Book recommendations

[snookersfun]

What was the last good book you’ve all read. I am a bit of a bookworm and would love to get some recommendations.

Here are some of mine: (will probably expand on it later on)

I just reread ‘The Green Mile’ – obviously great
A real good one a while ago was ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini
‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel was also quite different.
I just love ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and all the Harry Potters, can’t wait for the last to come out.

[Mitsuko]

Battle Royale

[April madness]

have to think... the last I really liked was 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco, and surprisingly good translation into Latvian. and in English 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey, I guess it's already classics

[berolina]

Last book I read was Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, brilliant book. Better than the last Artemis Fowl story.
I also like Terry Pratchett (saw him at a reading recently), Agatha Christie, whodunnits, Indian authors like Vikram Seth etc., Walter Moers' stories of Zamonia and Ralf König's comics and lots more which I can't think of right now.

[April madness]

Yeah, Agatha Christie is my favourite too. And another lady in that field - Elizabeth George, I read her books sometimes.

[snookersfun]

Last book I read was Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, brilliant book. Better than the last Artemis Fowl story.
I also like Terry Pratchett (saw him at a reading recently), Agatha Christie, whodunnits, Indian authors like Vikram Seth etc., Walter Moers' stories of Zamonia and Ralf König's comics and lots more which I can't think of right now.

Vikram Seth- A Suitable Boy I really enjioyed it
also Arundhati Roy - The God of Small things (You got to love the title)
Terry Pratchett, not bad either-I read the Amazing Maurice
I think I also have all the Grishams

[Skypigeon]

I LOVE crime novels...I read a lot of other stuff too but crime's the best...I very rarely read in Swedish....I have a thing fort the English language and it's a very good way to keep up with it, so I read in English. Also I have started listening to crime on audio...so now I have one book on my bedside table and anothjer in my mp3 player hahah..
I really like Kathy Reichs's novels about Dr Brennan...mostly because they are the real deal...Kathy Reichs is herself a forensic pathologist specialised in bones, so she REALLY knows what she's talking about...
at the moment I'm reading Karin Slaughter's first novel "Blindsighted" and listening to John Sandford's 3rd about Lucas Davenport...Love the Davenport novels..and I'm sure I'll read all 16 of them hahah!!

[Jay1]

Big fan of crime novels here too. Anything by Jeffrey Deaver is good. Just read a couple of Michael Connely books too which were very very good

[berolina]

Vikram Seth- A Suitable Boy I really enjioyed it
also Arundhati Roy - The God of Small things (You got to love the title)

Read both of them, too.

Terry Pratchett, not bad either-I read the Amazing Maurice

Try The Wee Free Men by Pratchett.

[Nina]

"The God of small things" is one of my favourites too, I am also a Gabriel Garcia Marquez fan, "One hundred years of solitude" is a classic and I love "Of love and other demons" and "Love in the time of cholera".

[Obligation]

Cliche coming up:

The Da Vinci Code


...and all other book by Dan Brown

[dannyd0g]

Some of my favourite reads that come to mind are Sheep by Simon Maginn, Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg, and Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.

[snookersfun]

Some of my favourite reads that come to mind are Sheep by Simon Maginn, Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg, and Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.

these sound good, didn't read any of them. Will check them out soon...
and Obli - the DaVinci code was a good read as well, you are right

[PaulTheSoave]

I read Digital fortress (Dan Brown). Garbage!

[Ellena]

Hmm..i also vote for Marquez & Umberto Eco . But my fav ever was and always will be James Clavell. Between Shogun and Tai-Pan i can't decide which of them i loved more .