What Are People Reading Right Now?

Right now I'm reading The Glass Castle: A memoir.

I'm only 30% in (or so my Kindle tells me) and it's really interesting. It's about a woman with a really unusual upbringing in the US. It's not brand new. I got it from the library.

I just finished A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. It's about a woman who is about 70 who is having memory issues. She knows many secrets of her family and is beginning to speak a bit too freely. It's a generational novel spanning 50 years or more. I really enjoyed it!

It's not new, however I found The Monuments Men fascinating. The movie totally did not do justice to the quality of the book and the power of the story.
Looking forward to the other responses...

Here's what I've read in the past month:

Queen Mab by Kate Danley
No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens
Taking Stock by Scott Bartlett
Nelson Mandela: A Life Inspired by Gillian Kendall
Outcry - Holocaust Memoirs by Manny Steinberg
Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland Collection by Lewis Carroll
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Shakespeare
Four Beast in One: The Homo-Cameleopard by Poe
The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare
The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe
A Decent into the Maelstrom by Poe
The Premature Burial by Poe
Unforgettable: Short Stories by Paulette Bates Alden
All My Love, Detrick by Roberta Kagan

Some are in genres you've listed and others not, in any case hope you find something new and enjoyable.

My sister lent me The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm. I would describe as crime fiction novels. They are by J.K. Rowling (the woman who wrote the Harry Potter series) under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

I really enjoy them. Crime fiction is not my usual genre but they are well written with enjoyable characters :)

If you like history, I have two great ones:

1. The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
All about the Donner Party. Yes, does go in to the cannibalism, but really it's a fascinating look at how and why some survived and others did not. Incredible what these people went through trying to come to California.

2. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Based on real people, this is all about a budding feminist and abolitionist girl and the slave assigned to her. Talks about their relationship as well as their individual lives into adulthood.

I've been reading funny guys, namely Penn Jillette (God, No! and Every Day is an Atheist Holiday... neither suitable for any easily-offended devout) and Gilbert Gottfried's "Rubber Balls and Liquor". Up next is PG Wodehouse's "Pigs Have Wings". I like a bit of eclectic reading.:)

I read An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything recently (Written by Col. Hadfield) and am now working on As You Wish by Cary Elwes.

I'm reading "Dragonfly in Amber," which is the second book in the Outlander series. I almost started reading the books a few years ago. When I found out Starz was making the books into a tv show, I just had to read them. The author sometimes gives too detailed a description. But the plot is very good.

A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (a series of books still in production--the first 5 books are out. They form the basis for the HBO show "Game of Thrones." I read all 5 one summer, and each is about 1500 pages. I hadn't read a single work of fiction since college until I read that, and now I love to read again.

Historical Fiction = anything by Tracy Chevallier

Absolutely captivating! She creates her stories by picking a real historic artifact or figure that very little is known about, researching the heck out of it, and creating a detailed story with as much information as she can puzzle together. She wrote Girl With A Pearl Earring, which you've probably heard of. She does such a great job of pulling you into another time and place! Her most recent book, The Last Runaway, was about a Quaker immigrant who ends up involved with the underground railroad. Enjoy!

I fell in love with the Kurt Wallander mysteries by Henning Mankell set in Sweden. You get the great settings and culture differences along with exciting mysteries. But I like, bleak, cold, no frills European type things, they're not splashy at all. I read them all and now I'm on third Dutch crime novel in series by Janwellem Van de Wetering with detectives De Grier and Gripstra. I also loved The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt for the excitement and details about art New York, Las Vegas, Europe, etc...I also loved The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.

I have not read it yet, but Killer Angels is supposed to be greatest Civil War novel.

i'm up to my arse in king arthur, and loving it. mists of avalon, mary stewart's series, and the source material like chretien de troyes, alfred lord tennyson, and of course, mallory.
:) khairete
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The Devil in the White City. It's an old bestseller that I never got around to.

currently reading "Same Kind of Different As Me". It was recommended to me by a friend when I told her I wanted to read a book that would change my life. http://www.amazon.com/Same-Kind-Different-Modern-Day-Inte...

