♥ Miss Miami ♥ asked:
i love fiction, especially “chick lit,” i also want to read some good mystery novels…i like biographies if they’re really interesting…i don’t like science fiction or anything fantasy-like…i want to read some of the classics…i’m a psychology major so if you know of any books that also deal with that subject area and are interesting please add it to the list…tell me the titles and authors
i love fiction, especially “chick lit,” i also want to read some good mystery novels…i like biographies if they’re really interesting…i don’t like science fiction or anything fantasy-like…i want to read some of the classics…i’m a psychology major so if you know of any books that also deal with that subject area and are interesting please add it to the list…tell me the titles and authors
thanx! =]
Renee
Tags: Lit, Mystery Novels, Subject Area
If you like chicklit, then the Shopaholic books are a must. Very entertaining. There is also “Can you keep a secret?” from the same author. The Nanny Diaries was ok, but I had a hard time getting into it. “Diary of a Mad Bride-to-be” and “Diary of a Mad Mommy-to-be” were also very good reads!
Good mysteries? I like the non-DaVinci Code Dan Brown books. Steve Berry is also a good author.
Read My Year of Meats
Ya Ya Sisterhood
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Try the Bell Jar
read the biography of Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser (in fact check out a lot her biographies, they focus mainly on women)
Right now my favorite author is Jodi Picoult. She has written
Songs of the Humpback Whale
My Sisters Keeper
The Tenth Circle
Vanishing Acts
Among others. She really questions the way we think, and has made me stop and think about how I view the world. I hope you enjoy her too!
Try ‘Love in the Asylum’ I know it sounds strange, but it’s an excellent book, especially for a psych major
Oh anything by Jodi Picoult is fantastic, also there are SO many great memoirs out there that would probably interest the part of you that majored in psychology, such as the “Girl named Zippy” books or anything by Laurie Norato. Oh and you MUST read “Bitter is the New Black” laugh out loud funny.
If you haven’t read all of Jane Austen’s work, those are a great place to start. I’m really fond of Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody Mysteries - Turn of the previous century archaeologists in Egypt, mystery, romance, adventure, very witty and amusing. The first in that series is _Crocodile on the Sandbank_.
For non fiction, try The Power of Positive Confrontation. Sorry, I don’t know the author offhand, but it’s awesome.
Also, for biographies, try the autobio of Rosa Parks.
For fiction, I recommend:
Marley and Me by Grogan
Emily Ever After by Dayton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
The Day of the Storm by Pilcher
Girl of the Limberlost by Porter
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
The Locket by Evans
All the Way Home by Tatlock
Happy Reading!
The Pleasing Hour by Lily King, The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler, and
Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
I believe you would enjoy all of them.
Forever by Judy Blume its a really good book but it might make you cry!
i highly recommend anything by james patterson or john saul.james patterson try the maximum ride series
jamespatterson.com
also try johnsaul.com
i say read the perfet nightmare or blackcreek crossing ,darkness or creature
james patterson’s cradle and all or the alex cross series
oh also try frank perreti’s monster or house they sre pretty good.
Read all the four books of Dan Brown
they are worth it.
Dan Brown’s books- and if U like mystery, read Agatha Cristy’s books!
Nina, if you want a true story of history one classic is “The Alexiad” By princess Anna Comnena. Its about the first crusade and the wars the greeks were fighting at those times. This is the true story written by the Byzantine Princess in 1180. It’s pretty graphic in its descriptions and it was written in greek and the translation is modern english so it doesn’t sound old. It’s pretty good.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
A Theory of Personality by George Kelly
Anais Nin, A Biography by Dierdre Bair
Dream Catcher, by Margaret Salinger (about her dad, JD)
Chick-Lit/Mysteries:
Diane Mott Davidson has a series of “Culinary Mysteries,” which are, sort of, mystery novel/cookbook combos.
Janet Evanovich has a popular numbered series, but be warned, the author cusses like a drunken sailor.
For heavier, non-chicklit mysteries, try anything by Michael Connelly.
A classic must-read book relating to psychology is
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
Happy reading.
I love Sophie Kinsela’s novels (confession of a shopaholic)
Jane Green
Megan McCafferty is one of my favorites as well (Sloppy First, Second Helpings, Charmed thirds) The series are about Jessica Darling, neurotic and hilarious character. I love how she thinks and i laugh out loud at most parts of the books.
You got to try *** with the Queen ,
follow-up to her bestselling *** with Kings by Eleanor Herman. It explores the escapades, affairs of queens like Marie Antoinette, Princes Diana, etc. Its a very fun read. Interesting bits about our ever royal queens that isnt written in our textbooks.
Any of the Kay Scarpetta novels by Patricia Cornwell. They are great mystery novels. I wouldn’t call them classics, but they are very good. Also, the Sue Grafton detective/mystery novels are excellent.
you have to red Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elizabeth Peters writes an excellent mystery. So does Lillian Jackson Braun, Anne Perry, and Carola Dunn. Check out their books. ***** lit that is a mystery.
try James Patterson, main character is a psy. teacher and detective
Hello!
I have three books to recommend to you. My criterea is that all three have a great deal to reveal about human nature and motives. As a psychology major, you should find them fascinating. The first two do involve suspense, although I would not label them as mysterious. When I read them, I thought, these books would make excellent films. Both did come out as films within a couple of years, but neither movie lived up to the book.
The third is by the author of Ordinary People, but is far superior to that book in my opinion. I do not know that Judith Guest would describe her book this way, but I would say that it is an excellent study of the hell that a family goes through when it does not have a belief system to rely on and is not in the habit of communicating about feeling, and death unexpectly takes a parent at age 38. Ms. Guest definitely has an excellent grasp of child psychology at elementary, middle school and high school stages as exemplified in this novel. All three of these are worth your time. Snow Falling on Cedars is my favorite, and I keep checking the shelves of bookstores for more from Guterson.
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Errands by Judith Guest
In ***** Lit, I would suggest The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, and the Gossip Girl series.
I guess the book that becca7396 is referring to, is the following:
ASYLUM
by Patrick McGrath
“McGrath (Dr. Haggard’s Disease) has a mind that revels in the toxic side of things. The toxicity comes from obsessional love. Stella Raphael is the lovely but dissatisfied wife of Max, a resident psychiatrist at an asylum for the criminally insane in the countryside near London. She becomes infatuated with Edgar Stark, a sculptor who murdered and mutilated his wife in a delusion attack, and the two contrive a passionate affair when Edgar is assigned to work in the Raphaels’ garden on the asylum grounds. Stealing Max’s clothes, Edgar escapes to London and goes underground, where Stella eventually follows him….”
As a matter of fact, that’s exactly what I’m reading right now..
Cheers