In need of a good read, suggestions please?

Question

Here are a few books i like

Sophie's choice

water for elephants

the kite runner

brave new world

Answer 1

I just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Judging by the depressing books you listed above, you would love this book. It has to do with a nuclear war aftermath and a father trying to keep his young son alive in a world where it doesn't' make much sense to even bother. The writing is so good I felt completely spent when I finished it.

Answer 2

Bats, Brats, and Stats - George Brennan, Jr.

Answer 3

You might like The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. And perhaps The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Answer 4

Series:

The Xenogenesis series by Octavia E. Butler

Dark Tower series by Stephen King

The Border Trilogy: (All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain) by Cormac McCarthy.

The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong by William Nicholson

Redwall series by Brain Jacques

Non Series:

Parable of the Sower  by Octavia E. Butler

The Pact by Jodi Picoult

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, and George Mouratidis

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Atonement by Ian Mcewan

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Postman by David Brin

What to Keep by Rachel Cline

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Vision Quest by Terry Davis

Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged by Rebecca Fjelland Davis

On Writing by Stephen King

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. d**k

Chick Lit:

Love the One You're With Hardcover by Emily Giffin

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Vampire:

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruze

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Life Force by Colin Wilson (Space Vampires)

Midnighters By Scott Westerfeld

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

The Beast Within by Edward Levi (vampireesq)

Exit to Eden by Anne Rampling

Communion by Whitley Strieber

I am Legend by Richard Matheson  

Answer 5

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This is a wonderful, powerful book about a 13-year-old girl who sues her parents for the rights to her own body. She does not want to donate a kidney to her dying sister.