Suggest a great book to read?

Question

I am looking for a good novel to read. I'm after something entertaining but is also a good novel.

By the way I have already read To Kill A Mockingbrid so dont suggest it.

Answer 1

Anything by Wilbur Smith. River God is my all time favourite as it has it all - adventure, s*x, power, magic. It's set in ancient egypt.  

Answer 2

Contemporary: The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini

Classic: The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Both are devilishly entertaining and very important books, also relating to some of the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Answer 3

Well, your question is a bit general, so I'm not sure what type of genre to recommend you.

Here are a few novels that will forever be considered "great" books.

1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

4. The Awakening, Kate Chopin

5. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

7. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

8. When the Legends Die, Hal Borland

9. Dracula, Bram Stoker

10. Wicked, Gregory Maguire

11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

12. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

13. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

14. The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle

15. Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

16. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happy reading! Those are a few suggestions, but I hope they interest you

Answer 4

What I'm reading - the Great Gatsby by W.Fitzgerald

Answer 5

Crime stories: "Drowned Hopes" or "Good Behavior" by Donald Westlake; "Eight Million Ways To Die" by Lawrence Block;  and "The Ghostway" by Tony Hillerman.

Action-adventures: Clive Cussler's "Sahara;"  Alexander Dumas' " The Three Musketteers" or Douglas Preston's "The Codex."  

Sci-Fi:  Frank Herbert's "Dune,"  Robert Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" and Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game."

Suspense: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs "Dance Of Death" and "Book Of The Dead."

Humor: Tim Dorsey's "Cadillac Beach" (strictly for adults only), Carl Hiaasen's "Skinny Dip" (mature themes again), and Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal!" and "The Truth" if you don't mind some fantasy.

Answer 6

twilight saga

bloody jack series

Answer 7

The Hearts A Lonely Hunter

The Great Gatsby

Lord Of The Flies

1984

Sophie's World

Animal Farm

Answer 8

Well, let's see.

I personally like:

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's a post-9/11 story about a boy who searches all around New York for the lock that fits a key his late father once owned. I like this, his second novel, much better than...

"Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer. About a young man, also named Jonathan Safran Foer, goes looking for the woman who saved his grandfather's life from the n***s.

"Vile Bodies" by Evelyn Waugh (who is, in fact, a man). This book is a satire of high society young people in the 1920s. It follows a man named Adam Fenwick-Symes, 35 thousand pounds, and an assortment of other odd characters.

"Empire of the Sun" by JG Ballard. Mostly-fictional story of an English boy named Jim trapped in a POW camp in WWII China.

"Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy. About a young man named Jude, who loves his cousin, Sue, and she loves him too and it just grows complicated from there.

"Crusade in Jeans" by it-escapes-me-at-the-moment-who. About a young boy who volunteers to try out a time machine and ends up getting stuck in 1212 during the German children's crusade.

Answer 9

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is fantastic for entertainment.

Catch 22 is great once you realize that anything the narrator tells you will automatically be contradicted.

As I lay Dying by William Faulkner is one of my all time faves. The Chapter where a woman watches her own coffin being made caused me to miss my bus-stop. Absalom Absalom is also great.

You might have already read Catcher in the Rye, if you haven't I suggest you do. People have a very visceral reaction to it. If you like it Rule of the Bone is very good.

Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World are also worth the time.

Answer 10

The best novel i ever read is: Les Miserables, Treasure Island,David Copperfield,Tom Swayer, Huckleberry Fin

Best series: Harry Potter

Answer 11

1. Try the epics (Iliad, Odyssey, Lord of the Rings)

2. Any Stephen King book

3. If you're into suspense/thriller, Dan Brown or John Grisham books

4. Any of the classics actually

Answer 12

U HAVE TO READ THE TWILIGHT SAGA!!!! EVERY SINGLE BOOK IS SOOO GOOD U WONT BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN!!! IVE ALREADY READ THEM ALL TWICE!!

Answer 13

A StreetCar Named desire

Answer 14

War of the Worlds-H.G.Wells

1984-George Orwell

Animal Farm-George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

Frakenstein-Mary Shelly

The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R.Tolkien

The Hobbit-J.R.R.Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S.Lewis

The Cosmic Trilogy-C.S.Lewis

You can get most if not all of these books at your local library, and if you can't for one reason or another than check out this online library www.truly-free.org . It's legal.

Enjoy and good luck.

Answer 15

Twilight Saga

Percy Jackson and The Olympians

Any Jane Austen books

Vampire Diaries

Harry Potter (if you haven't already)

Cecelia Ahern books

Answer 16

"Hidden Camera," Zoran Zivkovic,

"Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians," Brandon Sanderson,

"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis,

"West with the Night," Beryl Markham (not a novel, but great adventure literature), and

"The Long Walk," Slavomir Rawicz.