What is a good book? I'm looking for something new to read...?

Question

Not Twilight... I've read that

Not Harry Potter... I've read that

I really like Paullina Simons and Nick Hornby, but I've read pretty much everything they have out.

I guess I'm pretty open to reading anything... no spoilers please, but tell me what makes it good.

Answer 1

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen.  It's a cute love story but not completely cliche.  It's pretty good.

If you liked Twilight, the Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, etc. books by P.C. and Kristin Cast are good.  As well as The Vampire Diaries by Smith.

If you want to go for something a little different, the book Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is really good.  It's a bunch of little stories by him that are absolutely hilarious.

Answer 2

The Revolution...by Dr. Ron Paul

Answer 3

My favourite book series is Monster Blood Tattoo.

1st book is Founling

2nd book is Lamplighter

Rossamünd Bookchild, a foundling from the city of Boschenburg, has lived his entire life at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society For Foundling Boys And Girls, learning the ways of life upon the sea so one day he can begin a career as a vinegaroon (sailor) in the Empire's service. Rossamünd's only friends are the dormitory masters Fransitart and Craumpalin, and the parlour-maid Verline, of the Marine Society - the other foundlings only bully him for his feminine name.

Much to Rossamünd's surprise, instead of a sailing life he is summoned to begin life as a lamplighter in the coastal city of High Vesting, far away to the south.

Rossamünd goes on a journey to the fortress of Winstermill where he is to begin his training for becoming a lampligher. But many obstacles and strange people are met on his way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Blo...

Answer 4

The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden

Answer 5

Try some of these!

Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

Adult

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

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

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

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

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

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

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

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Answer 6

ender's game by orson scott card

give a boy a gun by todd strasser

Answer 7

try robert jordan's wheel of time series. it really draws you in. but there are about 10 or so books in the series so far and 1 or 2 are kind of snoozers but all in all very good sf.  

Answer 8

^^^ My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is great actually.

It's about a girl, Kate, with Leukemia and her sister Anna who was conceived to be a perfect bone marrow donor for Kate.

But here's the good part : Anna is suing her parents for the right of her own body which means she wants to stop being a donor for Kate.

Answer 9

As a girl- My sisters keeper- It has a huge twist at the end.

Answer 10

The action/thriller BLOOD PROPHECY has:

Changelings, shape-shifters, scaly snakemen, a rat/man hybrid, Vlad the Impaler, flying batmen, Van Helzing, MAN-EATING SPIDERS, a wyvern dragon, werewolves and more . . . .

If you to read something that you won't be able to put down, check out: Blood Prophecy!

Answer 11

The Dune books by Frank Herbert are good, completely sci-fi with a lot of political tones. I had to read the first one three times before I decided I liked it.

Anything by Piers Anthony, the guy has a wicked sense of humor, very punny.

Susan Cooper has a set of books called "The Dark is Rising" series. All about the battle between good and evil, if you don't mind reading books meant for 11-15 (or so) year olds.

Dave Pelzer "A Child Called It" True story about his life as a child. Very brutal. If you read the first one you have to read the other two books as well "The Lost Boy" and "A Man Named Dave".

My absolute favorite for all time Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. I know it's a kids story, I don't care. Get a hold of an unabridged copy if you can.