Another book suggestion thread

[ElizabethBennet]

I'm in a serious reading rut. I haven't read a book that has held my attention in a long time and can't find anything that sounds interesting. I'm open to pretty much anything.

I just finished Lord of The Flies and holy hell was that a disturbing book.

[sunflower22]

I recommend Gone Girl

[ElizabethBennet]

I'm just waiting for Gone Girl at the library and I LOVED 11/22/63 :Y:

I'll check out the other two.

[Jalapeñomel]

The Divergent Series

[panicked]

Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
Anything written by Jen Lancaster
Anything written by AJ Jacobs
Tears of My Soul by Kim Hyon Hui

[cbwm1]

The Fault In Our Stars
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Memoirs of a Geisha
Harry Potter

[dcannie]

oh, i love lord of the flies.

i like non-fiction/biography type stuff, so i don't know if that is your thing, but if so i like:

kitchen confidential and medium raw, both by bourdain

dancing in the glory of monsters: the collapse of the congo and the great war on africa

shake hands w/ the devil: the failure of humanity in rwanda

the bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing

one day i will write about this place: a memoir

don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an african childhood

outliers by malcolm gladwell

how we decide by jonah lehrer

quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by susan cain

almost all of augusten burroughs

[Deleted]

I just finished Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran and thought it was great.

[imoan]

It really depends on what you enjoy.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Anything by Augusten Burroughs
Anything by David Sedaris
Anything by Mary Roach

I'm reading East of Eden (John Steinbeck) right now (cheating on my challenge to do so)

[panicked]

Aug 22, 2012 18:30:57 GMT -5 dcannie said:

oh, i love lord of the flies.

i like non-fiction/biography type stuff, so i don't know if that is your thing, but if so i like:

kitchen confidential and medium raw, both by bourdain

dancing in the glory of monsters: the collapse of the congo and the great war on africa

shake hands w/ the devil: the failure of humanity in rwanda

the bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing

one day i will write about this place: a memoir

don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an african childhood

outliers by malcolm gladwell

how we decide by jonah lehrer

quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by susan cain

almost all of augusten burroughs

You and I should totes read together. We have very similar tastes!

[pantsparty]

I just went through a historical fiction phase. These were all great:

Molokai
Peony in Love
Shanghai Girls
Dreams of Joy
In the Garden of Beasts (non-fiction and very interesting)

I Am the Messenger was a great read. I'm still a little flipped by the ending, but a great read.

Currently reading Rules of Civility and it's fantastic!

[ElizabethBennet]

Thanks guys. A good portion of these I have read, but there are quite a few I will look into.

dcannie-I didn't dislike Lord of the Flies, but I didn't enjoy it either. Does that make sense? I got what the author was getting at, it was just weird to read/see kids devolve in such a way. I found it a tad frightening.

imoan- East of Eden was a book I enjoyed a lot!

[dcannie]

i am just bumping this b/c i want more book suggestions from people, too.

[Jalapeñomel]

I haven't been reading much lately, and I am not sure why. I need to get on that.

[snipsnsnails]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy or The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

[lemondrop]

Aug 22, 2012 18:16:18 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

11/22/63 - Stephen King
Molokai and Honolulu - Alan Brennert

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn is next on my list

I second Moloka'i. I've also really enjoyed Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, and A Thousand Spledid Suns by Khaled Hosseinei.

[dcannie]

Aug 23, 2012 7:53:41 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

I'm going to keep this list. This sounds like my kind of stuff. I just can't get it up for fiction lately.

Loved Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight!

me too. i've obviously been in an africa phase this year.

i also loved the post-american world by fareed zakaria.

[nahoku]

I always recommend Tana French if you like murder mysteries/suspense - In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor. The Likeness is my favorite, but will make more sense if you read them in the order I listed them (the characters are all interconnected but there is a new narrator/pov for each book).

I liked The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, Delirium and Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver were okay, I loved The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.

I agree with a lot of TR's suggestions, too. I really like Curtis Sittenfeld! I haven't read Man of My Dreams yet though.

[nahoku]

Oh, and I'm finally reading The Girl Who Played With Fire after reading Dragon Tattoo a couple of years ago. It took me forever to get into Dragon Tattoo but I loved it about halfway through. I haven't had this problem with the second book - it hooked me from the start.