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Question: Good books and authors?
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Answer #1:
I recently read the Twilight Saga on holiday, and I have to say it was brilliant. For all ages, male and female. Author - Stephanie Mayer. Hope this helps, enjoy!
Answer #2:
awe, I'm sorry to hear that you are in hospital.
But I love to read and can reccommend a lot of books. :)
A few fantasy based ones:
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
*follows the story of 17 year old Bella Swan as she falls for vampire Edward Cullen and the struggles they must overpass to be together*
The House Of Night Novels by P.C and Kristen Cast
*Zoey Redbird is marked by a Vampyre and must go to the House of night in order to survive and learn the ways of a vampyre. It follows her as she makes new friends and tries to fit in, but the Goddess Nyx has made her special and it is her that must help when the light is tainted with darkness and no one can tell good from evil. Very good. I am addicted to these books*
Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith
*Teenagers with special abilities must come together at the ring of fire*
The 13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison
*There are secrets that her grandmother is keeping from her. Based on the changlings myth. Very good *
Knife by R.J Anderson.
*Knife is a faerie that falls for a human. Loved this book*
The Discworld Novels by Terry Prachett
*Captivating and hillarious at times from the genius. About a place called the discworld which is a fantasy land held up by giant elphants standing on the back of the ancient turtle*
The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
*Harry Potter's parents were killed by Lord Voldermort when he was a child, now he is learning to be a wizard and discovering that he is famous. He must defeat the evil lord as he rises once more. *
The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
*Set in the past. Her and her grandmother are magical midwives, helping the mortal and and supernatural. But when disaster strikes, what will Nel do?*
other kinds of books that I love are:
The confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Renninson
*Follows the story of Georgia Nicolson as she suffers teen dramas and boyfriends. Very funny and good*
The bad mothers handbook by Kate Long
*The story of charlotte, her mother and her grandmother. Keeping secrets and babies at a young age. It's a charming book and I strongly recommend it.*
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
*A classic*
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
*Another classic. I fell in love with this one when we read it in school ages ago. a real page turner*
Answer #3:
Greg Iles is a good author, read some of his books
Answer #4:
Well if you work in a hospital.
Try Stephen Kings "Duma Key."
It's about a man who loses an arm in a construction
site accident, and take his rehab down in the Florida Keys,
only to find out, he has more than one talent with
his other arm. <}:-})
Answer #5:
hey,
dont know if you've tried the cherub series by robert muchamore its based on children being used as spies, many of them have "missions" which are based around crimes
if you like true crime stories then you might like fred and rose west it's a story as i'm sure you've guessed about fred and rose west
Answer #6:
Try these authors-
Meg Cabot
Alice Hoffman
Malorie Blackman
Stephen King
Philip Pullman
Helen Fielding
Happy reading :)
Answer #7:
Kevin Brooks' books are geat. :D
Answer #8:
This is a list of my favourites:
Fiction:
Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Justin Hogg
1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Way the Dead Live - Will Self
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Nice - Jen Sacks
An Instance of Fingerpost - Iain Pears
The Midwich Cuckoos & Day of the Triffids - John Wydham
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
Death & the Penguin - Andrey Kurkev
The Way we Live Now - Anthony Trollope
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Brief & Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders
The Missing Piece - Shel Silverstein
Non-fiction
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
The World We're In - Will Hutton
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser, the scariest book I have ever read.
The Riddle and The Knight - Giles Milton (anything by him)
For great comic novels, you should try Terry Prachetts Discworld series starting with The Colour of Magic
Answer #9:
Not a crime orientated work but Naval WW2 stories. Read anything by Douglas Reeman. I read the first one because there was nothing else to read although I did not usually like that type of story but once I had started to read it I could not put it down. Hope you get better soon.
Answer #10:
I wrote a very long answer I was very proud of, but my internet crashed, so here goes again.
Crime related I'd recommend anything by John Grisham. Grisham focuses on the law and loopholes in the law, but for readers who like me know nothing about american law and don't understand all the legalities, Grisham doesn't patronise us by explaining it as to a three year old, but he must be doing something right because I never felt lost or confused and always knew what was going on. I'd recommend starting with The Partner. The twists and turns can never be foreseen, but as with Jodi Picoult books, after about 10books by the same author, you recognise the formula. I'd still recommend Grisham though.
I personally think he beats Dan Brown hands down.
Something close to Jodi Picoult, I'd say the book Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes. It is saddening, and would be loved by anyone who's read P.S. I Love You. I personally think, out of all Keye's novels, Anybody Out There is her best and although some of the characters appear in other novels, you don't have to have read them.
Because we all need some comedy, I'd recommend Sophie Kinsella, a chick lit writer but oh so hilarious. She wrote the shopaholic series (the movie does not do it justice), but I'd recommend reading Remember Me or Undomestic Goddess first to see her writing at her best.
Khaled Housseini I'd recommend to anyone. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a set in Afghanistan and focuses on two females who both lead different lives, but their lives intertwine and the horror they are subjected to by society, the Taliban, tradition and their own family. It's a book that exposes another culture without blackening it's name. His second novel, The Kite Runner, is set in war-torn Afghanistan, roughly around the same time as his first novel, but with different characters, this time two males, from different classes of society. Both will move your heart.
Happy reading :)
Answer #11:
Jim Butcher has two very good ongoing series. One is the Dresden Files, about a wizard living in modern day Chicago - it's a view of the more brutal side of magic - the main character, Harry Dresden, usually ends up battered, beaten and bruised. There are vampires, demons, and interclan warfare.
His other series is more traditional fantasy - the Codex Alera series. This has a strong influence from traditional Rome, with reference to centurions, Princeps, and names such as Septimus, Gaius Sextus and Octavian.
I've found both to be very enjoyable.
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