Help recommend some books?

Question

im 43 an avid reader but have totally ran out of ideas on what to read next.read all different types of books hate crime and romance.dont like horror or sci ence fiction.reading zola at the moment help

Answer 1

Twilight series.  'Nuff said.

Answer 2

well my mums ur age i think and she really enjoyed reading "white mughals" and she still likes the adrian mole ones   =]

Answer 3

the twilight seriese

Answer 4

i enjoy reading jodi picoult books which are based on real life type scenerios but with twists i borrowed 1 and ended up buying 4 other ones.

my sisters keeper is my favourite

good luck hope you find something you like  

Answer 5

Any book by Derek Acorah Is absoloutely classic. It gives detailed information on the people who have passed to the spirit world.

Answer 6

A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving

The World According To Garp by John Irving

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The 148-Pound Marriage by John Irving

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Foulcard's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Magus by John Fowles

Answer 7

You can't go wrong with Bill Bryson, as suggested above.

Answer 8

I am 48 and also an avid reader!  Try some of these.

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Jane Eyre

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

Eragon series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Wuthering Heights

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, James Herbert Mike Gayle, Nicholas Sparks and Alexander McCall Smith

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

All the Harry Potter books

Answer 9

Try "Pillars of Earth" Ken Follett....its really cool historical fiction. Also try "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen "Centennial", "Space", "Chesapeake", by James Michner. If you want so heavier stuff try "Love in the time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or "The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy: Sexus, Nexus, Plexus" by Henry Miller.

Answer 10

Made in the USA by Billie Letts

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinksy

Family Tree by Barbara Delinksy

Domestic Unfairs by Eileen Goudge

Tribute by Nora Roberts

The Surrogate by Judith Henry Wall

Paper Hearts by Debrah Williamson

Singing With the Top Down by Debrah Williamson

The Dog Who Spoke With Gods by Diane Jessup

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

b*****d Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

A Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate

Penumbra by Carolyn Haines

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Town House by Tish Cowan

The Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

Them By Nathan McCall

The Girls by Lori Lansens     (about conjoined twins)

Elvis Takes a Backseat by Leanna Ellis

Almost Graceland by Steve Carlson

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes

Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell

Answer 11

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Anything by Thomas Hardy

Anything by John Steinbeck

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Answer 12

Sometimes this site can help... http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/searc...



What are your interests?  

American Library Association suggestions..

http://www.ala.org/ala/alalibrary/librar...

Answer 13

I recommend Darren Shan books (Cirque Du Freak ) is the first of a series, and (Lord Loss) is a different series *my fav >.< I'm not sure you may like it but twilight is a 4 book series, however,  the story is slow in my point of view, but you may like it <3    

Answer 14

anything by bill bryson

Answer 15

I'mm currently immersed in Hollywood Wives the new generation penned by Jackie Collins. Amazing ability to draw me in and actually really picture the scenes as they unfold. Also most Danielle steel books from 1992 to 2004 were classic in my opinion. Some Steel novels before and after this time period are worth a look but this era seemed to me to be her best. Happy reading !

Answer 16

Hmm.. Well I'm 13 and I was reading Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series and i thought it was amazing so i recommended it to my mum (whos your age) and she thought it amazing too.

Bill Brysons "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is good too.

And it goes without saying that the Twilight Series are the best books in the world but i think they are more suited to younger readers.

I know how you feel so i hope that helped. :)

Answer 17

This is a list of my favourites:

Fiction:

Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Justin Hogg

1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Way the Dead Live - Will Self

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Nice - Jen Sacks

An Instance of Fingerpost - Iain Pears

The Midwich Cuckoos & Day of the Triffids - John Wydham

The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

The English Passengers - Matthew Kneale

Death & the Penguin - Andrey Kurkev

The Way we Live Now - Anthony Trollope

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Brief & Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders

The Missing Piece - Shel Silverstein

Non-fiction

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang

The World We're In - Will Hutton

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser, the scariest book I have ever read.

The Riddle and The Knight - Giles Milton (anything by him)

Answer 18

An extremely good book 'Devil's Guard' by George Robert Elford. isbn 0-450-05447-0

'The brutal and shocking testament of a n**i mercenary'

'This is the first hand record of an unregenerate n**i who escaped the war crime trials in Europe after Worls War II and joined the French Foreign Legion.'

'Sent to Indochina to fight the Viet Minh, the German battalion shot, bombed, tortured and bayonetted the enemy.'

'Devil's Guard is one man's personal document of reprisals and counter-reprisals, of criminal violence on both sides, of outrages against humanity, of war at its rawest, cruellest and most greusome.'

Don't be put off by this. It really is a good read and gives some insight into the mind of a war-monger.