Looking for a Good Book to Read - Roselle,IL

My favorite authors are Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Robert Ludlum, and Danielle Steele. Spooks, spies, and strong women!

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What are your tastes? What have you read in the past and really liked? That might help direct us in an area that you might find appealing.

For me, I like historical fiction, especially about foreign countries. For this reason I LOVED "Love in the Time of Cholera."

I also love the Jane Austen books--Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.

Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons."

CS Lewis's the Screwtape Letters

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I just finished The Help about black maids in the '60's and the families they cared for. It's a great read, historical, yet fiction. Check it out at your library. I really liked it.

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For you or to kids? If for you there are so many (i read constantly) one that made a good impression is water for elephants, the road leading south, Velva Jean learns to drive...you should probably give a little more information.

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No one has mentioned Jody Picolt. Don't know if I spelled her last Name correctly but I really like her books. One is My Sisters Keeper. Really, Really good.

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The Help-Kathryn Stockett

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson

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hi there
I recently read , "The Shack" it's on Amazon.. check it out. it was really good..
I finished it in 1 1/2 days.... normally, I kinda take my time with books.. but that one was good from the get go... Also, " She's Come Undone" I remember being quite good...

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Intellectual and historical---Liberty & Tyranny

Other--Davinci Code

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Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Hi! What kind of books do you like?

I enjoy some of Jennifer Weiner's books. Specifically, "Good In Bed" (no, not a book about sex), "In Her Shoes," and for a terrific Mommy perspective, "Little Earthquakes."

Last summer I was stunned by how much I enjoyed, "Belong To Me," by Marisa De Los Santos. The writing is intelligent and the story development was really interesting and fun (with one sad part thrown in)!

I stay away from Vampire/Twilight stuff, mysteries and romance novels.

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I recently read a series by Karen Kingsbury called Redemption Series. These are christian based books and they are really good. There are several different series that follow the Redemption Series. I absolutely loved these books and couldn't put them down.

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I was also going to suggest The Help and Water for Elephants too! Both are awesome! If you want something a little more mindless go for the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich as well as Twilight. Midwives is also one of my faves, it's by Chris Bohjalian. I've read some of his other stuff and I felt that none of it really met the standard of Midwives, though. For something really awesome, but kinda long (although well, well worth it) is Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True. He has a new one about Columbine and I didn't love it. In fact, I wouldn't really recommend it, but the other two are awesome! Jodi Picoult is pretty good but she's a super downer! ;) I have read a bunch of her stuff though too! Okay, my last recommendation is called The Thirteenth Tale...I forget the author but it was so, so good that I read it really fast! I think it's perfect b/c it has the fast pace suspense of a "mindless" book but is very well written and super interesting!

Good luck and happy reading...I guess I have a lot to say on the subject! Haha!

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Y., you don't say what kind you like but these are my fav's
Kay Hooper any of the bishop series
Iris Johansen the eve duncan series
Nora Roberts just about any of her trilogies or her stand alones
Julie Garwood the stuff written after 1990 (before is historicals)
David Baldacci
John Grisham
Jayne Ann Krentz
Elizabeth Lowell
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (not mystery but just plain fun)
Janet Evonavitch
J.D. Robb (nora roberts futuristic series)
Amanda Quick (she is jayne ann krentz but historical mysteries)
Jayne Castle (also jayne ann krentz lol but futuristic mysteries)
Karen Robards (anything she writes lol

I just got some new books that are random authors
Crazy School weird but good
Look Again
the last child
these are my favorite authors. the minute a new one comes out I go get it. so many great books. I am rereading the iris johansen series right now waiting for a new book from anyone to come out lol

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What type of books do you like? The Twilight series was good, if your into that sort of thing. Wally Lamb is an excellent author, any of his books are great. Check Oprah's bookclub online, most of her picks are great books. Good luck!

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Anything Ken Follett is good. I really enjoyed the Twilight series (and I'm 32). The Lovely Bones by Ann Sebold. Any of the Dan Brown books (Davinci Code, Lost Symbol, Angels Vs. Demons).

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I love Beverly Lewis books. She has several series out and I have enjoyed every one I have read.

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I recently read "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See and really enjoyed it. As a little tip, when I'm in need of a good book but don't have any titles at my fingertips, I go to amazon.com, type in the title of a book I enjoyed, and look through their "Customers who bought this item also bought..." section. It usually gives me a few new titles, and if you click on them, they'll bring up even more titles. I've found many good books this way!

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Same Kinda Different As Me and the sequel to it is What Difference Do it Make. by Denver Moore and Ron Hall

Nancy B--you are a woman after my own heart! Those are all my favorite authors, too!!
I don't have any suggestions for specific books, because I think books are a very personal thing and it depends on your taste, personality, mood, and so much more!
The suggestion I do have is to check out your local thrift store, salvation army, or goodwill. You can find all kinds of books super cheap. I make a bi-annual trip to these stores to "stock up" my supply. Then, I always have a romance, thriller, sci-fi, adventure, biography, comedy, or non-fiction novel on hand when the mood strikes me. It's also much more budget-friendly, since I read books terribly fast. The only ones I buy new (or ask for gifts) are my favorite authors. I keep all of their books for my some-day-in-the-future library. Once I'm finished reading the others, I keep up the cycle: Either donate back to goodwill or dump in the "help yourself" pile at work.

There is a website called goodreads.com People read books and rate them. You can also network with friends to get ideas.

I LOVED "The Help". I have loaned it to 6 different people and they all loved it..
I always enjoy the "Mitford" Series by Jan Karon

Just finished The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe
It was really good.

I am listening to Stephen King's "The Dome". I am really liking it, my husband is itching to get his hands on it..

I agree with the help, water for elephants, snow flower and the secret fan. Also, memoirs of a geisha and the good earth. James Frey "a million little pieces" was great as well.