I need some new reading material for this summer...?

Question

Any ideas?

I like most everything and anything :)

Answer 1

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series is a pretty good read combining wizards and hard-boiled detectives in a modern setting.

Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality are all really good reads.

Cabal by Clive Barker is a great read.

Dante's Divine Comedy is interesting, if you have never given it a go.

Answer 2

How much Machiavelli have you read? The Prince is pretty good.  I also recommend "What Went Wrong" by Bernard Lewis.

Answer 3

"How I Paid for College" and the sequel, "Attack of the Theater People" by Marc Acito.

Answer 4

My favorite book of all time is The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. If you like depressing books this is the one for you!

I also like Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. This is about a prostitute in the 1850's gold mining towns out west. It is really good.

Answer 5

how about Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr? It's a classic.

Answer 6

I agree with the poster that suggested the titles by Margaret Atwood. She's excellent. I also suggest any book written by Anita Shreve such as Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, etc. Neither of these authors will disappoint you.

Answer 7

I've just finished reading 'Be mine tonight' by kathryn smith. It was good fun, a romantic slightly erotic book. I'd recommend it. But the best written book is misery by stephen king.

Horror: misery

mystery: rebecca

romance:be mine tongith

scary!: secret of crickley hall

Answer 8

Do you like good literature?... It depends what you like....

'The blind assassin', 'alias grace', 'the edible woman', all by Margaret Atwood are very good books. 'Atonement' by Ian McKewin (spelling?) is one of the best books I've ever read. Classics are great, like Pride and Prejudice & Emma by Jane Austen are good too......

More mainstream stuff like 'The Power of One', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', and 'Middlesex' are all good books that are ard to put down......

Answer 9

Playing For Pizza by John Grisham. I flipped through the first few pages and it looks pretty good, and definitely lighter than his usual stuff.

Answer 10

Read James Patterson yet?  His Alex Cross series is pretty good and it's light enough for summer.

Lol ya like him to Kiss The Girls I first read when I was 16...whole scene with the snake still freaks me out just to think of it!

ummmmm....read a lot as well but I'm kinda on a historical kick. Everything I've been reading in the last year has been 100 plus years old.  Which isnt really "light summer" reading...but I'd be happy to list names if you like.

Answer 11

You know - I like Patterson but not too many of his series. Have you read Judge & Jury? It's totally beach-side reading. I think there is another one out in trade paperback called The Quickie. I want to read that.

I'm into history right now, and really like Russian history. I really want this book called a Russian Diary, about a journalist who actually gets killed while trying to expose Putin's hypocrisy of the Russian people and their freedoms.

http://www.robertamsterdam.com/polit0622...

Answer 12

All my books are war novels but, a good one since the movie 300 was based off it.  Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield.

Answer 13

If you enjoy comedy and fantasy, read anything by Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore or Christopher Buckley.

If dark fantasy is your thing, try Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods or Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

I also found We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver fascinating if you're looking for something intense.  Ditto for The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

Answer 14

Want some really well done and creative fantasy with an erotic bend?

Try the Black Jewels Trilogy of books by Anne Bishop. I guarantee you'll call in sick to work at least one day.

Answer 15

I just finished "Oh! The Places You'll Go" and "Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss. Thinking of starting "Where the Wild Things Are".

Answer 16

I see you are not receiving any substantive suggestions.

I suggest you read the collected papers of Robert Trivers.

" Natural Selection and Social Theory "

A must read for any biology student.