Ok, so, my faaaaaavorite used book store is going out of business. :’(
They are having a huge going out of business sale starting this week, and I’d like to use the opportunity to buy books that I wouldn’t have considered buying before, in a variety of different genres.
The genres I’m looking for include (but are not limited to):
Regular Fiction
Comedy
Historical Fiction
Classics
Suspense / Horror
Fantasy
Etc…
Please name your favorite authors, the genre he or she writes in, and a few of their best books (in your opinion). The only restrictions I have are:
A. No science fiction. None.
B. No cheesy romance (a la Nicholas Sparks.) I like romance as long as it is not the main story line of the book.
C. I’m not really looking for the James Patterson-type “thriller”… I went through a phase of those and have grown a little tired of them.
Thank you all so much!
I’m 25 and enjoy books that are aimed towards adults.
Suzanne
Tags: Best Books, Comedy, Genres
Twilight!!!!!! I love it
i dont know how old u are or how sophisticated u like books to be but here are some good ones
Flush- by carl hiaasen
No more dead dogs - by gordon korman
crash - by jerry spinelli
sand dollar summer
chasing vermeer
absolutely normal chaos - by sharon creech
walk two moons - by sharon creech
the seven professors of the north
the harry potter books
The shwa was here
Well, obviously I’m going to recommend the Harry Potter series!
I also really love:
The Giver by Lois Lowry (it’s amazing!!)
(its about a society that everything is controlled and nobody every feels any emotion except one person, The Giver.)
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
(About three children who become orphans and are chased by a villian who’s trying to take their fortune that they will inherit once they eldest turns 18. The villian uses disguises throughout the series to try and capture them. The story is written very well, and its out of the ordinary).
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
(it’s about four girls who are completely different, ones a beautiful blonde, ambitious soccer athlete, ones a Greek artist (painter), ones kinda gothic and loves videotaping and filmogrpahy, and ones a fashionista and it’s about their lives growing up together, and they find a pair of pants that somehow fits all their body types (short, tall, fat, skinny))
TTYL by Lauren Myracle
TTFN by Lauren Myracle
L8R, G8R by Lauren Myracle
(This is a series, written completely in text message format between for girls, it’s a stor of their life)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
It’s amazing. If you’ve seen and liked the movie Pride and Prejudice or the movie Becoming Jane, I guarantee you’ll love this book. It’s a bit harder to read though then most.
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
(A town hero comes up with the sentence “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog” (containing every letter in the alphabet). When he dies, they create a statue of the man, and place this sentence on it. When the letter Z falls of the word “Lazy” the leader of the place takes it as a message from the grave and bans the use of the letter Z forever. Nobody in the town can use the letter Z in speech or in writing ever again, and so throughout the rest of the book, the letter Z does not reappear. Then, another letter falls down, and another and it keeps going, and each time, they are banned as well. it’s extremely interesting).
I never read it but everyone I ever met recommends the Twilight series
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
City Of Bones series by Cassandra Clare
Daughter of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Dark Tower serires by Stepehn King
The Border Trilogy: (All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain) by Cormac McCarthy.
Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R Tolkien
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
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Atonement by Ian Mcewan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Stick by Elmore Leonard
What to Keep by Rachel Cline
The Lizards Tail by Marc Brandel
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Vision Quest by Terry Davis
On Writing by Stepehen King
Fire Starter by Stephen King (more thriller than horror)
Blue Is for Nightmares By Laurie Faria Stolarz
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Regular Fiction
Hal Borland When the Legend Dies
John Knowles A Separate Peace
Comedy
Robert Aspirin Another Fine Myth - MYTH Series (You have to like puns.)
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (British Humor)
Historical Fiction
Colleen McCulloughThe First Man in Rome
Alexandre Dumas, filsCamille (La Dame Aux Camilias)
Max Allan Collins True Detective
Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose
Classics
Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises
Somerset MaughamThe Razor’s Edge
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise
J.D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye
Harper LeeTo Kill A Mockingbird
Suspense/ Horror
Barry EislerHard Rain (John Rain Series)
John GrishamThe Firm
The Runaway Jury
Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronical Series)
Fantasy
George R. R. MartinA Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice series)
Robert JordanThe Eye of the World (Wheel of Time Series)
Terry GoodkindWizard’s First Rule (The Sword of Truth Series)
Jim ButcherStorm Front (The Dresden File novels)
Other
John FeinsteinSeason on the Brink, Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today’s NFL
David McCullough1776
Here’s some more. I tried to keep them fairly recent (except for the classics). In the case of series, I just listed the first Exceptions: Disk World as there are so many, and Paladin of Souls, (2nd book in a series) as it won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Go ahead and buy the whole series if the books are cheap enough.
Regular Fiction
Andrea Barrett
Servants of the Map: Stories
Comedy
Terry Pratchett
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Making Money: A Discworld Novel
Jingo: A Discworld Novel
Monstrous Regiment: A Discworld Novel
Historical Fiction
Marge Piercy
Gone To Soldiers
Classics
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Suspense / Horror
Sarah Monette
The Bone Key
Fantasy
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Curse of Chalion
Paladin of Souls — winner of both Hugo & Nebula awards
Sean Stewart
Perfect Circle (could be “light” horror instead of Fantasy)
Kim Harrison
Dead Witch Walking (Rachel Morgan/The Hollows, Book 1)
Naomi Novik
His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Tad Williams
The War Of The Flowers
China Miéville
Un Lun Dun
I can only tell you what some of my fav auths are;
Catherine Coulter (FBI series) - really good
Christine Feehan (Ghost Walker series)
Stephen King (for me anything written by him is good)
Nora Roberts
Sandra Brown
and since finding the Yasmine G. books I’ve been hooked