some people love it and others hate it, but it would occupy you on a flight for sure.

[LoveTrains]

Thanks - I am trying to get stuff from the library for my kindle so most of the popular books have a LONG waiting list.

For example, I am now in line as user 462 to borrow gone girl. Yup, that means over 450 people have to read it first.

[justjen]

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Mar 12, 2013 13:20:24 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Thanks - I am trying to get stuff from the library for my kindle so most of the popular books have a LONG waiting list.

For example, I am now in line as user 462 to borrow gone girl. Yup, that means over 450 people have to read it first.

Yuck. I get all my books from the library so I feel you on that. Sometimes I have a weird jump though--I was 120 something for Gone Girl when it unexpectedly came in for me at the library.

I like the Free Library of Philadelphia, for $35 a year they have a large selection of Kindle books and short wait times. womet suggested it to me.

Good but not-so-popular/recent books I have read in the last year or so:

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Hope this helps!!

[LoveTrains]

Thank you carmen - I got on the waiting list for a few, currently none of them are available right now. The thing that is frustrating is that all the ebooks are literally for the ENTIRE state. So there might be three or four copies (or more) copies of something popular like Gone Girl, but it still takes a while to cycle through. I am the first person on the waiting list for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan which sounds really good. I enjoyed reading Memoirs of a Geisha and also Shanghai Girls recently.

[mbcdefg]

I like non-fiction and historical biographies. I'm currently "My Dearest Friend: Letters of John and Abigail Adams."

The next one in my queue is "Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens."

Last year I really enjoyed "The Last Princess" (about Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice), and "The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin." A couple years ago I read "10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America" and enjoyed it.

[rootbeerfloat]

If you enjoyed Shanghai Girls, you might also like the sequel, Dreams of Joy.

[emilyinchile]

Are there any classics you've always wanted to read? Amazon has a bunch of free classics, if you're just trying to keep it MM: www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A2245146011

[ESF]

A visit from the goon squad - jennifer egan

the marriage plot - jeffrey eugenides (bonus, it takes place in RI and MA)

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Are you looking for light and fluffy? I always enjoy the Emily Giffin books when traveling because they are mindless yet entertaining. Laura Lippman writes good thriller/mystery type books - I prefer her stand alones rather than the Tess Monaghan series she writes.

[rachelgreen]

All I can come up with is Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. It's long but a good read. I know my library has an e-copy so maybe yours will too??

[justjen]

Mar 12, 2013 14:08:00 GMT -5 ESF said:

A visit from the goon squad - jennifer egan

the marriage plot - jeffrey eugenides (bonus, it takes place in RI and MA)

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[imojoebunny]

Some older books

1000 white women, the journals of Mary Dodd

Glass Castles

Still Alice


The other Boleyn girl

[LoveTrains]

Thank you all for your recs!

[kiminky]

In terms of books that might be available in time for your trip, try
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Some of the older Jen Lancaster books (figuring those would be available)
The Story of Beautiful Girl (might still be too new, but worth a shot)
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

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Read the latest Maeve Binchy, I believe it has Winter in the title, it was so good! I suck at remembering titles.

[whitepicketfence]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The first few books aren't too long and they totally sucked me in.

[1yeartogo]

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron is very engaging.

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Mar 12, 2013 19:15:23 GMT -5 1yeartogo said:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron is very engaging.

I just put this one down because I couldn't get into it. Normally I'd have given it more of a shot, but I have 4 other library books out right now which is too many to justify sticking with a book I don't look forward to picking up.

I really wanted to like it--I'll go back to it at some point hopefully.

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Consequences and Truth by Aleatha Romig

[salliekate]

If you haven't read The Hunger Games yet, the trilogy is only $5 on amazon. All of the others I would rec have already been mentioned.

Let us know what you get!

[fortnightlily]

If you like science fiction at all, Hyperion by Dan Simmons is a classic I only read recently and it was fantastic.

I also recommend The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.  ETA:  And The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak.

BTW - I also thought Zufon's The Shadow of the Wind was just okay even though everyone else raves about it. 

[scout8]

For something a little lighter, I really enjoy Marian Keyes' books. Most of them are older so they might be available right away.

[mrshandy]

Devil in the white city

Nothing to envy is very, very good.

We need to talk about Kevin

The Great Influenza - great history book on the Spanish flu

Redemption - I was surprised how much I liked this

The Tea Rose series by Jennifer Donnelly

[kellygreen]

I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin and loved it.  I watched part of the movie last night, though, and it's creepier for me than the book was.

Reading Night Circus right now and love it.