Could you please let me know which books you've recently read and loved?
Looking for a new book to read! Thank you.
Just finished 2 books. first one was a sequal to "a child called it" it was called the Lost boy. I cried off and on all the way through both of them
the other book was called "the same kind of different as me"
I'm reading the Hangmans Daughter. It's dark, for sure, but good. I've also read Slammed and Point of Retreat (it's sequel) - light but good. I liked the Grey series (so sue me) and plan to read Stephen King's 11/22/63 which I've heard is good. I also liked his Under the Dome.
We just read Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt in our book club. It was different than our typical book club books, and I really liked it.
I love anything by Mary Higgins Clark.
The Stormchasers, by Jenna Blum.
Not sure what kind of books you like but the best book I've ever read was Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I couldnt put it down! I'm a non-fiction reader. I'm currently reading The Letter by Marie Tillman. It's pretty good and a quick read.
The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
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I see a lot of fiction listed, which I love. I really like the mysteries and detective series - Kellerman (both of them), Sue Grafton, P Cornwell.
If you like non-fiction, I just read The Warmth of Other Suns about the 60+ years of the Great Migration of African Americans out of the south. It's told essentially in the profile of 3 people and their families so it reads like a novel - but it's true. Author won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Other Boleyn Girl
Glass Castle
Anything by the author Ken Follet
This Much I know is True or any book by Wally Lamb
Picking Cotten
A Juniper through the Cracks (only available on the Kindle. I downloaded it for free and I feel like I should should send the author $20 because I LOVED this book so much. Fyi... It was the author Wayne Purdy's first book).
The Hangman's Daughter and the Pillars of the Earth/World Without End books by Ken Follet are fairly similar in setting. I enjoyed all three.
I also like anything by James Lee Burke or Michael Connelly.
Some of my favorite historical fiction:
The Terror (by Dan Simmons)
The Glorious Cause (Jeff Shaara)
To the Last Man (Jeff Shaara)
The Rising Tide (Jeff Shaara)
The Steel Wave (Jeff Shaara)
Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
Faded Coat of Blue (Owen Parry) --or any of the other novels in the Abel Jones series (Shadows of Glory, Call Each River Jordan, Honor's Kingdom, Bold Sons of Erin, Rebels of Babylon)
Also,
The Last Child (John Hart)
and any of the novels by William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Saving the Queen, Stained Glass, Marco Polo, if You Can; High Jinx; Mongoose, R.I.P.; See You Later Alligator; Who's on First---basically, the Blackford Oakes series)
Depends on your genre.
I love mysteries and thrillers:
Anything Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs (the TV show, Bones," is based on her books), and am now into James Gripando, another thriller writer.
In my medical thriller phase, I conquered many Robin Cook novels and F. Paul Wilson books.
I'm also venturing into nonfiction and waiting for my copy of Steve Jobs to arrive at my library!
Just finished Gone Girl, loved it. Also like Kristen Hannah (Firefly Lane and Home Front). Sophie Kinsella (shopaholic series, twenties girl). Celia Ahern, Katie Fford, are a few of my fave authors.
I am just finishing Stephen King 11/22/63. I loved the Dark Tower/Gunslinger Series, and have the new one, The Wind Through the Keyhole to read next. I read the Twilight Saga this summer and am reading The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner right now. Last summer I really enjoyed Ken Follett Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. I've also got a couple of Dean Koontz waiting, the last two of the Frankenstein series, and What the Night Knows. World War Z, The Road, and The Passage were all great reads.