I love The Number One Ladies Detective series by Alexander McCall Smith. Pretty light reading. Funny. Lots about African culture.

I also like Chris Cleve's books. But be forwarned. They deal with some pretty deep things and are kind of graphic. They will stay with you forever.

House at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Great historical fiction.

Those Who Save Us. Another great historical fiction.

The Poisonwood Bible. Great book!

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Great coming of age story.

A Lesson Before Dying.

Ella Minnow Pea

The Girl With the Pearl Earring

Hyacinth Blue. About the same painting as the above book.

I Capture the Castle

Just to name a few of my favorites. ;)

These are some recent ones I've read with my book club. All very different and I really liked them all!

Gone Girl
Me Before You
The Plum Tree
The Husband's Secret
American Sniper

This month we're reading The Girl on the Train.

I would have to grab my Kindle for an actual list, but I read a lot of the free books off of that and have found some great ones. My favorite author is Sandra Brown, so anything by her is good in my opinion.

I loved Water for Elephants, and wasn't sure I would. That was a few years ago that I read it, but still a great book.

I will be checking back here once I have time to pick up a book again and read - which I may force myself to do and let the laundry pile up soon!

I haven't read all of these responses, so I'm sorry if this is at all repetitive...I'm currently reading "Girl on the Train" and am really enjoying it. My other two recent favorites are "Girl in Translation" and "The Language of Flowers." I took a several year hiatus in reading (just due to...life!) and these books have reminded me why I've missed reading so much.

Just finished The Life of Johnny Cash for the second time.. I loved that one, and Jack Nicholson- if you like Biographies these are brilliant!

Do you have an e-reader? If so, sign up for Book Bub. You can pick categories of books you like and get a daily e-mail of recommendations. I am on a budget and don't have $ to spend on books and there are many many freebies for e-readers out there. I've read some great books that I would never have heard of if it wasn't for that daily e-mail. Plus with an e-reader all of those classics that have expired copy-writes are free.

Currently reading Adventure Divas by Holly Morris.

She has a wonderful way of describing things. Sometimes her humor is a bit crass, but overall I am loving it. I'm halfway done and she has had some interesting experiences in Cuba, Borneo, and India so far, as she interviews various people.

Right now I just finished The Girl on the Train and I'm currently reading Big Little Lies, both are sort of fluffy fiction, but very interesting and good page turners!

The Thirteenth Tale
Memoirs of a Geisha
Loving Frank
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Aviator's Wife
The Light Between the Oceans
So Cold the River
The Book Thief
Cutting for Stone
The Lotus Eaters
Unbroken (I'm still reading this but it's good so far)

All of the above are historical fiction from many different eras. Loving Frank is based on Frank Lloyd Wright's life and the Aviator's Wife is based on Hemingway's wife, both are very good and have a lot of historically accurate information!! I also really enjoyed The Glass Castle, as someone else mentioned. Another great biography is the autobiography of Ryan White, the young boy who died of AIDS in the 80s that he contracted through a blood transfusion, it's a powerful read!

I just read the Nightingale and really enjoyed it. Gone Girl was awesome too, but if you saw the movie no need to read the book.

I recieved some great suggestions when I asked, but my device won't let me paste here. If you look at my previous questions it's one of the first I asked (didn't realize I had asked so many, lol).
Great suggestions so far. I also enjoyed the glass castle and read that Jeanette Walls has a new book coming out soon. I prefer paper books, so I usually pick up some from the library sale rack or resale shop. One that surprized me recently was Emily and Einstien. I also enjoyed theGirl with a Dragon Tatoo series. Unbroken was great. I don't even remember the title,
but there was a book written by the woman who was held hostage by the
man who had shot a Judge? I'll eta. I know that's vague. I found that to be a real page turner.
ETA: Unlikely Angel the untold story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero. By Ashly Smith.

Dean Koontz, The City.

I'm on book 6 of the Left Behind series.